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The advocate., 1892-03-30
sPOILs OF OFFICE AND TARIFF IS THEIR
ONLY ISSUE.

ONLY ISSUE.
To the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE.
To the thinking public the plight OF
the editors of the old party papers and
old party leaders in trying to mislead
and ..befuddle the people Is bordering on
the ridiculous.
Their only recognized issue, besides
the spoils Of office, Is the tariff. Even in
that they appear to me like two doctors
who prescribe medicine out Of the same
bottle, the only difference being in the
size of the doses used or prescribed.
Larger or smaller. tariff pills are all they
have to offer to cure all the Ills Of our
body polite. Just like some doctors OF
one school will call the remedies offered
by other schools of practice "quack rem
edies," perhaps for no better reason than
that they are not labeled and prescribed
according to their school of teaching; 80
will our big political doctors. call all
issues presented by the people visionary,
ridiculous, ETC., without reason or trial.
Anyone who will study this tariff ques-
tion impartlslly, without prejudice one
way or the other, will find thstit Is more
of a humbug practiced upon the wealth
producers than appears on first sight.
The whole, real, true milk In the cocoa
nut Is, it affords our rich the best chance
to escape their just and prOportionate
share of national taxation. A tariff is q
tax, and no matter by whom paid, Is al
ways paid at the expense Of labor.
According to Shearman, 10000 citizens
of the United States own three-6fths OF
her wealth, while the other 63,OOO,OOO
own only two fifths Of 1t.
Now, does any sane man believe for
one moment that those persons owning
three-ffths of all our wealth will pay
three-ffths of all that tariff tax as
against only two fifths to be paid by the
63,OOO,OOO? In all justice they ought to
pay that much as their just and proper
tionate share of our national taxes, and
could more easily afford to pay all than
the 63,OO0,OOO who now pay about all.
At least ! venture to assert that less than
per cent. of our entire national taxes ID
paid by those $4,000, and even for that
little share very little useful, mental Oh
physical effort on their part is expended
The question Of interest rates has
more to do with difference in prices be-
tween this country and Europe than
tariff. Interest in Europe is and s pen
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Entgmas.

~ the Wild wet weather,
II" winds long ash. and ~ ran togct,er
A.. osso f tie trees us they eMns' ayer then
The mcasureless grey that was
ali: than n lauguag,
sga css and wonderful. cry on cry ,-o.on
","sInH, "a an eartll Hlat ~ Nexed ana OiO"
H. ans,yering sob OF a broken SKY
v,ha, corld they tell us? We see them eyer /.
VII" The trees. and the SKY ,andihe stretch Oh 'i'
land; ,ba,r secret never,
bu uIIssuy ~ T., no story we und" rstaud.
yst banly the gtost-like nirch CIV y.n
'Rnoyrs much in q placid and sllehL W. loud,
The rain might tell what tle So
Tho wipds repeat what the violets cay.
WHY wccps the rain2 Do you know It's sof
n TOW o know why the wind is so sad. so sadi
have Won stood in a rift 'twiSt a gay hh' .
Seen their Iauds meet and their eyes gro"
Is the tree's pride strong at its tops a Oas0
Ia ,he white rose moro Of a saint than TINS
redl ,hr,,trb tho
easement Ian
A Young girl lying, beautiful, dean raos
barry Pain. fi0m Stories ana lnIer'N
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

Gov. Pennoyer of Oregon deserts
the d. mocratic party and casts his
fortunes with the populists.
The democrats of North Dakota
have withdrawn their presidential
electors, and will substitute those OF
the populist party.
A cashier of a national bank in
Ohio was nominated for elector by
republicans and will be asked to get
of the ticket or out of the bank.
Or. Tregen, candidate for congress
on the Populist ticket, in North
Dakota has withdrawn and Nelson
Williams. candidate for commissioner
of labor has also been pulled off.
Col. W. Hayes Grier, superin-
tendent of public printing and bind
ing of Pennsylvania, says it is a
practical impossibility to have
printed the election ballots under the
new law in time for election. 1t will
require $4,000 reams of white and
tinted paper in equal quantity, which
will weigh nearly 400 tons. There
are few presses in the state upon
which the ticket can oe printed.
Three regular and three specimen
ballots win be required for each
voter.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Cost Of Billiards.

Probably few persons who sit around
apool table witnessing a clever game
OF pool have any idea of the time and
money necessary to become a crack
payer OF either pool or billiards. New
o. boasts many fine amateurs. The
latter are to be found everywhere, for
that matter. ! have seen men hang
ing about a livery stable in {. country
village in their shirt sleeves who can
mole all the balls on an opening at
pool and can run fifties and hundreds
at French carrom. The good pool
player in New York is very often a
gambler and turns his skill into cash,
q he must play with other pool gam
piers who know his game usually. and
lose.
Inc great body OF pool and billiard
layer however, are in il for the
amusement and exercise. They spend
rom an hour to four hours daily walk
,hS around a table and punching tho
worries. Two hours a dav is tbouoht
necessary to keep up practice. A dol
an nour is not an extravagant esti-
Va Oh the average expense in New
horS. The better the player the more
pays, and 500 year in walking
aeund a table isn't much for that kind
~; man. Twenty to forty year of
canS however, represents in good hard
ossh considerably more than that kind
man has on hand at the end of his
III er When you add the time and
pau associations it seems that a
ana nought to get more for his money
". Z. Rerald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Public Debt Statement.

The following public debt state
ment was given out for publication
Oct. 1st: Interest bearing debt,
$685., OBJ ITO; increase during the
month 500. Debt on which interest
has ceased, $3.50, 145; decreased, $780,
$40. Debt bearing no interest, $685.
&c., 4S; decrease, s6Sl. 725. Aggregate
interest and noa-interest bearing
debt, $500, 5lS,16i; decrease, s70S, 345.
Aggregate debt, including certificates
and treasury notes, Sl,573,2 S7, 1872.
Cash in treasury: Gold coin and bar S,
$40, COS, 908; silver dollars, subsidiary
coin and bars, si54, 725, 1873; paper,
s66, 1877 ,06l, bonds, minor COINS and
fractional currency, deposited in
national bank repositories, general
account and disbursing officers
balance, s777, s04, 592. Demand liabili-
ties: Gold, silver and currency
certificates and treasury notes of 1890,
$696, 769.62s; fund for redemption of
uncurrent bank notes, outstanding
checks and drafts, disbursing officers
balances, agency accounts, etc,
$50, 1879, 0i6; gold reserve, 800, 600, 900;
net cash balance, s31, s95, 9lS; agg:e,
gate, Sl3l S95, 9lS. Cash balance in
treasury Aug. 81, 1892, 1929. l52, 3i4;
September 30, 1891, SI31, 500. 9lS;
increase during the month, 80, 743, 753.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Base Bali Season a Failure.

Base ball as a business during the
season now drawing to a close has not
been what the magnates fendly hoped
it would. Financially the season has
been a disastrous one, and the Off
Gals must one nor go down into
their pockets for the deficit. From
the playing standpoint the season has
been an excellent one, and it is doubt
full if a better article of base ball
than that furnished by the twelve
clubs In the league was ever before
seen. The base ball officials will
endeavor to take some action which
will remedy the present defects and
bring back dividends and satisfaction
for 1893. A number of things have
contributed to the decadence of one
Of the noblest sports ever played on a
field, but there is little question that
the action of the magnates at the
time when they supposed they were
restoring the game to a basis of
prosperity has helped more to decrease
the interest in the game than any
other n cause. That was the
formation of a league of twelve clubs.
What remedy will be applied remains
to be een There is not a player,
manager or magnate who will not
admit that two leagues, each with an
eight-club circuit, is the true solution
but whether they will have the;
courage to apply it is another question
1t is just possible that an Eastern
and Western league may be resorted
to as a way out Of the difficulty. The
magnates are adverse to making any
move which would tend to again put
the player on top, and that the
salaries of the men will suffer a
severe cut may be accepted as a
certainty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
GENERAL DOM ESTIC NEWS.

John L. Sullivan now claims that
he was drugged at the New Orleans
fight.
A colored women said to be 153
years old died at Keokuk, Iowa, last
week.
The new return postal cards will
be placed IN sale at all postofices
October Is.
A demand has been made for the
| appointment OF a receiver for the
Chicago Gas trust.
ST. Paul was visited by a bad hail
storm last Saturday. Several people
were badly injured.
Rev. Sam Longfellow, brother of
the late poet, died at Portland, Me,
Tuesday, aged seventy-three.
J. w. Smith, a murderer, was
lynched at Dunsmuir, CAL, Saturday.
He thanked the crowd for doing it.
The cholera scare at New York
has entirely collapsed. The q~uaran-
tine has been lifted at Camp
Low.
A fire in the Omaha stock yards
last Friday night burned up $4,000
worth of buildings and a thousand
head Of sheep.
Thee men and a women were killed
in a fight that occurred at a revival
meeting in progress at Centralia,
Missouri, last Sunday.
Justice Ingraham OF New York has
sentenced Burton c. Webster, the
murderer of Charles Goodwin, to
state prison for nineteen years.
A lot OF wreckagc and the bodies of
six seamen have 1oated ashore near
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
THE FISH THAT SWALLOWED JON
Perhaps It Was a Waite shars inss
of a Wnaie.

There Is no argument valid uP0
premise of inherent impcssioilHy.
used to be concluded beyond quess
that there were no black swans:
cause it is impossible to conce's
black swan. Bet one harmless ;
unconscious black swan from ING 3
poles put all the ingenious tninAe.
rout. Hume argued from his cong
ton of a true induction that the jug
premise must include all possj
cases. This he thought cSnciu,
against n great deal of popular oss
Bat what test have we OF the poss
1t is harder 20 believe that we nav
rlored and classified the whole ne'S
knowledge, than that a rasenVas
with no higher and no lower WA
in its meagre brain than . p's
dinner-should have swallowsu
then disgorged n man. beslas'.
are not without evidence Ina.
piscine conduct is at least posslu,ss
Jonah was sailing in the Asalxa;
nean-right along its whole
from Jop, "a in Palestine to ialsa i
Spain; aud it is in this very sss
even at the present day huse
the white shark. is found; anu
only this, but the bones Of IN"
larger species now extlne'. rsns
word used in the Bible IS ss
term for a large fish, and II inei sss ,
various writer's. sharks. tunnies, W.
dolphins and seals. ms Wn's
attains such n size that Il "a, h
known to weigh four tons anu ssasa|
One that was exhibited last oe.
over Europe weighed neariy Oart|
and very nearly re-enacied ,no ssel 4
Jonah's fish. A British war-ve. sher'
Saline in the Mediterranean
ma, fell overheard. A huge sns.m
stantly rose and the unlaesy &
disappeared within its ms' rnm 4
captain fired a gun at nnouj
deck, and AS the shot struck u.d T
back il cast ;he man ont again m
vas rescued by his eompanioaar;s d s.
forthwith harpooned the fish, allsJ I
and presented him to his in'en
tim. -. centu{II
In the beginning of TINS and
shark was taken al sos
was discovered the body Of
excepting the head. Instances q
corded upon good antnols. ses; :
mems being found in the SAM ~ a. Sc
with a sea-calf in It's ssou, borae.
an Ok, another with a Whole sna q
another with two tunn,e. fcr q
That a man could live thel0 msnrS3
siderable time seems ~ NJ
possible. -Qairer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

animals OF his pursners. AS f'S
pursuers closed on him he turner
suddenly in his saddle and fired upon
his would-be captors. The latter
answered with a volley and Emmett
tnppled from his horse, hard hit. lie
was brought back to town ana dieo'
He made an ante-mortem statement
He confessed that the gang was
responsible for the Red Rock, Whar-
ton and other train robbcries In the
territory which had been credited 70
them. The story of a hidden treasure
he said, was nonsense.
"If there had been a treasure" ne
said, "we would all have been alive
today. It was because we were all
broke that we planned the Coifeyvliie
raid. We were being hard pressed by
the officers down in the territory, aud
Bob decided that we would have to
get out of the country.
"He planned the robbery about Two
weeks ago while we were camped IN
the Usage country. He said he
would Guido the James boys exploits
and would go to Coffeyville and raid
both banks at the same time. we
tried to disSuade him and then he
called us towards. That settled 1t.
You know the rest"
Rewards for the capture OF the
Daltons, or the deliveries OF their
bodies to officers of the law, are stand
ing to the amount of 1900, offered
by the Southern Pacific, the Missouri
Pacific, the Frisco, the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas and the Sante Fe.
II these rewards are collected it is
hoped they will be turned over to the
families of those citizens who lost
their lives in the battle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Better STAY AWAY.
Only Favored Ones viii See the Worlds
Fair Opening.

Although the railroads have given
reduced rates from all points in the
country for the dedication Of the
worlds fair buildings, it does not
follow that everyone who takes
advantage of the proposition and
comes to Chicago will be enabled to
witness the memorable exercises. On
the contrary they are not likely to
get any farther than the fence that
surrounds the worlds fair grounds.
The committee on ceremonies has
decided that only those favored with
invitations will be permitted to pass
through the gates, the idea being
entertained that if the grounds were
thrown open scores of thousands of
people would flock to the place and
it would be almost impossible to avoid
a panic and crush. Even as it is
invitations to the number of 100, 900
have been accepted, and this is about
as many as can be cared for with the
present facilities at the grounds.
1t is needless to say that no lunch
will be served as a part of the
exercises.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
Fraud In lax heIunds,

Fraud in the matter Of the direct
tax refunded to Louisiana by the
general government is being proved
by the researches of the state officials.
Gov, Foster has in his possession the
rolls containing the list OF the direct
tax refunded to the citizens of the
state By the federal government with
the receipts given at the time OF
payment by the collectors show
glaring discrepancies. In nearly
every instance there is a difference OF
81, So or 81 between the face of the
tax recei2Os held by the citizens and
the sun on the rolls. 1t is believed
from the cursory examination made
that the people Of the state were
robbed of hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars by this near during the
reconstruction days.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
The sugar Bounty.

A Washington special says that
"among the sugar bounties allowed
S22, III % goes tn Kansas, $4,000 to
Nebraska, SIG, 30l.73 to Texas and
s2i, 1913 to Utah. That is the appor,
tionment at 2 cents a pound. The
largest amount, Of course, goes u
Louisiana, amounting to S6,SS2 5S9.S3
Kansas had three sorghum sugar fac
tories operating last year by licensed
producers, with q total output OF
l,l36,086 pounds. No other state pro-
duces sorghum sugar. 1t also pro-
duced 18o, 249 gallons Of molasses.
Nebraska had two licensed beet sugar
factories, which last year made :, 734,-
500 pounds of sugar. Texas sugar is
the usual sugar cane product, the
same as that of Louisiana. 1t pro-
duced $3.50, SGT pounds in 1892. The
number Of factories in Kansas this
year has been reduced to two, but
these are expected TO yield a greater
output than the three combined
which operated last year. These arc
the Parkinson Sugar company, at
FO-t Scott, and the Medicine Lodge
Sugar company, limited, organized
under the laws Of England. The two
factories expect to make 10000
pounds of sugar, the Parkinson com.
pany SOC, 900, and the English com,
pany $4,000 0 pounds. They have
$500 acres in sorghum cane from
which to derive their raw material,
The Nebraska beet sugar factories
are at Grand Island and Norfolk.
They have 5000 acres of beets in
sight and expect to make 7,000,0 0C
pounds Of sugar in 1923. Several
new beet sugar factories are in pros
pect in North Dakota, Nebraska and
Iowa, and the treasury department
has encouraging information of pro,
posed establishments which will pro.
duce enough to justify the American
Refining company to establish a re-
fnery at st. Louis. Good reports are
received from the experiment station
at Schuyler, Neb. In Texas fourteen
factories produced sugar for the year
ended June 30. Nine we're using the
open-kettle process, and five the
vacuum pans and centrifugals
These factories employed 967 hands
and produced 2e6,S25 gallons of mo,
lasses. Utah'sI only factory produced
sugar from beets."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
A FOOLISH
The Suicide OF a Kelley Graduate ant
Club Man.

AhV VI ~ nteicI SEauuaLS anu
Club Man..
j. Barlow Moorhead, aged twenty
one years, reputed to be worth half a
million dollars, and recently a Kelley
cure patient, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
at his boarding house in New York
City. Moorhead was the manager
and financial hacker of the play
Young America" Young Moor
head spent six months at the Kelley
institute at Philadelphia and was
d charged as cured. He told a friend
Uhat if he ever touched liquor again
he would blow out his brains. He
returned to the drinking habit some
weeks ago.
1t was later established that Moor
head was a member of a suicide club.
and that he ended his life to keep a
pledge given there can be no doubt.
Among letters found in his room was
one addressed to the coroner, and
read: II have committed suicide as
per club agreement" Please give a
verdict accordingly and oblige J.. BIZ
His friends know of no cause for his
act. and are inclined to believe in his
membership in the suicide club.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

1t has been said that he is a ben
efactor who makes two blades ofgrass
TO grow where there was only one.
To this James F. Merriam adds: mo
less is he a benefactor who causes
a dollar TO be removed from a place
where it is not needed to another
place where it a perform its part in
the worlds work. The men who are
engaged in bringing capital from the
east and sending back first class in
terest-bearing securities, do not claim
to be working purely for the public
good, but none the less arc they ben
efactors OF their race; for, without
the money which they have brought
in, the progress of the west would
have been slow indeed, possibly a
quarter Of a century behind what it
nowis. 1t should be borne in mind
that, from time immemorial, among
the wisest financiers no basis for invest
ment of money has been considered
so certain as n secured by mortgage
on productive real estate. There is
nothing speculative in such an in
vestment, and it has the solidity, lit
orally, of the earth itself"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign
and General Domestic,
Happenings of Note.
Geographic News of the world
Condensed for the BENEFIT
of Busy Readers.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The postefice department has just
succeeded in putting a present end t.
The careerof one Joseph Leger, of the
Dominion Bureau" with offices al
Isl Sth av. New York city. He hat
'arties who represented themselves
rs agents from Great Britain coming
% this country in quest of persons q
English ancestry for the purpose o.
taking advantage of their credulity
md cupidity to delude them into tn,
belief that they are heirs to vas
astates and to bleed them for attor
ley's fees.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

Harriet Beecher Stowe writes in
this pathetic strain of the death of
Whittier: ITO such as he the transi.
tion from this world to the next is
but slight. 1t would be selfish to
sorrow. Ours is the loss and his the
eternal gain. / wish l might send q
lifting tribute, but my days are
numbered, and my pen halts in my
haDd.n
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
ARRESTED FOR TREASON.
The Latest Charge Against Homestead
Strikers---A Great Sensation,

SANat
There WAS a sensation at Home.
stead on the 30th when a number OF
members of the advisory committee
Of strikers, Chairman Crawford and
Members Baird, Ryland, Dierken and
Brown were arrested. They were
charged with treason, the warrants
being based on information of Chief
Justice Paxson. The arrests were
very unexpected. They we're taken
to Pittsburg and landed in Jail.
The information against the men
charged ODonnell, McLuckie and
thirty Others, all members of the
advisory committee, with ordaining,
preparing and levying war agains,
the commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA,
defying and resisting its constitution,
laws and authority. The petition on
which Chief Justice Paxson issued
the warrants we're made by county
officers. This is the first time in the
history of the state that any resident
has been charged with treason, and
the outcome of the cases will be
watched with interest. The penalty
is twelve years imprisonment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

A deal has just been completed by
which the Deadwood Pioneer, the
oldest paper published in the Black
Hills. passes to the democrats. L. 7.
Jeffries, formerly of the Pierre
Signal, will be managing editor.
The credit for the change is due w.
S. Elder, president OF The Young
Mems Democratic club and secretary
of the Lawrence county democratic
committee. The Pioneer has been
consistently republican for sixteen
years. 1t has a wide circulation and
has been q power In politics.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

Those who would revel in the
glories of the Columbian exposition
would better leave their purses al
home, turn their pockets inside out
as an evidence of good faith and
carry their %provender with them.
Already the cabman demands $40 PEI
day or Sc for the use Of his vehicle.
and prices of every thing areclimbinp
skyward.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
POLITICAL.

Minnesota prohibitionists and
populists are talking of fusion.
Wisconsins legislature will meet
Oct 18th to re-apportion the state.
J. F. Startling was nominated for
congress by Georgia democrats or
the 1,0o0lst ballot.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

The new lord mayor of London was
asked before his election if he would
give up his religion for the sake OF
the Office, he being a Catholic. To
this question he at once returned a
very decided no, but after a squabble
ne was elected by a fair majority.
London bridge has not yet fallen
down as d consequence.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

Yale college has received 5000, 00C
IN gifts the past year. That is TIL,
first condition Of a great university
money. The second is a very decided,
first quality OF teaching talent. n,
university in this country can b,
made a university in fact without
these essentials.