Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-04-11

IOr SCatlng to the correspondent OF the
Minneapolis Times that Representative
Hansbrough will be
SUCCEEDED BY M. N. JOHNSON.
He seemed unaware of having said so
but expressed the belief that Mr.. John
son will secure the nomination because
of his popularity among the Scandina-
Wan contingent, whereas the dispensa-
ton of federal patronage by MI. Hans
brough does not seem to have met with
general appreciation among his constit-
uents, and by way of illustration Mr..
Spencer alluded to the Devils Lake post
Office imbroglio.
MI. Spencer has doubtless imbibed the
philosophy of DR.. johnson, who puts
into the mouth of his hero, Rasselas, the
following pertinent expression: "Those
that are not favored will think them
selves injured; and since favors can be
conferred but upon few, the greater num-
Der will be always disconnected"
PLUMMER FoR HANsBRoUGH.
Colonel Plummer believes in the re-
turn of Mr.. Hansbrough, and when the
portly editor of the Casselton Republican
was here he commended our congress-
man for diligence and affability and was
not doubtful of the latter's denomination.
Here are two oracles to which your cor
respondent may safely add a third, name
ly, that only one of the twain will be full
filled. Doubtless there will be a hard
fight, for, as Mr.. Spencer said in sum-
ming up the situation, "there are more
politicians to the square foot in North
Dakota than in any other commonwealth
in the union"
GOV. GEO JONES,
OF New York, the famous gr%eenbacker,
who reckons his advent into this world
from the year in which the first locomo-
tive was made, is in the city impressing
politicians with the amiable philosophy
Of his optimism.
He says that the "good old days" is a
%hackneyed expression which should be
laid aside for the better and hopeful one
"the good days a-coming," if the govern
ment will do it's duty (and he believes it
WILLY by opening up the avenues of future
prosperity. Our republic, says he, is a
menace to monarchy; its march of pro-
gress has witnessed a countermarch of
autocracy toward decay; and the contin-
ued prosperity of the former means ruin
to the latter.
He thinks North Dakota is a great
state with a corresponding future. Its
government is young and requires nour-
ishment from it's federal parent. Let the
national government store the waters of
the Missouri in reservoirs; convey them
IN canals to lakes distributed all over the
state; expend fifty million dollars, if nee
essary, for it will add in the end five
hundred million to the wealth of the
state. All the arid lands of this country
are not in North Dakota. Statistics
show that three and one-half acres out of
every ten in the United States are arid.
Here is a continent in itself whose won
derful resources only await development
by a The individual is impatient;
the government unconscious of its
strength.
Such is substantially the view of this
able statesman.
Instead of spending millions of dollars
in the vain endeavor to protect the land
from the mad annual rush of water by
~levees, why not insure the safety of the
lower Mississippi valley by economizing
with a less expenditure the waters of it's
tributaries? We pause for legislation.
On the question Of national finances
Gov. Jones is equally posted and posi-
tive: One great duty Of the government,
said he, is to
MAKE MONEY CHEAP.
The people demand it, and the national
legislature has been quickened into
action by the %unceasing clamor of it's
constituents. 1t requires no prophetic
vision to predict the early passage of a
silver bill The senate silver bill is the
one that will be passed, because a great
many democrats, while wanting a greater
volume of silver currency, are unwilling
to indorse the administration by passing
a bill prepared by a member thereof.
This is a novel and lucid explanation of
the reason Secretary WINDOWS bill has
not been amended and passed, and why
a new measure has been preferred, al.
though founded substantially upon the
recommendations of the fiscal officer Of
the administration.
The bill will not pass the house sc
easily as it will the senate. Congressman
dIo uOG, dS d Eul0, Especially we'll 0uuChG0O
on financial questions. They cannot be
learned in the brief period of a single
term, and many congressman depart from
the capital for a political bourne never to
return.
Senator Spencer, who is we'll posted on
the silver theme, was an attentive listen.
or to the above discourse and at this
juncture interposed the suggestion that
Bland of Missouri is an intelligent cham.
pion Of free silver. To which Gov. Jones
said, eyes, but he is an unfortunate
leader and does not carry with him the
prestige of SUCCESS"
Both of the advocates of increased sill.
yer coinage concur in regarding as I'm,
founded that opinion which predicts al
importation Of bullion to meet the de-
mands of the compulsory purchase o.
four and q half millions per month, stat
ing that mines which cannot, under thu
present law, be worked with profit viii
be reopened and this stimulus OF the in
dustry together with the enhanced value
of silver will increase our annual pro
duction to I$7O,O00,000, against $4,000,
600 required by the provision of the bill
PERSONALS.
Senator Casey has returned to the city
after an absence of about ten days.
Mai, c., 81, ButtZ, post trader at Ber