The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-06

For weeks THE UNION has been the
target for all the vile abuse that the Re
publican could heap upon it because the
course Of a few members Of the repuD-
lican party who have attempted to cuerce
the majority into doing or seeming to do
what they did not wish to, was not Gil
dorsed by it as republicanism. Ithas been
accused OF being a stirrer-up OF %wranglcs
and factional fights, a spy in the repub-
lican camp, a democratic organ in dis
guise and a disturber of party peace
that does not reflect the party scnti-
ment in q single particular. Side by
side with the abusive attacks have been
columns OF abuse for those who believe
that dram drinking destroys life and
dams the souls OF men, who believe that
the open saloon is Il public nuisance and
should, by the police power Of the state
be suppressed. Notwithstanding the
fact that the believers in this doctrine
number among them the ministers and
teachers; many OF the lawyers, bankers,
business men, and almost every lady in
the land, they have, one and all, been de-
nounced in the most wanton as
cranks, fools, fanatics and disturkcrs OF
the peace. They as well as The UNION
are denounced as promoters Of discord
and vice, for they have been told that
to refuse to endorse the action OF the
local powers Of the republican party is
treason and that to suppress open Sill
looms means to increase the consump-
ton OF liquor and all the attending evils.
In ita issue Of Saturday last over a col
um Of such abuse is dealt out OF which
the following are sample extracts:
I'm, all ages OF the world there have
been drGamersof dreams and false prol,h-
cts and lunatics. A good many of the
latter class have imagined themselves
to be. gods, not "little tin gods on
wheels". which the people of our own
and later times set them down as being,
the whole world and all the people in it
and no doubt in their W minds-or
whatever such people have in lieu of
minds-they were better able to run
heaven and hell than their Creator. If
God made such great mistakes in the
way this world should be run-and ac-
cording to the way some people talk
and act He certainly did make some
very grave errors-it is reasonable to
suppose that He made few in debating
how the other worlds should be
managed.
The dreamers OF dreams are harmless
enough as long as they keep their
dreams to themselves, or at most they
only injure themselves, but when they
speak in public or publish their dreams
they usually become a very harmful
class OF people for "all the fools are not
dead yet" and never will be, and there
are always some who try to put in
practice what others have only
dreamed"
1.-THE kind of sect OF these people
which is making the most noise in this
world, particularly that part Of it in
and. around South Dakota, call them
selves prohibitionists. The prohibition
lists as far as we know, do not as a class
belong to any other world reforming
sect, in fact the different sects-with
their mouths-very often fight each
other"
nThey also know that prohibition
laws in several states have simply trans
ferred the saloon to the home, that
they have made liars and thieves and