New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-09-19

where they have primitive cooking uten-
sils and where they forage for meat, po-
tatoes. etc. which they cook and eat and
then move on to the next town where
they find another camp and utensils
which those in advance have left and
which they, in turn, leave for their weary
comrades who follow. Two reasons for
this class of Coxeyites being continually
''hard-up'' may be gwen: In the first
place q majority of them are drinking
men and they squander their earning as
soon as they get them. In the second
place they gamble at cards and it is
very common sight to see them in hotels,
box-cars out on the prairie, every place,
engaged in game with I, small limit t.
be sure but enough to make them come
out very "limited'' in short time. There
are exceptions in the ranks of these peo-
pie, however, and some of them are hon
est, intelligent men who have seen bet
ter times and good homes. In regard to
the towns of North Dakota, there are
some good ones. First in a matter of
business I think Fargo is at the head,
though opinion is divided for first place
between it and Grand Forks; but since
the fire Fargo has grown wonderfully
from it's ruins and is substantial, hust.
ling town of brick blocks and ten thous-
and people. Grand Forks has few bet
ter buildings than its rival but it does
not average up as we'll. Hillsboro, Graf
ton, Park River, Langdon, Valley City
and Wap.eton are among the better
places that are contesting for third place
in this realm of King Wheat. Dakota's s
distance to market is a disadvantage
when figures prove to show that it takes
every fourth bushel of wheat to get it to
Minneapolis or Duluth. And when peo-
pie learn to diversity farming as they
have learned in your section to do then
more substantial prosperity will be at
hand, I think the large farms will re-
trench on their areas, in fact one of the
Dwight farms near Wapheton has re-
Gently sold nearly five thousand acres to
smaller farmers and now cultivate but
five thousand acres themselves. The
towns that have such large farm contin-
gentto them suffer greatly from loss OF
trade ss of course they are notsettled up
and the bonanza agriculturists deal ex-
clusively with wholesale houses.
Proft-Sharing Labor Unions of Antwerp
In the European countries where con-
ditions have become fixed by custom and
changes are restricted by the over-supply
of labor, strikes fail because of the lack
Of moral support accorded the strikers
or the eagerness with which several un.
employed men would grasp at every va.
Gated place; and boycott is practically
made inefficient by the large number OF
persons engaged in & small way in all
the trades and industries. This feeling
of helplessness on the part of the labor.
ers one would think might naturally
prompt silent if not open defiance, and
the desire to promote the welfare of the
employer would be foreign to the mind
of the employe. Still this wish seems
to have prevailed at Antwerp-one OF
the Oldest of the busy places of Europe
in the establishment there of those guilds
or societies known as the s'nations.' A
"nation" is corporation of workmen
forming limited society in which every
member Is also stockholder. The So
ciety;is not only limited IN membership ,
but it is restricted also in functions. First
of all, the ''nations'' work only at the
docks, loading and unloading vessels or
hauling merchandise to or from ships;
secondly, each "natlon" will handle only
certain articles of commerce, and again,
only those articles which come from or
are destined for certain port. The un-
derlying principle of this elaborate diff
ferentiation of labor is that a society
with restricted lines Of work can become
especially proficient in those lines, can
acquire the best implements and applian-
ces for their performance, and thus give
to their employers the best possible ser
vice. In no instance has this monopoly
given an excuse for extortionate charges
or forcible increase of prices.
Every one Of these societies upon its
organization must give bond to abide by
the regulations prepared by the port Of
ficers, and special rule fixes for term
of years usually ten-the tariff of char
ges, and any attempt to violate this rule
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