The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
FREEDOM and ITS
:; OPPORTUNITIES.
Our Republic Will Endure, Al
though Progress Is Slow.
Out MAN MUST OBEY NATURALLAw
The Right to the Soil Is Mans First
and Greatest Opportunity.

and Greatest Opportunity.
The Spirit of Unrest That Permeates All
Ranks-The Enemies Of Freedom Pre-
pairing For the final Strugsle-In Our
Day Cain Has Gained Craft-society Has
Become Unnatural, Hideous In Its In
Justice and Deformity, but Louder and
Louder Is Heard the Cry. LET My Peo.
pie Gov-The End of Bondage An.
proaches; the Oppressed Shall Go Free
[Gcvernor John B. Rogers of Washington in
November Arena.
In every country the nation is in the
cottage, and if the light of your legis-
lation does not shine in there your
craftsmanship is a failure and your sys.
tenn is mistake. Canon Farrar.
1t will not be necessary to prove that
very general apprehension of coming
change occupies the public mind. All
things show the present to be a time of
transition, and most people are ready
not only to believe it, but to assist in
the change. The growth of invention.
the progress of luxury and the spread
OF intelligence by means of public edu-
cation have created conditions unlike
those existing in any previous age of
the world, and these conditions not Oh
~ vitality affect but absolutely control
the lives Of men. 1t is seen that change
must come, for man is the creature of
his surroundings and of his thoughts
No deed without a thought as it's father.
and in his thoughts the most ignorant
anilnallike man lives and moves and
has his being LAS man thinketh in
his heart SO is he' is as true today as
in the days of Solomon, and this is &C
centuated and emphasized when multi
piled by numbers. If one man in COM
munity is profoundly impressed by a
thought, as rule only his life is affect
ed by it, but let ten be infected by him,
let the base of his thought be new
truth, and it will 60 hard with that
community if all in it be not some
what diverted from previous lines of
thought and action. Let the whole COM
munity be moved in like manner, and
even though that community be moder-
ate in it's extent and numbers new
school is the result, which to a. greater
or less extent finally profoundly affects
all other schools and modes of thought
and action. But let this go farther in
its spread. let the people of a nation be
generally convinced Of the truth Of a
new proposition, an epoch in history is
the result, and straightway the thing
previously only imagined has come to
pass Up to the time Of action this had
been held by the SO called wise ones of
earth to be impracticable, visionary,
and as the idle imaginings of dream
er. And yet, strange to say, when the
time of action is come, suddenly and as
if by magic the people come to see that
the previously derided thought is true
Thenceforward the power Of the living
God is behind it, and naught can bar
it's progress.
Examples of this, natures MODE Of
progress, are not wanting upon every
page of history. Our nation came into
being upon precisely these lines, and
black slavery was doomed when ten
men had been gathered into The first
society for the propagation of abolition
istic thought and opinion. SO today
that change will come is Gear, for all
demand it. There are no conservatives.
Even the beneficiaries Of present wrongs
are anNiously awaiting the opportunity
to protect their i'll gotten gains under
stronger government. They are very
much i'll at ease. They fear the fury OF
the mob when it shall discover the
depth OF the wrong practiced upon it.
AS yet the people refuse to believe the
story of their thraldom. They are now
exploring the cage constructed for them
by their masters. No loophole of escape
as yet appears OF this they are con
WINGED. But hope springs eternal in the
human breast, They do not yet believe,
they cannot be brought to think, that
the conditions which surround and
hedge them in were specially prepared
and constructed for the express purpose
of depriving them Of that freedom Of
action and opportunity outlined i'll the
Declaration of Independence. But when
in the near future this shall have been
made plain, when they shall have been
convinced by dire experience that the
cage Of legal circumstance against
which they beat their heads in vain has
been constructed for them, and that it
does actually and positively Prevent