The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-18
4 Large and Enthusiastic Audience
Greets Our Senator.
ISSUES CLEARLY DEFINED.
That Mexican Dollar Humbug Is
Most Severely Handled by
the Speaker.

Every available inch of room in
Library hall was crowded on Friday
night with earnest and attentive
people who had turned out to hear
United States Senator Jane H.
Kyle discuss the issues now before
the people for solution. Fred M.
Brown presided and in a few we'll
chosen words intr oduced the sena-
tor, whose appearance was greeted
with a burst of applause.
At the opening of his remarks
Mr.. Kyle eulogized the people of the
Black Hills and predicted a great
future for this region. Leaving
this he touched briefly on the tariff
question and showed clearly that
the issue Of tariff was not at the
bottom of our present Industrial de-
preston, stating that the cry about
the Gree trade Wilson bill'' was
ill-founded, as that bill provides the
country with the highest tariff
known in it's history, except that de-
rived during the operation of the
Mckinley bill. Mr.. Kyle spoke
from personal experience as a con-
gresham and presented many cold,
stubborn facts in connection with
the close of the Harrison administra-
ton. He showed that the present
conditions we're in no way brought
about by reduction in the tariff in
comes, that the bottom was out of
the national treasury when Harri-
son left the White House and stated
that the secretary of the treasury
under Harrison had pleaded long
and earnest in his endeavors to get
the consent of congress to issue the
same kind of bonds which the re-
publicans now condemn so viger-
ously when referring to the bond
issues of Grover I. So confident
was this republican secretary of the
treasury that he would secure this
permission that he had the plates
made with which to print the bonds
and had Harrison served six months
longer the first bond issue would
have occurred under a republican
administration. The speaker was
an honored member of the United
States senate at this time and
knows whereof he speaks. He
stated that the cause of the present
depression lies with the tinkering
with the original financial policy of
the nation and chiefly by the demon
etization of silver. Graphically Mr..
Kyle showed the effects produced
by this law which was bribed and
stolen through congress and again
proved that it's real effects we're un-
known to President.Grant, members
of congress and the common people.
Briefly he took up the question of
Mexico and exploded the goldbug
hobby of the s. cent Mexican dollar
and stated that the example" was
fraud, deception and fallacy.
Mexico coins no gold. In that ma
tion the dollar will buy as much of
the products of Mexico as an Ameri-
can dollar will buy in America.
When the Mexican dollar is brought
into the United States, it imme-
diately loses it's coinage value of 100
cents, goes back to it's bullion value
of So cents because the United
States denies silver the free privi-
lege of her mints and measures the
value Of silver by the gold standard,
which has doubled in purchasing
power since the demonetization of
the white metal in this country.
Thus, the Mexican example of a 55
cent dollar is exploded and the
goldites must hatch up a deeper
fraud.
Every time Mr.. Kyle mentioned
the name of Bryan the house went
wild, but when he referred to Nc
Kinley no sound of applause came