The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-16

the People.
The gentlemanly editor OF the Her.
mosa Pilot, postmaster and all-round
rustler says:
The Farmers Alliance people were ~rustling
about town Tuesday to collect money with
which to hire n hall for their district meeting.
the business men and then we suppose got to,
gether and passed the customary resolutions
cnrSing these same business men, and everybody
else who lives in town, because they don't live
i'll the country, and because crops were so poor,
prices so low, and things generally SO cross
ways. There are some tirst-class men among
the alliance men, but surely they have some
queer notions.
So + 81 The independents
want the republicans and democrats to pay for
the ammunition that is to blow them out OF en-
istence. Oh! consistency, aren't you Il jewel?
There is no chance for fulr play from
the little journals OF the old party who
have secured Il public teat. Nor do we
believe it is best to ask it. The whole
partisan press and public speakers OF
the old parties judge the people by the
standard OF hObocs or ward strikers and
tune their lays accordingly and their
lahOrs are bearing fruit. The limit OF
their circulation binders the good work
and hence it often becomes the duty OF
the independent press to all. their logic.
1t is Il rule OF warfare to forage on thu
enemy" and no doubt some alliance
men favor it. We must, however, con.
Tess we do not. In soliciting funds for
district meetings or political purposes
we would only ask it OF those favorable
to our cause. But it i'll behoovcs the
Pilot to call attention to the fact that
its town boasts no public hall nor well
colnes public gatherings, but rather
twitS them on the cost OF their enter
tainment. However, II justice to the
town, we must state that we do not
believe the Pilot voices the sentiment OF
the people. The gathering ut Hermosa
was not in the interest OF parties. 1t
was a district session OF alliance men
and Knights OF Labor, an open session
and the Pilot man need not have "sup-
posed they got together and passed the
customary resolutions cursing the bus
mess men,, he could have been present
and OF given a true report. The Pilot
man has gotten of considerable calam-
ity talk recently. He has called quite
loudly for assistance. Government pap
hasn't saved him from hard times, but
like the old darkic with his foot in the
fire he barely shifts the smoke and asks,
"Whos' burnin?"
Among the resolutions passed was
one looking to the opening OF the mill at
~ilcrmosa, which city with fifteen to
twenty thousand bushels OF gram trib.
utary to her, furnishes no permanent
market. The milling property is tied
up by scarcity OF money and high rates
ni interest and local buyers can dc
nothing on account OF high rates tc
Chicago. The convention disc usscC
finances and the transportation qucs
ton.
1t strikes us that those independents
who arc holding stock in republican o.
democratic papers or who subscribe tc
partisan papers of the opposition
should study carefully the Pilots claus,
on consistency. The fact that the am
mumition is of poor quality doesn't ex
cuse their furnishing it to the enemy.