The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16

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T have felt the COMMUNICATING has
been heaped upon us every time we
have supplicated for an international
conference, the sneers and Jokes and
light expressions which have occurred;
the assumption that the delegates are
there and must be treated politely.
must be treated as delegates from q
great country; must be told. that their
mission is fruitless. that there is no
idea Of seriously considering 1t. Great
Britain's delegates have done this at
every conference, and ave treated
with contempt every proposition look
ing to the restoration of silver. That
is the attitude of Great Britain today,
and to go there again and present our
supplications for relief is indeed hui
initiating to the land of Washington,
Jefferson and Jackson, and the heroes
who made this a country. But ii 1t
must be done in order to satisfy the
American people that they must take
Sdle VI themselves OF SullCl, lcL ~ NC
done again.
The platform pledges the Republican
party to this. The senator from New
Hampshire has taken that platform. in
earnest and has brought forward the
pending bill, but the President-elect,
by the selection of these two cabinet
officers, has advertised to the world
that the provision was put there for
political purposes and nothing else. He
has advertised to the world tt what
the New York Post says in regard to
it is true; that it was for political pur-
poses, to gain a few votes in the cleo
ton. Those votes having been secured
and the victory won that is all that is
required. That victory, they claim, ia
a victory for the single gold standard.
so far as the incoming administration
is concerned, and every step has borne
witness to the truth Of what the New
York Post and the Sound Money
League of New York have constantly
proclaimed.
Let us have this object lesson again.
Let the country be Inundated. Let
them send their monometallic commits
s%ioners, as Mr.. Cleveland did in his
first administration. Let Edward At
kinson go as he went before to find out
on the other side why the people of
the United States. have no right to
manage their own domestic affairs. II
Manton Marble stands for what he did
n fory Or, n r~ l,o ~ - ~~~>l 1.1~l
Send them. Send the editors of the
New York Evening Post, pay them
your money, and they will find argu-
ments to make reports why this Jul
try is dependent upon Europe for it's
existence as a nation, why we have no
right to legislate here, but must apply
to the governments of Europe to exer-
else Jul legitimate functions under the
constitution. This spectacle, I think,
will convince the American people that
the provision in the platform calling
for an international conference was
merely to catch votes, and those whose
votes were caught by this trap will
be slow to be deceived again. Some
new dodge must be invented. | thought
this dodge, after it had been played fol
twenty years, was understood, but it
appears not. 1t will not serve it's pur-
pose again, and | want to say to them,
60 on with it. Let the monometallic
representatives Of the cabinet send
their agents abroad, let them spend
your money, and let their reports come
in again." You will see what those
reports will be. You will see that they
will carry out the verdict of the Sound
Money League Of New York, and not
the promise of the platform.
If it had been intended to stand by
Mr.. Wolcott, a secretary of the treas
ury would have been appointed in har-
mony with his mission. If it had been
intended to negotiate fairly on this
great question, some other person
would have been selected for the post
Of secretary of state. These two selec-
tons in my mind establish the fact
that the pledge in the platform was not
in good faith, but for the purpose Of
deceiving the American people.