The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-20
stl0n, and much given "a nleasnpe M
Ef0Eesgn cCuntt1es. -
|, ~ nSt pxt Harrlson's salary. the

cabinet hls fail salary in adysnras l'is
Why not pay each senator iii salary
six years In advance
Why not pay each congressman hfs
twQ years salary in advance?
Why nor pay each judge and court
official his salary IN advance.
Why not nay the army and nav
ana ad az s. fhs penslonscla1has asenSysas
Why not pay all postmasters and
post-of1ce clerks their salary four
years In advanced:
Why not pay interest on the govern
Smentb bonds given totheSU Union Pacific
,.RaitrdadSS TENOR twenty years In ad-
vance?
Then, why not issue more bonds.
sell them to those thus favored, let.
ting them have bonds in lieusof cash.
and COMPEL the damphools Of farmers
and laboring men generally to nav in
terest on all these bonds. at least one
year in advance?
Why damphoe!sSS
hftef.. Year, raisIis children for hog
feed, Instead Of cutting loose from
the prejldice that makes them slaves,
LIN SlNIStIuk d LSUUSleSS
that will replace old and make new
laws.
The road to Jericho was q saints
rest compared to the one lined by the
old parties, one OF which fots till
weary then sleeps to regain strength
while the-vther fpbs. thus theyTob
and rob about, and poverty, hard
times, the sheriff and the property
absorber stalk over the land bring
ing the present generation to despair
and the coming generations into
slayery..Pomeroy's Adsancs Thought.
a Word to Farmers.
Money belongs to our competitive
system of prOductiona and distribution:
a complete round of exchange euutva-
lent for equivalent, on cooperative
principle, would render money as we
now understand 1t, unnecessary. The
warehouse receipt for a product
would be the exact equivalent for
that product. This is something
that money never could do. II money
Is an equivalent for the conlmoiitlcs
which it purchases, it fellows as a
logical sequence that all the non
IN the world is equal in value to all
the products and the.earth itself, and
hence by this principle all valuations
placed on the wealth Of the world in
excess OF the money volume. is in OK
cess OF Its real value. This logical de-
tductlon from the teachings Of mphop-
oily tnanciers, that money tniiSt bog
sesS an intrinsic value tutai to the
commodity which II Is used to pur-
chasedsmthstfatcS its uttcrabsurdity.
But While under the present system
OF production and distribution VIC
must have q medium by which debts
maybe pa!usahd property exchanged,
ln.c-uer TO -protcct ourselves from the
grasp OF the usurer, the people must
nave direct control of it's distribution.
This would be C cooperative medium
OF exchange adapted to a competitive
system and all the members OF society
would share equally in the benefits sc.
cured thereby. Money in its last anal
sis Is the language by which we eX-
press the relative value of commodi-
ties. Under system of universal CO.
operation we would still use money in
this sense to facilitate the correct
Excepting OF accounts, but the tokens,
metal or paper coins, which we now
use, might be dispensed with alto
gether. Money under a system of dis
tributioh through private channels
must in the very nature Of things be Il
robber to the amount of the interest
eXacted, but place the distribution
under public control for the benefit of
all citizens and money becomes a use
full convenience, saving an amount of
labor that is ihcalculable. When the
average laborer and business man un-
| NerStand this money question as well
as the great f%inanciers of the world
now underestimate, money will thence.
forth be taken out of.the hands of pri'
vatG spectators and. become a public
blessing. This is the key to the great
social questions which arc now foscins
themselves upon the public attention
The people should be as free to .ex
change their products as they are Il
create them by their labor. but thl:
freedom of exchange they cannot sc
cure until they control the medium BY
which the exchanges arc madc.-Du
nth (Nin1.) Industrial Age.