The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-18
AN AMERICAN SPEAKS
Pot this in your Pipe and Smoke
1T, Ye Sor,iii Hirelings of

1t, YesSordii Hirelings of
Banded Monopolists.
/ see in the issue OF the Rapid City Re
publican OF tile % inst an article entitled
a story with IA moral. 1t is amusing the
array Of assertions and assumptions set
fourth by that blatant mouthed pluto
CT tic hireling and paid story teller. !
can have no patience with the marrow
minded suspicious people who charge
HI. Loucks with being a reformer from
selfish motives; that is to say, because
it offered an a 8 avenue to makemoney.
Bah! such gross material creatures nake
us sick. They are hogs in human form
and would be satisfied to go to a heaven
where an eternity could be passed in
gorging themselves with rich food, enjoy
ing plenty OF sleep. and not be Obliged to
! work. Such people have no conceptions
| OF any joys out side OF physical, and
therefore sheer. at the notion that men
can be moved by aspirations that reach
beyond Their W narrow and b%aserange
OF desires. III. L. Loucks will be hon
ored by all patriotic citizens as a great
and good man,who is entirely conscien-
tious in his efforts to up-bulld a nobler
humanity and his work as a noble and
CONSCIENTIOUS reformer will not be lost.
Loucks has a lot OF grand good men
associated with him in the loyal battle
he is making in the interests OF the pro-
ducing many, against the n~on-producing
few, but we donot believe imam OF them
will take issue with us when we say that
Loucks has been the special and partic-
ular object upon which the banded mo-
nopolists of Dakota have localized their
attacks. Would they have done SO if he
were not faithfully serving the farmer?
Would they have done SO to any man
not a representative leader, who was
honest brave and able? Scarcely. il
they could buy Loucks would they not
gladly do SO? But they cannot buy him,
so they propose to crush him and the
farmers movement for equal rights
along with him. It is not the maj they
are after, but what he stands for. Tho
personal attacks made upon Loucks are
be1chings of slanderous. aftiuvium that
the saintliest man who ever lived would
receive, stood he in Loucks' place. The
The crime Of his being o foreigner and a
tie cutter is very vivedly set forth in
that scurilous attack and it is evident
the writer would revive the old know"
nothing shibbo]eth Of quitting zone but
Americans on guard to night" which
meant natives, born in the land, The
independent party cares nothing as to
where our fellow citizens came into the
world, O as to his occupation, whether
it be a tie cutter, a rail splitter, q tan
ner OF a tailor, for the man born in
Sweden, Germany, Canada or Ireland
may in his heart be a loyal Amer
lean than the mar who can trace his
lineage Through a geometrical series OF
grandfathers to a Plymoth Rock. The
place Of genesis Of the swiftly changing
human form is not Of the slightest con-
Germ to us. We are not anxious as to
where the gross matter OF a man first
came to life, our interest is rigidly con-
fined to thesul ernnl-the ethereal-part
OF him that is invisible.
We want to know first as to his ruling
principals OF action and whether they
were born in the wedlock OF a true heart
and sound brain. These qualities II. l.
Loucks has demonstrated to the salts
G faction OF the independent party.
n Many men whose fathers founded thi
republic find a congenial atmosphere i