The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-30
position is mi the force OF which we
shall in Europe feel more and more,

OA1dIl III EuIOp0 1cS1 uOT0 a1bU more,
the tendency OF improving civilization
to increase discomfort. With education
and a glimmer Of the power to accumu-
late, the old cheerful resignation dis
appears, and the people begin to pine,
II artisans, for more security, if agri-
%culturists, for more surplus cash, cash
which they IAN spend after they are
fed. Care, which in their
lively savage state they did not feel,
descends on them like cloud. friend
of the writer, a great manufacturer,
devoted himself many years g to
give his hands a dead lift in the scale
of civilization. He gave them good
houses and good schools. opened a
bank, preached thrift, and tried in all
ways to Undue them with the ideas of
the middle classes. He succeeded even
beyond his expectations, but with this,
result, among others, that care filled
the minds of his people. that thrift
grew into passion, and that the sum Of
content in the village was one-half.
Precisely the same consequences are
following increasing enlightenment in
France and Germany"
Extract from the London Financial
News dated May 3, 1894:
"WHATEvER MAY BE SAID AGAINST
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ,ITCAN-
NOT Pc DENIED THAT IT IS GAINING
BOTH IN VOLUME AND STRENGTH
THE BIMETALLIC LEAGUE OF To-
DAY is A FORCE TO BE RECKONED
WITH. IF ITS CREED EVER DE-
SERVED THE REPROACH OF BEING
A tn NOV
AND OBSCURE GROUP, THAT RE-
PROACH CAN BE TRUTHFULLY
OFFERED NO LONGER IN SPITE OF
SOOTHING, RIDICULE AND ABUSE:
ASKED NO LONGER IN SPITE OF H
LOFTY DIsDAIN OF THE PROFOUND
DAILY PRESS; IN SPITE OF UNREA-
SONING PREJUDICE AND PARLIA-
MENTARY INDIFFERENCE, THE LIT
L ONEHAS BECOME A THOUSAND
IT is IMPOSSIBLE TO TAUNT THE
LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT WITH
OR A PRACTICAL ACQUAINTANCE
WITH THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
"RANKERS AND MERCHANTS OF
H VERY FIRST RANK HAVE IDEN-
TILTED THEMSELVES WITH THE
ONCE DEsP1sED DOCTRINE, AND
ARE SUBSCRIBING TO 1T EVERY
DAY.
"The conference held in the Mansion
house yesterday and to be continued
to-day establishes beyond dispute that
bimetallism has at it's back, even in
England, an amount of talent, business
sagacity, economical experience and
personal authority, which entities it's
advocates at least to an attentive hear
ing. One great point about the lead
ers is that they are practical. They
know what they want, and why they
want it, They are bimetallists under
the stress of living and incontestable
facts. Their raison d'etre is the act
uality and pressure of the present.
1t is an almost pathetic sight to see
an able economic writer like Mr.. Dun
ming Macleod trying to meet the case
OF depressed trade, impoverished in
dustry, falling exports, the financial
agony of India, and the threatened
ruin of Lancashire with his mumbling
of the dry bones of antiquarian lore.
What the public wants in the way of
instruction is not the opinion of Sir
Robert Peel OF Mr.. Huskisson, deliv-
cred Ga years ago, when the conditions
had nothing whatever in common with
those of to-day. They do not desire
to be fed with the remainder biscuit Of
obsolete economies; they want to learn
the views of practical men, engaged in
commerce and manufacture, as to how
far it is possible by some measure Of
currency reform to avert the perils
which threaten very existence as
a commercial nation.
Observation-Disclosures LEAST
WISE ENOUGH TO DIRECT THE DIS
CUssION, SO FAR AS THEY ARE CON-
CERNED, INTO PRACTICAL CHAM
NELS. Fl APPRECIATION OF GOLD
IS DAMAGING EVERY INTEREST,
EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY.
THE FALL IN THE GENERAL LEVEL
OF PRICES IS RUNNING AGRICULT-
URE, FARALTZING MANUFACTURE,
IMPERPLING THE SUBSISTENCE OF
H WAGE-EARNERS, DESTROYING
THE TRADE OF THE MERCHANT,
CAUSING AN ACCUMULATION Or
IDLE MONEY FOR WHICH EVEN
BANKERS CANNOT FIND PRoFITA-
BILE EMPLOYMENT, AND THREAT
ENING THE INVESTOR, WHO THINKS
HIMSELF SAFE IN A FIXED INCOME,
WITH THE MENACE OF IT'S RAPID
sHRINKAGE, IF NOT ITS TOTAL DIS
APPEARANCE. ALL THIS IS THE
CONSEQUENCE OF THE SINGLE
STANDARD. AND H DESTRUCTION
OF THE MONETARY FUNCTIONS OF
SILVER. WE MUST DEAL WITH THE
QUESTION ON ITS MERITS AS A CUR
RENT ISSUE, AND IN TIE LIGHT OF
WHAT rs GOING ON IN THE WORLD
AROUND US. THE ECONOMICAL AND
SCIENTIFIC OPINION OF THE PRES
ENT DAY IS A VAST DEAL MORE TO
THE POINT THAN THE ~FALLACIES
OF A SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN
I'M THE OF EX.