The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

allenable rights and do recognize and
declare, in the presence of the Supreme
Being, and with the hope of his blessing
and favor, the following sacred rights
OF men and citizens
The French people in their declara-
ton, as did the Americans in theirs,
built upon the only foundation which
can endure-the fundamental and natu-
raj right OF man to the use of natural
opportunities. All tyranny begins in a
denial by men to their brothers of the
equal use of the free gifts of common
Father So today the monopolist, the
destroyer of liberty, like Cain, his an
clent prototype, conspires against his
brothers, seeking to possess himself Of
the favors Of God bestowed equally up
on ALL
And it came to pass when they were in the
field that Cain rose up against Abel, his
brother, and Slew him.-Genesis iv, g.
In our day Cain has gained in craft.
He is far more stealthy in his methods
and more dangerous He even deceives
himself. Now, being the stronger-that
is, the richer-he simply refuses his
brother the field, smilingly assuring
him that to this ancestral field he has
no valid claim. This not only disposes
OF Abel in far heater and more scien-
tific fashion than of old, but also makes
brother, and his posterity after him,
newer of wood and drawer of water
in the service of himself and his de-
scendants forever. \
But surely no argument will be need
ed to prove that if mankind is thus de-
MED natural and God given right per-
manent order and general prosperity
are impossible without it's restoration.
This is unquestionably the main reason
why humanity groans and all creation
is in travail. This is why all the gov
ernments of the past have gone down in
blood. This is the reason for the awful
misery that encompasses the world.
Now, as anciently, the cry of justice,
of right and of God is, as in Pharaoh's
day, Let NY people go!" And because
Pharaoh hardened his heart" he and
his people were afflicted and destroyed
Nature always triumphs If her laws
are broken, suffering must ensue. The
penalty must be paid. TO the unthink-
ing the forces of nature seem easily
thwarted. Water is mobile fluid, east
ly obtained, underfoot everywhere. But
confine it., deprive it Of freedom and
subject it to cold, and it rends all bonds
with ease. Vegetable growth in it's ulti-
mate fibers is surprisingly insignificant,
but allow even these to penetrate
crevice, give them Judgment and sup
port, and the power Of God is behind
them, and IN time they rend and de-
stroy the proudest constructive efforts
IF man.
Each and every man has within his
breast spark from the infinite light,
insignificant though it may appear to
The beclouded eye. Unjust be free. God
commands it and nature enjoins it,
-onfine it If you dare. Subject it to
cold and hunger, either mental or phys.
ical, deny its rights, and the strongest
fabric OF human government will SOON
er or later prove but SPIDERS web in
strength when swept by the storms OF
human passion.
Blackstone tells us, in his principles
OF law, that all valid law is based upon
that natural and instructive apprehen-
sion OF justice which finds universal
lodgment i'll the heart of man. Indeed
he says, i'll hyperbolical language, Law
hath her seat in the bosom of God. ;"
And this is true Of just law, but men
nowadays arc aware that the law with
which we have tc do has it's seat in
the pocket of the richest sutton. "All
men have rot the data of science, but
all have the data Of ethics,' and woe to
that nation where men feel that injus-
tlce overpowers them.
To deny the equal right of all men tc
sit at the well spread board Of COM
mon Father is to deny the brotherhood
OF man. This is the sin which nature
has never failed to punish and her re-
Venges are always sure, though often
long delayed. Deprived Of access to ma
lures bonnlles, man, in the mass. al.
ways degenerates. The city, that plague
spot upon civilization, must be con-
stantly REINFORCED from the country
Crowd poison is not purely a phys
lcal, 1t is also a mental, effect. De
generation is always communicated to
the reinoteat fiber, ard thus society be
comes unnatural. hideous III it's injus-
tee and defornity, and is prepared for
the destruction Of God
But that this brotherhood does exist
seems susceptible Of the clearcst proof
from physical sources. Each man has
two parents, and each OF these has two,
ones ancestry thus increasing at each
remove by geometrlcal progression un-
TIL at the end Vi. 30 or 40 generations a
man might trace direct Relationship to