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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-09
Legal ~ Offices
Call for School Warrants.

Notice Is hereby given To tue holders OF war.
rants OF the RAPID City independent School
District Up TO and ircluding registered No. 1910
on the general contingent fund, and up to aud
including registered 10. 1894 on the Teachers
und, to present the same at the First National
Bank Tor payment aud the interest will cease
from tins date
MARY BRIDGE, Treas.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-09
New Dress Goods

\ beautiful line of the plain and fancy
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Silk Crepe, Fancy Zlbellne will be
founk in our assortment.
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Shoes.

Footwear for the whole family in great
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Ex-gov. Andrew e. Lee has written to Black Hills
friend letter which he gives what he regards arguments
in favor removing the capitol from Pierre to MITCHELL Lets
look at some of them:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09

report and as Secretary Cortelyou of
that department is chairman of the re-
publican national committee, in view
of the silence of the platform on this
measure, it is safe. tot say the report
will be unfavorable to the bill.
No Labor Legislation.
I'm view of the attitude of the party,
as voiced in it's platform adopted at
Chicago, it is reasonable to presume
there will be no labor legislation at
the nxet session of congress and that
the eight-hour and anti-injunction
bills will die in committee or be ad-
versely reported upon.
AT the same time attention should
be paid, by those interested, the
democratic convention in order to in
sure that no plank endorsing these
bills Is Incorporated in the PLATFORM
A radical pronounce1nent in favor OF
such legislation at st. Louis would
drive thousands of votes into the re-
publican ranks which otherwise might
be won by the democrats.
Last winter the labor leaders rep
resented that President Roosevelt
favored and was committed to the
eight hour bill. I understand the Chi
cago platform was submitted to and
approved by him prior to the con-
vention. 1t does not look as though
the claims of the labor leaders were
well l-founded.'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09

A. r. u. member was caught, of
course and sentenced. The capitalist
press howled down the A. R. U. and
the whole state arose in arms against
it, even the members of the order be-
ing misled, many Of them turning upon
their former associates who remained
loyal in spite of the criminal conspi-
racy to destroy their organization
In Utah the Union Pacific detectives
got a couple Of members of the A. r.
L. drunk and hauled them out of town
to point along the line where they
found some tools and set to work to
pull up a rail about the time a train
was due. But the whole thing was so
carefully arranged that before the rail
was lifted the train came to a stop
and at the same moment the sheriff
and his deputies stepped out from the
bushes and placed the alleged train
wreckers under arrest.
Of course, the press had screaming
headlines an hour later, announcing
the fiendish conspiracy Of the A. r.
U. and demanding that all the powers
Of the state be invoked to crush it out
of existence.
Of course, the politicians and
preachers and other patriots CD all
joined heartily in the chorus, with the
result that the strike was broken up,
the order disrupted and the poor devils
sent to the penitentiary: 49,: :.z-F.. : -
E.--a.In .Insane. tinaest heir innocenceaw .ad $
san
Lake gity{s chudin officers of the
law, and they were pardoned.5 :: ='-;'
Were it necessary I could tell Of
hundreds of instances, and produce
the absolute proof, where detectives
and spies and spoilers and sneaks in
the service of the corporations insti-
gated violence, set fires and commit
ted numberless other crimes to make
strikers appear as rioters, incendiar-
les and murders that injunctions might
be issued against them to restrain
them of their liberty, that soldiers
might be called out to massacre them
and that the people Of the country
might urn upon them as if they were
| monsters seeking to devour their fell
low-beings instead of half-starved
workingmen mildly protesting against
crimes they could no longer bear.
| The union miners of Colorado are
not guilty. I will put my word against
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WASHINGTON, D. c., July 9.-"The
labor plank Of the Republican platform
will be highly satisfactory to the
manufacturers throughout the coun-
try who have been fighting the Anti
injunction and national eight hour
bills" said Daniel Davenport, of
Bridgeport, Conn, who led the oppo-
sition to these measures last winter
in behalf of the American Anti-Boy-
colt Association.
1--WE have always contended the la
Dor trust was the most dangerous Of
all; most threatening to the welfare of
the people, most inimica1 in it's meth
cd. The platform declares that such
trusts much not be permitted to in
fringe on the rights of the people.
Like other combinations. they are
subject to the laws
Eight Hour Bill Ignored.
There is not word in the platform
endorsing the eight hour or the anti
injunction bills. The former has been
repeatedly passed by republican
house and in the last congress was
favorabty reported to a republican SEN
ate by. a committee having a, Re-
publican majority The "antt-injunc-
tion bill was introduced in the last
house by General Grosve Of Ohio,
and passed by a, republi lican 4 ma jority.
It was: again introd duced last session BY
Governor Grosv venor,, but has not: vet
been reported by the comnittee
=.= g he eight hour bill has been re
sferred .zto the zIdsp COM ON
:rmerce and Dor for investi alton. and
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09

The modern magazine writer who
takes pleasure in giving to the people
some past, well-known history about
the Standard Oil company might do
we'll by making a trip to the fruit belt
of Michigan and getting some facts
relative to the criminal contract now
in force between the Pere Marquette
and the Armour car line company AS
the Standard Oil company secured con-
troll Of the oil fields of America by
special railroad privileges and as the
steel trust secured a position of ad-
vantage through the rebate system on
ore rates in our own locality, so the
Armours are gradually and surely get
ting control of the northern fruit mar
ket by enjoying an exclusive contract
with the railroad leading into the very
heart of the fruit producing section of
the state of Michigan.
The tendency of the times seems to
be towards Capitalization. No one can
offer serious opposition to this when
it is forced through the natural chan
nels as the result Of competition and
the development of industry. It has
long been our contention that combina-
ton is the logical result of keen COM
petition, and that eventually Coop
seration. i'll follow :combinat tion.s But
Hes in: the country today that owe
their success, not to combination re-
sulting from keen or cut throat com
petition, but to the fact that they were
enabled to enter into a criminal con-
spiracy with transportation companies
whereby they not only secured re-
bate on their own business, but COM
mission on the business done by their
competitors.
Special Privileges on Railroads.
This advantage has enriched the
favored few, and driven the unfav-
ored ones to the wall. It has made
millionaires out of some and paupers
out of others. 1t has made robbers
and suicides by the thousands. The
steel trust in reaching it's p1 esent per-
feet state Of organization succeeded
through regular business channels by
purchasing the majority of stock in all
Of the individual companies. Some
people may have been worsted,-and
this is no defense of the Steel trust
it is simply a comparison-but the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09

Terre Haute, Ind, July 9.-Eugene
V. Debs, when asked for an opinion
OH the situation in Colorado replied
as follows:
If the railroad platform recently
blown up at Victor, Colorado resulting
in the death of score of working
men, was the result of a deliberate plot
to commit murder, / will stake my
reputation that it was instigated by
the mine owners or their hirelings
TO me the case is clear as daylight
or course, the mine owners are too
foxy to be connected with the crime
in any way that could be proved, but
it is safe to assume that their hire
lings understood what they were en-
gagged for and earned their pay by
performing their hellish duties.
When murder is committed in the
dark the first question is always, who
benefited by it? The question is Pc
culiarly applicable to this case Who
benefited by this crime? The mine
The strikers, of course.
The mine owners had everything to
gain; the strikers everything to lose.
The very instant the explosion oc-
Cured hell broke loose against the
strikers.
This was a foregone conclusion Not
a question was allowed No ifs or
ands or explana tions.
Wipe out the Western Federation of
Miners and crush the strikers to the
earth! That is what the explosion was
plotted for, and to conceal their tracks
the miner owners and their lickspittle
Citizens Alliance at once forced the
sheriff and other officers Of the law
to resign, and by violence took the
machinery. of law into their. own hands
men.
They will have any number of paid
character assassins on the ground to
swear to anything that may be neces-
sary to carry out their diabolical pro-
gram. But it will fail, No matter
how cunningly devised or how skill
fully they do their work, the truth
will out at last and the real conspira :
tors will come to light. It has been
SC in the past and it will be so again.
All the powers of Peabody, Bell and
the horde of bloodthirsty labor exploit
ers they represent, all the powers of
hell and capitalism cannot prevail
against the truth.
During the Pullman strike hundreds
of instances occurred to prove the al
legations herein contained. In Cali
fornia the sleuth-hounds Of the South
ern Pacific laid net and caught a
weak minded member of the A. r. U.
to join in a plot to wreck train. The
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
BUT LITTLE ACTUAL
Loss FROM STRIKES
NO REASON FOR FIGURES WHICH
GREAT LOSSES.
Particularly That Kind Which Calcul-
ates Loss in Wages and in Profits.
If Work Had Been Left Undone Un-
til Now This Argument Might Be
Different. AS it is the Standard of
American Workingmen: Has Been
Lifted to OverPay Monetary Loss.

Here is an item that is now going
the rounds of the press which oppo-
nents of trade unions are fond of re-
peating, the inference. they draw being
that society at large has been absol-
utely deprived Of benefits that would
have accrued had there been labor or
ganizations and no Industrial stopa-
ges on account of strikes, lockouts,
etc.:
I'm the last twenty years, according
to the figures of the labor bureau at
Washington, there have been more
than $4,000 strikes, involving loss to
employers of over 100000, 900. The
loss to the workmen themselves has
been more than twice that of the en-
ployers.'
There might be some reason for the
statement of this great social "1oss, u
1t those who give out the figures could
show that work had been and is yet
left undone that would have been done
had there been no strikes
But the plain truth is that the work
of the world goes on just the same, and
while some individuals or groups may
suffer temporarily or even permanent
loss by reason of strikes, yet the aver
age of production has been maintained
from year to year.
In the case of a strike in a specific
industry, IL only section is involved
the other sections are spurred to in
creased activity; if all sections were
involved (though this has never ssha D.
pened) and no substitute for. the pro- pro-
duct were imm diately at i. hand. then
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
Pere Marquette Railroad Com
pany and Armours in Con-
spiracy to Extort Large
Sums of Money from People
by Excessive Railroad Rates
on Produce.
Old Standard Oil Company
Methods Cleverly and Gun
ningly outdone by Armours,
Who Attempt to Control the
Fruit and Produce Markets
of the Country.

majority of the stockholders in the in
divldual industries were compensated
for their stock. It is different with the
Standard Oil company and other COR
porations that owe their existence to
special railroad privileges. Theirs
| was policy of extermination Sma IL
producers were not only ruined by
unjust competition, but their plants
were criminally destroyed. 1t is now
openly acknowledged that all of this
is true, but nothing is being done to
stop its future growth.
Armour's Want Fruit Monopoly.
Over in Michigan the railroad COM
panies and the Armours are attempt
ing to create fruit monopoly, just as
the Standard Oil company has Great
eG an oil monopoly, and their is that
same indifference manifested among
the people as there was during these
! mad days of plundering by the Stand
ard.
A short time ago there was publish
ed in the daily papers copy of con-
tract existing between the Pere Mar
quette railroad company and the Ar
| mour car lines, a corporation organiz-
According to the terms of this con-
tract the Armour car line is given the
exclusive right for the exclusive use
of its refrigerators upon the lines of
the Pere Marquette railroad company.
We publish the contract here in full,
and we ask our readers to give it care
full study and consideration. After it
| has been read once read it again, and
it will be seen that the contract is one
of the most iniquitous documents ever
made public.
Most Ubiquitous Contract.
This agreement. made and executed
in duplicate thist23rdI day of December
rmoll
f4car..nnes, ascorporat tior. or ga nized AM
Of New Jersey, hereinafter known az
The Car Line" party of the first part
and the Pere Marquette Railroad com
pany, corporation organized and ex.
Michigan, hereinafter known as the
"Pere Marquette party Of the second
part.
Witnesseth: That for and in consid.
Grafton of the sum of one dollar 1.OO)
by each of the parties hereto to the
other in hand paid. the receipt whereof
IS hereby acknowledged, and in further
end ff the nq se
to be kept and performed by each OF
the parties hereto it is hereby agreed
as follows:
l. That the car line agrees to fur
nish to the Pere Marquette at some
point or points on the Pere Marquette
lines, properly constructed fruit cars
lettered Fruit Growers Express
kansas City Fruit Express" or Con
tinental Fruit Express" sufficient ir
number and furnished in such order as
to carry with reasonable despatch, the
fruit which the Pere Marquette shall
be rendered by shippers during the life
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the increased production after such
strike would completely wipe out
any apparent loss; while if a SUBJ
stitute were available, it's stimulated
production would reduce to mini
mum the temporary social inconven-
ience or deprivation. OF this the an
thracite coal strike is a sufficient il
lustration.
In spite of all these $4,000 strikes.
railroads have been built, wealth trans
ported, mines developed, factories have
produced their customary annual out
put, and, best of all, good old mother
nature, the source of all wealth, has
kept pouring her treasure into the lap
of society, absolutely without a care
for the quarrels and bubbles of her
foolish children, who do not yet know
how to socially appropriate her gener-
Gus bounty, but allow the few to mon
opolize the opportunities that all
should equitably share.
The net result of the $4,000 strikes
IN the past twenty years has not been
social loss of four hundred million
or any other number of millions but
instead has been distinct raising OF
the standard of manhood and citizen
ship.
Without the organized resistance of
trade unionism to the encroachments OF
concentrated capital, the working mas
sess of America would now be plunged
into a social abyss whose depth car
only be realized by observing the de.
gradation that marks many of the i'm.
migrants who reach our shores from
some of the most despotic of European
and Asiatic "civilizations"
Instead of assimilating and lifting tc
an American standard these outcasts
| they would slowly but none the less
surely have dragged the American
workmen down to their level, in re-.
| sponse to the iron law of wages ,
which DEGREES that the worker wht
| can live on the least is the ''fittest +,
survive" in a system of wealth produc.
tion where private profit is everything
| and the social welfare nothing.
Figures won't lie,s but liars will fig.
ure," aptly, applies to the misleadins
item emanatings from the national Ia
Dor bureau, eau which would better devote
its energies to IL ia bulating the grand
results res achieved for humanity bylstht
q .St a1e y union moveme I. ..=z.
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Great depression is reported in the
textile industry in the East Orders
have been issued by several Boston
cotton mill managers to their agents
to curtail production because of the de-
preston. Many mills in New England
have been running on. short time for
several months4~and the depression at
present affects about $4,000 operatives.
Mills at Lawrencesand Methuen, Mass,
have been ordered shut. down for two
months. It is understood that three
Of the mills owned by the Wamsutta
Corporation will be closed, while the
Others will run only four days a week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
UBIQUITOUS RAILROAD CONTRACT
:UuBARPHBD BY LOCAL Firm THAT
BORDERS CLOSELY TO STANDARD OIL
Interstate Commerce
Commission Appealed to

X. Nj. Ferguson, of this city,
unearths unlawful contract be-
tween railroad company and
fruit shippers which cunninEly
borders on the old methods of the
Standard Oil company. High
freight rates and refrigerator
charges are extorted from the
shippers, thus causing II high
charge for fruit in this communi-
ty. ArmOl1rs nre cleverly at-
tempting to get complete control
of the food supplies Of the coun-
try. Would create Il monopoly
more dangerous than that of the
Standard Oil company. No quar-.
ter Is given. Shippers and prod
ucer helplessly Mt the mercy Of
the ArmOurs. Get rebates from
the railroads and percentage
from shippers. Interstate COM
merce ts now investigating the
affair. Strong decision is expect
ed. 1T will involve sthe future
movement of railroads. A favor
able decision in the Pcre Mar
quette case will mem cheaper
fruit for the entire country. as 1t
will cover every railroad with
private contracts with Refrfgera-
tor Car lines. Hopeful prospects.
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CAPITALIST INFERNALISM IS NHAI j..
DBBS SAYS OF OUTRAGE COMMIT
TED At INDEPENDENCE DEPOT
Explosion Planned
by Mine Owners.

Eugene v. Debs, the great labor
and Socialist advocate compares
conditions In Colorado with those
that confronted the American
Railway Union in 1904. Holds that
the Independence explosion was
planned by the mine owners for
the purpose of turning public
opinion against the m.ners. Their
idea is to wipe out the Federation
of Miners and crush the strikers
to the earth. Mr.. Debs' opinion is
borne out by the fact that the
Citizens Alliance. the lfckspittle
Of the Mine Owners, Immediately
after the dnstardly plot, forced
the sheriff and other officers of
the law to resign, and by vio-
lence took the machinery of the
law into their own hands 30 that
they might conduct the investiEa-
ttOn, cover up the corporation
criminals and convict innocent un-
ION men. Scheme will full. His
tory will repeat itself. Justice
will be done, and the guilty
hounds will be brought to bay.
Debs closes with eloquent plea for
support of Socialist ticket.
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FIRE DESTROYS
~. :: ! VALUABLE JEWEL S

NEW YORK July 6:---1n. n the fire
which has destroyed the Cammack
cottage at s'Tuxed park, ~ IS y, the
jewels Of Mrs: bernard =. Il Steinman,
Of New Orleans, worth. several hun
*dred dr. zth Ii ho,lsans. q ollars, were probably
SO damaged thai they wi II be worth
less shereaft ter: Y he. cottag alone was
one the 1ands soonest i liz ne exclusive
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
CHILD LABOR LAWS ARE
COMMANDING RESPECT
CORPORATION STATE OF PENN
SLYVANIA is GETTING AT.
TENTION.

Thirty Thousand Children Found to
Be Working in the State. North.
western States Have the Best Laws.
Government Agent Makes Some Sur
prising iscoveries-Fs sctories Par
t'a to the Little Children.
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A#SURE CURE.

From the Princeton Tiger: :as .,*sz. =.
I'LL Young Autho 81 -. hen Is. write far:
into I'M the sni ghtsI ind great difficulty
In getting to sleep.
Frien nd::..W ny don, YOU read over
what you've VIII ten q,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
A DAILY THOUGHT.

It has been thousand times OBJ
served, and I must observe it once
more, that the hours we pass with
happy prospects in view are more
pleasing than those crowned with
. fruitiOn.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
.ANT|-B0YCOTT LEAGUE
LIKES LABOR PLANK
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM RATHER
TRIMS THE LABOR QUESTION.

Lawyer Davenport, the Famous op-
ponent Of Union Labor Says that
Labor Plank is Approved by Anti
Boycott Association. Where will
Labor Now Stand? Republican
ences, Strika: Labor Awful Blow.
ences Strike Labor Awful Blow,
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Says that He Will Fight for His
flights, Even Unto Death. Cannot
Further Submit to the Tyranny Of
the Citizens Alliance. His Case is
Of National Interest. Wrote Pres-
dent Roosevelt Strong Letter for
Protection.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09

VANS TO SEE HOW They LOOK.
From the New York Press:
When a girl reads in novel about
one who has eyes like stars she gets
up and peeks in the mirror =. Il: T.5s
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Debs Would Stake His Reputa-
tlon on the Statement That
the Mine Owners or Hire
lings Instigated the Plot to
Kill the Non-union Men at
Victor, Colorado.

Citizens Alliance, Which Was
Quick to Accuse the Fedora
tion of Miners of Murder, Is
Now Put Upon the Defen-
sive-Held Responsible for
Conspiracy.
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Continued on page 5.
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Continued I o 81, pag s..
The daily tribune., 1904-03-09
Cheap Rates Again via U. P.

One way second class colouist tick.
cts At the following low rates will be
on sale daily from March to April
80. inclusive. via u. p Il. R.:
To San Francisco. Los Angeles.
San Diego, and many other Califor.
MIA points t25. 90.
To Everett. Whatcom. Vancouver
aud Victoria. via Huntington and
Spokane. t25
To Tacoma. aud Seattle. via Hunt.
ington and Portland. or via Hunting.
ton and Spokane. k25.-
To Portland and to Astoria, Ash.
land. Roseburs. Eugene. Albany and
Salem. including branch lines in
Oregon, via Portland. e25.
To Spokane. all intermediate, main
and branch lines on o. II. & N. Co. BIZ,
also to WenAtchee and intermediate
points, t22 90.
To Butte. Anaconda. Helena and
all intermediate main line points
SEQ 90.
Very liberal stop overs allowed in
Nevada, California and at points west
Of Pocat-llo. Idaho.
/ For full information call on your
local agent, or addresp
E. r. GRIFFIN,
Genl. Agent, U. p. r. r.,
| 914l 7th St.. Denver.
The daily tribune., 1904-03-09

OF the finest hotels in the state Rooms
heat electric bells and all modern
unexceled Transcent $3.50
monthly rates low that live
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Advertised.

Following is list of letters re-
manning unoalled for at the post Office
at Florence, during the week ending
Mar. 8