The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-04-12

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those guns been pointed in some other
any other-direction and that Pando-
"a box of treaty had never been nego-
tiated, but If that assertion Of the Lon
don press, SO humiliating to our amour
propre, is true, and it looks as If it is
true, what becomes Of that flamboyant
letter which Colonel Hay wrote to
General Dick-Hanna's Dick-on eel
ebrated occasion solemnly asseveratlng,
with his hand on his heart, that we had
no agreement or understanding, actual
or implied, with Mr.. Bull? Shame!
Shame! Shame!
Gags at the Bolus.
Even the Washington Post, which is
much enamored of the administration
generally, gags at the loathsomc dose
cooked up by Mr.. Secretary Of State
Hay. 1t says:
Some days ago The Post called attention to a
newly issued pamphlet Of the state department in
which our government was made to accept Eng.
lands version Of the South African situation to
recognize Englands opera bouffe annexation Of
the two Dutch republics and even to accept Eng.
lands nomenclature in the premises. The pam.
phlet referred to not only had foot notes announc-
ing the "annexations,' but in the text itself 1t
described the South African Republic as ''The
Transvaar' and the Orange Free State As "Orange
River Colony" thus following with servile &C.
curaey the inpudent lead Of the British govern.
ment.
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partment difference to England inspired q number
Of excited special kilograms to out Of town news
papers, and soon the whole country was ringing
with the scandal.
The truth ID that this incident merely figures as
fresh evidence Of the secret entente-'the under.
standing. the agreement, the compact II you
WILL" as Mr.. 10 Chamberlain described 1t in his
Manchester speech last year-the entente that has
expressed itself in dozen different ways within
the past IL months. The abandonment Of our
commerce with Delagoa Bay, while our sale Of
war material to England kept steadily along; the
surrender Of the Porcupine district to Great Brit.
ain on the sorry pretext Of reaching ''tem.
porary" modus vivendi; the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, which would have cursed US forever with
being ask for more proof than thisi Is not this
solemn acknowledgment Of England's sovereignty
In South Africa fitting elimination a our mis-
guided abascmentY
We think it is, and in our opinion the American
people share that view.
The Post can place 1t sesterces upon
the proposition that "the American
people share that view," but what are
The Post and the American people 60
ing to do about it? What can they do?
They deliberately continued the admin
istration in power knowing its Anglo
mania. The Post is playing the old
and condemned game of locking the
barn after the horse is gone.
A Nauseous Dose.
OF the Sc congresses of the United
States none was so thoroughly under
the domination of the president as was
the Fifty-sixth. When it passed the
army bill with the Philippine and Gu
ban riders, it gave Mr.. Mckinley all
the powers of an emperor even if it
failed to make an appropriation for a
crown and scepter. 1t bestowed the
substance If not the outward signs.
The dose was so nauseous that occa-
sionally Republican could not stom-
ach it and squealed lusty squeal MUCK
after the manner Of an unfortunate pig
with his head caught in the crack of
an inconvenient fence. Senator George
Frisbie Hoar squealed, likewise Hon
Charles E. Littlefield of Maine. Inter
ALA the latter said:
This bill, as the house is compelled to act upon
IT, is striking illustration Of most vicious and
ubiquitous practice In national legislation An
army bill. which must be passed in order to pro-
vide for absolL tely necessary expenditures, comes
down from the senate with large number OF
amendments which originated in the senate, and
in order to pass the bill under the rule just adopt
ed We are compelled to vote for all OF the amend
ments whether they do or do not meet our approval
This is method invariably adopted for securing
the passage Of obnoxious measures which other
wise would not meet with the approval OF the
house.
II Hoar and Littlefield believed what
they say, they ought to have the cour-
age of their convictions and break
away from the imperialists and join
the Democrats, the genuine friends of
freedom.
Useful Diplomat.
The vast. majority of ambassadors,
ministers plenipotentiary and ENJOYS
extraordinary are purely ornamental.
Not one in SO Of the diplomatic corps
at Washington is Of any service to his
own country or to anybody else. Curl
ously enough, the exception is hea-
then Chinee. Hon. WI Ting Fang, who
is smart as whip. busy as bee and
cheerful as Mark Tapley. Hon. WI is
useful to his country by making him
self persona grata to all with whom he
comes in contact. thereby causing the
"Melican man" to think better Of the
Chinese in general. All the galloplng
about. speechmaking and newspaper
writing now being done by him have
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