The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

ocotlanu ne hasn any more pat
riotism than a string Of dead cat
fish. He doesn't care a straw about
Bryan's opinions or the policy of
the Democratic party on Imperial
ism or any other question except as
they effect Carnegie's interests.
He does care about how much money
he a squeeze out of the industries
OF this country to spend abroad.
That's where the shoe punches. He
ISM making money enough out of
his big industries. The gold stan
dard is proving too expensive a lux,
ury for Carnegie. Gold has so ap-
preciated in value and become so
expensive proportlonately in COM
parisou with the value of any thing
else, that our f1inty, hard headt d.
high protection, millionaire sees his
pet industries being throttled. He
realizes that Free Silver would be a
good thing for him. He has no SEN
timent about it. It's so much
easier to make a pretext of SYM
pathy with Bryan's policy in re-
lation to the Philippines. Car
negie has come off his perch all
right. Watch for the fest of them.
The money question like Banquo's
ghost, Twill not down."
To 90 back a moment to the new
Secretary of the Interior, that's
really to important to leave hastily.
The Republicans are making suca a
point Of Mr.. Hitchcock being no
politician and having no record,
that it may be as we'll to say RICH,
now, a few things about him, that
throw light upon this peculiar APP
pointment.
Mr.. Hitchcock was not only the
head of a big glass trust in st.
Louis until he was appointed AM
bassador to Russia. but he is also
connected with Dick Kerans of ST
Louis, in a corporation that has
been trying for years to grab the
valuable Gilsonite beds IF Northern
Utah, located on the Uncampagra
Ute Indian reservation. Now, Dick
Kerans is a special pet of the ad-
ministration. The decision as to
the ownership and value o. these
]Gilsonite beds has been left to the
Secretary of the Interior. MIR.
Hitchcock as an interested party,
will have the privilege of deciding
this question. 1t means several
millions of dollars to SINE people
and they L likely to get what they
want. AS to the trust affiliations,
the Republicans are looking for
tools of that sort to bolster up their
progress toward Imperialism.
The bill contemplating an in
crease in the standing army to 100,
600 men, asks for an appropriation
of $l66, 900 900 for the year of 1899.
The appropriation for u regular
army has been $50, 600, 900 a year.
What are the one hundred and six
extra millions for? To guard the
Philippines, when WE annex them?
We won't need many extra forces in
Cuba and Porto Rico. Think of
$l06, 600, 00c for our army in Philip.
pines, to say nothing of other
governmental expenses for them.
You note the small amount received
from custom duties at Manila for
the last six months, mentioned in
anotuer portion of this letter. 1t is
officially stated that the total of
imports and exports in the Philip
pines in a year only amount to $780,
600. 600. And we are going to spend
$10e, 600, 900 to protect that source
of revenue. A nine year old school
boy would see the fallacy of that.
Pres dent McKinley's managers
don't want the country to realize
this. What do you think? Is the
game worth the candle? Annex the
Philippines and in a year u howl
will 90 up from the people that can
be heard from Cape Cod to Yuba
Dam. Well wish we hadn't.
Every week the republicans intro.
t duce a new philanthropic scheme tc
curry favor with the people. Just
now it is the relief work in Cuba.
Every hungry Cuban is to be fed
! from the stores sent there for the
army. Very good. 1t will be com
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