The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-09-07

protection has always beer extend.
ed to the people of every square
mile of territory annexed prior to
McKinley's reign, while the present
Imperial administration insists on.
holding millions Of people as sub
ljects and denying them both citizen
sship and the protection OF the con-
stitution. He spoke of slavery as
being IA stain on the flag in the
sixties, but said never a word about
the American flag floating in pro-
lection over slavery, polygamy and
concubinage in the Sulu islands in
1900, and the bribed loyalty of the
sultan and his sub-chiefs ''stain
on the flag" there! Rankin waved
the bloody shirt, blamed the rebel
lion onto the democratic party and
compared Mr.. Bryan to Jefferson
Dayis. He referred to the eds
REIMBURSEMENT" of the negro in
North Carolina and considered it q
crime to compel illiterate blacks to
learn to read and write before per-
mitting them to vote. The late
John J. Ingalls, said (and he was al
most as good republican as Ran
kin) that ITO free the negro was
fright, but to grant him the ballot
without an educational qualification
of some kind was q mistake" But
the late Mr.. Ingalls, was very small
potatoes compared to Rankin.
| About the rankest break made by
this Sulu orator, however, was when
he stated that Mr.. Bryan proposed
to extend the Monroe doctrine to
| Asia and the eastern hemisphere.
Both Rankin and his audience we'll
knew that Mr.. Bryan or any other
public man Of any party had never
thought Of such thing, but the sill
| ly charge showed how hard up the
|imperialists ale for campaign ma
| terial. Even some of the republi-
can gave Rankin a sympathetic look,
and he needed it, too Rankin gra-
ciously granted the independence Of
the Filipinos when they attained
the American standard" but he ad-
mitted that this would perhaps be
latter we we're all dead" For the
present, however, we would help
( them attain the American stand
ard by moving them down like
grasshoppers.
j, OF course Rankin stated that the
J; republican party is opposed to the
trusts-that is, the real bad ones.
The republican party's record or
J trusts since 1896 made this state
ment sound pretty fiat. The demo
cratic party under Cleveland was
: responsible for the growth Of trusts
under Mckinley. Cleveland and
his party brought on the panic Of
1898, factories closed down and
manufacturers were cutting each
others throats by disposing Of their
stocks at ruinous pricss to save
themselves. When Mckinley was
9 elected they joined hands, formed
! trusts and combinations to avoid .
: repetition of the experience. Thai
was Rankin's disposition of the
trust issue! Wouldn't it jar you
, The democrats and pops smiled an6
the republicans looked sheepish oyel
t the small size of the hole through
0 which Rankin crawled on this issue
Q He wound up with the announce
ment that the democrats and popu
! lists under Bryan were opposed t,
9 levery new industry" " gave "the olt
y flag" swirl or two and flung al
! .oratorical arrow at Senator Petit
s grew.
In the whole course of his speecl
g be said not one word regarding slay
4 Iery in the Sulu islands; not on,
! word about the Porto Rican tariff
n not one word about the army bee
a scandals; not one word about tn
81 Cuban postal steal; not one wor,
81 about the surrender Of Alaskan ter
: ritory to Great Britain by McKin
LEY, and not one word of the secre
u alliance with Great Britain. Til
= talk was ineffective, the logic wa
n cheap and the argument was Of th
= milk-ana water order. Many lei
:. the'hall before the ssiron moulder
9 got through.
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