The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-20
Vox populi Vox Del.

Vox populi Vox Del.
Editor UNION: The voice OF the people
unintimidated is always and always has
been the voice OF God. We see with a
prophetic vision that the people are
coming together on one common basis,
not solely from choice, but from neces.
sity, to protect themselves from the
abuses OF legislation which is disastrous
to their happiness and bestintelcsts and
which is wholly to foster the monied
powers OF the earth, which on tho one
hand makes millionaires and on the
other makes millions OF tramps, and
millions OF homes destitute OF the
comforts which should adorn every
mansion and also the most lorloln
hovel. Capital On the one hand is or
ganizing to enslave labor. Every year
the shackles are drawn tighter and
tighter, Soon, unless we call a halt we
will have to submit to universal slavery,
or we must follow the example set by
the people OF England during the reign
OF Henry vi. We see in this act that
the people revolted and their freedom
was brought about by the sword, their
chains OF slavery were broken on the
anvil OF war. We are unlike the people
OF England. They were ruled by a sov-
ereign, whose ipse diXit was the law OF
the land: Today the people are the
government Gnd we will defend our
rights and this election is only an omen
OF the future OF our nation. We have
had men to make our laws who were
illdesisning, who would sell their con-
stituents like chattels, for a mess OF
pottage, and at the same time the
people had the power, but were dashed
into line with the party lash and drawn
away from the true object Of the ballot
by t!inging the bloody shirt across Mason
and Dixon's line and crying ballot box
stuffiug, But these old cries have ceased
to ring in the ears OF voters when they
find their dear wives destitute Of the
clothing and necessities OF life, see their
children without shoes, hear the infants
crying for bread. 0 ye gods, does this
Mckinley bill protect these families
from want, Or does it add more grief to
their sorrowful home and pour current
OF money into the Golfers CT the manu-
facturer? Come let us answer this ques-
tion like men. AS write have a copy
OF the Mckinley bill lying before me- i
see diamonds, for the rich, on the free
list and all the articles used by the poor
with an increased tax on them and they
have tried to blind the eyes OF the
farmer with the dust OF delusion by
raising the duty on wheat from twenty
to twenty-five cents per bushel. Do
they take farmers to be class OF fools
or jackalls? Don't we know while we
have bushel going out OF our country
that that one bushel will regulate our
prices here? But this places an in
creased burden on us as farmers, for
about every four years we want to
change our seed with Russia and by this
protection it costs US twenty-five cents
per bushel additional to get our seed.
Oh consistency thou art a jewel. The
republicans say their defeat is due to
lying telegram and newspaper reports
with regard to prices, Now let us be
fair. Consult your merchants, send for
catalogues to such firms as Montgomery
d Ward and compare and you will find
an increase OF from ten to twenty per
cent. ask who pays this? I say the
consumer. We have Sixty million CON
sumers in the United States and forty
five millions are laboring classes, then
we see that the laboring classes pay
three-fourths OF all the cost OF this in
creased expense and yet no benefit for
their money.
The argument Of the republicans in
regard to the Mckinley bill puts me in
mind Of a man who saw a white black
bird. When rccosted how that could be
that a white bird was black, he said he
did not care any thing about the un.
reasonableness, that he knew it was SO
for he saw it. Think that a man who
can see the reas oning in regard to the
cKinley bill and swallow it, is as blind
as the man who saw the white black
4 bird, he certainly has a great imagina.
ton to say the least. Well now wha,
! next will be raised to keep up the fgh1
d. between the two sections. This indepen
dent move is forever going to settle th,
sectional STRIFE between solid north ant
solid south and do away with the polit
/ ical inequality. Where are the ol,
parties going to get their thunder now
III see nothing in the near future, bu
Z James g. Blaine Is reciprocity act whicl
i is a big word and when cracked ope
Q land you take a powerful microscope an
a look very closely you will see there
s. small molecule or an atom Of pre
8 ssttoplasm, which is a germ OF free trad,
I, The republicans are looking around
d hunting in fence corners, under old lol
and in cesspools to find yestage