The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-10
CHAMP GLARKS letter
Three Years of Mckinley
In the White House.
PUT HUMPS ON TAXPAYERS.
Republicanism Is a Most Ex-
pensive Luxury.

pcASlVC AuAulys
COSTS TWO BILLIONS PER ANNUM.
The Expansion of Jefferson Compar.
ed with Mckinley imperialism.
Colonel Roosevelt and "Napoleon
the Llttle"-Empire In Not Peace,
but Blood-Money and the Balance
of Trade.
Especial Washington Letter.l
OF all the men who figured in the
Kansas City convention the one who
made the most capital was Hon. James
u. Richardson of Tennessee, the house
leader Of Democrats.
Sydney Smith once said: "In the
God made round holes and
three cornered holes, and then he made
round people and three cornered peo-
pie to fit in them. But the trouble is,
the round people have got into the
nered people into the round holes, and
nobody fits"
Richardson was an exception to Sgd
ney's rule at Kansas City. He fitted the
great place assigned him by the ma
tional committee, was equal to it's eX,
actions, delivered a splendid campaign
speech and presided with perfect tact
and the absolute impartiality of Chief
Justice Marshall. He made many
friends. AS member of the house, l
am proud of his performance, because
the only function permitted to repre-
sentative in congress at Philadelphia
was when the senatorial cabal which
ran the Republican convention let Hon.
Serene E. Payne move to adjourn sine
die.
Richardson added to his fame at
Kansas City both as an orator and a
presiding officer. He has more tact
than any man I ever knew, and he
had an ample field on which to display
it at Kansas City, and he so displayed
1t as to please everybody. congratu-
late my Brother Richardson most
heartily.
The Man With the Hump.
There isn't man in America who
says more good things than Alfred
Henry Lewis, editor of The Verdict.
doubt If man with a finer or larger
vocabulary ever wrote for any newspa-
per published in our vernacular. Not
long since he dished up the Mckinley
administration in the following jam up
fashion:
President Mckinley has occupied the White
House q little more than three years. For the
same period Of time the government has been run
by the White House syndicate. The humpbacked
taxpayer-brother to the man with the hoe-can
now take stock and ascertain his condition.
Three years of McKinleyism have given this pa
tient man with hump government that costs
about $25O,OOO an hour, nearly $6O0O,0OO a day,
more than 900 week, almost $3.50. .0O0 900
q month"; in the neighborhood Of 81, ,O0O 900, 900 a
year, and yet the patient man with eyes like an
OK il not wholly satisfied!
Reckless Expansion.
Jingoes say that we are opposed to
expansion and call us little Americans.
The name is an insult, and the charge
that we are opposed to expansion is a
lie. There is no use mincing words or
being mealy mouthed about the charge.
It is lie made of whole cloth and
made willfully, deliberately, premedi-
tatedly and with malice aforethought.
] take it that all Americans are expan-
sionists provided the expansion is on
right lines, in the right direction and
will strengthen our institutions and
not weaken them.
But man does not have to be fool
necessarily in order to be an expan.
sionist. Because he desires to see his
country grow in healthy manner he
does not have to be in favor of reach
ing out indiscriminately in all direc
tions and taking in all countries and
all peoples; because man eats wheat
bread is no reason why he should eat
arsenic; because beef does him good is
no reason why he should gorge himself
on rough on rats; because clear spring
water slakes his thirst is no reason
why he should. fill up on aqua fortis.
Rational people want to expand OF
rational lines. Thomas Jefferson't
greatest act was in making the Louisi
ana purchase. That was the mos,
profitable and stupendous transaction
in real estate proposed on this eartt
since the devil took the Saviour to thu
top Of high mountain and offered
him the dominion of the world to fal
down and worship him. That one ac
alone would have placed Jefferson IL
the ranks of the immortals even If HI
had never written the Declaration ol
Independence or Virginia's statute fol
religious freedom or founded the Uni
versity of Virginia.
I am this day in favor Of annexin.
every foot of the North American
British possession clear to the frozel
ocean. It Is contiguous territory, in
habited by much the same sort of peo
PIE that we are and who would becom.