St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-29


RADIO, Tells of Prosperity There
Henry Keller Talks Against
Tariff - North Dakotans Nu-
merous IN the City-Theirs Is
Now the Divorce State.
W. F. Cross. secretary of the agricult-
ural board, who has Just returned from
two weeks trip i'll Colorado, was at
the capitol today. Mr. Gross is inter
ested i'll coal at Grand Function, Col,
and visited Denver. Aspen and other
points.
Replying 10 queries as to the effect of
silver repeal aa the Industries of Colo
RADIO and the feeling of the people, Mr..
Cross said:
The first effect was shown in general
depression There was a feeling that
all was gone-that the interests of the
state were wrecked. La the meantimC
the unemployed continued TO leave,
and the croaKers, VINO saw no hope,
to get out of business. Attention
was turned to the old and ADAM
doned gold mines, especially the
placer diggings, and to prospecting for
gold. Consideration was given to the
coal interests, which are simply enor-
nous. III some points in Colorado the
coal measures are 500 feet in depth, en-
bracing 4 succession OF veins from
few inches to several feet i'll depth
good c0king coal and for general steam
making ana domestic uses. The noun
tain streams furnish abundant means
Tor irrigation, and the depression in
silver stimulates interest on agricult-
ural lines. The natural grazing on the
plains OF Colorado is similar to that of
the Dakota plains, while. with irriga-
ton, they are able TO supplement- the
ranges by from five TO seven tons of
alfalfa per acre per annum. And then
their clays and building stones, equal to
the best on earth, and their extensive
timber interests were taken into con-
sideration, and they have commenced
already 10 build On other lines. At
Aspen men refuse to work for 81 per
day, and they were compelled TO pay
$3.50 for the help required IN their
mines" He believed that practically all
or the surplus labor had either left the
country or had been absorbed in new
pursuits, and there was less call for re-
lief now III Denver then there is i'll ST.
Paul.
As 10 the proposed extra session of
the legislature to deal with the silver
question tie business men regard it ab-
Surd and are opposed 10 il. They hold
that the state has no authority to legis-
late on such subject, and. think the
farmers OF Minnesota and the Dakotas
have as much right to demand that an
extra session OF the legislature should
be called 10 make wheat or potatoes
legal tender DIS the people OF Colorado
have TO deal in the manner proposed by
Gov. W ate with the silver question
They Go hope for results from interna-
uonaL conference and for favorable sill
yer acIOn from congress.
Senator Henry KeIier.of Sank Center.
was among the guests at the Merchants
yesterday. OF course, he talked of the
tariff question, and characterized the
Mckinley bill not only as tax, but a
fraud. He said: Il ship seven car
Ioaos of bobsleds to Winnipeg, valued
al So FOR each sled. pay the Canadian
government an al vaiorem tax of 50
percent, or $40 on each sled The
the cost OF the SIedS at my factory, the
duty OF $40 and the freight. aud you
bet your lif3 the farmer pays it, ana he
KNOWS mighty we'll that over 4 third OF
the cost To hin is a tax. Yes. 1 know
they laugh 1T me because when | talk
tariff 1 always ring i'll Canada. That's
where the tariff hits me, but it hits the
farmer on almost everything he has to
buy, and doesn't do any good to any
body but The rich manufacturer. L
don't know anything about the new
tariff bill, out l do know we Democrats
promised tie farmers we would fix the
Old, and We We got to do it"
Among those prominent in the North
Dakota conferences of the past week
was Hon. Charles Z. Gregory, of Minot.
lawyer. senator and old-tirne resident
of the state. Gregory refused to be in
terYieWed as TO the purpose of the
conference, or indeed to admit that
there had been or was to be confer
ence, and yet he admitted the fact that
OF the fifty or more North DakOtanS in
the city that week only one of any
prominence was Democrat. viz, Hon.
NJ. /. Mccormack. The others were
Republicans. He said he stood pat on
the suggestion made by him last winter
mat every man WHO betrayed the party
in the senatorial contest ought 10 be
kicked out of the party, and should be
expelled from the assembly if they
again assumed to represent the Repub-
hCaH party IN Republican convention.
His attention was called TO a state
ment That the divorces at Fargo now
average one day, and to the exceed
iugly sensational character Of some of
them, and requested TO state, for the in
formation OF the GLOBE, the points in
The Dakota law which have advanced
that state above South Dakota, even. in