The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-05-21
POINTS FROM THE PRESS,

Government ownership Of natural
monopolies will go a long way towarG
killing trusts and combines.-Noncon
formist.
The Cleveland Leader uses a beauti-
ful Dawn of Prosperity" head over
the new tariff bill. but its foreman
spoiled the effect by running a list OF
business failures in the adjoining col
umn.-Washington Post.
Property in land has ceased to be a
right and become a crying evil when
one man, or a number OF men, can
hold a million acres against the natur-
al desire and right Of a million men to
occupy and use Jacksonville Enter.
prise.
Labor unions of Pennsylvania ar
praying and b~eseeChing Mckinley not
to appoint SO many enemies of labor to
office. That is nerve Enemies of a
Dor elected Mckinley, and they are en-
titled to the ohices.-Omaha Western
LabOrer.
If Venice could carry on it's commerce
600 years without a panic or a currency
bottomed purely on it's credit and I'm
Gle Sam carrying on his on
intrinsic money has had four great
panics and many lesser ones in 100
years, which has had the wiser finan.
cial policy?-The Better Way.
In New York 10000 people spend 49,.
100000 on clubs; $780, OO, 900 on yachts;
$780, 900 on flowers; $40, coo, 10000 on
jewelry; S31, ST., 500 on European
travel; SIS, 1000, 900 on wine and spir-
it's; $213,244 900 for these eight items
of pure luxury, while millions of u
best and thoroughly patriotic citizens
toll every hour of their waking mo-
ments without seeing a hundred dol
lars Of luxury in a lifetime.-Joliet
News.
The only banker hat ever became a
great finance minister was Necker.
Guizot says that Necker replenished
the French treasury not by increasing
the imposts upon the poor, but by a
curtailment of the emoluments and
privileges and the levy Of an income
tax upon the rich. Lyman ]. Gage
Toes not believe in this policy. He
stands for what the noblesse stood for
IN the reign of Louis XVI. Ergo, Gage
Will never become a great finance min
lster.-Dubuque Qowa) Telegraph,
there is no Disgusting the fact that
IN many sections Of the country the
number of the unemployed has about
reached the danger line. What is to be
done? We admit that this is a ques-
ton more easily asked than answered.,
and still it must be answered. The
calculations of those who were in a ma
jorlty In the presidential campaign
nave gone amiss, at least as to
time OF their fulfllment, and the
pie are no longer in a humor to
guided by the same advisers .-Eign1
Hour Herald.
In Nebraska corn is selling at s cents
a bushel. In Louisiana, in the drouth
district, for the DOOR and needy widows,
they ask 40 cents. The question arises
who they" are, and who pays the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The trouble with the complaining
farmers is that they do not manage
their farms in a business way. They
keep in the old rut of growing the Or
binary farm crops, while they should
plant taxes, banks, railroads., official
salaries and all such things as are con-
stantly advancing in value. A ma
jority OF them voted for this unparal-
leled boom of prosperity and the ele-
walton in price of the things we now
advise them to plant. Now they should
stop growing the crops they voted to
reduce in price, and turn their atten-
ton to the things that pay.-Sledge
Hammer.
Wholesale Robbery the Causo.