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you, and you squeeze the soil, and
the wl ole system goes just that way.
Under that power of taxation, lim
ited only by the greed and cupidity
»f its directing force, while we had
five in .lionaires in 1860, to-day we
have over 30,000 millionaires in
Ameri a. You working people who
hammer the anvil and till the soil,
who stand at the scorching furnace,
think of the sweat of millions wf
yeople whose daily bread comes
from the daily exercise of your
muscles, and all the earnings except
bread and meat is transferred to the
heads of corporations that got the
eon sent to live by your own votes.
'When you vote for the old parties
you perpetuate the machine that is
grinding you into dust and despair.
We have made since 1860 an aver
age of 3,000 millionaires each year,
and under the same system we have
turned out over 2,000,000 tramps.
u hear a fellow say, “but that
.ramp is of no account, anyhow.” I
am willing to meet him half way, but
I tell you, the same system that has
turned them -out is turning out mil
>l millions more. >ln better
words, I shall turn it this way: The
train p is a kind of a political body
i- oie ; he is in the filthy garments of
bad government, and if you want to
get nd of the louse, wash out the
garment.
Kit. wimberly’s speech.
Georgia delegate, Hon. F. D.
Wimberly, Saturday night, bore the
palm, making the opening speech at
the re-union of the Blue and the
-Gray, as follows:
“You will me excuse for using to
night a little of personal history. It
not because a presuming or bigoted
mar, n >r because I would win undue
applan*'. It is because I want to
make good use of it, and because I
be. <vc it will, under the blessing of
<rod, serve this occasion well.
• When this war opened I was a
hoy verging on to manhood, attend
ing the University of Virginia, and I
had learned before that time some
little of the philosophy of history,
and I looked upon that movement as
all wrong. I could not help but re
gard it as dangerous to my own loved
section, but as portentious of ruin.
I could not to save my life, see how
the South, weak as she was in com
parison with the North, having at its
back the sentiment of all Christen
dom, was but entering into a destruc
tive war which could but result in
the exhaustion and utter ruin of our
-every institution and the complete
Impoverishment of our people and
the bad days of reconstruction and
y the engulfment of the liberties
of our broad country, unless God Al
mighty in his goodness and wisdom
would arouse the people to their dan
ger. So when the electric hash came
over the wires announcing at Char
lottsville that Georgia had seceded, I
knew that that w r as the signal, for ac
tion on the part of the whole South;
that the die was cast and the Rubi
con crossed, and in perfect anguish
of sou] I bowed down and wept as if
burying my own mother? I went to
George Frederick Homes, professor
of literature at that grand institution,
late at night and said to him : ‘Oh !
Professor Holmes! You are the pro
foundest student of history I ever
saw. These are my fears and this is
my grief. Oh, man of w’isdom, if
there be any relief, for God’s sake
give it to my bruised heart.’ Prof.
Holmes bow r ed in anguish of soul.
He wept long before he could speak.
Rousing after a while, w’ith prophetic
train he pictured to me a war the
w’orst the world had ever known,
lasting through four years, he said,
.and ending just as I feared. Then
using ihe word ‘reconstruction’ he
told what we of the South must suf
fer, then said :|‘One quarter of a cen
tury after the close of that war, un
less all history is a lie, the people of
the North, as well as the people of
the South, will be completely enslaved
by ‘•monopoly.’
“Fellow-citizens, originally a union
man loving this country in all its
broad proportions, about ten days
after that conference w’ith Prof.
Holmes, feeling that I had no right
to a conviction, as Georgia had spo
ken, I hastened to Yorktown to lay
my life down a willing sacrifice as an
humble private in the service of my
native land. All through those four
years, day by day and night by night,
I smothered; those convictions of a
soul bursting with grief, else I had
been a traitor and deserved to die a
•disgraceful death. No Confederate
soldier more faithfully did his duty
and bore his burden than I did. I
had always wondered through that
war, and I will wonder till I die, why
it was that I was spared, because I
was sure on two or three occasions
that the providence of God had in
terposed to save my life, and at its
close I felt that I was to live to see
the day of redemption of our land.
So, as the years have gone on I have
been watching and waiting, until now
I believe I have reached the point
where, in the providence of God, I
have been saved to take part in this
battle. Think as you may about it,
let any man come to the conclusion
that he may, I tell you, nothing
good, nothing great, nothing grand is
ever accomplished by a man or na
tion unless it rests upon a profound
faith that will take no denial. And
when I tell them in Georgia, ‘Yes,
we will W’hip in this fight; we will
whip out sectionalism by the ideas of
November,’ men say to me, ‘Why,
Wimberly, have you gone crazy?
Where is your reason ?’ I say, ‘My
reason lies in an unconquerable faith
in the God who made the people
free ; wdio presides over the destinies
of all nations and individuals.’
“Now, we stand here today bound
together by these railroad bands
reaching into every nook and corner
of our country. Don’t you see that
the God of us all allowed that war to
come because by it alone could be
wiped out that institution which made
us enemies. Don’t you see further
more that these grand railroad sys
tems, covering these vast prairies,
bridging these immense rivers, climb
ing over the high mountains from
ocean to ocean, never could have been
constructed by individual enterprise ?
Corporate power and money was
needed to do it, and while the day
has come to say to them, ‘Stay thy
might,’ these lines have come to civ
ilize you, and in God’s goodness and
wisdom He provided these railroads
to bind us together from Oregon to
Florida.
“Wasn’t that war intended to give
us a common money, the greenback?
The rag baby you just heard sung,
and the delight of the Kansas heart.
Yet how Georgia does want some of
it. And now, bound together by
these railroads, already intermingling
day by day so grandly, on occasions
like this, by the thousands, as we look
into each others faces we see w’e are
identically the same people only sep
arated by prejudice. Don’t you see
that the day has come when we can
have a union on every hand, and the
great God who has made you and
has made me has reserved this day
of glory and revealed it in our time.
He has given us the grandest oppor
tunity to make an exhalted history.
Let us then place ourselves upon the
high plane of Christian civilization
and make this country the light of
the world for the salvation of liberty
and freemen, and the elevation of
man to the highest pinnacle of glory.
If I could stand true to Georgia in
those trying hours of the war. If I
could do and dare and shout with
southern boys over well won victory?
If I could that night in the deep silence
of the midnight hours alone at the
camp tire sit down and see as plainly
that night as I can see your faces here
where God himself interposed w r ith
mighty power to keep us from the
fruits of that victory. If I could be
true then, you ought to be true now.
Who else is going to do his part?
Who else will face death itself in
these days of arrogant domineering
power and bitter prejudice fired by
the venom of hell itself ?”
At this point the presiding officer
called time, and Mr. Wimberley’s
speech was closed,having been repeat
edly cheered and applauded during its
utterance.
Christ and the Money-Changers.
BY JESSE HARPER.
A close inspection of modern mon
ey-changers will prove that they are
filling the cup of iniquity fuller than
did their prototypes of antiquity.
The instances given in the Classics
of the extent to w’hich they carried
their system of spoliation is supris
ing beyond measure.
Becke’s “Trapezeta?”:
“I have purchased, said the first,
from this man here a slave, for two
minare. By reference to my count
book, I find there must be seven hun
dred drachma? lying with you in my
name. Pay the man his money.”
The “trapezetie” again looked in his
book. “In the main,” said he, “you
are right in your calculations, except
that you forgot the agio on three
hundred and fifty Eginetau drachma?
which I paid to Paseas for the ivory
you bought. This the man could not
dispute ; the two mime were paid and
the man went away.” B. 69.
And as to their rascality in book
keeping, the moderns as those of an
tiquity, are identical.
“I did not know,” said he, “that
Sosthens had so large a claim upon
me. Has he forgotten that I have
had to discharge eight hundred
drachma l for him to the Heraciote.
Look here at my book. What stands
there ? Sosthens, son of Phrynon, of
Syracuse, has deposited two talents.
Out of these, eight hundred drach
ma? to be paid to Phrynon, the Her
saclote, who will be introduced by
Epecrotes, the Priam. You see
there remain but four hundred
drachma 1 .” B. 72.
He disputed the account of the
depositor, and had “doctored” his
books; but the creditor had outside
proof, and threatened the money
changer. A scene. Lycon [deposi
tor] interrupted Cesphon at this junc
ture, saying :
“Don’t be inventing any new
taicks; it is still fresh in people’s
memories how, not long ago, you
bubbled the Byzantian merchant
■when he came to require the money
deposited with you. The whole city
knows how you got out of the way
the only slave w r ho was acquaint
ed withthe fact, and then not only
denied the claim, but also suborned
w itnesses to prove that your cred
itor had borrowed six talents of
you.” B. 7’2.
Note:
“The passage w'hich affords any
clear insight into the method of book
keeping pursued by the bankers, is
Demoth. 1’236.”
The infamy of their extortion, is
perfectly astounding. As high as
two hundred fold premium w’as ex
torted whenever the opportunity
offered and they could grind it out
of the oppressed and dependent peo
ple.
There was an “agio” to be paid be
tween all the different kinds of mon
ey. And upon this premium they
built their superstructure of robbery.
And in all ancient times, up to the
beginning of the New Era, the place
above all others, in cities, towns, vil
lages, at the great groves, surround
ing the theaters, the circus, was the
place of the tables of the money
changers.
Plato, in his Apol, trying in some
measure to extenuate the crimes of
his time, looks upon the class which
Christ denounced, as the ones most
culpable. And when gazing upon
the market-place, with its thousand
forms of wrongs, mixed with right,
good mixed with evil, he seems to
forget all else, as his eyes catches
the seat and center of wrong com
pared with which all others seem in
nocence.
And as he beholds this Macbeth
ean pot bubbling with thieving and
robbing, he cries out:
“en agori epi trapezon.” [’29l B]
This great philosopher cried from
the depths of his heart :
“Look in this open public place, at
the tables of the bankers”—and read
the ruin of Greece !
There falls from his lips the same
sentiment, when contemplating, the
money-changers, that did from the
Master, when viewing in the outer
court of the Gentiles; and both alike
charge the “trapezites” with turning
the temple of worship and the tem
ple of justice into a den of thieves.
Think of the money-changers sell
ing a half shekel (forty-nine cents),
for two hundred fold profit—“heka
ton ddo ergasia ek nomisma takos.”
Iso. Tra., 71.
Is not such an one a “thief?”
Is not such an one a “robber?”
And would not a temple Where
such transactions were carried on, be
properly termed a den cf thieves?
Christ, (Mark xi., 17) quoting fjom
Isa. Ivi., 7, Heb.:
“My house shall be called a house
of prayer for all nations, but ye have
made it a den of thieves.”
Prophetically looked at (Jer. vii.,
11) the same thing has been charged :
“Is this house, which is called by
my name, become a den of robbers ?
Business was corrupt among the
ancients in all matters of memory.
Extortion in dealing was seen every
where.
“Cast your eyes to the right, on
the haggard man in the fish market,
with matted hair, who sidles about,
not having anything himself, but
watching every one else; he is a
most dangerous sycophant, and
glides about the market like a scor
pion, with his venomous sting all
ready, spying out whom he may sur
prise with misfortune and ruin, and
from whom he can most easily ex
tort money, by threatening him with
an action dangerous in its conse
quence.” B. Tra. 65.
He made his fortune—
“en arpax epi-nomisma.” That is,
he made his fortune by robbing peo
ple of money. Did it by law! See
him: In the market place, at the
open space of trapezitie, sly as a
scorpion, seeking a victim to extort
money from.
Extort: Extortion conies from the
Greek. Tob. Gr. Lex. arpax. “raven
ous” “ravening,” “of wild beasts,”
“robber,” “extortioner.” Mat. vii, 15.
It goes further : The arpax, “ex
tortioner,” shall not inherit the King
dom of God. 1 Cor. vi, 10.
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkard, nor extortioners shall in
herit the Kingdom of God.”
The extortioner is described thus :
“You won’t see him speak or asso
ciate with anyone, but as the painters
encompass the shades of the wicked
in Hades with the terrific phantoms
of cursing and slandering, of envy,
discord and strife, so also are these
attendants of the extortioner.” B. 65.
So, also, Xenophon, as to the low
state of morals and honesty :
“But,” said Socrates, “how small a
part of the qualifications of a general
is honesty; he must be a man of
great contrivance and activity, care
ful, persevering and sagacious, kind
and yet severe; open, yet crafty;
careful of his own, yet ready to steal
from others ; profuse, yet rapacious;
lavish of presents, yet eager to ac
quire money,” Xen. Mem. 2,1, 6.
Such were the characters whom
Christ expelled from the temple.
And may we not ask in all candor, if
the world’s Omniarch was opposed
to the money-changers at the begin
ning of the Christian era, would he
not be new if upon the earth?
If the character and business of
the money-changers have been cor
rectly drawn, was not their expul
sion from the temple demanded by
every element of the moral law and
every attribute of justice ?
Did not their extortions forever
brand them as thieves and robbers ?
And if they were not expelled for
extortion, what were they expelled
for?
They had made the temple of God
a den of thieves. How had they
done it? Nobody but money-chan
gers were turned out. These we
have briefly portrayed as they ap
pear in the annals of the past.
Is history repeating itself ?
Are money-changers and their
satellites to-day defiling the temples
of religion ?
Are there any den of thieves in
christendom ?
Is it true in our time, as it was
eighteen hundred years ago, that
the love of money is the root of all
evil?
Is it easier for rich men to enter
heaven in these “last times” than it
was when Christ opened up the
way ?
Is it not true, rather fearfully true,
that the age of the Gentiles draws to
a close ?
Is not the prophetic warning as to
“perilous times,” now actualizing be
fore our eyes?
Is it not true that the great “apos
tasy” is now taking possession of the
world with the hands of the infernal
superhuman ?
The Anti-Christ: “Let no man
deceive you by any means; for the
day of Christ shall not come except
there come a falling away (apostasia)
first, and that man of Sin be revealed,
the Son of Perdition.” 2 Thes. ii, 3.
Are not the premonitory throes
now felt that shall introduce the
baptism of fire, from which shall
spring the third and last dispensa
tion—the Messianic age ?
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The chairmen, secretaries and
others friendly to the People’s cause
in the various Militia districts in the
several counties of the Fifth con
gressional district are requested to
send their names to me at once, so
that we may put ourselves in close
touch and harmony for the approach
ing campaign. Immediate action re
quested. L. P. Barnes,
Sec. Fifth Cong. Dist.,
E. Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga.
•Tune 28, 1892.
Call for a People’s Party Mass Meet
ing.
The People’s Party of Schley
county and all those who are in sym
pathy with said party are requested
to attend a mass meeting at the court
house in Ellaville Saturday, July 30,
1892, at 10 o’clock sharp, a. m., for
the purpose of nominating a candi
date to represent the county in the
next general assembly.
J. T. Collier, Chairman.
E. B. Barrow, Secretary.
Notice.
The Executive Committees of the
People’s Party of Fulton and Clay
ton counties, are requested to send
committees to confer with Cobb coun
ty, relative to necessary action in re
gard to the senatorial contest. Meet
ing will be held at the headquarters of
the People’s Party, Whitehall
street, Atlanta, Ga., Wendnesday,
July 20th.
J. L. Sibley, Sec’y,
E. C. People’s Party, Cobb Co.
People’s Party Bally.
There will be a grand People’s
Party rally at Comer Chapel, Cobb
county, three miles north of Powder
Springs, on July 15th. Good speak
ers invited. D. C. Moore.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA
Farmers’ Light, Harlem, Columbia
county.
Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro,
Burke county.
News and Allianceman, Jackson,
Butts county.
Banks County Gazette, Homer,
Banks county.
Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville,
Liberty county.
The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton
county.
Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta,
Fulton county.
The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank
lin county.
The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee
county.
People’s Party Paper, Atlanta.
Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville,
Johnson county.
Alliance Plow Boy, Buford, Gwin
nett ounty.
Progress, Cleveland, White county.
P eople’s Advocate, Greensboro,
Green county.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PLATFORM.
The conditions which surround us best
justif y our co-operation; we meet in the
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin. Corrup
tion dominates the ballot box, legislatures,
congress, and touches even the ermine of
the bench.
The people are demoralized; most of the
states have been compelled to isolate voters
at polling places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery. Newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled; public
opinion silenced ; business prostrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor im
poverished ; and the land concentrating in
the hands of capitalists. The urban work
men are denied the right of organization for
self-protection; imported pauperized labor
beats down their wages; a hireling standing
army, unrecognized by our laws, is estab
lished to shoot them down, and they are
rapidly degenerating into European condi
tions. The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
for a few, unprecedented in the history of
mankind; and the possessors of these in
turn despise the republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice, we breed two great
classes—tramps and millionaires. National
power to create money is appropriated to
enrich bondholders; a vast public debt pay
able in legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby
adding millions to the burdens of the peo
ple. Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold by decreasing the value of all
forms of property as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enter
prise and enslave industry. A vast con
spiracy against mankind has been organized
on the two continents and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not met
and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible
social convulsions, the destruction of civil
ization or the establishment of an absolute
despotism.
We have witnessed for more than a quar
ter of a century the struggles of two great
political parties for power and plunder,
while grievous wrongs have been indicted
upon the suffering people. We charge
that the controlliug influence dominating
both these parties has permitted the exist
ing dreadful conditions to develop without
serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us any sub
stantial reform. They have agreed togeth
er to ignore in the coming campaign every
issue but one. They propose to drown out
the cries of the plundered people with the
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de
monetization of silver and the oppression
of the usurers may all be lost sight of.
They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
and children on the altar of mammon; to
destroy the multitude in order to secure
corruption funds from millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation and filled with the
spirit of the grand general-in-chief who es
tablished our independence, we seek to re
store the government of the republic to the
hands of “the plain people” with whose
class it originated.
We assert our purposes to be identical
with the purposes of the national constitu
tion—to form a more perfect union and es
tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the bless
ings of liberty for ourselves and our pos
terity. We declare that this republic can
onlv endure as a free government while
built upon the 1 ove of the whole people for
each other, and for the nation; that it can
not be pinned together by bayonets; but
the civil war is over and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are in name, one united brotherhood.
Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there are no prece
dents in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions amount to
billions of dollars in value, which must
within a few weeks or months, be exchang
ed for billions of dollars of the commodi
ties consumed in their production.
The currency supply is wholly inade
quate to make the exchange. The results
are falling prices; formation of combines
and rings; and the impoverishment of the
producing class.
We pledge ourselves that if given power
we will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation in accordance
with the terms of our platform. We be
lieve that the powers of government—in
other words of the people—should be ex
panded as in the case of the postal service,
as rapidly and as far as the good sense of
an intelligent people and the teachings of
experience shall justify, to the end that op
pression, injustice and poverty shall event
ually cease in the land. While our sym
pathies, as a party of reform, are naturally
upon the side of every proposition which
will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous
and temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions—important as they are
as secondary to the great issues now press
ing for solution and upon which not only
our individual prosperity but the very exist
ence of free institutions depend, and we
ask all men to first help us to determine
whether we are to have a republic to ad
minister, before we differ as to the condi
tions upon which it is to be administered,
believing that the forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move for
ward until every wrong is righted and
equal rights and equal privileges securely
established for-all men and women of this
country.
We declare, therefore:
1. That the union of the Labor forces of
the Uniled States this day consummated
shall be permanent and perpetual. May
its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva
tion of the republic and the uplifting of
mankind.
2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it,
and every dollar taken from industry with
out an equivalent is robbery. “If any will
not work, neither shall he eat.” The in
terests of rural and civic labor are the
same; their enemies are identical.
3. We believe that the time has come
when railroad corporations will either own
the people or the people must own the rail
roads: and should the government enter
upon the work of owning and managing all
railroads, we should favor an amendment
to the constitution by which all persons
engaged in the government service shall be
placed under a civil service regulation of
the most rigid character, so as to prevent
an increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addition
al government employes.
We demand a national currency, safe
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that with
out the use of banking corporations ; a just,
equitable and efficient means of distribu
tion direct to the people at a tax not to ex
ceed 2 per cent per annum be provided as
set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the
Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system;
also by payment in discharge of its ob
ligations for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of the cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the coun
try should be kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand,
that all state and national revenues shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
the government economically and honestly
administered.
We demand that postal savings banks be
established by the government for the safe
deposit of the earnings of the people and
to facilitate exchange.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity, the govern
ment should own and operate the railroads
in the interest oi the people. The tele-.
graph and the telephone, like the postal
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and op
erated by the government in the interest of
the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of -wealth, is the heritage of all the
people and should not be monopolized for
speculative purposes, and alien ownership
of land should be prohibited. All lands
now held by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs, and
all lands now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and held for
actual settlers only.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson’s Address
Should be Read by the Millions.
The friends of Reform cannot do
a better thing for the cause than to
circulate the address of Hon. Thos.
E. Watson, which appeared in the
People’s Party Paper of March
17th.
In order that it may be circulated
at very small cost, we will put it into
a two page supplement form and fur
nish it to the people at 75 cents per
hundred copies, or in smaller num
bers, not less than ten, at one cent
aach.
Send in your orders.
Bring the matter before your Sub-
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the Secretary order a lot.
This address places the whole sit
uation clearly before the people, and
wherever read will greatly strengthen
the People’s cause.
Address orders, with the money,
to People’s Party Paper,
Atlanta, Ga.
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gine on wheels, good as new.
One Stationary engine, 12x18, very cheap.
SHEARER IS AN ALLIANCEMAN.
435 LUCKIE ST. TELEPHONE 1418.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
FRICK COMPANY.
ECLIPSE ENgTnESQI
ERIE CITY IRON WORKS ENGINES AND
| BOILERS, AUTOMATIC STATIONERY 3
ENGINES.
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GINSIFROM $2 TO $2.50 PER SAW*
Boilers, Saw Mills, Moore Co. Corn Mills
Pratt Gins, Seed Cotton Elevators, Cane Mills,
Cotton Presses, Wagon and Platform Scales, Foos
Scientific Grinding Mills, Hoe’s Chisle-Tooth
Saws, Shingle Machinery, Wood-Working Machin
ery, Shafting, etc.
MALSBY & AVERY,
Southern Managers*
81 South Forsyth Street, ATLANTA, GA.
Catalogue bv mentioning this paper.
THE CORN BELT OF . SOUT D
Offers the greatest opportunities to actual far
mers and homeseekers of any section in the
United States. The soil is unexcelled for fer
tility. Water good. Climate temperate and
very healthful; settled by intelligent and
progressive people, with the best of social, re
ligious and educational advantages.
Land is now rapidly appreciating in value,
but the best improved land can be bought
at from $6 to $lO per acre and good improved
farms from $lO to sls per acre.
Fifteen years residence in this section, five
of them spent in locating settlers, has given
me a thorough acquaintance with the land in
this section.
Full information as to the country with
prices, terms and description of a large list of
land which can be bought yery cheap, will be
given by addressing
E. S. JOHNSTON,
Mitchell, S. D.