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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Evangelizing With Cuttings.

Whenever the church welcomes the
sword and musket as a djuncts in the
work of spreading the gospel it con-
fesses that it has signally failed in its
mission, and when it precedes the bible
with Calling guns and dum-dum bull
lets it seemingly %confesses that the
spirit Of the master is unable to reach
the hearts of men until after those men
have been cowed into submission. The
religion that cannot make Roadway
otherwise than behind the smoke of
powder and in the midst of shrieking
bullets is hardly worth while.-Omaha
World Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

the Hannas and Elkinses and
Morgans-have waxed fat upon
public plumber. But the mar in
the o~veralls is no better off than
he was before the advance agent
of prosperity reached Washington.
He enjoys but one advantage he
did not enjoy before that auspi-
cious event. If he can't get work
h e can get s13 a month for shoot
Ing "niggers' in the Philippines.
But that is scarcely an incon-
testable evidence of the millennium.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Obstinate in His Blunders,

1t is given out that the president
will not recall Gen. Otis and also that
he finds no fault with the censorship.
There are statesmen who are obstinate
chiefly in their blunders: they yield,
perhaps reluctantly, but they yield,
when called upon by some right cause
or principle. We fear that Mr.. McKin-
ley is liable to be enrolled among
these. Memory of his course in the
Eagan affair is not dead. Still, as he
has yielded, though with incredible
slowness, in Ayers case, we do not
despair of his ultimate compliance
with the public demand for a compe-
tent commander in the Philippines
Boston Herald (rep.).
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
North Dakotans Bitter Protest.

Maj. Edwards, of the Forum, has a
letter from Capt. George Aud, of Co.
K, North Dakota volunteers, dated
Manila, May y. The captains home is
in Dickinson, Stark county, and at the
time he was mustered in he was the
county auditor, elected on the republic
can ticket and also a prominent G. A.
r. man. Among other things the cap
tain says:
"'The idea here is to protect every
thing, even a chicken, burn nothing,
but leave everything strictly alone, so
that the Amigos may return, dig up
their guns and shoot us in the back Is
minutes after we leave the town.
81 saw in the papers the other day
that the president has informed Sena-
tor Pettierew that Gen. Otis has cabled
that the volunteers did not want to be-
sem home. I think the president was
giving the senator a fairy tale. If the
volunteers don't want to go home, I
ne e saw anybody that did. l will
venture to say that the only persons
in the volunteers who wish to stay are
regular army Oflcers commanding vol
unteer regiments, say captains and LIST
lieutenants in the regular army, who
are now enjoying the rank and pay of
colonies. There is not today l per
cent of the volunteers who wish to stay.
From u standpoint the war for which
We volunteered is over; We did not en-
list to stay in the Philippines and fight
''niggers" in the iungles. The differ
ence in transp ortation facilities al
lowed the volunteers aud regulars is
very marked. While the regulars are
fitted out with mule teams, the volun-
teers have to be content with single
bull carts, and when the bulls lie down
and die, a they did tie first few days
out on this last expedition, the First
North Dakota had to turn in and drag
the carts themselves.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Attend College This Year.

Never in the history of our coun-
try was there a greater opportunity
than the present for educated young
men and women. What an auspi-
cious moment for those who are
just now on the threshold of life!
Grand Island Business and Nor
NAL College has for fourteen years
been the leading institution of its
kind in the western states and last
year more than twice as many calls
were received for its graduates as
could be supplied. Everything
necessary for q successful start in
life is taught-Business, Normal
and Shorthand courses. Expenses
low. Board only $3.50 per week.
One years time siven on tuition if
desired. College Record sent free,
or for six cents will send elegant
catalogue.
Address.
A. NJ. Harges, President,
Grand Island, Neb.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

the military authorities. This con-
dition of affairs has been called to
Mckinley's attention by senator
Heitfelt and other prominent men
of Idaho, but nothing has been
done to relieve the situation. The
fact that the Standard Oil Com
pany owns the mines where the
trouble has occurred is sufficient
explanation of McKinley's action.
One can easily trace between
the presence of the military power
in Idaho and the management Of
the Philippine campaign the pur-
pose of Mckinley and the power
full corporations which created him
to compel congress to create a
standing army of 100, 900 men,
"for home consumption" 1t may
we'll be borne on Mck1nley's
mind that no president has sue
ceeded himself since Grant, and
that was over a quarter of a cen
fury ago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

The meeting of the national
democratic committee at Chicago
last week was a great success. It
showed three things with absolute
clearness. First, that Bryan is
beyond all question the leader of
the reform forces. Second, that
the reform element is in over
whelming control of the national
committee. Third, that the COM
mittee is acting with great political
wisdom in the direction of har-
monizing local differences and pre-
senting a united front. Anri-mon-
opoly and anti-imperialism will
occupy equal place with the flnan-
cial issue in the next national cam
paign. They are all ramifcations
of the n great issue,-the rights
of man against the might of money.
Steps were taken to strengthen
and perfect the party organization
in every state and to begin raising
funds for the presidential cam.
paign. Encouraging reports were
presented from every section of the
country. "Silver men, get to.
gether," is the slogan of the com.
mittee.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Trust Prosperity and the Strike.

- -rE
Despite the general prosperity
of the trusts there seems to be a
good deal of industrial disturbance
among the workers. Three big
street car strikes are in progress,
with the police all on the side of
the corporations. Thirty thousand
coal miners in various sections of
the country are our, the glass
workers are nearly all out, and in
Idaho a large section of the state
is under martial law on account
Of a strike Of the miners. Hun
dreds of the miners have be i'm
prisoned for months in a filthy bull
pen, absolutely without warrant Of
law. A justice Of the peace was
siezed by the military authorities
and thrust into the bull-pen for
issuing a warrant for the arrest Of
a negro soldier who had insulted
the wife e an imprisoned miner.
Miners I not permitted to even
solicit work unless they forswear
allegiance to the miners union and
are able 70 show a apermit" from
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
RAPID CITY j! $500 g e' ssp Of

alton, On The main line OF tHe FrPHoHI, FIh-
norm * Missouri Valley Railroad. 1t has eight
churches; two miles of street railway; gas and
electric light plants; perfect system OF water
works: second largest works in the world for
the treatment OF gold ore by the chlorination
process; extensive iron foundry and machine
shops. largest Touring mills in the state; lies
but IL miles from some OF the largest and rich
est deposits OF gold, silver, copper, iron, mica
and tin i'll America; extensive steam tile and
pressed brick works; U. s. government Indian
school, land Office and weather signal station;
broad st1eats: MASSIVE business blocks; beauti-
nil parks; state school OF mines; two banks;
four newspapers; at the edge OF the greatest
range stock country in the west shipments for
81 900, OOO); on Rapid river. the largest
stream In the Black Hills; county seat of Pen
nington county.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Abandoning the Tariff Cry.

Republican papers no longer prate
about democratic tariffs for deficits
only; that epigram has lost it's point for
them. The comparison between their
jubilant predictions, which they based
upon the estimates of the chairman of
the ways and means committee when
he presented his measure to restore
SURPRISES in the special session in 1897,
aud the performance of his scheme is
rasher too painful a topic to dwell
upOn.-St. Paul Globe.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Perhaps Alger Might Tell,

What is the reason that the war de-
partment, which does not have to face
competition in its business, which has
every conceivable advantage in MAX
ing a selection of goods and groceries
and is furnished with plenty of money
the reason that this department, with
a business nan at its head, cannot feed
and clothe it's soldiers without Great
ing scandals which disgrace the nation
before the entire civilized world?-
Washington Times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
N. Harges, President,
Grand Island, Neb.

To all new subscribers to The
Union who pay for the paper in adj
vance ($l.5W will be sent FREE one
year that matchless American week
", the Cincinnatti Enquirer. It
has no equal in newspaperdom.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
With ten thousand clothing ma

With ten thousand clothing max
ers on a strike in New York City, a
regiment Of soldiers at Cleveland,
Ohio, to preserve order during the
street car strike and the came con
dition in Brooklyn it would look like
"the people are all right and that
prosperity had struck them hard.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

1t takes a sturdy son of South
Dakota to deliver the right kind of
a roast to Otis and uncover the
~rottenness of the whole Philippine
iasco. If you don't believe it read
THE UNIONS budget of Manila news.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Must Change His Course.

IT President Mckinley takes back
track fast enough and pursues it far
enough. he may yet save himself, but
it is certain thai if he should 90 on for
six months longer prOstltuting every
thing TO low partisan ends he could not
be nominated by his party to succeed
himself, much less be elected president
observation-disclosures News.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

The republican papers-including
the Rapid City Journal-have quit
publishing news from the volunteers
at Manila. They have also quit
roasting Gov. Lee for demanding
the return Of the South Dakota
regiment. The reasop for this
painful silence is quite plain.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Prosperity" and Strikes.

Prosperity" and Strikes.
With easy adaptibility to cir
cumstances republican journals
now maintain with great cheerful
ness that the present epidemic Of
strikes is, after all, a symptom Of
that prosperity whose advance
agent occupies the best bedroom in
the white house, remarks the Chi
cago Chronicle. The strikers, we
r told, merely seek to share in
the fruits of the republican policy
as exemplifed in the D,ngley bill,
the war tax and the assimilative
proceedings in the Philippines.
The workmen desire % participate
in the good times along with their
employers.
1t is hardly worth while to point
out that that republican theory in
wolves the reputation Of another
republican theory--that the work
ing man is the one who benefits
by protective tariffs. For if the
working man has to strike for his
share of the spoils he might as
we'll be without protection alto
gether. The employer resists a
demand for increased wages quite
as vigorously in the full flush OF
McKinley's prosperity as during
the dull times of 'free trade
though in point Of fact we have
never had free trade or anything
approaching it.
But there is another circum.
stance connected with the strike
which does not consist with the
cheerful optimism Of the republi-
cans who hold that the strikers
are influenced solely by exuber-
ance Of spirits over the universal
prosperity. Employers Of labor
claim-and with truth-that they
can supply the places Of strikers
without any trouble Where do
all these idle men come from in
these piping times Of prosperity?
So distinguished an authority as
Senator Hanna declares that there
IS now work for every man who
wants 20 work and that no man is
idle save from choice. How does
il happen, then, that men can be
found TO take the places Of strikers,
though they know they will be ex-
posed to insult, obloquy. personal
injury and possibly death7 If
there is work for everyone why are
there dozens Of applications for
places that involve humiliation and
danger9 Do men give up good
Jobs 70 secure unpleasant ones7
VIII the man who is earning liv-
Ing wages resign his place to take
Z place upon the platform Of a
Brooklyn street car, where he is
the target for abuse, rotten eggs
and brickbatsi Does the content
edScoal miner Of Alabama joyously
seize the opportunity to abandon
his Job and 60 to Illinois, where
he i penned up in ! stockade and
shot IL whenever he sticks his
nose outside7 # not, how are we
g aceount for the fact that there
] srnen to.hll theplaces Of strikers
q the shortest noticef Isn't there
;nins he republican prosperity
progfsynn,e when such things
heppsn
Undoubtedlyt -: Content
snendo not strike. Menswith
ebs do not seek poor ones.
srllss pfomotess, the army
hs political yultures
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

There is one bright spot in the
Mckinley adminstration-the
resignation of Alger! That event
looms up like a rotten mackerel by
moonlight.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

to keep the American public, on
his W avowal, from being stirred
up. The correspondents unite in
declaring that Otis has falsifed the
reports as to the number of troops
Frustrated in the field and by dis
ease in the hospitals, as to the
willingness Of the volunteers to re.
enlist, as to the united support and
sympathy which Aguinaldo is re-
c~eiving from his fellow country
men and as o the frmness of their
purpose to continue the struggle
for independence. But not a sin
gle charge which they make against
Otis hes with any less effect against
Mckinley. He is responsible and
cannot unshoulder his burden of
responsibility on anybody else.
General Funston, foremost of all
the volunteers in the islands, de-
clares in unmistakable terms that
the campaign has been mis-manag-
ed and is a fiat failure, and that
Cancellation should be used to
bring about peace. The admin
istration organs still harp on the
worn out wall that Aguinaldo rep
resents less than one-tenth of the
Filipinos and that the est are
willing and anxious to accept
American rule. Had this prepos-
ferrous assertion even a scintilla of
truth Mckinley would be swiftly
organizing the native army, which
he is authorized to do by law, and
relying on the other nine-tentns Of
the Filipinos to put down the al
legged one-tenth who are support
ing Aguinaldo. But nothing Of
the sort is either being done or
contemplated. The administration
is sensible enough at least not to
believe its own stories.
1t is interesting, however, to note
that in McKinley's tumble Of
policy, n of its sections will keep
on telling a given fabrication after
the other sections have been called
off and muzzled. The latest IN
stance lies with the state-depart-
ment. Col. DENLY, one of the
peace commissioners at Manila,
cabled over a roseate dispatch "a
hours after the correspondents
Ground robin" had shown up the
rottenness of the whole situation,
in which he claimed that every
thing was all right, that the islands
were being rapidly pacihed and
that the volunteers were eagerly
re-enlisting, in fact had to be re.
strained to keep from falling over
themselves in order to get into the
new regiments. That, of course,
is what might be expected from
DENLY. He is or was a Cleveland
gold democrat, pompous and
windy, whom Cleveland SEM as
minister to China. There, about
his first official act was to get his
son appointed as secretary of le-
cation and a second son showed
into a fat job in the Chinese i'm
perial customs service, which is
controlled by an Englishman nam.
ed Sir Robert Hart. Naturally
from then on DENLY drew his
breath according to the wishes of
Sir Robert Hart and the British
government. He now has no diff
hculty in finding things exactly the
way Mckinley wants them found.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
AS seen BY OTHERS.

Breaks the Scandal Record.
No administration has ever crowded
in so many scandals in less than thirty
months of its existence as has the Nc
klnley regime.-Dubuque Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

There's no use talking, if you
want all the news from the boys at
Manila you'll have to take THE
UNION.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

Try TONER'S Vienna loaves. The
biggest and best loaf of bread ever
sold in Rapid City at 5 cents.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
Ayers Resignation.

ner own lie, tne pleSlueIt lldS
torn the clinging Alger from his
bosom and fed him to his enemies.
Every charge against the manage
ment of the Cuban campaign-em-
balmed beef, fever camps, mis-
managed transportation, favorit-
in the appointment of sons OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES laid at Ayers
door, bur still Mckinley chung to
him. He stood for all the follies
Of the Philippine campaign, the
suppression of news and even Of
fetal reports and the sending out
of deceptive dispatches over the
signature of the commanding gen
eral, and yet Alger was a good
enough secretary Of war for d Nc
kinley administration, but when
Alger came out from under cover,
announced himself as candidate
for senator from Michigan, Nc
Kinley came to the quick conclu-
sion that he had got to get rid of
his secretary Of war.
The decapitation, like all the
rest Of McKinley's works, was
done by indirection. Alger knew
too much of the righteousness Of
Mckinley's election and admins
tration and had to be let down
gently. First a series of mild
hints, followed by cold shoulders,
were tried unavailingly. Then to
vice-president Hobart was deputed
the unpleasant task. He got his
victim down on the Jersey coast,
fed him the way condemned Grim
inals are usually fed the day be
fore execution, and then told him
the plain truth, that his presence
in the cabinet was no longer well
come. So passed Alger out of the
cabinet and probably out Of poll
tics. Algerism however remains,
is an issue, and will be a living one
in the presidential campaign. For
let it be known to all men that
Alger was the mere puppet in the
hands of Mckinley, as Mckinley
in turn is the puppet of Hanna
and his fellow managers. Alger
made no army contracts. They
were made by Corbin, under direct
orders from Mckinley. No one
ever went to Alger to secure an APP
pointment in the army. McKin-
ley and Corbin we're the only two
men. ever consulted. Alger had
absolutely not one thing to do with
the Philippine campaign. He
merely signed like an automation,
the official papers prepared and
thrust in front Of him. He cannot
be used as a scapegoat with sue
cess.
Mckinley and Mckinley alone
is the blunderer. 1t has been by
his direction and with his previous
knowledge that garbled dispatches
ofsthe situation in the Philippines
have been put before the American
people. His object has been the
single one Of d~eceiving the Ameri-
can people in order that his plans
may be continued unchecked.
But the truth is out. Every
charge made has been more than
confirmed by the statements Of re-
turned volunteers and especially;
by the Ground robin" Of the entire
body Of American newspaper cor
respondents at Manila, who on
July ~, cabled from Hong Kong
the direct accusation that Otis had
not only suppressed the real sit
nation regarding the war IN the
Philippines, but had actually fore
ed them % send out false reports
to avoid expulsion from the island,
and had even changed dispatches
ii order 70 send out false reports
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-10-30
av0sAm REMEDY COMPANY,
Ger. Stockton, Market snd Ellis Ste
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
TRANSFER Of o o
The Colored Soldiers to Be Sent Out Of In.
dian C0untry.

The colored Soldiers to BE Sent Out Of In
dian Country.
The secretary Of war has ordered that
white troops be sent Immediately to all
western posts upon or adjacent TO Indian
reservations to take the places OF colored
soldiers, where the latter are now sta.
toned. As a result OF the instructions a
company Of the Seventh cavalry, now al
Omaha, will be sent over the Santa Fe 10
San Carlos, A. T., aud the colored troops
which have been stationed at the agency
are ordered to San Antonio, Texas, fol
the winter. The colored soldiers who
were identified by the Indians a. having
beaten them have been taken In hand By
the United States authorities and will be
tried In the federal district court. Sew.
eral Of the Indians are still very low and
ones skull Is 80 badly fractured that
small hopes are entertained for his re-
covery.
II Is said at army headquarters that
the secretary Of war has sent several
tsrse messages, resulting In this radical
step. The government Ia particularly
anxious to avoid any trouble with In.
dams just at this period. for obvious
reasons, and the request OF the Apaches
to have the colorei troops sent away was
readily granted.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-10-30
FINALLY KILLED HIMSELF.
D.. Van Tuy', q Fo'm: r Inmate OF the New
Mexico ASylum. Commits Suicide.

D.. Van Tuy', q Fo'm:r Inmate of the New
Mexico Asylum, Commits Suicide.
Or. Inward A. Van Tuyl, OF Riverside,
Ill who was at the Montezuma hotel,
Las Vegas. a few months z where he
became violently insane and attempted
to kill himself and was committed to the
asylum. where he was up to about two
weeks ago. killed himself In Denver
Thursday night last. When he was re.
leased from the asylum at Las Vegas he
was apparently in perfect health. the in
~stitution procuring him transportation
10 Pueblo. Colorado, where he desired to
20. After remaining In Pueblo a few
days he went to Denver and finally killed
himself In a lodging house by buryiDg a
surgeons scalpel mp TO the handle In his
left breast. Six deep small cuts on bis
breast showed plainly that the discour.
aged physician had determined to end
his life.
Van Tuyl left a very affectionate letter
to his wife and four children.
While In the New Mexico asylum he
made three unsuccessful attempts at TAX
ing his life. once by poison, nee attempt
ing to stsrve himself and once by trying
to stab himself with q shsrpened wire.
all Of which were thwsrted by the vigil.
ance OF the asylum attendants. When he
left the asylum here he WAS turned over
to q responsible party.