The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03

The total output of the gold and sill
yer mines Of the United States last
year was about $125, 900, OOO,about what
| the wheat and corn crops of Kansas
for 1897 are worth.-Topeka Advocate.
Those owning orchards allege tina,
apples are too cheap to pick. The al
legation is probably true However,
out this way they are too dear to eat.
The railroads want 1000 per cent more
than the farmer gets for hauling them
few hours. Result: Apples rot on
the ground. Let's have government
ownership of railways saltwater
(Minn.) Populist.
1t looks as if President Mckinley
might attack the stability of our cur
rency by placing few more Repub-
llcans in the offices now held by Gold
! Democrats. - Silver-Knight Watch
! man.
Wouldn't it be nice to elect your
man every time you vote? The pref
erentlal ballot does that very thing,
and yet the professional politician is
against it.--Pittsburg Kansan.
THESE are some of the powerful fig
ures given by the Single Tax advo-
Gates. There is not the most remote
doubt OF the fact that the single tax
would benefit ninety-nine in hun
dred OF the farmers of the country
! Colusa Sun.
In the last five years George Gould
has lost $25, 644,637, or at the rate of
S5O0O,00O year. In the last three
| months he has made it all back ex-
cept $9,72S,525, which is incontrovert-
IDLE proof that the Dingley law is the
worklngmans best friend Chicago
News.
Call it by any name you like, it will
smell just as sweet, when 'confisca-
ton or Reputation" sets in in 1900.
| That's what Johnny Bull called it 121
years ago, when the American colonies
| rebelled against the British tax-gath-
erer. That is The ultimatum now. and
it is brewing fast.-Coming Events.
The most dangerous anarchist is one
worth million dollars, mounting pa
trlot1sm and piety at every step, and
continually trampling upcn and set
| ting at defiance the laws of God and
| man-HanfOrd Radical
The Chicago & Alton railroad pulls
six mail trains daily between Chicago
and st. Louis, for which it receives
! $3.50. This means $50 for each train
trip. The distance is about three
hundred miles. To operate train
requires an engineer, fireman, conduct
or, three brakemen--six men who re-
ceive, say, 81 per day each. This
makes $24, leaving a balance of S36
for coal and each trains proportionate
share of the office and track expense.
You can plainly see that the mail
charges pay all the expenses of operat,
ing passenger train, even if the pas
! sengers were carried free and no
| charge were made for hauling the ex-
| press car! And yet some are SO
! thoughtless that they believe that the
railroads do not pay because their
stock is purposely manipulated so that
| it is worthless except to gamble in
| Appeal to Reason.
The utter unrel1ability of telegraph.
| ic news reports has come to be a Sc
rious question. No man can now tell
| with any degree of reasonable certain
| ty whether newspaper report is true
| or false. Generally it seems to be false
and contradictions occupy nearly as
much space as original reports. The
| Associated Press, which has most OF
| the papers by the throat on ninety-nine
year contracts, seems to have utilized
it's cinch to revel in corruption and
unreliability. After while national
enlightenment will bring postal tel
egraph, and then it will be impracti-
cable to form combinations between
| telegraph and news monopolies.-
ramento News
| That was powerful comparison
| which George Fred Williams of Boston
drew when he said that the British
| officers and men who shot down citi-
zens in front of the old Boston State
House on March 5, 1910, were surren-
| dered to the civil courts for trial, while