The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-29
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Shall | now speak to the moor orter
IN vain having implored the rich ?
Yes, 1t is fitting. This, then, have I
to say to the disinherited: Keen a
watch on your formidable jaw. There
is one rule for the rich-to do nclhing;
and one for the poor--to say nothing.
The roor have but one fricnd-silcnce.
lhey should use but one m~cnosyl)ablc
Yes. TO confess and to concelc-
this is all the rights" they have,
Yes to the King. The great, il It so
please them, give us blows with a
stick; l have had them: it is their pre-
rogatlvc. and they lose nothing of their
greatness in cracking our bones, Let
us worship the scepter, which is the
hr;t among sticks.
If a poor man is happy he is the
rlckpocket Of happiness. Only the rich
and noble are happy by right. The
rich man is he who being young has
the rights of old age; being old, the
lucky chances of youth: vicious, the re-
spect of good people; 4 coward. the
command of the stout-hearted; doing
nothing, the fruits Of labor.
The people fight. Whose is the
glory? The kings. They pay. Whose
The magnificence? The kings, And
the people like to be rich in this fash
ion? Our ruler. king or Croesus re-
cciVes from the poor a crown apiece
and renders back to the poor a far
thing. How generous he is! The co,os-
sal pedestal looks up to the Dislnv
sltperstructure. How tall the nani-
kin is! He is upon my back. The
dwarf has an excellent mcthod Of hc-
ing higher than a giant: it is to porcn
himself on the others shoulder. But
that the giant should let him do IT,
there's the odd part of it: and that no
should honor the baseness of tho
dwarl-there's the stupidity OF it. Hu.
man righteousness.
The equestrian salute. reserved for
Kings alone, is an excellent tyne OF
royalty. Let us be frank with words
The capitalist who steals the reward
OF b is a king as well as me man
OF blood. The king mounts himself ON
the horse. The horse is the pecnle.
sometimes the horse transforms aim
self by degrees. At the beginning ne
is an ass; at the end he is a lion.
hen he throws his rider to the erornd
and we have 1643 in England and 1889
IL France; and sometimes he devours
MIN. in which case we have in Eng
land 1649 and in France 1898.
That the lion can again become n
Jackass-this is surprising, but a fact
What happiness to be again ridden
and beaten and starved! What hnuri-
ness to work forever for bread and
water! What happiness to be FREQ
from the dclnsion that cake is good.
and life other than misery. Was there
more crazy than these ideaiso
Where should we be if every vagabond
bad his rights? Imagine everybody
governing! Can o fancy a city IL
rccted by the men who built it? They
are the team, not the coachman. What
a Sodsend is a rich man who takes
charge of e~verything! Surely. he Is
generous to take this trouble for IL.
And then he was brought up to il: he
knows what it is: it is his business
4 guide is necessary for us. Being
poor, we are ignorant; being ignorant.
we are blind; We need a guide. p,t
why are we ignorant? Because it mis+
be so. Ignorance is the guardian of
virtue! He who is ignorant is limo
cent! 1t is not our duty to think. COM
plain or reason.
Be reasonable, poor man. You were
made to be a slave. Not to be a slave
is to dare and do.-Victor Hugo.
The Philippines constitute the gate
way to China. The opening of that
gate will mean the degradation of the
workingmen OF America at no distant
day.-Nat'onal Waterman,