The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-10-28

~ Uuc VOUoIo VI HCOuCu DohoUo A'
leading prrties of the state have each
adopted = platform of principles, 80
called. and each has placed thereon
candidates for the various offices who
are asking the suffrages of the voters
We ask the vocers to consider the
parties, their platform and the candi-
dates carefully.
The platforms OF the triple alliance
have been before the public for four
months and the public is familiar with
their provisions. We desie to call at
~tention at this time to the recently pro.
mulgated republican platform. The
first plank OF this platoon rejoices:
Tin the general renewal of prosperity,
the outflow OF hundrees of millions OF
boarded money into the channels Of
trade, the reduction of interest rates.
restored confidence, the renewal of bus
iness industry, the unemployment OF
labor, the advance of wages, the res
toratiou Of fair prices for farm pro.
ducts"
Those who have a surplus Of this
''p%rosperity" may be expected to vote
for Mr.. Phillips, provided they think
they owe it to the republican party.
But it will require a shrewd f%inancier
to locate the''reductlon OF interest
rates" restored confdenc," ETC., and
where il the advance in wages? Is it
among the New England mill opera.
tives who after . six months strike &C.
eepted q ten per cent reduction? Or
among the Wisconsin woodworkers
who, working for u average Of 80 cents
. day, struck and after FIVE months
have gone back At the old wages? Is
IL among the iron workers of Ohio who
submitted to 9 Cut of Is per cent in
january last and are nov striking in
Mark Hsnna's town of Cleveland q
gainst q second cut OF ten per cent?
Or 10 it in Illinois where the coal opera
tors are importing negroes to take the
place Of striking white miners and
Governor Tanner IL trying to get his
troops back from Cuba 80 they eau
shoot starving Americans instead Oi
well-fed Spaniards. We predict for
next winter the worst times anon.
our unemployed In Oar cities the
country has eve known. "Fair prices"
for farm products must surely be u
joke. For with = war in progress and
the markets bare Of supplies, our
farmers are selling wheat ut As cents u
busnel! 1t is the lowest price ever
known for wheat under such conditions.
Du the Mitchell party wreckers con.
slider this a ''fair price,?
"We are opposed to the free and un
limited coinage of silver and unhesi-
tatingly indorse the gold standard Of
money, under which the nation has
made such unsurpassed strides of
progress"
So! Aud is not this just exactly
what the silver people W years ago
predicted you would do? Yet in the
last campaign the republican orators
from every platform aud the news
papers in every hamlet in this state
declared the republican party was the
only true bimetallic party. Thousands
OF misguided voted for Mckinley hon
estly belle wing the republicans would
restore silver. Now the lsk is
thrown of and the gold standard en-
dorsed. The gold standard means
still lower prices, Are the voters
ready for that:
Tue cepsus shows that in 1870, the
the last census before tho d~emOnetiZa-
ton OF silver, the value of all farm pro-
ducts ia the United States was 5000,
COZ, OLO more than was shown by the
census in 1890. The statistical atstrae
of 1897 published by the government,
shows that the total value Of all farm
ANIMALS in the United States in 1896
was $50. 600, 900 less than in 1873. The
year in which silver WAS demonetized.
IL this what - meant by the 'unsur-
passed strldes of progress" under the
gold standard?
"We unqualifiedly commend the re.
publican president and congress, who,
despite all opposition, with nexam
pied energy.raised, equipped and sent
10 the front y magnificent army and
navy that have won a series of victor
les"
One would infer it was q republican
army aud navy! Yet every naval vic
tory was won by vessels built under q
democratic administration and the
nav al heroes of Manila a~ndSantiago are
n.ither of them republicans. The army
officers who have won the chief glory
In The war are Teddy Roosevelt who
openly rebelled against Alger secretary
Of war, and democratic joe Wheeler,
VINO Won the battle Of Santiago after
h md received orders to re.reat. The
utter inoompetency Of the Washington
end of the management of the war
thr .atens to prove the rottenest chap