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W'" JHS'' 4v\a A- Cfye Black f?ills Union BY ART. W. GIRD. PubliBlied every Friday, at Rapid City S. D. Intered at the Postoffine at Rapid Clt\ S. D. an second class matter. NnliNi'.r'ption, per year, SI.50 paper With Clean-Cnt Opinions, m» sour/y CUIREHT mnmi The Ucnulics of I'rotection. If protection is such a wcuacrfully good thin) why don't the republican leaders in congress jump at the chance to discuss it and spread their argument bofore the people? Carnegie aceuni luted soveral hundred millions while the people were being taxed to protect Jiim. The steel trust is selling steel rails in Earopc for $17 and charging Americans 828 for the same rails. They can do that because their infant in dustry is protected.—Toledo Bee. Irrigation and Ship Subsidy. Irrigation is a national blessing. It changes the atomosphere, fertilizes the soil and will protect 50,000,001) American people now living between the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky moun tains and the AMeghenies in eumirer from the ravages of* famine and peri odic drouths. Ship subsidy is such a brazen attempt to filch money irom the national .treas ury that Senators Allison and Dolliver of Iowa, Spoener and Quaries of Wis ,cousin, republicans as they are, refused to swallow the nauseating do8e and rob their constituents. The west—from the Alleghenies to the Rooky mountains—needs irrigation to foster, protect and develop its agri cultural and industrial interests. It is a national necessity, (needed, indeed, to furni3h traffic for the very ships which are to have the benefit of this subsidy unless the house of representa tives votes down the steal. This side of the Mississippi the people are be coming a unit for irrigation. They are tired of having crops destroyed bv periodic hot winds from the southwest, sweeping over the country like a sir occo and withering everything with their heated blast. They will have irrigation if it uproots every western senator and representative in con gress. The people of the west are excess ively weary of men in congress who persistently toady to a small minority ou the. Atlantic coast, leaving the devil himseif to look after their inter ests, They will make a change, and a quiok change, unless these western senators and representatives come to their senses and work for their con stituents. They are tired of western members representing eastern con stituencies.—Omaha World-Herald. Keep Whitelaw at Home Too. The journal has heretofore express ed regret that the intention of the presideat's daughter to attend King Edward's coronation show has been made a subject of congressional and newspaper discussion. Mortified by the publl ity given a purely private matter, Mr. Roosevelt miikes announcement, that the young lady is not to go to the coronation. $3" The president, we think,.should haye treated with contemptuous indifference' criticismthat was equally shallow and impertinent. His daughter holds no official position, and she has the same right as anybody else to govern her personal movements in accordance with her own judgment. It was perfectly A natural that, like any other young girl, sho should baye wished to see a spec tacle which, however anachronistic and foolish in its medievalism, will certain- ly to® gorgeous beyond anything that thoatrical managers and circus, men dure attempt. jf 'v a special embassy sent- to repre- "'"/sent this republic officially at a cermony -i. to. reassert and dignify the a King's divine —J different mat- designed "preposterous claim of right to rule is a very Every American citizen has a right fsss.Ao discuss that offensively undemocratic 'project and to protest against' such an fict of gratuitous flunkeyism. tiet us hope that President. Rooae ••jHE5ffi9.lt'Will notify Mr. Whitelaw'Reid, V^epecial envoy to His Majesty Edward SypYII-.that the thing being off, work on A 'Jth.o wtlte satin knee-breeches neea not gt Oti. Tho American republic has no bust ^fuesa to figure, courtier-Uke, in a throne "joom. Special envoys there, kow ia masquerade makeup, can ifctowing _jR2r«2iW !,. •/. .• .:• inLsi'rtXr but make fools of themselves and dis credit thisjtwentieth century country in the eyes of all sensible men. Keep Mr. Rud at home, too, Mr. President.—New York Journal. Bryau hashes tirover. With a recent letter of ex President Cleveland, in which he refers to his joy over the outlook for relief from the ''dreadful dreams" of tho past, as a text, Mr. Bryan roundly excoriates the ex-president in the Commoner. He says: "For four years he stood between the people and reform for four years he made the White house the rendezvous of cunning and crafty representatives of predatory wealth: for four years the corporations ami syndicates controlled his administration and fcced him t,o veto Democratic measures and sitjn Republican measures. Lie refused to give his sanction to the most important measure supported by the Democrats and bent all his energies toward secur ing legislation desired by the Republi cans, even when he knew that he would divide his party by doing so. "lie loaded tariff reform down with the blame that, should have been borne by the gold standard, and not only did nothing for the oountry him self, but left a record that has hung like a millstone about the neck of the party ever since: it is to this kind of 'pure Democracy' that he invites the party to return. CLEVELAND'S NIGHTMARES. "And what were tlio 'dread ful dreams'-^nightmares—that disturb ed his sleep? Well, there arc not many of them there was just one— the repudiation of his administration by an indignant Democracy—and this was not a dream it was aliving reality. He was charged with a betrayal of his trust, with turning the party organiza tion over to Wall street and with using the patronage at his disposal to punish loyal Democrats and to reward recreant ones. The charge was pre ferred before tho rank and file of the party and he was condemned by the largest jury that ever sat upon a case. The sentence was complete and six mil lions and a half of voters supported the platform which repudiated his financial policy, while only 130.000 supported the ticket that received the nominal indorsement of his administration. "If we eould punish the betrayal of political confidence as we do the em bezzlement of public money he would be receiving the limit of the law, but instead of seeking forgiveness for the wrong done by .him to his party, he nurses his resentment and waits im patiently for the party to apologize to him for not allowing him to lead it bodily into the Republican camp. SYNONYMOUS WITH REPUBLICAN. "What excuse can there be for a Cleveland party? The Republican party can serve every purpose that a Cleveland Democratic party could serve. "Imperialism was the paramount is sue in the last campaign, but Mr. Cleve land, while presumably opposed to im perialism^ id not feel interested enough to say a single word in support of the Demooratic ticket. His association with |he great financiers was so close and so constant that even a war of con quest and the imperiling of the re public could not draw him from their embrace. "There is not a single issue upon which the Cleveland Democracy is pre pared to make a fight and its assump tion o! control in the party Would be regarded as a treaty of peace with the Republicans on every important queS' tion. If Mr. Cleveland thinks that the Democratic party is ready to return to the mire into which he led it and in which he-laft it, let him announce his candidacy on any platform he is /rill ing to write, and he cannot secure the delegation from a "Single state in the union. If his modesty forbids his own canlidacy let him name a candidate who will agree to 'make his adminis tration like Mr. Cleveland's second ad ministration aud he' will not have a delegate in the convention. The 'dreadful dreams' which disturb the exploiters aud those who grew rich by stock speculations, are entirely satis factory to the rank and file of the party and to the producers of wealth general ly the party will never be led --back to ttw odious aud odorous days of 1892 1896." Lincoln ana imperialism. The Nashville American.and some «f the other imperialism journals of the south—of which their are not very many—have been making the point that southerners who have been forced to submit to the authority of the United States cannot consistenly make the consent-of-the-governed argument with regard to the Philippines. Further they say that quoting Abraham Lin coln, w.ho said that God Almighty never' made a man good enough to govern- another man without man's copsent. as the champion of the conBen of-the-governed theory', loses its force when it considered that Abra bam Lincoln wUs*' the war president who subdued the south'. Now, that this is a very bitter argu ment for a paper published iu the south to make. Abraham Lincoln undoubt edly believed in the consent of the MAIN STREET IlWVW governed and also in the coercion of the south. He was perfectly consistent in these two beliefs, as he premised the belief in the coercion of the south with the supposed priority of the union over the states as to time and as to sovereign authority. Now the south has always contended that this was wrong, his torically and legally, but Mr. Lincoln believed it and therefore was consistent. To Lincoln the secession of a state from the union was exactly similar to the secession of a county from a state. Hear what he had to say in his special message to congress in 1861: 'The states have their status in the union, and they have no other legal status. The union is^lder than any of the states, and, in fact, it created them as states. Originally some dependent colonies made the union, and in turn the union threw off their old depen dence for them and made them states such as tbey are." Now, while all this was undoubtedly wiong in the southern view, it shows Lincoln's opinion and how in his own mind he reconciled the-consent-of-the governed principle with the coercion of the south. If It were true that we of the south are estopped from sympathizing with the Filipinos and advocating the cause of their independence because we have lost our own liberty, it would be our duty to fight the United States for the liberty taken away from us and regain it. The southern states have equal rights with the northern states and are upon an equal footing in every respect. Texas is as free as Massachusetts Louisiana is as free as New York. One is not before the other, nor the other before the one. The states are free and equal. It is proposed to make the Philippine islands not equal to states of the United Ssates, but subject territory. There is no doubt that Abraham Lincoln, if he were alive and true to his repeated declarations, would agree with the southern people upon this question, although the mention of the fact seems to be exceedingly unpalatable to im perialists in all parts of the country.— Houston (Tex.) Post. Tho Vice of Sagging. .•.' Clouds the happiness of the home but a nagging woman often needs help. She may be so nervous and run down in heolth that trifles annoy her. If she is melancholy, excitable, troubled with, loss of appetite headache, sleeplesness constipation or fainting and dizzy spells, she needs Eleetric Bitters, the most wonderfully remedy for ailing women. Thousands of sufferers from female troubles, nervous troubles, backacne and weak kidneys have used it, and become healthy and happy. Try it. Only 50c. At C. M. Fallon's guarantee satisfaction. Don't lose sight of THE UNION'S that' 20-page magazines edition to be issu ed in April. 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