The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-08

lex talionis and raise him at Ills own
game, but nevertheless such is the fact
of history. Young Nicholas did not
| propose that his sugar should be dis
eliminated against, so he took his pen
In hand and wrote the ukase which has
set the Chicagoese Wild They are not
mealy mouthed about expressing an
opinion. Secretary John NJ. Glenn Of
| the Manufacturers association said:
| The members Of our association were informed
some time ago by their statesmen of the threat Of
| Russia that If Secretary Gage levied dscrim.
mating duty against Russian sugar in favor of the
sugar millionaires Of the United States something
serious might be expected in the way of retalia-
ton from the Russian government We mmedi.
ately sent in request asking for liberal inter
probation OF the Russian sugar law and also set to
work to satisfy ourselves whether or not the con-
tention OF our government was right. We found
that remission OF the excise tax to Russian sugar
growers was in no sense bounty
In the meantime we received advance informa-
tion that retalatory measures were being prepared
by NJ. de White, which would be announced as
soon as an adverse decision by Secretary Cage
was made. We warned Mr. Gage Of this Secre-
tary Gage has seen fit to listen to the so called
experts in the treasury department and decided
NJ de Whites measures have already been made
known, and the interests involved are even greater
than we at first thought.
Does anybody believe that these Chi
cago implement manufacturers will
lose that $2O,OOOOOO? If he SO believes.
he is an idiot. No such thing will hap
pen. They will simply charge the
American farmer that much more
They will mark up the price Of imple
ments, while Lyman enables the sugar
trust to mark up the price Of sugar,
and the American farmers are to be
caught going and coming-to be ground
betwiXt the upper and the neither mill
stone. It's a fine game the American
farmer bucks against He has but one
remedy, and that is to cast the Repub-
lican freebooters into that outer dark
ness where there will be weeping, wall
ing and gnashing of teeth The farmer
has the game in his own hands, if he
will only play it. If he does not rise
In his might and hurl those who are
despoiling him from power, he has him
self to blame.
Republican Logic,
Since the good day when Gutenberg
Invented movable types no such argu-
ment was ever printed in favor of any
subject Whatsoever as that of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer in justification of the
wanton and wicked waste of the pres
ent congress. 1t says:
We wonder if Senator Hale and the other gen
tlemen who have been making speeches and warn
ing congress that the people are becoming alarm
ed over the immense appropriations would really
like to turn back to the days when appropriations
were small We rather think that if they hac 10
go to Europe in slow moving wooden vessels le-
pendent upon the wind their trips would be few
and far between, nor do we believe that they
would enjoy iourneying to and from the capital
in stagecoaches even in the earlier passenger
coaches OF the first railroads. a +stagecoach costs
few dollars; Pullman car costs into the thou
sands We wonder what our grandfatiers would
have thought OF s., 600 900 ocean greyhound?
What difference does it make as to
what our grandfathers would have
thought Of a 100000 greyhound?
That's not the question. The matter
at issue is whether or not the appro-
priations of congress in recent years
have been larger than they should be-
Senator Eugene Hale is not Demo
GRAFT or a Populist. He does not come
from the south or from the wild and
woOlly west. He is New England
Republican, and things Republican
must be extremely bad when he lifts
up his voice in protest. The Philadel-
phia Inquirer thinks it necessary to
read him a lecture for joining the re-
formers and economists even Temporal
rily.
Republican Extravagance.
The other day Hon. Charles Fremont
Cochran of Missouri made some vigor-
GUS remarks in the house as to Repub-
lican extravaganza, during which he
quoted from The 1nquirer's most hat
ed rival, the Philadelphia North Amer
lean, Wanamaker organ. OF course
that was adding insult to injury in the
estimation of The Inquirer, and it
jumped on Cochran with both feet and
danced war Jig upon him. After de-
nouncing him as "a behind the times
congressman" 1t proceeds as follows:
And right here we would like to ask Mr. Coch-
ran question. When he draws a. check, he pays
2 cent tax. That goes to the government. Can
he tell in what other manner he contributes to
the income Of the government: He helps in an
indirect way, no doubt, but does he know it when
he does so2 Is he ground down with taxation to
help support the government? He may pay--we
hope that he is prosperous enough to do so-taxes
to his city and state 1t is this local tax that he
and the taxpayer feel, not the governmental tax.
A billion dollars year would not deplete Mr.,
Cochran's pocketbook, but it would build ships,
open up rivers and harbors, irrigate desert land,
lay the foundations for vastly increased general
trade and put tens Of thousands Of men at work.
That is what billion dollar congress would mean,
and 1t would fnghten no one except few con.
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