The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-02-04

standard permanently upon the people
OF the United States. Not content
with advocating a policy which places
the destinies of seventy millions of
free men in the hands Of foreign fnan-
ciers and permit few London bank
ers to control our standard money he
now proposes to give to the National
banks full and complete control of the
paper money of the nation. In No
vember, 1896, six million and a half of
electors voted against the retirement
of the grccnbacks and seven million
supported a platform which was silent
upon the subject.
The republican candidate for prcsi-
dent in his letter Of acceptance pledged
the republican party to keep in circu-
lation land as good as gold all the sill
yer and paper money now included in
the currency of the country, while
only one party advocated the retire
ment Of the grcenbacks and that party
polled less than one per cent of the
total vote.
Mr. Gage knows these facts and yet
in spite of that knowledge he is seek
ing TO organize a money trust more
dangerous not only to the industries.
but to the liberties of the people. than
all the other trusts combined. At
such Il time and under such circum-
stances. the memory of the hero of New
Orleans ought to be invoked in cva,'y
state, county and hamlet to arouse the
people to Il sense of their danger
Twelve months have elapsed since we
celebrated this day Il year ago and ev-
cry month has borne witness to the
failure of republican policies to bring
relief to the people. Just after the
passage OF the Dingley bill our oppo-
ncnts were boisterous in their an
nourcement that prosperity had re-
turned. The republicans were given
full swing. They framed just such
law as their hearts desired and their
brains devised and what is the result:
Read the daily papers and YOU will
find the items of news arranged under
two hcads--the forma lions of trusts
and the reduction of wages.
A few days ago 1 picked up a copy
of the be-Democrat and found un-
der the innocent and unprctcntious
head lines: "Weavers and spinners''
several notices of wage reductions
from four of the six New England
Statcs--one of them from Lewiston,
Maine, the home of Mr.. Dinglcy, the
father of the Dingley bill, reads as
follows:
H1,n Scr l.
in Lewiston and Auburn received direc-
tions to make q general reduction in
wages on and after january 18th.
Notices conforming with these instruc-
tons have been posted. The reduction
Of wages includes the Lewiston Bleach
er and Dye Works.
Is this the result which they pro-
missed would follow the opening of the
mills instead Of the minis? If our
enemies boast that they have buried
bimetalism we point to these wages
as the weeping willows which have
sprung up about it's temporary tomb.
Why is not some court asked to enjoin
the employers from uniting together
to reduce wages?
Can combination among employers
be innocent If cooperation among
miners is crime? In most of these
factories can be found transparencies
and banners promising good times
The mill owners would probably dis
pute the right of a court of equity to
interfere. and plead as defense that
the operatives have an adequate rem
edy in the ballot.
A few days ago an association of mill
owners tried to Justify reduction Of
wages by laying the blame upon the
laws passed in Massachusetts for the
protection of the operatives. Their