The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-10
HARD FOR FAMILIES.
NO OPPORTUNlT,Es FOE THE
YOUNG FOLKS.
Why Is 1t Getting Harder and Harder
for Young Couple With Nothing
But Brains and Energy to Make
Their Way in life?

We appeal to every family in which
there are sons and daughters to inquire
the reason why there are not as good
opportunities for the young people to
marry and live in comfortable homes
as there were when the old people were
young, says the Silver knight Watch
man. There must be some reason for
thls. Is it because the young people
have become worthless, or is it be-
cause times are harder than they used
to be? IT the former. the race is degen-
Grating, which would be, indeed, de-
plorable; if the latter, we must inquire
what has made times hard and what
is the remedy? If times are really
nara, and there is no remedy, and they
must continue to grow harder and
harder, the dark ages are again APP
NoachlnS. IL there be a remedy by
when the prosperous times Of other
days can be restored, is it not the first
auty OF every good man and woman
10 study the cause of hard times and
heip to apply the remedy? II every
one would make it his special business
10 inquire what is the difficulty in his
own ease, and find out what is lacking
TO give him command Of the neces-
saries and comforts Of life the work
would be begun. If it should turn out
that nearly everybody should come to
the same conclusion, there would be a
general underst anding as to what is the
matter.
suppose they should come to the con-
cluslon that they found it difficult to
obtain profitable employment and to
save enough money to provide a good
living and make Roadway in the world
II would show that money is scarce and
nafd to obtain. Ii they ascertainel
that they could not get as much
money for their labor and services as
they formerly did, it would prove that
there are too many 'aborers and too
mucn property. Or not enough money
l. the former. the remedy would be q
severe one. Il would be necessary to
reduce the number OF lahorers and d.
minlsh production. Such an operation
would be like cutting off a boys legs
/ when they became too long for his
pS-ntaloons. instead Of lengshenins the
garment.
| on the ether hand, Il there il not
money enough. VIVA. is the remedy for
that? It is with the people or with
tae!r government? The government OF
every independent nation has the SOW
ereign power to create money. All gov
esnments are SO jealous of that power
ina Il private individuals attempt to
Interfere with it by creat ing money, the
government holds them guilty Of crime
and on conviction, sends them to the
penitentiary. The government makes
laws for the collection of debts, and
also makes laws declaring in what
money debts shall be paid. We are
therefore compelled, when there is not
money enough to look to the govern
ment, and the government alone for
relief. Some people contend that the
government has no right or power to
make or create money except out Of
| the commodity gold. The gold Of the
world is held by the governments and
banks OF Europe and New York. and
they say we must look to Eurone for
relief. and that If Europe will not let
! our government have gold with which
to make money the government is not
to blame, because it cannot make
money out of anything else. If that
be so, and II the goldites are right
there is no remedy, and ruin is iney-
liable.
| But is 1t true? Is gold the only
money which the government has pow
er to create and furnish the people? If
that be so, when did it become true that
the sovereign power of the government
to create money by law was confined to
the commodity gold? 1t was decided
by all the judges of England three hun
dred years ago, in the reign of Queen
i Elizabeth, that whatever the royal pre-
rogative declared to be money was real
money, and would perform all the func.
lions of money, no matter upon what
material the sovereign stamp Of the
government was placed, signifying the
sovereign will that it should be money.
4 That decision has never been oyerruled
a set aside or modified in the slightest
1 degree, and Is to this day the law az