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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
AnAerlca'S Lost Estate.

Our carpenters build magnificent
mansions, with pillared walls, and
mosaic floor, and as soon as their work
is done they pick up their tools and
leave, and never go there any more.
Our mechanics make electric lights
and use dangerous kerosene at home;
they build carriages and go afoot; they
manufacture pianos and do not own
a tin whistle.
Our miners dig up gold and die poor;
they live in treacherous coal mines,
and lack fuel in December.
Our farmers raise grain and lack
food export wool and cotton and lack
overcoats in winter; sell cattle to pay
off the mortgage and lack meat.
Hundreds of the men who helped to
build our railways are now counting
the ties from San Francisco to New
York.
Hundreds of young men, whose par
ents were those hardy western parents
who transformed wilderness into q
civilization. are today without a foot
of land and without hope.
Our marvellous inventions have been
monopolized so that. In spite Of the
daily miracles of our machinery, the
hungry still lack food and the home
less wander through the streets.
Every recent change in legislation
has been made to protect property and
to disfranchise men.-Herbert N. Cas-
son.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
carlisle Coquets with popu,isn,

no" Populist ideas do grow in pop
ularlty! Ex-Secretary Carlisle has an
article in the last Forum in which he
advocates radical changes in the sys-
tenn OF electing the president and vice
president He would retain the cleo
toral college. but would have the cleo
tors divided among the candidates in
proportion to the popular vote for
eacn. lie would thereby give repre-
sentat1on to minorities, and this is the
essential feature of the Populist nr;n-
clple OF proportional representation
Add to this the initiative and referen-
dum and the people would then rule
Kansas Advocate and News.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
Small Bonds IN Favor.

St Louis Globe-Democrat: The non.
ular loan idea grows. The governments
will have to borrow large sums OF
money II war takes place. Large
loans Will have to be made, and some
of the bonds which the government will,
issue should be in small denominations
and be sold in postoffices and national
banks. This will give the people a
chance to aid the government financial
ly, and to get the best sort of a securi.
ty which can be had in any market
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
Chance for Better mark.nan.,.,p.

Huntsville Courier-Journal: The
president certainly employed enough
words in his message to express his
meaning. It is, to say the least, ur-
fortunate that it is necessary for his
friends to arise in congress and explain
what he meant. 1t is to be hoped that
when the war begins the president, as
commander of the army and navy, will
not shoot as he writes. It WON'T do to
re;y upon others to explain what we
shoot at. We want better marksmen
than that
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

What this country needs most is not
low prices, nor high prices, but stable
prices. If prices are stable, specula-
ton is stilled. and people know what
to expect. With stable prices the law
OF supply and demand works to equal
ize affairs and a happy condition ex-
lists. With both gold and silver as
primary money one will act as check
on the other. If gold appreciates sill
yer can be used until gold comes back
to normal. If silver should by sud-
den and large demand. rise In value
gold could be used to make it come
back. Under this prices would remain
stable: but with only one metal as pri-
mary money, when it appreciates
prices must fall, and the higher the
appreciation the lower the prices. This
is the immutable law of supply and de-
mand.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

Our goldbug friends want US to believe
that low prices are caused by improved
facilities. They think we have forgot
ten the fact that the period from 1851
to 1871 was an era of improved facilities
greater, perhaps, than has been since.
and that prices during that period
steadily advanced despite improved
facilities. Prices are fixed by the value
of that which is selected as the stand
ard of value. If the standard is high
prices are low. Scarcity of money
caused dearth of demand. No de-
mand for all article drags the price
down. If the standard of value is
plentiful it is cheap and prices are
high because demand is great. Give
man plenty of money and he'll buy
what he wants. If he has no money
he will go without many things he
needs. This logic is SO simple child
can understand it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

The system of government by ''ren-
resentation. as practiced here, is abont
the worst kind Of government in tho
world. 1t is emphatically a system of
Misrepresentation. - Danbury Ameri,
can Freeman.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
AN OBJECT LESSON.
UNITED STATES FOLLOW
ING BAD EXAMPLE,.
Taking Steps of Observation-Disclosures
in Debt of Nations One Hundred Years
ago and Now-What Monopolized Trade
and Industrial and Political Slavery
Mean.

One hundred, years ago the total
debt of the nations of the world was
not more than two billions of dollars,
while the aggregate of corporate and
munich pal Indebtedness was IA mere
iota to that at present, which is about
two hundred billions, and the debt of
the nations exceeds twenty-five bill
lions of dollars.
This vast debt was made npOn the
assumption that the entire stock of
the worlds coin-gold and silver
would remain available for it's pay
mcnt. But the holders of bonds de-
manded that silver be dishonored, and
for more than twenty years have
forced this demand. opposed only. in
mere negative way by the governments
of France and the United States, whose
people are to-day in a majority for the
reconciliation of silver. The result
eff governments complying with the
insatiatc greed and unholy desire of
the money kings to the deteriInent of
humanity is now seen i'll the suspen-
sion Of the Bank of Glasgow; the bank
ruptcy of Barring Brothers, though
backed by the Bank of England; the
Australian banks in the hands OF re-
ceivers: the agricultural interests of
the world FRUSTRATED; Italy and Austria
impoverished, and the women of for
cign countries doing the work of men
in the fields. while the trade of the
world has been disturbed as never
before.
The same period has witnessed the
most enormous accumul ations of
wealth in the history of civilization,
and the organization'of gigantic trusts
to destroy the last vestige of indivi-
dual enterprise. AS for the old world.
the vast armies of its nations only
prevent the uprising of people, who
have almost reached the limit of en-
durance; and it is only Il question of
time when Europe; out of the throes
of war and revolution will have new
boundaries and inumcrable Cancelled
bonds.
So too is the United States following
in the Old Worlds footsteps of retro
gression-monoplized trade and in
dustrial and political slavery-which
can only be avoided by the restoration
of silver to it's proper functions as
legal tender money. That will bring
that for which the republican party
has so long scanned the pillows of the
commercial seattle ''wave of prosper
ity,' which is the blessing the honest
labor of our land anxiously waits, but
does not expect to see until Bryan is
elected in -Morgantown Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
PROSPERITY NOTES.

The SELF shoe factory at Elgin, ILL.,,
closed down and discharged 200 hands.
Gcod Workmen, working II hours a
cay, were paid only 81 week, and are
now on the township. Cause, strike
against still lower wages.
thousands of small manufacturers
are being forced TO the edge OF
the precipice, and soon will be
Obliged to obey instead of command.
lhey are just now between Hanna and
inc deep sea, and must become hire
llnEs or bankrupts. Herbert n. Cas-
son.
A stranger. aged about SO. suicided
ny carbolic acid in Chester, Mass, the
other day. On a scrap of paper in his
pocket was written: II am mechanic
out ST work. l am knocked up with
tramplng from place to place and can
not get food. | am better dead than
living"
concerning the possibilities of an
other great strike Of coal miners,
lhomas Young. manager of the NJ. A.
hanna Coal company, extensive opera
tors in Pennsylvania. is quoted as say
ing: "A strike, involving about 10000
miners, viii! probably soon be in full
SWING in Central Pennsylvania. The
operators declare they will not lay the
Chlcago scale, and the miners an
nounce their intention to strike"
BUSINESS is picking up Prosperity
principally prospers in producing pris-
oners. or q new recruits this week,
~ were crimes committed for gain.
VI these II stated that poverty was
tneir only reason for transgressing the
law.-Lansing News
The LOO operatives of the Written
ton cotton mills, at Taunton, Mass.
nave returned to work after strike
lasting five weeks.
thomas Murphy, a backlisted rail-
road engineer, who was shot by the
marshal of Medina O.. for begging
something to eat, has died. And the
majesty of the law has been vindi-
cated. 1t is a crime to get hungry in
this prosperous nation, and death i,
often the penalty.
Az the request of the New York
world, an ex-slave and former owner
OF slaves studied the condition of the
striking mill operatives in New Bed
ioro. both say that the negro slave
was better fed, better housed. more
lshtiy worked and better cared for
IMAM these mill hands are, besides the
certainty he had that in old age or
illness ne would be fed, clothed. hous-
cd. doctored and nursed, where the
mill hand has only charity to depend
upon Tor these benefits-Every Even.
ing.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

The foreign policy Of the admins
tration appears to be quite foreign to
the sentiment of the American people
Santa Cruz Penny Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

1T is because of monopolies wbio,
we permit and create. and Advances.
which we give to one man over another
that some are tramps and some mr..
millionaires. Henry George,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

The masses will not get justice IN
til the people make the laws. Direct
legislation is the solution of the social
problem.-Wyoming Freeman.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

tratlOn appears to be quite foreign to
the sentiment of the American people
| Santa Cruz Penny Press.
The masses will not get justice I'M
til the people make the laws. Direct
legislation is the solution Of the social
problem. -Wyoming Freeman.
The profits of the cotton mills that
have recently cut wages and produced
dumb protest in the shape of strikes
from the workers has been enormous
The $4,000 a year superintendent
and other like employees did not join
in the strike. Sensible-Appeal to
Reason
THE government officials report that
there are large quantities of counter
felt silver dollars afioat. They are
made out of silver and the only differ
ence between them and the govern
ment dollar is that they don't have
government fiat in them The men
who make them are evidently genuine
gold Burgers who don't believe in fist
money.-American.
Nebraska has a state law which de-
clares that all obligations made pay
able in gold coin are null and void.
contending that silver and gold are
both legal tenders, and either can be
used in debt-paying, no matter what
the amount. kentucky sees how we'll
it works in Nebraska-for no state
is more prosperous-and recently a
law similar in every respect passed
her assembly. BY the way, why would
not this be good policy, as we'll as
honest principle, for every state in
the Union ?-Carson Appeal.
Every interest-bearing bond planted
in one generation bears fruit of slav-
cry for that generation in which it
natures. Santa Barbara Equity.
The money of the nation is rapidly
congesting in New York city. The
banks there now hold over $1OO, 0OO, 900
legal tender money more than they
held sixteen months ago. The legal
tender cash holdings of the New York
banks have doubled since October,
1896. If other eastern cities show a
corresponding increase in cash, there
certainly must be very little money
left In the west and south Or in the
hands of the masses Of people i'm the
Missouri World.
Invention and injustice are pushing
the people out into the field where
they must fight for progress or turn
back to worse conditions. The old sys-
tenn is outworn-the new is not yet
sufficiently understood by the people
to be Immediately made available.
And between this casting off of the
old and the putting on of the new
during this transition period there will
be suffering for the Notwithstanding
Nation.
Week before last Mckinley planted
his presidential tree He selected an
oak 1t would have better represented
his administration had it been a Quak-
ing asp.--Phoenix Gazette.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

The profits Of the cotton mills that
have recently cut wages and produced
dumb protest in the shape of strikes
from the workers has been enormous
The $4,000 year superintendent
and other like employees did not join
in the strike. Sensible.-Appea to
Reason
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

The SELF shoe factory at Elgin, ILL.,,
closed down and discharged 200 hands
Gcod workmen, working II hours a
cay, were paid only 81 a week, and are
now on the township Cause, a strike
against still lower wages.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-13

Week before last Mckinley planted
his presidential tree He selected an
oak. 1t would have better represented
his administration had it been Quak-
ing asp.--Phoenix Gazette.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30
Patents Not Worth Much.

Mr.. Thomas a. Edison was quoted
some years ago as saying that it did
not pay to take out IL patent on any in
Vent1on, however valuable. His way is
to keep his methods and processes Sc
cret and do his own misunderstanding.
This was the conclusion at which he
arrived after long experience of patent
offices and patent litigation. In like
manner. Mr.. Harwood Huntington re-
plies to his own question in The Forum
els it worth while to take out pat-
ent?' thus: "No, if you can possibly
avoid it. g...r
Mr.. Huntington recommends the in
ventor to keep his device or process tc
himself if he possibly can He mentions
several historic patent lawsuits and the
tortuous windings through which they
passed IN support of his opinion. In
truth, the way patent office laws and
lawsuits now stand, it seems enough to
break a man up to find out even val
liable secret Of invention or discovery.
The drawings, the patent office solicit
ors, the examinations and expert opin
ions are luxuries Of the costliest sort.
yet they must be had. Then if the in
Ventlon is really worth anything the
chances are as to 1000 that somebody
else will claim it and ruinous lawsuit
Will be begun. This experience was
What made Edison turn his back on the
world, SO to speak, after few years of
litigation and retire to the wilds of
Menlo and set up his own laboratory
ana workshops, manufacturing his own
inventions.
one Is led to conclude from Mr..
Huntington paper that where patents
are necessary they are only necessary
evils at BEST
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30
Railway Building.

BY the beginning of the twentieth
century the United States will have
nearly 10000 miles of railway in oper-
alton. When it is remembered that a
mile Of railway costs on the average
So, 900, it will be seen how much money
is invested in the iron roads.
The last great year of railway build
ing in the United States was 1887. By
that time the great impetus received
from the civil war and the opening of
the vast wheatfelds Of the northwest
had spent itself. Roads west and south
had been put through regions where
they would not pay for dozen years.
Rival lines had been constructed where
there was only business for one,, and
both were crippled. The only thing to
do was to wait and let the people grow
up with the railroads. In some locali-
ties they have done this, in others not.
In 1887 there were constructed in
this country 1888 miles of railway.
Then the construction fever stopped.
The next year the miles of new road
dropped to z, 106. Since then year by
year the number has fallen rapidly till
1897. Not even the development of the
popular trolley system could swell the
footings. In 1896 the figures were
1,848, the lowest in ten years. In 1897,
however, the business began to look up
little, a very little, the figures reach
ing /, 1854. The present year the increase
will be considerably more than this. Tt
is to be sincerely hoped the dividends of
the roads stockholders will increase
even more in proportion than the rate
of railway track laying.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30
"A Suggestion.

we observe that some palace coaches
lately turned out by y car building COM
pany are more magnificent than any
that have gone before. The queen of
England herself is not housed in quar-
tiers more costly and luxurious than
these in which the plainest American
citizen, if he has money enough, may
be transported from one side Of this
continent to the other. A bewildering ar
ray of white and gold color, Of the finest,
richest silken plush, of mirrors that
flash like diamonds, of rosewood, of
English oak, of Circassian walnut and
st. Jago mahogany greet the gaze of the
traveller entering one of these gorgeous
coaches !:
. Ills we'll. Nothing is too fine for the
common American citizen, if he has
money to pay for it.
And yet-we are panied to say it
the American citizen would give up at
least half this gorgeousness and costli-
ness if he could be assured of lust one
conl1orCaple DAY ana night during a
long journey. The magnificent coaches
are horribly i'll ventilated, the alleged
sleeping berths are as bad and cramped
as they can be, and the poor passenger
is nearly strangled with smoke. He is
peppered with dust and soot Give US
comfortable sleeping compartments,
real little rooms, with the plainest bed
ding, SO that it is clean and we can
get some air. Abolish the frightful
dust, smoke and jolting on your cars.
You can do it. Put half the cost into
one plain sleeping car and make two in
its place, so that we shall have elbow
room and breathing room. These be
matters more vital to our comfort than
carven ivory and Tabasco mahogany.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30
"A Man and q Farm.

We notice in The National Stockman
and Farmer an answer to the question
whether in these times man can make
living on the farm A CORRESPONDENT
OF The Stockman visited the home of an
Ohio man living eight and one-half
miles from Newark. This town was his
MARKET where he sold his products.
His farm was only a patch of ground,
seven and one-half acres all told, most
~ rough hillside land at that, yet from
1t the farmer made an excellent living
for himself, his wife and two children.
: He studied the lay Of his land and de-
clded from the general easterly and
northeasterly slope of it that it was
we'll adapted to fruit culture. Into this
ne accordingly went shrewdly and care
fully. Grapes, straw berries, raspberries
and gooseberries are his main money
crops, with peaches and other fruits
coming on. He built in the intervals of
work neat cottage When the CORE
spondent saw it, the flower season was
on, and the small house was set in q
bower OF beauty, with rich purple clus-
ters of wistaria trailing from q vine
over the porch.
Apart from the improvements this
thrifty and Industrious man has put
upon his rough little place it would not
be worth $40 an acre, we are told, yet
from it whole family live, and live
we'll. The secret of it all is to be found
in the character of the man himself.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

The country congratulates that good,
eloquent, kindly man, Rev. DR.. Theo-
dore L. Cuyler, on the completion of
his seventy sixth year, especially as he
declares the last has been the happiest
year Of his life. Thus it should be with
nil people.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

Chicago handles third more wheat
in the course Of year than New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Montreal all
together. Milwaukee, Duluth, Mime
apolis and St. Louis are likewise centers
Of heavy wheat trade.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

The late but not lamented Weyler is
making as much trouble for the Span
ish government at home as he did in
Cuba. .,.a ..,s.5 !.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

Among her three collectors of GUS:
toms duties, English, Russian and Jap
anese, poor little Korea will not have
much left that is not nailed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

The Cincinnati Enquirer utters
thing most horrid. It says law be.
comes dead letter when it is unoalled
for.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

1t is pity that good men are not al
ways good looking and fascinating in
their manners; otherwise the matinee
girl would make heroes of them instead
OF such scamps and bigamists as Rat
cllffe, the actor. From ono side of this
continent to the other Radcliffe was
adored by the matinee girl. When the
one who at length ran away with him
and married him in spite of the opposi-
tion of her wise and rich father had
him arrested for beating, kicking and
stamping upon her, it transpired that
ne had already another wife in England
and that she, too had been forced to
leave him because of bad treatment.
Ihe moral to the story, if there is any,
is that good men should improve their
manners and appearance SO much that
the girls will fall in love with them in
stead of with the scamps. Girls are
bound to fall in love with fascinating
men.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-06-30

Awfully small business that was
which it is said some postmasters have
been engaged in. The size of post
masters salary depends partly on the
number of letters that pass through his
Office, and this is judged by the number
OF postage stamps he sells and cancels.
The charge is that some postmasters
padded out the lists both of sales and
cancellations by adding number of
figures to them.