The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-10

Americans by Cuban malaria and incur
a billion of .onded debts. That is
what Hanna wants as the next best
thing to placing Cuba under the feet
of corrupt and cruel Spanish govern.
ment.-San Francisco Star.
Every dollar of the gold boarded in
the treasury ought to be put in circu-
latlon at once to pay war expenses and
boom business at home. It is treason
to hoard gold and hold it idle when our
country needs it to fight foreign foes.--
Journal of Agriculture.
At the present time Mr.. Mckinley
is very much out of tune with his par
ty and the people of the United States.
furthermore, 1t is not likely that he
Will ever get into close touch with the
voters. The political death of McKin-
ley is assured. The country has had
enough of Mckinley Hannaism, and in
opening the eyes of the people to the
~lncapaclty and the Wall -streeteniZing
of the administration of the president
cy, the present Cuban situation has
served a grand good purpose.-Cleve.
land Recorder.
If the people owned the corporations
there would be no $50, 600 presidents;
no watered stocks on which to pay
dividends; no money would be spent
to buy legislatures and courts; no dis
ordinations against the poor. 1t seems
to us that omTOn sense would die
tate that all public institutions should
be owned by the public.-Texas Inde-
pendent.
Prosperity can not be made by ar
tificial means. 1t must grow up out Of
the ground. So long as the prices OF
farm products are continually falling
there can be no general prosperity.
When one-half the population has no
money to spend, merchants must sell
less, and trade grow duller.-Columbu2
Post.
Nothing could be more just or more
necessary than that the great million
NAN eHC o'A' ShouiN w NoLl
PEELED to pay their share of the ex-
penses of government in war or peace.
Hence nothing could be more just or
more necessary than that an income
tax amendment to the Federal Consti-
tuition should be submitted at once as
a war measure. 1t should authorize a
graduated income tax from income on
bonds n all other sources, so that
the heaviest war taxes may be paid by
incomes of owe $4,000 a year instead
OF by the workers of the country, as
now. The Supreme Court having de-
cided the income tax unconstitutional,
neither the plutocracy nor the public
is disposed to pay much attention to
mere bills to re-enac it, as the pre-
sumption is that if such a bill were
passed it would have no effect. An is
sue cannot be forced in that way. If,
however, the demand is made in earn
est for an amendment under which the
immense boards of the %plutocracy can
be taxed for wal purposes and such &C
cumulations checked in the future, the
millionaire class will begin a resistance
which will dwarf all issues they now
seek to interpose between themselves
and popular attack on their control of
the government. If such an amendment
were submitted before the end of May
it would either be adopted by three
fOurths of the states before the end
of June or the party defeating it would
be wiped out of existence. If a deter
mined fight is made for tiff it is fore
p6 tn 0non icS1lo NV tho copot, o-1
stopped by the plutocracy in the house,
the result will be not only the defeat
but the d~isorganization of the Repub-
lican party. We have certainly reached
the point where all the great forces at
work for twenty-five years are about
to eliminate in signal and far-reach'
ing results.-Journal Of Agriculture.
Private ownership of the telegraph
at this juncture, with war raging, con-
%stitutes a grave public peril. The Gould
monopoly has been paid a liberal sum
to connect the various government bat
teries and defense stations by wire, al
though any other civilized government
Woul no dream of trusting so vitality
important a branch of the public serv-
ice to a private corporation. 1t would
be the easiest thing in the world, for
all anyone knows, for a Spanish spy
to bride some one in the service Of
the Western Union monopoly and get
information in the manner John Wanna
maker has complained Of. Indeed, can
we be sure that the Western Union mo-
nopoly may not have Spanish spies in
its service? One of the leading own