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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

Ar last the members Of the State Press
association have something definite re-
garding the annual meeting for 80. The
executive committee has decided that
the meeting shall be held on Wednes-
day, September !. The meeting place is
Anaconda, and that the association will
be royalty entertained goes without say
ing. Let us hope that the boys will not
have gone 80 far in The knock down and
drag out work Of the campaign as to
prevent a full attendance.-Butte Miner.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN.

The democracy Of the country propose
to make this an aggressive campaign
The issues are sharply and clearly de-
fined and the lines Of battle plainly
drawn. Upon the democratic side there
Will be no lodging, no retreat, no de-
tours or flank movements; the fighting
will be forced to the center of the
enemy's stronghold. The democratic
party has the advantage of position and
in the justice of it's cause. 1t will ap-
peal directly to the intelligence and the
reason of the people. 1t champions their
interests and will fight boldly ahd man.
fully for them, not only until the day of
the next election, but for all time to
come. The plan of campaign mapped
out by the democratic party will be
faithfully carried out.
The republican party, through its
leading newspapers, has indicated the
policy it proposes to pursue. 1t knows
it must be placed upon the defensive
and that it must do its fighting upon
grounds condemned by the people at the
last congressional elections by over l,5OO,-
600 majority. 1t will seek to divert the
democratic party from a fair, square
stand-up fight upon the main issues to
skirmishes over trivial matters. The re-
publican prints of this state have al
ready ''caught on the racket" They are
playing the part of gutter snipcs and
scavengers nosing around after cast off
and forgotten morsels to throw at the
democratic party. Their plan is to drag
in the name of this or that democrat for
discussion rather than meet the argu-
ments of their opponents.
On the other hand. the democratic
party. recognizing the Importance of
achieving victory next November and the
disastrous consequences Of defeat, will
not be diverted from Il discussion of the
issues before the people by the shilly-
shallying methods Of the enemy. 1t will
leave trifiing or u%nimportant matters to
be disposed of by camp-followers and
turn its full strength against the repub-
lican center. With proper organization,
discipline and confidence in the business
of its cause the result is not doubtful.
An aggressive campaign is a winning
one. The democrats of Montana will
make this a decidedly aggressive one.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

MARS has it's inning now, and proie'
sional star gazors have assembled at oal
Francisco to note the antics of the HUE
planet. His distance from the earth q,
present is only about 81, 100000 miles anl
he will not be near enough again to ~
"howdy" to us until 1909. The 3Glhc"
telescope at Lick's observatory enso'S
the star sharps to SEQ what they SUPP
to be great mountains OF ice or snoT b.
bare spots where it has melted a'H
When they got through with thel' 90
servations the world may know D''
about Mars than II now does. hg'
have little faith that IL will.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

The situation at Homestead evidences
the necessity of keeping troops at The
place for an indefinite period Of time
Some few of the strikers are imprude1'
and make demonstrations which can 10
them no good. If they do not wish |"
work under the reduced scale Of wages
they should direct their efforts towaH
convincing the non-union men Of thea'
vantage which would eventually accrue
to them by standing up for living wage
rather than accepting a reduction which
may upon the slightest provocatlon be
repeated. One thing, however, may de-
feat the strikers. While the tariff laws
protect the company they do not profe''
the company's old employees. The com
pany may supply the places of It's for"s.
workmen by importing pauper labor Z"
is being done every week in the year
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
FREE TRADE MINNESOTA.

The nomination of knute Nelson as a
candidate for governor by the republi-
cans of Minnesota means the repudia-
ton of the Mckinley tariff and the whole
republican doctrine Of protection by the
party in that state. Minnesota is IA free
trade state. While the republican ma
chine is in the hands of the plutocrats
and has been worked in their interest it
is manned by free traders from the coal
HEAVIER to the captain. This contingency
was forced upon the few republicans of
the state by the attitude of the demo-
cratic party. the peoples party and by
the republican free traders who are as
thick as leaves in that state.
Their platform is a weak affair. 1t
gives a perfunctory endorsement of Har-
rison's administration, condemns the
Carnegie system as it is illustrated by
the situation at Homestead and calls for
the suppression of the Carnegie Plnker-
tons. On this platform they nominated
IA man whom they read out of the re-
publican party for voting for the Mills
bill and for expressing decidedly free
trade views and who is now opposed to
the Mckinley tariff. The ~plutocrats
didn't want Nelson but they couldn't
help themselves. They saw the rank
AMI file of the republican party proposed
to repudiate the Minneapolis platform
and to nominate a man for governor who
had spoken for and voted with the dem
upon the tariff question and who
is a democrat in all but name, and ac-
the situation with the best DOS
sible grace.
The nomination of Knute Nelson is a
bitter pill for the Harrisonians to swal-
.ow. The fact that they had to go into
the ranks of the free traders to find a
candidate for the head of their state
ticket whose record as a free trader
would add such strength to their cleo.
toral ticket as to give it some show at
The polls must be most humiliating to
Did line republicans. But then after all
can console themselves with the re-
lection that in nominating Nelson, the
rec trader, they have merely cast a tub
% the popular whale. for cute Knute
nay be elected governor "A dozen times
without bringing tho people of Mime
ota any nearer to a reduction of the Nc
smiley duties. a cOnsummatiOn for
which they are devOutly praying.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
PROTECTION AT WORK.

recent number of the Engineering and
Mining Journal gives a valuable illustra-
ton Of the manner in which Mr.. Nc
kinley's tariff raises its beneticiaries
above the natural laws of trade. The
illustration may serve to edify those re-
publican journals which have %ignorantly
contended that the tariff has conferred
a great blessing upon the people by low
ering the price of steel rails and at the
same time raising the wages of workmen
employed in making them.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
starts out with the declaration that
steel rails are - a ton higher than they
were in 1885, although the cost of pro-
duction and the tariff tax are less and
the demand is slight. But it appears
rail makers have been unable to fix arbi-
trarily the price of their products by
reason of the tariff and the ownership of
the Bessemer patents. In 1885 steel
rails sold at S2G a ton and the cost of the
steel in them was SIG a ton. The present
improved machinery has greatly in
creased their output and they can now
be made, when the manufacturer makes
his own pig steel. for about S2Oa ton. They
are sold at $50 "a ton, or at a profit Of 80
a ton. This shows that the profits on
the annual output is between Sl0,OOO,O0O
and Sl2,OOO,OOO-a nice little sum for
steel rail makers to pocket every year.
That the Mckinley tariff gives this
enormous dividend to the manufacturers
is shown by an examination of English
prices. Last May or a little over two
months ago English rails sold for Sl9.44.
The duty on "A ton Of rails AS fixed by
Mr.. McKInley's rail making friends, is
Sl3.l4 per ton. This would bring the
price of English rails in this country up
to S32.SS, and counting transportation
charges, insurance, etc. would bring
their price to at least S3i a ton. 1t will
be seen that American manufacturers
can keep out English rails by selling
their own make at $50 a ton and then
make an enormous profit.
But this is not all. While the price of
rails has fallen in England since 1885
from S23. II a ton to S19.44, the price Of
English pig steel has risen from SlO.G a
ton to S12.1J. In other words the
English rail maker pays SLAB more for
pig steel than he did in 1880 and gets
1878 cents less for his rails, while at the
same time the price of American rails
advanced from S26 to $50 "A ton and the
price of American pig steel fell from ST.
to Sl4 IA ton: so that the American
manufacturer paid 80 less for his pig
and got s4 more for his product. This
gain he keeps for himself while he cuts
lown the wages of his employees and
hires Pinkerton detectives to shoot them
lown if they grumble at the cut.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

A CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore
Sun, who is engaged in the manufacture
of cans for oysters, fruits, etc, afirms,
says an exchange, that the tin umbrellas
''made of American tin" carried to
Minneapolis by the Baltimore republican
club cost S2O,OOO,0OO. That is to say the
making Of tinplate in this country has
cost the American people up to date
that sum. And it will continue to cost
them that much more annually until the
tariff is modified. The umbrellas were
therefore symbols of economic folly; re-
minders of the oppressive taxes levied to
benefit the few at the expense of the
many. An industry which costs the Door
SO much money is a luxury they can we'll
do without. 1t would be wise to pay
our makers of tinplate there are about
four Of them a million, yearly. not to
make anything.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

Mr.. WATSON was mistaken. Mr.. Cobb
was not drunk, he was simply tired. Mr..
Watson, who is a farmer, may be par
doned for the very natural mistake he
made. Before he writes any mole about
members tired members Keeling down
the aisles Of the house he should come
out west and take a few lessons in or
consult some western authority about
drunkenness Col. Sanders, for instance.
In California a man 10 not considered
drunk until he can't hold on the grass
when he is down.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
DEL EGATEs TO GREAT FALLS.

Our evening contemporary in Butte
has discovered "a great big kick" among
Montana democrats over the plan fol
holding a state convention with the
same delegates that served IN BOzeman
As far as Deer Lodge county is con
cerned, no kick the size of a voters foot
has been recorded. The STANDARD has
made a good many inquiries, and, the
way we got it., the democrats of this
county are satisfied to send to Great Falls
the delegates who had seats at Bozeman.
There are no signs Of kicking or contro-
versy.
We understand, however, that there
are differences OF opinion in some of the
counties over this question Of repre-
sentation in the coming state convention.
The central committee did order that
the delegates chosen in May should sit
in both conventions. We never heard
what was the motive of the committee
IN adopting this plan: we suppose the
members thought it would be a useless
waste OF energy to provide two sets OF
men Tor conventions held within a few
weeks OF each other.
In any event. it seems to us that all
cause for contention could be removed
by a simple announcement from the
chairman Of the committee. 1t seems
to us, too, that il there are counties hav-
ing a passionate fondness for the work
Of electing delegates, it would do no
harm to indulge them. But 1t would be
ii mistake 10 let the discussion run till it
ripens into a tedious contention over
credentials at Great Falls. We feel war
ranted in saying that Deer Lodge and
Silver Bow are satisfied to send the
Bozeman delegates to the second con
"entioD. Anaconda Standard.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
Comment is unnecessary.

WILL some protectionist please find a
solution to the following simple sum i n
proportion? If, as some republican
newspapers assert, the raising of the
duty upon tinplate from one cent to two
and ~two-tenths cents per pound cheap
n the price of tinware to the consum-
ers, how high must the duty be raised in
order to get a tin bucket that now costs
80 cents for % cents.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
Democratic STATE Convention.

A democratic state convention is hereby called
to be held in the city of Great Falls, Montana
on Monday, September II, lse2. at I o'clock p. IN
for the purpose Of nominating candidates fol
state officers. a candidate for the national
house of representatives. and three pres
idential electors, and for the transaction
of such other business AS may
properly come before the convention.
In accordance with a resolution adopted by
the state democratic committee. the delegates
and alternates To the state convention held At
Bozcman, June q, l-!'2, are the delegates and al
%ternates to the convention to be held in Great
Falls, September y. ls.2.
The state central committee has adopted tho
following rules for the government of the state
convention:
]. Delegates and alternate delegates shall be
democratic resident Of the county they repre-
sent.
.. In the absence OF Il delegate his alternate
shall cast his vote.
3. In the absence of a delegate and his alter
nate a majority of the delegation of that county
shall he entitled T." cast the vote of the absentee.
I. In case any county shall be without repre-
sentatlOn, either by delegates or their alternates,
such county shall not he entitled to vote.
By order of the state democratic central com
mittce. L. r.. COLLINS. Chairman,
IL. W. COOLEY, Secretary.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

lT has been learned that while Tom
Carter was engaged in the business of
selling books he peddled one entitled
1.-THE Royal Path Of Life" 1t seems
Tom struck the path out here in Mon
tana and has followed it right down to
Harrison as his confidential comforter in
the defeat which awaits him, and as the
handler Of a republican campaign fund
which he will doubtless place where it
will do the most good.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

AFTER the 9Th Of next November Mr..
Thomas ii. Carter will be prepared to
write a book-sold by subscription only
entitled, "What | Don't Know About
Running a Campaign; or, The Time !
Gave Harrison to Make Footprints from
Washington" Farms, eggs, and chick
n taken in exchange for rights to ter
ritory. For further particulars inquire
of 7. II. Carter, Helena, Mont.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

GOVERNOR TooLE having issued a writ
for the election OF "A senator from Silver
Bow county, vice ID. j. Hennessey, re-
signed, the next senate will contain new
members from the counties of Beaver
head, Dawson, Gallatin, Lewis and
Clarke, Silver Bow, Meagher. Custer,
Deer Lodge and Park nine in all. or
the hold-over senators four are democrats
and three republicans.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

II Chicago get a government gift Of
s2,JOO,OO for the worlds fair it 10 Just
that much more than it could hope for
after backing up its request for the ex-
position with the assurance hat il could
and would carry the enterprise to a sue
cessful completion without %pecuniary aid
from the government.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

The people of the United States paid
over $S,OOO,OOO in sugar bounties the last
fiscal year. And yet we cheat yourselves
with the belief we are getting "free"
sugar. Now. il Mr.. Mckinley had given
the people free tinplate and provided for
a bounty upon all manufactured in this
country there would be no grumbling
over the amount that would he paid.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

The Butte Inter Mountain makes this
pertinent inquiry: IF the tariff is a
robbery. why did Hon. w. A. Clark and
Hon. Sam Hauser, at the Helena mining
congress. vote for a tariff on lead? Isn't
any democratic newspaper going to an
swer this question, and also explain why
it never chirruped when the free lead
bill went through the house?'-Helena
journal.
The proof reader of the Helena Jour
nal is the hardest worked man in the
United States and ought to get $4,000 a
year. Just think of having to read those
editorials and of being the only man on
the east side who does it. Butte Inter
Mountain.
Comment is unnecessary.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

TnE people OF Choteau county are
anxiously awaiting the decision Of the
supreme court OF Montana in the Der
nard Brown mandamus case against the
treasurer OF that county. II wat taken
under a%dvisement nearly four months
ago by the court, since which time
nothing has been heard Of it. What is
the natter
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

The republican machine got in it's
work in North Dakota and thrust Burke
down the Threats of a disgustrd party as
it's candidate for governor. But it left
some stalwart kickers behind who will
see to it that Burke travels no primrose
path to an election.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

E,cn side claims a victory at Home
stead, but unless the company is run
ming it's works to advantage without the
aid OF union men it can claim but a
barren one. At this distance it looks as
though the union men have considera-
bly, the best Of the situation.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

THE worlds fair appropriation bill is
having a hard time of it in the house.
That body seems to labor under the i'm
preston that the S5,OOO,00O a%ppropria-
ton asked for would cut too much of a
figure in the Illinois campaign for Harri-
son. II made at all it will not be made
until after the November election.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

Mr. CATER believes the situation in
Nebraska il desperate enough to call for
the presence Of the governor OF Ohio
upon the stump in that state, and 81 MI.
Mckinley Is sont out. His theme is Nc
Kinlcy and protection.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

lr was beef ten, and only two cups OF
it, that Mr.. Cobb drank while he was
making his speech. Probably Repre-
sentative Watson never heard it called
beef tea before. 1t il a common name
for it in places outside OF Washington.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06

Now ~ Carnegie would send over to
Harrison another barrel Of that good
old Scotch whisky it would amazingly
help smooth matters at the white house.
Harrison is not AS clipper AZ he was be-
fore the Homestead affair
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-29
AFTER D1soRDERLY HOUSES.

The Presbyterian Ministers Disagree With
Mayor Gourley on the Subject.
The United Presbyterian Ministerial As
soclation at its meeting yesterday morning
received and adopted the report of the COM
mittee appointed last week to prepare a re-
ply to the position assumed by Mayor
Gourley on the abolition of the dis
orderly houses of Pittsburg. The report
states that the committee is gratifed to
know that the Mayor is anxious to have
the evil suppressed, but they are not graft
fed to know that His Honor is convinced
that every city, large and small, is cursed
with the evil complained of. The report
concludes by asking the Mayor to insist
upon the closing of the illegal resorts.
While discussing the reports Revs. Nc
Crory aud Robinson referred in rather
pointed words to Mayor Gourley and Su-
perintendent O'Mara. Both the reverend
gentlemen claimed that Gourley and
O'Mara are the obstacles in the way of re-
formation.
The report was submitted to Mayor Gour-
ley last night. The document was read to
His Honor. He listened attentively to the
reading. He then took the document and
promised the ministers that he would con-
slider it. The Mayor refused to talk of the
report.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-29
STEEL REVENUE CUTTERS.
How Canada and Uncle Sam Prepare for
| Naval Hostflities Under the Treaty.


How Canada and Uncle Sam Prepare for
Naval Hostilities Under the Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-The fact that
the British Government has just launched
at Ovens Bay Sound, Canada, a modern
steel revenue cutter which may easily be
transformed into an effective war vessel,
does not create much apprehension in
Washington, for the reason that all of the
facts in the case have long been known to
the officials of the Department of State and
the Navy Department They have satis-
fed themselves that there has been no
breach of the treaty stipulation, that there
shall be but one war vessel of each of the
two nations on the lakes.
When the Constance, one of the new Can
sdian lake vessels. was building last year,
an officer of the United States navy visited
the shipyards and closely examined the
new vessel. He reported that the vessel
was exactly what she was represented to be
"a revenue cutter of modern type. Also
regard was had to the possibilities of the
future, and the vessel was so built that she
might become a serviceable gunboat. But
this is exactly what the Treasury Depart
ment has done in the case of all the revenue
cutters built in recent years The United
States now has three revenue cutters on the
Great Lakes. They are the Andrew john
son, an old wooden side.wheeler at Mil
waukee; the Perry, of similar type, at Erie,
and the Fessenden, at Detroit. The latter
was rebuilt in 1882 and now has an iron hull
and effective machinery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-29
A DYSPEpTICS ARGUMENT

Is growl, and that growl marks the limit
of argument with him. The best way to get
him to try q medicine would be to advise
against it-but notice how different his tone
after using Burdock Blood Bitters.
81 have suffered with dyspepsia for the
last two years. Not long ago / commenced
taking b. B. B. am now on the second bot
tle, and feel like new man.
G.kNOX,12 Sherwood av., ,Binghamton, N Y"
REPEATED TESTS WITH UNIFORM SUCCESS
prove the fact that Burdock Blood Bitters
will cure dyspepsia. The reason is plain 1t
tones the stomach to natural action and
keeps the sluice ways of the system free
from clogging impurities.
81 have been troubled with dyspepsia and
heart disease for nine years, and found no
relief until I tried Burdock Blood Bitters.
Now am we'll after taking two bottles.
MRS. ETT1E FRAZIER, :
TTssu ..... Bovine, Mich"