The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-11


for tribute" is the old defiance that the
American people should again voice.
net against foreign tyranny, but
against that Of our W trust and
combines!-Farm. Stock and Home.
n politicians are afraid Of direct
legislation. A true government by the
people would leave half of them out Of
a Job.-Chicago Express.
AT present no party will stand in the
way OF the Republicans in their efforts
10 restore prosperity. Prosperity will
be welcomed by all, but it cometh not.
Lowell (Mass.) Sun.
If protection is a good thing, put
her on hides. This country can no
more supply the hides necessary than
it can the wool, therefore it strikes us
both products should be put on the
same basis. Let's all get rich by tax
ing the shoes and clothing we have to
wear.-Bituminous Record.
Ild you ever see a government bond?
NO? THAT'S strange. A government
BOND is certainly a well-known article.
1t is what you and every other working
citizen pays millions of dollars on
every year. Yet you never saw one:
very few people hold them-those
VINO make them good have no idea of
thelr appearance.-Coming Nation.
Mchlnley's wave of prosperity"
which started out from Canton last No
Vember to sweep the whole country"
is tied up in Pittsburg, in protected
pennsylvania An injunction was
served upon It by the legislative in
committee on the 9th in
slant, and all dates for it's appearance
IN the west are declared off.-Wardner
Citizen.
Inc baldwin Locomotive Works at
Philadelphia don't care to teach
American boys how to become ma
chinists. Chinese are given the pref
erence. Labor u%nionists said the
Chlnks only get 50 a week. The COM
pany Indignantly denied this and de-
clared the salary was much greater"
but failed to give fgures.--Erie (Pa.)
People.
Let the government expenses de-
crease in proportion to the ability of
the people to buy supplies that pay a
revenue to the government and there
Will be no deficit. In other words let
the salary of those who have been in
strumental in reducing the income of
the people be reduced in proportion
and other expenditures be cut down
accordingly n both ends will meet
all right Iowa Farmers Tribune.
All this talk about an international
monetary agreement is as much q
farce as would be a proposition for
an international tariff law. The sill
yer question is one of American pro-
dlctlon and industry. Prosperity in
one-halt the country depends largely
on the commercial price of the nrodnct
OF our silver mines.-Chicago Ex-
press.
Did u forefathers ask ENGLAND
what kin of money they should have
"1len they dug up the earth and for
tined Bunker Hill? What would the
SHADES or these patriots think of us
II they could see us now bowling and
faWnlng before the goldbugs of Eng.
land?-Orthonomic Era.
Direct Tax-Single Tax. Direct 1ee-
lslatlon-lnitiative and Referendum
Effective voting-Proportional Renre-
sentatlon. Common Ownership If
Puonc Utilities, are correlated and
together constitute a government of
the people, by the people and for tn.
people.-Pittsburg Kansan,
The last great political hattie ~
this country was decided in favor ~
the policy of low prices, and as soon
as:the Victors were installed in nowor
they began to legislate at ooce in tho
interest of high prices for a verv largo
number of commodities!-Farm. Stock
and Home.
1t is becoming a question who+bor
it Will ever again be possible for Tho
people to govern themselves throI,uh
representatives. The art of 1ohhv;na
is destroying representative govern
ment. Our representatives are nroh-
ABLY as good men as the politicians of
a hundred wears 400 b,,4 a.