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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20
AS AN Indication of tho raviva1 of hns;
persons.

AS AN indication of the revival of bust
ness in the state and it's better standing
in the east, Secretary # State Dahl cites
the fact that foreign corporations, which
have done business in the state at one
time, and withdrawn during the hard
times, are making inquiries as to return,
and many of them are arranging to do
business again IN the state, and new
ones, likewise, are coming in, to compete
for a share of the states business. Re-
ports of good crops, a better knowledge
of the different of the state,
and the development of these
have brought about a different opinion
of North Dakota in the east than was
formerly held. It has a good, substantial
standing as a region of unexcelled nat
ural resources, peopted by thrifty set
tiers, who are taking advantage of the
opportunities offered them and making
a name for themselves and the common
wealth. The competition of outside
firms for business in the state is an in
fallible barometer of its prosperity, and
at present the barometer is firm and
steady, promising fair weather and pros
porous conditions in the business world.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

ACCORDING to the Washington Post
the wonders of modern engineering we're
eloquently and impressively discussed
in n of the papers read before the
American association for the advance
ment of science at it's recent session.
Referring to coal as a fossil, a preserved
plant tissue, the speaker said that a man
can mine enough of it in a day to obtain
1873 horse power for ten hours and that
product of one mans work for one day
is equal to the physical labor 1900 men
for a ten hour day. In Great Britain the
speaker said, coal does the work of 1OO,-
100000 men We have seen no estimate
of the amount of work reckoned on this
basis, but it must be equal to many
times the number of men enrolled by
the census takers. The superiority of
Americans in the matter of labor saving
devices for agricultural work was shown
by the statement that one American
farmer raises as much grain as three in
En- gland -four in France,fve IN Germany
and six in Australia; that in the United
States, one man can raise food for $50
persons, whereas in Europe the feeding
capacity of one man is limited to thirty
persOns.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

THERE is a growing sentiment in
England in favor of protection. and the
English protectionists believe that the
same general policy-that of self in
terest-which brought about free trade
will inevitably force the nation to aban-
don it. When England adopted free trade
she led all other countries in manufac-
lures to such an extent that she could
safely defy competition. She wanted
free food products for her workmen and
free raw material for her shops to be
paid for in manufactured exports. There
is 20 doubt that free trade has been one
of the chief causes of England's growth
in wealth. But the situation is changed
The maintenance of protective tariffs in
the United States and Germany has
d~isarranged the British program. In
stead of contenting themselves with rails
ing food and cotton for England, and
taking English goods to supply all their
wants in the way of manufactures, this
country and Germany have built up their
industries by protection until they com
pare favorably with those of England
They have, in course of years, reached
such a development as to be able to sup
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

DISAPPOINTMENT often leads to un-
reasonableness. This is exemplitied in
the case of Fl. E. Ward of jamestown, a
republican hold-over occupying a sub.
ordinate position in Washington. In
stead of thanking Senator Roach for re-
tanning HIM in office all this time in
the face of democratic demands for a
practical application of that anxiom ssto
the victors belong the spoils''-Ward
roasts him for not continuing him on the
pay rolls. Deserving as he may be of gov
ernmental support, he can hardly ex.
pect republicans to join in a complaint
against the bouncing of a republican
under a democratic administration.
From the 4th day of March, 1893, no
good republican should have been look
ing for anything but crumbs from the
tables of democracy. Better to say
nothing than for a republican to com
plain of losing a job under a demo-
cratic administration. Whatever SYM
pathy otherwise may have been be.
slowed upon Mr.. Ward is neutralized
by his seeming lack of appreciation for,
the few favors eagerly sought and OBJ
tanned from an administration in no
sense bound to recognize his desires
It is likely the complaint of Mr.. Ward
against Senator Roach is not so much
in earnest as is his desire to obtain
that sympathy from the next congress
as will result in restoring him on the
pay rolls of Uncle Sam. A weak point
in Mr.. Wards case is the fact of his
complaining, at this late date, of other
appointments made by Mr.. Roach. So
long as he himself held office he was not
the patriot to raise his voice in protest.
Now that government shekels are turned
from his W pockets. the scales sud-
denly drop from his eyes and he discov-
ers the iniquity in other appointments.
And again, having been an earnest cham
pion of Senator Casey's reelection,
mighty weak are his claims upon one
successfully elected to the United States
senate only by the perfdy and treachery
of republicans.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

AN instance of the proposed boycott of
national bank notes, and the way it is
needed is cited by the Minneapolis Trib-
une, one Of whose staff saw a working
man step up to a bank window and pre-
sent a check for his weeks salary. He
was counted out four crisp new national
bank notes from a large pile which the
bank teller had before him, together
with some silver change, and went on
his way rejoicing. He never stopped to
take a second look at the paper money
to see whether the notes we're greenbacks
or the issues of the national banks. He
seemed to like their crisp feeling; he
knew that they were good for 100 cents
on the dollar at the counter Of any store
in town, and that's all he wanted to
know. This little incident furnishes a
correct index of the treatment which
Grand Master Workman Sovereign's
order commanding workingmen to boy
colt national bank notes is meeting
everywhere. It is absolutely ignored.
All that a %workingman or any other man
of wants to know in the premises
is that the money he is receiving is good
money and safe money; that each dollar
of it will purchase 100 cents worth of
commodities or pay 100 cents worth Of
debts.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

The New York Central is a record
breaking road, and whenever a new pace
is set in ~railroading, the Central sets
about to break whatever record is made.
The recent performance of an English
road, which made a run of $40 miles in
$40 minutes, led the Central the other
day to make a trip for speed, and with a
train over 100000 pounds heavier shan
the English train, a trip of 436 miles was
made in 400 minutes, breaking all pre-
vious records for long distance aud fast
time. The engines with which the trip
was made we're counterparts Of the prize
engine 999, and we're designed by Will
liam Buchanan, superintendent of motive
power of the road, who, by the way, is
the father Of William Buchanan of this
city,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20
assault upon a government steer on beef

assault upon a government steer on beef
issue day.
1t is by nc means just, therefore, that
Hole in ~his-blanket, Man. with-a.govern-
ment- brogan-on.one.foo acknowledgements
on-the.other, and other equally harmless
wards Of the nation, should be misrep-
resented at these expositions. The
American Indian of today is not the
rowing disaster he was some twenty
years ago. He much prefers to attire
himself in the discarded raj of his
white brethren, seat himself in the shade
of the gently waving cottonwood tree,
and gorge himself with navy beans and
fresh killed beef, to streaking his face
with val paint and scattering death and
dissolution, as was the wont of his an
cestors in years gone by.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

politics; when the holders of the ballot,
qulckened by a sense of duty, shall avenge
truth betrayed and pledges broken, and
when the suffrage shall be altogether free
and uncorrupted, the full realization of The
government by the people will be at hand.
And of the means to this end, not Il
would, in my Judgment, be more effective
than an amendment to the constitution
~"disqualitylng the president from re-elec-
ton. When we consider the patronage of
this great office, the allurements of power,
the temptation to retain the place once
gained, and, more than all, the availability
a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde
of o~fficeholders, with a zeal born of benefits
received, and fostered by the hope of favOrs
yet to come, stand ready to aid with money,
and trained political service. we recognize
in the eligibility of the president for re-
election a most serious danger to that
calm, deliberate and intelligent political
action, which must characterize a govern
ment by the people.
In 1883, having outlined the dangers
of reelection in the u~nmistakable terms
above, the president who foresaw the
serious danger of reelection, plunged
his head boldly into the jaws Of the
lion. In 1892. again, despite the fore
boGings of the SERIOUS DANGER" Mr.
Cleveland bravely resolved to martyr
himself and the nation, and at the pres
ent time there is little doubt but that he
would crawl down the throat of the
same hon. if it we're possible. Presi-
dent Cleveland. whom the democrats
have been accustomed to eulogize in
glowing terms, because of the wisdom (?)
of his ~utterances, the stability (?) of
his convictions, and his devotion %
thereto, appears to have slipped badly
on this one.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

MAYOR HOPKINS of Chicago is back
from Europe, with a denial of the report
that he advised the Debs instruction of
a year ago, and the altogether reassuring
information that Mr.. Debs and Mr.. How
ard are liars. This will no doubt pre-
cipitate an equally positive assurance
from Messrs. Debs and Howard that Mr..
Hopkins is another, and the whole mat
ter will then have been adjusted to the
complete satisfaction of the public. AS
it is, however, there is no necessity for
r~ecrimination. MI. Debs will never pre-
side over another tie-up, as was that Of
1894, and Mr.. Hopkins will never be
mayor of Chicago again. So it will do
no harm to allow the two gentlemen to
come to some sort of an agreement be-
tween themselves as to who is the liar.
II this cannot be done they might COM
promise and agree that each shall be as
gifted in the art of Justification as the
other.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

The outcome of the races between
the Defender and Valkyrie for the pos
session of Americas cup, is disappoint-
ing. That the Defender is the faster
yacht, there is little question. That was
proven upon the occasion of the first
race, when all things equal, she defeated
Valkyrie by over eight minutes of racing
time. Again on Tuesday last, she made
a noble struggle against odds, and Grip
pied at the start, she was beaten over
the line but forty-seven seconds. The
awarding to her of this second race,
upon a foul, while no doubt a strict adj
herence to right by the yachting commit
tee, was still a disappointment to the
great majority of American people.
They would prefer to have had the foul
disallowed, and to have allowed the Val
kyrie to have the race. For if the
American;yacht cannot defeat the other
IN three fair, square contests out of five,
no American wants to see her keep the
cup. And there is no doubt that De-.
fender could have done il. The award
ing to her of the second race epgendered
some ill feeling-it could not be other
wise. Then, too, the interference of ex-
cursion steamers, was a disagreeable
feature. Altogether, the races we're I'M
satisfactory and it will probably be a
long time before another. series will be
run over the same course.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

AN examination of the weather sta
tistics Of the world reveals some inter.
esting facts not generally known or real
lied by residents of North Dakota-facts
that ought to be considered by outside
critics especially. The mean 1empera-
ture of the habitable portion Of the
world is so degree s Fahrenheit. The mean
temperature of North Dakota is 40 de-
grees. AS compared with other states
the mean average temperature during
the year in North Dakota is the same as
Colorado, only 3 degrees colder than
Montana, Maine and Wyoming; only 5
degrees colder than New Hampshire, 8
degrees colder than Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Nebraska, Nevada and New York,
and onlyt20 degrees colder than Iowa.
New Mexico, Rhode Island aud Wash
ington. As compared with foreign cities,
North Dakota is less than 10 degrees
colder than Berlin, Brussels, Dublin,
Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, and
only II degrees colder than far-famed
Paris, Rotterdam, Vienna and Buda-
Pesth. There is nothing wrong with
North Dakota's climate. We have fewer
cloudy and foggy days than any other
region in the world, and in health giving
qualities no section compares with it.
On her open prairies cattle Craze and
thrive all winter without shelter, and
her fertile valleys produce the finest
quality Of wheat and other cereals, and
the largest and finest favored vegetables
in the world. North Dakota has the
smallest percentage of illiteracy in the
United States, and in her confines are
found the healthiest and sturdiest peo-
pie Of all nationalities ever congregated
together on the face of the globe. These
are strong but indisputable facts.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

when the wind isn't too high. Secretary
Morton himself should be able t work
the whole state of Nebraska IN a FORE
noon, besides several counties in Iowa.
The thistle isn't doing much damage
in North Dakota now. A good share Of
it has blown east, into the states, the
conservatism Of whose representatives
would not permit the government to pull
weeds. There is now, therefore, a golden
opportunity for individual weed pulling
by some Of the representatives who ridi.
culed a thistle appropriation. They
should not fail to take advantage of it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

.. #|.. .E. -..N .
The third term talk, which is a~gitating
political CIRCLES just now, renders inter
esting n of the sayings Of President
Cleveland in August, 1884, at which time
his intense wisdom and foresight we're
commended by unanimous democracy.
1t is odd, however, to what an extent his
opinions have changed with the varying
circumstances of political life. In 1884,
he Was OF the opinion that reelection to
the presidency was fraught with serious
dangers, and with patriotic fervor he
argued the single term:
When an election to office shall be the
selection by the voters of one Of their num-
Der to assume for a time a public trust in
stead OF his dedication to the profession Of
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

ACCORDING to the decision Of the min
istesrs of the Puget Sound conference in
session at Seattle, the good Lord has
sent the louise to destroy the hops, curse
the beer traffic and bring confusion
among those who deal in the deadly
stuff. The Daily Olympian remarks,
however, THAT there are some things
these ministers have overlooked. They
should not forget that the hop louise is
not the only curse that God has caused
to descend upon this land. He has sent
the woolly aphis to destroy the apples
and thus prevent gluttony, the manu-
facture of hard cider and the worldly
profits of commission merchants. He
has sent the blight to destroy the peach
crop and thus prevent the small boy
from stealing peaches. He has sent the
to take the tariff off barley
thereby making it SO cheap that Wash
ington farmers cannot afford to raise it
and are thus saved from aiding in the
manufacture of whiskey and beer. He
has sent cold nights and early frosts
that our farmers may not raise tomatoes,
which, made into catsup are used in
oysters houses where beer is sold. If he
has cursed the hops once, with hop lice
only, seven times has he cursed the ap-
pies and pears, which are infested with
woolly and green aphis, Goblin moth,
tent caterpillar, oystershell bark louise
and black spot. While the ministers in
conference assembled praise God for the
hop louise, let the bishops shout 'good'
and the reverend brethren respond with
a fervent "amen" for these other pests.
There is no reason for combining them.
to the observations Of one form of
insect life. Surely their eyes,are opened
so that they a see all these things.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20
THE EXPOSITION SAVED.

The Atlanta exposition has been
plucked, as it we're, like a brand from the
burning. It is with a sigh of relief that
we note the passage through Chicago,
en- route to the fair, of Man-who-eats-
with-his-knife, Wart-on-his-noee, Blood
in~-his-eye, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wood,
and several other chieftains and the
wives OF their bosoms-the flower of the
Sioux tribe. They are in charge of an
energetic and enterprising gentleman,
who has rented a place for them to pitch
their tents, and who will exhibit them
to patrons Of the fair, at so much per
exhibit.
1t is one of the misfortunes of the
agency Indian that be is liable at auv
time to be snaked from the home of his
adoption by the relentless right hand of
the crafty Spectator, and dragged off to
whatever exposition may be in progress
to pose as the chief who planned the
campaign of rs, and waded up to his
armpitssin the gore of the white settlers
of his neighborhood. The mild-man-
nered and coppsr-colored son of the
agency, whose appetite for blood ,s
limited to an occasional violent assault
on government beefsteak, is led off to
the effete east, and placarded as the
lineal defendant of a race of Indian
kings, at whose belt have dangled the
scalp locks of several settlements 70
hardy pioneers, and who has drenched
the whole western prairie from the Mis-
souri, river to the Rocky mountains,
with the blood of his a%dversaries of the
pale-faces. This is a palpable fraud
upon the uninitiated who pay in coin of
the realm to gaze upon these blood.
stained habitues of the government
slaughter houses and supply-depots, and
it is unjust to the Indians, in attributing
to them a reputation for ferocity and
savage craelty-a disposition which they
seldom manifest, except when, as stated
J heretofore, they participate in a tigerish
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

ply their " markets and are now going
into the markets of the world and even
into England. These facts show the
significance Of the protection movement
in the United Kingdom. The recent sale
of an English estate of 600 acres for
$4,000 led to an inquiry which has
brought out the fact that the same es.
tate was valued at S 100000 ten years ago.
Competition in America, Argentina, and
India is too sharp for English agricul-
tura. ---.- -
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20

In another column appears some cor
respondence had between Senator Roach
and Mr.. II. E. Ward, of jamestown, who
has been holding a position under the
present administration in Washington.
Mr.. Ward was first appointed during
Senator Casey's term and owing to his
large family and apparent worthiness,
has been continued on the pay.rolls of
the government through the kindness of
Senator Roach. Doubtless there are
also worthy democrats anxious for the
place, and as politics goes, the senator
but conforms with the custom when he
serves notice on the republican hold
over to quit, that his place may be taken
by hungry candidates of his W party.
1t is sad that Mr.. Ward, with a family of
eleven children, should find himself so
suddenly thrown out of employment,
but it simply illustrates the unsatisfac-
tory and insecure conditions and re-
wards of government service. In dis
posing of MI. Ward, Senator Roach has
doubtless given away to the incessant
appeals of his own partizans for place
rather than personal inclinations or de-
sire. The TRIBUNE is inclined to believe
that Invested of partizan claims the grief
of Mr.. Ward in losing his place, is
equalled only by the sympathy of Sena-
tor Roach, and his regret that the ext
gencies of the occasion compelled such
action.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20
is THAT YOU. MIR. RILEY

Aud now, just at a time when it was
feared everything was going to smash,
comes MIR. William Riley Of Philadelphia
with a scheme which will effectuslly
retard the progress of disaster, and fix
things all right.
MIR. Riley is an expert on noxious
weeds and states that he has instructed
the governor Of North Dakota to give
orders to have every thistle cut in the
state before the seed crop is spread for
another year. He suggests two methods
of getting rid OF them: one is to cut the
thlstles just before the seed is ripe, and
to bale them up in large sized bales and
build long lines of fences of the bales,
the fences to run across the lines in
which the thistle travels. Another
scheme is to bind the thistles in sheaves
across the prairie, hold them in line by
running a wire through each sheaf, with
which to connect them together. He
also suggests that the thistle might be
baled in small blocks and used for fuel
where timber is scarce, or that paper
might be manufactured from them. He
also suggests as an afterthought that the
baled thistle might be used in the con-
struction of sheds for cattle, the roofs
being matched with thistles.
It is nothing, short of wonderful what
an accurate idea OF the thistle Mr.. Riley
has formed from far off Philadelphia.
Although his plans appear to have been
warped a little by the recent earthquake,
there is yet much in them which is
worthy of consideration. Indeed, MI.
Riley is little short Of a public benefac-
tor. His plans are distinctly original,
and so explicit and clear and practical
that in a week or two there should be a
wall OF thistle bales about the state
which will keep out every undesirable
Immigrant from typhoid fever bacillus
to a Canadian blizzard, with only an &C.
caslonal aperture for trans-continental
railways and one or two wagon roads.
MIR. Riley, blessed be the name, does
intend to charge anything for the
plan. We receive il g~ratuituously at his
hands. But it cannot be expected that,
in addition to furnishing specifications,
he will bale up the thistle for us. This
would be asking too much. The state
must do that itself. And as the autumn
season is coming on apace, and winter
is likely to follow it as it has done with
out exception since the country was set
tied, the work Of baling should not be
longer delayed than is absolutely neces-
sary. Even with one baler in each
county where the thistle is thickest, it
will require several days to cover the en-
tire ground. And then, after that is &C.
complished, there is the fence to be
builded.. That will take a week or ten
days at least. 1t would then be close
upon the winter season.
So if we are to avail ourselves of a
plan, the value of which cannot be esti-
mated in money, it behooves us to be up
and doing. In the meantime, some
memorial of an appropriate nature
would be in order to show Mr..
Riley that while we may be slow in
getting down to business, we are not al
together unappreciative.