The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-23

Grover Cleveland is the only mar in
the world who has been able to &C
cumulate millions fishing and hunting
ducks. We believe he amassed most
or this catching suckers.'-Oneonta
Critic.
1t is not that people are poor, but
that they are piundered. 1t is not
that some are over-rich, but that their
excess is flched from the scanty earn
1rgs OF the poor.-Cincinnati Common
Cause.
h friends of free silver will have
a chance to help the cause a year from
next November. Then will be elected
a new congress. Then let the cam
palgn cry be raised, Return to con-
gress none bat silver meN, tried and
true.'-Longmont Times.
The present system of taxation
makes more liars than all other causes
punched together.-Seattle Populist.
When the American people quit
guessing, and resort to cold figures up
on every question, they will secure
economic results in local, state and ma
tional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When some men can live without
WORKING and Ofh1ro oo--~t {Srl 1yor1,
by which to live, the conditions of So
clal catastrophe have been brought to-
gether.-San Francisco Star.
Man is the natural proprietor Of the
earth. He owns it while he lives on
it. His life consists in occupying and
using it. To possess land is the right
o. every human being; the title rests
IN no single man, but in all men; it is
a joint and common possession.-Com-
ing Nation.
MUCH ado is being made in Pittsburg
over the Carnegie museum, and much
sEace is being used in the daily papers
discussing the plans of the taxider-
mlsts who are preparing to stuff and
mount thousands of rare and curious
animals. l would like to see Pennsyl-
van1a papers discussing the best plan
to stuff several thousand starving
miners with bread. I suppose, how
ever, that the objection will be made
that these kind of animals are neither
rare nor curious.-Uncle Sam.
Can there be more eloquent or force
full arguments made to prove the hol-
lowness of Republican promises than
the bare recital of events that are now
taking place in the industrial world,
particularly in the protected, goldbug
east? II fallacy Of McKinleyism is
dawning upon the eastern working
man. His is a late awakening, but no
less felicitOus. His brothers, who
have long since opened their eyes to
the light Of truth, deeply sympathize
with him in his dazed condition, but
they have the satisfaction of knowing
that they are in no sense responsible
for it. Nor do they now wish to chide
their eastern brethren, but to hope
that they have removed the wool from
their eyes on the financial question for
good.-Victor Record.
The employees of the Big Four rail-
road whose wages have just been re-
duced from $1.75 to 81 a day, and who
were inveigled last fall into voting
for Mckinley so as to guard against
the payment of their wage in 53-cent
dollars have now a neat mathematical
problem to work out. It rests upon
them to explain the difference between
$1.75 a day when reduced to SO cents
a day by a 53-cent dollar under Bryan
and $1.75 a day when reduced to 81 un-
der Mckinley. AS the figures stand there
is just 7 cents in favor of Mckinley:
hut that leaves out of consideration
the state Of the labor market, which
could not have been worse and might
have been better under Bryan. All
things considered, the chances would
have been in favor of the 53-cent dol
lar.-Cleveland Recorder.
If w~orkingmen held the laws which
they do not like in the same contemnt
in which so-called "best citizens" hold
laws which they do not like, the
wealth, and even the lives of the pluto
Gratis Of this country would hardly be
worth an hours purchase.-Cleveland