The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
POINTS r Q THE PRESS,

FOlN - FRCM The PRESS.
Some claim that the wave of prosper
ity is now on it's way westward. The
eastern press and people think it must
have gone skyward, as it has failed to
show up even in that favored REGION
Tacoma Sun.
Banks loan money on certain securi-
ties and then not only favor, but insist
upon a monetary system that sQueezes
the value out Of the securities and
breaks the banks! And that's what
they call Sound business policy
Farm, Stock and Home.
There is not a cent of eastern money
in Kansas that is not a curse to it. But
for these interest eaters Kansas today
would be immensely better off than it
is. The loan pirates have staggered
and bullied our people long enough
let EN- go.-Pittsburg Kansan.
Special United States Consul Corwin
thinks foreclosure of the Union Pacific
will be completed in August or Septem-
Der. But what then, and what next?
There should be a loud voice raised,
especially in this state, for government
ownership and complete government
management of the Central Pacific and
Union Pacific as one route-San Fran
cisco Star.
The son-of-law of Vanderbilt in the
dairy business is all right according to
the present run Of things. Watering
stock and watering milk are identical.
-CoXey's Sound Money.
So long as exclusive rights of way
are granted to individuals or orpora
tons, SO long will railway monopoly in
some form exist. Therein is the root
of the evil. To attempt to hold the
evil in check while rights of way are
treated as private property is like try
ing to check a fire which you are at the
same time feeding with Kerosene
Cleveland Recorder.
While our so-called leaders are quib-
DlllS ONCI ultlllOuS "1llCu lueN mag
inc will add to their own prominence
the great body of voters are studying
on the various matters of public in
terest as they have never studied be-
fore, and ere the time for the next
campaign arrives will be found united
under one banner and ready for the
contest, regardless of what parties or
What politicians go up or doWn.-Ham-
burg, ILL.,, Popocrat.
In France, the country of small pro-
priCtCrs, sc per cent of the soil is own
ed by landlords holding more than
twenty-five acres, and about SO per cent
by owners of more than 100 acres.
Since 1S4S the number of individual
holdings has decreased by $4,000. The
Reveil Social says the rural popula-
ton has diminished in five years 420,-
495. The same journal shows how in
a single generation the rent Of a fifty
acre farm rose $50 per cent. Concen-
tration Of wealth goes forward in all
countries alike.-Cumberland, Nd, I'm,
Gle Sam.
Talking about demanding wages re-
minds us of the fact that all the per-
sonal property and all the improve
ments added to the land Of all the
counties of the Sacramento valley
would not be intrinsically worth as
much as would be the naked land in
the condition it was in before the set
tlement by the whites, and the people
are in debt to outsiders at least one
third it's present value-so we inhab-
itants Of these rich counties have lack
ed that much of making a living in the
last half a century.-Colusa Sun.
The investigation into the railway
mail carrying business brought about
by the agitation of the Loud bill,
shows that the government is defraud-
ed of great sums by trickery. At GER
tain times the mail matter is weigh
ed en- route, and the result of this hCes
the pay for the carrying service. OF
course, the time of the weighing be-
ing known beforehand, it is easy
enough to load down the mails at that
particular time, thus raising the pay
for carrying. If this steal were stopped
there would probably be little need of
other changes.-Cincinnati Common
Cause.
"Is that report true about the cash
Ter of the Confidence Bank committing
suicide?" 1T is; poor fellow. He