The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-23

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have reduced their hours 81 labor during
1880.
The democratic porty i lost in their
Woods.
This years cotton crop is estimated
at s,652,597 bales.
Two cows recently died at Ontario,
Canada from the effects OF eating binding
Irvine.
The government furnishes hall rent for
all meetings OF labor organizations IN
PARIS.
In New South Wales out OF four politi-
cal parties the labor party is second in
numbers.
Nine thousand Pittsburgh railroad
miners have made a demand for an in
crease in wages.
Every important pottery in this coun-
try IS under the Jurisdiction OF the
Knights OF labor.
The American Waltham. Watch COM
pany has reduced the wages OF their en-
ployes about fifteen per cent.
The two candidates for governor OF
Maryland are to show their special fit
ness for the Equatorial chair by al
blowing match.
Mayor Woods will be so completely
showed under after election that he will
think a wooden man could have made
a better run for congress.
Last Friday H%imebaush, Maryott &
Co., built complete a frame barn 2Ox4O
with fourteen feet posts. This is un-
doubtedly the most rapid work in barn
building ever done in Rapid City.
The knights OF Labor have recently
won a signal victory oyer the Anheuser
Busch Brewing company after a three
years boycott. The company has ac-
coded to every demand OF the Knights
and the boycott has been declared Off.
In the nomination OF jolly it looks as
if the republicans conceded they could
not elect their candidate and simply
put up an unknown man SO that it
would save them the remorse OF having
any Of their party leaders knocked out.
The big oil well recently struck neal
Pittsburgh has a flow Of 10000 barrels
per day, worth $4,000. Is it not a
little strange, with such wonderful oil
wells, the millions given in Hands and sub
sides to construct railroads, the eco
nomic NEAR OF transportation by tank
lines, that the Rapid City consumer
should pay about the same price per
gallon for oil that was paid when it was
freighted three hundred miles by bull
team.
The republicans of Colorado strongly
favor the unlimited coinage OF silver
while the republican platform OF Ohio as
directly opposes it. The silver plank in
the republican platform OF South Du-
kota is a straddle and is differently in
terpreted by prominent republicans.
Republicanism is democracy in Colo
RADIO, bossism in Dakota, and plutocra-
cy III Ono.
All applicants securing employment
road company are obliged to sign an
agreement refusing to support or belong
to any labor organization. This is only
another link in the chain OF bondage
which impresses the laborer with a deep
er sense OF his degradation. Ii these
conditions are not SOC changed by leg
~lslation they will eventually react on
such corporations with terrible ven
geance when these slaves OF toll are
goaded to desperation by such soulless
corporations.
just now the partisan press is trying
to begulle the farmers with the taffy that
he is on top this year owing to a big
crop and good prices. Yet from behind
this tlimsy veil OF buncomb the bony
grasping fingers OF monopoly are seen
craftily setting traps and arranging pit
falls to entrap the unwary granger
should he for a moment abate his eter-
nal vigilance against the willy politician
who endeavors with siren songs ofbetter
times to win back to the republican fold
the disaffected ones who have left the
party upon learning that republicanlsm
Is a mere device by which monopolists
get their servants IN places in which
they can look after their masters inter-
ests.
The real interest from which all the
! zeal OF the members OF the old parties Is
obtained is the interest of monopoly.
, Leaving out the tariff issue, upon which
the parties do not vary five per cent,
they have not a single living issue to
| present to the people. Whenever a po-
litical party fails to present a single is.
sue for the advancement OF mankind, 1t
has outlived its usefulness and is simply
beating the air in a futile attempt to de.
lay the hour OF it's dissolution. When
any party truckles to monopolist1c ideas