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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03
John a. Logan, 1873.

i, for one, can see benefit only to
the moneyholder and those who re-
celve interest and have fixed incomes.
! can see, as result Of this legis,a
ton, our business operation crippled
and wages for labor reduced to a mere
pittance. l can see the beautiful prai-
ries OF my own state, and Of the great
West, which are blooming as gardens,
with cheerful homes rising like white
towers along the pathway of improve
ment, again sinking back to idleness. 7
can see mortgage fiends at their hellish
work. | can see the hopes of the in
dustrious farmers blasted as they burn
corn for fuel because it's price viii, NOT
pay the cost Of transportation and div
idends on millions of dollars of ficti-
tious railway stocks and bonds. I can
see our people of the West grooming
and burdened under taxation to paw
debts of states, counties, and cities in
Cured when money was more abun-
dant and bright hopes of the future
were held out to lead them on. can
see the people of our Western states.
who are producers, reduced to the con-
dition of serfs to pay interest on pub
lie and private debts to the money
sharks of Wall street, New York, and
of Threadneedle street, in London"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03

believe gold and silver to be the
money of the constitution, indeed, the
money of the American people anterior
to the constitution, which that great
organic law recognized as quite indie
pendent of it's own existence. No pow
er was conferred on congress to declare
mat either metal should not be money
congress has, therefore, in my judg-
ment, no power to demonetize silvcr
any more than to demonetize gold; no
power to demonetize either than to
demonetize both.
'lf silver has been demonetized I
I'M III favor Of remonetizing it. If its
coinage has been prohibited. / am in
favor of ordering it to be resumed. If
1t has been restricted, l am in favor OF
having it enlarged" QS7S.)
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03
|WEIGHTY OPINIONS.
= SYMPOSIUM ON THE MONEY
QUESTION:.
Great Statesmen, Great Financiers. Great
Theorists and Men of Great Learning
All Agree on the Evils OF an Appre-
chatting Currency.


II believe the struggle now going on
n this country and in other countries
tor single gold standard would, If
successful, produce widespread disaster
in the end throughout the commercial
world. The destruction of silver as
money and establishing gold as the sole
unit of value must have a ruinous eff
feet on all forms of property except
those investments which yield a fixel
return in money. These would be ell
ormously enhanced in value, and would
gain disproportionate and unfair adj
vantage over other species of proper
v.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03
William II. Crawford, Secretary OF the
Treasury, 1920.

Treasury, 1890.
All intelligent writer's upon curren-
cy agree that where it is decreasing in
amount, poverty and misery prevail.
The correctness of this opinion is too
manifest to require proof The united
voice of the nation attests it's accu-
racy."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-03
He Told the Truth,

TO BE CONTINUED.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
savannah,s Gretna Green.

Just across the river Sark, in Dumfries,
Scotland, lies one of the most famous lit
tie villages in the world. Gretna Green
is known everywhere as the place where
loving young couples go to get married
with or without the consent of parents or
guardians, and without the necessity of
complying with more or less burdensome
laws. The place first became famous away
back in seventeen hundred and something
when England changed her marriage laws
in a manner calculated to blight the hopes
of many loving English youths and maid
ems. To circumvent the laws, the young
people skipped across the border into
Scotland; and love laughed at legislators
as well as at locksmiths Scions of some
of the most famous families of old Eng
land slipped away to Gretna Green, and
returned married folks.
Just across the Savannah river in
South Carolina lies Ridgeland, the Gretna
Green of this section. In South Carolina
the marriage laws are extremely liberal.
Entrance into the connubial state is en-
couraged in every manner possible. Any
DSNAJ
emory, before witnesses, though in ac-
cordance with custom the marrying bust
ness is conducted almost exclusively by
ministers, justices of the peace and no.
taries public. If a couple jump over a
broomstick together in South Carolina and
acknowledge to others that it means they
are married, the courts will hold them to
be legally married. and all of the law in
the state cannot unmarry them. Every
thing in. the way of marriage goes In
South Carolina, but nothing whatever
comes back. Once married, forever mar
ried, is the law in that state.
Ridgeland, where marriage is easy, is
visited by young people of this city who
cannot get the necessary permission from
parents or others to get married, or who
cannot afford a fashionable wedding at
home or in church. In Ridgeland the low
ing hearts can be Joined without fuss or
feathers, ana for only a small outlay. The
place is only a bit over thirty miles out
of town. hence there is not much trouble
in getting there and back.
The residents of the little Carolina Gret-
ma GTeen nave come TO De very good stu
dents of human nature. Whenever res
ident of the village sees bashful look
ing young man accompanied by a blushing
young woman get off the train, the resi-
dent knows at once what is up. The resi-
dent, most likely, with good will and
heartlness, asks the couple if they desire
the services of a minister or justice. Re-
ceiving an affirmative reply, a free ride
is given the billing doves to the nearest
marrying man, and the couple are made
one in time to take the next train back
to the city. or 10 go on an extended bridal
tour to Charleston.
Ridgeland is doubtless a pleasant mem
DRY to some Georgians who go that way
while to others it is not. However the
people there are kind and courteous and
law abiding, and take pleasure In doing
what they can to promote the happiness of
others.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
From the KIondike,

He had just returned from the top of
the Chilkoot Pass, and was apparently
glad of it, says the Washington Star
How was the weather when you left?"
inquired friend. "Cold?"
Yes, but not so bad as it will be along
IN January, after the mosquitoes get out
OF the air and let the wind have a chance
Then 1t gets good and cold A man told
me who had Wintered up there seven wears
that it was so cold in January that thew
froze the flames of their candles and sold
them for strawberries. He said thew kent
their fires over night by putting them out
IN the air and letting them freeze, and
then thawed them out in the morning. He
SAID he had seen four men die of collie
from eating whisky that was frozen so
hard 1t wouldn't thaw inside of them. He
SAID the cows all gave ice cream till they
froze to death. He said he knew a clerk
in a hotel on the Yukon that got rich SELL
ing the diamonds he wore, said diamonds
being nothing on earth by ice crystals that
didn't thaw till after the clerk had got
out of the country. He said he had seen
a man fall off the roof of a barn and
freeze so stiff before he lit that he broke
in two when he hit the ground. He eaid
he had seen smoke freeze in a chimney
till the fire wouldn't draw, and he knew
of one case where the smoke froze after 1t
got hundred feet up, and fell back on
the house, knocking hole In the roof big
enough to drive a yoke of steers through
He said the reason the nights were so long
in that country was that the dark got
froZe so hard the daylight couldn't thaw
its way through in less than six months
He said
Excuse me-" interrupted the friend
did this party have aff1davits with these
He said he had, but I guess he must
have froze to death hunting for them, be-
cause he never came back, when l asked
him to go after them for me-" and the
returned Chilkooter smiled a smile that
was childlike and bland.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
A Reconciliation.

81 just thought I'd call in he exclaim-
ed as he genially bulged his way into a
private office, says the Washington Star.
IAN explain to you newspaper folks as
how 1 took it all back"
you mean you want to publish a re-
traction of some kind?''
mo, 1 don't want to publish anything.
But I've been a-doin' you an injustice in
my thoughts, an mebbe in my speech, an
l thought as long as 1 was in town I'd
come around an tell you that / see how
II is. don't hold no grudge an eff you We
heard of me sayin' any unkind things in
the past, you needn't have no fear of
their bein' repeated in the future I'm the
man that wrote an offered to send you
pieces about the COINS on in Slippery Ell
lom, which is about as lively an pro-
greSsiVe as any cross roads you ever see.
OF course, you remember the reason YOU
give me fur not printin what wrote?''
1T was something about the pressure
it?'' wash
''Thems the exact words. I didn't be-
thank fur bringin' us together an gittin'
this matter Strengthened out, AS soon as
l told her what you wrote, she went an
got paper. This is it," and he pulled a
paper from the sidepocket of his great
coat lie unfolded 1t to page on which
most of the matter was printed in very
fine type. LAS soon as I seen that I un-
derstood the case, an l was downright
sorry hadn't talked with my wife about
1t sooner / want 70 tell you right here,
frank an free, an man to man, that |
don't blame you for not tryin' to git no
more into yer paper After you've got the
pressure so great as to squeeze all the
letters together that way, l couldn't, as
a reasonable man, expect that you'd keep
right ahead an run the resk of breakin'
SOmethin' ="
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
Her Fnith in Genrre.

Mabel, you can trust me, can't your
Tremulously, almost appealingly, he
spoke, yet his deep bass voice seemed to
jar the windows, says the Chicago Tri-
bune.
Yes, George" replied the maiden, r.
WI en tell you" he broke in, that
never loved any other girl, that I never
knew what love Was-or is-till | met
you; that | never could love anybody else
II should live TO be as old as the hills
D. B. Hill and Sam Hill-and that since
the very first day 1 met you L have hard
~ slept wink-people don't wink they
sleep, but it would be taking base adj
vantage TO pick me up on technicality
like that
Yes, George" interposed the fair young
girl IN that low, soft voice which is so
excellent thing In wonderland children
q felt sure of itr' ferveutIy exclaimed
Ihe young man. Mabel Harkalong, if the
devotion of a whole lifetime-What noise
was that?'
1T must have been the echo. You
needn't talk SO loud, George"
lie drew a long breath of relief.
i thought it was your father"
Il can hear you in a much lower tone.
George. You are sitting''-she measured
the distance with her eye-"not more
near enough" she added, hastily, as he
showed immediate symptoms of shorten
ing the interval.
Mabel, why should''-
The spirit of mortal be proud?"
Don't interrupt me, young woman,
when am talking seriously. 1t isn't re-
spectful. l am older than you. Four and
a half years older. Why should
We mourn departed friends, or shake
Again, Miss farkalong, 1 must insist
on a respectful hearing"
His voice resumed the tremulous, ap-
realing tone in which he had begun
When. two people-two persons-who, I
am sure
Don't assume too much, George"
ny, SHOULD trifes be allowed to sepa-
He calls foot and a half" she MUIR
INJURED abstractedly, "a trihen'
"Well?"
Will you listen to me?"
forgotten"
N was trying to find out why YOU can't
be serious with me for once. You treat
me as if 1 were a gourd- headed dude.
have you ever seen me trying to smoke
cane? Do I ever give you the sky
scraping. handshake? Do wear collars
that make me throw up my head when
! want to nod? Was ever a Columbian
Guard? Do 1 talk like Broadway Eng
lishman? Do act like a West Park po-
lceman? You listen to my tale of-of
love as II l were telling some old story
you had heard a hundred tines
Why, so it is, Georgian old. old sto-
Mabel! Harkalong! You shall hear me,
You shall not treat me any longer
have never treated you in my life''
she protested, ito anything. I am not an
tent as that
met 'VN - "S'
oh, yes, George" she said. with a
slight yawn, Il trust you-as far as
can sling 4-year-old mule by the tail''
And George Strengthened up and looked
once more in front of him. He had forgot
ten they were in a box at the horse show,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

In an editorial article, Harper's Weekly
says: The news from Maryland that Cor
man had been defeated came like a re-
freshing breeze" We have no doubt that
the foregoing expression of opinion is a
sincere one. The mugwumps who con-
troll that periodical have no love for Sen
ator German, and they do not miss an
opportunity to show their dislike for him.
1t is true that Senator German has
been a distinguished leader of the demo-
cratic party for a good many years. In
his own state he has been something of
a political boss. But he has not been the
kind of a political boss that Mr.. Platt is
in New York or Mr.. Hanna is In Ohio
He has not sought power for the sole
purpose of being in position to distribute
public patronage. 1t is doubtful If the
distribution of public patronage has ever
had strong attraction for him.
What Mr.. German has aimed at is this
He has aimed always at success for his
party, stale and national He regards
political parties as necessary, and he be-
lieves that the policies of the democratic
party are better for the country than re-
publican policies. That is the reason he
has striven always for the success of the
democratic party.
In order to hold the democratic party
together, and increase its chances for sue
cess, at times ne took positions on pub
lie questions which did not have the ap-
prevail of the mugwumps and some of his
party associates. For this he has been
severely criticised by Harper's Weekly
the Baltimore Sun and some other papers
The efforts to make 1t appear that he is
type of the political boss who seeks to en-
rich himself and climb into power by
means of public Offices he has to confer
having little or no regard for the public
welfare, have been persistent. In our
opinion they do him great injustice His
fault, if fault it be, is that he has stopped
at no sacrifice for the success of the DEM
ocratic party, but as he holds that demo-
cratic rule and policies are better for the
people than republican rule and policies
no democrat can reasonably find fault
with him and no strict party man has any
ground for criticising him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

There are a hundred plausible reasons
which may be urged in explanation of why
cotton is selling al so low price. among
them being that one with regard to cross
roads buyers touched upon in the letter of
a correspondent at Tennille, Ga, whose
communication we printed Saturday. And
it is probably true that each of these hun
hind it, and that each contributes in some
degree to the result as a whole. But the
great underlying reason why the price Of
cotton is so low is that there is too much
of it raised. This is the conclusion that
must be reached through whatever correct
process of reasoning may be adopted. More
cotton is being produced than the world
wants. The thing to be done. therefore
is to curtail the production. How is this
to be accomplished? Through inducing
the farmers to give more attention to 9th
er crops and less to cotton. There is no
use of talking about controlling markets
so long as too much of the commodity is
produced. The crossroads buyers do not
break the market. They get instructions
from Savannah, New York, LIVERPOOL and
! elsewhere every day telling them what
prices they can pay for cotton. The trade
knows the amount of stock on hand the
| acreage, the conditions in the fields and
the probable yield 1t is now known pref
| ty accurately what the crop of this sea-
son viii be, although it is not yet all in
Insight. 1t is these facts, and others of the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
PER SoNxL.

Senator German of Maryland was in
his younger days a well-known base ball
player, and pitched for the famous Ma
tional club. 3t
Miss Nellie Salome Thomas of Boston,
while. in England went to Malvern, and.
after decorating the grave of Jenny Lind
started fund for a memorial window in
the abbey.
1t is noted as a compliment to Edward
Everett Hale that there was longer line
of people waiting for tickets to his Low
ell Institute lectures in Boston than there
was waiting for tickets to the big foot
ball game.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
NIatch-MaIking Un-To-Date.

Nixon Waterman, in L. A. w. Bulletin.
She used to powder and paint and drink
Until she looked real sweet;
She was stuffed and stayed and tailor
made
From her hair to her shoe-pinched feet.
And he was as prim as his legs were slim.
And his clothes were fine and sleek,
And they'd sit and sigh and lisp and lie
= One evening every week.
But when they weldon me, oh my!-
There was grief for him and her,
Twas another two when they really knew
Each other as they were
They both believed they had been deceived
And they really had. of course
So with one intent to the judge they went
And prayed for divorce.
But nowadays pair goes out
In their cycling clothes to ride
On a century run through rain and sun.
Where there's not much chance to hide.
And if through wet and dust and sweat
They think each other fair,
They are true as steel, for OH the wheel
Is death to ''made-up' pair.
And Love who once would, hit or miss
His trusting couples bind
Though plump or lean, "unsight, unseen -
Is now no longer blind.
For cycling pairs can't put on airs,
Love has the facts down pat,
With golfing socks and knickerbocks,
lie knows just where he's at.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

seek private life at a time when their in
teliectual powers are greatest.
The reason is plain. Really great men
find no satisfaction in serving the public
when such papers as the yellow" journal
in question use their columns day after
day to bring them into disrepute by de-
claring that they are corrupt; that they
are influenced in their public acts by
money. considerations and that they are lit
tie, if any, better than thieves.
No doubt Mr.. Carlisle is glad to be rid
of the worry which high public office
caused him and the almost daily abuse
to which he was subjected. The yellow
journals limited broadly that both he and
Mr.. Cleveland filled their pockets when
they sold big lot of government bonds to
the Belmont Morgan syndicate. 1t was
alleged that each Of them made millions
in that transaction, and yet every fair
minded man knows that neither made a
cent. Mr.. Cleveland is not the rich man
he has been represented to be, and Mr..
Carlisle is a poor man. Under the circum-
stances is it a wonder that honest and
able men are glad to get out of the public
service after they have had experience
with the kind of journalism that cares
nothing for truth and sneers at everything
that is decent in its efforts to be sensa-
tional?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

kind that govern in making the prices of
cotton. If the delegates who viii attend
the cotton growers convention at Atlanta
are wise they will not waste time talking
about the "shackles of business slavery"
and similar tommy-rot which has been dis
cussed for the last ten years and more
without result, but win do their best to
impress upon the farmers the necessity of
producing more corn. bacon, peas, hay.
butter, eggs, sheep, horses, etc. and less
cotton. When the amount of cotton pro-
duced shall have been cut down to the
actual wants of the world. the market
price viii take care of itself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
No Boycotting, No BIacklisting.

The Chicago railroads, which blacklist
ed strikers who took part in the great
strike of 1894, are beginning to find out
that they made a mistake. One of these
blacklisted men, Fred r. Ketcham, a
friend of Eugene V. Debs, brought suit
against the Chicago and Northwestern
railway for $4,000 damages. He was a
member of the American Railway Union
and at the time of the strike was a
freight conductor His case against the
railway was tried last week He declared
that he had been put on the blacklist of
every railroad in the country, so that he
was unable to get work on any one of
them. He had obtained employment on
several of them. but was discharged as
soon as his Identity was discovered. The
jury gave him a verdict for $21, 666 33.
There are hundreds of men waiting the
final result of this suit. If the judgment
is sustained on appeal they will bring
suits against the roads which had them
blaeklisted, and thus prevented them from
earning a living. All of the twenty-six
railways entering Chicago. except two,
stand a chance of being sued, and these
two are in the hands of receivers.
Not long ago it was decided by the Uni
ted States court of appeals at ST. Louis
that the boycott of a business firm by a
union labor organization was illegal, and
that the organization was liable in dam
| ages for the injury the firm suffered on
account of the boycott. 1t is pretty well
settled now that boycotting and blacklist
| ing are rather costly weapons with which
to fight In labor troubles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
The Reason Is Plain.

Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle
has settled in New York where he is, 1t
is said, counsel for some large corpora
lions. and there is a report that Speaker
Thomas b. Reed does not intend to seek
a reelection to congress, but at the end of
his term will settle in New York and
practice law, One of the yellow Jour
nails of that city wants to know why It is
that men who have filled such high posi-
tons in public life, and who could remain
in Office all their lives, If they so desired,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

A Pittsburg court has before it a case
involving the legal right of a wife to go
through her husbands pockets and ex-
tract whatever change they may contain
The case is suit for divoNe, and the
pocket-rifiing practice is one of the chief
allegations set up by The husband. If that
act constitutes goQa ground for divorce,
many, many wives are standing upon dan
gerous ground.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

China seems to be beset with misfor-
tunes. Following the capture of three
forts on the Shantung peninsula by Ger
man war vessels comes the report that
there is a formidable rebellion in North
China, and that the rebels may march
upon Tien-Tsin, the seat of Lii Hung
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