The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-01

tnorlty IN their country and that when this end
shall be reached they shall have chance to be-
come IN due time free citizens Of free governs
ment--if congress will say this to them, and say
1t now, it will say this for peace.
1t may be answered that this is about what we
really intend to do, but we have not said this to
the Filipinos. We have carefully and studiously
refused to say this to them.
Why, bless my soul! That was spo-
ken like Democrat and a patriot. 1t
reads like the speeches we Democrats
made a year and two years ago. Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Brown has been perusing
them to some purpose. He was little
late in waking up, but better late than
never. Clearly Brown will have to be
hanged for treason. Nothing else will
do.
RiOtous Totals.
When the Fifty-flrst congress was re-
proachfully denominated 1.-THE billion
dollar congress-" Hon. Thomas Brack-
EFT Reed sneeringly said, "Well, this is
a billion dollar country" as though
that settled it. Republican freebooters
everywhere Rugged themselves with
delight and rapturously exclaimed,
big Tom Is awfully cutey' So they,
deeming his epigram a sufficient de-
Tense for all sorts of raids upon the
public treasury, have gone on from one
outrage to another until conservative
Republicans are beginning to be alarm
ed. "Uncle Joe" Cannon is a watch
dog Of the treasury in spots and under
takes spasmodically and sporadically to
choke on the hooters, but he is evident
~ in the wrong pew to play the role
Of economist successfully. A wise man
once said to me, There Is just one
thing the Republicans can't do, and
that is to economize." Consequently,
Notwithstanding uncle Joe's'' occa-
sioual attempts at retrenchment, the
appropriations have grown in riotous
totals until the expenditures of the
Fifty-sixth congress will exceed the
enormous and incomprehensible sum OF
billion and half of dollars!
The poet Campbell says:
watch the wheels OF natures may plan
And Judge the future from the past of man.
Applying that rule, II Mr.. Reed lives
Ave years he will be compelled to still
further revise his sneer 80 as to read,
"Well, this is two billion dollar coun-
try" provided the Republicans are not
kicked out by an indignant people.
Piling Pelion upon Cssa was holiday
performance beside the piling Of APP
! preparation upon appropriation by the
Republicans. ALPS on Alps arise"
Senator Vest in the conclusion of his
great speech against the colossal ship
subsidy bill declared that the Repub-
licans. drunk with victory, will do any
thing. He was right. They squander
millions Of dollars with as little cere-
! mony as the average citizen takes q
drink Of water. 1t is wicked and
| wanton waste. They are so utterly
reckless that even Senator Hale OF
| Maine felt compelled the other day to
warn his Republican brethren against
the day of wrath-the dies ir@. He
was as one crying in the wilderness.
Thomas Jefferson placed economy
In the public service that labor may be
| lightly burdened" among the cardinal
/! principles Of the Democratic creed.
The Power to Tax.
Chief Justice Marshall in great
case declared, "The power to tax is the
| power to destroy"
Both Jefferson, the great Democrat,
and Marshall, the great Federalist,
were right.
4 Republicans are using the taxing
/ power with such ruthless hand that
they will so outrage the people as to
cause the destruction not Of the coun-
try, let us hope, but Of the Republican
| party. 1t is said that even the worm
will turn at last. Perhaps the Ameri-
can people will finally grow weary Of
being robbed.
In 1912 the expenditures of the fed
| eral government were $1.39 for every
4 man, woman and child. For the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1902, for which
congress is now making appropriations,
every man, woman and child in the re-
1 public will be compelled to contribute
about $11 to help run the federal gov
eminent. That is to say, now 1t costs
4 every man, woman and child $9.81 per
annum more to support Uncle Sam
than 1t did 50 years ago! Truly our
I Uncle Samuels appetite grows with
what 1t feeds on. Like the horse
leech's daughter, he still cries: "Give!
Giye! An overburdened people are
beginning to groan, "How long, o
/, Lord, how long!' t4. B
Can any living man give any reason
why the expenses Of the federal gov.
eminent should be eight times as great
now year by year as they were In 1922
wot not. Is our government more
beneficently administered now than II
was then? ! trow not.
Republicans run the government on