The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-12-25

six ounces per day for three hum
dred days; that is to say, 1925
pounds of butter for the year? If
so the average COW has turned in
$25.S75 and the dairy product of
the state for 1908 would be $1O,-
634, 625, or two and one half mill
lions more than the Annual Review
gave us credit for
AT Boston, Wednesday, Prof. Per-
cival Lowell said that his assistant
had been able to determine that
Mars had measurable vapor This
goes to confirm the theory of life on
that planet. The proof is derived
from photographs OF the spectrum in
comparison with the spectrum of our
moon.
| The guests of honor at the annual
dinner of the North Carolina Society
Of New York was President-elect
| Taft, who made most significant
address considered in its implica-
tons on the eve of a new admins
tration. Editor Page of the Worlds
Work president and between speech
es choir of Negro singers from
Hampton Institute sang plantation
songs. Many noted Southerners
were present. Mr.. Page told Taft
that they had noted the republican
solidity of certain portions of the
North, such as New England and
Pennsylvania, but were pleased to
note the tendency to break it up in
Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota. BY
the same token the Southerners
present would welcome the break up
of theSolid South. They must have
a democratic party of tolerance and
democratic party of character,
land neither party must be ranged
on lines of race" Mr.. Taft's speech
aimed to show why a break in the
Solid South would be a good thing
as he pointed out the absurd po-
sition of many southerners who reg
ularly vote with one party and re-
joice in the victory of the other. He
went to defend the southern suffrage
laws with their educational qualf-
cations as constitutional only urging
that the sooner they were applied
with equality as to white and black
the better would be the tone of the
community, adding that the negroes
should be given equal opportunity
with the whites by education and
thrift to meet the requirements. The
object, he said, was to prevent the
domination of an ignorant elector-
ate, white or black. The proposal
to repeal the fifteenth amendment
he said was impracticable. He
wanted the South to understand that
the attitude Of the North and of the
republican party was not one of hos
tility and criticism, but one of SYM
pathy and encouragement in her re-
markable development.
The new magazine rife that has
just been placed in the hands of
the army and state militia is report
ed success by Gen. Crozier of the
Ordinance Department. He says this
type is more powerful, accurate and
rapid than the one it has replaced.
The problem OF avoiding erosion of
cannon and small arms by the new
ammunition, has not been solved.
The Christmas shopper is given
much advice 10 buy early. The adj
vice il good for many reasons. The
vs3l-to-do should make it point to
DO their shopping before the rush
begins, because the average wage
sarne. quite generally has to wait
until the last payday before the
holiday before arranging for the
visit Of Santa Claus to his home.
II is unfair to the salespeople and
unfair to the people who by force
Of circumstances have to wait, for
those who can buy one time as we'll
as another TO put of their shopping
until the last few days.
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President-elect Taft expresses the
opinion that the United States is
still needed in the Philippines, and
that the Mckinley plan of benevo-
lent assimilation should still be car
ried out. No living man is in a
better position to judge what is best
for the Philippines than Mr.. Taft.
His years as governor-general Of the
islands, followed by his service as
secretary of war, dealing directly
with the problems connected with
the islands, have fitted him espec-
tally we'll for knowing the needs of
the Philippines and the best way to
satisfy those needs. The islands
will not suffer under the Taft adj
ministration, and their people will
not be turned loose to experiment
with the problem OF self-govern-
ment before they are fitted for it.
The New York Times gives the
total vote cast at the November cleo
ton for the republican, democratic,
socialist and prohibition parties as
14,739.899 as compared to 10, $780,
1872 in the election four years ago.
This falling on Of 100000 votes,
according to the Times, is due partly
to the natural growth OF the cleo
torate and partly to the votes of
the Bryan democrats who refused
to vote for Parker four years ago.
Taft's total vote is given as 1885,
168 while Roosevelt four years be-
fore. though he got a bigger ma
/ iQritY OF the nonular vote WAS hut