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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
The Egg of the BIue-Nosed Hen,

There Is much amusement in watching
your average free trade editor struggling
with the statistics of imports and ex-
ports and their bearing on the Mckinley
bill. AS rule, the t. t. 9. lets the facts
and figures severely alone; they have
such way of suggesting absurd and
uneconomic protectionist" conclusions.
But once in while he has to wrestle
with them for Appearances sake, il only
to keep himself from being laughed out
of court. He is still in state of mind
over the figures presented at the recent
convention of Canadian egg-dealers at
Montreal, which appointed committee
to ask the Dominion Government to put
retaliatOry duty on American eggs, of
which 1t appears that we exported to
Canada 625, 1853 dozen, or $S9,444 worth,
during the last fiscal year.
The funny thing is that the free trade
organs do not see that the significance
of this sort of thing is that the McKin-
ley duty on eggs is doing it's work very
effectively indeed, and giving the Ameri-
can egg market to the American farmer
and poulterer. Here is a sample of the
way it has worked during the nearly five
months between the 9th of October and
the 31st of March. The customs district
of Vermont received 2,101, 54S dozen of
Canadian eggs during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1890, valued at $273, 8S1.
From the day when the Mckinley bill
took effect to the 31st of March the same
district received only $50 dozen OF Cana
dian eggs, worth $137. In other words,
the whole Canadian egg product is prac-
tically excluded from the United States,
and the market transferred to the home
product instead. But the free trade
editor cares for foreigners rather than
for American producers, and his econ
omic vision Is so razzle-dazzled that he
thinks the market for 625, 1853 dozen of
eggs more important than the market
for Is, 900, 900 dozen. the total of our an
nual importations before the Mckinley
bill was passed.-NeaO York Press
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Canadians Must Pay the Duties,

At q general meeting OF the business
men OF Montreal, Canada, President
Donald Smith, referring to the effects of
the Mckinley tariff law of the United
States. said "the outcome of business
throughout the country has not been
good, but there are indications that
Canada will find other markets and go
on progressing" That's all right. Let
them ego on progressing" on the merits
and results OF their own form OF gov
eminent. They have been having a
good market In the United States for
many years past for their surplus prod
nets In competition with the farmers of
this nation, but the farmers have called
the turn on the Dominion and all other
foreign countries. They demand that
there shall be no reciprocity with other
countries on products that compete with
American farmers and laborers, and
that Is to be the law of the land. That
is the reason why the Canadians are
huffy and are going off to hunt new
markets They average fairly well as q
people. but they cannot be permitted to
rule the United States or TO monopolize
our Eastern seaboard and Northern
boundary markets. The farmers OF
Iowa and other States are thus daily
given evidence that the Mckinley law
Is working steadily In their interest
Des M0t1ses Register.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

THE express car of the Pacific Express
company was boarded as it was leaving
Texarkana, Ark, and robbed, Messen-
ger Ryan being held up at the point of a
revolver. Only one man seems to have
been engaged in the robbery. Express
Ncompany officials will not give the
amount of the loss.
PROFESSOR JOHN LLOYD, of Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, was shot six times and in
stantly killed, it is thought, by Tom
Morton. his nephew. There had been
trouble between them, Lloyd having re-
buked Morton on account of his treat
ment of his wife, who was Lloyd's niece.
In a suit by the state of Kentucky
against the bondsmen of defaulting
Treasurer Tate d decision adverse to
the state was rendered. An appeal will
be taken. The amount involved is
500, 900.
Mrs. HOLLOWAY NEWBERRY has been
arrested at Joshua, Tex, charged with
the murder of her three grandchildren.
Facts were discovered which leave nc
doubt as to her guilt
AFTER long and animated but very
harmonious discussion, the glass blow.
ers convention in session at st. Louis,
has decided to withdraw from the
Knights Of Labor.
THE jnry In the case OF ex-State
Treasurer holland of Missouri returned
d verdict of guilty OF embezzlement and
liked the penalty at two years In the
penitentiary.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Al cents a yard this year.
Their First.
--Ne,o York Press.

They came into the street. car to-
gether Sunday afternoon, little bit Of
young mother-still pale with the
delicate pallor the cheeks OF young
mothers often wear Behind her there
came a great, tall, awkward young fe!-
low with the baby in his arms. He had
all the awkwardness and the clumsiness
OF the average young father who goes
abroad for the first time with a baby of
his own on his arms. He held it up to
his broad, full chest so gently and SO
tenderly in the hollow of one OF his big
red hands, frail, helpless little bundle
of humanity, for which that great giant
would lay down his life.
"Shan't / take him now?" asked the
baby's mother when she sat down.
"No, no; I'll hold him, " he said, as he
gathered up the baby's long ruffied adj
tucked white skirts to keep them from
touching the car floor after he had sat
down
"When you get tired holding him I'll
take him." she said
"Oh, he won't tire me any He isn't
any heavier than Bird was the reply.
And there they sat oblivious to every
thing and everybody but the baby, heir.
baby! Its coming had been to them the
beginning of the cal home epic, and it's
tiny presence had made their little world
so much larger and brighter and sweeter
than it was before. Free Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Wages IN the United States.

There is no reason whatever why
every man in the United States should
not be willing to pay such rates of wages
and such prices of commodities as shall
naturally result from the free and unre
stricted competition of all our own
people.
When trade between people is per-
fectly free, as in this country, there
cannot, on the average and In the long
run, be higher wages paid to those en-
ployed in one industry than to those in
another. Wherever any one industry
gives indication that the compensation
paid to those engaged in it is on the
average greater than the compensation
paid in other occupations, the industry
paying the higher compensation is in
vaded by men from the occupations
paying less, and thus wages constantly
tend to an equalization. This invasion
may continue to point at which, by the
overstocking of the labor market in the
favored industry, wages may finally de-
cline to point lower than the average
rates prevailing in other industries.
Under the Democratic policy, IL wages
fall In Europe our industries stand in
danger of destruction. On the other
hand, while protesting to be the special
friend of the workingman, the Demo.
cratic party would set on foot a policy
which would render impossible any in
crease in the wages of our own people.
1t is sometimes charged as a reproach
against the protective policy that in
some special protected industry wages
tend to minimum. Where this occurs
1t is an unerring indication Of the vicious
distribution of industries, and one of the
most distressing consequences of their
maladjustment. The remedy indicated
Is, not o reduction of the tariff, but a
wider diversiication and distribution of
industries, so that all persons who want
employment may not be compelled to
seek 1t in the same occupation.
1t is obvious that If industries be
relatively few, with large numbers Of
men seeking employment, those men
must distribute themselves as best they
may, and without intelligent adjust
ment, among the few industries in oper-
alton. II larger number enter into
any special pursuit than are needed to
meet the demands Of production In that
pursuit, wages will inevitably decline.
The function Of protective tariff, car
ried to its farthest limit, is to obviate
the necessity for this. It's tendency is
to encourage the establishment of q
variety Of Industries and so to increase
opportunities for employment, not in
one or two but In great diversity of
occupations.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.

Small Items of Crime and Casualty In
south Dakota Improvement Notes
Throughout the COmmonweRlth--Va
rious Events OF More Than Usual I'm
pOrtance.
A NUMBER Of settlers in the Mitchell
land district have ap~ied to enter diff
ferent lake beds under the homestead
laws at the Mitchell land office. The
register and receiver have invariably
rejected the same, and the commissioner
has reaffirmed the rejection and advises
that settlers in order to secure filings on
lake beds which have been returned as
lakes by the surveyors. must apply to
the surveyor general at Huron to have
the land resurveyed. There is as much
as three or four thousand acres of such
land in this district which are suitable
for settlement and which will make
some of the most productive farms in
this section.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
IT Is NOT A ROBBER.
THE ASSERTION OF. FREE
TRADERS IS FALSE.

How the Tariff Benefits the Farmer-Rs-
In tho United States--Short Political
Gossip-Tar.ff Pictures.
The free traders and revenue reform
ers assert that the tariff is robbery. I"
Can it be q robbery Of any one to
SO .ure to the people of this country the
opportunity to supply our national wants
by the hands of our own countrymen?
That is all that the highest conceivable
tariff can secure.
In'times of armed conflict our citizens
are required to leave their homes and
families to take up arms, and at the risk
of their lives defend the country against
armed invasion Why should not the
country in time of peace protect the la
Dor OF those men from an industrial
invasion no less destructive?
If the tariff be robbery" it is first
to be observed that all classes of the
people, the robbed as well as the rob.
bing are better fed, better clothed and
better housed than the people of any
other country in the world. That is the
crucial test of economical politics.
1T Is undeniable that the most perfect
suiting of occupations to the various
aptitudes of all the members of the COM
munity will be produced by the carrying
on of the largest variety of Industries.
Is 1t not then the duty OF country to
maintain such industrial policy as will
secure the greatest possible extent and
variety of production, leaving to the
natural competition between individuals
the function of preventing undue profits
on the part of any? There are $1,000, 900
of active workers in this country.
Among that large number the contests
and competition of those engaged in the
same business may be relied on to adjust
prices SO that none can make profit
greater than the average profits of the
community.
But let us see whether there is any
robbery effected by tariff.
AS to such portion of the money col
lected as is paid to the Government, that
goes into the public Treasury and aids
in defraying the expenses of the nation.
Inasmuch as all the people share in it's
benefits, that portion cannot be con-
sidered robbery"
1t will hardly do to assert that the
foreign manufacturer is "robbed" by our
requiring him to deposit in our Treasury
sum of money in the nature of a
license fee for the privilege of selling his
wares in this country.
The "rob" therefore must consist of
the difference between a reasonable
price and the price now charged by the
manufacturer. If such difference exists,
it must constitute margin so ample as
to. become strong incentive to the peo-
Pile of any section claiming to be robbed
by it to organize for themselves Compel
ing establishments, and thus wholly pro-
tect themselves against the exaction of
the robber. The tariff protects them
against the foreigner, and all that is
needed to protect them against the ma
tive robber is for themselves to do the
work-to produce the article. Why do
they not produce it? II they have not
the skill they can employ it. There
is ample skill in this country ready to go
wherever sufficient indueement is Of
fered.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
IN THE EAST,

The Christian Endeavor people de-
cided to hold their next convention in
New York.
FRENcHY, the New York "Jack the
Ripper" has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
DURING the first half sof the present
year 1,72s miles of railroad were built
In the United States.
ACCORDING to Superintendent Porter's
figures the number of paupers in the
United States is on the decrease.
THE Union Theological seminary may
lose its 100000 cash endowment on &C
count of the trouble over Prof Briggs
AN explosion on the steamer Booth,
from Hamburg, while lying at dock in
New York, killed two men, bruised
three others, and damaged the vessel
$4,000.
PRESIDENT HARRISON expressed him
self very emphatically in opposition to
the spirit of the Cahensly memorial in u
friendly conversation with Cardinal
Gibbons at Cape May.
CORONER LEVY, of New York, says
that he will act On the advice of Attor-
ney General Tabor in the Smiler case
He has fully decided to let the matter
drop, so the body of Harris Smiler will
be permitted to rest undisturbed.
The discovery is made that not child
had been born in the White Hills school
district, Connecticut, in nine years, and
that the youngest child attending school
is years old. The population is about
500 persons and the school will have to
be abandoned.
The rumorS in circulation that an
English syndicate has secured control
of the glucose product of America, and
has closed contracts for the purchase of
the principal glucose plants, is denied
alphabetically by all the officials of the
companies engaged in this business.
INTEREST now centers in the corn
crop The government reports indicate
that the crop will equal that of 1879,
reaching 2, 100. 900, 600 or 1900, 900, 900
bushels. The Increased acreage will
probably far more than compensate for
any possible decrease of average yield
per acre.
Az meeting Of table glassware man
nfacturers Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia in Pittsburg, the plants
were consolidated and an association
formed under the name of the United
States Glass company. The company
comprises thirteen firms. with s. capital
Of 81 ,Oo0, 900
Az explosion OF |, 900 pounds OF nitro
giyeerine which blew s. Bigleys the
driver VI the wagon containing the ex-
plosive, and team OF fine horses to
atoms, occurred at Washington, Pa. All
: that has been found 81 Bigley is a small
piece OF his head GOO feet from the
scene. Within radius Of half q mile
every window was shattered. The shock
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Political Pitb,

THANKS to the Mckinley bill. tire
trade OF California merchants with the.
Sandwich Islands is on a boom. -Pitfs4
burg Times.
The Democratic party is under no
obligation whatever to Mr.. Cleveland:
but even If it were it should at be asked
to sacrifice itself for the qualification of
his personal ambition.--A Lbany Times
Dem J.
THE most significant and encouraging
fact in the present. political situation isl
that the Republicans in all of the States
whore elections are to be held are thor.E
oughly united, confident and aggressiye.F
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
BILLIoN-DoLLAR Congress- will only
be an effective issue when the Democrats
show that the money was not wisely ex-
pended. What item shall be cut off
pensions, ships for the navy, coast forti-l
fcations. mail payments or what?-San
francisco Gail.
The Republican party needs only twu
things to make its success in 1892 abso-
lutely certain, to wit, the election of
Mills to the Speakership and the nomi-l
nation OF Cleveland for the Presidency. -
st LIQUIDS Globe Democrat
AhE- ANCW LUIh DUIt tTi0S 10 IMPRESS
upon the Democracy that now, as In the
past, the only hope OF the party is i'm
carrying New York, and gives the fig
ures to prove its assertion. At the same
time 1t intimates that Mr.. Cleveland Isl
an tmpossibiiity.
MEssRs, FREE TRADERS, would you be-
glad or sorry to see tin-plate mannfac-
tured in the United States on scale
that would put in the pockets of our own
producers and wage earners the millions
of dollars that have been going to Eng
land and Wales?-Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle. il
AT the Peoples convention In Iowa q
farmer from Lyon County was called
upon for his opinion of the outlook ana
gaze it as follows: Crops are looking
pretty we'll up our way. and don't see
much need of new party. The speech
is a short one, but it contains volumes oil
meaning. Indianapolis Journal.
A WATERToWN Is. d. paper adyerI
tises the Mckinley bill and d local store
as follows: That the Mckinley bill
helps the farmer Is proven by the facr
that the Watertown store Is giving
twenty pounds of graduated sugar for
nine dozen eggs Last year 1t took four
teen dozen eggs to get twelve pounds, Il
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Should Get to Work,

Hon. J. s. Clarkson has written q LETT
ter acknow edging congratulations on
his election to the Presidency of the
Republican National League, in which
he says:
"The country is evenly balanced be-
tween political parties just now.
Whichever party is the most vigiIanti
and most clearly educates the people In
the truth of public affairs and public in,
terest will win. The Democrats have.
been smarter than the Republicans i'm.
later years in effecting close organiza-
tion, in circulating directly to the homes;
OF the land campaign literature, in s i'm
ulating the circulating of their news.
papers and in enlisting the activities Of
young men,"
OF course this is calculated to enconr-
age. Democrats, but it ought to set Re-,
publicans not merely to thinking but to
working. Other things are so nearly.
equal that the chances are the party
which begins soonest, and does the most!
and best work on the lin above indi-
Gated, will carry the country i'm 1892.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Not the Destructive Locust.

Prof. Snow, of Kansas, who was sent
to investigate the grasshoppers in
Colorado announces the result as
follows: ''My observations have con-
firmed my previous opinion that the
grasshoppers now infesting portions of
eastern Colorado will not invade Kansas
1t is not the destructive Rocky Mountain
locust which devoured Kansas in 1874 and
1875, but native species of the plains
the long winged locust. This species is now
devouring the forage grasses of this vicin-
ity, but leaves entirely unframed the nu-
merous cornields in the infested areas.
One or two good rains will repair the dam
age done to the range"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Iowa Republicans and RECIPROCITY.


When Attorney General Stone, Of
Iowa. was addressing the Republican
State convention, OF which he was chair
man, the remarks which were followed
by continued and general applause were
these:
.There is but one reciprocity, and
James q. Blaine is its prophet. Ire
mendous applause When he first an
nounced this gospel the Democratic
party, under the spur OF the moment
thought it saw free trade standing in a
more dazzling light than ever before.
But when the spell was broken reciproci-
ty was in q Republican camp and James
G. Blaine was its chief high priest
Here the convention again became Wild
ly enthusiastic.
The farmers of Iowa have sense
enough to know good thing when they
see 1t, even though some of their old
leaders may have told them it was worth
nothing to them. The farmers see that
Blaine's reciprocity scheme is opening
valuable new markets for their surplus
wheat and corn products and hogs, and
the warm feeling they long felt for him
is intensified by the fact that he
has benefited financially every one
of them by adding to the selling
value of his crops, swine and cattle. 1t
is because the Iowa farmers have been
able to perceive the beneficial workings
of reciprocity that they have not wan
dered off after false gods, like the ALI.
ance men OF Kansas and some other
States They have not asked for
"ukase" money and Government ware
houses in which to run corner and Gre
ate famine in foodstuffs, because they
felt that relief in increasing measure
was coming to them from legitimate
quarters The Democrats
did not mention reciprocity in their plat
form. They suppressed it, and they do
not allege, as they are doing regarding
local option, that it was left out "by the
mistake of a lady typewriter. They
simply ignore 1t, for they dare not OPP
pose it openly, because of it's popularity
with the masses, and they cannot in
dorse it, because they cannot reconcile it
with their free-trade "tariff for revenue
only" principles and their wish to throw
open American ports to competitive in
cutting goods of cheap-labor Europe,
while reciprocity only lets in non com
petitive products which help and not
harm trade. The Republican speakers
must point out to their audiences what
reciprocity can be made to do for them,
and then point to the cowardly and
treacherouS Democratic attitude on this
important question.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23

j as terrific and hole in the ground
arge enough for a cellar is the only
mark of the explosion. 1t is supposed
that one of the cans was leaking, per-
hitting the fluid to escape, the jar Of the
wagon exploding it.
The experts appointed to investigate
the accounts of John Bardsley, late city
treasurer, have made detailedreport
to the mayor of Philadelphia. The net
deficiency to Bardsley's account is
1854, s35, in addition to which 1925 900
interest he received from various banks,
making grand total of money misap-
proRriated of Suisse His speeulations
show that he spent 81, 116, 500 dealing in
stocks
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
A Promising Invention,

FL. w. WHITE, of Yankton, claims to
have an invention that will surpass any
thing in the line of motors. He claims
it will utilize the entire force from an
artesian we'll. The loss sustained by
present Inventions, owing to friction
and ''back clashing," is claimed to have
been overcome. A patent is applied for
and officials in the patent Office inform
Mr.. White that he has something new.
If this proves successful, artesian wells
can be utilized for doing large amount
of work
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Morgan and the Catholics.

Commissioner Morgan, of the Indian bu-
reau. has broken off official relation with
the Catholic mission bureau. He claims
that the bureau has worked against his ad-
ministration openly and insidiously because
at the beginning he announced as his belief
that the schools maintained by the govern
ment for the education of the Indians
should be strictly nom partisan. The Cath
Ollie authorities deny the charges and will
appeal for reinstatement to their former
relations
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
An Illegal Grand Jury.

A BIG sensation was created in the
district court at Kearney when an attor-
ney moved to quash the Indictment
found in the case by the grand jury on
the ground that the grand jury was
selected irregularly and that therefore
its work was illegal. The judge sus-
tanned the motion, but said the ruling
would not effect the persons who had
been tried and found guilty.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-23
Cutting Encampment Rates.

The Ohio visitors to the Grand Army en-
camplaent at Detroit are going at the rate
of cent per mile. The Columbus, Hooking
Valley & Toledo, the Wheeling & Lake Erie
and the Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton
railroads having agreed upon 1 cent rate
and the transportation committee of Ohio
having made these roads the official lines.
prominent member of the Michigan Pas
senger association said that it would lead
to q general smash in rates ON all the lines.