Dakota farmers' leader., December 05, 1890, Image 5

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

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carry everything usually kept in a
first class store and our facilities are such as
willAiable us to sell goods at
BOTTOM EIGURES.
We handle no shelf-worn or shoddy stuff,
but the very best goods that money will buy,
and guarantee perfect satisfaction in every
department of our business. Call and be
convinced.
l. J. KEflNJ
A.^p^ROWN.
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PRESIDENT.
MENOR & JACOBSON.
WEST^IDE MAIN ST CANTON, S D.
Country
Produce
Taken In Exchange.
GROCERIES,
CROCKERY,
BOOTS
—INCORPORATED IN 1887.—
TRMSACT A GENERAL BUM BUSINESS.
Interest allowed on time deposits, and
special attention to loans.
CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA.
ave some special bargain's in boys, youth's
men's clothing to offer this week.
Mens all wool suits from 35 to 42 size,
from $6.00 to $8.00. Boys suits 5 to 13
We will sell anything in our line of
business for 20 per cent less than anyone
else can. Call an see for yourselves.
Straw Bros. Co.
HOLIDAY GOODS,
HELMEY & KELMAN,
"THE DRUGGISTS!"
Christmas Presents of all de
scriptions for
YOUNG AND OLD,
RICH AND POOR!
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N. M. JACOBSON.
and
SHOES.
Groceries,
Oroclsery
[Boots& Srioee
GROCERIES,
GROCERIES,
CROCKERY,
CROCKERY,
I BOOTS AND SHOES.
country Produce Wanted In Exchange.
O. A. RUDOLPH,
CV: SECRETARY.
A. G. STEINER.
VICE PRESIDENT
THE COMMON GROUND.
PLATITUDES
LATEST
FROM
TAFFY
DR. DEPEW'S
PULLING.
The New York Central's President Talks
About Manhood—Another and More
Matter of Faet View—" libor Unions
Are a Cone to the Country."
Chief Arthur and Chaoncey Depew
had a most delightful taffy palling se
ance before the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers at Pittsburg. What Ar
thur doesn't know about the rights and
duties of the workingman Channoey
does, and what both imow would not
make a very large book. Bat so long as
these worthies can staff the engineers
with capitalistic straw and persuade
them that it is the correct thing to:
"mind their own business" and main
tain a dignified indifference as to what
becomes of the rest of WMWIHTMI, knowl
edge and honesty are not needed, in fact,
would be in the way. The twinahip of
Depew and Arthur is said by some pro-,
found economists and historians to typi
fy the identity of the interests of labor
and capital but there isn't any way of
telling which of them represents labor.
Depew said some things in his address
at Pittsburg that I feel it a duty to chal
lenge, though they have been knocked
out time and again by, writers and speak
ers on labor's side. But Chauncey is a
very refractory pupil he refuses to
learn, or at least to admit the truth
when it is presented, and it is necessary
to keep hammering away at him. Of
coarse he pooh-poohs the idea that the
railroad is an institution whicli should
be operated by the government. That is
socialistic, says the railway president,
and would destroy the individuality of
American citizens. He further says that,
"Success is impossible unless the man
hood of the individual is secure, and his
ability to improve his condition and rise
above his surroundings is conceded."
What rot this is coming from a man
who is at the head of a corporation
which positively forbids a majority of
its employes to belong to an organiza
tion, the sole object of which is the im
provement of its members!
But consistency is one of the jewels
that this railroad president doesn't wear.
He denounces one organization and pats
another on the back. Well, in this he is
shrewd, if not consistent, for it is by
collusion with the head of the one fa
vored that he is enabled to crush the
other. It is the most arrant nonsense
for Depew or any other railroad man
ager to claim that he sees any material
difference between the engineers' organ
ization and that of the switchmen. If
he got into alight with the former he
would as willingly play the latter against
it as he has done the opposite in the
past, and he knows, notwithstanding
his statements, that there is just as
much honesty and intelligence among
the Knights of Labor as in the Brother
hood of Engineers, and he will learn
some of these days that many of the en
gineers understand this.
In his Pittsburg speech Mr. Depew
paused in his flattery of the Brother
hood long enough to dip for a moment
into economics. He brought out that
old worm eaten chestnut, "Labor cannot
live without capital to furnish it with
employment." Of course he meant
that- the capitalist is necessary to the
laborer, and such statement is bosh..
To produce the things needful to ex
istence there must be a union of labor
and capital, but capital is the natural
resources and the tool3, and these by
right belong to the laborers. That they
have been gobbled up by a comparative
ly few individuals does not signify that
the capitalist of today is absolutely es
sential, for if the earth were to open up
and swallow every capitalist in the
world pfoduction would go on just the
same, while distribution would be more.
just.
"The period ought to come," says Mr.
Depew, "when the employes in any in
dustry shall not be arrayed in hostile
camps over the whole country against
their employers in the same business,
when the combinations will not be of
the workers on the one hand and the
officers or firms on the other as against
each other, but with good sense, friendly
feeling and kindly tempered dispositions
they shall meet upon common grounds
for the common good and an overwhelm
ing sense of common interest." There
is a very pretty jingle in this, but it is
only "words, words." So long as the
competitive system prevails employers
will be compelled to use every means at
their command to attain their of
money making, and as wages must come
out of the product, the smaller the pro
portion the worker gets the greater the
employer's gains. This being so it can
not be gainsaid that the very natural
disposition is to pay as little to the work
man as possible. A dollar saved in wages
is a dollar made by the employer. It
would be absurd to expect him to give
npthatdollarwithoutastruggle. Where,
then, is your "common ground," Mr.
Depew?
The writer of a recent communication
in a New York paper sees the situation
clearer than Mr. Depew, though he ap
parently does not understand the causes
any better. He says, "Every year of
late has witnessed the drawing more and
more taut of a line of demarkatkm be
tween the interests of employer and em
ployed, and a corresponding growth of
bitterness in their relations." This
writer finds the principal cause for such
a condition in the formation of labor
unions. He does not see that the unions
are an effect and not a cause. He evi
dently is not a railroad president, for
instead of toadying to any branch at or
ganized labor he denounces the whole
scheme. He says, "Labor organization
of any kind and under any name fe.a
corse to the country." Thatfs tbe ltmy
to talk. If we can only get the ttae
clearly drawn once there will be some
ohanoe to come to« eoadaribo.
What will Mr. Depeir.Mjy 1
sue of the champion* of btodaatf
•,
assume that any man can feel other than
suspicions contempt and a cold disre
gard for the comfort or condition of an
employe who he knows is liable atany
critical moment, and at the mere beck
of a 'walking delegate,' to go on strike,
would be more than ridiculous. The
simple fact is that the more the laborer
attempts to assert his alleged 'rights'
and Independence' the more the em
ployer. or the capitalist will assert his
opposition." If these are true statements,
and I rather thpik they are, then so long
as employer and employe exist as at
present "common ground" lies buried
under an ocean of measureless depths.
As the time for the annual session of
tbe general assembly draws near the
Knights of Labor are being discussed in
the public prints, and, as usual, these
discussions are full of errors. I have no
wish to consider at any great length this
subject »t present, but there is one point
on which tiie mistaken ones should be
put right. I refer to .the numerical
strength of the order, past and present,
and the reasons for the falling off in
membership during the past four years.
It is a common belief, created by the
utterances of the newspapers that the
chief cause of the depreciation has been
strikes, especially strikes which were
lost. I think this is a mistake, and call
attention to the following facts as a rea
son for the opinion.
In 1882 the membership of the order
was something like 100,000. The strikes
of 1883, 1884 and 1885 gave it an im
mense impetus. During those years the
order engaged in some of the most ex
tensive strikes ever known in the history
of labor in this country, and in nearly
every one of them it met defeat. Still
at the Richmond session, in 1886, the
books showed that
there were over 700,000
members in good standing. Since that
time, with the exception of the Beading
trouble and that on the New York Cen
tral (which does not cut any figure, inas
much as the order had met its great loss
before then), tbe Knights have not en
gaged in any large strikes, yet they began
to lose right after the Richmond session,
and in three years the officers did not
claim more than 230,000 members. This
would indicate that strikes were not the
cause of the order's losses.
B0ABD MEETING.
The members of the board of directors of
the South Dakota Farmers Publishing
Company, Publishers of the FARMERS'
LEADER, will meet in regular quarterly
meeting, at the LEADEII office in Canton,
on Saturday, December, G, 1800, at 1
ocloek p. m. A. J. Wi.uri.E,
12. W. OWENS,
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Crockery
and
Glassware.
CANTON, S. D.
Jos. R. BUCHANAN.
NOTICE TO W0BKING MEN.
Notice is hereby given to the
working men and farmers of Canton and
vicinity, that their presence is desired at
a public meeting to be held in the old
court house on Saturday evening Dec.
C, at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose of or
ganizing au assembly of the Knights of
Labor in the city of Cantor.. All classes
of people, excepting bankers, lawyers
and saloon-keepers are eligible to
membership in the organization and re
spectfully requested to attend.
BR OIIDER OF COMMITTEE.
President.
Secretary.-
To Young Housekeepers!
Free to all
Brides.
]\T oticc is hereby given to all the readers bl
this paper ana all their friends anil a«
quiiintiinces througout the1 United States
and Canada, that
THE HOUSEHOLD
WILL B£ SEKT 0IE YEAR AS
A Wedding Present
To every newly married couple whose address
ami 10 cents to pay postage—is sent to the pub
lisher within one year from the date of their
marriage.
Persons sending for this present are request
ed to sond copy of a paper contuinhig a notice
of their marriage, or some other evidence that
nlir.il amount to a reasonable proof that they
are entitled to the magazine under the above
offer. Address, '"THE HOUSEHODD."
Brattleboro, Vt.
DR. G. M. MORTON
Diseases of t,hu
And fitting spectacles, a specialty.
)eformeties and morbid growths treated
scientifically.
Calls in the country day or night, promptly
attended to.
DR. 6. M. MORTON,
Canton, South Dakota.
E. A TAYLOR, D-
ONce in Sindare Block
Beresford, South Dakota.
J. W. HEWITT,
Manufacturer of and dealer in
Harness, Saddles, Collars,
Repairing done neatly.
All work warranted.
Uncle Sam's Harness Oil always on hand.
E. FIFTH ST. CANTON, S. D.
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Give us a call.
CANTON.
Proprietor.
HUMES
I keep everything new and fresh—the choicest goode in the
market. .••V?-' '/-V:'-''
A $10 Encyclopoedia free with every $20
worth of goods.
Opposite Court House, CATO
—SOLD BY—
O. A- RUDOLiPH
HE EAGLE DRUG STORE.
Has Removed to tiic« Bedford Building.
Formerly occupied by the postoffice, where I have opened a larger stock of DrugsH
Paints, Oils, brushes, and everything in the drug line than I had before. Also carry
a complete line of
Three, five, Ten and Twenty-live Cent Counter Goods.
Come in and see how much I can sell you for ten cents, I
have enlarged my quarters and put in a new stoc of goods, and
am now better prepared to suit my old customers than before. I
also invite the attention of new trade, from all parts of Lincoln
county. Come in. and see me. I will treat you well rfnd sell you
as much if not more for your money than you can get elsewhere.
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Agent for Lincoln county.
A. G. NOID,
Canton, South Dakota.
—Just Arrived from the East—
CHAS. CHRISTOPHER
Is Home From CMeago,
And has opened the largest stock of Dry
Goods ever brought to Canton. Have
marked everything down to rook bottom
figures. Call in and see the
New Goods! New Styles! New Prices!
Also new kinds of goods in every depart­
JUST ARRIVED
From the East.
Fresh Stock of Drugs & Groceries
—JUST ABRIVED.—
We wish to call the attention of the farmers of Lincoln county
and adjoining counties, as well as the citizens of Canton, that we
have put in a complete stock of Drugs, Oils, Paints, brushes, toilet
fancy articles, perfumery and dye stuffs also all kinds of PATENT
MEDICINE kept in stock. Prescriptions promptly and carefully
filled both day and night, by
C3-. S. Hanson
We also carry a complete stock of STAPLE and FANCY
GROCERIES, Crockery, Glassware, Queensware, Lamp and China
ware.
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HANSON BROS.
SOUTH DAKOTA
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