Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-07-03
CURRENT COMMENT,

CUkkENT CUM MI ENI.
At the graduation exercises of the
normal class from the University of
North Dakota at Grand Forks last week
Mr.. Roach, president of the board Of
regents, created something of sensa.
tion by declaring that the normal grad
yates of the university were shut out
from positions as teachers in the public
schools of that city. The question that
suggests itse'f to outside people is, why
is such the case? One or two conclu-
sions must he accepted: either the
Grand Forks board OF education is pre-
JUDGED against the university normals,
or the board does not consider the work
of the normuls up to the standard.
People are getting more or less ex-
cited over the cattle and sheep business.
There is good deal of money to be
made by the wide-awake man who has
little money to put into beef and NUT
ton on the hoof. Two years ago Messrs.
Stoughton and Keogh of Hebron bought
175 head of young stock, paying SO
head for them. They have just sold the
entire bunch for $40 head, spot cash,
net This is 500 per cent. profit ion the
money invested in two years, or in other
words, $50 per cent. per annum. One
can find any number of people who say
they have made from so to 100 per cent.
per annum on sheep, but this cattle deal
beats the record.
Apparently the Kansas Farmers Al
lance has become convinced that there
is no hope of carrying out nationally
the ''Subtreasury" scheme of the Ocala
platform, and the members Of the order
in that state have resolved on trying
something like it among themselves.
They propose to establish in each
county bank and an elevator. The
bank is to issue checks to the value Of
80 per cent of the wheat in the elevator,
and these checks are to circulate as
money" among people who are willing
to take them in exchange for goods or
in payment of Indebtedness It is not
stated that any capital is supposed to
be necessary to establish and run these
banks and elevators, or that the farmers
would deposit their grain without some
such security as is furnished by the
knowledge that a sufficiency of capital
ia behind the nOte-issuers.
Although the vote upon the amend
mont to the Constitution of Louisiana
upon which depends the continued ex-
istence of the lottery swindle will not
be taken until April next, the anti-lot-
tery men already have forced the fight
IN holding their first campaign meeting
in New Orleans. The resolute policy Of
the anti.lottery men is foreshadowed by
the following vigorous declaration of one
Of the leading speakers:
If the lottery cannot be stamped out
by the usual means, it will have to be
crushed by revolution. Unless the state
is redeemed by its own acts the appeal
must be made to the virtue and intelli-
Renco OF Inc WnOle country, 1OT IL IL uOC
Competent for an isolated community to
live as the moral convicts of the world
The sentiment of the country stamped
out slavery, and the rest of the world
has already divested itself of the lottery
curse If the curse is inflicted upon
Louisiana she must become the lost
pleiad in the sisterhood OF states, and
60, forth an outcast pariah with the
coo,1,t 1oftor of oho m q hran1a6 forever
upon her forehead.
Whatever else may be said of the mar
riage of Mr.. Parnell to Mrs. OShea, nee
Wood, it was an honorable and courage