The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-29

In England the ordinary British per.
son has reminded the powers so ten
of his presence, sometimes by cutting
on kings head, sometimes in otMer
playful ways, that he is considered
quite a serious quantity. The AmericaG
locomotive engineers, at their last
strike, managed to make it clear that
they are not to be ~trified with; the
men of Pittsburg made themselves felt,
and incidentally defeated Republican
candidate for the presidency. These
are indications that the American or
binary man is gradually establishing
himself as an animal with rights. The
progress is SLOW. but it is sure.
Constant use Of the ballot, with
something more drastic on occasions
when hired Pinkertons appear to shoot,
is bound in the long run to brighten
even the Carnegies who hire the Pink
ertons and then run away to Europe
New York Journal.
Lord Salisbury got, in the London
City Council election recently, a re-
spouse to the direful warnings which
he uttered last November anent the aw-
full consequences of popular govern
ment in New York. The whole power
of the Tory Ministry, backed by the
landlorders and bondholders and the
titled nobs and snobs of the West End,
was exerted to get control Of the coun-
Gil with view to carrying out the
Salisbury scheme Of depriving the peo-
pie of London of the measure of home
rule that they have succeeded in get
ting. The scheme was further sup
ported by the monopolies which not
only control the transit system of Lon
don. such as 1t is. and the gas supply,
but even purvey water for the inhabit-
ants of most of the British metropolis.
The efforts of officialdom and swell
dom were especially directed against
the labor candidates and the Social
list" candidates for the governing body
in which alone the popular power is
exerted. OF course, Socialist" was ex-
plotted as term of opprobrium,
freighted with grave menace to good
order, but it really applied to men who
seek to have the public interests con-
trolled by public agencies for the pub
lie benefit, instead of by private monop-
olies for private profit.
The result of all the scheming and
manipulation of Salisbury and Cham
berlain. who carried national politics
into municipal affairs with all their
might, and of the vigorous and skill
tul electioneering of landlords and
property owners, which included some
enticing Establishments of noble la
dies" there was notable triumph of
the radicals and progressives. More
labor men and Socialists" were re-
turned than before, and those against
whom the sharpest fight was made had
increased majorities..
This is simply another step toward
government of London by its people
instead of by the occupants, Of it's
pa]atial mansions and the holders Of
places in the imperial service. 1t means
gradual progress toward a. home rule
In which those who toll and live in the
metropolis all the year, and not those
who pass the season" and collect their
rents and their interest and annuities
there, shall control the administration
of affairs. It works toward a govern
ment in which the people and their
rights and interests, and not property,
will be the chief object of public care.
The Tory effort to stem this progress
sive movement, with all the power at
the command of the Imperial Cabinet,
suffered signal defeat.-New York
Journal