The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-09
Chairman Taubeneck says also in his

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Chairman Taubeneck says also in his
call:
81 have also been requested to invite
the three members from each state con-
shutting the national central committee
of Peoples party, and all other friends
of u cause to meet with us on above
date. Let every n be present."
1t will be a great gathering no doubt,
and what is said and done there will
foreshadow the action of the council to
be held the following February, when
a candidate for president will be nomi-
mated and the new party will take rec
ognized rank as one of the giant politi-
cal forces Of the age.
There is a whole sermon, a lesson in
political economy and an issue big
enough to fight out a national cam
paign upon in this short paragraph to
which the reform papers are giving q
wide publicity.
'In 1868 the amount of our national
debt was s., $40. O0O, 900. Wheat was
worth S1.59 per bushel, cotton 10 cents a
pound, pork $57 a barrel. We could
have paid the national debt then with
1,4o9, OOO. 900 bushels of wheat. 1O0, 00O,-
900 barrels of pork or 43. 1000, 900 bales of
cotton. Since 1868 we have paid in dol
lars $1.4S0, 900 900 of the public debt,
and there is now left in dollars to pay
81 1870, 200. 900. But wheat, cotton and
pork have gone down in price. It would
take as many bushels of wheat, as many
bales of cotton, as many barrels Of pork,
as many days labor to pay the balance
nov due of 81, 130, O00, 900 as would have
suffced i'll 1868 to pay the debt of $780,
100000"
In a short month more the hack poll
ticians of the country will have discov-
cred that a good crop will not stop a
political revolution that has funda-
mental wrongs for its basis. When the
ruins Of their specious prophecies come
laundering down about their ears they
will isg;n to wonder sadly what it all
means. Even then most Of them will be
too stupid to understand that a new era
i'll American politics has dawned. The
| VI I'LL L bt1.1S SplGGd IClOlO GlCd odl1yI
but they don't see it; they won't see it.
The Farmers Alliance of Lincoln, Neb.,
puts it about right when it says:
.sIs the Alliance the outgrowth of last
years short crops: Not at all. On the
contrary the Alliance has been making
slow, steady and sure growth for the
past fifteen years. 1t was organized in
this state in the winter of 1872, and
has had a strong foothold in the state
ever since, having held an annual meet
ing every winter since that date. The
causes for the organization of the farm.
ers and toilers of the nation lie far deep
er than the scarcity from the crop fail
ure of one or two years. What has the
failure of crops to do with the gradua
accumulation of wealth of the nation II
a few hands until $4,000 men w more
than the other G., 1000, 900? What ha.
crop failures to do with fraudulent rail
road construction and stock watering
until the whole railroad system has be
come a rotten, fostering sore? Whai
have crop failures to do with a 6nancia
system that makes the most potent func
ton of the govern,nent-the power to is
sue money--an instrument of oppression
in the hands of a select and a%ristocratit
class?
"The good crop cry is shallow in tn,
last degree. The simple fact is, that tn,
present discomfort is the legitimate out
growth Of the educational effort of Thu
last generation. The people are begin
ming to understand economic laws. Edu
cation has developed the belief that th'
producer of wealth is entitled to TIN
wealth he produces, and has developed
intelligence enough to show why he doe
not get it,
], am surprised daily by the intelii
gence which comes to me of the supper
which the reform movement is r~eceiyin.
in quarters where it would be least ex
pected. have been spending consider
able time of late in Boston. and in tn
very heart of blue blooded, aristocratic
bond holding Boston is one of the mos
vigorous new party organizations in tn
country. A full state ticket has beel
put in the field. and it is going to poll
big vote next month. In a few days oil,
Fanenil hall itself is going to rock wit
the elp1usnr4- of the new POLITICAL gos
pei. "A Peoples party rally is to be he'll
there and it viii be q big. red hot popula
demonstration which will do honor t
the old cradle of liberty.
HR CHAMBERLAIN.