The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-02


part of them and rc-tailed your
shirts. Ia ia, Loucksie. P. =.
WHEN WE'LL ALLY.
WHEN ENGLAND EXTENDS THE HAND
OF DEMOCRACY, WE WILL GRASP 1T.
But We VIII Not BE Taken In by the Sem
timent That Is Famed by the Goldoc-
racy-We Respect the English People,
but Distrast British Institutions
The course Of events in the United
States for the last ten years indicated
Enthusiastically the complete restoration
OF our impaired bimetallic system of
money. Ii that restoration can be pre-
vented by any power, national or inter
national, then, Of certainty, all the
obligations OF the United States will be
made payable in gold only, in which
event Great Britain will receive her
payment according to the coveted stand
ard OF gold. II the complete restora-
tion of our bimetallic system should be
effected, then Great Britain, as our
principal creditor, will have to accept in
payment the dollar of the law and the
contract-that is, the alternative dollar
of silver Or gold at the option of the
payer. 10 prevent this contingency is
one OF the most powerful and interested
l,i inh II.
date when the preservation of the pub
lie credit" and the ''defense of the ma
tiOnal honor became the hypocritical
watchwords OF the money kings of the
world
II we should enter into a fraternal
embrace with Great Britain, if we
should become allied with her in init
mate friendship and cooperation in the
manner suggested by the prevailing en-
thusiasni, then of certainty the BIZ
metallic system Of money will receive
its quietus forever. Then of a certainty
will the dollar of the contract he finally
discarded from both the national and
international business of mankind and
the single standard of gold will be
riveted upon all nations 10 accom-
plish this end is worth much to Great
Britain. 70 accomplish it is burden
to the United States. To accomplish
this end will fill the Golfers of the
money lords Of London and Amsterdam
to overhowing with the gold of the
American mines and mints, but it will
leave the United States impoverished
and will reduce our people ultimately
to industrial servitude
Ii this were just we should have
nothing to say, but it is not just. On
the contrary it is wholesale outrage
and robbery. We have not promised to
our obligations to Europe &C.
cording to the standard of gold. This
fact is SO notorious that when the re-
cent bond grab of $4O0, 900, 600 was
carried through congress under the pre-
tense of furnishing revenue for the
of the Spanish war the
bonds ordered We're once more bv speci
fication made payable not in gold, but
in coin only. The policy Of the money
power in all the world is to force upon
the word "coin" the meaning gold, and
the hope of doing this has been the deep
down motive with those who have
touched off the prevailing confagration
of sentiment and enthusiasm for an
alliance.
We will have none of it. We are not
TO be taken in. Our gullible age has
passed. Bitter experience has somewhat /
improved our faculties. We intend to
stand fast with the old democratic re-
public. We intend to stand with it or
all with it. Our fortunes are all in
7olved, and our hopes for the future.
he aspirations which we cherish for
The coming glory Of free government,
instituted by the people for themselves,
ire all part and parcel Of the policy of
rational independence as against all en-
ang lements with foreign powers.
There are conditions, however, under
which the case may be different. If the
shall be made from the other
lde and not from this side, then we
re willing to join hands and fortunes
With all them that make it. What does
he concession involve? 1t involves on
he part of the European governments
he abandonment Of their mediayal
retenslons and the acceptance Of democ-
acy as the bottom principle of society
nd state. With this. and nothing less