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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
nIIllionaires who Are Poor,

People who for years have read the
reports of what seemed fabulous wealth
owned by millionaires in New York
city may peruse with profit somewhat
mixed with i%ncredulous amazement tho
figures of the tax commissioners of
New York city.
1t is painfully evident that however
wealthy a mar may consider himself
and however high that wealth may be
rated by his envious neighbors, the i'm
mediate effect of q visit to the tax
commissioners Office is to produce that
impression of grinding poverty which
results in apparently grieyous mis-
statements. For instance, you mort
gage burdened farmers OF the west
who have heretofore imagined that
Gould had a wad of money. note that
he is assessed for personal property to
the value OF $500, 900. And George
Gould at SO, 00O. Russell Sage at
500, 900. Coils P. Huntington $780,
COG, observation-disclosures zoe, 600 ana c.
yanderbuilt 5000, 900. Does that look
like the wealth of the Vanderbuilts Or
the millions which Gould is supposed
II ~ ~, -TET
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
TGi5eItM s7T. sET7.. -ItlsaF s-.9. 81 aNIP-ggETt
EUROPE IN THE YEAR 1000.
Graphlo Statement Of the Condition 81
iii oil World AZ b Time.

Graphic Statement OF the Condition u
theSOli World at that Time.
Let us for q moment recall what was
going on in Europe in the year of
grace 1000-iust enough to- geta sug-
gestive picture of the time writes
John Fiske IN the Atlantic. m Eng
land, the Danish invader, forksbeard-
ed Swend. father of the great Cnut.
was wrestling tho kingship from the
feeble grasp OF Ethelred the Redeless.
In Gaul, the little duchy Of France,
between the Somme aud the Loire.
had lately become the kingdom of
France, and its sovereign. Hugh Capet,
had s~ucceededsto tho feudal rights Of
lordship over the great dukes and
counts whose territories surrounded
him on every side; and now Hugh's.
son, Robert the Debonair, better
hymn-writer than warrior, was wag-
ing o doubtful struggle with these UNI
ruly vassals. 1t was not yet in any
wise apparent what the kingdom OF
England and France we're going to be.
In Germany, the youthful Otto, III.
the wonder of the world, had just
made his weird visit to the tomb of
his mighty predecessor at Aachen, be-
fore starting on that last journey to
Rome which was so soonsto cost him
his life. Otto's teacher. Gerbert
most erudite of popes-too learned
not to have had dealings with the
devil-was beginning to raise the
papacy out OF the abyss Of infamy into
which the preceding age had seen it
sink, and SO to prepare the way for the
~far-reaching reforms of Hildebrand.
The boundaries of christendon were
as yet narrow and insecure. With the
overthrow of Olaf Tryggvesson in this
year 1000. and the temporary partition
of Norway between Swedes and Danes.
the work Of Outstanding the north
seemed for the moment to languish.
Upon the eastern frontier the wild
Hungarians had scarcely ceased to be
a terror to Europe, and in this year
Stephen, their first Christian king, be-
gan to reign. At the same time the
power of hepetical Bulgaria, which
had threatened to overwhelm the East
ern empire, was broken down by the
sturdy blows OF the Macedonian en-
peror, Basil. In this year the Christ
ians OF Spain met woful defeat at the
hands of Almansor, and there seemed
no reason why the Mussulman rule
over the greater part of that peninsula
should not endure forever.
Thus, from end to end, Europe was
a scene of direst confusion; and though,
as we now look back upon it. the time
seems by no means devoid of promise.
there was no such cheering outlook
then. Nowhere were the outlines of
Kingdoms or the ownership of crowns
definitely settled. Private war was
both incessant and universal. The
truce of God had not yet been pro-
claimed. AS for the ommon people,
their hardships were we'll nigh incred-
ible. Amid all this anarchy and mis-
cry, at'the close of the 1O0Oth year,
from the birth of Christ, the belief
was quite ommon throughout Europe
that the day of judgment was at hand
for a world grown old in wickedness
and ripe for its doom.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

Now, it makes no manner Of differ
ence whether a doctor can read a
Latin love-letter or not. 1t is enough
that the Latin he writes is clearly and
definitely Ineligible TO the druggist
Who makes up the prescription. The
Latin of prescriptions is a technical
medium OF communication between
doctors and druggists. Both Under
stand it perfectly, and it is a moro cer-
tain medium than English would be.
In any case a prescription consists
mainly of the ames of drugs, and
those names are all Latin for a per-
fectly good reason-namely, that they
may be equally understood by scienti-
tic men of different countries.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
Truth and wrong.

Truth forever on the scatfold, Wrong for
. even on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and,
behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
watch above His own.
We see dimly in. the Present what is small
and what is great,
the iron helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid the
markets din,
List the ominous stern whisper! from the
delphic cave within,
'sThey enslave their children's children
who make compromise with sin. :,
Then to side with truth is noble when we
share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and.
It's prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while
the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject spirit, till his Lord
is crucified,
And the multitude make virtue of the
faith they had denied,
flames Russell Lowell.
The Alliance Bulletln: The effort 10
dividehe Alliance forces upon the
sub-treasury scheme IL proving d dis
nal failure The plan is one iof the
sonndestsfinancial measures ever placed
before any people and the time issnOt
sf.. a;ckrx% nj
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

HYPNoTIsM is a mystery, which, it
it has any real existence, is all about
us, yet into which we have not seen
so far as a fingers length. As with
electricity, we call it by name, and
handle it with temerity, without know
ing what it is made of, but unlike cleo
tricity it has not brought us any great
gain so far, and has been the instru-
ment Of deceit and robbery rather
than of good of any kind. Its tools
are people of weak nature and ''peeu-
liar" temperament, blameless as MUIR
derers or thieves, perhaps, but tools
at the best The %hypnotizer who de-
sires the death of another does not
pick out Il man Of much mental force
to do his will; tho weaker the agent,
tho likely he is to do the work
successfully.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
Truth and Wrong.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong for
ever on the throne,
Yet that scatiold sways the future, and,
behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
watch above His own.
We see dimly in the Present what is small
and what is great,
Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn
the iron helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid the
market din,
List the ominous stern whisper, from the
delphic cave within,
!:'They enslave their children's children
who make compromise with sin"
Then to side with truth is noble when we
share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and
its prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while
the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject spirit, till his Lord
is cruciied,
And the multitude make virtue of the
faith they had denied.
James Russell Lowell.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
Kate Field.

The famous Washington woman cor
respondent who only a little while ago
could hardly find words to express her
contempt for the ragged paupers who
were making so much noise. has re-
Gently been moved to say in one of her
letters:
ut seems to me that those political
optimists who have been hoping that
the new party movement would be
dissipated into thin air as soon as we
had n seaso of good crops. must
begin to doubt their gift of prophecy.
Instead of vanishing in the face of the
most abundant harvest that has been
known in this country for many years,
the farmers party appear to consider
this stroke of good fortune a special
mark of the favor their budding revo-
luton finds in the eyes of heaven.
They have taken fresh courage from
it. They argue with much logic that,
if they could accomplish what they did
last year in spite of poverty and r d.
Guile, they can do vastly more this
year, with money pouring in upon
them and the nation at large thor
oughlX awake to a sense OF their
power. They are increasing, rather
than l%essening, their demands. y 4
1t will not do for politicians or law
makers anywhere to ignore the agita-
ton of live questions which has begun
among the farmers. Even though the
forms the movement takes at first are
crude, their essence is substantial, and
a class Of men who have he. etofore
let politics almost alone are coming to
feel their W strength. History has
told us what that means; and expert
fence warns us that it will be wiser to
open a few straight channels for the
coming flood than to try to dam it with
distractions which will only increase
its force when it finally sweeps them
away.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
How Was 1t Done!

About n year ago railroad stocks
were very high, when Jay Gould and
a few others formed a pool to bring
them down. Mr.. Gould went to sew
eral of the banks and told them that
he would like to borrow $50. 600. 900.
The banks informed him that they had
no doubt but what he could furnish
ample security for the loan, but that
they did not have the money to let him
have it. He replied that he did not
want the money; all that he asked was
that when he deposited the security
they should see that no other fellow
should get the money. They agreed
to this, but when the fellows who were
carrying railroad securities wanted the
loan of money they we're informed the
money market was SO tight that they
were not doing any discounting. The
plan worked like magic. The fellows
who borrow money upon stocks were
compelled to throw them on the mar
ket in order to realize upon them.
The result was that stocks took q
tumble and the list of leading securi-
ties shrunk i've $3.50, 600. 900 in less
than thirty days; among them. Union
Pacific, which fell so low that Gould
was able to buy in enough of the
stocks to turn out of the presidency
Charles Francis Adams, and put in
his personal friend who is in the pool,
Sidney Dillon. But this was not all
of the transaction; this little trick of
Gould and his friends caused such
%stringency in the money market that
a howl went up from the bosses of
Wall street that reached the treas
ury department in Washington, and
the secretary was 81 affected by it
that he at once went to Wall
street in person and upon the request
of the representatives of the national
banks, he paid them over $21, 900, 900
of interest upon their bonds. So as
the matter now stands the United
States is not compelled to pay n
cent Cf interest upon their bonded
debt until July. 1892; neither is this
advanced interest ever figured into the
secretary of the treasury's monthly
statement. There never has yet been
a secretary of the treasury that ever
left his Office to go to the plains of the
west to relieve the cry of the distress
Of the mortgaged farmer of the west.
National Citizens Alliance.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

SINCE the war authorities have re-
jected the plan OF an ingenious scient-
list. who offered to show how an army
might be chloroformed at its guns and
taken prisoner before it knew what
had struck it perhaps they could do
nothing better than pronounce in favor
OF guns that do their shooting with
great precision and yet pile up their
slain compactly and decently. If the
projectors could manage also to pin
bouquets Oh the bosoms of the coats of
those whom they have removed"
there would be nothing more to be de-
sired.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
reduced to the Lowest POINT.

The wages Of the male workers are
reduced to the lowest point by the
avarice of employers, who take the ad-
vantageof competition Of women and
child labor and the reserve army Of
destitute, unemployed men, eve ready
to take the place OF the dissatisfied
workers at any price or risk. The
general average of wages given by the
best authority. the United States GEN.
sus and the various state Reports are
as follows;
Industrial workers $1.02 perseach
day in the year. farmers 80 cents,
miners n cents. That the declara-
tien that all wealth and power GEN.
tiers in the hands of few" is true is
shown in the following table:
Table showing the progressive in.
crease in our national wealth and its
division between the producers (work-
ers) and the non-producers (rich
parasites.
Workers Non-producers RS
share (parasites)
Year per cent. share per cent
1850 $S,,000,00O 600 62M S
1860 is, 100, 900, 600 48A 56A
1870 10000, 900, 900 32sss 67H
1880 40, 000, 000, 900 "a re
1890 81, 500,000,0001 80
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

Our point OF view both Of nature
and of life shifts constantly from n
generation to another, and tho popu-
lar poet is he who best idealizes his
ages thought and aims. 1t is easy to
see how the movements of the nation
al life and the awakenings of intel
lectual activity a generation Or two
ago gave a particular power to the
New England group Of poets, and how
the newly aroused interest in the
beauty of, rural nature gave to thei.
landscape poetry a freshness of value
impossible to their successors. They
mainly addressed those familiar witt
ha1ure ind those also in whom the
humanity was strong.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

YEAR by year. as the census shows, a
steadily larger proportion OF the peo-
pie are found crowded into the cities.
and if it were possible to make a cen
sus of mems desires it would pretty
certainly appear that it is the earnest
wish of nearly all the rest of the PEG.
pie to live in town.. =
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
How DELIGHTFUL.

II am one of those that believe that
these men from your shops, these far
mers, remote from money-centers,
have the largest interest of all peo-
pie in the world in having a dollar that
is worth 100 cents every day in the
year, and only such. If by any
chance we should fall into a condi-
ton where one dollar is not as good
as another, l venture the assertion
that the poorer dollar will do
its first errand in paying some poor
laborer for his work. Therefore in the
conduct of our public affairs, l feel
pledged. for one, that all the influence
of the government should be on the
side of giving the people only good
money. and just as much of that kind
as we can get"
How long, 0 Cataline, wilt thou
abuse our ]patience?n How long, o
Harrison, and other United States
presidents do you think our people will
eat such chaff as that?
How happy are they
Who their masters obey
And have laid up their treasures
In Wall Street,
How sweet, nice. delightful it is to
know that the great. high. absolute
truth about money and finance is not
that entertained by a few stupid, pig
head, chucklehead mudsills and hay
seeds, but that entertained by all the
''best people"
What a blissful arrangement of
divine providence that DEGREES that
the honest gold dollar, the high priced
aristocratic dollar, the horse leech of
usury, the dollar that sneeks away to
Europe in time of u greatest need.
the dollar that the rich man yearns
.after-is the very dollar that the poor
man would yearn for elf he knew
enough"
But like Artemus Ward he is be-.
ginning to say MARY yearn!-Chica.
go Express.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

Primarily the introduction of man
~ual-training departments in all the
schools is intended especially for such
boys as do not take readily to intel
lectual work at first. Many such are
brought in under the compulsory-edu-
cation law. But the manual depart
ments are merely n class of means
to a common end. They would encour-
age a genuine attachment to school
life besides their intrinsic value as
primary educators in the useful arts.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

Wilton Star: Tho i%nsinuation that
it has been on account of a lack of in
dustry, frugality and system that has
in the past fifteen years. more than
ever before engulfed the farmers in
mortgage Indebtedness. is w"ilfully
false. And nc one knows it better
than many that make the charge.
There is 10 class of people thai works
harder and practices more economy
and enjoys less of the comforts and
Injuries OF life than the farmer. Mo-
nopoIy. contraction and rascality in
high places have done it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
ooid Fae,n,
Does our government ever borro,

Does our government ever borrow
money!
Yes.
HowP
By issuing interest bearing bonds to
the lender.
Does the government ever loan
money!
Yes.
How and to whomp
It loans money to q few capitalists
and takes as security its own bonds.
They are known as the national
bankers.
What interest do these banks pay
the government for the money loaned
themP
Only l per cent per annum.
What do the banks do with this
money!
They loan it to the plain people at
from 8 per cent to "a per cent per an
nun.
Will the government loan one of its
citizens money at l per cent per an
numP
No. These banks control the gov
eminent, and they will not allow the
government to loan money to its in
dividual citizens.
Does the. government pay these
banks any interest on the bonds that
they deposited as security?
Yes; the government pays them in
terest on the bonds all the way from 4
per cent to 6 per cent per annum.
Is this equal rights to all and
special favors to none?"
No. The favors are all on the in
side and the plain people are all on
the outside.
Are the government bonds good Sc
curity?
~Intrinsically they are nothing but
printed paper, and are valuable only
to the extent of the solvency of the
government
What is the basis of the govern
ment's %solvencyP
Land; the basis of all wealth.
Why is land valuablep
Because of its productiveness.
What is the governments ultimate
resource TO pay its bond?
Products of the soil.
If agovernment based on the prod
ucts of the soil is good security for a
government loan, why are the products
of the soil not good security?
They are, end better security, for
the n is tangible and certain. whilst
the other is intangible and uncertain.
What objections, then, can there be
to the sub-treasury plan?
There is no reasonable objection. :
Alliance Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
sqbe glafk bills Mmion.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY:
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

THE rich mans sons have come
into prosperity without having
worked for it and unless they
have an inherited aptitude for the judi
cious use Of wealth or Of power the
incidental control of either is pretty,
sure to make them worse than they
would otherwise have been.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
WAY OF THE WORLD

A French woman's baby was so SIN all
that she used her shoe for its cradle.
Baltimore has a donkey only thirty
inches high, but it seems to have the
strength of an OK.
Two Cinnamon of New York who Wis.,
tied the Ward Line steamers recently
returned with over 1000 cigars in their
loose flowing silk sleeves. The attempt at
smuggling was detected.
In the window of a New York store
stands a man who paints a picture about
two and a half feet long and two feet
wide in four minutes by the watch. He
works rapidly but without apparent haste.
A young Californian performs wonder.
ful feats in bending iron bars and break
ing hagstones. Recently he bent an iron
rod an inch in diameter and broke a fag-
stone two inches thick, using no other
means than his hands.
Fahrenheit divided his Thermometer into
~ degrees between zero and boiling
point, and the way he hit on tie 212.de-
gree mark was this: Ten thousand vol
umes OF mercury at the Fahrenheit zero
make 1929 volumes at the boiling point.
A gun to fire under water has been in
vented, and one for the United States ship
Destroyer is in course of construction at
Bethlehem, Pa. The experimental gun is
to be thirty five feet long, and will throw
n projectile twenty-five feet in length,
containing 400 pounds of nitro glycerine,
1000 feet through the water.
Oklahoma, which was carved out of The
Indian Territory by and for the whites,
promises to become a negro territory. OF
the 5000 people at Guthrie fully 8, 900 are
said to be negroes. Langston City 1000
is a distinctly negro settlement. There
are 500 more at Oklahoma City, $500 in
other places. and 1000 have crossed into
the lands newly opened.
1t is easy to trace wheat bach for nearly
1000 years, or indefinitely earlier still,
for it was known in the neolithis period
when men lived in dwellings built on plat
forms supported by piles driven into the
k OF Switzerland. Near the remains
of these dwellings wheat has been found,
together with mealing stones, hearth
stones and sickles, the wheat almost iden-
tical in character with that Of the later
Egyptian or even with that which has
gladdened the fields of the west during
the season Of 1891.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30

A New Story of stoneyyall jackson.
Since the unwilling of Stonewall
Jackson's statue this story about the
confederate general has come to light:
On n rainy day, while advancing
on Bull Run, he started ont TO recon-
hotter in person and got caught on
the wrong side OF a bridge guarded
by a fieldpiece and some federal ar
tilerymen. When he discovered this
jackson did not hesitate u moment.
Galloping up behind the men he
shouted out to the officer in command:
t.Who directed you to put that gun on
the roadp Take it away and noun
it in the woods on the hill yonder.
never saw such a piece of folly. Here
in the open ground your men will be
shot from the brush on the other
side" On he went as though in a
terrible passion. berating the officer.
who colored, saluted, apologized and
hastily gave the order for removing
thesgun. jackson, with his staf all
his heels galloped off to the left as
though to pass down the treain. made
a sudden turn, thundered across thu
bridge and escaped, Tho befnadieds
Officer i acommandsn III The Ind noks
sr0nns far 81 Hon Ia 49,
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dodgur hourished like a green bay tree

dodger tiourished like a green bay tree
In the Empire state.
OF all the reputed men of fabulous
wealth but one-W. w. Astor-puys
taxes on anything like the proper
amount. He is assessed on 81, 81, 400.
1t would appear that being a million
aire in New York does not require SO
much capital as was generally suppos.
ed.-Kansas City Times.