The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
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such a course Should be necessary to
prove their adhA.ence to the demands of
the people. ~ short, they unanimously
sa1a 1nss ksaesfpeople who met in Cincin-
aacflast May and formed q new party
O. a reform platform were the people
who might expect their sympathy and
moral support. The ''grandiose and
solemn editors" etc. have given this
news in a paragraph about ten lines
long; but when some few soreheads get
together and denounce the Alliance de-
mands, these same ~''grandiose and sol
emn editors" etc. give those soreheads
column upon column of communication
and laudation.
The state Alliance of Iowa will hold
its meeting this week, and it will also
fall unanimously into line.
II n " n
All this struggle for "sequal rights to
all, special privileges to none" by the
masses of the people, and the opposition
by the money power and the plutocratic
press, recalls to a thinking mind the his
tory of the struggle for national indie
pendence which began in ITS. In that
year some sturdy old farmers assembled
on the plains of Mecklenburg county, i'll
North Carolina, and formulated a plat
form in which they declared hat they
had certain inalienable rights which
should not be violated by the crown Of
England. They declared they were a
free and independent people, and ought
to have a government "of the people,
for the people, by the people," and they
pledged their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor to secure and sustain
that government.
Those sturdy old farmers who made
that declaration We're ridiculed galore
~ the s.favorites'' and ''retainers'' of the
g They were denounced as anarch-
s and traitors and We're accused of
They were slandered and
el and viliiied without mercy. But
e oyer a year later there was a
Gathering in the city of Philadel-
sad the Declaration of Independ-
seaos was formulated and signed. And
fhen there was a campaign of calumny,
vituperat;on and lying on those patriots
WulCI uao Olly OCCll CAudlCu Wy d Sllll-
lar campaign against the Alliance since
the order has grown to be powerful.
The patriots of thai day found that
80 gfiGr aTntrvmen there We're
those who chose trucking to tyranny
and oppression in preference to standing
up for manhood, independence and equal
Justice and opportunities for all. In the
kings parliament there were long dis
cussions and elaborated plans for the
..subjection Ct The colonists' and the
! perpetuation of the rule and power of
the king. And these plans were abetted
and aided by a large number of the very
people against whom they were directed.
But the patriots stood uniinchingly and
IL by Decentralization, and they
founded what IAN be and whatiought to
I be the greatest on the face
Of the earth-a government whose orig
nal@intenti was that every subject
should have equal privileges and oppor-
tunities in, the pursuit. of happiness and
III the enjoyment of the fruits Of his la
boz.
Yilifcation, threats and lying having
Tailed GQsJeTTlIy bne paIT3OIS W IslllHB
to, make them fail in their purpose, the
next dodge Of the opponents of freedom
(who were the same as the supporters Of
monarehy4and tyranny was to predict
that the plans Of the patriots we're Wis
ionary and could never sncceed But
those plans did succeed, aud there was
SbuiitT onStiiioss plans seser.a
ment which for nearly one hundred years