The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-15

foremost heroes In the flood of time.
True, it has not sent it's armies to help
Mr.. Bull, for the all sufficient reason
that it could not, for there is n con-
gress still, though it has in these later
days abdicated many of it's functions
in favor of the executive. Neverthe
less there Is enough OF congress left to
raise row occasionally; but, while no
American army has fought under the
cross of st. George, the administration
has done everything in it's power to
aid the British in their crusade against
liberty, Notwithstanding the fact that
we are supposed to be neutrals.
English agents have purchased in
America openly and aboveboard over
$1,000 horses and mules during the
Boer war, have shipped them openly
and aboveboard in their own ships
from the port of New Orleans to South
Africa, have filled the New Orleans pa
pers with advertisements and other
wise deported themselves as though
they were thoroughly at home, and
who shall say that mules and horses
are not ''contraband Of WARP" Why
are they any less "contraband Of war;
than is coal, which is solemnly declar-
ed to be SO by treaty? New Orleans is
a queer place for the English to select
to operate in strangling two little re-
publics. Clearly the spirits of the
mighty dead do not return to earth, or
that of old Andrew Jackson would ap-
pear in that historic city and scare tho
bloody Britishers out of town. 1t would
be retributive justice.
Hats on to Pe.tigrew.
Defeat may have imbittered Hon.
Richard Franklin Pettigrew of South
Dakota, but it did not pale his intel
lectual fires. He kept good his promise
to defeat Mark Hanna's pet bill and
colossal steal, the ship subsidy raid
upon the treasury. That must be q
sweet recollection for Richard Frank
lin the remnant of his days-and may
they be long in the land. He shot many
a Parthian arrow into the serried ranks
Of the army of senatorial looters. One
Of the sharpest, which went straight to
the mark, was his suggestion that the
president of the republic should wear
the farther designation Of ''the emper-
or of the islands Of the seas" Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Pettigrew is not looking for
job under the administration and has
no aspirations to become an ornament
of our imperial court. Pettigrew re-
fuses to bend the pregnant hinges Of
the knee that thrift may follow fawn-
ing. He goes-he may never return
but he defeated Marks fondest hopes.
All hats off to Pettigrew!
With Pettigrew goes another "emark-
able character, Hon. Marion Butler Of
North Carolina. After serving full
term Of six years among the cOnscript
fathers Buffers senatorial career ends
at the age of 81, time of life at which
man is likely to begin in house or
senate. Whether he will again figure
in high public station remains to be
seen, but to mere locker on in Vienna
it would appear that a man of his age
or youthfulness, whichever you please,
who has ability enough to create a
party in an old, conservative state such
as North Carolina and force or induce
it to elect him to the senate at the age
Of 81 must be much out of the ordi-
ly with Rutler, but like the man per-
sonally and wish that he would return
to the Democracy Of North Carolina.
He and they might be of mutual ad-
; vantage to each other in the days that
are to come. Intellectually he has stood
well in the senate. He has not been
regarded as freak, but as a man of
sense.
A Giant Intellect.
Along with Pettigrew and Butler
goes a man who injured his own repu-
tation when he spoke for 1411a hours in
the senate at one stretch and thus ac-
quired the title of the champion long
distance talker." His name is William
Vincent Allen Of Nebraska. He is
much more than mere long distance
taller; he is giant intellectually and
physically, fine lawyer, a strong de-
batter and a man of courage and ca
pacity. He has served eight years
six by election and two by appoint
ment He is honest as the day is long,
and his career has been highly credita-
BILE to himself, his state and his nation.
He has not been chimerical states
man, as our eastern friends are fond
Of believing all Populists to be. On the
other hand, he is a man noted for level
4 ness of head. He is universally respect
ed by all who have observed his course
and is obnoxious to none except the