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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

SENATOR PLATT gave the democrats a
pretty good idea of what people think of
their incidental protection" in a speech
the other day. He said: "Mr. Presi-
dent. I wish to say just one word upon
this idea Of incidental protection. There
is no such thing as incidental protection
as a principle. If by incidental protec-
ton you mean that the Woodworking
industries of Connecticut and the other
eastern states are to be absolutely
slaughtered and destroyed by the bill
and that the sugar trust is to have a
prohlbitive duty upon refined sugar, you
will find plenty of it IN the bill, but I
had not supposed that was the doctrine
OF the democratic party. If you would
make duties all along the bill protective,
there would he no incidental protection
in it; it would be deliberatlve protection.
Ii you reduce the duties all along the
bill below the protective point, there
will be no incidental protection. You
can not so construct a bill; it is impossi-
BILE. You might as we'll attempt to
make two and two make five as to con-
struct a bill upon the principle that you
will impose duties for revenue which,
while they do not protect, have incidental
protection with them"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

CONTRARY to what might be expected,
1t is said the Italians are the best class
OF immigrants to South America. Rev.
J.F. Thompson, who has been a South
American missionary for nearly thirty
years, says that every eighth immigrant is
either an Italian or the son of an Italian.
In the city Of Buenos Ayres, containing
a population Of 100000, 80 per cent. Of
the artisans, that is, bricklayers, black
smiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors,
ETC., are OF the Italian nationality. The
enterprise Of these Italians can be seen
IN the fact that large numbers of them
go over from Italy by steamship to
work in the Argentine wheat harvest,
returning home at it's close to gather the
harvest in their own land, going to and fro
every year, and spending two months OF
the year on the ocean.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

BRADsTREEr says the registration of the
Chinese seems to have been much more
complete than the earlier reports indi.
Gated. It was estimated a couple of
weeks ago that the registration would
amount to about $4,000, or about four
ffths of the whole number. Complete
statistics which have been made public
by the commissioner of internal revenue
show that there we're registered in all
1O5,312 Chinese. This is a very flarge
proportion of the total number in the
country, as may be gathered from the
fact that the total Chinese population
under the census of 1890 numbered 1O7,-
475. Nearly two-thirds of the total
registration--67,977-is credited to the
states of California and Nevada. The
states of Oregon and Washington come
next with 1885, while the state of New
York was next in order with 6,247. The
smallest number Of Chinese registered
in any state was eleven, in North
Carolina.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

HE New York Press has just pub
llshed some interesting statements rel
alive to the ownership of the great dem.
ocratic party by the sugar trust. The
Press says that during the campaign of
1892, when the democratic national
committee was in great need of money,
the sugar trust gave 100000. with definite
understanding that if the democrats
won, it would be "taken care Of" and
would have no cause to. complain of
"unfriendly legislation" It is alleged
that the first demand made by the trust
was that Hawaii should not be annexed.
Annexation would have interfered with
the west coast sugar monopoly Of
Spreckles, who is now a trust man.
Spreckles would have been for annexa-
ton it the sugar bounty were to be a
permanency. AS it was not to be, he
wanted Hawaii Independent and a duty
on raw sugar, which he would not have
to pay because of the reciprocity treaty.
The charge is made that the loyalty Of
Mr.. Cleveland to the promises made to
the sugar trust was the sole reason why
he withdrew the annexation treaty and
tried vainly to restore the queen.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

The school board at Concordia, Kas.,
evidently does not propose to have it's
lady teachers 60 off and get married
without it's knowledge, and it also puts a
premium on the marriage of home men.
At a recent meeting the board adopted
the following:
Inasmuch as it seems to be the custom of
lady teachers of the public schools of Con-
cordla, Kas., to contract and consummate
marriage without the knowledge or con-
sent OF said board; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, By said board of education,
That should any of the lady teachers OF the
Concordia schools hereafter commit matri-
mony during the term Tor which they have
been elected, they shall forfeit a sum of
money equal to 0ne.half months salary.
provided they take a home man, ana a sum
equal to one months salarysin case the
groom is imported from some other state
or county; in either case the lady shall
cause a card of invitation to be sent to each
I'M of the board of education.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25
Harter objects to the "ofice- brokerage
feature of a congressional experience,
and this is mainly responsible for his de-
sire to return to private life.

HENRY CLEws says that among the
new enterprises at present held in sus-
pense perhaps the foremost is railroad
construction. During late years, the
additions to our railroad system have
been quite exceptionally light. Between
the years 1880 and 1887, there was an in
crease IN mileage of $4,000 miles, or an
average of 5000 miles per year. For the
four succeeding years, the annual in
crease averaged but {, 300 miles; and for
the two last years the new construction
has averaged only $3.50 miles. Judging
from past experience, the present very
low rate of construction may be regarded
as preparing the way for an important
revival Of this form of enterprises; and it
is we'll understood that, in the higher
circles of capital, arrangements for i'm.
portant undertakings are already IN the
formative stage. This is the more to be
expected from the fact that the present
low price Of railroad iron and the decline
in wages afford an exceptionally attrac.
tive opportunity. Railroads, at present
costs of materials and labor, can be built
for much less than paid around 1880.
The temptation to build new roads is
therefore very great; besides which there
are many existing roads that need extern
sious and increased equipment, while
the growth of the country has created a
demand for new lines. II
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

The case against Edward S. Allen, for
larceny Of Record Book No. 70 from the
Office of the register OF deeds, was closed
in district court to-day, and MI. Allen
has been acquitted of the oh, rye laid
against him. The trial Of the case has
been a tedious one, occupying four days,
and after listening to the evidence, which
has been gone into infinitely by both sides,
Nh. Allen stands cleared by the jury Of
the offense charged against him. The case
has attracted attention because of the
prominence of all parties concerned. Mr..
Allen has been a resident of tine city for
many years, has held several offices in
the gift Of the people, having been clerk
of the court, and for two terms mayor of
the city. In those Offices, no charges
have been made Of neglect of his official
duties. His friends are numerous, and
they are pleased that he has been
acquitted, after a fair and impartial trial,
of the serious charge which was made
against him.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

A CONVENIENT volume soon to be
issued by the government will be the $50
page abstract of the twenty-four volumes
OF the eleventh census. It will contain
all the chief totals by states, the facts to
be brought into comparison with those
OF 1850. So far as population is con-
cerned it will embody the totals for
counties and cities. Figures of manu-
features, agriculture, transportation, in
surance, churches and wealth, debt and
taxation will be given by states. It is
expected to be ready for distribution
about the middle of July.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

WALTER MUIR, that dyed-in-the. wool
apostle OF populism, says he doesn't
want any fusion in his. If the Gemo.
Gratis want to endorse the populist ticket
and trail along at the tail end OF the
band wagon, Walter says it's all right,
but when it comes to dishing offices out
to them, he is opposed to 1t, and wants
a straight populist ticket from governor
down. He says the pops and dems
won't mix, any more than oil and water,
and, as a conscientious pop, he doesn't
see how fusion can be effected.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

MINNESOTA is to lose one of its best
known characters, IN the person Of w.
w. Irwin, the famous criminal attorney,
who is to move to New York in the fall.
Irwin says New York is the logical CEN
ter OF events in the United States, and
he sees opportunities there which
are not to be had elsewhere. The "tall
pine" will be missed all through the
northwest, where he is best known as a
criminal lawyer of rare talent, keen in.
sight, and where he has met with pro.
nounced success in his practice.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

No vERY alarming amount of harmony
prevails among democrats at Washing
ton. After years of pleading for control
that they might right the wrongs which
they claimed had been done the people,
the democrats, having secured control,
are unable to formulate any better::tarif
measure than one, of which one of their
number, Harter of Ohio, y
If we pass this wretched abortion of q
senate bill. we as a party will get the ridi-
Guile of our republican opponents, and in
the end curses of a deceived public. If
passed and branded a democratic measure,
it will stamp us a lot of imbeciles. and our
managers in both houses as driveling
idiots. 7
It is becoming more and more evident
each day, that the great democratic ma
jority would better adjourn and 60 home.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

SENATOR QUAY's recent speech on the
tariff was an exhaustive effort, and both
by argument and presentation of statis-
tics, he proved the Inconsistency and
weakness of the new tariff measure. In
closing, he summed up the situation in
we'll chosen words when he said:
The Mckinley bill was designed as an
exc implication of the republican idea of
what fostering encouragement was due to
American capital and American labor. AS
finally placed upon the statute books, it was
still subject to every modification which
its operation in practice might show to be
necessary in the equitable interest Of the
producer of raw material, of the manufac-
turer and those he employed, and of the
consumer of the finished article, as we'll as
of the national treasury, to which it prom
ised revenue. 1t was not perfect, nor con-
sidered by its authors to be perfect.
1t was felt and was stated that, as would
be the case with any tariff law, its applica-
ton of the principle of protection would
develop faults of detail with time and ex-
p%erience. Nothing is more certain than
that, even had not the democratic party
succeeded in 1892, a revision of the McKin-
ley law at the hands of the party which
enacted it would nevertheless in time be
necessary. l am prepared to make this
admission freely, that if the present con-
gress could devise a reasonable measure,
which would permit the continued en-
ployment of American labor and capital
at living wages and fair profits, even
though involving reductions, in some in
stances perhaps large reductions, from
present rates of duties, with the under
derstanding that it was a termination of
our dispute for a term Of years, I would
not oppose it. But no such bill is before
us. Instead of being stripped of the
absurdities with which it came from the
branch of congress in which it necessarily
originated, it has been made more gro
tesque than ever Instead Of a promise of
settlement of the tariff for a term of years,
the bill opens a long vista of disturbance,
unsettlement, and uncertainty. Its very
advocates admit and its discontenteI
apologists proclaim that this measure is an
entering wedge, that it is but a dire por-
tent of more dreadful outrage to come, that
it is a menace of future blows. The ma
jority offer a program of destruction in.
stead of a policy of ~preservation; under
the guise of a tariff for revenue they give
us a tariff of revenge.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

ONE great consolation to the people OF
this nation, is that no matter what in
ternal troubles may prevail to mar the
serene harmony of the administration OF
economic affairs, they have a president
whose mind rises above the simplicitiee
of the tariff, and the frivolities of finance
to a greater and sublimer sphere of sport.
When senators and representatives toll
and wrestle with the problems Of gov
eminent, and when the great mass of
t%hepeople are engrossed with the less Inn
portant question of the securing of daily
bread, the superiority of the nations
president is at once apparent. The con-
fines of his intellect are not so narrow,
that these questions occupy it, to the
exclusion of the higher and nobler in
trlcacies of angling. When Coxey par
AIDES the country, with his armies of the
commonweal, the president is not de-
tered from his stern ambition to become
an adept with the fly, and the reel, and
the fish pole. When the country waits,
in hungry expectancy, the definite de-
cision Of divided democracy, on
the vital question of the tariff, the
mind of the president is not of
such common stuff, as contents itself
with this manner of coarse, intellectual
food. It rises above, and scars beyond,
and finds education and advancement in
the dizzy zig-zag of the jacksnipe and
the busy biting of the bluefish. With
the presidential feet trailing in the linn
pid waters of North Cardinals languid
lagoons, the nations head sits this week
on the edge Of the gently rocking row.
boat and jerks the bluefish from their
native streams. The presidential mind
is undefled with the grosser problems
which rack the brains of legislators, and
the stomachs Of the %workingmen. The
presidential brain is not dusty with the
musty particles of tariff or finance. It is
clear, and bright, that it may be able to
guage to a nlcety the rise of the jack
snipe and the bite of the bluefsh.
Should an emergency arise, where intel
lectual superiority is in dire demand,
the nation feels safe in the assurance
that the presidential intellect is not
dulled or dimmed with dry delvings into
tariff. 1t will shine on such an occasion
with the polished brilliancy of a mind
schooled to stern duties by soothing
seances with the bluefish and the jack
snipe, and the questions that come up
will be met and grappled with on these
lines.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

political move will be interesting, as it
will necessitate the formulation Of a
party creed and platform, and it will be
edifying to discover just what the Coxey-
ties want. Prominent in its provisions
and demands will be, doubtless, free
gold, free silver, free grub, free trans
portation, free clothing, and r~-r-r-revenge
upon the soulless railroads who have re-
fused them transportation and objectedt to
their stealing Of trains. The Coxey party
from present indications, will not be a
very powerful one.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

The western states have not prospered
greatly under democratic rule, as is evil
denced by the condition of Oregon,
where the American Protective Tariff
league has been making some inquiries.
From reports sent by 14O different en-
ployers of labor in IS different towns, it
appears that the total number of hands
for whom they found employment in
1892, was 3,84S, but in 1898 the same 140
employers could only find work for 3,021
persona decrease of 81 per cent. within
a year. Coming down to the present
year, up to the end of April, 1894, these
l4O employers have only been able to give
work to l,512 persons on an average
every day from January LIST up to April
80, 1894. The condition of Oregon is
such this year that the 140 employers of
labor, in t~hirty-ive different towns in
that state, can find work only for exactly
one-half the number of people to whom
they gave employment throughout the
"AOAO VI Aooe yO011 ouN UAS40 10 q oc.
crease in the number of persons en-
ployed this year of 60 per cent. as COM
pared with those who were busily at
work in 1892. The sheep and
wool industry employers have been
obliged to discharge half the men
they employed. The furniture and
upholstery trade has been cut down 50
per cent, turning half it's men idle upon
the world. The lumber and box trade
has suffered 30 per cent. The iron works
have also suffered, and at all towns there
must have been a marked decrease in
the general merchandise trade, judging
from the number of hands whose SER
vices have been dispensed with in that
line of business.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

IT is reported from Washington that
Senator Hansbrough has practically sue
ceeded IN getting congress to consent to
having $4,000 acres OF abandoned mill.
tiary reservation on the shores of Devils
lake donated to North Dakota for the
state militia. This land will be used
by the militia for encampment purposes
and is q concession which will be eppre.
ciated by the national guard, as it gives
them land of their own, when encamp.
ment time comes. a&
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25
IT is interesting and at the same time

IT is interesting and at the same time
pleasing to note that DR.. Henry F.
Meyer, the life insurance schemer, who
has cody and deliberately murdered, it
is said, a half dozen different victims,
that he might profit by their deaths, has
been found guilty in New York, and will
go to the penitentiary for life. Meyer
is an educated villain, one of the restless
and altogether INSCRIPTIONS kind, and
the punishment will be a severer one to
him than ~electrocution.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

ISN'T it about time that Senator PEI
fer or some n OF his populist col
leagues made a formal demand for a
complete suspension Of all congressional
proceedings, until an investigation is
made of that New York man who has Sc
cured q corner on Columbian stamps OF
the denomination Of 81? By nipping
this matter in it's incipiency, some per-
0 may endear himself to the whole
mass Of the American people.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

The Co4eyites have concluded to or
ganize a political party. With Coxey,
Brown and Jones serving terms in Jail,
Hogan repenting his rashness in a Mon
tana bastile, and other Coxey brigades,
leaderless, shelteriess, comfortless, and
otherwise in disrepute, the patriots are
about satisfied that the popular uprising
is a dismal failure. Accordingly, after
the manner of all other cranks, whose
endeavors to attain desired ends by
threats and demonstrations met with de-
feat, they will appeal to the disconnected
to aid them with their ballot. This new
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

WHILE it is an undoubted fact that
there are men innumerable in private
life, or semi. public life, who are of the
opinion that their presence in congress
is n of the things sorely needed to
make this country what it should be,
and who are eager for an opportunity to
become congressman, that they might
participate in the enactment of legisla-
ton, yet it is also true, on the other hand,
that there are a number of men in con-
gress who are not enamored of the posi-
ton and want to get out. The announce
ment that Representative Wolverton, of
Pennsylvania, would not accept a renom-
nation to congress recalls this fact and
a number of other men we'll known in
public life have taken the same position.
Mr.. Belden, Of Syracuse, N. Y, several
months ago publicly announced his in
tention not to be q candidate again.
Representative Harter, Of Mansfield, O.,
forestalled Mr.. Belden in making a
similar declaration, and on Thursday
last Mr.. Bryan, Of Nebraska, addressed a
letter to the chairman of his congress
sional committee, stating his purpose
not to accept a denomination. Mr.. For
man, of the East St. Louis district of
Illinois, has also minated that he will
not seek a denomination. The reasons
assigned by members for not desiring to
re-enter public life are various. Mr.
Wolverton feels that his law practice Is
suffering by his long absence from home.
This practice is worth many times his
salary as a representative, and self-inter-
est demands that he relinquish his pub
lie duties at the close of this congress-.
To men who cannot earn $1,000 q year,
or whose income does not exceed that
figure, a congressman's life, in MI. VOL
%verton's opinion, is an agreeable one.
But to those whose earning capacity is
greater, a long continuance in public life
demands a great pecuniary sacrifice. Mr..