The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-01-25
ALL TOGETHER, NOW!
HANG TOGETHER LEST YOU
BE HANGED SEPARATELY."
The Peoples Party Is the Only Practi-
cal Political Party That Is Broad
Enough and Strong Enough to Sweep
Monopoly OF the Earth.

If all the members Of all the labor
organizations of the country would
unite in one grand political organiza-
tion they could take care of themselves
without the kind charity and delicious
vegetable soup benevolently bestowed
upon them by the men who live off
other mems labor and the interest of,
what they owe.
The Peoples party movement orig,
mated among the farmers, and for;
that reason many wage workers of the
cities have been slow to join hands
with it.
The farmer wants cheaper transpor,
tation.
So does every man who consumes
the products of the farm.
Every laboring man in the country
wants better wages.
The farmer wants them to have bet
ter wages, so they can buy more OF
what he produces.
An idea prevails among city laborersI
that the farmer is plutocrat himself,
and that the organization Of farmers;
was an attempt to form a great trust!
to force the consumers of the,
cities to paw the farmers own,
price for his products. No doubt somei
farmers would like to form such a,
h,1f hou
and too many of them are only ten
ants.
If they were all agreed upon such a;
move they couldn't carry it out.
The fellows who set the prices of
labor in the mills and factories, also
control the lands of the country, either
by deed OF mortgage.
Through combines, trusts, gambling
operations, and boarding of money
they force the farmer to sell at gold
standard price and the laborer to buy
from the gamblers at a protectivei
tariff price
The city laborer must get the ideaS
out Of his head that the farmer is a.
bloated aristocrat with horse-hide
boots and auburn whiskers full of to-
bacco juice
No man need ever fear to join
movement because it originated among
the farmers.
They are slow to wrath, but when
once aroused no chicanery or warmed
over demagoguery can lead them,
astray. /.
The Peoples party platform is broad !
enough for national constitution. !
Many of the divisions of labor arel
simply on hobbies
The single tax idea may be a good
one, but it is not broad enough for the
foundation of a party.
The socialist labor party is pursuing
ideals too far in advance Of the present,
conditions.
The K. Of L. party has good princi-i
pies, but it's greatest possible member
ship is too limited to achieve more
than local success.
sibility, but the Peoples party pro-
poses to deal with the great liquor
trust as with all other trusts, and
break it's back, if not cut off its head.
To the equal suffragists we might
say that the Peoples party advocates
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none, and you can fight for
equal suffrage better in the Peoples
party than any other.
Nationalists have no hope of winning
until the millennium, so they may as
well work for the present in the Peo-
ples party.
The green hackers are already in the
Peoples party.
The democratic party is dead, Sc,
| there is no use for a laboring man to
join that.
| The republican party has just slid
into glory and Office on the surface of
a landslide that never disturbed the
great undercurrent of discomfort that
| is accumulating for the earthquake
that is coming in 1896.
The Peoples party has gone through
two gr~at landslides without culver.
We are growing larger and more IN
earnest every day.
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