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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16

Good start, except Quarterstaff. Won easily.
Winner, CHI. c.. by Major Ban-MIss Flpsh.
Betting: Ike L 10 to /, Api 4 to l, Ricardo 20
to 1, ACKNOWLEDGMENT to 8, Lyman 20 to !, From
deur Is to j, Quarterstaff so to l.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16
SUMMARY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 1885.
1907 FIRST RACE-Five and half fur
lLOt. longs; selling; threeyear-olds and up
purse S1h0 Time .OQ1A

*Disqualified for foul and placed last.
Good start. Won cleverly. Winner, oh. c., by
Ell Rio Rey-Hatte Humphrey.
Betting: Uncle Giles to !, Wild Rose to 10,
Mendocino to /, IL to /, MolIie Rogers 40 to
/, Sinbad 20 to I, imp. Thunder Storm 10 TO /,
Bronco 8 to ], Sheridan IL to i.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

GREAT, red, rushing rivers of blood
are conjured up in Bismarck by the ex-
cited and overheated imagination of
Editor Wood of the Steele Ozone. He
sees a climax of infamy approaching be-
ore which the city shall wither up and
be destroyed. Prior to this, however
the indications point to a series of MUIR
ders, such as that of Rev. Haddock in
Sioux City some few years ago. And
all because a covey of detectives were
flushed by a Halloween gathering, and
flew away. The great trouble with Edi-
tor Woods conclusions is that they are
based upon premises of which he has
not been accurately informed. Like
the esteemed editor of the Fargo Forum,
his zeal for the right leads him to strike
in the dark. It is only charitable, there
fore, to quiet the fevered imaginings of
these seers Of evil, and to assure them
that there is no such bloodthirsty
sentiment here, as might be gathered
from their moralizings. Zeal for the
right is an excellent thing, but so
worthy a man as Editor Wood should
not allow his zeal to overcome his
sound judgment.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY NOV. rs 1889

suelo Vanderbilt has been finally per-
formed, the golden links of the chain
which binds one to the other have. been
joined and clasped with a jeweled pad.
lock, and a daughter Of an American
citizen is a duchess of the English roy
atty. The duke has cost the Wander
bilts s5,00O,0 coo in cash, 100000 to cover
the expenses of the wedding, and the
scathing ridicule and sarcasm of the
press and people of the United States.
The affair was a plain, unvarnished case
of barter and sale. The Vanderbilts
paid 100000 in cash, and threw in a
daughter for good measure, for a coro.
net, with the duke thrown in also, to
offset the daughter. The millions of the
Vanderbilts will go to restore the de-
cayed splendor of the Marlboroughs,
and regild the family crests and coro-
nets. The wedding, to the average per,
son, was a mockery upon love, as it is
localized in marriage. And the con-
CALCULATIONS of America may be ex-
pressed in the sentence: "May they be
as happy as they Deserve"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

The thanksgiving proclamation of the
governor appears on another page. Truly
the people of the state and of the nation
have reason to be thankful this year.
There has been a bountiful harvest, in
dustrial conditions have improved, there
isa healthier and better outlook than for
some time, and the era of darkness and
distress which has prevailed for a year
or two has passed in safety. Let
Thanksgiving be universal at what ap-
pears to be the beginning OF an era of
plenty and prosperity.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
OFFICIAL PAPER BuRLE|GH co.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Grateful for having found a refuge. and thank
full for even a meagre harvest, the Puritan set
apart days as sacred to Him who gave them
refuge and Sustenance in a far off land.
In reverential acknowledgment of dependence
upon Divine Providence, respect for that ancient
custom of our fOrefatherS, and in conformity
with Il proclamation by the president of the
United States, 1. Roger Allin, governor of the
state Of North Dakota. do hereby recommend
that Thursday. the 2Sth day of November, 1896,
be set apart and observed as IA day of thanks
giving and praise.
Foregoing our usual avOcatiOnS. let us assem-
Bile in our places of worship. or around our sacred
tiresideS. giving thanks for life and health and
friends: for bounteous harvests. individual and
national prosperity.
If there be those in our midst who are dis
tresSed, may the remembrance of, and thank
fulness for the comforts which have been vouch-
safed us, prompt to a kindly thoughtfulness of
the poor. and stimulate us to deeds of charity
and beneyolence.'
In witness whereof. l have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal to be affixed.
Done at the capitol. in the city Of Bismarck,
this ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety
five, and Of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and twentieth.
[GREAT SEAL.] ROGER ALLIN.
By the governor:
M. DAHL. Secretary of State.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

e of North Dakota as regards woman's
suffrage. But if the sentiment is to be
judged by that which was evidenced at
the recent election in Massachusetts, by
the women of that state, the greater num-
Der of the women themselves do not want
the privileges which suffrage brings.
At the election there, which was to de-
termine as to the extension of woman's
suffrage in municipal matters, but one
woman in ten availed herself of the pri-
vilege to vote on the proposition. The
Indifference of the women is in itself an
argument against the extension of suff-
rage to them, for if they are not enough
interested to say whether they want to
vote or not, upon what proposition would
it be possible to get an accurate express
ion of opinion from them? Still, it may
be possible the women of North Dakota
differ in this matter from their sisters in
Massachusetts,.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

COLONEL PLUMMER, in one of his
breezy interviews in Minneapolis, takes
occasion to say a few words anent the
prohibition law, and the methods of the
enforcement league, as follows:
The prohibitive clause is in the constisu-
ton. Thousands of people would like to
have that clause resubmltted to a vote of
the people. The prohibitionists fight
against this and cling to the constitutional
provision with the blind devotion of a
heather to his favorite god. They will not
admit that there is any other way of deal.
ing with the liquor traffic. 1t is with them
absolute prohibition or nothing. Thew an
pear Ill every political convention aud com
pei the politicians to pledge the party to
the enforcement of the prohibitory law and
against resubmissiOn. S%pasmodic and
heroic attempts then follow to enforce the
law. Then there is a lull and tn blind
pigs again flourish. 1t never occurred to
other laws against crime, for it is fairly
presumed that any party into whose hands
the government Of the state is passed, will
honestly strive to enforce all laws. But
this prohibition law is a special pet. 1t
must De nutSGu ny ltSOiutlOuo dlIA iOOhcu
after by enforcement leagues. It has not
advanced the cause of temperance one iota
in North Dakota or any other state where
it has been adopted. In Maine, where they
have had it for years-a generation or
more-it is most of the time in a state Of
innocuous desuetude. 1t is claimed that
there is just as much liquor sold and drunk
there as ever. l do not believe that prohi-
bition anywhere in the United States has
reclaimed one drunkard or saved II
family from the curse of intemperance.
Less of state cOntrol-mOre of parental,
moral and religious control is what is
needed to push on the work of real temper
ance and save men from the vile sin of
drunkenness. The very means resorted to
by the enforcement league to detect and
convict violators of the law show COM
pletely that the enlightened public opinion
of the state is not behind the constitutional
clause prohibiting the liquor traffic and the
laws made to carry it into effect. This be-
ing the case, some other method will sooner
or later nave to be adopted in dealing with
his all important question.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

were, with the prohibition element. The
fact of the matter is that the detectives,
who were very timorous at best, exag-
gerated the import of the vocal exer-
cises Of a gang of Halloween roisterers,
and made tracks without waiting to dis
cover whether or not there was any
thing the matter. It is a fact that Kill.
gore, while on his way up town, con-
jured the shapes Of a crowd of boys who
We're out stealing gates, into a desper-
ate and bloodthirsty mob, and turned
tail and fed before the kids. If such
detectives are sent out by the enforce
ment league, the TRIBUNE cannot see
how the city of Bismarck is to prevent
their leaving town on the run. There
is no ordinance here which prohibits
%sprinting, and if the extreme timidity
and nervous fear of the detectives in
duces them to sprint out of town, the
proper remedy, it would SEEM, would be
to provide a species of detective who
possessed fewer of the qualities which
leads to such a display Of cowardice.
Bismarck is not running anyone out of
town. Neither are her citizens being
held up on the Main streets and robbed.
There is not any disposition on the part
OF Bismarck to array itself against law
and order, and the Forum, and the
editor Of the Forum, should stop in it's
mad mania for moralizing and consider.
1t is n of the requisites of intelligent
criticism that the critic know what he
is talking about.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

THERE are some valuable lessons to be
learned from the elections of the few
years last past, and from the one held
early this week. Within the past three
years there have been two distinct revo-
lutions in politics, and there appears to
have been a continuation Of the second
one this year. The tendency to sudden
changes, while the suddenness Of the
changes is not always healthful, is one
OF the assurances of the perpetuation
OF free government, and a government
by the people. In 1892. out of what
might be considered a desire to expert
ment, the country went with a rush and
a roar into the control of the democratic
party. 1t was a sore defeat for the re.
publicans, but it's advantage has come
in the lesson which the republican party
has taken from it. N party is faultless,
and the defeat which the republicans
suffered should aid them to the remedy
ing OF evils which may have grown up
under their control. In 1894 again, the
tide turned, and the democrats suffered
disaster at the hands of voters. Again,
this year, the revolt has continued, and
party fealty has proven itself not to be
relied on beyond a certain limit. It has
proven unequal to the task of swallow
ing the outrages of bossism in Maryland,
or the ridiculous manipulation of men
and platforms by the democrats in Ken
lucky. It has demonstrated that voters
are not always to be whipped into line
by party lashes, or guided by the direc-
lions of bosses. The TRIBUNE believes
that in the republican. party are en-
bodied the best ideas, and the men best
capable of carrying them out. But the
party should take, and the TRIBUNE be-
lieves has taken, heed, and has learned
wisdom from it's own defeats and sue
cesses. Loyalty to party is an excellent
thing, within proper limits, but no free
people will be loyal, under continued
bossism and through continued wrongs
The experiences of the democrats in
their own strongholds of Maryland and
Kentucky has proven this, and proves,
also, that the party which comes nearest
the right in it's administration of public
affairs will be the party of the future.
There is at present a glorious oppor-
tunity for the perpetuation Of republi-
canism, with the right men and the right
platform.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

The A. r. U. strike on the Great
Northern appears to have been a short
lived affair. Public sentiment was not
in favor Of the strike, and about the
only appreciable results are that a num-
Der of the misguided strike enthusiasts
are out of work, at the beginning Of
winter. 1t was an i'll advised affair, and
doubtless some of those who sacrificed
their positions at the dictation of some
leader who had nothing to lose, will
ponder a little more seriously another
time, when they are asked to throw up
their positions.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

IT IS rather difficult to see where Sen
ator John P. Jones gathers encourage
ment for a l6 to 1 silver party from the
recent elections. Wherever the ques-
ton was an issue the 16 to l party was
knocked out. The elections prove the
confidence of the people in the republi-
can party, as we'll in finance, as in the
other problems of governmental econo-
mics. And the 16 to l silver monomet-
a~llists, will hardly claim, if they are
truthful, that the 1895 elections indicate
a very wide spread sentiment in favor
of their financial theories.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

JOHN HYDE, who is recognized as one
of the ablest and most accurate statis-
ticians in the country, has compiled
statistics as to illiteracy in the United
States which show that notwithstand-
ing the liberality and scope of the school
system in the United States, there is a
considerable portion of the population
which is in need of educational advan-
tages. There are 1873 persons in every
1000 in the country at large who are
unable to read and write, or / in 8. Ne
braska heads the list of states in uni
versatility of education, with only 81 per
sons per LOO unable to read and write.
The ratio of illiteracy in some OF the
other large states of the Union is as fol-
lows: Massachusetts with 81 illiterate
inhabitants per 1000, Connecticut So,
New York SIS, Pennsylvania SO, Ohio 50,
Michigan SO, Wisconsin 81, Indiana 63,
Illinois 50, Minnesota and North Dakota
each go, California " and Missouri 81.
It is probable that the foreign element
increases the percentage of illiteracy,
and the number of native-born Ameri-
can who are illiterate will be found far
fewer than 1873 in 1000. The figures
given for North Dakota show about one
person in II who is illlterate. This is a
comparatively slight percentage of illit-
eracy, but with the magnificent educa-
tional endowment of the state it should
be ever smaller.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
floods Pills t are ta.%tef1e as, mild; e' tss

manufactures was worth S9,O54,4335 1897;
of this amount we exported in the same
year S151,102, 1916, leaving our total CON
sumption Of American goods at 5 $685.
832,961. OF u farm products, in the
same year, the total value was $780,
1O7, 5 of which we exported 1852 141,48O
thus leaving our total home
ton of farm products at $1,927, 965, 1854.
This gave us a combined consumption
of American manufactured goods and
farm products worth s1O,831, 298, 1926.
The latest valuable official statistics
gives the total foreign imports of Asia,
Africa, North and South America,
Australasia,and the Islands of the Sea at
S ! 1863, 10000 This is less by over $4,000,
100000 than the total consumption of
goods in the United States.
It is evident that the United States
market alone is worth over 50, 0 ,OOO,-
600 a year, and now the amount is UNI
doubtedly greater, than all the foreign
trade we can hope to acquire in the
markets of the world, ever if we up
piled those. markets with every dollars
worth of goods that they import.
In 1895, our foreign trade was worth
$2O8, DOC, 900 less than in 1892. At the
same time, 1895, our home trade is worth
500, DOC, 900 less to us because our mar
kets have been increased to foreign pro-
ducers and manufacturers by that
amount, through the lower rates OF duty
existing under the German tariff.
It will be seen, therefore, that the op-
GRAFTON of the low tariff measure has
made us to a still greater extent a nation
of debtors. Our home market has been
opened to foreign producers, and we
have gone abroad to buy. The result
has been inevitable drain Of the
treasury and a governmental deficit.
And if we desire to correct this evil, we !
will have to begin by admitting that
while fres trade may be desirable in
theory, conditions are such that it is
impracticable in fact.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
C. NJ. DAHL, Secretary of State.

SENATOR CARLISLE will call upon the
next congress for reyenue-a practical
admission that the German Wilson
Brice measure is a failure. Certain it is
that this admission would not be made
unless the administration we're in des-
perate straits. But such is the case.
The government is running farther be-
hind every day, and legislation must be
enacted to raise more revenue. A re-
publican congress will have this to do.
The democrats have practically thrown
up the sponge.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

SINCE the year 1916 there have been
liz international arbitrations between
different European nations, the United
States and the States of Central and
South America. Nearly all of them
have taken place within the last half
century, in which period the United
States has arbitrated it's contentious
thirty times, seven times with Great
Britain, reaching in all cases a practic-
ally satisfactory result. Wal may not
be altogether done away with, but Ger.
tainly in many of these cases, wal would
have ensued, but for the p%acifying
Offices of arbitration.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
The statement that Senator Quay
helped German and Brice is fatty con
tradicted by the returns.

PREvIoUs to the breaking out Of the
war in Cuba New York sent about ff-
teen steamers a month to the ports of
the island. Since the trouble began six
or seven of these steamers have been
taken off and sent elsewhere or laid up,
with the result that the trade of the
port has suffered a loss of more than
%Sl,OOO,OOO a month. It would take a
long time to get this trade back again
even if the war should stop within a
short time, and the longer the fight is
kept up the 0 the trade between the
island and this country will suffer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

ONE of the latest and most commend.
able Improvements made by Uncle Sam
is a robber and wreck proof mail car,
which has just been put into service
upon some'of the eastern roads. Here
tofore when there has been a wreck, the
mail car, being the f~railest car on the
tram, was most frequently the one
smashed to splinters, and the unfortu-
nate mail clerks had one chance in a
hundred of escaping even in a badly
battered condition. The death roll of
railway mail clerks for the past twenty
years mounts up into the hundreds, and
scores of men have been crippled for
life in railroad wrecks because the mail
car couldn't Withstand the shock of col
lision as we'll as the passenger coaches.
The new car is designed to withstand
almost any shock. They have no, plat
forms at the ends, and the frame work
OF the car is of tough yellow pine, lined
with sheets of steel. The end parts of
the cars are framed with angles of iron,
and the whole structure is a model of
strength, impervlous to the bullets of a
train robber, and constructed to resist
to the last degree the rending force of a
collision. If it proves successful, the
government will at least have recognized
the dangerous position of it's mail clerks,
who have heretofore carried their lives
in their hands, almost, while at work on
the road.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

VENEZUELA proposes to resist the en-
%croachment of England with arms, if
necessary, and will take a determined
stand in the boundary matter. With
no outside interference, the contest
between the two countries could have
but n result, finally-that of British
success. But such a contest could
hardly be waged without the interfer-
ence of other powers, and it is probable
that the paw of the British lion would
in the end have to be withdrawn from
the disputed territory, which it proposes
to occupy by virtue Of it's superior
strength. England will do some serious
thinking before she goes to war with
Venezuela.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15
Low TARIFF HAS DONE 1T.

The announcement that Secretary
Carlisle will have to call upon the next
congress for a revenue raising measure
of a character sufficiently potent to re
lieve the treasury of it's embarrassment,
will lead the average person to the belief
that there must be something wrong
with a tariff Measure which will not pro
duce funds enough to operate this gov
erfment. The tariff measure under which
the business OF the nation is now con
Quoted has been in operation long enough
to prove it's own inefficiency. 1t is not
difficult to understand why the treasury
has been in so unsatisfactory a condition
since the new tariff has been inaugurated.
For it has operated in two ways to the
disadvantage of the United States. It
has increased u imports, and decreased
our exports, thus bringing a balance of
trade against us. We have bought more
and sold less of manufactured and agri-
cultural products. CHANGING at our trade
statistics for this year, we find that
among twenty-five different classes Of
articles Of manufactured goods, we have
increased u exports as compared with
a year ago, but in forty-one other classes
of articles Of manufactured goods our
export trade has decreased. For the last
fiscal year u net exports Of merchan-
disc were s208, 1000, 900 less than in 1892
under protection. The decrease in our
exports Of agricultural products was
S246,0OO,OO0 below the exports Of 1892.
In3that year 1859 per cent Of our total
exports were farm products. This year
only 69.68 per cent were. For the cur
rent fiscal year, to the end@of August,
our exportsof agricultural products were
S139, 1000 less than in the correspond
ing months Of 1892, a decrease Of 80 per
cent.
In 1s90Sthe total output Of American
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-15

ONE of the great mistakes made by
the Hon. Jimmy Campbell of Ohio, in
the recent campaign, was the indiscreet
and too elaborate use of his mouth.
Upon the day before the election, the
Hon. Jimmy permitted himself to be
interviewed by aj,press reporter, and
said the following things:
expect to receive a majority of at least
IL 600 votes outside of Hamilton county.
In 1889 l got over 5000 majority in the state
outside of Hamilton county. and l expect
that to be increased at least 9 600 this veal.
Why, you cannot appreciate the revolution
that is on foot in this state unless you
travel over it as l have. The people are
crying aloud, and determined to rid them
selves of corrupt bosses and corrupt Iegis-
latures. In Hamilton county the feeling is
intense, and 1 expect to carry Cincinnati:
by a good vote, although the majority will
not be large there. / wish l had a week
longer to speak. just to tell more of the
people of the way they are being robbed.
Is is unnecessary, however, as lar as the re-
suit is concerned. The democrats will
win tomorrow by a vote that will surprise
the republicans. Don't forget that.
It is not charitable to throw this up to
the Hon. Jimmy, at this time. >Buthe has
himself invited it, in his last admonition
Don't forget that!!." Then, too, he
speaks Of a revolution which was afoot
in the state. Truly, he appears to have
been we'll informed, but the revolution
was on the wrong side. It may serve.
no purpose at this time to allude to
these mistakes Of the Hon. Jimmy, ex-
cept to impress upon candidates here
after that predictions are apt to come
home to roost. Another time, the Hon.
Jimmy should temper his political prog
nostications with more Of prudence and
modesty. FL .@