The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1890-10-31
DEMOCRATIC MIkREPRESE EN-.
TATlON

TAT1ON.
Hon. Taylor Crum, of Fargo, made
democratic speech to we'll filled
house at Arcade hall last Tuesday
evening. The gentleman is smooth
and fluent talker, but he thought, no
doubt, that he was speaking to class
of people that had never had tho ad-
vantages of even the rudiments of an
education, Judging from the breaks
he made--breaks that anyone who
ever read history and the newspapers
were utterly preposterous. How any
man that has any regard whatever for
the truth, can come into community
which is composed of as intelligent
class of people as are those of this,
and make such statements as these:--
that the Union army was composed
equally OF democrats and Rcpubli-
cans; that tho tariff was not reduced
on any grades Of sugar above 16
Dutch standard, grades under that
being put on the free list; that moth
ing which the poor man uses is put
on the free list, and dozens Of other
just such ridiculous statements,-is
beyond the conceptions of an honest,
thinking man.
This speaker had "gall" enough to
try and deludc an highly Intelligent
people into tho belief that the Nc
kinley bill, instead of reducing the
/! revenue had increased it--when any
one who has brains and can read can
ascertain the facts by referring to
back numbers Of almost any daily
newspaper--democratic or Republi-
can--and they will tell him that the
revenue is reduced to tho cxtont Of
S45, 100000 annually, according to the
same ratio that goods We're imported
into this country last year.
When this highly truthful orator
was making comparison of the Nc
Kinley and Mills bills, why did he not
mention sugar as compared in the
two bills? The Mills bill did not
touch sugar-and why? Because
Haycmeyer, the greatest sugar trust
monopolist in the world--and, mind
/ you, the democrats are terribly down
on lnonopoliesappeared before Mills
committee and gave it out cold and
plain that they were not even to re-
duco the tariff on sugar; if anything
were done that it should be increased.
Havemcycr is and was at that time,
one Of the great moguls of the demo-
cratic party, and therefore in the
Mills revision, sugar " as left severely
alone.
| Another comparison is binding
twine. The farmcr-loving democratic
committee did not reduce it to any
considerable extent, while the Nc
Kinley bill reduces it from Q! cents
to TO of cent per pound. The
latter bill also reduces all grades of
sugar above 16 Dutch standard from
3 and 81 to cent per pound.
! Mr.. Crum didn't, either, find time
! to state that hides were put on the
free list; nor animals for breeding
purposes; nor fish; undressed furs;
jute; MANILA; sum; indigo; tin ore,
and hundreds of other articles which
were put on the free list, and which
come into daily use by tho masses.
He didmention in ridiculous manner
an article Of commerce known as divi
divi, and to enlighten those who tho't
such a thing as that article SO furry
on the free list, we will state that ac-
cording to the medical dictionary it
is defined as a plant the product Of
which enters largely into the manu-
facture Of dye-stuffs, especially used
in dyeing clothing: So divi divi goes
toward "divvying" with the poor man
after all the fun made Of it by the
speaker through ignorance Of its mer-
it's. The democratic bosses had better
hereafter consign such speakers to
the back-woods districts such as are
found in parts of "poor old Iizzouri'
where newspapers are never seen, but
in enlightened and civilized North
; Dakota thev are positive failures.
| Outside ecn,'i;iiS Wishing 10 attend the
Hope school must either bring written order
from their respective school boards or pay in
advance. JOHN J. WAMBERG,
Prps Of the School Board