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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
LANDED ARIsTocRAcY VS..
MONEY.

There was a time when grave foars
were entertained of a landed aristocracy
in this country. Capital flowed int land
and large and small tracts were absorbed
wherever there was opportunity to in
vest for holding and for private comm
~lations and other purposes. Great pa
troons, it was feared, monopolize the land
and alord 1t over Gods heritage." Tic
cry of land reform and national reform
was raised and this tendency was q
emily arrested.
To-day the sweep runs III another al.
reetion and money seems to have the
ground. And so o money aristoeracv.
an aristocracy of wealth based mon
railroad stocks and all sorts Of bond in
vestmcnts, with cash itself, looms IN
with colossal dimensions and ihperial
power to threaten the social and finan-
cial equilibrium which forms the basis
Of a republican state. This Is known as
s'the money power' whose ptasp Il fixed
on the great staples OF the country and
whose controlling influence reaches ont
to all the ccnters OF trade and commerce,
and whose domination Is fearful beyond
any ordinary com prehehsion.
Certainly an aristocracy Of money, Ia
greatly so be feared and dreaded. It
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
TIME TO DO SOMETHING.

Farmers, laborers, why in the name OF
liberty and high Heaven don't you de-
mand your rights, talk for them and
vote Tor thcm2 Why do you grumble at
your hard lot, toll on in abject submits
sion and then kiss the very hands which
degrade you? In the Way Of interest
you bend the knee before the corrupt
and unjust laws that be, while
these same laws make life easysto o
favored few. The bankers have alawson
the statute books which loans them
your money, the peoples money, at only
/ per cent, while In each state theslaw-
yers, landlords and shylocks control the
Legislature and make you pay from 6 to
10 per cent, while in thousands of trans
actions usury obtains from 10 to 80 per
cent interest. This government IS: said
to be .'Of the people, by the people, for
the people.n If the government coins
or makes money, it is the peoples money.
But the jack-leg lawyers, professional
politicians and Doodle Office holders
have made arrangements with the
bankers, brokers and spectators 80
loan them this money at the low
rate Of / per cent. interest, and also
make it non-taxable. Your money, the
peoples money, for you made 1t, is then
loaned back to You at a very high rate,
with a big commission piled on top. No
wonder that jefferson said that national
banks were more dangerous than stand
ing armies! No wonder the Farmers al
lance, the knights of Labor and other
labor organizations oppose the devilish
system and demandit Its Gbolitton! No Won
der that the thinking, reading, intelligent
farmer and laborer voted against such
an Ubiquitous principle and against
the political parties which up
hold 1t to-day as in the past.
1t is true the republicans patterned the
national banking system after instrllc-
lions from the Hazard circular and
passed it, but upon its being rechartered
in 1882, both republicans and democrats
supported the robbfng measure. The
leaders in both parties are friendly to the
national banks; the great statesmen OF
both parties advocate the loan Of mill
ions Of dollars of your money to the
bankers, but these same men cry down.
ridicule and oppose the sub-treasury.and
the farmers land loan bills, thereby OPP
posing d reasonable amount of money
and a reasonable rate OF interest to the
farmer. Canyon cling to suchsparties?
Will you foster such principles? Ought
YOU to love such men?--Jonesboy0 tAThl
O1tr C0ualtqU.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

KEEP politics out Of the alliance
cries the iogy. Why God have mercy on
your poor beuighted soul, politics ia a
grand good thing toShave around. Show
US a church, q school, a mercantile
establishment, q family without politics
in 1t and we will show you an aching
void. Politics is the, art and science OF
good government, and any we'll governed
Institution obtains its distinguishing POI
litfcal characteristics from the political
bodies surrounding and effecting It.
Next to the theories and practices of
agriculture, the government Of these
United States Most vitality effect tho
farmers veal or woe;isyit not most wise,
then, that the farmers alliance caro-
fully scrutinize the every action of pc.
litical parties of the nation? Is it not an
imperative duty that the farmers ana-
lyze the motives prompting every act
and forecast the effect Of every statute?
Then why no politics in the alliance?
Like Jefferson We firmly believe that
prosperity or adversely can be legis-
lated" upon the country.-Gtbbon Re
DbTtef.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

Slcssers pporer tart chan tie sefxiis creas
stute that etinBes forSthO right toStfyeS1ns
ireland and RnAsi4. Already Hlieinsishds
lords tnlllfn0is make their tehAnt1ssk6
g permission 70 improve theit h6ldfness
send titeh promptly raise the feht
cause the tenants improvement hAs a..
shaneed the value Of The land. Already
foreign dukes, lords and syndicat6i;
own over 20,747, GOO acres Uf land
IN the United States, held n
tracts OF from ono to four million acres.
every week steamers bring thousands
OF land-hungry laborers from Eurupet ia
compete with the thousands Df bfoietaf.
tats already here, in selling their bodies
fof bread and. to help III pushing the;
farmer Into the position 81 honeless
tenant on the acres OF an absent OF alien.
landlord. tits a.curious fact but In the
two greatest countries oneartih; England
and America, relentless social and politi.
col FORCES are fast pushing the proletariat
and the farmer SO close together that
soon they must join hand in the brother.
mood OF common interests, and wage d
var that will bring 30 pass such land re.
forms, tariff fefbrms and social reforms
as the world has never yHt sHeh. Here
Is a curious problem In political economy:
England Has FREQ trade and her farms
arc decreasing In value and her farmers
grow poorer every year. America has
protective tariff, her farms ale increas.
Ing IN value; ana yet her farmers
grow poorer every year. Tho
giant without bones will have to
think long and take a wide view to dis.
cover all the factors needed to solve his
problem. He need not study ionf to see
that in both countries tie farmers lotis
not q happy one. But worse off than
the farmers-beneath them are the great
masses OF daily laborers, the toiling mil
lions who have neither land nor hUpej
who must .aevour each day ali they
earned tho day before, Just to keep alive
to work another day. But now they are
thinking, these toiling, moiling millions.
In the year 1890 they are thinking, and
their thought is the sum Of the greatest
thoughts of all the ages gone before.
And for the first time in the history of
tho world this thought flashes round the
earth q continuous flame-a hidden
flame, white heat, invisible, but terrible
and mighty. Everywhere It bufts III tho
minds of the Workers-ln tho factory
and the field, in the mine and in tho
shop, by the furnace and the forge, in
the s%hipyard and in the ships on the Q
and everywhere 1t is the sat1e fierce
and fiery thought. And slowly or sud-
denly, but surely as the rising Of the
sun. by the light of his thought will rise
the fourth estate, and they will solve the
problem for the giant without bones, and
foF themselves and all the world.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

"A WIFE who knows many wives says:
stSome husbands. when they get home at
night, tell their wives all about the busi-
ness Of the day, and about their bank
account, and about the people they met,
and about what was spoken Of, and
about everything else. Other husbands
never tell their wives about their doings
during the day, never speak Of the state
OF their finances and never refer to their
business in their households. The wife
of such a husbandk knows nothing of his
affairs, and is apt to be upset by bad
news or crushed by finding out that he
Is on the -roadsto ruin. From what Ihave
known through my acquaintance with
many families for long years, / am ready
to say that a husband should always tell
his wife about his business and about
the affairs Of the day"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
Wires Of the World.


TASMANIA has 2, 800 miles of telegraph
wire.
SOUTH AFRICA has a credit of 1910
miles of wires.
PERSIA claims, in partnership with
European wires, about g, 124 miles.
CANADA has SO, 500 miles of wire, and
did q business In one year of 1927, 581
dispatches.
ITALY has 1850 miles, and has made
an annual record of about 100000
electric messages.
AUSTRALIA has strung no less than
los, 800 miles OF wire across its surface,
and transmitted in one year 10, 600, 600
messages.
GREAT BRITAIN has $50, GOO miles Of
metal line, and in one year sent out
10000, 900 messages.
FRANCE has 220, 800 miles OF wire. on
which In n year were transmitted
80, 050,000 dispatches
NEW ZEALAND has strung itself with
1874 miles Of metal cord, and dispatched
1885, 394 messages in n year.
RUSSIA has spun out ITO, 500 miles,
and in n year gave the operators
l0,2s0, $50 messages to dispatch.
ST. HELENA, the island prison Of the
great Corsican, has thirteen miles OF the
universal wire cobwebbing its rocks.
THE United States have 776, 500 miles
of wire, and in one year. no less than
So 0O,O 900 messages were sent through
the country.
Forty Years Ago.
CoFFINs were very plain, and buria
were
NEGRO minstrclsy was Just cropping
ont in the travelling circus.
ToMBsToNEs had larger epitaphs and
Orc %verbosity engraved upon them.
EGGs were a shilling a dozen. and but
Ter was considered high at eighteen
cents per pound.
MucH OF the silver currency, fps,
ievies and dollars was Of Mexican and
Spanish coinage.
TIE country retail trade was much
better, as people could not so easily run
10 the city by rail.
BUSINESS letters were moro yolqmin-
ous and formal, and we're written in
precise round hand.
THERE was York currency, eight shil
lings to the dollar, and New England
currency six sliiilings to the dollar.
THE diet was more subcharged with
grease, the wintar breakfast usually
being made af salted ham and hot cakes
DIsNER was simply q hasty lunch q
noon, and little Importance WAS attached
70 the necessity for good digestion or
peEtod saf rest after eating
49,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

FoR the first timo in the history of the
republican party, democratic statements
were accepted as good evidence in the
late campaign. The democratic machine
of the south, through its organs, was
making maliciously vicious attacks upon
President Polk, and the republican ma
chine Of tho north quoted these slurs
with relish, for the purpose of injuring
the alliance. Hyenas and jackals al
way snap together in the wake Of the
lion.-AinsDorth- (Neb.) Home Rule.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

A SPEAKER at an anti-tobacco meeting
in Washington the other day frankly ad.
mitted that, under certain cfrcumst1i-
ces, the use of tobacco resulted in the
saving of life. This caused consterna-
ton in the meeting, until she-for it was
a woman-explained her remark by say
ing that cannibals will, under no circum-
stances, eat a missionary who is a
tobacco user. To the good ladies pres.
ent, this was was conclusive, but the ar
gument might work inst the other way
with q young man who was preparing to
60 as q missionary among cannibals. He
would begin to use the ''flthy weed
simply as a measure of self-protection.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
eomethinr for t,.e Now Year,

iUr tsi0 NOW A0ofs
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Stomach BttterR. and their continued popular.
~ for ovsr Third Of . century asa stomschic,
q scarcely more wonderful than tho welcome
thst grests the annual disappearance Of Hostetter's
Al1aanac: US valuable medical treatise IL
Pdbhehed Blythe ostetter Company, Pitts.
burr, Pa, under their own immediate supervis-
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They are running about eleven month"; In the
rear on this work, and the issue Of samef for 1881
VIII be moro than ten millions, printed In the
Eugish, German, French, Welsh, Norwegian,
6vedtsh, Holland. Bohemian. and Spanish Ian.
Interesting reading concerning health, and nu-
merous testimonials IS to the efficacy Of Hos.
letters Stomach Bitters, amusement, varied
information, astronomical calculations and
Chronological items, etc.. which can be depended
on for correctness. The Almanac for 1901 can
be obtained free OF cost, from druggists and gen.
eral country dealers in all parts Of the country.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
PULL TOGETHER.

All classes OF labor should sspull TO.
sgether,' Y, In order to succeed In this HE.
1T is Impossible for us to be o prosperous
nation as long q one class Is prosperous
and another Impoverished, says the
Workman and Farmer. There should
be d perfect unity OF interest among ali
Glasses Of labor. The farmerswhosat-
Istempts to buy his farm implements at Q
price which he knows must represent
starved labor In the workshops and facs-
tories, is directly mining TO lesson ihe
purchasing power the consumer o.
hisswhcat, meatsan POTATOES The
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
THOUGHTS WORTHY
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LESSON ron pEcElfpER 2s-QuARrEBLY
REVIEW.
Lesson i. Parable OF the Vineyard.
Luke 20: B-1D.
Memory Verses. 1915
Golden Text: sHe Is despised And re-
j6cted Of then.b fsa.s So. s.
Lesson 2. The Lords Supper. Luke
2a:7s20.
Memory Verses. la, go.
Gollen Text: sAs often as ye eat this
bread and drink this cup, ye do show the
Lords death till he come 1 Cor. IL: 90,
Lesson 8. Tho Spirit Of True Service.
Luke 20; 24-37.
Memory Verses. 25-27.
Golden Text: slot this mind be in
you, which vas also In Christ Jesus.
Phil. 2:5.
Lesson 4 jesus In Gethsemane. Luke
22: 1858.
Memory Verses. 4O-43.
Golden Text: "a man Of sorrowe, and
acquainted with grief lisa. SO: 3.
Lesson s Jesus Accused. Luke 90:
54-7l.
Memory Verses. 6e.7O.
Golden Text: ale was wounded for
our transgresslons; he was bruised for
our iniquitiee.n lisa. 53:5.
Lesson 8. Jesus before PLATE and
Herod. Luke %: 1-l2.
Memory Verses. II, 10.
Golden Text: .Then said PLATE to the
chief priests and to the people, 4 find no
fault in this man. I" Luke "a: 4
Lesson z. Jesus Condemned. Luke ga:
1925.
Memory Verses. 2o-es.
Golden Text: aFor the transgrcssion
of my people was he stricken" lisa.
So: 8.
Lesson 9. jesus Crucided. Luke ga:
a3-47.
Memory Verses. 80, "a.
Golden Text: sThe Lord hath laid on
him the tniquity OF us all.n lisa. SO: 6.
Lesson 9. Jesus Risen. Luke "a: 1-12.
Memory Verses. go.
Golden Text: snow is Christ risen
from the dead, and become the first fruits
OF them that slept" l Cor. Is: 20.
Lesson 10. The Walk to Emmaus.
Luke "a: 1927.
Memory Verses 1927.
Golden Text. Ought not Christ to
have suffered these things and to enter
into his g,ory?" Luke ~: 20.
Lesson II. Jesus made known. Luke
"a: 2s-43.
Memory Verses. 1910.
Golden Text: sand their eye were
opened and they knew him. Luke
"a: 81.
Lesson IL. jesus Parting Words.
Luke "a. 44-53.
Memory Verses. 45-4s.
Golden Text: eff I go and prepare a
place for you, l will come again and re.
ceive you unto myself" John IL: 3.
We, in addition, would suggest to all
our Sunday schools, what q number have
already planned for, the adoption Of the
programme outlined by the Missionary
Union for Children's Day for Foreign
Missions. It consists of an exercise for
Sunday-school concert, which can come
in connection with the regular school
session. though, where possible, 1t will
be found better to have It in the evening.
Such exercises Always bring out q
thronged house, and a good time Is al
most invariably had. The programme,
consisting of Scripture readings, songs
nd recitations, is suitable for Sunday
evening, and DR.. C. +. Tolman, at 122
Wabash avenue, Chicago, or any Of the
missionary secretaries, will be glad to
furnish the exercises gratis to any school
taking up q collection, in connection
Herewith, for the cause.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

LABOR organizations, 1t must be un-
derstood, are not formed alone for the
purpose. Of maintaining wages; there are
higher and nobler objects to be observed;
grander purposes to be fulfilled; and
while they sometimes, by ill-directed
energy, drift away from the point sought,
they nevertheless ultimately conserve
their main purpose and periodically
pave the way for the institution of re-
form and government morality.-Port-
land, Ore, Reform Journal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25
5HALsTEAb COMPLIMENTS THE
FARMERS.
.Hayseedsr SHOULDN'T NEEDLE in Poiitios
II They Want His Love.

aHayseeds~ Shouldn't NEEDLE In Poiitics
II They Want HIS Love.
The following IL the way Murat Hal
Stead, The; leading republican journalist,
speaks Of tho Farm6fs' alliance move.
itett; s.hRt iBtef,,'' sspaf2sttes bn tile
hir," aftd referring tod criticism by the
Rome, N. Y, Sentinel, he says in the
Commercial-u Gazette Of Saturday, Nov. 81:
"What does the. Rome. Sentinel know
abottt the best interests Of the farmers?
The idea that tho Farmers alliance rep
resents the best interests OF the farmers
or of anybody else is sheer cumming
demagogy and prepostcrous. A lot Of
politicians having failed to become i'm
portaht In the old parties, are always
seeking novelties and working up new
parties In which they are to be the gifted
great and good. They have about as
much intelligence as to- public affairs as
the Indian Messiah, end the farmers
doctrines 6re touchedsup with the same
glowing Imagination that appears In
the noble redskins when they prophecy
the return Of the buffalo. The cranks
have taken q turn at agriculture, and.
they have irrigated. the grounds Of agri-
tulthfists, Who profess politics as q trade
with the oldest and most foolish doctrines
of imitation. Does the Rome Sentinel
propose to convert the government into
q pawn shop, aud to undertake free
coinage that NEAR forced issues Of pa
perry
The above clearly illustrates the make
up Of the men who succeed in getting
front seats in the two old parties, What
do you, you mudsills, know? Your lead
ers whom you called forth from totr own
ranks on account OF their fitness for the
position, are bummers, demagogues, and
all Of your ideas are '.sheer hummer
dotiagogy and trepostefo1s.S The idea
of q 40-acre farmer, with q hickory shirt
on his back, a smutty, dirty miner, a
greasy shopman, a common ditcher, OF q
dollar per day section hand on the rail-
road to think, to profess. to know what
Is good for themselves III governmental
affairs, is "sheer cumming demagogy
and preposterous." We, the upperten-
dun, are to attend TO that for you. If
we hear OF yoti doing 81 again, ne will
hang you for q lot of communists!
Halstead and mon of his class have
dictated the policies Of this government
until the people are homeless and
without employment. Their class
laws have laid the foun-
dalton for an aristocracy composed of
Just such i1eh, Who have Travelled in
Europe on what they robbed toll here,
and when they condescend to return
home, cram their narrow pats with the
idea that they should be dictators and be
w%orshipped, that the masses ought to
act the part of sheep and follow the bell
weather. We want to warn them in
time that there Is. considerable of the
spirit left that went aboard of the ves-
sells in Boston hafbof and pitched British
tea into the sea. The American people
are very slow to act in affairs like this,
but get out Of the road when they get
started-Blufton (Ind.,) Tller and
Tufler,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

WHILE cutting a big cypress tree near
Aston, Fla, John Wilson found it occu-
pied by a living alligator vel feet long.
As the opening in the tree was not half
large enough for the animal to get
through, the presumption is that 1t
crawled in while quite young and lived
on other animals and reptiles that sought
refuge there. Il
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

Mrs. OLIVE WAsHBuRN, OF San Fran
cisco, is about to devote the bulk Of her
fortune to founding . nationalist colony
in California. Bellamy's "Looking Back
ward" theories are to be followed, and
all people Of good moral character will
be admitted, irrespective of religious be-
lief. Over 100000 will be spent in
buildings aud improvements. - Des
M0fnea No1rS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

A Detroiter who deals in real estate,
Law, insurance, loans, law suits. politics,
ETC., ETC., went over to Chicago the other
day. While nearing that city q man
came to him and confidentially remarked:
There's q chap in the car back there
trying to geta $40 bill changed. It's q
base counterfeit, and I want to put you
on your guard"
He was warmly thanked for his kind
ness, and passed on, and five minutes
later a man appeared with a bill in his
hand and asked:
"Friend, can you change this twenty?'
Sorry to say I cant" was the prompt
reply.
well, let me have ten, and you keep
the bill until we get to Chicago"
"Can't do it"
Cant you let me have fveP"
Nor
Perhaps you are afraid Of the bill. !
don't claim to know much about money.
Is it good or bad?'
"It's q counterfeit"
"No?"
sI'm sure of IT,"
ut can't be. I'll bet the face value
of It thatle is o good bill. Lend me 50
or II, won't you?'
mo, sir, but I'll take that bet of yours
that the conductor won't accept 1T as
good"
"Well, 1t will be worth $50 to find out
about It," said the stranger, and off they
went to the conductor.
"Give me two tens for this?' brusquely
queried the stranger as he handed out
the bill.
.1f I can," replied the conductor,
scarcely glanciDg at 1t.
He made out q ten and two fves and
passed them over, and the Detroiter
handed over the amount Of his bet,
kicked himself into the next car, and he
never saw q bit Of Lake Michigan as the
train made its way into Chicago-Detrott
Free Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

Mut4et NO went aSnshin-mD
AN my p IN mA-althteA,
Mne0 they WAsA plcu1C, way
Onto HAnchs1 wood. oue day.
An thefewasAc f1ukj ont thero.
Where the nSheG ID. An where
Little boys y Amt big an strong
Better have their folks ALONG.
Ny pa he ist fshed an, fshAdl
An my ma said she wished
Nc an her was home; an pa
Said he wished 10 woree'n ma.
Pa said ef you talk or say
Anythtn', er sneeze, or play,
Hain't no fish, alive er dead,
Ever go to bite, he said.
Purt' nigh dark III town when We
Got back home; and ma, says she,
Now she'll have q fish fer shoreI-
An, she buyed one OF the store.
Men, ut supper, pa he won't ,
Eat no fish, an says he don't
Ltke'em An he pounded mo
WhenI choked!-Ma, didn't her
rss Whncom6 Rileyin,Me Century.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-25

THE demands OF the r. NJ. B. A. and
other labor organizations are the pur-
chase and operation by the government
of the railroad and telegraph systems in.
tho interest of the people; the issuing Of
all money direct from the government to
the people, and the holding Of public
lands for actual settlers. No foreign
syndicates are entitled to hold possess
ion. America for Americans is their
motto and is good enough.