Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-27
THE WHOLE STORY.

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for congress, made a
characteristic popullst speech at
the opera house last Saturday. The
whole speech was a juggling OF
figures and misstatements and every
assertion can be refuted with the
exception that the speaker stood on
the Omaha platform.
Here is one Of the statements
hat is exceptionally rank: eff we
had government ownership of the
railroads, We could reduce freight
rates one-half and double the wages
of the railroad employees ant, as
an argument, made the statement
that employees of the Railway
Mail Service received twice the
wages for halt the work that rail-
way employees did," This is evil
dence that Knowles is trying to
delude the people and has no regard
for the truth. The average postal
clerk receives only SIS. per month
and has more responsibility and
is required to have more knowledge
than any employee in the operating
department of railway service
aad as to work, just ask any
postal clerk. For instance, take
the clerks on the Great Northern
out of st Paul. They run through
from st Paul to Minot, North Da-
kota-531 miles. What company
asks their men to run this distauce?
And this run is commenced at 7:45
p. m. and ends at $40 p. m. the
following day, besides two to four
hours work before starting.
Mr.. Knowles blackboard speech
is another instance of his ability as
a perverter of the truth. His
statements are fully disproved by
Senator Gallinger. The following
from the Sioux Falls Press shows
the matter up in good shape:
Those who heard the speech of
Senator Gsllinger IN this city, and
those who will hear him in other
localities in this state, will see how
accurately the Press estimated Mr..
Knowles-at least in regard to that
part of his remarks wherein he
arraigned Republican governmental
policies because, as he claimed,
Massachusetts, has been thereby en-.
abled to make greater increase in
wealth In ten years than three west
ern and six southern states which
he named, and the increase in New
York and Pennsylvania has been
greater than IN twenty-five states
in the west and south-principally
in the south.
Senator Galiinger showed that
the proper comparison is not be-
tween northern states and southern
states, because inevitably the civil.
ization of the two sections is to-
tally different. The people of the
north are progressive and indus
t%rious, and will Of course accumu.
late wealth more rapidly than those
of the south, who have not yet re
covered from the blight of slavery
by which labor and industry were
made disreputable. The proper
comparison Is to be made between
northern states-those In the far
east with those in the middle and
far west. The civilization of these
regions Is similar, and in all of
them industry is at a premium.
Senator Gallinger used the came
source as that from which Mr..
Knowles drew his fgures-but
which he cut and fit in order to
make out a calamity argument, and
in order to convince his hearers
that there is something tremen-
duously rotten in the social and
political fabric, by which "the ag-
gressive ~aggration OF capital in the
east has its heel upon the neoks of
the people, grinding them into
slavery, while ths eastern p%lutoc-
racy is absorbing ali the wealth Of
the country" Both gentlemen got
their figures from census bulletin
No. 800. But Mr.. Knowles tinker
ed his tigures-or at least the APP
nl,c,tion-whila Sauator Gall,puar