The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE MI roRN.

THE GENTLEMAN bOhN.
We are made of the same clay. The
incest analysis can detect no difference be-
tween the 'plue blood" that uns in the
veins of the descendant of a line of kings
and the "vital fluid" of all pauper; but
there is nevertheless an Unborn aristocracy
of mind and soul which all men instinc-
lively recognize, and which compels re-
spect from the haughtiest. Patricians by
the accident of birth are often base, selfish
and stupid; but Gods gentlemen, though
reared in poverty and the heirs of toll, are
sure to manifest their innate nobility in
spite of adverse circumstances.
The gentleman born has the right sort of
pride, too. He will go out of his way to
show q stranger the nearest road to any
point he may desire to reach, share his last
crust with a starving brother. peril his life
to protect a woman from insult, and is
ever prompt to assist weakness and avenge
wrong. Yet if you offer him compensa-
ton for obeying the impulses of his
knightly nature his cheek will redden with
indignation at the thought of being mis-
taken for a mercenary, willing to make a
trade of doing good. His labor he will
sell, but not the services which his noble
heart teaches him are due to all who are in
necessity, tribulation or danger. Such a
man, though his spelling-book experiences
may be to limited to enable him to spell
the word 'pedigree,'' and he may have
been raised in u log shanty Oh salt pork
and corn dodgers, is nevertheless royal and
the moral peer of any of his sPecies.-New
York Ledger.
PoNcA, Neb., July ST. was very much
surprised, living in the nineteenth century
as we do, to read in the columns of the
woman's handbag the avowal of one woman
who wouldn't vote if she could or had a
chance. There is no one falsehood so un-
scrupulously reported by the adversaries of
woman suffrage as the unjust idea that the
women who wan to vote want to be men.
Having been taught from my childhood
that "all just governments derive their
powers from the consent of the governed"
thai taxation without representation is
tyranny: that the ballot box is the basis of
liberty: that without it no man is free and
with it all men are free and equal, and be-
lieving these things to be true, and seeing
that the ballot would right and by
asking the privilege to use this ballot, is it
the part of Christianity to brand me or any
other woman DIS wishing to be a man? 1
want to vote, and would this next election
On the rum question if I could. Fol this
great rum question has become so great
me can we'll liken it unto a hugh lion. The
lost of feeding is 100000 orphans, 500, 900
oaupers, 100000 lives-yes, souls lost.
'Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom
God" I Cor. VII, 10. And what is the
Only the clippings of his tail,
$50, 900 900 of blood money. How could
any woman say she would not vote if she
had a chance? The brewers, at their COIL
vention held in Chicago in 1884, 'kesolyed,
That We oppose women suffrage everywhere
and always, for when woman has the ballot
she will vote solid for prohibition.' Well
they know h their greatest enemies are
And ould this one woman who wouldn.
vote if she had a chance, stand in leagur
with the rum power by not using the RICH
of franchise, even if her husband was vot
ing the way she wanted him to: No! 70
she says she is a wise and sensible woman
Well, l nm not so fortunate as to have
husband that will vote as l want him t
every time; so what shall one do in tn;
l neutrality-suspicious. in the OmaE
: World-Herald.