The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-08

IueuI Wnlcn pToteclS his llle anu HIS
property. Democracy will not only
settle the tariff question, and the tax
question, but democracy will settle
the money question. And democracy
settles it by applying to it that same
principle of equality before the law
that it applies to the settlement of tax
alton questions to money trust that
will decide in secret how much money
is good for the American people to
have. (Applause.)
Talk about trusts! Why, my
friends. the money trust is worse than
all other trusts combined (Applause.)
Talk about the railroad trust Why,
man can avoid a railroad trust if he
will not use the railroads. A trust in
any one commodity can be avoided, by
the man who will not use that com
modify. 1t is pretty hard now to find
a commodity that is not controlled by
a trust. if its production is such as to
make it possible for a trust to control
it, And on this subject l might sug-
gcst that 4 gentleman was speaking of
confidence being restored, and he Said
he looked up the definition of con-
tidence, to be sure what it was that
was restored. and he found that one of
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trust, and then he understood. (Ap-
plause and laughter)
My friends. the money trust is
equivalent to all other trusts combined,
and when people ask why we place SO
much emphasis upon this one great
question, we tell them that we arc not
going to be satisfied by killing the
whelps, we are going to kill the lion.
and thnn will toll I, ~
for when we get through with them
we will be through entirely. ZAP
plause.) We are not going to com
mence with the little fellows. and find
new ones growing up as fast as we kill
the little ones Off We are going to
commence at the parent trust, the mo-
ney trust: and we are first going to
demand that 20. OOO. 900 people and not
handful of English financicrs shall
control the primary money of the ma
ton; and then we will demand that
10000, 900 people and not a handful of
bankers shall control all the paper mo-
ney that the nation has Cheers and
applausc.)
We know that those who arc profit
ing by abuses do not want reform.
But, my friends, we ought not to be
surprised. If you have read history
You know that no abuse has ever re-
formed by the fellow who was getting
the benefit of it,
why. in the first place. a man is
not apt to want to undo that which he
is glad to have done. and in the second
Place--and you don't want to overlook
this reason--a man won't know that a
thing needs reform until he is brought
in contact with it. | had a boil on nv
finger last fall. and l remember dis
tinctly that while l had it l studied
the question of boilS with more earn
estness than had studied the subject
in years before. Uaughter) My
friends it is the men who have boils
that study boils; it is the people who
have financial boilS that study tinan-
cial boils, And it is the people who
have financial boils, and they alone,
who must find a remedy for them, be-
cause those who do not have them are
willing to make oath that there is no
such thing. applause and laughtcr)
''These reforms must come up from
the bottom. No reform ever came
down from the well-to-do. [ do not
speak of in iiv!duals. | am speaking of
the class.
1t is true that you can find all
through the history of the world men
who had great riches and who yet
have not allowed those riches to dwarf
their sympathies and their sensibili-
ties; but, my friends, they are the ex-
ceptions rather than the rule, and |
appeal to history to verify the state
ment that | make, when | say in all
recorded history no great reform has
ever come down from the people who
We're getting along well enough with
out reforms. that reforms have come
up from the people who suffer
THAT as necessity is the mother of
invention, SO distress is the thing that
suggests remedy. and, my friends,
the great toiling millions--siX million
and half Of them-wcre convinced
year ago that something was wrong
and that we had to begin by reforming
our money system. All there were
more than that. Six million and a
half We're convinced then. but there
were some who were just above freez-
ing point on the subject.
''On the money question men vary
from just above freezing up to boiling
point. When a man is just above freez-
ing, if he owes a bank, the bank can
scare him. When he gets to the boil
ing point the bank cannot scare him,
applause aud laughter If laboring
man is just above freezing. the employ
er may coerce him, but when he gets
to boiling point, no employer can coerce
him; and, my friends, we are raising
the temperature. all over the country.
applause and laughtcr.)
There are more people now who un-
derstand this money question than
there were in 1896. and there will be
more people in 1900 who understand
this question than there are now. Our
cause appeals to the head of those who
think: it appeals to the hearts of those