The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-26

Y
J.. Fl. TURNE
selves deserted and out in the cold. How
completely they fail to comprehend the
Significance of the revolution just ahead.
Their blindness to facts that are plain to
most men is an suspicious omen for the
cause of reform. But let us see just
why they are deceived by the idea that
good crops will allay the universal dis
content among the farmers.
A very good crop is not less an evil to
the producer than a very poor crop, and
all on account of the villainous oppres-
sion Of the money power. Nobody I'M
derstands this better than the farmer of
Kansas. When Ralph Beaumont trans
posed the advice Of Congressman Horr,
that farmers should 'raise more corn
and less hell" and told the Kansas farm
ers to ''raise more hell and less corn"
the suggestion had a tremendous signif-
canoe, which his hearers We're not slow
in approaching. Corn was then selling
at fourteen cents a bushel, and it cost
one bushel Of corn to send another bushel
OF corn to market. The so called states
men Of both political parties some how
cannot be made to see that the question
which is pauperizing the farmer is not
one of crops. A generation ago the
problem Of the agriculturist was how
to make two spears OF grass grow where
one grew before. Now be is struggling
to learn how to get as much for two
spears Of grass as he nsed to get for one.
And the politicians and newspapers are
%ridiculing and ~denouncing the farmer
for meddling with affairs which he
knows nothing about! Does any sane,
well posted mar believe that the farmer
can longer be prevented from taking a
hand in what to him is a matter Of life
and death?
1t may be a revelation to some farmers
to learn just how it is that the ayarice
Of capital places them at its mercy
whether the seasons yield be great or
small. 1t is clearly explained by an in
cident quoted by The Industrial Free
Press, which tells the story Of the visit
of a Kansas banker to an eastern cap
italist' for the purpose of securing a loan
of $50, 900. His securities were exam
ined and pronounced good, and he was
finally given to understand that he could
have the money upon Il condition.
That was that he should leave the money
there and not take it out faster than he
loaned it, and that if the Bankers asso-
citation should at any time decide not to
loan any more money he would stop
drawing on them. OF course they said
he would not have to pay interest on
more than he actually got.
This aroused the Kansas bankers curl
osity, and he asked an explanation.
"Well,"said the eastern money king, Eat
certain times of the year, you are aware,
most of the farmers have to pay their in.
terest and the crops also go on the market
about this time. Now, we are largely
interested in grain, and during this yea.
son of the year, as the farmer has crops
to sell and must have money, it is nee,
essary to make money scarce everywhere
in order to get the farmers crops at a
fair price"
There is the black infamy of it all con.
ltSSSu. HlGl SlSh q SS SpSL4 VI SPphSo
sion us that in operation in this free e,
land Of ours, the politicians tell the pro,
5 ducers of the country to keep silence
: about their wrongs, and to give thei1
t attention to the sham battle which viii
=, presently be fought between the old par
ties. Wall street will try to make the
campaign between the Democrats ant
: Republicans as interesting as possible
Wall street will back both sides, just a
: the circus man does the contestants il
! the chariot race in his ring. OF course
! it makes no difference to the plutecracy
, which wins, but the necessity for max
ing the fight appear genuine is full.
realized. So about a year hence 70,
!, may expect to see the old parties gettin.
real angry at each other about an oil
election outrage down in Mississippi
q and a little later you'll see them read.
to scratch each others eyes out in a dis
pute about the tariff on tin plate. Blu
t any real measure of relief to curtail tn
: power OF money to oppress9 No, neve.
y Not from either of the old parties unde
present enlargement. . might 4
+ well try to ger JAY Gould's name on 81
o Peters eligible list at the gate of heave
y rs to undertake to change the control {
the Republican and Democratic ma
o chimes
n The desperate Republicans are tryin
q with renewed vigor to force the wester
y third party men back into the ranks b
crying that the Cincinnati oonventio
!, was a Democratic subterfuge. They sa
! the south was not represented there, an
that therefore the revolt affects only Il
Republican party. The faisity of the
i. reports has been so many times expose
!. that it is hardly worth while to del
i. them again. but for the information
5. the brethren of the west, let it be sa
ic that during the month since the Cinci
IT. natl conference adjourned the newpar
in idea has swept the south like wildar
O. Even the Alliance leaders in that Sc
tion have been amazed by the outbrea
= Nobody dreamed Of the latent streng
= of the independent sentiment among Il
masses, which is now hursting into
sudden oenfagration. OF course
~ means the disruption Of the Democrat
70 party in the south. The moysme
promises to become Immediately mo