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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
STARTLING FIGURES.
HOW THEY ROB US.

dOW THEY hOB US.
Read this, friends, and see how the
Big -Four are plundering the farmers
of the Northwest:
New York, April 14.-Thomas Burke
Grant gives some startling figures as
to the profits OF the big Chicago pack
ers and also the retail butchers. In
1885 he was commissioned by a foreign
syndicate to inspect the packing
houses Of Chicago and to write series
of letters upon the investiga tions
made there, and which were published
in Great Britain and Ireland. He
says that in Chicago, which was a pub
lie market, was under the control OF a
private corporation, whereas. in large
cities in England and Ireland, such as
Liverpool and London, the sale of cat.
tie and other farm stock was under
the control of the municipalities and
subject to rigorous bylaws, which
were enforced equally in the interest
OF both buyer and seller. The Chica-
go corporation fixed the market to
suit themselves, he asserts, and sent
out quotations from SO to so per cent
higher on paper than the farmers told
him they were receiving in cash. Mr..
Grant then shows a table made up
from the figures given him by the
packers, that in 1885 they made profit
of $14.76 on every 1000 pound beef
they killed. Then he shows the pres
ent profit to the packers on an animal
of the same weight, as follows,
Two fore quar- ters of 175 lbs. each a lie s3s so
Two hind quarters of AS lbs. each at 12c 34sO
Forty lbs. Oleamargarine at Tenn. 2S)
Value fifth quarter, hide, hoOfs, horns $50
IotaI..... go
Deduct price paid farmer in 1895.
say. ......... 5000. $45. 80
Dc duct cost of slaughter.. $50
Deduct cost transportation east. 1.54
- 4S %
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
Profit for Armour.

Profit for Armour. .s3- 81
BY similar table he shows that the
net profit to the retail butcher is $37.-
80 on an animal weighing 900 pounds.
And remember, brethren, that when
an attempt was made in the recent
Legislature, to pass law to require
cattle to be inspected and slaughtered
in this state, and thus put an end to
the present system of shipping our
cattle to Chicago and having them in
spected and slaughtered there, the bill
was defeated.
And remember that the Legislature
that did this was almost unanimously
Republican, elected by go, 900 Republi-
can plurality.
Keep that in mind.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

intended to give him the right to store
his OWE grain in his own public ware
house, and mix it with the grain of his
customers, and to receive grain from
himself, and Issue receipts to himself for
his own grain, and, lastly, charge him
self for the storage of his own grain in
his own house. The legislature has
placed certain restrictions upon public
warehousemen. 1t has regulated their
charges for storage so that the ware.
houseman shall not practice extortion
upon bis customers. It has prohibited
him from mixing grain of different grades
together, and be is not permitted to
tamper with the grain while in his pos
session or custody. Such regulations
would not be necessary but for the fact
that he is the custodian or ballee for the
owner of the grain stored, and it is his
DUTY to take care of such grain for the
owner. For warehousemen, either d.
rectly or indirectly, to buy or sell grain
and handle the same through their own
public warehouses is, the commission
says, against not only the letter but the
spirit of the law; it is against public
policy; it is a discrimination against the
public, and it affords an opportunity to
practice frauds upon those dealing with
| such warehouses.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

The English board of agriculture has
just issued a curious and suggestive re-
port, showing what a great and sudden
change has come I've British agricul-
ture. The report is for the year ending
on June 4 last, and it establishes that
within the year the area of Great Britain
devoted to wheat has been diminished
by over one-fourth. The reduction in
percentage is 36.5 and in area 51O,331
acres. The decrease is uniform through
out the island, but of course, is mainly
in England, since it amounts to far more
than the total wheat belts" of Scotland
and Wales put together. This is clear
proof that foreign competition in wheat
has at last proved too much for the
British farmer to attempt to sustain. So
great a diminution could not proceed
from local or transient causes, but the
hopelessness of continuing the struggle
against countries where Ian. is so much
cheaper and agricultural labor not
enough dearer to make an effective
Offset.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
PROF. PASTEUR.

The death OF Prof. Louis Pasteur
takes from the world n of the greatest
benefactors of mankind. A t~ireless
worker in the field of science, he
fathomed some of her deepest myeterie s
and his discoveries have possibly con-
tributed more to the alternating of
human suffering than those of tanner
and the long list of medical scientists
preceding him. OF his career the
Chicago Herald says:
Pasteur's literary requirements we're
only those OF a provincial academy.
Equipped with a chemical knowledge ac-
quired among hide watts and drying poles
he went to Paris, where he toiled OBJ
scurely as a student until nearly 80
years of ages
The science of bacteriology was al
ready known and it's availability for re-
preston, prevention or cure of disease
had been indicated by several scientific
men, none Of whom possessed the peril
nacity Of Pasteur for experiment under
microscope tests. Pasteur's first scien-
titfc work was in a totally different
dlrection-in polarization of light; and
it was in this domain his labor secured
its earliest recognition. Always on the
alert to encourage pioneering in every
field, it was England that discerned his
talent and conferred upon him his first
real honor. Profoundly humane, Pas.
teur sought, while still in his struggles
with fortune, to direct his scientific
knowledge to beneficent ends. He car
ried from the lanyard an ~inextingulsh-
able sympathy with industry and toll;
and it was to revive the langulshing silk
worm culture that he began ~investiga.
tions which eliminated in a set of dog
mas and corollaries which, if not yet ac-
copied without reserve in their logical
completeness, have in effect revolution
lied several departments of scientific
activity and added to civilization itself a
number Of imperishable aids for over
coming disease, extending life and i'm
proving industrial processes.
The foundation of the Pasteur Insti-
tute at Paris for the ure of hydrophobia
was not, in fact, a scientific admission
Of his success in that special direction.
It was a popular expression toward the
author, not a doctor of medicine, of a
remedy for one of the most horrible Of
maladles; and it wae the common people.
n t the doctors, that first accepted and
gradually made universal a theory that,
within limits, is now established as valid
in principle and efficient in application.
If to Jenner and not to Pasteur is due
the honor of being originator of inocula-
ton of modified virus, 1t is to Pasteur
history will ascribe the vitalizing of bac-
teriology as a new and authentic branch
of science. 1t is to his deep love of hui
mainly and not to immersion in ancient
erudition that the world owes it's debt to
the Jura tanners son. The scope of the
dictn formulated by him has been wild
ened year by year until, like the circles
following the casting Of a pebble into
the sea, b~acteriology has come to include
many wholly untanticipated areas of in
vestigation, all beneficial! to mankind.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

DIFFERENT constructions are placed
on the resignation of the receivers of
the Northern Pacific. It is said by the
receivers that they cannot be continually
harassed by the question of jurisdiction
in different courts, and do justice to the
work of operating the road. They do
not want separate receiverships for diff
ferent parts Of the road. On the other
hand, it is said the designations may
have been made to give Judge Jenkins
an opportunity to pass on the question
of jurisdiction. Tomorrow is the date
set for the decision of Judge Jenkins as
to their acceptance. If they are genuine,
and are accepted, it will be interesting
to- see whether new receivers will be ap-
pointed in the Wisconsin circuit, aae in
Washington.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

The new Northern Pacific receivers
appear to be generally satisfactory. One
of them, Receiver McHenry, is a practi-
cal railroad man, and a former North
Dakotan. He was born IN Cincinnati
and received his early education there.
Later he went abroad and studied in
Germany and Belgium. Upon returning
to this country he entered the Pennsyl-
vania Military college, where he took
his course in civil engineering. Almost
his first work was with the Northern
Pacific company. That was in 1883 and
on the jamestown division. He was en-
gagged in work on several divisions, and
finally located at Tacoma before coming
to st. Paul. He was made chief epgi-
neer two years ago. MI. McHenry &C.
quirad fame among the engineers and
railroad men for the construction of the
branch line between Logan and Butte,
Montana.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

For the second time IN the past twelve
months, the democratic tariff bill has
brought to the national treasury a sur
plus of receipts over expenditures in a
months business. During the past year
the deficit aggregates 1896, 80, which
stands as one of the many monuments
to the inadequacy of tariff reform, as ex-
empliied in the Wilson tariff bill. It is
not difficult to reduce A
simple decree of a democratic congress
and the thing is done. 1t is not difficult,
either, to make elaborate speeches as to
the great benevolence of democracy in
thus cutting down tariffs. But figures,
as usual, do not misrepresent the eitua-
ton, and the balance of the national
treasury at the close of each month has
been the gauge of the adequacy of "tariff
reform" It is safe to say that no resi-
dent of the United States has felt any
%lessening of his burdens through the
passage of the Wilson bill. And on the
other hand, a deficit of S5,OOO,000 has
been piled up every month, with All ad-
ditional debt of sl65, 100000 in about the
same time, in the way of bonds. Alb
stract eulogies of the tariff, and Of the
benevolence of democracy, are simply
made. But when the figures are shown
up, they contrast badly with the noisy
plaudits of democracy over it's pitiable
efforts at the governmental helm. It is
not a difficult matter, neither is it an
evidence of able craftsmanship or ad-
mlnistrative ability, to run into debt,
and start out at the first of each month
with a deficit of millions. These have
come about under an admins tration
which is democratic in every branch, and
with a revenue measure the product
solely Of democratic ingenuity. They
are purely democratic conditions. Let
the democrats explain them to the voters
to whom they promised better and more
economical government.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
THERE ARE EASIER WAYS.

An excess of ingenuity in devising q
means for suicide too often leads to
failure. In New York, a few days ago,
a laborer, disguised with existence and
eager to amble through the realms of i'm
mortality, bound a cloth saturated with
kerosene about his head, set fire to IT.,
and then cut his throat. 1t is needless
to say that he desired to die. But, un-
fortunately, his plans miscarried. The
fire did no more than disfgure his fea-
lures, and put him to a considerable
amount of pain and Inconvenience. His
carving, also, proved Ineffective, and the
death for which he appeared to long so
desperately never came.
These uncommon modes of attempting
self-destruction are the product Of a
latter-day civilization, and are doomed
to utter condemnation and disuse. After
such elaborate preparations as we're
made in the case in point, it is disgust.
ing to the principal in the attempt, to
discover that all his efforts have been
vain. To go through life with a carved
throat, and a distigured ~countenance, be
cause OF a too desperate desire to die
and too ingenious mode of self.destruc.
ton, is notifying.
There are so many and simple modes
Of accomplishing the desired end in
these cases, that there is no excuse for
such a fasco as this one. The old and
long-established means of destruction
are the better, after all. But if those
persons who are eager to become corpses
desire a really novel mode of exit from
affairs terrestrial, recent developments
in insurance cases have opened up an en-
tirely new route to Immortality. Let the
ambitious asplrant for celestial honors
insure his life in some such way as was
popular with the Holmes and Hayward
bureaus, and the thing is done. There
will then be no necessity for tedious de.
tails upon the part of the insured. He
has but to wrap the drapery of his couch
about him and await developments. In
the present era, this seems one of the
most reliable methods of suicide which
has so far come to light.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
military questions t., act upon, and his
course has been such as to place him in
the front rank of administrative officials.
The various courts along the line O

The various courts along the line of
the Northern Pacific will be asked to
concur in the appointment of Messrs.
McHenry and Bigelow, receivers by
Judge Jenkins. Judge Sanborn, of st.
Paul, has already announced his con-
currence. Speaking of this action the
Pioneer Press says: IF there Is any
state which may lay rightful claim to be
the chief seat Of the property interests of
the Northern Pacific railroad, it is Min
n~esota, and if there is any federal court
whose jurisdiction in matters of litiga-
CATION involving those interests cannot
be disputed, 1t is the United States
circuit court OF Minnesota and the
Dakotas. For in these states are en-
braced it's eastern termini, it's business
headquarters, a much greater portion of
it's terminal property than in any other
two states, and nearly, if not quite, half
of it's total mileage. So that whatever
validity, if any, there may be to the OBJ
lection made by Judge Hanford of Wash
ington to the appointment OF receivers
by Judge Jenkins of the circuit of east
ern Wisconsin on jurisdictional grounds,
no such objection can be raised to the
appointment of receivers by Judge San
born, whose circuit embraces much the
larger part of the property interests in
| volved"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

little ~obstreperous island on the western
hemisphere. In the march of civiliza-
ton, natural conditions and envire n
ments Cuba should no longer be under
SPANS protectorate. The time has
com when in the very nature of things
the United States should exercise such
control wei the political and industrial
affairs of the peoples of the western
hemisphere as will cause all eastern
nations to keep hands off. Cuba should
be free. Her natural protector is the
United States. Americans and Ameri-
can capital are developing her
Spain may succeed in finally crushing
out the present rebellion by sheer force
of arms, but it would be an empty VIC
tory, its permanency depending entirely
on the continued presence of Spanish
soldiers condition at once %degenerat.
ing to the people of Cuba and disastrous
to the interests of Americans and Ameri-
can commerce.. ..."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLE|GH co.
A SOLEMN OCCASION.

Reports from Washington remark a
slight improvement in the condition of
the treasury. The patient is by no means
ont OF danger. It's pulse is feeble, throat
dry and parched, eyes heavy, lips blood
less, and it's general condition that of ex-
haustion and enervation. But DR.. Car
liele reports a few faint signs of improve
ment. Indeed, he goes to the alarming
extent of hoping that during the month
of September there may be a slight sur
plus, instead of the customary deficit
which has so far made a regular appear
ance each month.
It has been SO long now since there
has been any surplus for the administra-
ton to dispose Of that the appearance of
one this month will no doubt provoke a
wild excitement among the officials of
the government as to what disposal shall
be made of it. SURPRISES are things
which have not been dreamed of in dem
ocratic philosophy. When 1t to
deficits, the democrats are thoroughly at
home. But SURPRISES are beyond them.
They are not acquainted with the habits
of these strange creatures, nor do they
know where to put them over night.
Should the worst happen, therefore,
and the dreaded surplus make it's ap-
pearance, the cation beseeches Secretary
Carlisle to BE- calm, and pass through the
ordeal with that grim courage and un~
faltering steadfastness of purpose which
has characterized him and the adminlstra-
ton in piling up the national debt. AS
soon as possible after the blow falls, let
the secretary invite some good repub-
lican to accompany him and identify the
arrival. And should it prove beyond
doubt to be a surplus, invite it into the
Office, and call upon the heads OF the ad-
ministration one by one, to come in and
gaze upon it. Let them take it by the
hand, and smooth it's hair, and gaze into
its features, that they may know it
should they ever see one again. Under
a democratic administration this is not
probable, but there is always q faint pos
slbility for which provision should be
made.
This will be a solemn and momentous
occasion in the history of the democratic
administration. Secretary Carlisle should
arise to it with that calm and unrufled
demeanor which characterizes his peri
odical assurances Of s5O,OOO,0OO in bonds.
And let the day upon which the surplus
appears be set apart by all good demo.
Gratis to be observed with awe and rever.
enee at the wonders which occasionally
come to pass.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04

teacher to administer punishment to one
of the states fair daughters, there en-
sued a contest, which is described by
local writer's:
He began with a slash across her shout
ders. She hit him in the eye with her fist
and the professor stepped back. Then she
took the stick from his hand, broke it in
pieces and went to her seat.
After that the professor was foolish.
He tied up his eye and sent for another
whip. He got a 4.foot elm CAD and walk
ing down the aisle to the seat where the
angry girl sat struck her shoulders.
There is a good deal of uncertainty as to
just what happened. There was a Spat,
spat, and a rattle and a bump;.a lot of
dust came up from the aisle, and the entire
room was in commntion.
In a moment the Kentucky girl stood up
and began to arrange her hair.
There was a flush on her face and her
eyes flashed like those of an angry cat
cornered by a lot of dogs in a tree.
Ten feet away the professor. pulled him
self, as if to arouse from a dream or a heavy
sleep. His nose was bloody II there was
a dimness about his eyes. He said, de-
jectedly. that a sudden illness had seized
him, and dismissed the school for the day
From this, it will be evident that the
average Kentucky schoolgirl is a crea-
ture who is not to be carelessly handled,
1t is worthy Of note that she stopped
after al onslaught, in which the teacher
went to grass, to arrange her hair. This
proves her GOODNESS, aud had the pro-
lessor been wise he would have called
the battle off and taken second money.
His failure to do SO was oc~casioned by
lack of familiarity with Kentucky blood.
and the disastrous results are apparent.
No teacher should go down into Ken
lucky to disseminate knowledge at the
end of Il ferule. It is a poor ferule
! which won't work both ways.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
POOR CHARLES!

Even the wife of Governor Culbertson
of Texas is not with him in his resolve
to stop the Corbett- Fitsimmons prize
fight. "If the people of the state of
Texas want to have a prize-hght," she
says, sweetly and yet decisively, "let EN-
have it. What's the use of poor Charles
worrying himself to death trying to pre-
vent something the people all Want?
There's no use in his staying up nights
to keep up public dignity"
Now, here we have the whole thing in
a nutshell. If it is within the limits Of
possibility for a woman to hit a nail
squarely on the head, Mrs. Culbertson
has done it. And We arise to inquire, in
this same strain, who the devil is this
man Culbertson, anyway, that he should
persist in these mad efforts for the semi
civilization of the state of Texas, in
direct opposition to the wife of his bosom,
who has, at once clearly and forcibly, set
forth her ideas in the matter?
If anything were needed to convince
the skeptical that woman's delicate in
huence is necessary in the administra-
ton of public affairs, this has done it.
Mrs. Culbertson is entitled to the united
eulogies OF her sex. In one brief para
graph, she has shed a glow of radiant
light upon a perplexing question, and
clarified a murky, muddy problem, until
it is crystalline in its transparency.
If the people of the state of Texas
want to have a prize fight, Charles, let
EN- have it. AS go clearly and explicit
ly set forth by Mrs. Culbertson, you
were elected to do what the people of
the state of Texas want you to do. The
same reasoning, Charles, applies to bull
fights, duels, lynchings, riots and what
ever other popular amusements may
appeal to the fancies of Jour constitu-
ents. Your duty, Charles, is to let the
people of your state alone. Whenever a
few are gathered together in your name,
to indulge in any one of the pastimes
above set forth, you will kindly 60 home
and go to bed. Otherwise, we will be
forced to transfer the reins of govern
ment to Mrs. Culbertson, and put you
into the nursery.
Poor Charles! That you should have
to stay up nights, and trudge YEARLY
home at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning to
sustain public dignity! Take a leaf from
Mrs. Culbertson's book, Charles, and let
the state of Texas go to the devil. There
are the stoves to be set up, the water
pipes to repair, new hinges to be placed
on the trout gate, and the house is to be
banked up for winter. With all of these
household cares to be attended to, why
should your time and patience be wasted
in solicitude for the moral welfare of
Texas? We arise, Charles, to direct
your careful attention to the broad
minded, clear-headed, and able states
manship which Is displayed in the proc
lamation which a been issued by your
better half.