The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-09-20

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ing centers Of population. am q wes-
tern and South Dakota man from top
to bottom. I'll stick to the land loan
idea as long as possible because it will
benefit the west. The west wants more
money, more manufactures, more i'm
habitants. We have the best security
on Observation-Disclosures unsteal-
able, unhldeable, REAL estate to offer
as security, which is better than govern
ment bonds. The senator's illustra-
ton OF the fixed value of the dollar is
impracticable from our standpoint be-
cause we will v see wheat at 81 nor
horses at $1OO, nor $50 per capita in
circulation until the Omaha platform
becomes law. The only question is what
shall be the standard of value. The
senator wants % 22-lOO grains of gold
the STANFORD, while [ would just as soon
have have one-ha'f days labor as the
standard. The senator fears the conse
quences of imitation while / see and feel
the consequences of contraction. I
would rather see the nation hilariously
drunk on initiation because it would
benefit 81 per cent of all the people
than to see six per cent sucking the life
blood out OF the nation. There is no
history OF a nation ever suffering from
an increased volume OF money-mark, I
do not say currency-while the pathway
Of dead nations is strewn with the bones
OF contraction. We can not Judge
by the past what the effect would be,
there Is no precedent except that of the
Republic ofVenlce and that was N favor
Of my argument. The nation is dying
from the strings OF usury. If the senator
was out with a friend in the country
away from medical aid and his friend
should be bitten by a rattlesnake, what
would he do? Now 1 know that the
senator looks upon whisky as poison,
but If he had it at hand, knowing it was
an effectual antidote for snake bites,
would he stop to have that whisky
purity, or would he hunt up authorities
on physiology to ascertain in the
mlnutest detail the effects of alcohol on
the system? Or would he, like any other
man pour the whisky down his friends
throat to counteract the p~oisions
and let his friend get over the drunk at
his leasure. Now l say we as a nation
are at the point OF death from the
stlngs of paving interest-onr annual
interest charge exceeds our annual
earning capacity by four per cent. The
| much Landed crop of this season will not
at prevailing prices pay one-half OF our
fixed expenses much less paying any
debts. If the senator or any other OF
you readers doubts this, I'll give undis
putable proofs some other time. The
government must come to the rescue; or
we will cease to be a republic. AS to
the senator's talk about having 10
difficulty in moving crops or selling
them, there is not an old party cham
pion in Pennington county with whom
l have had q brush who has not
advanced that argument, from a popu-
list l must ignore it. He accuses me OF
being a socialist for advocating govern
ment banking. At the same time he
claims to be u thoroughbred single taxer
If the single tax is not socialism, what
is it?
But tie senator has not yet told us
how to get out OF debt or how to redeem
our land from the rule of Rothchild.
The land loan would do it.
OTTO ANDERSON.
THE REST I'M THE WExT