The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09

! Eorndant than Palestine ever knew. while
her peaches and pears, apples and grapes,
Supporting now a million and q half Of
people. with scarcely an eighth of her ara
Bile land in cultivation, and that without
the intense culture TO make it most pro-
ductlve. We may form some faint con.ep-
ton OF what the coming years may have
IN store for Nebraska when all the homes
are established within her borders which
her ~urequalled soil is able to maintain.
FAME OF NEBRASKA.
Among the young states of the union we
may fee! proud of the splendid standing
AMI reputation she has already acquired.
abroad. while the energy, intelligence and
patriotism of her people stand second to
none in our national union. Recognizing
that ignorance and liberty are %incompati-
bic. Nebraska has established for her peo-
pie a system of education without a SUI
perior, and can boast of the lowest rate of
!l!iteracy of any state in the union.
Around this festive board tonight comes
one feeling of sadness as We recall the gal
liant Nebraskans who went out at the call
OF country, but who will never again re-
turn to us. Nebraska is and has a right to
be proud of her volunteer soldiers, We ac-
knowledge with joy and gratitude the 6cbt
the state owes them by reason of the honor
conferred upon her by their valor. We
pledge the honor of the state that to the
living shall be accorded worthy distinction:
and to the dead all that can be given the
dcad.a fitting memorial of their fame.
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after possess a new interest, and as the
hands of innocence strew flowers upon the
graves OF the heroes of 81. the young
heroes of Nebraska will not be forgotten.
HER GREAT STATESMEN.
Nehraska's statesmen have gained for
her in our national councils a fame and
standing OF which we may fer4 ST.
proud. Six wears ago n distric, xe
unknown beyond his state, posses
broad mind and rugged manhood. wa
selected to represent Nebraska in tho
senate Of the United States. He was
although those of the fathers of the re.
public, had been forgotten by degenerate
sons through the sophistries of the ad.
Like Nehemiah of old, he brought Out
tnese forgotten precepts; The abuse, mis-.
representation and obliquy Of his op
ponents was all swept away by his un.
answerabie arguments and logic, and
Neoraska's great senator, William V.
alien. made populism respectable even in
the eyes OF its bftterest opponents.
The evangel of the new democracy was
f%ayorite son. ". J. Bryan.
platform which,. for the first time, en-.
bodied the principles OF populism, 1t ha
many times been called the second
aeGlaration OF Independence. From one
met with ridicule and derision by the
p aus h press and rnonopolistic ora.
t6e te aut ITS great re- principles, emLbodyine
and the doctrines of Lincoln. have an.
nealed to the hearts Of, the patriotic
t ! Of the nation. Four years later
the national democratic platform at Chi.
cago. With equal earnestness populists
ana democrats In Nebraska advocated
ton Of the candidates pledged to tenn
Nebraska gave her electoral vote for tina
nlatiorm. Since that time, standing to.
ciple; the populists, democrats and silver
republicans have redeemed Nebraska
from the clutches Of republican misrule
tna given her an honest. economical and
fairs. ~ ~
OLD TRUTHS STILL TRUTHS.
What OF the future? Shall these great
DIVISIONS OF the armies Of reform turn
direct their warfare against each Other
and allow Nebraska to again fall into
.he lands of the party that has de,
SpGiieu heg and furnished her credit and
Is the doctrine of l6 to l any less true
nov thcn 1t was in 1896? Are the prin.
ciples OF monetary reform less vital now
necessity for the control Of corporations
trusts and monopolies? What one of the
great, principles we have been advocat.
don, or are we asked to abandon? No,
one. MY friends. If we allow narrow.
mlhoed chickering's and strife to divide tho
Tiends or reform along the ines Of the
great principles for which Nebraska has
5000 ZOO irrn s.nce 1886, and by her example
ae.p 70 disintegrate the grand army
wnich Is now gathering for the great con.
1ict of 1900, we will, to say the least OF
d. ess eou inter- thai, which would be little
, ,nI,tc:a It wGuld at least be a monumental
The Omaha platform of 1892 was the
demanding unrestricted silver coinage al
the ratio Of Is to l. That convention de-
manped a rational currency issued b; the
tlon OF banks. That platform demanded
graduated income tax. That platform
neManded the operation of the means OF
tween the people by the government: in
the interest, OF the people. Each one of
these principles is today recognized as
republicans agree to them. Can the friends
ana ADVOCATES of these principles be in
luced to DIVIDE their suffrages and thereby
government?
Whatever other states may do we ran
not believe that the sound judgment and
patriotism which Nebraska has ALWAYS
1ispiayed can be induced to throw away
a. th hse '!me the grand opportunity which
sne mas OF leading the van In the great
1900. N "'' %
wien .nat great battle Is ended it will
oe Iound that Nebraska Is the brightest
star IN the constells tion of states. It will
De found that her intelligent, energetic.
patriotic, l!berty-lo ing sons have given
their, support TO the splendid principles
to which We are all here pledged tonight.
WEAVER ON COOPER.
General James b. Weaver was intro
drced by POSTMASTER Neville as not only
q cit1zen of Iowa, but of America, and one
u the Oldest and strongest champions OF
the laboring classes. General Weaver,
who succeeded Peter Cooper in 1850 as the
presidential candidate of the national in
1%ependent party, told in an interesting way
Of INC ne n work of the patron of the
n .s OF the evenins, The Peter Cooper Pop
which Peter Cooper strove to have Applied
IL our national life were: independence o!
re mali n fiom f1rtign interference tr die.
ti!tson, either financial or political; the
doctrine that equal rights to all should
prevail at all hazards, and that The issue
and control of the nations currency
should rest solely in the government. The
living W to them. the speaker declared,
would solve all the problems now CON
froEting our national life.
Tor some time General Weaver SPOKE at
length on Imperialism. His referencds ia
the revolutionary and civil wars and their
objects were a~pplauded. as were his criti.
c:Sms of the imDe-ialistic course of the
administration. The civil war. Gene~al
Weaver declared. brought freedom to Ehe
black man; today another administrator
was denying liberty to the brown man.
And" he concluded, 1.-The present admin
tstration and Jefferson Davis stand Oh the
same platform in this regard"
THE JUDICIARY.
Judge ard Former Governor Siias A.
Holcomb before responding to the toast,
The Judic.r-:," heartily congratulated
the Peter Cooper Po2uiist Ciu0 en- the vigoi
and stron-:h displayed - j., and on it, Sc
lection of his old friend Jones, formerly of
Custer county, as its president. His refer
ences to G. NJ. Hitchcock of the World
Herald IS being acquainted with one
branch of the judiciary and to ex-Judge
Magney, who coupled the municlpaI
BEECH for twelve or sixteen hours or less
evoked the first laughter of the evening,
which also, with applause, followed his
references to the injunction fad, or craze,