The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
CONSTRUCTOR CORPORATIONS
The Evidences Should BE Carefully Pre-
saryed by tho PeonIe.

The Evidences Should BE Carefully Ere.
served by the People.
The senatorial conspiracy in progress
at Sacramento is only a part OF a con-
spiracy operating from one end Of the
United States to the other, q conspir-
acy whose success will mean the en-
slavement OF the working people OF
the United States, and the reducing of
their condition to that abject poverty
that exists among the miners of Penn
sylvania and Ohio, says the San Fran
cisco Daily Examiner. The people are
inclined to laugh when one talks Of a
conspiracy to enslave free Americans.
They think the expression is an ex-
aggeration; a theatrical display. I'm
fortunately, conspiracy but feebly rep
resents existing conditions. We will
try and illustrate: Suppose in San
Francisco today a man having capital
a. his command desires to start his
son in business. In which direction
could he turn? He would find every
bookseller in San Francisco doing
business on an Improbable basis, be-
cause Of the organization CT the Book
Trust. He would find the dealers in
paints and oils limited to practically
one concern, because of the organlza-
ton of the White Lead Trust, the Lin
seed Oil Trust and affiliated trusts. He
would find the number Of hardware
dealers reduced to a minimum owing
to the operation Of Transportation
Trusts. He would find the milling in
terests of San Francisco in a very poor
condition., because the northern trade
has favorable discrimination from tho
railroad company. He would find that
practically every wholesale business
was owned and controlled and hedged
around by tho operations Of the trusts.
He would find our breWeries in the
hands Of a trust, and also our street
car lines. Temporarily, he would re-
mark that the butchers had secured a
certain measure Of freedom from beef
embalmers, but he would observe with
regret that the grocerS We're IN the
hands of the Sugar Trust, and the sa-
looms practically controlled by the
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left for his son except gambling, real
estate speculation or a political job.
Were he to turn his thoughts to other
places he would find a similar condi-
ton existing. All of the trades en-
gagged in supplying the necessarles OF
life. from cradles to collins, from feed
ing bottles to shrouds, from salt to
turkey, are practically owned and con-
trolled by trusts. In a few years the
United States will be divided into two
classes only, capitalists and agents. In
dependent workers will be driven to
the wall. Why, they are even going
to drive the express wagons OF the
streets of San Francisco with a five
million-dollar autotruck organization.
When this scheme shall have been
corsummated, and nine-tenths OF the
American people reduced to industrial
servitude, discomfort will naturally
arise. To meet that discomfort, tho
trusts and capitalists are buslly en-
gagged in securing control OF the gov
eminent which will enable them to
ouell trouble with a strong standing
army. Even the popular body defeated
Cummings measure, limiting the right
o. the president to send troops into a
state until requested to do so by the
governor of that state. The defeat OF
the measure means that, on orders
from Washington, General Shafter may
be sent to suppress a strike of girl
walters in a Market street restaurant.
It means all of the most odious fea-
lures Of European militarism, without
the compensating features of European
government, which is generally just,
and nearly honest.
The evidences Of this conspiracy
that are being printed at the present
time by the republican organs should
be carefully preserved by the people.