The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-17
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THE CRY FORsS4NND MONEY.A
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Burden Uponathssagseppls, which They.
Are Expected 81 :asxaS.I Il j. !, Decsltz
full Sound from theessl soweIs OF Hell.
No great fraud was ever accom-.
plished except under saSpleas thatshad.
On its face the appearance of honesty.
.Chattel slavery had it's defenders, and.
ministers of the gospel brought the
precepts of the Bible fforwaradsslttoa prove
that it was right. t}5
That was a little more. than a genera
ton ago. Now this generation stands
aghast at the cupidity of thatsone, and
men wonder why they fought, bled
and died" to protect the property ~ of
slave holders who would not give them
q drink of water when weary and
thirsty from long and continued march,
ing.
The plea was the "vested rights of
property" and the famous bred Scott
decision affirmed it. The supreme
court of this nation announced to the
world that one human being had a right
to WI another human being, and car
ry him wherever he chose to go, ir-
respective of the laws of the country
into which he carried him. Only one
short generations has passed since that
decision, but we stand aghast.at its in
humanity, and the enormity of the ma
tional crime stands out. in all its hid
eousness.
In those days there were abolition
lists who were called scranks, <lunatics
and agitators. :>,. ! ).
They were dragged, through the
streets and mohbed~!ndert the very
shadow of Bunker 4Jrl monument,
But chattel slavery was wrong; and
all the laws ,ands;;cSouirtt. decisions; and
sermons from the ersiiftion :aofskdam to
the death of the devil could not make
The slave powersWouihds nn6fnsfmniit it
to be legislateds outtssotfexSifVtteHhsS:se> So. the,
people rose up aiad..Ssff66f.s # So death
the last resort, andSa1ess iiin'swhich the
people always SUCCEED =, !
Then came the. ihhaygnrafiop Of. "a.
new form of slavery Horace Greedy
had said that: "WhereSEeEs opportunity
to labor is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, sandSS
is SO deficient that. the :empleying
class may virtually prescHbe,t Aeir. ewns
terms and pay their <ra borensen ~ Ssuchs
share as they chooses Of she product,
there is a strong Tendency Maa:slaNeEy..",,
Knowing this to ..be true, the. money,
power of Europe and America issued
the following circulars: s,.:;:s: q,
Slavery is likely to be. apolished by
the wal power, and:chatteI. slavery der
stroyed. This, I and ny: European,
friends are in favor Of, for slavery is.
but the owning o%f~labor, and carries
with it the care for t~he1.lahoger; while.
the European plan, led on by England,
Is capital controlsof labor by controlling
wages. This can be.!done by controlling
the money. The great debt that cap
italists will see to it is made out of the
war, must be used as a measure to
control the volume of money, To &C.
complish this the bonds must be used
as a banking basis. We are now wait.
ing to get the secretary Of the treas
ury to make this recommendation to
congress-. 1t will not do, to allow the
e%reenback, as it is called, Ito circulate
as money for any length Of time, for
we cannot control il. '-Hazzard'ss Cir
cular of 1862.
Whatever may be said OF the gen
uineness of the above circular, no one
will pretend to deny that it has been
the policy pursued by both old parties,
and that Cleveland recommends put
ting in the capstone OF. the arch OF. the
foul conspiracy, in his.recant message
to congress.
All this is to be accomplished, under
the plea of Sound money"
Countrymen beware!
This cry is a deceitful, hollow sound
from the bowels of hell. The bankers
held the government by the throat and
shouted it while a million men were
fighting and bleeding for the preser-
walton of the republic and taking their
pay in & money which the bankers now
want destroyed.
They say that the money which paid
the soldiers who preserved the. flag
is dishonest.
If it is dishonest, then the soldiers
were never paid.
Under the plea of honest money"
they crippled the g~reenback. Under
this plea they secured g law paying the
ibondholders, who had bought their
bonds with greenbacks, in gold and sill