The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-06

ers of Europe. The destructive policy
of contracting the paper currency of
the people by locking it up, while all
over this broad country there is such
a dearth of it as to produce the great
est hardship among all classes of citi-
zens, and taxes cannot be paid, nor in
thousands of cases can interest upon
bonded debts be met, will convince
every one who is not a victim of this
gold craze of the necessity of prompt
action without waiting for a verdict OF
the people (now in preparatory in 1893.
1t seems as if judicial blindness had
stricken the gold w%orshipers. Today
the sympathies Of the world are en-
listed in behalf Of the struggling Gu
bans and the Greeks and the Armeni-
ans, yet the policies of the leading ma
tons of the world appear to be domin-
ated by the ~fundholders. To the shame
of all Americans, our own administra-
tiCn appears to have been touched by
the hand of Midas.
Indeed. our secretary of state has
never recovered from that touch in
1868 which transformed him. When in
years gone by would an American ad-
ministration have tolerated, for n
month even, the atrocities heaped upon
American citizens in Cuba? All! those
Spanish bonds held in London and Sc
cured by a pledge of the revenues of
Cuba!
"The powers" (the money bags
really make common cause in the
bourse of the world, in New York as
we'll as in London. There will be no
big war. That would enc, the gold craze,
for when was wal ever successfully
conducted with gold? Honor, sympa-
thy for Armenians, Cretans and
Greeks, must be held in allegiance at
the behest of the money bags.
The vast armament of Europe, which
has made it almost a military camp, is
not maintained for war, but to pre-
vent an uprising of the people, as Sen
ator Teller said in the senate more
than a year ago.
Americans may have the proud salts.
faction of knowing that we are paying
the tribute with which Great Britain is
building her great navy and lining our
borders with fortified naval stations, as
the Irish agitator, Michael Davitt,
points out, While we, of gigantic
strength and resources, are Gripping
u strength and trying to get through
congress some bankrupt bill to re-
lieve the millions Of ruined men who
are the victims of this British dogma
of gold monometallism.
This is, indeed, a picture for Ameri-
cans to look at, while shouting for
honest money, under a chief who de-
clares that the credit of our country
must be kept as untarnished as it's flag,
and whose cabinet premier declared in
the senate hat he would sooner tax
the poor mans shirt off his back than
permit the nations credit to be dis
honored by the payment of its obi
cations in deprecated money!
Both, advocating now, the policy
which has done, and is now doing,
more to break American credit than
any other which the worst enemy of
our republic could devise, even if pos
sessed of satanic ingenuity and malice,
they idly prate of the honor and credit
of their country, with policies which
are rapidly forcing it along the road
to ruin! And they talk of the silver
craze, %forsooth, adding insult to the in
telligence of their countrymen to the
deep and damning injury they have in
ficted. In what way "a it be account
ed for but %supposing it to be insanity
upon the subject of gold-a gold craze,
in fact.
ooh, that God the gift would give them
To see themselves as others see them"
to paraphrase the couplet of Burns.
Blind as bats, not to see the trend of
events, they must also be deaf not to
hear the rumbling of an outraged and
Indignant people.
Why they are p%alliating and defend
ing that which is worse than high
not claim to act in the name of "hon-
esty'' nor under forms of law fraudu-
lently put upon the statute books, nor
does he destroy the Of his
victims, as do those arch enemies of
the human race, who devised this cruel
scheme to plumber the world by getting
it in bonds for one-third it's total
wealth and then seeming by trickery
legislation to make all debts payable
in an approaching standard.
Words cannot express the infamy of
the designers of this act, for to sup
port it and continue it, falsehood, de-
ceit, subc rdination, corruption through
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