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Skaffaren. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1885-1895, 1894-08-15

Brefkort fran Belgrade. Under
rHttelser fran farmare ha under senare
tiden ej sa synnerligen mycket besva-
rat eder, hr redakt0r, ty vi ha haft an
nat att g0ra an att skrifva; men da nu
skgrdearbetet ir undanstokadt, sd tor
de EFT och annat tillfalle gifvas f0r
meddelande af nyheter fran de vidt
skilda samhallena, der vara landsmau
och farmarebroder bygga och bo vi
IA da merendels h6ra huru sk0rden ut
fallit och hurupass lon den under svett
och m6da tragne arbetaren erhallit
hvilket merendels ar olika pa olika
platser Har i Nicollet CO. har sk0r-
den utfallit omkring gmedelmattan; hve-
to och hafre torde stiga nagot 0fver,
men majs och potatis nagot under Den
ihardiga torkan och varmen hafva ver-
kat menligt, ty intet namnvardt regn
- fallit sedani mai. Tillockmed boz
hspen har fatt Ida brist pa bette och
.Stten, och vinterfodret torde Ell heller
,olifva ofvera0digt, ity att h6sk0rden
! har varit ganska klen. Nagra farmare
ha redan troskat. Att tr6ska juli hor
iu till det ovanliga, men sd har fallet
varit ar; ty sagde manad hunno vi
att afsluta skorden, da vi deremot un-
der vanliga ar endast ia CORA en- b0rjan
/ juli manad. Icke blott torkan har
paskyndat bergningen, utan den be-
kanta ohyran ''chinch bugs, som SOM
mar harjat vara falt ganska hardt, har
dertill bidragit. Gynnade af torkan
hafva deesa skadeinsekter Il somliga
platser anstalt stor f0rodelse. Da
"chinch bugs" under iuni manad upp-
tradde ett sa stort antal, bleGvo vi far
mare nog litet missmodiga, men efter
nagot betinkande drogo vi harnad
emot vara fender. Bade Per och Pal,
Greta och Stina, ja, ALA husets inne-
vapare anstriingde sig till det yttersta,
men vart arbete var frulStl0st. Emel-
lertid fick den beryktade prof. Lugger
h0ra ON kriget och kom oss till und-
sattning, bringande d6den med sig.
Han upptog slit hufvudqvarter / Man
kato Nu skulle vi farmare iclze doda
insekterna utan fanga dem lefvande,
och sd infora dem till hr professorn,
!. som / utbyte skulle lemna 'forpestaae"
baggar: dessa skulle q vara fiilt bringa
, d0den till hela ohyran. Alltsammans
:, synes emellertid som en- humbug. Wis.
serligen SO vi / tidningarna berattas
! ON en- stor och forunderlig verkan, mer
/, pa vara akrar f6rmArkes platt ingen
= Formodligen aro vi ALT for svaga trol
ibr att ia Sc ett godt resultat. Bag
garna sitta an. ] dag vara maisstielka
: allsk0ns TO och njuta med behag a
y den sista tillgangliga kost som f6refin
Q mes, och kriget torde vara till fogi
= gagn tills vi ALA SAINT och synnerligel
+ erkinna oss sasom sadana, som f0rtie
r nat agan och straflet af Fadrens hand
II Fdrnldre.
Skaffaren. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1885-1895, 1894-08-15

kan al dvrla Gud under olika begrepp
eller tanda cid na olika relieiosa altare.
basta fall wore det ett omkligt skrym-
Man bar beskvlt var synod far att
oenom ain exkms;y;tat denna fraga
lapoa hiader vaoan f1r s;na medlem-
mars moralis,xa sociella och ekonomi-
ska lvftnino Danna beskvllninp ar
FIR lailio ooh +aln;r FIR att ems nm
marksammas nsn Gamma kristendo-
man altapa bas;tter de ,yrafter och me-.
dol som frambrinoa och beframia den
ratta lvftninoan ! saval moraliskt som
socia,t ocb eIonomiskt hBnseende. ty
hon oi,r oerso,1;obeten lucEko. Men ar
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lucklio sa filler det 6f.
r;ca af aio s;elft In kristen menniska
The advocate., 1894-03-21
Government Banking Reply.
coming.

EDITOR ADvooATE:-In your issue Of
March IA, q writer who signs himself
"Populist" offers some slight criticism
on previously published article by the
undersigned. While l would rather that
he had not hidden behind nom de plume
and forgotten to mention the region he
inhsbits, yet I am glad he called stten-
tion to q clause which, as written, is Ger
tsinly open to criticism. The govern
meDt banking bill referred to provides
that SVery county seat in the United
States shall have government bank
upon complying with certain conditions,
and in like manner every city, not q
county seat, may secure government
bank il such city has more than 10000
inhabitants. Certainly, Brother Popu-
list, the "poorly settled portions Of our
country are ss much entitled to the
conveniences for carrying on business as
the more settled parts" will add that
they are better entitled to such facilities
because they need them so badly. Twill
not subscribe to the doctrine Of giving to
him that hath and taking away from
him that hath not That is too repub-
ican.demoorRtic.
Yes, there ought to be educational
qualifications for cashier, but that was
overlooked in our bill. AS to the danger
that unsuitable men will be elected, all
will admit that it exists. Yet if someone
is to appoint these officers, We meet
worse danger. A knRve with the ap-
pointive power will appoint q host Of
knaves, but the people will scarcely elect
everywhere thieves rather than men OF
honor. Surely "the people may be trusted
The advocate., 1894-03-21

breath may make them as q breath has
made;
But brave yeomanry their countries pride
When once destroyed can never be supplied"
Here on the sun.kissed prairies Of Kan
sas, this young and vigorous giant Of the
west, almost an empire within itself
richer in productiveness than the valley
OF the Nile; with people unsurpassed for
intelligence, enterprise and industry;
where we can produce more wealth in
one year from the farms alone than has
been produced from all the gold
and silver mines in the United States
for the same time; here, with these
qualifications and conditions the farm
ers should be the princes Of this land.
We believe in the sovereignty Of the
farm. The tides Of fortune ebb and flow
upon it's soil. It was born with God
and it's loving arms carry the blessed
ness Of this world. The farm is the out
let Of natures generosity and the tiller
Of the soil is a partner with the uni
verse. 1t has been the mother Of
empires and the birthplace Of intel
lectusl kings; and yet they are con-
fronted with the derisive name Of Shay
seeds" by an oligarChy Of privileged
classes created and mEds possible by
special legislation and from whom
these same classes have appropriated
through the forms Of law and otherwise,
hundreds of millions Of dollars, until
now we are confronted with q land Of
mortgsged homes, PROSTATE industries,
blasted hopes and ruined lives. Is this
the road we should travel as a nation to
attain to the ultimate destiny that our
fathers, around the campfirea Of the rev.
olution, fondly anticipated? We bear
the responsibilities which they have
given US. In this day Of our country's
peril let us be- chieftains and act from
influences Of reason and patriotism,
rather than from the hesrtless instincts
Of prejudice. With our eyes upon the
flag, with hearts beating in unison for
the welfare Of the people from ocean to
ocean, let every vote we cast be the
incarnation Of an idea; the outline Of the
blessed hope and q struggling humanity,
q golden promise Of that better time
coming. W. H. TooTHAKER.
The advocate., 1894-03-21

or the UnlGeu S68bSS unbh 4c0I' Wnon
the ratio was changed to 16 to l, the
amount Of gold in the gold dollar being
changed. The amount Of pure silver in
the silver dollar has never been altered
and remains TO. day the same as fixed by
Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary
Of the treasury, at 37115 grains. At this
ratio gold and silver continued to be
coined until 1873, when unknown to the
people and to most members of the
house and senate, bill was smuggled
through congress dsmonetizing silver.
BY this treRcherous and Infamous act,
one-half Of the money Of the people was
stricken out Of existence; gold was en-
HANGED in value; the holders Of all
bonds, mortgages and other securities
were made richer and the producing
classes were made poorer because Of that
unvsrying principle in finance; as the
circulating medium is increased, prices
60 up, and as it is decreased, prices 20
down.
In 1878 congress passed the Bland bill
which required the coinage Of not less
than 100000 nor more than 100000
q month Of silver. Under this law the
treasury has not coined over $2000,00O
per month. In 1890 congress repealed
the Bland law and enacted the Sherman
law. Under the provisions Of this law
the secretary is required to purchase
4 100000 ounces Of silver per month; but
the coinage is left optional with the sec-
rotary Of the treasury. No silver has
been coined under this law since July,
1891. The demand OF the free silver
coinage men is that silver be restored to
the same right that it had as money
metal from the foundation of the gov.
ernment down to 1873, and that it bt
again coined at the mints on same terms
as gold at a ratio Of 16 to l.
Under this csntrslizing influence oi
the contraction Of our currency through
the unfriendly legislation in regard to
silver money we 6nd from the census in
1850 the farmers Of the United States
owned five-eighths Of the total wealth Of
the country. In 1880 q little over one
fourth and in 1890 less than one-ffth,
and in the census bureau at Washington
are filed 100000 mortgages on real es-
tate alone. In this state We have a
mortgage indebtedness Of nearly $780,
100000; in Illinois nearly 0O,0O0,000,
and in Pennsylvania $500, ,0O0, 900. Thirty
two per cent. Of the farmers are tenants,
and among fsrm.owning families 80 per
cent. have mortgaged indebtedness, and
81 per cent. Of the families Of the coun-
try own only 20 per cent. Of the wealth
Of the country, while 8 per cent. Of the
weRlthisr class own II per cent. of the
wealth Of tne country. Are moi these
statements conclusive evidence that the
policy the New York Times advocates is
being fulfilled beyond the most san
guins expectations Of the plutocracy Of
this country?
But let US inquire further in regard to
this outrage and crime against the
liberty, homes and civilization Of this
country. Take the New York Tribune's
list Of 4,047 millionsires who have plum
dsred the people for twenty years under
the forms OF law and we find they have
-. ...o..-.> .e 40 nOO OOO oooL -. NfO OOO
The advocate., 1894-03-21
CREDITOR VS.. DEBTOR.

OUHEBSUiVOCUCOus
aye friends Of truth Ye statesmen
who survey the rich mans joys increase,
the poor's decay, tits for you to Judge
how wide the limits stand between a
splendid and happy land"
We have crossed the rubicon Of finsn-
cisl legislation in this country, as sVi-
denced by congressional legislation in
the destruction Of silver money. The
crossing Of that celebrated stream by
Caesar and his invincible army was not
more dangerous to Roman liberty than
the crossing OF the financial rubioon on
the part Of the allied hosts OF the gold
standard men is to American liberty;
the former was justified in the name and
for the benefit and happiness OF the
Roman people, yet it was the beginning
OF their sorroWs in which both liberty
and the empire itself was lost.
B.. This is only one OF the many instances
through the exercise Of arbitrary and
selfish policy where the interests and
happiness of millions have been sRcri-
feed to that monster Of personal and
selfish greed whose sense Of patriotic de-
votion to country and liberty has been
almost destroyed by the glitter of gold
and the pervsrsion Of the demagogue.
This warfare against the coinage of
silver bullion into legal tender money by
the money changers and the creditor
classes should be rsbuksd ss it was in
the days Of Christ, when he drove them
from the temple Of Jerusalem, with the
exception that we must use the ballot
instead Of q scourge.
Disguise it az we may, this contest is
to be fought ont between the creditor
Glasses and the usursr on one side and
the debtor classes and producers of
wealth on the other. As evidence Of the
above we quote an article in the New
York Times which says:
The American laboTer must make up his
mind henoefOrth not to be 30 much better
of than the European lRborer. Men must
be content to work for less wages. In this
way the lRboring man will be nearer to that
station in life in which il has pleased God
10 call him.
The above declaration is q pervArsion
and q libel on the Declaration Of Inde-
pendenoe and, subsequently, the cOnsti-
tuition Of the United States upon which
il was founded. That declaration prRc-
tically carried out and you have the law
Of Glasses established IN this country.
And that, too, by the fiat and decree Uf
God. Is this the kind Of meat that free
men are to be fed withH Freemen who
have conquered the most powerful ma
tion In Europe; developed an empire and
q civilization in the New World that is
the admiration of mRnkindY But not
Withstanding these great conquests this
same paper says:
Thsre seems to DO but one remedy and il
must come--R change Of ownership Of the
soil and the creation Of a GLASS Of land-own.
ers on the one hand and Of tenant farmers
on the other-something similar 10 whas
has long existed in the old countries Of Eu-
rope.
1t Is evident to the most casual OBJ
server that this policy is being carried
out by and through the advice Of the or.
gans OF the money power in the east, and
their more detestible allies in the west,
through the contraction Of the republi.
The advocate., 1894-03-21

and the Rristocratic federalists of the
early days Of our government that the
masses cannot be trusted. Are We still
cropping in that darkness? Is not the
Peoples party a living embodiment of
the principle that every man shall think
for himself instead Of depending upon
the biased brains Of ''lucre lords and
hierRrchs Of trader"
The quoted banking bill provides that
no bank officer shall give bond for faith
full performance Of his duties. If he is
dishonest the community which elected
him suffers the loss. This will make
people careful to choose honest men.
There are no unfortunate bondsmen to
fall upon in cases of embezzlsment, etc.
The national banking officers are to be
elected by the entire nation, the state
officers, including bank president, bank
cashier and assistant cashier, by the
state and county, or city cashiers by the
county or city interested.
A 'postRl savings bank and loan BILL"
formulated by a Chicago paper, The
Farm, Field and Stockmsn, has been
widely circulated. Il has been the curse
Of almost every good measure enacted by
legislative body in recent years to
have attached to it some clause, or to
have within it some provision, which
does more harm than the rest Of the bill
does good. "Killed in the house of it's
friends" may be written on too many
laws.
Here are the objections to that bill:
IO 1t adds to the duties o. postmss-
ters, Of money order offices, and they
already have enough to do in general for
the pay that they receive. (2) 1t unites
two kinds Of business that have no es-
sentisl bond Of unity, namely: Postal
and financial. (3) Anyone may deposit
money in these banks, and millions now
loaned in eastern states at low rates of
interest would draw 3 per cent. yearly in
the postal savings banks. (4 The gov
ernment should not encourage anyone
to "lie supinely upon his back" and live
upon interest levied on productive in
dustry. On the contrary, it's object
should be to get everyone to invest his
money in enterprises that give employ
ment to labor. (5 Loans are to be made
on real estate only. This is class legisla-
tion in favor Of land owners. (6) No
loan is to be for less than $3.50. Men
often want to borrow q much smaller
sum and no good reason can be given
why the man wanting $25 should not be
accommodated as readily as the one
wanting $3.50.
Our party should call for government
banking that is invulnerable at every
one Of these points. Give US clean,
honest system, wholly in the hands Of
the people, operated by them and for
them. Our money is controlled by q
privileged few. 1t must not be said Of
US than we support such discrimination.
With helpless hands they watched the error
grow,
Pride on the top and impotence below;
Indulgent bankers, privileged and strong,
naughty crew to whom all rights'belong;
The churches arrogant the courts impure,
The rich conspirators against the poor;
The farmer scorned, the artisan despised,
The all-supporting workers lowest priced.
j. G. RUPPENTHAL, JR.
You ought to read the new book "The
nooa and tha Flaaa Saa nramiurn Eat
The advocate., 1894-03-21

You ought to read the new book "The
Dogs and the Fless." See premium list.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
The Races.

The Custer Driving park was the
scene of two running races during the
week, and while the purses were not
large. or the horses remarkable for their
wonderful f%eetness, there was never
theless, as there always is. q large num-
Der of people present to witness the con-
tests.
The first race occurred on Wednesday
between a Custer horse owned by ID. L.
Shope, and a two year old filley owned
by a horseman residingat Belle Fourche.
The race was a single dash Of four hun
dred yards, resulting in a victory for
Flossie q, the Belle Fourche filley, the
fleet little animal passing under the
wire thirty feet ahead of its opponent.
The second race came off on Thursday,
II. b. Swain of this place matching his
brown Filley against Flossie q, for a
small amount in a four hundred yard
race which was won easily by the
Swain tilley, which showed surprising
speed, there being thirty feet of very
clear daylight betwe n the two contest
ants at the outcome. The Swain filley
is now the idol Of the hour i'm Custer,
and is presumably open for future en-
gagements upon the most reasonable
and accommodating terms.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
Railroad to Wind Cave.

The mysterious party o~fsurveyors will
finish their line to the Wind Cave to
night. John Stabler's surmise was en-
tirely correct. 1t mean q railroad 10
the Gave and the surveyors are employ.
ed by the Baker Quarry company, who
have caused a line to be run from their
Elkhorn track at the quarriss round by
Mielenz's quarry to the Burlington
freight depot, from whence the Wind
Cave lin starts. The capital to build the
road. which is to be q narrow guagc,
will be furnished by Pittsburg parties
who have been here to look the ground
over and determined that they would
go into The enterprise il feasible route
could be obtained. This the surveyors
have demonstrated aud the maps aid
plans will be completed in q short time.
The construction Of this railroad means
two lines to the quarries and q cheap
and convenient mean of transportation
TO Wind Cave. The passenger traffic to
this place 10 amply sufficient to justify
the outlay. The Herald congratulates
the Baker Quarry company and the
proprietors Of the Wind Cave, and the
people of Hot SPRING. may shake hands
init themselves also. Herald, Goth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
Safe Robbery.

News from Buffalo Gap that
the safe of Searles and Brown. general
merchants, was blown open last might
and the contents taken. The burglars
stole a brace. bits and chisels from Flu.
son the blacksmith and drilled a hole
neatly down from the top Of the safe.
Then before firing the charge they piled
-four all around 81 that the explosion
made absolutely no noise. They took
from the safe $1,000 in money aud some
jewelry left there for safe keeping
which was valued at about eight hun
dred dollars, besides the books of the
firm and some canned beef. The books
and jewelry we're found in a box car
where the thieves had evidently retired
to dizzy up. Three tramps who were
~ around town the day before are
suspected and the authorities are on
their trail.-Herald, %.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
Keep or the Grass.

The cattle or anti sheep men held q
little convention at the old Fred WiIlor
ranch down on the Cheyenne yesterday
afternoon and took some active meas
ures toward making the sheep men keep
their distance. We are informed they
passed q resolution to the effect that II
the sheep men did not confne them.
selves to their proper range, or rather II
they trespassed on the we'll established
ranges Of the cattle men, they 1.-THE cattle
men) would Immediately rise up and
drive all the sheep out Of the country.
and they are making q thorough or9ani-
zation. They mean business aud do not
want TO be interferred with In what
they call their rights in the matter Of
range. Star.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
Rumor Saws

That Denis Carrigan is soon to erect
a business block on his lot adjoining c.
w. Hitchcoch's store on the east.
That the new hotel at Sylvan lake
will be completed and open for business
in time to meet the demands of TIE
coming season.
That the Axle Grease factory COM
pany will put in a plant for the sam
pling of the gold ores of this vicinity,
which gives color to the further rumor
that the author of the article appearing
In last week Buffalo Gap Republican
under the caption of "The Configuration
Of the Black Hills" is seriously afflicted
with wheels.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29
SALE.

BY virtue of an execution, issued out OF anC
under the seal Of the Circuit Court In anC
for the County Of Custerand State Of Soutl
Dakota, upon a judgment rendered and docket
ed In the said court, on the oath day OF July
A. ID. 1894, In an action wherein Stephen Aims
ley Is plaintiff, and Thompson, Woolsey anc
Company are defendants, In favor of the SAID
plaintiff and against the said defendants, fol
the sum of Eight Hundred forty-ninc and 52-10
Dollars, (SS49.52), which execution was directed
aud delivered to me as Sheriff I'm and for saiC
County Of Custer, ! have this 18TH day of August
A. ID. 1894, levied upon all the right, title and
interest OF the said Defendants Thompson
described real property. to-wit: That certain
mining claim known rs the New York Mica
Mine, designated as Lot No. bi3; said LOT No
5l3 extending 1900 feet along said New fOrl
Mica Mine. vein or lode. Said lode claim ~
entered embracing ~. - 100 acres, In the Custer
(unorganized Mining district, In the County q
Custer and State OF South Dakota, as shown ID!
the survey thereof.
Notice Is hereby given that /, the undersigned
Ms sheriff ms aforesaid. Will sell the above de
Scribed real property 10 the highest bidder
for cash, at public auction, AT the front door %
The Court House In the Town of Custer City, n
the County Of Custer and State Of South Dakota
on Monday, the oath day Of September A. ID. 1894
nj 2 O'Clock p. m, of that day, 10 satisfy sale
execution, together with the interest and cost
thereon.
Dated August 10Th, A.. ID. 1894.
A. NJ. WILLARD,
Sheriff Of Custer County. >. ID.
First publications., August II, 1884.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29

Ayers Sarsaparilla enjoys the extra.
ordinary distinction of having been the
only blood purifier allowed an exhibit
at the Worlds Fair, Chicago. Manu-
facturers Of other sarsaparillas sought
by every means to obtain a showing for
their goods but they were all turned
away under the application Of the rule
forbidding the entry of patent medi-
cines and nostrums. The decision OF
the Worlds FAIR authorities in favor of
Ayers Sarsaparilla was in effect as fol-
lows: ayers Sarsaparills 10 not a
patent medicine 1t does not belong to
the list Of nostrums. 1t Is here on its
merita.n
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-29

F. T. Kellogg, who came to Custer two
months ago with his wife and family,
to visit with his relatives, f. A. Dickson
and family and L. Bowles, departed for
his home in jamestown, Kansas, on
Wednesday. Mr. Kellogg WAS, upon his
arrival here, a pronounced invalid, hay
ing been seriously afflicted, in May last
with diphtheria which resulted in par
tial paralysis Of the lower limbs, making
it exceedingly difficult for him to walk.
His physicians offered little hope
for his recovery, %prunouncing his case
fairly hopeless, but a change for the
better was noticed in a few days after
his arrival, and in a few weeks he re-
covered the use of his limbs and could
walk With apparent ease, and upon his
departure 1t was evident to his friends
that his health was fully restored. Dur.
ing his stay in this city he gained seven.
teen pounds in flesh, and vitality be.
yond all possible estimate. He left as
happy as a lark, sounding praises OF
Custer as a matchless health resort.