The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-22
parties entering into such compact.
We cannot agree with them

parties entering into Snch a compact.
We cannot agree with them.
Napoleon menaced the peace Of Flu
rope and was regarded as =: common
enemy. Did the Germans who CO.
operated with Wellington at Waterloo
for the little emperor's overthrow lose
their identity and become English?
Certainly not. VIII we, then, as silver
republicans or populists by co-operat-
ing with the silver democrats to defeat
our common enemy be any less silver
republicans or popu1ist? No.
The populist party was not born to
waste its efforts in pelf and power
seeking. No indeed. It's purposes
are higher and nobler. 1t sprang into
existence as the result of oppression.
At the time of it's birth there was no
material difference between the demo
cratic and republican parties These
two parties were then playing teeter-
tawter with the board of tariff reform.
Their persistence in ignoring the
common people led the latter to revolt
This revolt expressed itself in the for
nation of the peoples party and big
independent HOatlng vote.
If the two old parties were today as
Indifferent to the interests of the
people as they then were, l would be
among the first to urge staunch
middle-of- thc-road policy, but they are
not The republican party has drift
ed farther away from the people and
i; now their declared enemy and the
friend of plutocracv. On the other
hand, the democratic party has been
born again. It has cut loose from the
trust and shylocl<s, and come out as
the avowed friend of the struggling
masses. When this new democracy
asserted Itself, it came to the west,
the fight against the entertainments
of organized wealth and corporate
greed. 1t cnunciated declaration of
principles second only to the declara-
ton of independence. There we're no
evasive or equivocal sentences in it.
The new democracy meant every word
it said. and chose us its stand
force every decree. That platform is
still the guiding star of the new dem
ocracy, that leader still it's chieftain.
That platform is broad enough for all
liberty-loving people to stand upon,
and that leader, earnest and faithful,
is good enough for every bimetallist
| in the land to vote for. 1t is true the
Chicago platform does not go as far
us the populist platform does, but if
we cannot get all we want we should
accept what we are reasonably certain
of securing, and keep on trying to get
the rest Perseverance hath it's re-
ward. The populist party was born
for purpose, the purpose of fighting
the battles of the common people.
Its success in this line cannot be ques,
toned We have had ample evidence
right here in Nebraska that populist
list IDEAS of good government are cor.
rect ideas But when larger party
comes and takes it's stand for human
freedom, and we know mankind will
the more quickly feel their burdens
lightened if we unite our efforts with
those of the new champion, it is the
height of folly to hold back for fear
we may lose our identity.
u We all know that the free coinage
Of silver equally with gold ut the pres
ent legal ratio will help the common
people. We know it because the golc
standard people do not want it an6
| what they don't want is what the PEG