The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1889-10-04
The Campaign Reviewed.


ton. John Miller, the farmer candidate for
governor, boldly allowed his allegience to the
protective principle, and in every speech lie
made he talked protection and committed
the party to that plank Of the national plat.
form. He talked as farmer and believed as
farmer that our larger prosperity in North
Dakota depended upon the growth Of our
manufactures He recognized the intimate re-
latlon between the producer on the farm and
the factory hand. He wanted something OF
home market, 80 that little more Of the sur
plus wheat could be taken care Of in North
Dakota. He did not waut the protective sys-
TEN broken down or crippled until Dakota
had received some Of the benefits that it guar.
antees. He believed our wool industry would
grow rapidly from this time on, and he want.
cd the growers to get the benefit of the pres
ent duty. He believed the development of
this Industry would soon suggest the building
OF woo!en mills in Western Dakota, where
cheap fuel is as plentiful as the hills. There
would be some dlversifcaton in our farming,
and the one ecereal idea would be overwhelm-
ed by true farming. All our campagners fol-
lowed Millers outline and gave the people the
benefit of their investigation and study. 1t
has been campaign Of ideas, with scarcely a
reference to the candidates on the Democratic
ticket. They have been ignored and only the
crooked, inconsistent and humiliating record
OF their party in national affairs touched upon.
The farmers Of North Dakota on the side of
tho protection principle will surprise some of
the ignorant wiseacres Of the far East. There
Is whore they are subscribing to what Blaine
aptly calls "Enlightened selfishuess."-C or
Pioneer Press.
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Only nine out Of more than one thousand
convicts in Pennsylvania penitentiary arc
bred mechanics. A stronger proof that idle
ness is the fundamental aud greatest cause Of
crime could scarcely be furnished. Every hoy
who exhibits no mar ed fitness for a profess
sional life should be compelled to learn ,lse-
ful trade as soon as his common school educa-
ton is finished, and parents who fail to COM
pei their children to learn that which will
make them useful aud respected citizens, open.
ly encourage them to enter upon life Of
idlcness and crilno. The Jews recognized the
the virtue Of teaching their sous trade and
by them the proverb has been originated that
HE who fails to teach his son trade teaches
him to 10 thief" Though the Jew may be
despscd, and will use method Of getting gain
that all old-time Methodist functionary would
be inclined to call a 'lttle sharp" yet right
in this connection We would note their wel-to-
do condition as class, and the fact that the an
nails of the criminal courts of our country l,ave
but comparatively small percentage Of &C
tions recorded against this nationality of peo-
pie. Times and circumstances being different
now than what th.y were century or two
ago, the Same observations that have been
made about boys can be passed over to the
girls. Those Of them who do not have the fac
ulty for or desire to become "school ma ms"
"a truly noble calling) should have the privi-
leRe OF acquiring some trade by which they
can obtain an honorable and independent
subsistence.