The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-01
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
Gold contractionists say that gold
alone is honest money. Gold has
doubled in value during the past TWEEN
ty-iive years. Therefore, if a man
locked $4,000 worth of gold in a safe
twenty-five years ago it would low
purchase property which at the begin
ming of the time would have COM
manded $4,000 in gold. Can money be
honest that, locked up in a safe, will
steal the property of another and
transfer it to the owner of the money?
National Waterman.
When thieves agree let honest meg
beware. The alliance of British-Amer-
lean monopolists threatens us as we'll
as the Chinese.-Wilmington DELI
Justice.
lhe street car strikes at Brooklyn
and Cleveland have apparently ended.
We canno learn that the strikers
gained anything except experience and
That does no seem to teach them any
thing. If the men would be as unani-
nous at the ballot box as they are at
a strike their energy might amount to
somethlng.-People's Press.
The evils of government by injunc
ton are very we'll illustrated by the Sit
uation in Kansas City. Two injunc-
tons have been issued. One directs the
sheriff to stop the importation of for
eign labor during the continuance OF
the present labor troubles. The second
which comes from another court. re-
strains the sheriff from interfering in
any way with such Importation. Thus
no matter what the sheriff may do in
the matter, whether he permit the i'm
portation Of labor or seek to prevent it.
he will be guilty of contempt of court,
-Winnemucca Silver State.
"Disperse, We rebels, dispersed" That
has a familiar sound. 1t is a command
of Gen. Otis to the Filipino rebels. or
was it said more than a century ago by
a British officer to some New England
rebels who had concluded they would
like to do what the Filipinos wish to
do~-have Observation-Disclosures,
Johnstown, Pa.
1t has Just been decided that De.
trOit cannot acquire her street rail-
ways, because there is a clause in the
Michigan constitution which prevents
it. Reform in notwithstanding is
one of the radical needs of the times.
Constitutions are the bulwarks or
monopoly and special privileges, in
stead of being safeguards Of the peo-
pies rights. There should be nothing
in a constitution except a skeleton OF
the form of government and a bill of
rights. The prohibitions which .hey
are numbered up with, are born OF the
fear that the people might do some
thing they ought not to do, but the
people can better be trusted than the
average constitutional convention. to
protect their W rights.-Jerry Simp-
sons Bayonet.
The exposure If the secret alliance
between the Mckinley administration
M Great Britain, which explains the
nauseating A~nglO-Saxon twaddle that
has filled the republican papers during
the past year, has a very depressing ef-
feet upon the Irish and German repub-
Unconstitutional Waterman.
Perhaps !, Is Better.
The working mules IN the Cleveland
and Brooklyn street car lines have
struck themselves out of jobs. Most Of
them now have nothing to eat except
what they beg on the strength of being
strikers. 1t looks to me like a badly
planned campaign. These men have
spent thousands Of dollars on this
strike and got themselves out of work
after all. BY starting out upon a city
ownership campaign they could have
Won with the mou expended and
never missed a meal. Their demands
would have all been granted as soon
as the city took possession of the lines
and there would never have been any
danger of the wages being reduced. But
maybe the good old way is the best.
To properly understand the question
it is necessary to devote some little
study to them and that is too much
trouble. It's better to be an out-of-
work striker looking for a job.-Pil-
grim.