The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-10-30
Taxes but the Money Ring RobS.

Strike assessments can no longer be
collected. The men are losing faith
in strikes. When they have entirely
lost faith in them mobs will at
tempt to accomplish what unions
have failed to do. Then the monopo-
lists soldiers and police will shoot
down the laboring people, and they
will be cheered on in their bloody
work by the monopolists' editors and
clergymen.
This dark and perilous time is
just before us. We are on the brink
of a financial panic. It may break
upon US any day. Only a few days
ago money was loaned on Wall Street
at the rate of nearly 200 per cent in
terest per year. Soon after tho panic
comes laborers who will begin to
feel the pangs of hunger and the bite
of cold. A hungry stomach and
shivering limbs know no respect for
property: no reverence for law, And
when hungry men begin toseize food
and clothing wherever they can find
them, the monopolists will have
them shot, and if there is any physi-
cal courage. left in the breasts of the
long suffering people a horrible dance
of death will ensue. by the light of
burning houses and to the discordant
music Of cries and groans and mus
kerry and dynamite boombs.
What makes this event more sure
is the attitude OF the clergymen to-
ward the poor: Clcrgymen, almost to
a man, are against the poor. Pro-
fessed disciples of, in my opinion,
the grandest man in histOry-a poor
man; a man who was born in poverty,
lived in poverty, and was hanged BY
the government at the behcst of the
Church-they are the s~ubservient
ambassadors Of the rich. Whether
they are conscientious or cowardly in
their devotion to the rich, / do not
presume to say. Perhaps a little of
each. But will stake my reputa-
tion as an observer of facts by affirm.
ing that they are the faithful de-
tenders and servants Of monopolists.
Their churches are built by the rich;
their salaries are paid by the rich:
they eat and drink and hobnob with
the rich; they preach, for the most
part, to the rich and at the poor;
they suppress ally that the Bible says
against the rich, and emphasize all
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poverty, emitting to state that the
writers extorted the poor not to
bother about earthly goods was that
they hourly expected the world to
come to an end for them, and hence
it was foolishness to care whether
they were poor or not; they defend
rent, interest. profits, and taxes; shey
ex < + patriotism a % Ys9E, ana elorify
Fobs and enslaves the poor. The
clergyman, who forty years ago, were
the hulWark of slavery, are to-day the
h.iNark Of monopoly. During the
last great strike ! do not know Of one
pastor who uttered one word oi
sympathy for the strikers, but sever.
al are reported az denouncing them,
Inc clergymen IN this country who
advocate Justice for the poor can Be
counted on your fingers, but there
are $4,000 Of them whose voices and
pens are az the service of tho rich.
This clerical encouragement Of the
Flch to hlold on to their stolen wealth
is one Of the signs Of the times; it il
9 fact that will be followed by streams
Of bleed. Happy. will they be il
CASth " p10O4 AOoS uOU run Will
that Of the poor whom they despise
and the m~onopolists whom they lova
These are the signs Of the times
kich ldlers amusing themselves al
Newport and Tuxedo; poor workers
Rurytng themselves In cold mines
Young men and women riding across
the country after a bag that smells
Ike q FOX; OLD men and women pick
ing decayed food out Of garbage cans
Lap dogs driven through Contra.
Park TO take the air; children strip
glergymen travelling TO EgrOna ID
pleasure Tea preachers Of q reas
gnspel marching with locE-step il
the penitentiaE, Society womer
picking w mtilionaires at Watering
plaoesi atFeet-walkels picking III