The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-24

ing them supplies which they did not
need. Also various INSCRIPTIONS persons
received donations of provisions from the
East and then sold them to the people. a,
very low rate il is true. but certainly at
Tue most obvious of profits. The commits
SION detected ono man selling a carload
al the price of 40 cents per ton. They dis
covered another man who had collects ed
some 5000 from charitable folks in other
states, and of this sum he really gave the
people about $500. The commission was
obliged TO make long wars upon all these
men who wished to practice upon the
misery of the farmers.
As Is mentioned above, this stricken
district does not include in any manner
the entire state of Nebraska, but, NEVER
theless, certain counties that are not in
the drouth portion had no apparent hest
tatlon about vocferously shouting for re-
lief. When the state legislature appropri-
ated $4,000 to help the starving districts,
one or two counties in the east at once
sent delegations to the capital to apply
Tor part of it.. They said, inceniously,
mat II was the states money and they
wanted their share of it. Hor
10 one town in the northern part of
the state was sent from the east a carload
OF coal. The citizens simply apportioned
~ on the basis of SO much per capita.
hey appointed committee to transport
tue coal from the car to each mans resi-
dence. 1t was the fortune of this COM
mittee finally to get into the office of a
cltizen who was fairly prosperous.
where do yeh want yer coal put 2" they
said, with a clever and sly wink.
What coal?"
why, our coal! Your coali The coal
what was sent here"
Cit out a here! If you put any coal in
my cellar I'll kill some of yeh.''
They argued for a long time. They did
not dare TO leave anyone out of the con-
'piracy. He could then tell of it, Having /
allied with him, they went to his wife and
ried to get her to allow them 10 put the 4
GOAL IN the cellar. In this also they were /
lot successful.
These are part of the difficulties with /
which the commission fl ghts. Its obliga-
ION 10 to direct all supplies from the gen.
rous and plying inhabitants of other
tates into the correct paths to reach the
To do this over a territory COW
ring many hundreds of square miles, and
men Is but meagerly connected by rail-
Dads, is not an easy task.
l.. L. Ludden, the secretary and general
manager of the commission. works early
nj late and always. In his off @ at Lin
DIN he can be seen at any time when
eople are usually awake working over
le correspondence of the bureau He is
ontronted each mail by a heap of letters
TAT is as hlgI as a warehouse. He told
he writer OF this article that he had not
zen his children for three weeks, save
hen they were asleep. He always looked
ITO their room when he arrived home
tie at night and always before he left
irly in the morning
But he Is the most unpopular man in !
lie state of Nebraska. He is homes. con-
'ientious and loyal; he is hard working
al has great executive ability. He strup- | ,
es heroically with the thugs who wish TO
ch supplies, and with the virtuous but
isguided philanthropists who write TO | ,
arm of the folks that received their 80 | ,
'nts and who expect full record of this /
rent.
From hundred towns whose citizans
'e in despair for their families, arises n. ,
y against Ludden. From a hundred
WINS whose citizens 90 not need relief
Id IN consequence do not get it, there {
Uses cry against Ludden. The Iiitlet ,
'wspapers print the uncompromisinp y
ntence "Ludden must go" D.lera- ,
ms call upon the governor and tell him ,
at the situation would be mitigated if I
ey could only have relief from Ludden. =
embers of the legislature, proddei by :
err rural constituents, arise and de- u
and an explanation of the presence. IN :
ice OF Ludden. And yet the man with
square jaw and the straight set Inns \
nGs on In the indomitable manner of :,
an OF the soil. He remains in front of n