The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-18

into the condition OF tenants and serfs.
The conditions OF labor in all other in
dustries have undergone marvellous de-
velopment and changes III the past hum
dred years. The farmer works under
the same stern conditions, perishing in
the midst OF bouudless prosperity, for
others, He has determined to effect q
change in these conditions, and read
just himself on a living basis to the new
civilization.
2. This movement means the
EDUCATION OF THE MASSES,
as masses-of the farmer as q farmer
It means the assertion OF the manhood
OF the yeomen OF the nation. This is
real education. The accent OF our edu-
cation has hitherto been to get on, to
rise" We have been taught to climb
out Of the humble sphere in which we
were born into some so-caled higher
sphere The smith learns to despise his
anvil, and the clodhopper to look with
contempt upon the plow. They rise to
"higher" things. They become lawyers
and doctors, and preachers, and bank
ers, railroad men and politicians. We
now have fully eight million men in
this county educated to be presidents
vi the United States-we only need
about dozen presidents in a hundred
years-an awful waste OF rawmaterial!
The farmers are learning and teaching
it to their children, in this organization,
that the work OF the farm is as sacred,
as noble, as honorable as that OF any
sphere in life Women too are admitted
to the order. Well they may. There
are more farmers wives in the insane
asylums OF America than any other
class. They have actually recognized
the fact that
WOMAN IS A HUMAN BEING.
A reporter once asked an old farmer
in the west what he thought about the
question "ls marriage failure? He
replied, "What, marriage? Well, let's
see. There's Lncindy gifts up in the
mornin', kindles the fire, milks slx cows,
starts four children of to school, tends
to three others, skins twenty pans OF
milk, feeds the hens, likewise the hogs,
looks after some motherless sheep, gifts
breakfast, washes up the dishes, gifts
dinner, ct cetera-why, mon, do you
think I could hire anybody to do all
this for what she gifts? Not much! Its
great success, STRIP All, these patient
sad-faced, weary millions OF women
The pathos OF their lives! They have
entered this organization with cheeks
flushed with hope, many OF them fol
the first time in their life. May Goo
lead and bless them!
3.-This movement means
COOPERATION AS AGAINST COMPETITION
1t is in this principle OF socialism thai
| the order has it's strongest foundation
They are pledged to cooperate witt
each other in the production OF eco
nomic goods, and not only so, but tx
cooperate in the distribution OF thes
goods. The alliance stores for supplies
| are u pEOulIuGlO U LGilOuIC VI VAAClh WI II
| These storss contain the germ idea Q
| the great Industrial Cooperative SO
cleties OF workngmen OF Great Britain
They are asserting in life the principle
that it is better to fight for each othe
than against one another. They at
learning the secret OF associated powe
that in union there is strength. It
IN the light OF this fact that we snly
the app,rent paradox, that while the
Icry out against trusts and monopolie:
], in the same breath they demand tha
the government press its functions t
7 the very verge Of state socialism. Thes
!, CRIES are not inconsistent. They al
/ the assertion OF fundamental principle
:, They recognize the IMP portant fact ths
( government is not something separa'
!, from the people, but when normally a.
/ mlnistered, is simply the people COVER
q ing themselves that it is not a pow
!, to be forced, but a power to be utilize
], for the happiness of all.
g q. The orga aniza tinn means hrothe
s hood. It IS q fra aternal and benevole
1 order with principles OF love and irats
Il nIfy wide III, fha yySr,,T nnIversa1' as Il