The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-29
RED Hot EDITORIALS.
THE NEW YORK JOURNAL
SPEAKS RIGHT OUT.

SPEAKS RIGHT OUT.
An Editorial Page That Is Unique
Among the Great Daily Papers of
This Press Substituting Era-Talks
That Tell.
The following are editorials from re-
cent issues of the New York Daily
Journal, with an alleged circulation of
half million. They would be quite
appropriate in the editorial page of
any country Populist paper, but there
is no other metropolitan daily in which
they could ever by any possibility be
found. Read the following:
The men of Pennsylvania who shot
lot of workingmen in the back have
been declared innocent of any wrong
doing. The cowardly hired newspapers
that have not dared all through the
trial to speak in defence of the killers
now come out bravely and cheer the
verdict. These newspapers are we'll
paid, but they do their employers a
sorry service.
The Lattimcr free killing bee must
be paid for in this country. 1t will
be paid for by men such as those who
hire the venal newspapers of New York.
The man who knows that he can be
safely murdered is not pleasant man
to deal with when trouble comes.
The gentlemen in Fifth avenue who
havo h,,i1t hioh ctool rojlinoc around
their houses know how foolish it is to
make workmen feel the hoplessness of
an appeal to law against money.
But these men with the steel ratings
misunderstood the American working
mans idea. No ratings are needed,
unless they can be put around the bal
lot box. That particular institution
will avenge the Lattimer murders.
The Judge who set free without bail
body of men indicted for murder will
learn. before he goes under ground to
sicken all decent worms, that he has
hurt the pocket-books that he tried to
serve.-New York Journal. :.
The average British review is as in
sular as a St. Giles cockney and as pom
derous as witticism in Punch, but
while the current Fortnightly is not
without these characteristics it almost
pays to plod through it in order to
reach the instructively frank explana-
ton by one writer of the way in which
England really subjugates the world.
He is discussing the problem of financ-
ing the proposed Chinese loan and the
danger that it may be taken by a
Franco-Russian syndicate.
1T is Clear says the contributor,
who, by the way, is one of the best
equipped English writer's on interna-
tional relations, that If our immense
interests In China are to be adequately
protected we must not allow the empire
to be the exclusive vassal of any for
eign power or group of powers, and this
is what must occur in thinly disguis-
ed form il we abstain from competing
with the state-guaranteed loan-mon-
gering of Russia and France at Pekin.
We can safely and even profit
ably lend the money without rendering
an increase of the burdens on trade
necessary, and since the loan would be
calculated to strengthen our interests
at Pekin, and thus advance our inter-
ests in the far East, it was manifestly
our duty to undertake it,
The debtor is the abject vassal the
world over. Man or nation. it is the
same; he who owes the debt is the
serf of it's holder. Interest has added
almost as much territory to the British
empire as was ever won by the British
sword. Egypt is the exclusive vas
sal'' of Britain, because Egypt fell into
the hands of Lombard street money
lenders. China will go the same way,
unless her rulers make the unimpor-
tant choice of preferring the Roth
schilds that dominate French finance
to the branch of the same family which
rules Lombard street.
BY the way, how great a proportion
of United States bonds, national, state
or corporation, are held In England?
And how far is discernible the purpose
of Great Britain to use her rights as
a creditor to strengthen her influence
at Washington, as she hopes to at
Pekin, to control our currency system
and to dominate our politics New
York Journal.
Workingmen, in thinking of the Lat
timer murders, never to be officially
avenged, need not feel that the lives of
the murdered men were entirely vast
ed. It is true that justice has been out
ragged and that a certain score some
day to be wiped out is little bigger