The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-16

less man is losing his right to exist,
Every recent change in legislation
has been made tv protect property
and to disfranchise men. Armories
are erected and school houses for
COTTON. Immense grants Of land
are bestowed upon railroads, but
the settlers upon those grants are
evlcted. Trades union leaders are
imprisoned for having contempt
sor a contemplate judge, while
monopolies - aided by injunctions
and federal troops.
Today Shapespeare has been re-
vlsed and Shylock is the hero OF the
play. Portals plea for mercy is
called revolutionary and Bassanio
is branded as a repudiatar.
There is hardly a trust or syndi-
cate that has inaugurated this cam
paign of threats and ridicule and
obiect-lessons that dare open up its
own business career to the public.
One Of these defenders OF law and
national honor, the Standard Oil
company has Illegally increased
freight rates. closed rivers ana
canals, destroyed inventions, bought
up inspectors aud put its stamp
upon explosive oil, attacked the
property of competitors and blow
up rival refneries. These trusts
are religious at one end and muir
derous at the other.
This law-breaking, aggressive
Of monopoly has found a per
feet embodiment in the person of
Mark Hanna.
He today towers above Mckinley
and above the republican party, the
American Bluedeard, who slayes
his workers instead fhis wives.
The skeletons of the Seamen's
union, the Miners union and the
Street Car Men S union hang bleed
ing in his closet!
HANNA HIS OWNER AND TRRANT.
When Mckinley was governor Of
Hanna was his guardian.
Therefore, in criticising Bryan's
opponent, we look not at the SER
vent, but at the master-not at
Mckinley, the most pitiable figure
head in public life today, but at
Hanna, his owner and tryant.
No mans character con be de-
scribed by his private relations
with his family. He may be like
the late Ear Of Russia, a good hus-
band and father" but so is every
tiger ana wild beast.
Before grrnting any man the d.
of morality we ask what the
influence Of his career has been upon
his fellow men. If he has gone
through life as an elephant goes
through a forest, crashing and
breaking a pathway for himself
alone, or as a deviltish crawls
through the sea, grasping and suck
ing the life blood from every living
thing in reach, how can we intrust
such a man with the responsibilities
and authority of public office?
Give Hanna four years of power
and he will paint the White house
He will utterly destroy every YES
tige of trades unionism, for he will
have the army, the navy, and the
treasury at his command. He will
discover that it is cheaper to abolish
manhood suffrage than to buy
votes; and next November may be
the last chance that m%oneyless men
ever may have to record their vote
for president. Many republican
workingmen are thoughtlessly 60
to the ballotbox just as al OK
goes to a barbecue-gai]y decorated
in honor of it's own death.
Mayor Pingree gave us a national
motto when he said: "Give the
people what they want" I am not
one Of those who regard the people
as dangerous, co%vetous animals who
must be chained and muzzled. The
experiment of the referendum in
Switzerland has proved that when
the people are left entirely free they
are naturally conservative. French
revolutions never occur except
when some King Louis has re-
pressed the people and goaded them
to resistance. Il ain the state, "
said the boastful king, and the peo-
MA rnnliod mith tho ~nnilntina