The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-17

Prosperity has really beer reached.
A man near Canton, O., sold his wife
and six children for $10O. A little
while ago wives were only quoted at
$3.50 in Missouri. This is quite an ad-
vance in prices, considering the half
a dozen serious incumbrances.-Los
Angeles Labor World.
Hanna and the other coal barons are
the friends of the coal miners and
other laboring people. The laboring
people recognize this and put them
into office and wealth. They always
vote for them or their friends, and
oppose socialism,. Darned if I can see
any sense in striking against ones
triends.-Appeal to Reason.
The conspiracy between the federal
judges and executive authorities to rob
the people by selling the Union Pacific
road to the highest bidder, instead of
taking it for the government debt, has
reached to the point Of a judicial de-
cree at Omaha. No bid for less than
$50, 637 ,435 will be received. The date
of sale is not yet fiXed.-San Francisco
Star.
In spite of the contended good results
to come TO the people from the new
tariff law, a significant sign of what
is to follow. at least in one line, is the
advance in the price of sugar, an in
dispensable article to every house
holder.-Fort Morgan Times.
The average citizen is not a bitter par
tisan, and is always ready to say a good
word for the bridge that carries him
safely over rough waters, regardless of
the builder. But the Mckinley high
tariff will not help him and he will
pronounce it bad and help to overthrow
those responsible for it.-Aspen Tri-
bune.
Extravaganza in public expenditures;
unjust and high taxation, the gold
basis for money and the rapid concen-
tration of powerful business agencies,
with consequent falling prices, are
among the things which have carried
the country down to the level of the
coast line, and we cannot rise unless
we unload some or all of these
weights.-Topeka Advocate.
Representation according to the
Hare Astor plan would forever dispose
OF the political machine; taxation ac-
cording to the single tax plan would
forever dispose Of landlordism; public
ownership of all natural and political
m~onopolies would forever dispose of
trusts, corporations, and syndicates,
and these three are one.-Pittsburg
Kansal.
The people can only vote for certain
public officials at limited periods; and
these officials are, in turn, imprisoned
in the straight waistcoat of constitu-
tionalism. The fault is not with the
people. The trouble consists wholly in
the fact that they are not provided
with weapons adequate to the wal they
are waging. The notion hat the people
are absolutely free, because they can
vote for governors and members of
congress nee in a while, is very sedul-
ously inculcated, but it is a very
childish notion, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tieth Century.
A dispatch from South America says
that the famous Inca gold fields of Peru
have been found and that the richest
mines in the world are thus opened
up. If this be true, and one-half the
stories about Klondike are true, gold
will be SO plenty in a few years that
the spectators will want it demone-
tized and debts made payable in dia-
monds, or something else which will be
difficult to get hold of. Some Of the
sound money fellows are laying
awake nights wondering what next
Chicago Dispatch.
The prosperity commission appoint.
ed by Governor Mount to investigate
the condition of miners, report that
the reports have been greatly exag-
gerated. We would refer such COM
mission to the report of the late Re-
publican Bureau Of Statistics for 1896.
This report states that the average
yearly earnings Of the miners of In
diana We're $201. This gives them an
average of 1886 per week. After one
year Of sucn prosperity, the miners go
on a strike. Many of them are report
ed destitute, and the prosperity COM