The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-11

DGIISC Gus StlNAS ~ II
ut Austerlltz, Waterloo, S%eyastopol, or is
Sedan? Not one. There was no good 0
reason for those battles and no good re- II
suit followed them. The only thing they Y
produced was debt and misery. Com
pare with this picture ourhappy country. G
With no neishbor to fear, with no racial i
hatreds to crafty, standing in the cen
ter and absorbing the o. aeon
tinent, bounded, as one has said,
the north by the Arctic circle, on the east
by the Atlantic ocean, on the south by
the Tropic OF Cancer, and on the west
by the day OF Judgment, what can Inn
der this nation but its own folly from Il
peaceful and happy career! With the
same conditions OF soil, climate and
population, we can save as clean profit
what Europe spends on armies, n
grow rich while she becomes bankrupt.
AS one has said. Gin competing with
Europe for wealth, Ourlocation is worth
to us about $1,5SS 200, 1000 IL year.
With this advantage, we can III time,
buy up the world.
Again we are not subject, as across
: the water, to vexatious commercial res
+ trictions. "ln Europe, the commerce
i must run a gauntlet OF custom-houses,
. on a score OF frontiers, and must Stun
d BILE over thrice as many languages;
while those nations, with conflicting IN
terests and mutual %jealousies, exhaust
much OF their strength in watching, foll-
ing and gripping each other" Here,
t. bounded only by oceans, with not a
n. custom-house in three thousand miles
/. OF shining plenty, able to raise or man
I'd ufacture nearly every thing we need ano
III III thus to combine the advantages OF Tree
at trade and protection, no nation o! Eu
ii. rope can compete with us commercially
III In social and moral respects, our su
l.. periority is as marked. Every great ma
u ton OF Europe has a running sore.
on famine has broken out in II whic]
w. threatens to defy all efforts to stop 1t
the twin sisters-nihilism, socialism an
atheism have scattered their balefl
seeds everywhere. Anarchy Is openl
preached; religion is at q 10y ebb; GU
side OF England there is little or no Sal
bath; the exile system, the persecutlo
OF the Jews, and the Irish question ST.
await a solution.
of II we extend our survey from Eurol
to other continents, we shall find st
I'm more cause for t~hankiulness. In AS
m VIC find a trembling among the nation
;, W. 500 ~, Io,,nr u U1no r hpHtNpn res
d,s ton against Christian civilizations; t
his '.hermlt nations are shrinking from t
.;,i glare OF western learning and scien'
inc China is menaced on the n hand by
md internal instruction and on the otl
If by European gunboats. Persia tire
bles at the ambition OF the White Cz
who seems determined to seat his rep
sentative upon the throne OF Candt
ritb The Arab race are menaclng Mecca W
md the view OF wrestling the Caliphate tr'
,em the Sultan.
10y Ii e turn to Africa, the picture is S
:" more iorblddlng. We have seen
sner heart OF the Ozark Continent par
ilich Toned during the last year among
grasping governments Of Europe. !
He very, rum and degradation hang Ink
ma pail over that continent. casting
day, thick q. gloom as the mighty forest
hit those naked tribes OF pigmies
lcob, scarce ever see the sun through the
rael. age OF their forests which they beliey
ton. be bOundless, to the level of the An
can citizen. II our masses seem hare
pIpCDta Iat ne think. fhis 1,,nr,irc
sings, Africa with her GO,OOO,OUO OF benz
be a ed, degraded and enervated people.
" io The Anglo Saxon race divided
oe'' hemisphere with the Latin races. A
ound 200 va,r. ,y o.o,n,,,- +ho - -;
u one cation stands forth as the United Sta
Will the other as Mexico, Chill and BIZ;
'"uae The difference is not one OF geograph
''Nc position or OF climate. 1t is one OF
u 10 stitutlOnS and still more race.
lle chose a peculiar race to settle this &C
Che try. He gave them institutions su
caoie to produce the highest development,
u 10 lastly, He planted among us the CT
WIN tian religion, the most powerful civil
ents' in existence. The progress we i
Know made ia not an accident IT, is a. l..
N'>SNS AL vi ~ to " lC
mate result OF Providential eau
al, When looking round this morning
COW reasons for thankiulness, let us pr
urged God that we we're born Americans
Itleo not Europeans As1atlcs OF Africans,
each that u lot was cast in North Anne
the and not in South America.
J. her W.
cd by the President OF the United st;
10 vi aud by the Governor OF South Oak
pAe to meet in a public manner and sole
" ly Offer thanks to Almighty God for
" unparalleled blessings we have recei
IN from his hand during the past yeal
have enumerated some of our matte
.N blessings only: we should not forget
'"'' blessings we have received as a state
Y VI a ~neighborhOOd, as churches, as ff
Ai"S lies and as individuals. Compared '
se"o the people Of any other nation Gcd h
' Amounted our head with oil and our
ioui runneth oyer" Have we not cause
',' NV thank Him today, and, borrowing +,
Dinee from the mercies OF the past, shall
! Ia not say with the Psalmist, "surely &C
WIZ ness and mercy shall follow me all
onal d,.r mu ~, ,,a T Ill, 1..ou =.
ally, house ~ Tho Tor1 fo,ouorr
In order to enter into the spirit OF
o'eo day, it will be necessary, as far as pc
BILE. to make our minds easy with reg
. NJ to the future. There are many thinl
oos- who, while acknowledging the past r
nder o;es os Cod +ou, ,,+o, ,rafonoo
ingstormsi in Jul Misunderstanding, poss
'he shlpwreck. A feeling prevails that,
keep nonulation crowds closer and c1,so,
niesc grand squeeze is coming IN which
70 " poor, the weak and the blind are to
mon trampled under the feet Of brute Il