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Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-09-02

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into
the subject of local taxation will COM
mence its sittings in Ireland in October.
1t will be remembered that it was to have
done SO last October, but the changes
made in the incidence of local taxation
in this country by the local government
act of last year necessitated the postpone
ment that took place. The investigation,
however, 1t is now determined will COM
mence at the time mentioned. and thus
an important duty is once thrown on all
Irishmen who are ''up" in the subject
that Of giving such evidence upon it as
will properly set forth the case of Ireland
in this matter for the information of Par
lament.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-09-02
ENDORSED BY The CENTRAL LABOR UNION

That the Kentucky Irish American steadily with
and usefulness the public evidenced by the action the Central Labor Union
meeting which
welcome and appreciated because unsolicited and unexpected The publisher
grateful and will endo additional friends will
pleased that the avong the Endorsement unanimously
Central Labor Union follows:
relative Central Labor
unbiased champion the trades union
as the official newspaper o
of tn
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-09-02

Bring your orders for job printing to
this office.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
The Best Thing Out.

The Dain Junior Hay Stackers
and Power Lift Push Rakes are the
greatest l~abor-saving haying tools
eve invented. They will take the
hay direct from the mower and
build it in a rick to any height de-
sired. These stackers are the only
one that deliver the hay into the
middle OF the stack from bottom to
top. They r very simple in con-
s%truction and are a third lighter in
draft than any other stacker made.
The Dain Sweep Rake is the only
rake ever made that will positively
carry the teeth entirely off the
ground when heavily loaded, while
they work so easily that any boy
who can drive a horse can handle
them with ease. They are the best.
Don't be persuaded into buying any
other, which dealers may recon-
mend as being "just as good
Remember, these machines are
handled exclusively by the Tom
Sweeney Hardware Co., Rapid City.
Others will say they can get them
for you, but We are the manufactur-
ers' agents and have the sole agen-
cy for Pennington county and trade
tributary thereto. We have a big
stock of both stackers and rakes-
the genuine Damon hand now an6
will be glad to furnish any informa-
ton regarding them.
Ton SWEENEY HARDWARE Co.,
Rapid City, S. D.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Robberies of the Late War.

Uncle Sam purchased a large number
OF vessels during the late war, some
thing like 200. He paid a round price
for them, and ave for natural "wear
and tear" they are as good now as they
were the day he pu, chased them. Most
of them are better o than then, be-
cause Uncle Sam has fixed them up.
He is now Offering some of these ships
for sale ana the figures r interesting.
Uncle Sam paid S350,000 for the Vul-
can. The Vulcan is now appraised at
Sl00, 900. Uncle Sam paid 5000, 600 for
the Niagara, but the Niagara is now
offered for sale at the appraised valua-
tion of 500, 900. He paid $57, 600 for the
East Boston, but offers it for sale now
at the appraised valuati IN of $4,000.
He paid $4,000 for the Enquirer,
which is now appraised at $4,000. He
paid $S5, 769 for the Scipio and is offer
ing it for sale at the appraised valua-
ton of 2 5000. The Governor Russell
cost Uncle Sam $4,000 and it is now
offered for sale at the appraised valua-
ton Of S35, 900. On these six vessels
alone Uncle Sam loses 1914, 269.
Question: If Uncle Sam was bilked
s574, 269 on six vessels, how much vas
he bilked on 200 yessels?- Omaha
World. Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
The Evil and It's Remedy.

''If you have got to be robbed, IL
does not matter much whether you are
held up by Dick Turpiu, with a pistol
or by John Rockefeller with a railroad;
it's robbery all the same"
"The discrimination Of the railroads
in favor OF the Standard Oil Company
ana against independent r%etineries re-
suited in giving the Standard Company
a profit of 400 per cent, while the indie
pc ndents were driven to bankruptcy
'sIf the rail- DAD companies a con-
troll the appointment OF the attorney
general and of justices OF the supreme
court, what DO they care for the law?
Judge Albert Haight Of the New York
court OF appeals was elevated to his
present position by the corporations
through the use Of u corruption fund.-"
Take the railroads out OF the hands
of the corporations and place them
under the control of the government,
SO that every man a go to market as
cheaply as every other man. There
would then be no more shooting down
OF miners. II. the government does not
control the railroads, the railroads will
control the government. Take the
roads under right Of eminent domain
and pay the wner actual value for
their property."-From testimony be-
fore the Industrial commission by L. M.
Lockwood.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Trust Power in Elections.

Proof accumulates daily that com
bines. organized to destroy competition
in the field of transportation, produc.
ton or manufacture. are as surely plac.
ing their tools in the seats OF legisla-
tive and Judiciary power as they are
using the leverage of vast We Alth to
crush trade rivals and competitors
Whenever an election occurs whose
outcome may affect the interests o.
these combines their instruments and
their money are in evidence, working
to place in power men friendly to their
plans and purposes. Herein lies the
menace of trusts and their assistan,
corporations.--St. Louis Republic.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Slave Workers in Hawaii.

Originally the workers on the plan
tations were Kanakas, but they soon
proved inadequate. Then began the
importation of Chinese coolies, Portu-
guese contract laborers and finally of
Japanese. These toilers were bound
to forced labor BY their contracts. The
coolie system has very little to COM
mend it owe the slave system as prac-
ticed in our southern states before the
civil war. In some circumstances il
may easily be worse, since the planter
who merely hires slaves from a foreign
contractor has lees interest in their
well-being than the former planters
who owned them. Tie United States
must 0 face this question whether it
will permit this system to continue in
Hawaii.-Butfalo Express.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Otis. Alleged Declaration

Lawton, a splendidly equipped SOL
der. had not been in the Philippines a
month before he said bluntly that it
would take an army OF 100, 900 to subiu-
gate the island of Luzon alone, and
right on the heels of the old Indian
fighters opinion the Washington ma
chile told the country that Otis had
reported that 10000 would be enough.
Most likely he never said anything of
the kind. He had failed utterly with
10000 when he was reported to have
said 10000 was enough. If he said i,
he is crazy, and if he did not say it he
is being groomed for a scapegoat.-
Kansas City Times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

es, killing even the native laborers
in a few hours and for which the
hundred years of investigation has
discovered no remedies. The ma
tlves have repeatedly tried TO
build good roads through their
possessions and have had TO aban-
don the attempts on account OF
pestilences thus let loose. The
natives are described as lazy, ig-
norant, immoral, vicious, utterly
untrustworthy and degraded 10 the
last degree. To emphasize the
foregoing warning, is given against
bringing plants and live insects
from the Philippines to the United
States, as many Of the latter would
prove fearfully destructive to
American crops and many Of the
former are vicious weeds of the
most incradicable character. As
to the bugs, it is stated that anna
teur bug hunters are eagerly COL
lectlng live specimens in the Phil
ippines with the intention of bring
ing them to the United States. 1t
will be remembered that a college
professor, in a moment Of scientific
enthusiasm, turned a gypsy moth
loose massachusetts where it has
already done s5,ooo,ooo damage
and that another one imported the
English sparrow.
Just why the administration al
lowed this fearful report to reach
the public cannot be at present ex-
planned, though there are some
mean enough to ~insinuate that Nc
hinley is trying to discover a plan
to let 90 his tail hold on the Philip
pine bear. To make it clear in the
public mind just how much Of the
Philippines the American forces
now control, it may be mentioned
that our troops are holding a little
space around Manila about the area
of Greater New York.
Every expansion paper in the
country used 20 sheer at the Span
ish'sensc of honor which made that
country maintain the war in Cuba
for three years. The same papers
are now appealing to the same fool
ish national pride to maintain this
unjust war OF subjugation in the
Philippines.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Yelping Pack After Schlev.

Mr.. Mckinley had better call of
Long and his pack. Their yelping
cannot inlure Schley or bolster uL
SIMPSONS claims, but thew may hur,
Candidate William Mckinley very SER
iously. The persecution of Schley by
the Sampson-Long-clique has already
furnished the democrats with some eff,
fectlve campaign powder to explode
under the administration. and if it con.
tinues it may furnish enough to blow
a mighty big hole in the Mckinley
chance OF election,-Memphis Scimitar,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

Il MAY bs ;sken for granted that il
there Is any way by which the admin.
iStratIon can get rid of Alger before
the opening OF the presidential cam,
paigE of 1905 the opportunity will be
gladly seized. The secretary of wa,
is a heavy load for Major Mckinley tt
carry and the shortcomings of Aiger
ism have done more to injure the ad
ministration in the eyes Of the people
thar any other n factor. save that
perhaps. OF Hannaisn.-St. Louis Re.
public,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

If the republican party is not the
father Of the trusts why have they
formed SO rapidly under a republi-
can administration? And why do
such trust magnates as Havemeyer
assert that a protective tarfH-the
republican hobby of hobbies-is
the n thing which shields and
protects the formation of these
commercial monsters? THE UNION
will gladly print some good Nc
kin]ey republicans reply to these
queries.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

10 New York city are out on a
strike. They could not stand Nc
kinley "prosperity'' and Dingley
"protection." Their daily wages
averaged IS cents.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Where do You Stand'

Where do You Stand?
Public questions which have fore
ed themselves to the front during
the past year are being more freely
and commonly discussed among
the great masses of people today
than ever before outside OF the
heated period of a national politi-
cal campaign. With this discus
sion the assertion has often been
made to the effect that evils now
confront the American people
which actually threaten free gov
eminent and FIR institutions.
Such assertions have in years gone
by been made when their truth
was to be questioned and this fact
may lead people to Iass them by
lightly or perhaps thoughtlessly in
the discussions Of today, but if
ever this republic faced a situation
more serious and more threatening
than the situation it faces today,
history fails to record it. In the
darkest days Of civil strife, though
our country was being laid waste
by the ravages OF war, it faced
perils of no grayer consequence
than the perils which the onward
march Of civilization forces it to
face today. The UNION refers to
the Capitalization of wealth from
the great masses into the hands of
the favored classes.
During the campaign of 1896
this condition had not reached the
climax Of power which it possesses
today, but notwithstanding thai
fact the trusts and moneyed corpo-
ratinns voted their thousands Of
SaNN4.4. EsEsMEfH GM+H. q. LEa8
employees al they would drive SO
many cattle to water. Coerci on
was the rule for the first time in a
national campaign. The patriot
who had the manhood to declare
his honest convictions and assert
his right as a free man to support
those convictions at the polls was
discharged and forced into idle
ness. Where coercion Of this
character failed, money was used
and the same result obtained.
This was denied during the
campaign Of 1896, and it is still
denied by the members Of the
party employing such damnable
tactics to buy the presidency for
William Mckinley, but there is
not a republican into whose hands
these lines shall fall but who
knows down deep in his heart,
that these charges are only too
true. And further, the moneyed
interests Of this country which fur
nished the great corruption fund
Tor the republican party in 1896,
stand ready to debauch the man
hood Of the. nation again, defeat a
free ballot and a fair count and.
snap the finger Of contempt in the
facesof the law and the people.
Therapid growth Of these trusts
md Interpretations under the admin
;stration 81 the ma for whom
they purchased the presidency
|three years ago has increased their
esip a the nation until only BY 4
will the people
s abls n secure self-redemption
4 NM York World has com
81 iss 81 the great trusts and
sasicns MO TIE number 81
iaployed ! hen. This
otasayerage think.
Wh;eh threstsns ths
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
AS seen BY OTHERS,
Closest of An Monopolies.

The oil trust Is exceptional among
aloos! all ether trusts IN having prac-
ticaity q monopoly in a very restricted
bounty Of nature. 1t can send its pro-
ducts nearly halfway round the world
before eneooniering any competition.
1t is : natural mouopoly.-SprIngield
Mass, Republican.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
The Philippine Situation.

are fighting the battle Of the Unit
ed States in the Philippine Is
lands. That war is costing a mil
lion dollars a day. Therefore it is
consuming the wages of 500, 900
workers. The entire productive
capacity OF the workers OF an av-
erage American state is being daily
consumed in war which is against
sense, justice and patriotism.
We're 200 fine farms swept into
the Mississippi every day for four
months and utterly destroyed with
buildings and crops all standing,
the country would be reused as
though by a national calamity.
Yet this is exactly what the war in
the Philippines is daily consum-
ing.
Every report which now comes
from the Philippines shows that
not less that 100, 600 men will be
necessary to subdue the present
rebellion, and that a new rebellion
can be depended on to spring into
life on the heels of each old one.
Moreover, Mindano, the second is
land Of the group, is absolutely
uncomfortable on account Of its
lmpenetrable jungles. 1t is now
admitted that the war may last for
years. The administration got
scared at last and has been trying
to make Otis the scapesoat by
saying it was his fault if he
had not all the troops he wanted.
Otis has stood having his cable
dispatches edited until they read
like Spanish reports of victory
over the Cu5ans. He never muir
INJURED when the official editor at
the war department made him
slaughter whole regiments of Fill
ipinos every day and break the
back of the rebellion at least once
every 48 hours, but the attempt of
thu administration to make him
the scaPegoat was too much, and
he retaliated by turning loose some
wholesome information to the ef-
feet that the volunteers were sick
Of the whole business and would
come home almost in a body de-
spite the $3.50 bounty bribe
held out for re-enlistment. To
cap the climax the two great he
roes Of the volunteers, Generals
Funston and Hale declare that
they are sick Of it and are coming
home with their regiments.
The administration is having a
hard time at the recruiting Offices
and is pursuing the same policy Of
mystery and concealment that has
characterized its management Of
the whole war. The few recruits
who are being enlis ted it is notice.
able come from eastern points.
In the west, where letters from
volunteers in the Philippines have
been widely published, men keep
away from the recruiting Offices as
they would from a small pox hos
pital. 1t is all very well for the
imperialist press to howl about a
big army, but it fails to point out
where it is to be secured. 1t is
also noticeable that the statesmen
who are talking SO loudly for ex-
pansion are not taking their own
medicine and enlisting to conquer
the new possessions.
One OF the most remarkable per-
formances Of the administration
was the giving out last week by
tine agricultural department of a
report on the agricultural condi-
ton Of the Philippines. A silver
man could not ask for a better
campaign document. While the
fertility Of the soil is admitted il
is declared to be almost impossible
to mature a crop without tremen-
dous losses nv the tynhoon. If
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

Grafton in this country employ
3,547,ooo wage earners, most OF
them being men and voters MS
great army OF employers, hgufing
on those with iamllies, directly
represent 100000 peopl e.
New trusts are being formed daily
and this immense army is being
added to by thousands.
The campaign OF 1896 demon
strated that the trusts and corpora
lions were ready to use every
means-i orce il neccssary-to
compel their employees to vote as
they should dictate. BY this
means they carried the elections
of three years ago and placed their
personal representative in the
White House at Washington. In
full view Of what was accomplished
in 1896 b. threats, coercion and
the use OF money to debauch the
American voter, the average man
can gam some idea OF the magnl-
tude OF the political conflict ahead
tor next year, Ina 'he trusts
will follow the same course they
pursued IN 1896 there IS no DOUBT.
And to make the result sure, what
is there to prevent these CONNER
clal monsters from doubling or
trebling their present army OF
three and a halt mililon e1npIoyes
tor the sole purpose OF voting
them! ana with Marcus a.
Rama, the labor crusher' direct
ing the course OF the republican
forces again next year, is there any
doubt as to winch ticket NIL
mons Val pc lorceo 10 support
lh'nk this matter a moment gear
reaaef -cahdioiy n pa'fi0tiCaiiy'
Everything no" points 10 me re-
nomination OF Mckinley by the re-
Puoiicahs and bryan oy ehe
forces LOT the CONNECT next year
IN the lieht OF past events Is shere
a reader OF HI UNION, be ne
democrat poPuilst or republican
VINO thinks the corporations OF n !
country would 'hfo" she vote 'hey
control 10 me support OF "iiilam
j. Bryan and the principles OF the
chicago pialioth'' "ouio 'hey'
ana II not Ism II because that
great comhiohef ana inc pia1iorm
upoh'"hich ne STANDS represents
inc oes'iihterests Q tile great mass
es OF the people n demands IN
substance 'equaiity before the
law! Ahd these organized ag-
greeatiohs OF caPi'ai thro" the
support OF hemseiVe and their
employees TO William Mckinley, is
II MOI because that ofiiclal and the
principles OF the platform on which
ne Stands are more favorable to the
INTERESTS u Tue organized honeyed
ciasse man they are 10 the mass
esf mink OF II. Are not the
trusts ana corporations supporting
MCKINNEY ana n republican
party because republican policies
create roster and protect thems
Are they not opposing Bryan and
the reform forces because he and
his followers threaten the interests
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30
Notice to- Liquor Dealers.

Notice is hereby given that an adj
journed meeting OF the board of county
commissioners will be held at the Of
fee OF the county auditor Of Pennign-
ton county, state of South Dakota, on
Friday, June 80, 1899, for the purposs
of considering applications for license
for the sale Of Intoxicating liquors for
the ensuing year.
Given under my hand and the seal Of
the county this It'll day Of June, 1899
p. f. Mcmahon,
County Auditor.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

WANTED.-Good, trusty man to
herd sheep by the month.-Wm. Eli
herman, Smithville, S. D..
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-30

Dr. Miles, Nerve Plasters sc. at all d~rueeists
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
HOUSTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1898
TEN PAGES TODAY.
pEoNAGE UNDER OUR FLAG.

in yesterdays issue OF The Post the
bill giving Hawaii territorial form of
government and containing some good
American provisions and safeguards of the
citizen, was purposely delayed by some OF
the senators who were working to the in
terest OF the Hawaiian planters, the ma
jority OF whom are Americans.
One OF the provisions Of the Hawaiian
territorial bill prohibits the importation
of contract labor into the islands. The
planters had petitioned that the contract
labor system be allowed for ten years
longer, but the commissioners who framed
the act knew that congress would not grant
such an extension of the system. 1t then
was only left to the planters TO make hay
while the sun shone and rush in thou
sands OF new laborers which they claimed
they would need. under the old laws of
Hawaii before they were superseded by
the new charter OF government. We have
heard often since OF alarming importations
of this contract labor from Japan and
elsewhere-winked at by the Americans.
By the time the territorial government
goes into effect the planters can become
comfortably stocked up" with their la
Dor slaves. As contracts made under the
Hawaiian system. which is to prevail un-
til the action of congress. 1t is doubtful II
we can impair them under our consttu-
ticn.
Thus by their delay congress and the ad-
ministration are directly maintaining
system of industrial slavery or peonage
in territory belonging to the United States
and over which floats our flag, about
which our republican contemporaries have
had so much to say lately as the emblem
of freedom and civilization and justlcel
What this peonage means to the poor vic
tim of it is illustrated by case cited In
the Hawaiian Herald of comparatively re-
cent date.
An overseer brutality beat one of the
lsborers on one OF the plantations The
fellow laborers, nearly 800 strong. resen,-
ed the whipping OF their comrade and
struck work. Under the contract labor
laws OF Hawaii this strike was criminal
otfense, so the whole batch was arrested.
marched off to jail packed like sardines
in lSxl3 cells. with little light and no ven
tilation. kept confined for twelve hours
before trial, and then fined heavily--this
hne under the peonage system only OPP
Grating to extend their terms of slavery!
These are the conditions that congress
failed or refused to look into last winter
and that the administration has seemingly
been wholly unconcerned about, since get
ting the masters OF the islands Into tho
Union with. to these planters. the sons
OF the New England missionaries, and TO
the sugar trust the resulting comme0cial
advantages