The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-16
"IT DOESN'T PAY"


Dollar Dictates to the Daily Papers.
An explanation is due my friends
among the Farmers Alliances and in
the Peoples party as to why cannot
any longer publish in the Cincinnati
Daily Post and Cleveland Daily Press
the news sent me by the secretaries and
others. was invited by the manage
ment of those pape:s to become state
correspondent for Peoples party and AL
lance news, and was told that l could
take charge Of the department, and
whatever sent in would be published
as ! sent it, without editorial supervi-
sion, except alone that libelous matter
could not be published, and that lack of
space might sometimes prevent.
1t went we'll for few weeks and then
articles !. sent The Post did not appear,
and there was no statement that they
were libelous or that there was lack of
space. ] could not afford to have CORE
spondents send me as pointed letters as
some of them did and then be unable
myself to keep my promise to have the
news published. was getting 4 good
salary for the work, but l at once sent
in my resignation.
The managing editor of The Post said
to me, as a reason for not publishing all
of what sent: "You have no idea OF the
pressure that has come from the business
department against publishing as much
as we have done. It doesn't pay
If you do not understand what il;
meant by pressure from the business
department" read the following 'Na-
tional Bankers Circular" issued nearly
thirty years ago, and remember that the
boycott then established against all pa
pers that do not support the national
banking system is still in force:
DEAR S1R-It is advisable to do all in your
power to sustain such daily and prominent
weekly newspapers, especially the agricultural
and religious press, as will oppose the issuing
Of greenback paper money, and that you with
hold patronage or favors from all applicants
who are not willing to oppose the government
issue Of money. Let the government issue the
coin and the banks issue the paper money OF
the country, for then we can better protect
each other. To repeal the law creating ma
tional banks, or to restore to circulation the
government issue Of money, will be to provide
| the people with money, and will therefore seri-
ously affect your individual profits as banker
and lender. See your member of congress at
once and engage him to support our interest
that we may control legislation.
JAMES BUELL..
147 Broadway, Room 4, New York.
All, yes; it is the pressure from the
business department that stands in the
way of the people, whose pockets are
empty and whose homes are mortgaged
'It doesn't pay" to give Alliance and
Peoples party news.
Then, by the starving workman's
family, by the millions of mortgaged
homes, by the reeking, steaming tene
ments, human beehives of filth and vice
| and destitution, by the stunted children
that poverty drives to the factories ir
spite of mcthers love or fathers pride
or the child labor law, by the million
and half of tramps and paupers thai
stalk ragged and hungry through the
land, we say that the farmers and the
laborers should rise en- lnasse, and will
old Andrew Jackson's solemn oath
thunder forth, "Then, by the Eternal
we'll make it pay to publish the new
and the facts concerning our homes, oul
fresides and our children's welfare"
/ Worklnen! farmers! start your owl
daily papers in the chief cities of Ohit
and throughout the land, and make i
possible for the truth to be told. Lee
there be cyclone from the peoples de
partment that will make the pressur,
from tho business department. unfelt
Shall the dollar lord it over you
Shall the capitalist be your king ant
the politician his liveried nobleman be
fore whom you lick the dust?-E. P
Foster in Golden Rule.