The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-18

democracy neld a convention and is
sued an address to the public, which
contains fundamental truths not found
in the political platforms now issued
by such city Democrats as are con-
trolled by Croker, Harrison and the
present Philadelphia boss, whoever he
may be.
This old address Of the Young De-
mocracy is very good Populism or Bry-
anism. Read it:
The time is coming when a man
will no longer be regarded with abject
and cringing s~ubserviency, simply be-
cause he possesses millions more than
he wants, or can use, while millions
are pining in poverty, hunger, and
~nakedness.
THE time will come when those who
build houses shall own houses;
When those who create all the
wealth, shall own at least a portion Of
the wealth they produce.
when those who work shall eat;
And when the great law of Chris
tianity in relation to the accumulation
of wealth shall at least be limited at
once in an age by those who are its
protested teachers and disciples.
We'll has it been said that where
the poor are robbed there is a fearful
reaction upon the rich. The effect Of
their crime and restitution falls upon
the opulent in the shape of taxes, etc.
"The criminal, made so by our anti
Christian social system, lives at other
peoples expenses; If he is prosecuted,
1t is at other peoples charges; II he is
in prison, it is at other peoples cost;
If he is at large, he lives upon other
peoples property; If he is in confine-
ment with a crowd Of others. he is sent
to a school Of crime,a nursery Of abom-
nation.
True economy as well as expedi-
ency, if not religious duty, will one day
teach us that it is far easier, and far
cheaper, to prevent than to punish
crime. We shall some day or other
seek means to reform rather than de-
stroy. Some day or other we shall
provide a shelter for the myriads of
children who are born to a necessary
inheritance of crime, under our pres
ent system-for those who can be no
other than vicious by the very condi-
tons of their present lot.
"The nations wealth depends upon
those who toll.
'HnW fhnn Innc ~ h. yNrnn That ~
wealth creators are the poor, the
wretched, the destitute, constantly
creating wealth, yet continuing to be
poor?
"Affording to the world the strange
anomaly of the poverty OF the creators
OF riches!
"All honor to those who labor-all
gratitude and respect to the men who
toll, whether at the loom, the kissing
engine, or On the heaving wave; wheth-
err in battling with the angry elements,
or breaking the stubborn sward;
whether welding the hammer, the
ak, the shuttle or the spade; all that
blesses man on sea or shore, we owe
to the men who toll.
1AGy dig SuliIlcu " Zig AlbL TALK
of society, and will occupy that posi-
ton to which they are Justly entitled,
when society shall be organized upon
the basis of Christianity and brother
hood.
"They will then be no longer repre-
sented, or rather misrepresented, in
our legislative halls; they will repre-
sent themselves.
They chould have done this long
ago, they can tell their own story, re-
form their grievances, represent their
Cwn wants and wishes, far better than
any one can do 1t for them.
"They are as an hundred to one-it
is their own fault If they do not make
laws to suit themselves.
I'VE maintain that every man has a
right to live, and to live in comfort.
Heaven never made the rich alone
to smile, while the whole earth is ring
Ing with laughter-never made a scantv
few to feast in idleness, while the toll
ing many are weeping in their rags
and wretchedness, want and woe, wear
ing out their lives il a long death
dream Of hopeless misery; the Cod
like soul blasted with penury and ig-
n%orance; fever filling heart and brain
with horror, from the cradle to the
grave.
This is a land Of liberty; but what
is political liberty without social lib
erty, equality and fraternity?
Talk not about the blessings Of lib
erty to the pauper mass who sell them
selves day by day for a paltry sum
just sufficient to keep them from the
grave
Liberty means something higher
than freedom to toll and starve.
"Selfshness everywhere-from the
teacher to the taught-is the creed Of
our times.
Its fostering venom has filed the
world with blood and crime.
I'VE must demand a reform Of these
crying evils, and demand it boldly.
Let the a unite and resolve, and
the work Is done.
Without union we are nothing. and
can do nothing; with it we a move
the world.
We demand that one man shall not
hereafter be allowed to hold unlimited
thousands OF acres of the common in
heritance, while hundreds and thou
sands OF the race are homeless and des-
titute.
we maintain that every man is en-
titled to as much Of the earth's sur
face as may be necessary to supply the
wants of each and all.
1.-THE first great natural right Of ev-
cry human being-the most essential,
the most vitality important of all with
which man is most endowed, is the