The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-09-05
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On the I'd Of February last Rev.
Joseph. Cook spoke in fremont Tenn
1ile. Boston. His discourse opened
with The following significant words:
"Two thousand capitalists own more
than all the rest Of the sixty-tlve mil
lions OF our population. Two hun
bred and fifty Thousand rich men con,
troll seyenty.Ave pei cent. of the.
national wealth. The American re-
public is therefore practically owned
by less than o1e-quarter Of a million
81 persons. If present causes which
produce concentration Of capital con-
tinue the republic will soon be owned
BY less than Atty thousand men,"
OF course If 'iess than q quarter Of
a million Of persons" practically Gown
the Tebublic6 less than that number
do practically govern it, Hence we
have a republic merely in name. 1t
is an oligarchy in fact. Indeed since
Andrew johnson retired from the
presidency the country has been gov
erned by capitalists, but the money
lenders have had the greatest infln-
euce with courts, congress and presi-
dent. Can any man secure a nomiha-
tion to the lower house of congress
north or south, by the dominant party
in any district, who is not largely q
bank stock holder or is not a bank Of
fcialY The bankers rule the lower
house. Hence the vote on the silver
bill. How many of the members of
the cabinet are bankers? I presume
all of them. I would like to know If
President Harrison is not largely a
bank stock holder, I believe he is.
This condition Of things must not
last very mitch longer, it ought not
and it will not. There Is but one
word the patriotic voter ought to ut
ter in reference to politics, That
word is ''uuit." Let us QUIT. Quit
what? Quit voting for bankers for
congress. Quit voting for money
lenders. They have brought ruin
upon the nation. How? BY legisla-
tfon-increasing constantly the value
Of money, and of notes, mortgages
and bonds and decreasing the value
of labor and labor products. Said the
Hon. Thos. W. Fitch in a speech at
St. Louis, December s, 1889. "After
twenty years Of national prosperity,
the amount Of our national debt
measured by the number of days
work that would be required to pay
it, is as much as it was in 1858. In
1868 the amount of our national debt
was 50, 61O, 900, 900. Wheat was worth
S1.s9 per bushel, cotton 10 cents a
pound, pork $27 a barrel. We could
have paid the national debt then
with f,400, 900, 900 bushels of wheat,
100, 900, 600 barrels of pork, of 43,000,-
OGO bales Of cotton. Since 1868 we
have paid in dollars $1,4so, 900, 900 OF
| the public debt, and there is now left
in dollars to pay 81, 1870, 900, 900. But
wheat, cotton and pork have gone
down in price. 1t would take as
many bushels of wheat, as many bales
| of of cotton, as many barrels of pork,
| as many days labor to pay the bal
| aDce now due of 81 1870, 600, 600 as
would have sufliced in 1858 to pay the
debt of ST SIC, 600, 000.
The great wrong was the demone.
| tization of silver, Just at a time when
we had opened up u great mines.
God had given us the means to save
oar nation from debt, but the s'crcd-
itor class said no. The value was
taken out of silver and added to gold:
the volume of our money contracted
all values destroyed, but money value,
and "gold" practically the only
money. The people have given all
| their substance for a gold whistle.
Shall we say. '')et them whistler"
MI. Editor. [ believe that I am not
mistaken when I say that, though
less than a quarter OF a million of
| such men practically ssown the
United States" they shall not much
| longer govern the United States.
Soon the cry will be, "Down with the
robbers!!" "Down with the tyrantsi'
But congress has an evil intention.
The ~''election law" about to pass is a
wicked measure. It's object is to pre-
cipitate rebellion and bloodshed in
the south. One year after the pass
age of that law there will be no negro
voters in the south. All who may re-
main alive will do their voting north
Of Mason's and DixOn's line A stand
ing army of 400, 900 regulars will not
suffice 20 protect tie blacks. The
whole south will be a repetition OF
Fort Pillow. l know what I am talk
ing about and speak a%dvisedly.
Socially, the best friends the negroes
have in the world today are the south.
ern whites, and If let alone by con
gress all will be peace and the negro
question will be settled according to
the golden rule, in Christian way
n the two races will continue to-
gether there, and the negro will nave
his due weight In politics according
to his Intelligence. =,
But the voters of the south will
never submit to what they term
negro rule" My advice to congress
is, Let the south alone" Let each
state of the Union manage it's own
elections. "Home rule" is as much a
need here as in Ireland. But the con-