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Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08
Sensational Reports.

1t has become noted fact of late
years, that correspondents to the large
city dailIes, have tendency to stretch
the truth in their reports. 1t seems
they have, through some process un-
known to the average truthful man.
conceived an idea that 10 make a sue
cess as a newspaper correspondent, they
must close their eyes and ears TO the
actual facts concerning some subject of
importance, and when writing to the
daily papers, try to sustain a reputation
of good itemizer by giving the garb of
truth to some sensational rot where if
the truth was given, would be of more
benefit 10 their report.
No more fruitful results could have
been given than the press reports IN re-
gard to the finding OF the Steamer.
Chic0ra. While there is not the slight
est doubt that the first discovery made.
bore but TO q small extent that the OBJ
ject seen in the distance upon the turbu-
lent waters Of Lake Michigan. resem-
bled the hull Of steamer, yet before
investigation had been properly made,
and but short time after the first re-
port had been circulated, the telegraph
wires were flashing the news across the
continent that the hull of the Chicora
had been found, and that all those who
had started upon that fatal voyage on
Jan. q, 1898, were in good health and
had been rescued from the foundering
steamer.
The streets of Chicago were alive with
the hundreds of news boys selling COP
les of an extra addition issued by the
energetic dailies, with full account of
the discovery and rescue. At Benton
HarbOr, where the families of greater
number of these men resided, excite
ment was worked up to the highest
tension. The churches were deserted,
the streets alive with the citizens of that
city, and mothers and wives and daugh-
ters, hurrylng toward the telegraph of
fees with tears of JOY flowing down
their cheeks, and new awakened hope
kindled in their breast. And then the
reaction. The hope that had been res
urrected through the reports of sensa-
tional reporters, did more deadly work
than the report when first announced
that the steamer had went down.
There should be some way to suppress
this alarming feature of press reporting
that IS beginning to predominant, and
reporter that does not give the actual
facts in the case should not be allowed
to be press correspondent. This is
not only the case OF this one instant, but
in scores of other cases it has been the
same. Even from Plymouth we have
seen eXagurated reports in regard to
occurrences wherein the actual truth
would have appeared to a better adyant-
age.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08
Self-Evident Truths.

y self-eyident truth is one which
needs but to be stated to be accepted by
candid, unprejudiced minds. hold the
following to be self-evident:
First-If the American people pur-
chase from England one hundred mill
ion dollars worth of goods America gets
the goods and England gets the one
hundred million dollars in cash; but if
we buy the goods from the American
manufacturers and producers then
America gets both the goods and the
money and is one hundred million dol
lars better off than by the former trans
action.
Second-If the production of these
goods in this country would give year
employment to two hundred thousand
of our own people, then buying goods
abroad will leave two hundred thOus-
and of our people idle who might have
been employed had we purchased the
goods at home and if these two hundred
thousand people would have earned on
an average of four hundred dollars
each, then we, having destroyed their
purchasing power, have reduced the
demand for all kind of goods in this
country and damaged our home market
to the extent of eighty millions of dol
lars, less what our people will buy and
give to these idle people as charity to
keep them from actual starvation.
Third ust IN proportion as we de
stroy the home market or demand for
goods, we throw other thousands of
people out of employment, and this
still reduces the purchasing power of
our people aud leads on to the indefinite
impoyerishment of our people individu-
ally and our country at large.
Fourth II such goods can be pro-
duced and shipped into this country
from abroad cheaper than they can be
produced at home, then our people will
surely buy abroad, and there are but
two known ways of preventing il; one
Is by a tariff which will shut the goods
out of this market, and the other is the
reduction Of the cost of home produc-
ton. And as the chief cost of produc-
ton is wages if such cost is reduced to
any appreciably extent it must be
through reduction of wages, which not
only impoverishes the laborer but also
every other person of whom the laborer
is accustomed to purchase the neces-
saries and luxuries of life.-American
Economist.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

TIE Plymouth INDEPENDENT is
about the neatest and best edited sheet
that comes to our table, but we think
that Bro. Zimmerman has misquoted
us in his article of last week on what
this paper said about the silver service.
Labor voice, South Bend.
If, as our brother says, we misquoted
him, we are truly sorry. For we always
try to deal fairly with others, even if we
do differ upon some material points.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08
Dead On the Ash Heap.
age

Don't you recall with shiver. The
bitter cold of last Thursday night?
DO you remember how hard it was to
keep warm around the blazing hearth,
inside your snug and coy dwelling?
Do you forget how you shiyered, even
between the blankets, iii your bed, all
through the cruel hours of the night?
Driven to it by sheer force of human
ity, did you not go from stall to stall in
the barn, to see that the dumb brutes IN
your keeping had as complete protection
from the pitiless wind and rain, as it
was in your power to give?
The dog scratched at the door, you
let him in.
The eat complained from the piazza,
and you took her to the rug on the
hearth.
Even the flowers in the pit had your
anxious care, and cover was spread
over trea cherous clinks.
And as the furious squadrons of the
wind drove down from the north, every
lance in the chill brlgades tipped with
ice, didn't you, with motlonless lips but
swelling heart, pray God to pity the
wretch who might be homeless and
shelterless on such night?
And didn't your infinite sympathieS
go out to the mariners who might be
reefng frozen sails, away off in the bleak
fields of the trackless sea?
And oh, did it once occur to you that
on such night-SUCH a night il
could be in the heart of any human be
ing to turn another human being away
from shelter and fire. and drive him
forth to the murder of the storm?
Yet read this:
DIED on AN ASH HEAP.
New Philadelphia, O., Dee. 2S. Last
night a supposed tramp entered Canal
Dover rolling mill in an almost frozen
condition. lie was elected 10y the night
watchman. In the morning there was
found white-haired man, apparently
sixty years of age lying cold in death
on the ash-heap. II. L. was marked
in his shirt
Such is the brief tragedy telegraphed
to every newspaper in the Union.
Churches? Yes, it's land crowded
with churches.
Charity? Yes, it's a land that gives
millions to the poor of its own and other
countries.
Law? Yes, you couldn't fire a shot
gun in any given direction without
sprinkling an officer of the law
Civilization? Yes, we are loaded
down with all the paraphernaha of the
most complete civilization the world
ever knew.
Yet our brothers die ct our hands
from calculated, systematic, and soul
less ferocity which would shame dog,
Why? Simply because, under our
horrible system, property has become
more sacred than life.
In the theory preached i'm every
church, Christ, the homeless vagrant, is
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

PARTY affiliations in municipal gov
ernment, is a detrlment. The man who
is willing to blindly follow out line of
action to the disadvantage of the entire
community, solely because it is not ac-
cording to his political belief, is not the
proper man to represent the people. We
long for the time when in village and
thing as political lines, and where the
women will be entitled to the right of
suffrage, especially in matters pertain
ing to education.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

THE election of any city or township
officer is in no sense whatever politi-
cal contest, Such an officer is not a rep
reSentative of any party principle or
policy, but the agent of the people to
look after their business. 1t is not what
any mans views may be on the tariff, or
free coinage, that has any bearing what
ever on his honesty, or his ability to vote
in the meetings of the board of commits
slOners, or the city council, in matters of
town or city improvement, or the build
ing of bridge or sidewalk, but his we'll
known ability as a shrewd and compe-
tent business man. The common sense
Of the people is rapidly learning to dis
criminate between the offices where
partisan considerations justly apply, and
those petty offices which should be en-
tirely independent of any partisan or po-
litical jealOusieS or rmanipulatiOns. The
fact Is, that the continual partisan
manipulations, and intriguing to con
troll all these Offices is damage rather
than a help to true party discipline and
organization, because the success of the
party becomes the principal object, no
matter what may be the fitness of the
candidate.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

TIE machine in both parties cry out
most savagely always against any per
sou who objects TO their control. But it
must be admitted that in all parties the
anti-machine element is as honest in its
allegienee to the avowed principles of
the party as the machine can possible
be. In fact the principles of any party
are generally more faithfully upheld by
those who hold themselves independent
Of machine routine than they are by the
machine, whose only object and ambi-
tion is the manipulation ofthe spoils.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

WHILE the president has said that
there was comfortable surplus" and
Wilson, OF West Virginia, says '.the rev
7nues are fully sufficient to meet the
necessary expenses of the govern
ment. it is fact, that the income Of the
government during the six months
ending December 3lst, 1891, was nearly
Si5.000,0O0 less than actual expenses.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

CONGRESS has been contemplating
holding night sessions, SO as to finish
up its work before the end comes. This
would be eminently proper as most Of
the designs of the present congress
should be covered with the cloak of
darkness.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

If intelligent law sustaining and
moral citizens who desire to see the
municipality III which they live governed
in legal and moral manner, and are
particularly anxious that the officers
who are chosen or are to be chosen to
administer the laws, shall be clean, able
competent men, persist in permitting
the so-called ward bummers to do all
the initiatory work, to manipulate the
caucuses, work up packed gang to
nominate the candidates they wish, the
law sustaining class make no effort,
then they have no right to complain
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08
LAST SUNDAYS Inter Ocean gives the

LAST Sundays Inter Ocean gives the
following editorials:
"The president used a good article of
glue when he put his cabinet in their
various chanS. Every one sticks.
President Cleveland must have got
some of that same glue on the seat of
his own pants, and that accounts for
him not having made move since his
last election.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

TIE right of every man to make and
keep all the property he can is an inher-
ent and indisputable right. fit is crime
for man to accumulate and keep, or
spend as he pleases fifty millions of
dollars, then it is crime to accumulate
and keep fifty dollars.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

LABOR saving machines have been
invented to do nearly all kinds of work
which was formerly done by men. Now
if some genius would only invent some
plan whereby a man can live without
eating, he will earn the everlasting graft
tude of the millions of unemployed. -
Labor Voice.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

THE present democratic congress is a
congress of surrenders. 1t surrendered
voluntarily to the sugar trust on sugar:
to the gold trust on gold; to the popu-
list in the income tax, and was COMPEL
ed to surrender to the people in No
vember 1891
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

EVERY gold country III the world eX-
cept the United States, protects its sup
ply of the metal. This is the only ma
ton that sticks to standard without
trying to save the basis of that standard
from expectation.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

EVIDENTLY all the financial cranks
in this country are just now at work on
the many plans offered for a revision of
the national currency legislation.
Marshall County independent., 1895-02-08

that the cities are run in the interest
and to the advantage of those classes
that invariably defy the laws and ine-
vitably bring disgrace upon the city.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

in any locality is to ascertain if the
required number of cows can be Sc
cured within a radius of five or six
miles.
Advantages of a Creamery-There
are many advantages to be derived
from the creamery plan. The first is
that it increases the production. With
the ordinary system Gf cream raising
there is considerable loss of fat, there
usually being from ten to twenty five
per cent left in the skim milk. The
best results in setting milk are OBJ
tanned only by liberal use Of ice.
This cannot always be had, and the
conditions on most farms are not con-
ducive to low temperature, which
is the principal cause of thorough
Dreaming, the quality Of the milk effect
ing it but little. A modern separator
creamery will get practically all the fat
out Of the milk. In the creamery sys-
TEN the butter is all made at one place
by q skilled butter maker, and is Of
a uniform and high quality, command
ing a better price than can be obtained
for butter made in private dairy.
Another advantage of the creamery
is the less work required around the
house, in the care Of the milk, churn-
ins, working and marketing the butter.
Let all those interested in the project
hold a meeting to discuss it's advisa-
bility. All great reforms are worked
out slowly, and a number Of meetings
NAV be necessary. When all sides of
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

higher price, yet when we consider the
feeding of skim milk, there is not quite
enough difference between the prices
paid at creameries and cheese fac
tories.
OF the twenty circular letters sent
out by the writer, but nine answered
the questions, and furnished the infor-
nation desired. With but one excep-
ton, all those report the outlook for
aext season as being exceedingly bright,
some even saying they will double
this seasons yield.
1t is in those portions Of the state
where the rainfall has ceased to be
sufficient to insure a crop of wheat
that factories have been most success
full. In those sections the farmers
are enthusiastic over this years re-
suits, and next season will see larger
herds and new creameries established.
Make haste slowly in building a new
creamery. Cooperation has been tried
with good results, and for the benefit
Of those who contemplate erecting
creamery the coming season, the fol-
lowing is appended:
No creamery can be successful with
out the requisite number Of cows. 1t
is not advisable to attempt the project
unless the product from 300 cows can
be assured With less number it
will be difficult to successfully operate
a creamery.
The first thing to do in considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of starting a creamery
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

little queer that the farmers who were
most benefited by this system OF buy
ing milk were the last ones to consent
to it's adoption i'll the creamery.
AS a rule, those who were the worst
CHECKERS" are now it's most ardent sup
porters. When once thoroughly under
stood the wisdom Of such plan be-
comes self-evident, hence the readiness
with which it has been adopted. Then
the Babcocl1 test has been known to
exert Il powerful influence on the NOR
ais of some communities. While it
doesn't tell YOU THAT Il certain amount
of water has been added to the milk,
1t has shown that some patrons milk
increased it's fat content by fully 50
per cent in Il few days. On the basis
the price Of milk has varied ut all the
factories ranging from so to 90 cents
per hundred according to quality and
time of year. At the gathered cream
factories. the price per gauge, and each
gauge will make u pound or butter,
has ranged from 10 to IA cents. At
the cheese factories Il uniform price
has been received for the milk. ana as
the patrons received the whey Instead
of the skim milk the amount was n
little higher. ranging from % to 20
cents per hundred. The price of clieesa
tho INST season would not warrant
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26
FLAX FIBER.

The Rich Prairies Will Raise Flax
There Shall be OIL Mills, and
Linen Factories. and Irvine Fac
tories. and Rope Factories With
in the Borders of North Dakota
Who Will Take a Fortune Out
Of These Industries?- There Is
More Than One Waiting.
During the past few years there has
been very much greater interest
taken in fax as crop for seed in the
Northwest than heretofore. The low
price of wheat and other small grains,
and even the low price of stock and
other products Of the diversified farm,
have caused the attention Of the farm
ers to be turned toward anything that
would bring money. 1t has been gen
orally recognized that fax is harder
on the land than is wheat or almost
any other crop but the larger amount
of money per acre to be derived from
the flax crop has induced many farm
ers to SOW flax instead Of so much
wheat This has been done in spite of
the arguments for diversified farming
made by the powerful agricultural pa
pers of the country, al. of which recog-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

the question have been thoroughly dis
cussed adopt a constitution and by
laws. elect officers and begin the cree
ton of building. There are a few
creamery companies who will do all
the work of forming the company,
erecting the building, eQuipping it
with the necessary machinery and turn
it over to the company ready to run.
Such creameres have not been gen.
orally successful. You can do all the
work Of organizing and building with
much less expense.
Salaried men to organize the COM
pany with profit OH the work and
equipment aggregate too great Il cost
for the creamery to be Il profitable In
vestmcnt for some time.
The usual plan in building COOP
erative creamery is not to have the
stakeholder pay cash for the stock sub
scrihcd, but to borrow the money, each
stock holder being personally reliable
for The whole amount, and then create
II sinking fund to pay Off the indebted
ness.
The : cents per 100 pounds deducted
from the amount OF milk delivered Mt
tho factory To create Il sinking fund Is
not felt 10y the patrons, as even then
thay will be getting more than II sell
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

ter and eggs" The writer, in CONVEX
sation with q bright widowed German
woman, who was not only running
the farm, but bringing up a large fam
lily, was told by her that she did not
care for the hard times. "My farm is
paid FOR, owe no one and I have but
ter, eggs, chickens, cattle, hogs and
horses to sell every year" A gen.
tleman at the head of one of the
largest loaning institutions Of this
state Informed me that, having q large
number of loans in the northern part
OF the state some years ago, he advised
the mortgages not to raise so much
wheat, but put in more fax, barley
and oats. Wherever this advice was
followed the farmers had paid their
debts, and In almost every case where
wheat was persistently raised the
mortgages had lost their farms.
have been informed by brewers that
when the right kind Of barley is sown
IN Dakota and properly cared for it is
az good brewing quality as any in
the country. With five years of expe-
rience In raising barley in the Red
river valley the writer has never got
q less grade than No. 2 until the pres
ent year, when, with part Of the crop,
he followed the advice "FOr the care
of the CROP" issued by the farmers CO
on the boards of trade of Chicago, Du-
luth and Minneapolis, and consequent
y lost by not following his own expe-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

nize that instead Of flax making the
farm cleaner and richer it has even a
worse effect than wheat. Need of
money has resulted in using this crop
when it was really poorer field man
agement than to have raised corn and
other cultivated crops with which to
make live stock products. Flax is GER
tainly Il greater breeder Of weeds than
almost any other crop that grows, but
in spite of this the better remuneration
has led farmers to grow flax, not only
on newly broken land, but on older
lands which have been kept in good
heart or have been specially prepared
for crops of wheat. There may be
money in opening up new lands, rails
ing two or three crops of flax, and, as
one farmer put it, Take the flax out
Of the land and then sell it," but no
one will claim that it is patriotic to
thus enter upon our virgin soils, skin
them of their best fertility. make them
weedy aud then sell them. People
usually overestimate the injury to the
soil by growing flax IN the way OF re-
luciug the fertility. A crop OF average
flax does not take very much more fer
tility out OF tho land than an average
crop OF wheat. The more serious cf-
feet seems to be the liability to intro.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

have taken up the cry, and the season
of 1895 finds at least twenty creameries
and cheese factories in operation. Dur
ing the season of 1894 three creameries
We're in operation and produced about
100000 pounds of butter.
From reports furnished the writer by
the managers of the ten creameries
operating this season, the estimated
yield is placed at 100000 pounds Of
butter, and from the ten cheese factor
les a product Of 100000 pounds of
cheese is assured.
A majority Of these creameries are
running on the separator plan, that is,
the patrons deliver their milk at the
factory, where the cream is removed
and the skim milk returned to the farm.
This is much better system than
where the cream is gathered, as it is
possible for the butter maker to SO
control the conditions necessary to pro-
duce good favored butter. In some
communities, however, the requisite
number of COWS necessary to the sue
cessful operation Of the creamery can
not be obtained without hauling the
milk too great distance and gathering
cream is the only means left for Oper-
ating.
The plan Of paying for the milk at
so many cents per hundred pounds,
regardless of quality has become OBJ
solete, and the newer system OF paying
by the test is the rule. 1t seems