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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

where millions are involved the rights
of individuals become insignificant.
To-day there are but few of the neces-
stiles of life that are not controlled
by some trust, and the small number
yet remaining will soon be under their
control.
Among these necessities is money.
The great organization which makes its
living and amasses wealth as money
loaners wishes to obtain control of our
money. 1t is to their interest to do
so. They have millions out at inter-
est. and the scarcer it is the more val
liable it becomes and the more certain
they are to find a demand for that
they possess. Fol- this they favored
the demonstration Of silver. For the
same reason they are seeking to have
a law passed that will cause all OF
our greenbacks to be destroyed and
give the money loaners authority tC
issue their notes in their place.
The editor of the Tribune believes
in free speech and Il free press, where
every nan shall be given ar oppor-
tunity to be heard. We would give
all an equal chance to give full and
free expression to their opinions. Gov
eminent is still in the experimental
stage, and we the students. scckin- tC
learn. No man can say that he has
graduated. without making it appar-
ent hat he is barely fit to enter the
primary department. Our children
will look back at the social system OF
today and remark the crudeness of ON
ideal of what a perfect government
should be.-Farmer's Tribune.
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LINCOLN ON IMPERIALISM.
lie Stood by the Declaration aud Fol
Government by Consent.

N WV ny tHe DcClAE0LlOu Auu FOf
Government by Consent.
1mperialists are especially urged to
note these extracts from Lincoln's
speech at Springfield, Ill.,, June 26,
1857:
Il think the authors of the declara-
ton intended to include all men, but
they did not intend to declare all mer
equal in all respects. They did not
mean to say all were equal in color,
size, intellect. moral development or
social capacity. They defined with
tolerable d~istinctness in what respects
they did consider ell men created
equal-equal with certain unalienable
rights. among which are life, liberty
n the pursuit of happiness This
ihey aid and this they meant. n =
h assertion that all men are
created equal was of no practical use
III e1tecting IL separation from Great
britain. y 3" Is It's illustrious au-
thors meant it to be-as. thank God,
it is now proving itself--a stumbling
block to all those who in after times
might seek to turn a free people back
INTO the hateful paths Of despotism.
Ihcy knew the proneness of pros
per!ty to breed tyrants, ana they
meant whe1 such should reappear in
this fair land and n their
vocation they should find left for them
at least one hard nut to crack"
On another occasion Lincoln said:
NO man is good enough to govern
another man without that others con-
sent. say this is the leading prin-
ciple. the sheet-anchor of American
repu%blicanism."
And again--anticipating, perhaps,
The White Mans Burden" sophistical
sentimentality which Kipling has en-
pressed:
When the white nan governs him
self, that is self-government; but when
he governs himself and also governs
another man, that is more than SELF
government-that is despotism."
This great liberator did not regard
liberty as the heritage of this land OF
the white people alone. He said:
Our reliance is in the love Of lib
erty which God has planted in us,
Our defense is in the spirit which
prizes liberty as the heritage Of all
men in all lands, everywhere. Those
who deny freedom to others deserve
it not for themselves, and under a just
God cannot long retain it."
We commend the last sentence
especially to the American people
says the San Francisco Star. The final
adoption Of the imperialistic idea
makes it a prophecy. We cannot have
Filipino servitude and American free.
DOM. An "irrepressible conflict is in
volVed like unto hat which DON fol-
lowed the announcement by Lincoln
that the nation cannot remain hall
free and half slave.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
LIBERTY.

We honor Liberty in name and in
form.
We set up her statues and sound her
praises;
But we have not fully trusted her.
And with u growth so grow her de-
mands.
She will have no half-service.
Liberty: 1t is a word to c%onjure with,
Not to veX the ear in empty boast
ings,
For Liberty means Justice, and Justice
is the natural law
The law of health and symmetry and
strength and fraternity.
AS the sun is the lord of life, as we'll
as Of light:
AS his beams support all growth, sup
ply all motion
And call forth all the infinite DIVERSE
ties Of being and beauty,
So is Liberty to mankind.
Liberty is the source, the mother, the
necessary condition.
She is to virtue what light is to color,
To wealth what sunshine is to grain,
To knowledge what eyes are to sight.
She is the genius Of invention, the
Drawn of national strength.
Where Liberty rises, there virtue
grows, wealth increases, knowl-
edge expands.
And the freer nation rises among her
neishbors-taller and fairer.
Where liberty sinks, there virtue
fades, wealth diminishes, knowl-
edge is forgotten.
And empires once mighty become a
helpless prey to freer barbarians,
Henry George.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
His glance OF hate toward US turned

His glance of hate toward US turned
to one of wild and earnest e%ntreaty.
"Mercy!-pardon!-in the name and
for the love of the Almighty" he -ex-
claimed in Spanish. in a tone of in.
tense earEestness; but he was heard by
us VITA fierce derision in that moment
Of just triumph and too long delayed
vengeance.
Twice the Eugene gave a lee lurch,
and each time the feet and knees of the
wretched Cubano were immersed in the
waves.
Beneath him was the abyss of wa
ter that rushed past the side of the
brig. He painted rather than breathed,
and through the dusk we could see how
his aching hands turned white as his
face, and that the points of his fingers
We're blood-red. His eyes grew wild
and haggard as terror chilled his cow
ard heart and agonized his soul; and
yet through the surge the fleet craft
few on!
Every moment increased the weight
Of his body and the weakness of his
hands and wrists.
At last it was evident that his pow
ers of endurance could be no longer
taxed; he uttered a half-smothered
shrek, and closed his eyes as he chung
to that slender spar, and it swayed to
and fro while the c~lose-hauled brig
flew on!
The iron hook in the bulwark on
which the studding-sail boom was
hung gave way under the double
weight of the spar and of his body.
There was a shrill cry Of despair, like
the parting Shrek of an evil spirit,
or the skirl of the gusty blast, as the
boom, and the wretch who chung to it
in blind desperation, vanished into the
black trough of the sea, and, like a
cork or a reed, were swept amid the
salt foam to leeward.
The Eugene rose like a duck upon
the water, and, as if freed at that
moment from a load of crime, seemed
to ny forward with increased speed.
Twas night now, and the ship
which we had first seen upon Il
weather bow was a mile astern and tc
leeward Of us.
ITO he continued
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
CHAPTER XIII.

Three days and nights passed with
out finding us able to surprise or dis
lodge the demon who was in possess
sion of the cabin; without our knowing
where the ship was driving or drift
ing to, and without a sail appearing.
A man-of-war belonging to any coun-
try we should have hailed as a pro-
tector; but on the wide waters of the
Southern Atlantic ships are few and
far between.
Hyslop rallied a little and was re-
moved into one of the forecastle berths.
He could tell us only that he had been
surprised when asleep, and had been
stabbed again and again-that he be-
came insensible and remembered moth
ing more. His distress was great when
we related the story Of the captains
fate, the death of Will White, and that
their destroyer was still in possession
of the ship and the arbiter of all our
lives.
He writhed on his bed of pain and
sighed bitterly on finding how stiff and
sore, how weak and almost blind he
had become by loss Of blood; but e.
crisis was now at hand with our Gu
bano.
The evening of the fourth day after
we had saved Hyslop found the brig
still lying on a westerly course; but
whether in the latitude of Cape San
Rogue or Of the Rio Grande, we knew
not; and. l suppose, it was all the same
to Antonio.
I was at the wheel. The sunset wa
gorgeously beautiful. The Eugene was
running with both tacks aft; and I'M
der the arched leech of her courses l
could see the blood-red disk Of the
sun right ahead settling in the waves,
which shone In all the colors OF the
DYING dolphin; while against the fam
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Silver and REDEEM ption.

The original draft of the Chicago
platform did not contain the redemp-
ton clause. That clause was inserted
to please an influential member OF the
committee after the platform was sub
mitted. The following is the para
graph relating to this subject, show
ing how it stood as originally written,
and after the addition of the objec-
tionablc clause:
Congress alone has the power to
coin and issue money, n President
Jackson declared that this power
could not be delegated to corporations
or individuals. We, therefore, de-
nounce the issuance of notes intended
to circulate as money by national
banks as in derogation Of the consti-
tuition, and W. demand. that all paper
which is made a legal tender for pub
lie and private debts, or which is re-
ceivable for dues to the United States,
shall be issued by the government of
the United States (and shall be re-
decmable in coin)."
The words enclosed in parentheses
are the ones that were inserted. The
absurdity Of such a declaration is an
parent when it is remembered that all
money issued by the is
sovereign and stands on precisely the
same basis, regardless of the material
of which it is composed. A preceding
clause expressed this principle in the
following language:
we are opposed to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
OF the obligations of the United States
the option reserved by law to the gov
eminent of redeeming such obliga-
tons in either silver coin or gold
COIN"
That is to say, no public creditor
shall nave the right, by private con-
tract, custom, or in any other way. to
destroy the value of n kind of money
obligation authorized and issued by
the government. The force and effect
OF redeeming one kind Of money with
another kind-even admitting that
such an absurdity could come within
the domain of common sense-was not
wv Wy oil the Doodle
at the time Of the adoption of the
Chicago platform. If it had been the
redemption clause would have been re-
Jected by a unanimous vote of the
convention. This redemption trick is
an old scheme of the Goldbug party.
invented and handed down to them by
their masters, the Rothschilds. Its in
tention is, n always has been. to
make gold the money of final redemp.
ton, n thus constitute gold the only
actual money in the world. For
money that has TO be redeemed" in
some other kind of money is not
money at all, but a credit token. We
therefore repeat what we have here
tofore declared, that no such Shylock
trick, no such solecism, no such idiotic
nonsense, will ever again appear in a
Democratic platform. II the redemn-
ton clause had o been interiected
into the Chicago platform we would
have elected Mr.. Bryan in 1896, in
spite Of Mark Hanna's corrupting mil
lions and wholesale coercion by hanks
and dependent commercial and manu-
featuring influences.-Journal of Aeri.
culture.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Works Both WAYS,

THAT was a good old motto" saio
the statesman, who was considering
the Philippine question: Be sure you
are right and then go ahead"
Yes replied the friend; "it's a
safe guide for every OCCASION"
Il don't agree with you there. There
are circumstances where it must be
revised to make 1t fit. When you find
yourself in a position where you can't
be absolutely sure my motto Isl: Be
sure you're wrong before you back
out "-Washington Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

4 Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ. Staaiey have
adopted a baby boy and bought in
Surrey a country place near those Of
lie Caffeine, Grant Allen and Conan
Doyle, so that the child can have plen.
ty of out-of-door life.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
No Faith in Anything.

Aunt Josephine is a thorough
skeptic."
"She is?"
Eyes; she puts mucilage on the back
of every postage stamp she USES"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

The argument for peoples rule is
not to be made on the ground that
the people always make wise decisions.
but on the ground that they have an
Inherent human right to make any
decision they please in their own af-
fairs, and then to take the conse-
quences, whether pleasant or unpleas-
ant.-San Francisco Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Then and Now,

When wheat touched its present
price for the first time a few years
ago, the country was in the dumps:
but now that price makes the country
re5oice!-Farm, Stock and Home.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

Six months ago the Filipinos, &C.
cording to Republican authority, were
patriots fighting for the independence
of their country. but now, by the same
authority, they are miserable rebels.
though they are still fighting for the
same object.-Pittsburg Kansan,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Both Thought So.

Il guess" said the anti-expansion-
list, that Uncle Sans finding he'll
have his hands full gettin' ahead OF
the Filipinos."
Yes" said the sensible citizen, "they
are pretty good runners."-Cleveland
Leader.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Of Fame.

Chicago Record: I've struck some
encouragement at last"
What is it?"
This prominent mar used to be a
farm hand at $40 a month"
What is encouraging about that?"
Il used to be a farm hand at SO a
month myself"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Prompt for Once,

Queer about Clara's wedding with
that plumber"
What was queer?"
why he came to get married at the
very day and hour he said he would.s
Detroit Free Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Frightful.

"He has cultivated an extremely mo.
bile face"
We'll, he ought to-"
Ought to be what?"
Automobile" - Cleveland Plain,
Dealer.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

Japan offers $500. goo 900 for the Phil
!ppine islands. For goodness sake
let the Japs have the outfit and take
the money and retire the bonds used 70
carry on the war.-Denver Road.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

If we are to maintain armies in
tropical countries we must enlarge
our national cemeteries.-Farm. Stock
and Home.
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As to the Latcst Fad.

These norseless carriages are great
things."
Yes, indeed. l had one once"
What did you do with it?"
'Outgrew it.'-Jewish Comment
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In the Gallery.

In the Gallery.
Jimmy-say! wasn't dat great where
he holds de mob at bay?
Tommy-Wot's great about 1t. Don't
dem supes know If dey did anything
to him dey'd git de grand bounce?-
Puck.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

A Maiden's Philosophy.
"Millicent spent half the night maxi
ing paper flowers. Why is she in such
a hurry to finish them?"
"Oh, she thought If she hurried hard
she could get all the paper cut before
her shears got dull"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

have been turning over strike mat
tiers, and the more I think the more I
am on the side Of labor. Labor and
skill are capital as much as gold and
silver. Labor and skill can produce
gold n silver. Gold and silver are
dependent upon labor and skill, but
labor and skill are independent in
limine. The union of the two capt.
ais demands participation in the
product. Wages are a minimized
money representation of share in
product-that is. in profts.-Cardinal
Manning.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Pretty Small.

Pretty Small.
Teacher-What is the smallest state?
Little Francis-The state of a per.
sons feelin's when your ma tries to
have you so free by tellin' the con.
ductor that you amt 6 years old yit.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

There would be fewer axes ground II
the grinders had to turn the crank
Equity.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
OUR BUDGET OF FUN,
SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.

A Variety OF .Inkes-Gibes and Irontes,
Original anl Selected-Flotsam aud
Jetsam from the iae OF Humor-
Witty Sayings.
Different.
When once l sat with Clara,
| longed for her alone:
But she would always manage
To nave a chaperone.
Now when I sit with Clara
My wife-she acts possessed
If l but hint remotely
l wish We had a guest.
Detroit Free Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

If the people were out Of debt how,
would the bankers and usurers get 4
living? You can see by this ho}
these fellows would like to see condss
tons in which the people could oct
cut of debt.-Appeal to Reason.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05
Advise to Birdie.

Come, birdie, ONE and sing to me-
Come. charm me with your pretty
note;
But let me warn you, birdie, ere
You come that you had better wear
A strip Of flannel round your throat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

When the poor combine it Is con-
spiracy. If they act in concert and
really do something, it is a mob. If
they defend themselves, it is reason.
Robert Ingersoll.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

There are 100000 people employed in
italy rearing silkworms.
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WISE WORDS AND WARNINGS

Want is a growing giant whom the
coat OF Have is never large enough
to cover.-Emerson.
Anything for human right Is consti-
tutional. No learning in books, no
skill acquired in courts, nc sharpness
of forensic dialect, no cunning in split
ting hairs can impair the vigor there
of. This is the supreme law of the
land, anything in the constitution or
laws Of the state to the contrary ::ot-
withstanding.-Charles Sumner.
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Soon Solved.

why is Potterer so shabby? His
wife is beautifully dressed.
That is the reason why his wife is
so beautifully dressed-Potterer goes
so shabby.'-Ally Sloper.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

No Christian who knows the gospel
can possibly believe that it warrants
him in living uselessly by the sweat
or another mans brow.-Goldwin
Smith.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-05

All exchanging is embarrassed by
this law. People starve amid plenty.
Labor dies for lack of employment in
sight of infinite demands for its en-
ployment. You had two strong hands
and arms wherewith to live. and YOU
have Topped off one and palsied the
other! 1t is as if in manufacturing
you had infinite store of power, but de-
liberately confined yourself to some
scarce natural gas costing more than
it is worth.
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Easily Explained.
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Detroit Free Press: The postmnn has
long route in the PIety Hall district,
and the lively correspondence carried
on from that section makes It necessary
for him to call ut almost every door.
He was handling his forenoon delivery
Mt his best speed the other day when
n novel Interruption occurred. He had
handed letter to the woman Of the
house. and was hurrylng on hls way
when Rhc ran excitedly on the sidewalk
and hailed him. III, there!" she
shouted. Come back. please. want
10 talk with you. That was n very
important letter you give me-" ms he
approached. "nnd / must answer II Rt
once. Just sit down here on this side
porch and wait, won't you? It'll not
take me more than fifteen minutes.
"Id like to accommodate you, mad
anne, but II Is impossible. Tn crowded
as It In, and can't lose n minute
"JuEt you do aS tell you" recalling
how she had heard her husband talk
on occasions. I'D like to know what
we pay taxes for. l can get through
in ten minutes"
but II would be liable to lose me my
Job"
"oh, I'll see TO Tint" with n mnscu-
line wave OF the hand. "Whnt? Not
going to walt? See here, sir, I'll re-
port you to the mayor, limits what I'll
do. Don't you think because I'm n
woman that don't know my constitu-
tional rights. III do worse than that.
ri report you to the governor" HA she
kept nnne with him, md gosticulRted
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proEtrate ensmy; but with al possible
staldneas and straightforwardnes the
hero prepared for the celebration OF his
victory. He began by stretching and
Strengthening out the llfeless body,
smoothing out every crease and every
wrinkle on It's scaly surface, With what
intent we could not even guess. He
seemed to have assumed the role Of an
undertaken. and to be preparing the
corpse for decent burial, magnanimous
toward a brave though defeated foe.
Not a twist or wrinkle was left upon
the carcass from tip to toe. from nose
to outstretched tail Then. to our
greater bewIlderment. we saw that he
was licking the body from end to end.
making straight parallel lines OF saliva
along It's entire length, which, with the
rays OF the setting sun falling on 1t, ex-
hiblted all It's various hues, and made
Us long for It's possession. that we
might carry It away with US. But the
darby had something better to do than
indulge in a benevolent sentiment for
our qualification. For ten minutes or
more he continued his preparations. I'M
I'll he made four or ave streaks Of sa-
Iva, which shown like satin ribbons.
laid horizontally on the dead body from
end to end.
Then, the blacSy rose and shook him
self, and, having done so, took up his
position at the head Of his victim and
calmly gazed upon him, with the FIRST
CLEAN of satisfaction in his bright little
eye. We were stlll full of wonder and
conjecture as to his purpose, interment
Of some kind being the only thing we
yet thought of. But when we saw him
calmly open his mouth to It's utmost
capacity and take into 1t the entire
head Of the defunct RATHER: then he
gulped and swallowed; then rested;
then another guip and another swallow;
and so on until he had tucked into him
the whole body. foot longer than him
self; and then, with the tip OF the tail
SIN dangling from his mouth. he drag
iged himself into the scrub and thence
probably into a gully, there to spend a
month or more dlgestlng his ponderous
meal and lighting the battle DER
again In bllssful dreams.