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The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-21
1T FAILED.
The Colored Man Didn't Know and Cav,
Him Away.

The Colored Man Didn't Know and Gave
Him Away.
There is an assistant messenger in one
of the auditors offices who is sensitive
about carrying up the coal and building
the fires. He is a college man and came
to Washington expecting a good clerk.
ship at least, but his money gave out, and
he was obliged to take the first thing of
fered. Last week he received a letter
from his home secret society saying that
several of its members would be in
Washington on Saturday and would cal
on him at the office. 1t happened that
the auditor was absent when Saturday
came, and his room vas vacant for tht
day. The assistant messengers friends
thought it would be a good thing to play
it on the visitors. Mr.. Smith therefore
took his seat in the auditors chair, light
ed a cigar and put his feet on the desk.
After a little the delegation from the
home town arrived. a mar received
them at the door. They asked for Nh.
Smith and were requested to send in their
cards.
.'Show the gentlemen in" Mr.. Smith
said.
He was reading a public document
when they filed through the door. He
greeted them with cordiality, but with a
dignifed reserve that they did not recog.
uize. A man with a tablet and pencil
came in then from an inner room.
will You dictate on your report now,
SIR"
II believe. Mr.. Jones, l have told you
several times never to interrupt me wheI
l am engaged"
The friends exchanged stories about
home matters. Another clerk came.
The papers in relation TO that speciaI
appropriation"
Mr.. Smith signed them. Another came
in.
Are these accounts all right now, sir?
Take them to the secretary and tell
him to sign them" Mr.. Smith directed.
The home people were deeply impress
ed. They congratulated Mr.. Smith OF
his successful embarkation upon IL off
cial career.
Yes, yes. Not as muchas l hoped for
but very well, very fair for a beginning
Mr.. Smith acquiesced. Hepassed around
the auditors good cigars.
But Mr.. Smiths partner, the other as
sistant messenger, a colored man, wa:
not in the joke. He intruded harshly a
this point.
Look here, Smith, dey want another
bod of coal. I'ze got de last, and l DOM
git dis un."-Capital.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-21
ROYAL Pin Money.

The Princess of Wales long retire
ment has enabled her to save much of her
pin money-elO,O 900 a year-and bring it
npto q comfortable amount. In the past
Alexandra has had plenty to do with
that allowance, dressing herself most
Elegantly, her daughters very much less
%, and fitting out the boys. Times have
changed, her children have an annual
income Of e36, 900 to divide among them
selves, and the princess has lived aloof
from London society since the death of
her eldest son, thereby mourning but lit
tie expense for dress.-New York Adver-
49,
spent Only One.
Little Det-Mamma gave me two
quarters to buy candy, but l only spent
one Of them.
Father-That's something like. Now
I'll give you another quarter to put
with the other.
Little Do--Thank you, but l can't
put IL with the other till | find it. 1t
dropped out Of my pocket on the way "
the candy sfoTe.-GoOd news
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-21
FEDERAL.
DISTRICT.

Judge Seventh Judicial District .........
......,.. Hon Geo. X Milburn, Miles City
Official Stenographer. 49,. ........-....
............ Fred W. kreidler, Miles City
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-21

Adam Bede. BY George Eliot.
f,sop's Fables.
Allen Quartermain. BY II. Rider Hag
gard.
All Sorts and Conditions Of Men. BY
Walter Besant and james Rice.
Andeson's Fairy Tales.
Anna karcnine. BY Court Lyof Tolstoi.
April's Lady. By "TheDuchess."
Arabian Nights Entertainment.
Armorel of Lyonesse. "By Walter Besant.
At the Worlds Mercy. BY Florence
Warden.
Averil. BY Rosa Nouchette Carey.
Babylon. By Grant Allen.
Balzac's Shorter Stories. BY Honore
de Balzac.
Basil; or. the Crossed Path. by Wilkie
Collins.
Beppo the Conscript. BY T. Adolphus
Trollope.
Blind Fate. BY Mrs. Alexander.
Born Coquette, \. BY The Duchess"
Camille. By Alexander Dumas.
Cast Up by the sea. BY Sir Samuel W.
Baker.
Child's History Of England, A. By
Charles Dickens.
Christie tombstone. By Charles Reade.
Clyffards of Clyfe. The. BY James
Payn.
! Confessions Of an English Opium Eater
BY Thomas De Quincy.
Conscript. The. By Alexander Dumas.
Consuelo. By George Sand.
Countess of Rudolstadt. The. BY Geo.
Sand.
Count OF Monte Cristo. The. BY Ak.
ander Dumas.
Cousin Harry. BY Mrs. Grey.
| Crooked Path, \. by Mrs. Alexander.
Crown of Shame, \. BY Florence Mar
ryat.
Daughter Of Heth, \. By William
Alack.
Dawn. By II. Rider Haggard.
Dead Secret. The. BY Wilkie Collins.
Deemster. The. BY Hall Game.
Deerslayer The. by j. Fenimore Cooper.
Dsldee. the Ward Of Warringham. BY
Florence Warden.
Devils Die, The. BY Grant Allen.
Doctor Cupid. BY Rhoda Broughton.
Donald Ross 81 Heimra. BY William
Black.
Donovan. BY Edna Lyall.
| Dora Thorne. BY Charlotte NJ. Braeme.
Doris Fortune. BY Florence Warden.
Double Cunning. By George Manville
Fem.
Dukes Secret. The. BY Charlotte NJ.
Braeme.
Feast Lynne. BY Mrs. Henry Wood.
Edmond Dantes. By Alexander Dumas.
Emerson's Essays. First Series.
Emerson's Essays, Second Series.
Essays Of Ella. The. Ey Che les Lamb.
Fair Women. BY Mrs. Forester.
Family Pride. BY the Author Of "Pique."
Family Secrets. BY the Author Of
"Pique."
Fanchon the Cricket. BY George Sand.
Father and Daughter. BY Frederick
Bremen.
Fiery Ordeal, A. BY Charlotte NJ.
Braeme.
First Violin, The. By Jessie Fothergill.
Forging the Fetters. By Mrs. Alexander.
-Four Sisters, The. By Frederick Bremen.
Frontiersmen, The. BY Gustave Al
mard.
Frozen Pirate, The. BY w. Clark Rus
sell.
Golden Hart, A. By Charlotte NJ.
Braeme.
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Guilderoy. BY Ouida.
Handy Andy. BY Samuel Lover.
Hardy Norseman, A. By Edna Lyall.
Heir Of Lime, The. By Robert Buch-
aDan.
Heriot's Choice. By Rosa Nouchette
Carey.
Hon. Mrs. vereker. The. By The
Duchess"
House on the Marsh, The. By Flor
ence Warden.
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The. By
Victor Hugo.
l Have Lived and Loved. BY Mrs. For
restOr.
Indiana. By George Sand.
In the Golden Days. By Edna Lyall.
In the Heart Of the Storm. By Max
well Gray.
Ivanhoe. BY Sir Walter Scott.
Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronte.
Jealousy. By George Sand.
Jet. BY Mrs. Annie Edwards.
John Balifax, Gentleman. By Miss
i. AulOck.
King SoIomon's Mines. By II. Rider
Haggard.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-21
Poultry Food.
Green Bone Meal

Fresh green-cut bone, meat and gristle will
double the number of eggs. Make the eggs
q per cent more fertile and increase the vigor
of the whole flock. This food will efectually
prevent .egg-eating" and "feather-picking" and
greatly reduce the grain bill, ~supposing chick
ems get three meals a day.
. pound to Every 10 Chickens
once a day is a liberal feed and takes the place
Of one feed of grain.
For sale by CASE, KING a wODZITZKI,
MILES CITY.
/ will do Custom Green bone grinding at s1yo
per 100 pounds.
Frank Q
Fort keogh Mont.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

This table exhibits some startling
facts From 1856 to 1889 inclusive,
the production Of cotton gradually in
creased from o4.7 to go pounds per
capita. and during these Years the
price remained almost stationery. In
1880 and 1891 the production in
creased about ten pounds per capita.
and the price also increased one tenth
and twn-tenths of a cent per pound.
Again III 1892 and 1893 with II great
and sudden decrease in production,
the price also declined so that the
small crop of 1898, which was 900 per
cent. less per capita, sold for 80 per
cent. less per pound than the large
one produced in 1891.
This table cont. overts the theory of
oycr-prodaction, and bids defiance to
every argument vet advanced on this
line. Here we have the cold facts
that prices did not only decline with a
decrease in production, but that they
actually increased with an increase in
production. No argument, however
ingenious, can prove that this is due
to over-productiOn.
Whatever is true of wheat, corn and
cotton, is also true of all other agrI-
cultural products. The best evidence
obtainable proves tina; our population
has increased faster than the increase
of food supply. This is especially
true in regard to corn, because the
foreign market has little or no intiu-
ence Oh its price here.
H. T.. TAUBENECK.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
The following similar table in re
card to the pro luc ion of corn:

This table Is far more signiti cant
than the one for wheat, because it may
be said that the price of wheat in this
country is fixed 10y tue Liverpool mar
ket. ami the product OF that cereal in
India and Australia has Il tendency to
depress prices here; but this cannot
be said OF corn, beca use We are the
only great corn producing nation on
earth. and its price here is not fixed
bv foreign competition. The average
annual report of corn from 1870
to 1920 has been but 3.S yer cent. OF
the amount produced. which is 100
small to exert any influence in uepress-
ing prices here: but what does this
table teach: III 1850. with "a. :. BUSH
els per capita. corn was worth 1916
cents per hUshel. and i'll 1880. ten Years
later. with :i.3 bushels per capita. it
sold for ;}S.S cents per husheI. Again,
in 1890. with o3.1 bushels per ca tia.
it sold for 500 cents per hushel. and
in 1898 with 24.3 bushels per capita, it
brough, onl, So cents.
Again. in 1921, when We produced
3D. bushels per capita. corn was 40 1
cents per bu>hel: one year later. with
but %? bushels per capita. i, sold for
3?.4 cents per bu>hel. Ii over-pro.
duction was the cause. then these fig
ures ought to be reversed: We ought &c
hay. received more for our corn zen
We had but 24.9 bushels per capita.
than when We had 3D. II We are to
receive IL cents less per bushel every
time we produced 1.3 bushels less ,e,
ga, i,a than we did in 1891. how much
less do the farmers have to produce
until corn will not be worth any hing
The same is true OF cotton. The fol
lowing table gives the annual produc'
ton from 1885 to 1899 inclusive. The
figures for the first seven years are
those complied by the Department %
Agriculture in Its miscellaneous series
report No. 3. 1898. Those for 1892 ar.
taken from the Statistical Abstract
for 1898. page 2lS: and those for 1879;
are taken from Gen. Warmers article
published in the New York Sun Jan
18th, 1894. where he estimated the cot
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
EU,lalizp the Taxes.

The West Chicago Railway Com
pany. with capital stock of s20.OCO,-
600, is assessed at only one million
one in twenty. Tie Pullman C.n-
pany. with capital stock OF S:,6, OOO.-
600 is assessed at 1900, 900 in round
numbers than one im twenty.
The Union Stock Yards and Transit
Company. with pailup capital of
S36,0OO.Oo0. pays taxes on little nc. -
than 5000, OOO-aboNt one in seventy !.
Farms and farm property are sup
posed to be assessed at about one in
three. And yet farmers are absolutely
quiescent, and permit this state of
things to continue. 1t is not alone
that these and other great corpora
tons escape taxation, but those who
do not escape must pay not only thei.
own taxes but they must pay that
which the others dodge.
These things have grown up under
the management of the old political
parties, and every time farmers vote
the tickets of these parties, they give
their consent to these very conditions
aud authorize their continuance-sea.
their own condemnation. and bring in
verdict of acquittal as to their plum
derers.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
NO OVER-PRODUCTION
POPULATION INCREASES FAS
TER THAN FOOD SUPPLY.
The Theory That We Produce More Per
Capita Ihan We Did Ten Years Ago Is
Here CoatrOverted-C Causes OF Hard
Times.


WIZ is it that the farmer is com
PEELED to raise products below cost of
production. that his income is less
than that provided for pau ers, and
that his wage, are below those paid to
cOnvIcts? There is cause for all this
otherwise it would not exist, and it is
the duty OF every patriot to find the
cause a. we'll rs tor Il remedy for the
evil. Our Republican and Democratic
friends tell us it is oyerproduction.
They say that prices are low because
Dlrmers produce more than can be
tons.lmed This is u serious question,
Lnd deserves careful consideration. Ii
the farmer has reduced the price of
his products below the cost of produc
ton by raising too much, or working
hard, then the only remedy required
is for him to produce and work less.
If they can prove that We produce
more wheat, corn, cotton and other
products per capita that we dld five,
ten, or fifteen years since, or that our
>.crcase III food supply has been
greater than the increase III popula-
ton. then / will admit that Overpro-
duction may have something to do with
it: but upon the other hand If we can
prove that the United States and the
world produce less agricultural prod
ucts per capita to-day than they did
five, ten, or fifteen years since, or that
the increase in population has been
greater than the increase in food prod
ucts, then over-production has moth
ing to do with it.
The following table gives the an
nual production, number Of bushels
per capital, and farm price OF wheat i'll
the United States us compiled by the
DEPARTMENT OF Agriculture. The
bushels per capita is obtained by dl-
vidins the number of bushels pro-
duced by the poputation:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

hundred dollars a year, a number OF
the members have grown mysteriously
rich. The reason Is not far to seek,
since the Times entered upon its brave
and thorough overhanling of the situa-
ton. The wealthy corporations are
allowed to fix their own assessments to
suit themselves and pay taxes on only
nominal sums, or nothing at all, while
enjoying exclusive privileges and mo-
nopolies which enable them to make
princely incomes. Bribery, favoritism
and sickening corruption form the
chapters of this story as told by the
Times. The people are whipsawed at
every turn. Not only are they robbed
in the course of business by these pau
pered monopolies, but they are COM
PEELED to pay most of the taxes of their
oppressors. Ii the people of Illinois
will elect a Populist Legislature this
fall, this robhing Will be stopped.
They have long tried the two old par
ties, the Republicans especially. and
the abuses grow more fragrant every
year. 1t is vain to look for relief in
that direction. as the robbers control
both the old parties and laugh at every
suggestion of Il change that will bring
them to book. The only hove for rad
zeal and sweeping reforms is for the
Illinois people to send up to SPRING
field Legislators that are not owned by
the Pullman and other corporations.
Noncomformist.
The Loom of Death.
Down in the depths of the factory's gloom
hey m hop. at ri fayvr
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

have often been asked, not only
IN this chamber, but outside, how il
comes that the silver dollar was dron.
ped from among the coins of this coun.
try. The answer is, that in 1873 when
these statutes We're so carefully re-
vised, the silver dollar as provided in
the then existing law was worth more
than dollar in gold in the money
market of the world. There was no
use then issuing the dollar. because it
would go into the melting pot, being
worth more than goli dollar. Con-
gressional Record, first session 44th
Congress. page 27S5.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

Take glance Mt this table and then
think OF the ovcrproduction theory.
In 1850 when We produced almost ten
bushels per capita, wheat sell for %.
entS per bnsnel, and in 1889, ten
gears later, with two bushels less per
Aapita, i. sold for t9.S.
Again. in 1868. with but 80 bushels
per capita. it sold for 33.S cents per
bushel. Al 3 cents less than in 1880,
when our per capita production was
30 bushels. 1t Overpros!uctiOn was
the cause OF low prices. then these
figures ought to be reversed, We ought
~ have received more for our wheat i'll
1898 and 1892, than We did III 1891
and 1880 In 1898 We produced four
bushels less per capita than i'll 1890.
and yet it sold for Alb cents less per
bushcl
The following similar table in re-
! . .>f
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
Cause of Hard Times,

The most important question affect
ing the American people, esi ecially the
farmers, is that of finance. The clos
ing of the silver mines and the virtual
monopoly of the money Of the country,
is Il tendency toward the absolute en-
slavement of the people. This is an
alarming state of affairs, and is to be
deplored by the wage class and farmers
as wealth producers, to the end that
ways be devised for the removal OF
these wrongs which have been imposed
upon them.
age of silver would give employment
to thousands of idle men and create I,
market for the surplus of the farm.
This would also increase the output of
gold, copper and lead, us IL large per
cent. of the silver producing quartz is
composed of the metals named. Now,
the question is, what are the farmers
going to 90 about it? Are we gong to
submit to the designs of few Shy
locks who are deliberately forcing the
redemption of all paper money, silver,
mort cages, leases. bonds and notes. to
gold basis? The tendency of such
short-sighted policy must certainly in
very short time wreck the credit of
the Government as far as the redemp-
ton of it's circulating medium is con-
cerned, to the extent that two or three
dollars of Il deprecated currency will
he required to pay dollar of indebted
ness.
The question of tariff would evident
ly cut but Il small figure in the gen
| cral prosperity of the country, could
We but have settled policy, especial
ly as far as the farmers are concerned,
whether high or low. could we find
plenty of employment for all our peo-
pie ut fair wages. Open up the silver
| and other mines, dig canals. improve
rivers and harbors aud even public
roads ut Government and State ex-
pense il necessary. At any rate let
Government give these enterprises
sufficient support that every idle man
might have employment ut living
wages, ana il any able-bodied man
sllirk his duty when work is offered.
incarcerate him where the choice OF
work or die might be imposed. Uav.
ing II fertile country like this, with its
lneNhauStible resources. ovefrun with
thieves. tramps and beggars is dis
| grace to any civilized country. and no
citizen III 1t can escape the responsibility
for the final outcome of such a state OF
affairs. Especially are our lawmakers
deserving of the ana,hema of an ont
| ragged constituency and should be
hurled from power. with the political
rings upon which they depend for the
pa,tisan boost which puts them into
positions which they disgrace.
| change.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
\ Great Paper l. With Us.

The Chicago Times is doing some
magnificent work these days. Its ex-
posture OF the rascally methods OF the
State Board of Equalization in Illinois
Is especially admirable. timely and
valuable. THIS body. which is practi-
cally self-perpetuating. is made up
chiefly of the hired tools of railroads
and oth&: wealthy corporations.
Though the salaries are only . few
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
StO ID by the Trust.

During the ten days Mr.. Cleveland
held the tariff bill tho money came
into the treasury in stream. The
whisky trust was getting all of the
spirits it possibly could out of bond in
order to reap the benefit of the 81. 10
tax provided for in the new tariff bill.
Mr.. Cleveland gave the trust all the
time he could to thus rob the people.
The Democrats have reached that
point of sublime righteousness that
they have got to defend the policy Of
the g. o. p. or denounce their own %.
6ona.-Union. Warranshur9. 10.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

The silly story Is set atioat by the
Associated Press liars that Wall Street
has fallen ont with Secretary Carlisle
aud that these hloated bankers are Ia
boring for his discharge from the Cabi-
net. Such a $ DRY is too ridiculous TO
I've believed for moment. Why
should Wall Street fall out with Mr.
Carlisle? He has done everything
they ordered him to do. and even Went
SO far rs to make an ass OF himself at a
New York bankers banquet to please
them. Such story is in circulation
to distract the opposition appearing
all over the country 10 Mr.. Carlisle
and his methods. 1t won't gain for
Mr.. Carlisle an ounce OF sympathy.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

ton cop of 1888 at $500, 900 bales.
The prics is also that given by Gen.
Warner in Facts About Silver" and
the number of pounds per capita is OBJ
tanned by dividing the annual product
by our por1lla.ion:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27


trouble to go among the banks and get
it, but gather t-gether All amount Of
United States notes igreenbacks and
Sherman notes. equal TO the amount
of gold required for shipment and pre-
sent them to the Snb-Treasurv at New
York and demand their redemption in
gold. The Sub Treasury pays out to
these bankers the gold demanded and
it is sent abroad. The next day the
same proceeding is gone through with
until the gold in the Treasury is ex-
hausted. and then. as now. Il new loan
will be made. only to be sent abroad
III the same manner.
Since january l, 1894, 10000. 0Oo
of gold has gone to Europe, nearly all
of which has been taken from the Trea-
surv, and for which the people are pay
ing interest on bonds that were issued
to buy it and put it in the Treasury.
This game can be played indefinitely,
and build up a bonded debt that will
impoverish the nation. There is no
law for accommodating this reserve,
neither is there any law for the redemp-
ton OF those notes. The only line of
law that applies to them is found in
the Sherman act of 1890, which de-
clares these notes reieemable in gold
CT silver and further provides for the
coinage Of silver sufficient to redeem
them. It is an outrage to sell interest
bearing bonds for the purpose of fur
nishing gold to send abroad. and that
is precisely what the Government is
doing National Waterman.
The Independent Vote.
1t is rather amusing to observe the
partisan PAPERS just opening their
eyes to the fact that there is large
and threatening third party vote in
this country. The Farmers Voice Ia;
recognized that fact for very long
time and has repeatedly said to the
hide-bOund partisan that when he was
pooh-poohing the independent politi
cal movement he was writing himself
down as conceited fool. But he kept
on sneering and laughing. Now his
face is as long as his arm. He sees
dangers of legislatures being con-
trolled by the third party. He came
nearly having spasms at the possibility
of the third party CARRYING Alabama
and he is tickled almost to death to
! think that it did not. 1t would seem
to have done enough. however. to
make the grizzled politician conclude
that it was Il close call. When new
party comes within %, 900 of carving
state that from the time when the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. has gone one way with the
force of an avalanche, it must have
some bottom to it and an exceedingly
dangerous vitality. Ii we We're a poll
tician we would consider such Il party
a formidable antagonist. In Minneso-
ia this new party has placed the same
man in nomination for Governor who
| once received about $4,000 votes, and
one of the old parties will probably
not make nomination against him.
The new party has thus frightened one
of its antagonists into state of paral-
ysis. While such things are happen
ing the partisan who frankly acknowl-
edges that the third party is live,
aggressive and respectable political
force, is the one who does credit to his
intellect and the best prepares himself
| and his party for a successful conten-
ton