The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-10

Ashamed to sign the bill.
Their pledges to increase the cur.
rency materialtzed In q contraction d
more than 500, 100000 in one year.
Their stern warnings to the greed 81
corporate wealth bore fruit in giving
three cabinet positions to corporation
lawyers and to such a complete surren-
der to the railroad kings that the
United States army and a United
States mail sack are kept ready at all
times to aid the corporations in quell-
ing strikes.
Their bimetallism never rested,
eve wavered, until it had established
the single gold standard-destroying
one-half of u money and our values
and thus adding to the value of the
dollar, to the exaction of the debt, to
the burden of the tax.
Merchants fail because the customer
can no longer buy; farmers fail be-
cause scent cotton cannot pay tax, ex-
pense, and debt. Laborers suffer be-
cause on a falling market no man can
assume new risks.
And the market fails because the
quantity of money-money of final pay
ment-has decreased and still de-
creases.
Ruin stares this republic in the face
n the democratic party, aided and
abetted by the republicans, is to blame.
10 cure the ills of contraction the
democrats have contracted.
To undo the "crime of 1873" they
have repeated it.
10 restore public credit they have
given o debts to pay.
10 relieve the people, they have
added to your taxes.
10 emphasize their love of reform
they have added to the national ex-
pendlture at a time when the jails are
so much more desirable than thou
sands of homes that heretofore honest
men are committing petty crimes to
secure the refuge which the law pro-
Vldes for the criminal. Such is the
record-the recent record-of the dem
ocratic party.
Hence the halo has gone from it
forever. The most devoted democrats
cannot longer refuse to see what their
party mas done and cannot refuse to
lead the hidden results in the almost
universal bankruptcy of our people.
II won't do to say Cleveland did it
all. mat is not the truth. Cleveland
IS bad enough, God knows. He has
sold himself for money. He has fat
lehed IN her misery. He has made
merchandise of her distress. But the
CABINET was also democratic and it
dWelt within Cleveland's shadow with
out a murmur.
Inc senate was democratic and it
mas not dared to question the schemes
OF tho president.
The house was democratic, and it
was AS servile as any tyrant could have
wished.
A party acts through its chosen rep
reseltatives, and in this instance all
the representatives of democracy from
president to senate, from senate to
house, and from congress clear on
down to village postmaster, Cleve-
lands ruinous policy has met no re-
Stance.
What has been done has been done
by the party and the party is respon-
sible.
Such being the tree, what shall be
done with it?
Cut it down. Why cumbereth it
the ground?"
The democratic party of today is a
mere piece of cunning machinery with
which the east rules and loots the
south and west.
Friends, take your own choice, but
as for me, as long as I have breath I
shall fight the battles of the south as
against the deadly domination of the
east.
cannot bear to see my people for
ever victimized by the money power
which Hamilton fortified in the class
laws which now throttle us.
| cannot bear to see the south
stripped of all her glory without the
wish to offer her all the strength of
my arm, all the zeal of my heart.
Patriotism, inits last analysis, is love
of home, of wife and child, kith and
kin, friend and neighbor.
The southern leader who blindly or
W1llfully enslaves the south-the land
of home and kindred-is a man whom
| cannot understandable respect.
The south is being sacrificed to the
east and southern leaders have been
holding the victim to the altar.
Can w not end the fearful condi-
ton? E
Cannot we Georgians unite for