The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-23
PIEDMONT POINTERS.

ue llrSC Sue LFtck was lalu luSC we'd
nesday and cars switched.
The Black Hills and Pierre railroad
will commence building theirround house
next week.
Seven cars OF steel rails have arrived.
Will commence laying track June first.
The first business house in Piedmont
is the Western Bank and Trust company
The cashier reports business far beyond
his expectations. The company will
erect brick block at the earliest posi-
BILE day.
The First National bank OF Deadwood
will have a branch established at this
place by the 10th OF June. They will
build not less than two-story brick.
A $4,000 stock OF hardware has been
ordered and it's home will be in CORFU
gated iron building, 26xSO feet. Both
goods and building will be here within
two weeks. Mr.. Frymire, the proprietor,
left here last Tuesday, leaving money
with Mr.. Helevig. cashier OF our bank, to
purchase one business and some residence
lots. .....
A furniture establishment, dry goods
store, a number of grocery stores and
two hotel buildings will be erected as
soon as lots can be secured. All these
improvements, besides the block, the
plans OF which are now being drafted by
Zach Holmes OF Rapid City, are certain.
Spring Valley alliance is in flourish
ing condition with forty-one members
At the last meeting John w. Allen, R. T.
Hall, A. S. Mcbride and L. s. Kalinder
were elected delegates to attend the
state alliance meeting at Huron, June
4th. They will all go.
The Good Templars will dispense
sandwiches and coffee lot sale day
Come and see live town.
GLEN ALLIANCE.
The above alliance met at the old Fan
shaw place, Friday, May 16. There was
d good attendance of members and cam
didates, and Messrs. Allen and Perry
Cox, Fouse and Burke were visitors from
Summit alliance. Brother Parrish was
present and assisted in the secret work.
This alliance, although in a thinly settled
community, now numbers over thirty
members. The following are the dele
gates to the county alliance: E. Kirk
patrick, George Bennett and Frank
Blair. The following were chosen to
represent the Huron convention: Otto
Anderson and Frank Blair. At the
close Of the meeting, Lecturer Anderson
delivered a short address, taking for his
subject, '"The unequal distribution OF
property" We can give but bare
synopsis: "The average wages OF men in
the United States is SIPS per day, and
yet four men in the United States appro-
pirate the wages OF 1852 men. Just
study this matter and you will not
wonder at the condition of the laboring
people. Gould absorEs the daily wages
Of 5, ,5S4 men, or STAG; Vanderbilt, OF
II ,437 men, or SIS, ,249; Rockefeller. Ia
O36 men, or $1e,7l5; Astor, OF 17,475
men, or $23, ,593. Less than half a
million men own ninety-ive per cent OF
the nations wealth. On the other hand
we find that western farm mortgages
amount to four billion dollars, with an
annual interest account OF four hundred
million dollars. How has this condition
of things been made possible? By the
apathy ofthe people; by blind fealty to
party. Chow can this concentration o.
wealth be prevented" is a question that
should occupy our thoughts. We pity
England for the cost OF royalty, and YET
allow one man to absorb yearly twenty
two million dollars. We have got te
think and act independent OF parties
Our partisianism makes us the laughin,
rtock Of the world. 1t lis not. so in OLE
countries. How often England parlia
ments is dissolved and new election
ordered, and the divisions is on men O
questions, not on party lines. Their
once was means OF redress. The sll
preme court was once good authority
Il but now the corriInting infIuenca ~ no,