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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
A CHANCE 40 BE a GOAT.

The last issue OF the Union contains
the following invitation to Join the goat
wing Of the alliance movement:
"Not all towns through their business
men, took so strong a stand against the
Independent movement as did Rapid
City and other towns OF the Hills. In
the agricultural portions Of this state
and throughout Nebraska, Kansas and
other states, where the business OF VII
lage and cities is directly dependent on
agriculture, the middlemen realize more
plainly that something is wrong and
their sympathy is naturally with their
customers. They have in many cases
sought membership in the alliance, but
their occnpatian debars them. For
this and all classes Of people, not oper-
ating formers, the national citizens alli-
ance was founded and is already rapidly
gaining ground"
Business menin this region should re-
member that Willie "their occupation de-
bars them" from membership in the
| chosen organization Of agricultural
saints which has for its aim the eXter-
patton OF the pernicious ''middlemen, %
they may Join the "national" herd
which will be permitted to live in consid-
Grafton Of the regular payment OF dues,
etc.-kapid City Republican.
One Of the republican heads is evident
ly inclined to be phunny il not truthful.
The portion OF our article, quoted above,
is from a notice OF the National Citizens
Alliance organ, recently established ut
Washington, D. G., with Ralph Beau
mont as editor. The Republican is uu-
neccssarilary alarmed. No effort has
yet been made to establish IL branch OF
the Citizens alliance in the Hills. It
isn't necessary, you know, so long as We
are connected with eastern Dakota, the
agricultural portion can so easily handle
the state with the farmers alliance
alone.
The farmers alliance was organized to
better the condition OF the farmer and
has been largely an educational orga
mzation and has identified rather thar
injured the middle-man. Education has
taught lilc dlil'tilEe tHiI iieiiiy dil ie
form CentcrS at the ballot box and hence
by an entirely natural process the. ALI
ance finds itself in politics. Where TIN
farmers alliance now finds itself, th
J citizens alliance begins and will be con
posed not alone OF business men, bu
Mechanics and LaboIers. In trying Il
) this late day, to hold up the alliance Il
the enemy OF business mon, the write
gives promise Of becoming Il goat, but h
: is surely at present, only II kid.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

We are not paying S1.1O for second
hand stocks Of goods and advertising
themf for fifty cents on the dollar, but
can sell you shoes cheaper than any
other house In Rapid City.
F.E. MORELY & Co.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

aAsr
ru,.y u,;#s T1mi-, yu1rrs IN uaTy
HJHHuM.
We oirro fnw ar,nlrs Of fine walls 90
a,h';I.al IS H.
my up rom ''e S"N7'"'1eo press Vi l'c
country:
And now those mean little animals
who chase the band wagon, who never
have an opinion OF their Town, or dare
to express it il they have, are laughing
over Moody's defeat. DO these gophers
Il statesman and Il leader because an ag-
grc@iltc OF chulnrs and adVe1lturers have
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

~ a. 81 81 "A YEAR: undertake to briefly
Eh 5 9 e q q H Il teach my fairly intelligent person Of either
DJUW S sss' S Iss ,s5 ( Ss / I'll ~ $ ;s s5'ssI 4 ~ sss:
Year ~ ti:eirown localities, wherever they liye.I will also furnish
the situation or eniplo ut which you can earn that ninount,
No money for me unless successful as above. Easily and Quickly
learned. I desire but one worker from each district or county. I
have already taught and provided with employment a large
number, who are making over sa000 n yenre ncii. lis NEW
md SOIL I'D; Full pariicplnrs fsIE EsIs. address at once,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

Are you in want of ring, pin, chain.
charm, gold or silver watch, gold thim-
bles or spectacles, gold pencils or tooth
picks, gold pens, silverware Dr. clocks for
Christmas? Trowbridge, jeweler, has a.
large assortment to select from. Low
prices.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

Do you take the BLACK HILLS UNION?
II not, you should. 1t only costs $50
per wear in advance.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

TNSTRAY N~OTICE-From the range on Rapid
ID creek, ten miles east Of Rapid City, during
the splrng of 80. a brown gelding coming three.
Branded open AN on right hip. Finder will be
suitably rewarded by returning to Mrs. Julia
Dunillg, Rapid City.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

INSTRAI-From the ranch of the subscriber
IL on the divide between Spring and Battle
creeks, a sorrel mare, blind, not branded, weight
] 600 pounds. Finder will be suitably re-
|arGed by returning to ranch or delivering to
subscriber iii Rapid City. FRED BARNES.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Assessment Notice.

NOTICE OF CONTEsT-u. S. Land Office,
IN Rapid City, South DAKOTA, January 2G,
1S91.-Complaint having been entered ut this
office by Charles L. Kelsey against Daniel w.
5000, dated July ~, 1890, upon the sell sec
ton 20, township l north, range 7 east, b. H.
NJ, i'll Pennington county, South Dakota, with
said parties are hereby summoned to appear at
the U. S. Land Office in Rapid City, S. D., on
the 9Th day OF March, 1891, at ten O'Clock a.
m, to respond and furnish testimony concern
ing said alleged abandonment. J. 2. LUsE,
Register.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

Notice.
All persons indebted to me are hereby
notified to call and settle their accounts
a A. once aud an vo coafs

$1,000 = 49, ".0 n. Y. I ICOBNAI6e
Rapid City, November 3, 1890.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

TsIisY 1i.i;#E TIi1!:: VOICES ~ TE3I.'
tt-j.tst.t.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
A GREAT DIFEERERENCE.

The GLOBE does not altogether ap-
prove of that speech Senator MAYO
made the other day, in which he COM
pared Mr.. DONNELLY to a can of baking
powder and called the Sage's stomach
well. This is attacking the gentleman
from Dakota county on physical instead
of intellectual or moral grounds, ard
hardly complies with the rules for the
government Of polite society which
Lord CHESTERFIELD laid down in his
letters to his offspring.
Very probably DR.. MAYO thought
that MIR. DONNELLY was tar game for
this sort of treatment because he had
himself made some very severe criti-
cisms on Mr.. WTEELoCK'S personal ap-
pearance in a recent public debate.
But there is an important distinction
between the two cases, which Dr. MAYO.
with his acute mind, will at once ap-
preciate. 1t does not m axe any differ
enee what the Sage may say about Mr..
WHEELoCK'S good looks, because no
one will take any stock in it,. MI.
WHEELoCK is distinctly handsome
man. Whatever else his enemies may
say, if they are fair-minded they Will
have to admit that. No matter where
lie might be, he would be conspicuous in
this respect. 1t boots not, therefore,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
ASTONISHING IGNORANCE.

There is a newspaper in this town
which sometimes tries to be funny.
When it does it makes the public's back
ache. Last night it had joke all to
itself about EDWARD j. PHELPS, our
late minister to England. The point of
the joke was that no one could tell
whether Mr.. PHELPS. whom it called a
professor of law at Harvard. was a mug
wump Or Democrat. The GLOBE
knows that it thought this was anus
ing, because it saw the man who wrote
it laughing at it.
Bless your two-cent soul, EDWARD j.
PHELPS is not an instructor at Harvard.
He is Kent professor of law at Yale col
lege. Harvard university is located at
Cambridge, which is suburb of Boston
in Massachusetts. Its motto is ''For
Christ and His Church," which the
GLOBE puts thus in English so that ils
contemporary may understand it. 1t
means that everybody at Harvard IS
Unitarian. Yale university is located
at New Haven, which used to be one OF
the capitals of Connecticut. Connect
icut is one of the states of the Union.
Yale uniyerSity'S motto is Light and
TRUTH" which means that WILLIAM
GRAHAM SUMNER can be found at the
old stand, teaching free trade doctriue
to its undergraduates, as his iliuStriouS
predecessor, THEODORE DWIGHT WOOL
SEY, used TO do.
Blessing your two-cent soul again, no.
body who knows anything could ever
accuse EDWARD }. PHELPS of being a
mugwump. He is a lawyer Of the pro-
foundest learning, of the rarest elo-
quence, and of the most charming man
nerS. lie is one of the most eminent of
living men of the world; strong in his
convictions and vigorous in his express
sion Of them. Senator BAYARD once
took dinner with him, and few years
afterwards made him minister to Eng
land. Had GROVER CLEVELAND taken
dinner with him, he would have made
him chief justice of the United States.
One displays the most astonishing ig-
norance when he questions Mr.. PHELPS
Democracy. Year after year he voted
the Democratic ticket in Vermont,
sometimes in company with the other
two men who, along with him, made up
the Democratic party in that benighted
state; and sometimes, when they were
too sick to go to the polls, he voted it
alone. But he has always been Dem
Ocrat. Such man could not be a mug
wump.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07

however loudly any one may roar to
the contrary.
But Mr.. DoNNELLY is not handsome,
and jokes about his personal appear
ance may hurt his feelings. His quail
ties of mind and character are the
things which endear him to the people
of Minnesota. His incorruptibility as
public servant, his flashes of eloquent
silence, his disinterested devotion to the
cause of the poor and the downtrodden,
his knowledge of law, his reverence for
the constitution, his accurate quotations
from the obscurer poets-for these the
masses love him. But he is not quite
slim enough to be handsome. His eyes
are little too uncertain, and his head
resembles little too closely in its con-
tour the Uranium of that Homeric ora
tor who smiled sweetly and sat down on
the benches looking foolish. after the
much-counseling ODYssEUS had COPIED
in debate with him.
Senator MAYO ought to be more care
full. and not grieve the Sage by needless
references to things for which he is not
responsible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
A BETTER ARTICLE.

The new immigration law went into
operation on the LIST of this month, and
in view of it trouble has been maze for
some of the ship operators. A new
bureau is created, and, like most new
agencies. is reported to be starting In to
enforce the provisions of the law under
which it is created. There ought to be
good deal of judicious culling if the
invoices are not materially changed. 1t
is a noticeable fact that in March there
were more immigrants from Italy than
any other country, the figures being
1869 to 7.OS7 from Germany, the next
largest. The New Orleans incident is
evidently without effect in this connec-
ton. 1t will be we'll if the seine for this
migration is made somewhat fine. They
have good people over there. and should
have pride enough to send abroad only
a sound and creditable article.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
LOSING GROUND.

The Massachusetts senate the other
day voted down the proposition to give
women the right to vote at municipal
elections with more than a two-thirds
majority. This is the regular thing
every year. The advocates of the cause
have apparent perennial hope, if not
faith. In the last twenty-four years the
same body has voted on this measure
thirteen times, and eleven times on un-
restricted suffrage for women. The
form of the question appears to alter
nate. There has been no gain for the
cause shown in the legislative action.
In fact, it is at low point now. 1t is
not even regarded as a matter of conse
Quence enough to knock it out by a
narrow vote or pass it in one house to
be killed in the other. The trouble is
that the women as class do not want
to vote any more than they did twenty
four years ago. at least in Massachu-
setts. They have about the same dis
position i'll other states.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
CRUELTY AT CAMP MORTON.
A Charge That Confederates Had
to Eat Rats.

NEW YORK. April 6.-The Sun says ::
eff w. r. Holloway, of Indianapolis,
private secretary to Gov. Morton during
the civil war. does as he says he will.do,
there will be a fine controversy. DR..
John A. Wyath. of this city, wrote the
article which appeared in the Cen
fury for April. This article was
about the treatment of Confed-
crate prisoners of war at Camp Morton,
near indianapolis, from November, 1868,
to February, 1865, and set forth as the
personal experience of the writer. tale
of horror equal in some respects to the
stories of Libby prison OF Anderson
vile. 1t charged that the Confederate
prisoners were almost starved, ate rats
and dogs, were unprotected to the bite
of a terrible winter. and suffered all
sorts of indignities. Mr.. Hollo-
way says he visited Camp Morton
nearly every day and that he proposes
to prove that DR.. Wyeth does not state
facts. DR.. Wyetb said last night:
81 have read Mr.. Holloway's state
ment and | am anxious that he shall try
to diSprOve what | have written. | am
in a great measure prepared for him
with incontIovertible documents. and
within few weeks | shall be still bet
ter prepared. [ have waited twenty
eight years before publishing this story,
as l wished all the prejudice which the
feeling of recent wrongs engenders to
die out. and | think that | wrote with
fairnesS-with great moderation even.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April Cool.
w. r. Holloway, who was Gov. Nor
toms private secretary during the war,
made the following reply to the state
ment of DR.. Wyeth sent from New
York by the Associated Press this
afternoon: II assert that the material
made by Mr.. Wyeth in the Century
magazine concerning the neglect of
the prisoners at Camp Morton is absO-
lutely and unqualifiedly false and
that will be able to prove them so from
official sources. There are hundreds of
men still living who are thoroughly
familiar with all that occurred at Camp
Morton during the time, and it might be
well for DR.. Wyath to await my reply to
his article before he supplements the
Century article, as it is evldeut to
me that Wyath, who is an author
of work OH surgery. intends
to become the defender of the prison
pens of the South and will attempt to
excuse the crimes committed by his
friends in their prisons by printing
most Infamous falsehoods about Camp
Morton, aid perhaps other Northern
prison camps. / reiterate and assert, in
the most solemn manner. that l will be
able to prove every material statement
of DR.. Wyath to be untrue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
THE PORK EMBARGO.
An Unconffrmed Report That 1t
Has Been Raised.


WASHINGTON, April 6. = Secretary
Rusk was to-day shown a cable from
Berlin, as follows:
The German government has raised the
embargo on American pork. The official
declaration VIII be delayed.
The secretary stated that no official
notification had been received by him in
confirmation of this statement, but he
added that if such action had not al
ready been determined upon, he had
very little doubt it would soon be. The
removal of this embargo" said the
secretary, ION American pork products
in Germany was one of the first things
which l determined to accomplish, if
possible, on assuming my present Office.
Immediately on the passage of the Ed
munds bill, on Aug. 80, 1890, took
steps through the department of state to
present to the German government in the
strongest manner the proprlety, in view
of the provision made in that law for the
inspection of American salt pork meats,
of granting out exporters relief from the
prohibition actually eViSting on all
American pork. The result of these
negotiations showed me that to obtain
adequate concessions from the German
government it would be necessary for
US to provide for micrOScOpical eXami-
nation of all pork destined for their
trade. Efforts were constantly made to
secure necessary legislation, resulting
in the passage of the act of March 8,
1891, upon which the recent regulations
issued by this department are based,
and Oh March | caused the provisions
of the law to be communicated to the
German government, through the de-
partment of state and our minister in
Berlin, accompanied by the declaration
that this department was prepared to
carry them out in such manner as to
afford to the government of Germany
the most thorough and satisfactory
guarantee of the immunity of all eX-
ports of American pork to that country
from trichina and any diseases af-
fecting the wholesomeness of the
meat. am quite convinced
of the disposition of the German
government to deal fairly with this mat
ter. and to take into account the desira-
bility for the people of both countries to
maintain the friendliest trade relations,
and it is in this conviction that de-
clare my belief that, though we have
not yet received any official notification
in conformity with the words of the
cablegram submitted to me, we can
look for some such course on the part of
the German government ere long,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
PATRIOTIC WOMEN.

LEONARD W. RUNDLETT, our efficient
city engineer. knows a great many
things well; but if any one imagines that
lie has acquired his wide information by
intuition, he is very much mistaken. 1t
is the result of much burning of the
midnight oil over works of contem-
porary and classical learning. The
other day, when he had completed his
monthly inspection of the colored fash
ion plates i'll the magazines devoted to
the subject of women's wearing APP
parel, he exclaimed. THANK heaven
for the American women" A few min
utes later he stuck the peg in the tele-
phone i'll his office, and, calling up our
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
HILLS OBJECT,

1t is fay0rite and pleasing aSSump-
ton with Republicans that Gov. HILL
was hitting at Mr.. CLEVELAND in his
declinatiOn of an invitation to public
meeting of a free trade league in New
York. The paragraph given that con-
Struction IS where he indicates opposi-
ton to all movements of the kind, mo
matter by whom lnstigated or cham
ploned." 1t is not explained how that
can have any reference to Mr.. CLEVE
LAND, unless it is supposed Gov. HILL
has been deceived by the Republicans
III regard TO Mr.. CLEVELAND'S position.
His aStuteneSS and sense Of fairness
would be impeached by the supposition
that he aimed his shaft at the ex-presi-
dent. Neither the latter nor the Demo-
cratic party has ever been in favor of
entire free trade. The little samples
devised by Mr.. BLAINE are tempt
ing leads, but the New York governor
is quite right in insisting that to an Or
thodoX Democrat free trade is not ac-
ceptable. Like Mr.. CLEVELAND, the
Democratic party favorS a tariff that
will produce the revenue needtul for
the economical administration of the
government, with such advantage to
local industries as are incident to this
requirement. There are free traders
among Democrats. 1t is said that three
or four of them have been elected to
the new congress. They would dis
pense with custom houses altogether,
and raise the needfut revenue by in
ternal and other tax methods. These
are individual, and not party views.
While the Republicans are piling up
the expenditures to S5O00OO,0OO a year,
there must be methods of getting the
money out of the pockets of the peo-
pie without attracting their attention too
directly, Gov. HILL gives emphasis to his
language that the occasion hardly re-
quires. An intelligent Democrat need
not lose any portion of his wonted pla-
cidity when the imputation of free trade
is thrown at him by its friends or his
party enemies. 1t is admirable in the
DRY, but unhappily not adapted to pres
ent conditions. 1t is necessary to raise
The revenue, and this is the most feasible
method. To impose duties that are not
designed to promote this end is an in
justice to the people who are more or
less directly made to bear them. Yet it
is difficult to avoid an impression that
Gov. HILL had something more in view
than to designate his attitude toward
this subject, or to dissipate injurious
impressions of the party position. He
has not relieved the burden of the adage
that it is unwise for politician to be a
DrOlific letter writer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
A Merry GOVERNOR.

There has hardly been a more signifi-
cant display of official nerve than is
afforded by GOV. BOYD, of Nebraska, in
his veto OF the bill passed by the legis-
iature to regulate railroad charges. In
view of the exhibition of popular senti-
ment, on his side of the house especial
ly, it is somewhat unexpected TO find
the executive taking an opposite view.
His home organ, the Omaha World-Her-
aid, was exceedingly active in prOcur-
ing and publishing thousands of names
of petitioners to the governor to sign
the bill. There has been an intensity
of feeling in that state on the railroad
question not known in any other state,
unless Kansas is a partial exception.
The defeat OF the Republicans was main
ly due to dlstrust of their professions
and attitude in regard to the control of
railroads. The constitution of the state
empowers the legislature to fix maxi
mum charges for the roads, but states
that they must be reasonable. In the
Judgment of the governor this require
ment was not met, as the bill fixed for
the maximum the lowest trunk line rate
of Iowa for every road in Nebraska,
regardless of amount of traffic or
any other consideration that cones
in the estimate of value of a railroad.
1t was conceded by the advocates of the
bill that it would be hard, and perhaps
1uinouS to some of the roads. They
were expected to find relief sin the
courts. In his veto, the governor esti-
mates the present value Of the Nebraska
roads and equipments at $4,000 miles
which seems to be liberal, and puts
the volume of traffic on the Iowa
roads at four times that of those in his
state. He asserts his belief that the en-.
forcement Of the provisions of the bill
would bankrupt every road in the state.
But the legislature did not adopt his
views, as the house passed the bill over
the veto by more than four-fifths vote,
and III the senate it lacked but two OF
the requisite two-thirdS. But it is not
the point in hand as to the propriety OF
the bill. Its wisdom and equity are
matters for consideration in Nebraska
Concentration is only designed for the
| display of courage by the governor in
standing for his presumably honest con-
vctions in the face of evident political
eXpediency and menacing popular tenn
per. For a governor who has been
hanging by the gills, as it were, he must
| be conceded to be neryy.