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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
TIE demise of the Democrat Broadaxe

TIE demise of the Democrat Broadaxe,
at Fargo, IS but another added to the
ong list in the line of inevitable fate
which awaits such enterprises, founded
upon faith alone, which not only impov-
erish the unfortunate adventures them
selves, but sap support from established
and legitimate newspapers IN the same
community. The proprietois of the
Broadaxe have lost heavily, and yet the
support it received, which enriched it not
but lured it on to greater loss, was that
much taken from the Argus and Repub-
llcan, old and established journals that
have stood by and grown up with the
town, booming 1t and bringing in settlers
and trade to the merchants and business
men from the infancy of the city.
As the street hawker saps the trade
and support of the merchant, so do
ephemeral and meteoric newspaper enter
prises sap the support of permanent
journals. This is wrong both in principle
and in business policy. 1t is like taking
stranger into your house and feeding
him with the bread that rightfully belongs
to your children and pleading that you
are increasing the population of the town
by SO dong, and SO you would be but to
the detrlment Of those who were already
with you and whose interests were iden-
tical with your own. A town is not
judged so much by the number of its
newspapers as by their character and evil
dence of enterprise and thrift The
more poorly patronized, poverty
newspapers town sends out, the worse
Il is for it. They carry with them much
the same impression of the place from
whence they came as would ghosts from
a graveyard.
There is no political party endowment
nor campaign fund behind the news
papers in this country. They must de-
pend alone upon their legltimate!earning
from patronage of business enterprises.
They are necessary so far as business in
terests require them. but all beyond that
number are not only superfluous but a
burden, and the time has now come when
a halt will be called upon these visionary
dreamers of newspaper fame, and the test
Of the ''survival of the flttest' will be
applied. Many are now running on the
same hope with which drowning persons
catch at straws, and while thes do not ex.
pect to survive the next winter seek to sap
the cream Of the summer from those that
are permanently established and are here
to stay.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

TIE run being made upon some OF the
banks In the east is the most foolish thing
the people could do, as it is IN any case
or any where. There is scarcely any bank
that could stand run of its depositors.
The government itself could not stand q
run OF Its greenback holders for specie
1t seems to be one of the inconsistencies
of human nature to want what cannot be
had and to care but little for what can be
had at any time upon application. No
body wants to withdraw his money from
the bank when he knows he can get it
any time he wants it.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

THE financial storm which has wrecked
a number of banks and brokers IN wall
street and dragged down, or made the ex.
cuse for the suspension ofseveral banking
institutions in the west Twill have but little
effect upon the legitimate commerce and
traffic of the country, only so far as it may
tie up for the time their deposits. 1t is a
matter of little consequence to the people
engaged in legitimate business what the
result of the stock gambling speculations
may be only so far as combinations in
these may interfere with the circulating
medium of the country. The practical
effect of this will be an advantage to the
west as it will have a tendency to drive
capital out Of the central maelstrom where
it Is liable to be swallowed up into the
legitimate enterprises and industries of
the west. 1t IS In the very nature Of
things impossible for disastrous none
tary crash to visit the industrial and pro-
ducing domain of the west. These enter
prises are built upon a solid foundation
and are 50 varied aud distinct in their
operations and resources that even a COM
plete failure in one will not drag down
others. AS soon as the grip Of the giants
is relaxed upon the countless millions of
capital in Wall street the small dealers
will begin to pull out what they may be
able to save from the wreck and invest it
IN western lands and producing opera
finna
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

The latest discovery, and one that will
not only be of deep interest to the medical
profession but to the people generally, is
that Of M. Louis Pasteur, celebrated
French chemist. 1t is claimed to be
specific, not only as a preventative but
cure of hydrophobia, ma]ady and infec-
tion from which humanity shudders and
shrinks with more horror than from any
other cause of death. His manner Of
treatment is by inoculstion similar to
vaccination as prentlve or modlfyer of
smallpox. by experiments and exhsus
tive tests he has by means of transmission
obtained virus which he declares to be
a specific. From virus taken from the
brain of dog that had died of acute by
drophobia he inoculated monkey which
likewise died. From this one he inocula-
ted another which was affected in q light
er form and so on to the fourth which
was scarcely affected. He found that
with the rabbit the disease increased In
intensity with every Transmission. So
from the weak virus obtained from the
fourth monkey he inoculated rabbit and
from this another and from the second
third obtaining three degrees of intensity
and with these three lnoculations be de-
clares any person or animal is hydrophobis
proof, having for the last four years CIV
en- his theory and remedy the most thor
ough practical tests and holding good in
all
Some years ago an article was publish
ed in the Philadelphia Ledger, and the
reliability of the writer endorsed by the
editor of that paper, recommending with
great confidence Elecampane as spe-
cific tor hydrophobla, and as that remedy
can be obtained at any drug store 1t is
within the reach of ALL The writer gives
an instance of two men who were bitten
by the same mad dog within fifteen min
utes OF each other and both applied to an
eminent physician of that city who pre-
scribed Elecampane root. One took it as
directed and never had any symptoms of
the disease while the other with the re.
mark that it was "an old woman 8 remedy
refused to take it, went to his family ply
slcian, had the wound cauterized, was
put under course of medical treatment
and died of hydrophobia the ninth day
The writer cites several cases where the
Elecampane remedy was used with COM
plete success upon cattle. The prepars-
ton Is one and half ounces of good Ele.
campane root bruised in mortar, add a
pint of new milk, boil down to half
pint, strain off, and when cold take at
dose in the morning, fasting. No food
should be taken for four or FIVE hours af-
terwards This Is to be taken every other
morning for three days. This remedy is
simple and should be kept in mind for
an emergency.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
The WEEKLY ALERT.
J, &. WARNOCK, EDITOR.

In case the bill increasing the member
ship in each no lse Of the territorial !egls-
lature to double the present number shall
pass the senate and become law, each
legislative district as it now stands will
elect two members Of the council and four
of the honse of representatives at the elec-
ton this fall, as the territory cannot be
re-dlstrlcted until the next session OF the
legislature AS this is contingency that
is almost sure to happen those who figure
the placing OF the candidates out will
soon commence on the problem. Com
mon fairness would of course dictate that
these members should be selected with a
view to as nearly an equitable division OF
the candidates as possible.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

nearly always equal to the necessities OF
the occasion and when the case demands
heroic treatment he is prepared to admin
lister It. Talmadge is called sensational
because he calls things by their right
names and gives both saint and SINNER
their portion in due season and without
any sugar coating. He has the advantage
over the great majority Of his brethren
in the ministry of age, ability andl stand
ing to defy rather than bow to public SEN
timent. He is natural leader in moral
thought and conduct ana commands
rather than entreats. lie is impartial in
dispensing the truths of the gospel as he
understands them, and this sense Of JUS
tice commands the respect If not the adj
miration of all.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
THERE is now dead calm III the repul

THERE is now dead calm III the repub-
lican party on the subject of the p7esiden-
tial nomination to be made IN Chicago the
first week IN June, and it Is probably that
ominous silence and oppressive calm
which is analogous to that in the elements
of nature which precedes a cyclone. This
coming political cyclone may demolish
some fine appearing air castles, and bury
in the debris some very promising candl-
dates. The suspense and anxiety o. the
aspiring candidates as they view the little
breezes spr,nging up here and there which
are precursors OF the final wreck of hopes
and crash of schemes when the yeomanry
Of the country come together the Sd OF
June to represent their constituents must
be anything but pleasant, and produce
anything but happy frame If mind.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
81 90 PER YEAR.

THE democrats went into the present
congress with great flourish of trumpets
as tariff reformers. They wept over the
woes of the people who had to pay trib-
ute to the manufacturing nabobs of the
east through the operation of the protec-
tive tariff system. They elected the free
trade Kcntuckian, Carlisle, speaker Of
the house. Morrison introduced his hor-
iZontal tariff reduction bill. That was a
feeler of the public pulse on the question
and enabled the statesmen of the demo-
cratic collar to air their opinions on the
subject and draw the fire of the rcpubli-
can members. In the secret councils Of
the party they no doubt arranged to kill
the bill. They played it fine on the dear
people. But in the final action they
found more republicans ready to vote for
the measure than they expected, and they
were confronted with strong probability
that the republicans not only intended to
let them pass the bill, but to help the n
do it so far as they might without COM
mltting the party to the measure, and the
democrats had to resort to heroic means
to defeat their own tariff reform move
ment. To do this and make sure work of
forty-one democratic statesmen had to
be offered up as sacrifices. But they were
equal to the occasion, and now the party
comes before the people in favor of tariff
reduction and opposed to it, as the To-
callty may require.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
THE death of the old man Palmer, at

THE death of the old man Palmer, at
Battle Creek. Mich, reported in the dis
patches, is noteworthy principally be-
cause of his former relations with Ma
poleon Bonaparte, the world-renowned
soldler-emperor of France, he being the
last survivor Of the guard that attended
the "Littlo Corporal in his six years of
exile, banlshment and imprisonment on
the island of St. Helena, from 1915 to his
death IN 1921. Napoleon Bonaparte
foueh hit his last battle on the 18th of Jun G
1916, that of Waterloo, in which he was
disastrously defeated by the English un-
der command of the Duke Of Wellington,
which Is often now used in smile as
"gave them Waterloo" meaning dis.
astrous defeat, frequently used in con-
nectlon with the result of elections. Ma
poleon died at the age Of SO years He
was a soldier from his youth up, having
entered the military school at the age of
eleven. Several times in his early life he
was ma de to feel the pinch Of poverty and
once after he had reached the grade of
brlgadier and had been dropped from the
rolls. his loyalty being suspected, he spent
half year in Paris almost IN the coudi-
ton of tramp, but his was
"One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

as well as within, as a constitutional
question involving vested rights. The
point has been reached where the question
of moral sentlmentallty ends and that of
legal power and constitutionality begins,
by which 1t must be finally decided. The
Sioux City Journal, editorially the ablest
paper in the state, has all along counseled
the extremists that there was still in ex
istence an instrument called the c0nstitu-
ton, which, though it might be ignored
in popular enthusiasm and fanatical leg
islatlon, would be made the arbiter of the
questi IN when the courts come to pass
upon it. The supreme court Of that state
ls OH record in the opinion that prohib-
itory liquor law does not infringe upon
that guaranty of the constitution which
says that emo person shall be deprived of
life, liberty or property without due pro-
cess of law" But in discussing the Iowa
prohibition question the New York Post
quotes Justice Bradley of the supreme
court of the United States as saying in
giving lne OPINION OF the court that IN
one has ever doubted that u legislature
may prohibit the vending of articles deem
ed injurious to the safety of society, pro-
vided it does not interfere with vested
rights of property. When such rights
stand in the way of public good, they can
be removed by awarding compensation to
the owners" The Post quotes Justice
Miller in the same case as saying. "the
solitary exception" to the CONSTITUTE onali-
ty of laws prohibitorv of the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicants "is the case
of law operating so rgidly on pro operty
in existence at the time OF its passage,
absolutely prohibiting its sale, as to
amount to deprlving the owner of his
property"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
keSi9ued and Elected.

BosToN, May 2l-President End,co,t
resigned from the Oregon Transcontinen-
tai and Elijah Smith elected his success
sor. Elijah Smith is native of New
Bedford, Mass, and is man with twenty
years railroad experience, about As years
OF age. He built the Burlington s. South
western railway, $50 miles in length, and
sold it about year since to the Burling-
ton Cedar Rapids & Northern. He also
built 60 miles of railway in Mexico which
he sold to the Atchlson, Topeka S Santa
Fe. He has at different times been re-
ceiver of several different roads in the
west and is man of considerable wealth.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

THE bill introduced in the senate Of the
United States by Senator Cullom, Of llli-
nois, making it penal oifense for any
president, cashier, teller or other
executive officer Of any national
banking association having capi-
tai of 100000 or upwards to engage
in speculation in stocks, bonds or other
securities, or IN grain. provisions or mar
gins, for his own individual account or
for his own personal profit, either directly
or indirectly, or have any partnership or
other financial interest IN the operations
of any private banking or brokerage firm
or business, is one that recommends itself
except that the restrictive qualification
should be stricken out and make it apply
to such officers of all national banks.
The national banks are the best bank
ing system that has ever been devised,
and its character as such should be main
tanned. The bills Of these banks are
amply secured by the Government. and
there is no depreciation Of their value
whatever may be the financial condition
of the bank on whose account they are
issued. They are not "legal tender"
1t IS true, but they are never rejected on
that account except as legal technlcallty
to gain advantage in cases III the courts.
One never notices, except out Of curiosity,
when he receives national bank bill
what particular bank it is issued from.
because it makes no difference in its
value, The knowledge that the Govern
ment of the United States guarantees it
to be worth its face value is enough to
satisfy the holder.
A great many safe guards are thrown
around the depositor by the national
banking act, but the Government does
not guarantee the deposit. The bill re-
ferrsd to is designed to give additional
security to depositors by removing a
prolific source OF failures of such instltu
tiSns and was no doubt suggested BY the
recent crash and suspension of banking
institutions resulting from stock specula-
tions in New York. 1t is not expected
that bank will keep in its vaults the
full amount of its deposits. There
would be no compensation for the re-
sponsibility If it did, but 1t is expected,
and rightfully TOO, that his money shall
he made earn something to the bank that
holds and Is responsible for it in leglti-
mate way, but not to be pnt INTO hazard
ous schemes Of marginal grain and stock
deals, and it is to prevent such reckless
risk of other peoples money that this uill
by Sena tor Cullom was introduced. >
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23

The financial trouble Of the treasurer of
Barnes County is the old, old story
Many an otherwise good and honest man
has gone to financial wreck and ruin the
same way before. The man who uses
money, held i'll trust by him, for his own
personal profit, however sure he may be
of success in the operation, is on the
broad road to ruin. He not only leopard
ICES himself, but his bondsmen as well,
and might as well use their money in his
own wild speculatlons without their con-
sent as their credit. There is only one
safe course for the custodian of public
funds to pursue, and that is, to keep his
trust invlolate, no matter what seemingly
glittering opportunities for speculation
may present themselves. 1t would be a
good plan for the securities on the bond
of every custodian of public funds TO re-
quire him to frequently render an account
of the money on hand and show the
money for it. This would forestall the
investment of the public funds in specula-
tion except by connivance Of the securi
ties themselves, and If they did that they
would be equally culpable and deserve no
sympathy in case of loss. When these Sc
curlties assume a responsibility for the
accommodation Of the officer it would be
nothing more than right for him to keep
them assured Of his fidelity to his trust,
as lie receives all the emoluments of the
office and they nothing for the risk they
take
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
The general Methodist conference

The general Methodist conference in
session at Philadelphia last week was an
important Me both in character and the
ability of its members. Among other I'M.
portant matters considered was that of d.
vorce upon which the conference took the
strong grounds Of resolving that emo d.
vorce shall be lawful in the sight Of God,
except for adultery" This is strong in two
respects, one in that body assuming the
vicegerency to declare what "shall be
lawful in the sight of God' on the subject
and the other III ignoring the laws Of the
land upon the same subject. The laws of
the land on the subject of divorce are not Sc
lax MS many suppose. The laxity Is in
their administration, as it is in the case OF
murder and many other crimes that might
be mentioned, and not in the laws them
selves. We apprehend the reform should
be in our social system and courts rather
than in the legislative power, for laws IN
and of themselves are powerless unless
supported by popular sentiment and rigid
ly administered by the courts. T..cre are
stringent laws against adultery, but til, :,
are hagrantly violated and hardly moe
than one case in thousand is prosecuted,
and this CRIME would increase if made the
only ground for divorce as II would be
the only means of obtaining a release
from the matrimonial yoke. 1t is true
that divorces are too easily obtained, but
we insist that the fault is in the admins
tratlon of the law and not in the law it.
self.
The youth of both sexes should be In
structed and educated on this subject be-
fore marriage rather than be allowed TO
learn by bitter experience afterwards. II
is the IL ost important event in their lives
and upon the choice hangs their future
happiness or misery, for married life is
either heaven or hell, and those who mar
ry from emotional love or dime novel in
fatuatlon will find that the odds are largely
towards purgatory, for elth:r one of the
couple can make the married life of both
a hell, while it requires the united efforts
of both to make it heaven. Marriage is
the most important contract Of the life
time and yet is too often entered upon
with less judgment and consideration than
the young woman would exercise in Sc
lectlng a hat which she could throw
aside at any time, or the young man in
selecting the stvle of his coat As long
as people marry with such inconsidera-
tion divorce laws will be called into fire.
q uent rcquisltion.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-05-23
The rransconsinensal A..oe,..,on.

CHICAGO, May 2l-Representatives Of
the roads forming the Transcontinental
association began session here this af-
ternoon for the purpose of consummating
the proposed money pool which is to en-
brace all Transcontinental roads, The
committee to which was referred the
work OF preparing form of contract not
being ready to report an adjournment WAS
taken till tomorrow. The formation of
the pool appears assured.