Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-09
NO TIN TN THE HILLS.

So says the sault ste Marie Democrat. on
the Authority of Tom White.
A spirited inquiry is being awakened
all over the civilized world where news
papers are circulated regarding the ex
istence OF tin in commercial quantities in
the Black Hills. d. O. Dwinnell Of the.
Bank OF Spearfsh recently received from
relative q clipping from the Sault Ste.
Marie Democrat, which, FOR, the brazen
falsehoods it contains, is deemed worthy
OF reproduction. Il viii rather sur
prise Black Killers to learn from paper
published thousand miles from here
that there is not enough tin in the Hills
to s'make tin whistle" Here is the ar
ticle alluded to:
''Some of the readers of the Democrat
will recollect that the Herald under Col.
Parker's management frequently said
there was no tin in the Black Hills. So
presistently did the colonel denounce the
scheme that some, even his friends
thought he went too far. In fact, that he
was away off, and allowed his prejudices
to warp his conduct. The colonel, how
ever, never wavered or weakened in the
least. He never retreated, but main
tanned his ground. It did not matter to
him that even democratic contemporaries
disputed him as some did, he always had
the same reply: There is no tin in the
Black Hills, and the scheme is a fraud
He said there was not enough tin in Da-
kota to make tin whistle, and there now
is every indication to believe that he was
right. Indeed, there is proof positive
that the manipulatars of the scheme were
a gang of plunderers. The matter has
been exposed and the bubble burst by
libel suit in London court brought by
a mining engineer by the name Of White,
who exposed the fraud in the London
Times. The libel suit was against the
London branch of the New York Herald.
The facts are that while the American
abettors in London were representing the
ore to be inexhaustable and were selling
large blocks of the company's stock to
Londoners, Mr.. White, who, like the
colonel, knew that the alleged mine was
utterly worthless, came into the Times
office and said So His disclosures
squelched the fraud The tin men made
vicious attacks upon Mr.. White in the
Herald. He sued the Herald, and the
court awarded him damages to the
amount of $4,000. The tin men had no
facts with which they could refute the
statements made by Mr.. White. The
scheme of robbery was gigantic one.
Tt involved the imposition of high tariff
upon tin plate in the country to help the
booming plunderers carry it through,
and they secured it. Congress imposed
a tax that will rob the American people
of fifteen or twenty millions annually,
and the men, some of them at least, who
engineered the scheme and voted the tax
could not have been ignorant of the fact
that there was no tin in the Black Hills.
That the Englishmen were duped does
not particularly enlist our sympathy, but
that the masses of our own people should
suffer to the extent of millions certainly
does"
***
aNow let us see if this mess of rot con.
tains single grain of truth. To begin
with let it be stated that Sault Ste. Marie
is located in British province and o.
course the Democrat is expected te
dance to the music of English importers
of tin. Besides this, the article is man
ifestly paid advertisement for thu
makers and importers of tin in England
made desperate by the we'll known fac
that there is more tin in the Black Hill
than has been produced from the mine
of Cornwall since the day of Cesar's in
vasion of Britain. This, and the tarif
placed on tin to encourage home pro
duction of the article, has stirred thos
people to madness, and no falsehood i
too base for their use. Col. Parker, who
ever he may have been, might or Nigh
not have known anything in the Blacl
Hills, but the average colonels in tina
part of British province are usual,
|. the "dogan-headed" sons of men VIII
: possessed just enough wealth to pun
chase commission for the "eldest son,
and therefore it is a fair presumptio
that he really didn't know anythin
about tin in the Hills or any other place
But coming down to the man White
IA his career in this country has stampe
! him either an idiot or an unscrupulou
falsiier. He was at Deadwood, within
few miles OF the Niger Hill and Bet
Gulch tin mines, claimed to be skille
metalurgist, and should have known,
u he did not, that tin exists in those local
y ties in almost unlimited quantltie
Z And il he was not in the pay OF Englis
manufacturers and American importe
he should have known something abo1