The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-01
reason on the Floor Of
the House.
a GOOD MAN GONE WRONG,
Dared to Stand Up and criticise
the Administration.
a TIP FOB SENATOR MARX HANNA.

4 TIP FOB SENATOR MARX HANNA,
He sho1ld Have q Law Passed Gree
ating and Declining the Crime Of
Lese Majesty-General Merritt ON
the C0nstitution-Poses ~ = Jurist.
Uncle Marks War Record a. Mark
Twain Runs Amuck ON Imperial-
asna-General Harrison . Thorn In
the Republican Flesh-Riot Of Ex.
travagance-The Next Speaker.
Especial Warrington Letterl
Away with him to the block! Seth
w. Brown, Republican congressman
from Ohio, is the latest traitor to stand
up in the house and with front Of brass
to mouth treason. Nothing short Of the
gutllotine will do him any good. He
should be made an example to all the 4
idiots and criminals who still dare to
believe and assert that the Declaration
OF Independence is not historic lie,
Senator Mark Hanna is neither wise as
serpent nor harmless as dove. His
lack of wisdom is shown in this: For
some time, as sort Of amicus curie, I
have been advising him gratuitously to
have law passed creating and defin-
ing the crime Of leze majesty and pro-
viding pains and penalties therefor,
warning him that in that way, and that
way alone, could he muzzle free speech
In this country as he has done in the
Philippines. For some reason he has
not accepted my friendly counsel,
though it would have saved him more
trouble than all the senile chatter he
hears in the senate in month Of Sun
days.
The first fruit of his neglect to follow
my suggestion was that General Ben
jamin Harrison, once president of the
republic, broke into speech and print
with a lot Of reasonable rubbish which
must vex sorely the patriotic heart Of
Hanna as he revolves In his capacious
head new plans for benevolent assim-
ilation." Unfortunately, the pestifer-
Gus Benjamin has bad habit of catch
ing the public ear. Millions read ca
gerly what this hoary headed traitor
has to say, and, sad to relate, many be-
lieve his utterances. His remarks are
widely copied and are safely stored in
divers and sundry scrapbooks for fu-
ture use and ready reference. Benja-
min, to Marks disgust, does not take
kindly to our newfangled Imperialism.
Remark of q Grent Jurist.
When Mark does enact his leze maj
esty statute, he will have to run coun-
ter to the constitution and make It act
rs an ex post facto law in order to
catch General Harrison, but that won't
matter, as that immortal jurist, Cen
eral Wesley Merritt, who accumulat-
ed his store Of legal lore by dancing at
tendance on drumhead courts martial,
has declared in an ex cathedra sort Of
way: .eThe constitution is played out.
1t is not worth discussing" That set
ties 1t. But when General Harrison is
arraigned at the bar on the ex post
facto charge Of leze majesty perhaps
Of high treason to Mark-he can throw
himself on the mercy Of the court and
! allege as paliiating> circumstance the
doctrine Of heredity, showing conclu-
sively that love Of liberty, which is
becoming questionable and dangerous
under Marks regime, runs in the Har-
rison blood, citing as incidents that
one Of his ancestors helped chop off
4 the royal head Of Charles I; that his
great-grandfather, Blur Ben Harri-
son, signed certain antiquated and
obsolete paper, yclept The Declaration
of Independence, which was saturat-
ed with treason to his gracious majesty
King George III; that his grandfather,
General William Henry Harrison, spent
4 his whole life, and a long one at that,
unfolding the glory OF republic, do
Ing some extraordinarily good fighting
at a place called Tippecanoe, for which
he was made president Of the United
States proper; that he himself, Ben
jamin Harrison, prisoner and defend
ant for four years, barred his breast
Z and risked his life on numerous battle
fields ii defense OF Old Glory, while
Senator Hanna was serving the coun-
try by means of q substitute, for
which service in his own proper person
he was also made president Of the
United States proper by the unthink-
ing hOl pOlloi, as was his grandfather
before him, while Marcus "A. Hanna
& was made q senator Of the United
States, proper or improper, by q yenal
legislature and boss in chief Of the Re
publican party rs a reward for the
1 fighting which he did and the blood
which he shed vicariously through his
substitute, Perchance IN this way
General Harrison may save his. white
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