The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-03
WANTS TO KNOW.
RISES TO A QUESTION or
PRIVILEGE.
After the Fight Is Over-Then What's
Asks That Great Populist Paper, the
American Observation-Disclosures Timely
I-nterrogations.

Suppose the money question was set
tied in exact accordance with the pro-
gram laid down in the address of the
bimetallic league? Does any n con
tend that this would end the agitation
and satisfy the demand for reform9
Would that satisfactorily dispose Of the
trust evil? Would Havemeyer cease to
buy the taxing power to be used for
his exclusive benefit? Would Hunting
ton stop his Pacific railroad lobby and
quit buying congressman to do his
bidding? Would the courts suddenly
become honest and quit making law
that is not OF the statute books? Would
the problem between labor and capital
be solved? Would the whisky trust
discharge Dan Voorhees, and cease from
troubling? Would the lane question
find itself suddenly settled? Would the
expressions growing out of our trans
portation system no longer vex shippers
and producers? Would all the evils of
the competitive system vanish immedi-
ately and the necessity for demanding
municipal control of public utilities no
longer press for consideration? Would
"the armed camp of commerce" dis
solve and the thousand and one COM
bines no longer concoct schemes to cor
ner the markets? Would the Judge
Woodses quit rendering decisions that
put workingmen in Jail for organizing
for self-proIection and the railroad
magnates into big Offices for doing the
same? Would alien ownership of our
lands by foreign lords and ladies', and
the reduction of our farmers to peasant
tenantry, need no further discussion?
Would the corruption of our politics by
partisan committees, suppression of
suffrage by force and fraud, counting
in of those not elected and counting
out of those elected, become merely I'M
pleasant remembrances and not present
freight and charge all equally for the
same kind of service? Would they quit
defying the laws? Will rascally alder
men in the cities abstain from selling
public franchises to private corpora
lions and putting the money into their
pockets instead of into the treasury?
Will the free pass nuisance, by which
congressman ndlegislators are brought
to disregard the welfare of the people
and enac legislation in the interest of
corporations, no longer be a crying evil
that needs suppressing? Will Wall
street for once in it's life men be-
having and no more attempt to rule ad-
ministrations and congresses? Will
Rothscllild retire from business on this
continent and the hooked nose and
three balls no longer be our national
trademark? Will Pierpont Morgan
and my law partner" make no more
secret contracts with the secretary of
the treasury? Will I~ckelheimer & Co.
take down their sign? Will the Pacific
railroad let go their grip on California
n surrounding states? Willthe Stand
ard Oil company n other nonied
kings quit buying legislatures? Will
German, Brice and Elkins dissolve
partnership with the trusts and COM
mence legislating for the people? Will
the Nicaragua deal be dropped, CON
gress quit voting bounties to sugar
planters, and grabs be kept out of ap-
preparation bills? Will favoritism stop
n all accept and act on the fundamen-
tai principle of Populism, equal rights
to all and special privileges to none?"
In short, will the millennium be here
and nothing remain but to put on our
wings and sail off to the New Jerusa-
lem? AS Mr.. Toots would say, we
only ask for Observation-Disclosures
formist.