An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Lease a local pharmacist. She was described by a Republican editor as "the petti-coated smut-mill. She was recognized as being a powerful orator who was adept at expressing the discontent of the people.

Lease died in Callicoon New York. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but Mary Elizabeth Lease was best known for her work with the Populist party. In addition Mary Elizabeth Lease worked as an editor for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography.