The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-21
A Policy Holder and Free Man
Speaks His Mind.
ANSWERS UNSOLICITED ADVICE.
Mr.. Howe, of Rapid City, Pens the
Following Pertinent Answers
An Eastern Gold Bug.

RAPID CRY, S. D., August ITO
the president of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Sir: Your educational leafet, which
you are so generously distributing
to your policy holders, came to hand
this morning. I have perused it
carefully, but find no mental food so
heavy as to require any great amount
of intellectual pepsin to digest it,
OF course, you do not expect me to
believe that your corporation is do
ing business out of pure disinter-
ested philanthrophy, or that your
policy holders do not give full value
for all they receive in return, or that
in case of failure to meet dues, that
you generously return the amounts
paid, even without interest. AS
business deal, we most certainly ex-
pect you to pay as you agree, in
legal dollars, whether they be gold,
silver or paper. For myself, will
say, that as a soldier I accepted the
deprecated greenback for Offering
of life and limb, and am willing to
accept or to have accepted, by my
heirs, any legalized dollar of my
government. This phamphlet of ed
ucation Of yours may be equal to the
ability of your eastern classes. It
probably is. But. my dear sir, the
am ,unt of mental nutriment it con-
tains is so intinitesimally small, that
it will in no wise satisfy the intel
lectual appetites of the 'omniverous
west. " One item on which you
touch, that is, the imperilling of our
national bank currency, would give
ample ground in argument for de-
stroying anything you may wish to
accomplish with this literary pap.
AS to your advice, "to think sob
erly," would say: We have long
been doing 80, Ever since Lincoln
fought Lee at the front and Wall
street at the rear, After long think
ing, our conclusions are that it is
contrary to the principles Of great
republic like that OF the United
States, to have it's people burdened
with perpetual debt, which is nee
essarv to perpetuate our national
bank currency, whose existence de-
pends upon the burdens which are
contin ually being added to by the
systematic robbing of the money of
the people.
Now, you are either grossly ignor-
ant of economic questions, or you
must think your policy holders are
fools. If the former, allow me to
suggest that you take a course of
study, commencing with the consti-
tuition of the United States, follow
ing along the line of the financial
history of the nation, until you have
thoroughly investig ated the archi-
lecture of the robber chief, John
Sherman "Seven Pillars of our FL
nanci Il Credit, " winding up with the
$262, OO0,O 600 of bonds issued by
Grover Cleveland, Lombard & Co.
By that time, your own education
will have been considerably expanded
and you will be the possessor of two
ideas, where you have now but one.
AS for myself, descendant of one
who died grasping the tattered flag
of the thirteen colonies in his hand
and of az other who served his cOun.
try in the war of 1912. myself vol.
unteer in the army Of the Potomac
| cannot afford to let my name &C
down to posterity as a tory of So
| God forbid, But with this my motto
.l.uler God the ueople rulen all