The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-11

sill yer recommendation, which we have
not. and gold monometallisu, which
we have. That subject will not bear
canuld discussion. This contest
also is not between the East and
West. There can be no such con-
test. Our interests are identical.
With their growth comes our growth.
We cannot go on alone. We have sent
our children there; our money is there.
No misfortune can happen to
them that does not happen to US.
We here have full esteem for the
pioneers of the West and rejoice in
their prosperity. Every wise man
agrees that beyond the Mississippi
lies the great wealth of the days to
come. In the development of this
wealth we are all interested and we,
in the East, are not the unwise men
to believe that we are not concerned
in the progress and future of the
West. Unfounded sectional differ
ences are will out excuse, and it will
be woe to those who try to foment
them.
THE West is too vigorous not to
send out the truth and it is too valiant
not to follow it when found. What
ohS ACCu ID 1OdudDlo capital
which will develop its resources. No
part Of this union is so concerned in
restoring confidence as the undevel-
oped territory.
The South, too, has a similar in
terest. But they are too busy down
there just now asserting their rights
and keeping down the negro. II they
could be persuaded to look after their
interests what a happy country this
might be-"
AN ERA OF PROSPERITY COMING.
In conclusion Mr.. Reed said: "These
financial matters are governed bv
natural laws and take their course
like the rolling of the round earth or
the glitter Of the stars. Suppose a
man were created full grown and set
upon a solitary earth facing the
dawn. AS the panorama of sunrise,
the march of the fountain of light
across the sky. the red sunset and the
black darkness came over him what
could he make of this terminal
ton of the gorgeous %pageantry
Of the skies? Nothing but
darkness, desolation and death
and q wild calling on the unknown
gods to help. But tho man who has
from earliest boyhood seer the sun
disappear into the red t. come up an
other day may be ignoranto of Kepler's
laws and of Gallileo's faith, but he
knows no greater certainty on earth
than that the day follows the night.
A man who has only seen 1898 might
we'll wonder and cali for rescue, but
we, who have seen 1873 and have read
OF 1928 and 1851 in England and 1897
IN America know that we shall as
assuredly rise again to business and
prosperity as that to-morrow's sun
shall rise.
BE not deceived by false prophets.
In the West they tell the people that
Maine Is falterjng. You and 1 know
She never was SO steadfast. Here in
the East they tell us the West is blaz-
ing with 'silvar crosses' and is
crowned with silver throns,' but
when the tug Of battle comes the gal
liant West, peopled by our children,
will show To the world that brothers,
true and tried, who have fought so
many fights shoulder to shoulder in
the great conflict of human progress,
will never be separated from each
other. or from thatgreat party around
which clusters all the glories of thirty
of the most illustrious years of thiy
eountry's history"