The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-01

oily business injured was the gam mbling
halls and houses of i'll fame, when the
county republican ticket was nomi-
mated in the interest of these injured
classes who were induced to vote the
republican ticket on the promise that
their injuries should be redressed, it is
rather late in the day, after the con-
sideration has been fully paid, for the
preachers to now maintain that the ar
rangement made with their political
co-laborers and bosom friends-the
gamblers and lewd women-is off.
Even I, who have had no small exper-
fence as the subject of personal and
political ingratitude, stand appalled, at
such heartliness. But I do not think
the g. @. P. will betray its allies. The
same sweet city council who refused to
use funds of the city already in the
treasury for public improvements, be-
cause the expenditure by law would
nave to be under control of Populist
board of public works, have cut down
the police fund so that there is no
money to pay the police, and thus the
city authorities, unable to furnish suffi-
cient policemen to police the city, will
be obliged to overlook the violations of
the law, an opportunity the gamblers
will gladly avail themselves of, and
then the holy preachers of the city can
hold mass meeting and denounce the
ineficiency of the Populist police.
s'In the published account of the
mass meeting on Friday evening last
at the First Baptist church, the speak
ers were all men of eminent distinc-
ton, great ability and no doubt ex-
perts in the subjects discussed But
none of them made the least favorable
reference to those who had oceasioned
the reform they seemed SO anxious to
perpetrate And this was we'll The
churches and conspicuous piety of
Denver had no part or lot in the mat
ter The reform was brought about
not only without their help but in
spite to their most bitter opposition,
and fierce attempt to strike down the
power of the governor at the very
threshold of the reform.
In the days of Christ, the scribes
AMI Pharisees denounced the Son of
God, as a breaker of the Sabbath,
winetaker and blasphemer The
strongest bulwark of American slav-
;c+; ~, ~
now that chattel slavery is abolished,
none are so eloquent in denunciation
of it's wrongs as our most reverend
doctors of divinity. Industrial slavery
which threatens the human race has no
more strenuous supporters, and freedom
no such dangerous foes as the salaried
preachers, who have learned worldly
wisdom from the fate of Christ, who
preach smooth things to the people,
who will not fight vested rights or
combat ancient prejudices, never stir
up strife or put father against son, or
brother against brother, or husband
against wife, and who in all probabil-
ity, will never be cruciied. The
churches of Denver opposed the Popu-
lists on account of their Sunday meet
ings in the Coliseum, but one half of
all the clergymen in the city, on the
Sunday evening before eldction put in
the full time III exhorting their par
! ishioners how to vote at the Tuesday
election! Who gave to the ordained
| preachers a monopoly of Sabbath
political instruction?
''The Populist state administration,
the fire and police board and the chief
will continue to enforce the Populist
policy to close public gambling houses
and shut up whisky saloons on Sunday
and after midnight, not in consequence
of the rather late but loud outcries of
the Denver doctors of divinity, the Y
M. c. A., the w. r. c. u, the prohibi-
tionists or any other class of people
whatever, bul because it is duty inn
posed upon us by the law.
Very respectfully,
DAVIS. II. WAITE"
The democratic party was like an
old landmark standing on the highway
of American progress. War and peace