The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-06

two as unprincipledm machine demagogues
ever wheedled a voter OF stole an
office, What part OF the farmers in
terests do they represent? Moody has
the short term and wants IA long one, SO
he is doing all the work for the two. 1t
is Moody who advocates the public build
ings so that he may catch the vote OF the
towns; it is Moody who labors and
shouts for tariff on tin and tin plates SO
that he may receive the vote OF the tin
prospectors and their employees. Has
any one heard OF Moody's making any
attack on the Irvine trust SO that the
farmer may have cheap binding material?
Has he denounced the barbed wire trust
which robs the farmer of from ten to
twenty per cent on every pound OF wire
he uses? Has he sought to find the
reason why the wheat raisers of Austria
liza or India can buy American-made
agricultural implements for a little more
than one-half what they cost the farmers
of his Gown loved South Dakota" for
which he is SO willing to fight, bleed and
die for six years o as United States
senator? He has probably suggested to
some member from Vermont that there
ought to be a tariff on potato bugs, OF
that the pumpkin trust",is doing his
"dear farmer friends" a great deal OF
damage, but he has been discretely blind
to gambling in grain, pork and beef. He
has sighed in public for the farmerfriends
while he has labored like a Trojan to
prevent any fuss being made about the
timber depredations Of the Homestake
mine, whose senator he is just as COM
pletely as he is it's attorney.
Work in the old party, loyalty to the
old political drivers means more OF the
same results. The only salvation OF the
farmers is a bold and decided stand for
ourselves. We have the numbers, the
votes, we furnish the bread and meat
and we owe it to ourselves and our
families to stand up for our rights
Don't let any oily-tongued fellow or set
of fellows scare you out OF your position
or flatteryouinto obedience. Remember
that in the former case he will laugh al
you for being a fool coward and if ht
succeeds by the latter, he terms yol
an idiotic ''sucker" who is only fit tt
"mash clods." Some farmers say tina
they want to be fair and give everybody
a chance; that it isn't right to TAX
everything because we car "Be JUS
before you are generous" Less thar
two dozen men have actually controlled
the politics Of Pennington county il
both parties ever since it was organized
and the same is true OF almost every
county in the west. They have named
the candidates and seen to it that they
were elected. 1t was this little crowd
who laid off the work and planned how
to catch the "grAngers." In some little
they assembled and figured out
how many could be bought with bottles
Or drinks of whisky and c~abbage-leaf
how many of them hoped for
office in the future and upon whom the
'arty lash would fall with telling effect;
low many could be threatened with
mortgage foreclosures and be thusforced
nto line and lastly how many fools
ould be caught by soft soap and being
to do campaign work. You
how the plans have succeeded and
you Enow the results. When did this
little crowd OF seli-appointed guardians
OF your political Welfare ever fail to take
everything within reach and sigh, like
Alexander, Tor more worlds to conquer?
When we have dictated as long and been
as thoroughly selfish as they have been
1T will be abundant time to talk abou'
political modesty.
The danger to the two old parties il
the vericst slush ever used to bait ;
sucker. Let the old parties die if the,
want to. Their death won't lessen til
yield OF wheat OF potatoes; it won
make your cows give less milk, nor you
steers put on less fat, but it can bemad
to lessen your taxes and give you fl
better public service.
Then stand by the alliance flag and LEI
the world see we are not only able te
care for ourselves, but that the will ant
intelligence is not lacking.