The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-04
Alien RoaSts Morton
The Sage of Arbor Lodge Scath.
ingly Rebuked by the Ex-
Senator
The Honorable j. Sterling Raked From Stem
to Stern by Aliens Caustic
Pen

paper, under the constitution and the
decisions of the supreme court, re-
sides exclusively in the general gov
eminent; and that either partial or
total monopoly of this power by pri-
vate citizens or private corporations, is
a violation of one OF the fundamental
principles of the government. Do you
affirm to the contrary? If SO, 1 will
meet you at Lincoln or Omaha, or
at any other place, even in your own
door yard, if necessary, and give you
an opportunity to expose my ignor-
ance to an eNpectant world.
In the next place, Mr.. Morton, I
believe in government ownership of
railways and telegraphs. Eighty per
cent of the governments of the world,
outside of the United States, own and
operate a majority of the railways in
their respective countries and in many
they are owned and operated exclu-
sively by the government, thus i'm
posing upon the people not to exceed
one-half the burden u system i'm
poses upon our people.
Il believe that under the constitution
the power to impose tariff taxes is
limited to the necessities of the gov
eminent, economically administered,
and that every dollar of tariff taxation
otherwise imposed violates the con-
%stitution and the true theory of a
republican form of government, in
which the people are entitled to have
the burden of taxation rest upon them
as lightly as possible.
l believe in postal savings banks,
and in fact, in everything that is
embraced in the st. Louis populist
platform of 1896, including the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the legal ratio of sixteen
parts of silver to one part of gold.
Now, it may be, my dear Mr.. Nor
ton, that l have passed through this
world thus far without the same nat
i've strength OF gray matter in my
Uranium that you possess. If 1 have,
that is my misfortune, and you should
not, from your loftier station, look
down upon me with contempt, or
speak to me in ridicule. l am strur-
Cling along the best l IAN. My pur-
pose is honest, although l may, from
your point of view, be misguided and
ignorant. III l am, the world will
know it, and will %repudiate my advice.
Ii my advice is good, there are some
who will follow it, despite your con-
tinuous warnings to the contrary. But
it would seem that a mar of your en-
perience, now rapidly approaching
life's SEVENTEEN milestone, ought to
have discovered before this that he
cannot possess a monopoly of all wis
DOM. The numerous books maya
zines and papers printed in the En-
glish language, which is your mother
tongue and mine, open as freely and
readily to me as they do to you, and
without justly subjecting myself to
the charge OF inordinate egotism, of
which you ere properly entitled to a
monopoly, l think l may be permitted
to modestly suggest that l have som
OF these books, magazines and papers
and devote more hours out of every
twenty-four to their careful reading
and study than you devote to yours.
and know OF no reason why l should
not know their contents as well. and
be as able to eXpound them as you are.
unless God, in His inscrutable wisdom
has given you clearer mental vision
than he has given me-; and this, as |
suggested, would be my misfortune,
and ought not to subject me to be-
ratement and punishment at YOUR
hands.
You and conduct a newspaper
called THE Conservative" To a
grounding like myself, it seems to be
a remarkable paradox that j. Sterling
Morton should conduct ANYTHING
conservatively. What a remarkable
distinction between the man and the
title of the paper? Julius Sterling
Morton, with insane vanity and in
sanely radical opinions, masqucrading
under the title OF 'con~servative!" 1t
is altogether highly ridiculous and
laughable to those who know the man
and the paper!
Now, what political faith have you
Mr.. Mortar? What particular knowl-
edge nave You that is not open to the
balance of the world? You are the
constant advocate of monopolies,
You have no faith in republican insti-
buttons. You believe that one man,
or a few men. should control the
ma SEES. You believe that the BODY of
the human ace is the legitimate prev
of the few. You believe that laws
should be enacted, requiring the great
mass of mankind to stand and de.
liver their hard earnings at the COM
mand of a few a~ristocrats. You be-
lieve them "hcwers of wood and
drawers of water" and hat a very few
men. including yourself, of course,
should have the unrestrained right to
take from them by pickpocket meth
ODDS OF legislation. their hard earned
dollars which should go to the support
and education of themselves and fami-
lies. And because I do not agree with
You, but believe that the strong owe
the weak a debt which they should
pay, by assisting them over the rough
places of life, | am held UP by you,
Through your Conservative. 10 ridicule
and misrepresentation.
Respecting the other gentlemen to
whom YOU refer, l individually, know
nothing OF their earning capacity. 1
do know. however. that they are all
gentlemen, and they know what is
due TO, as well as from. a gentleman.
Governor Holcomb has WOW in this
state a reputation for executive ability
and conservatism that you can never
hope to win should YOU live a thous-
and years.
Your judicial opinions will never
adorn the pages of the states history
as do those of the Honorable Samuel
Maxwell, for twenty-three years a
member of the supreme court, and for
twelve years the honorable and highly
honored chief justice thereof. He is
your superior in knowledge. in age.
and in experience. He is now APP
cinlt.. and =; L.