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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The memory of man is. short. Equally
true is the statement that the tenure Of
man upon the memory Of the fellow man
is feeble and insecure. A few days ago
there died in New York, Alexander
Collie, one of the most noted blockade
n of the civil war, a man who was
known in every European capital, who
owned a princely establishment at Lon
don, where the friends of the confed-
eracy in England were wined, dined and
entertained. After the war he went
into the cotton business, and in the
early '70's failed for 5000, 900, 900, the
largest failure know in the history of
the commercial world. Collie fled from
England and for years has lived obscure
and unknown. He died in poverty, and
there were but two mourners when his
remains were returned to the embrace of
mother earth.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

SENATOR PETER of Kansas is waging
a bitter warfare upon the inroads made
upon the treasury, to pay for the fun
erals Of senators who die while the SEN
ate is in session. Mr.. PETER says that
the average of the first three senatorial
funerals in the history of the govern
ment was only 1922. From 1848 to 1867
eighteen senatorial funerals averaged
S1,398. From 1869 to 1894 there were
thirty funerals costing an average of 49,
754. The average of the last ten fun
erals has been S4,542. The funerals of
senators for the last ten years have cost
S4,1S9 more than all the rest from 1870
up to 1884. In other words, the last
thirteen have cost the government more
than the previous sixty. 1t may be said,
on the other hand, that there are several
senators in Office now, whose funerals,
even at the ~extravagant outlay reckoned
by PETER, would be cheap at the price,
and for whose political funerals the
government could we'll afford to pay a
good round sum. .
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

IT IS remarked that the position of
Speaker Reed at this time is a very con
spicuous one, as we'll as a very risky one.
It requires a great deal of courage for
him to thus assume a place that is beset
with chances Of mistake and misfortune,
and certainly he is to be admired for not
Sinking such test of his ability. The
fact that he is a candidate for presidents
no secret. He is not only willing to take
the Office, but anxious &c get it, and all
Of his proceedings from this time on
will be directed to that end. According
to the latest accounts, this ambition has
already worked a material change in his
habits and methods. He is no longer
frankly humorous and sarcastic, but in
clined to dignity andreserve. The CORES
pondents interrogate him in vain for
views and comments, and even his
intiment friends miss the bubbling
merriment with which he was won't to
set the table in a roar. There is evil
dence in his manner, it is said, that he
feels a necessity of taking himself seri-
ously, of presenting an impressive as
pect, of looking as wise as he can with
that cherubic countenance.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

TwENrY-sIX of the members of the
members Of the fifty-fourth congress,
senate and house, were born in foreign
countries. Of this number, six are SEN
ators and twenty are representatives.
England leads with seven. Next comes
Canada with five. Germany and Ire
land are tied with four apiece. Three
come from Scotland, and one each from
Denmark, Norway and Hungary. The
Wisconsin delegation includes four who
were born abroad, Illinois comes next
with three, and Missouri, Minnesota
and New York each have two. The
other states are California, Georgia,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
and Vermont.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

EDITOR STREETER of the Emmons
County Record is of the opinion that ssno
man ought to have his head pulled off
like a chickens because a couple of
juries composed of chuckle-headed
idiots, deprived by the eloquence of an
expert prosecutor of the glimmering of
n previously possessed, see fit to be-
lieve the second rigmarole of a self-con-
fessed, red-handed assassin, instead of
his first yarn" Editor Streeter is re-
ferring to the Kent case, and while the
TRIBUNE is certainly not in favor Of
hanging Kent if he is not guilty, it is
somewhat in doubt as to the fairness of
Streeter's Characterization of the two
juries as s'chuckle headed idiots" Men
who sit to try a fellow for murder are
not apt to convict on any but convincing
testimony. It is true that men are
prone to err. But because two juries
have not seen fit to agree with Streeter
in this matter, it is hardly logical to
condemn them as idiots. The argu-
ment might be made the other way,
and be equally logical and sound.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

WHILE the country is awaiting the re-
Spouse of England to the remonstrance
Of this nation in the Venezuelan matter,
the president is hunting ducks. It is
noteworthy Of the president that at
every crisis Of Importance, he goes off to
commune with nature, and leaves the
crisis to care for itself. A similar state
Of affairs existed last winter. The
American steamer Alliance, flying the
United States flag, was fired on by a
Spanish gunboat off the coast of Cuba.
The president was hunting in the
sounds Of North Carolina at the time
and could not be communicated with.
Secretary Gresham was indignantatthe
insult given to the American flag and
took on himself the responsibility Of de-
handing an apology from the Spanish
government. When the president was
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

PERHAPS the reason that Englandclosed
her ports ITO American sheep was that
the experimental shipment of fat sheep
sent to the British markets several weeks
ago by ranchers in the western district
''panned out" in a manner which ex-
ceeded the most sanguine expectations.
The sheep were landed in Glasgow in
splendid condition, and were offered for
sale by Speedy Bros, as GO 1000 Canadian
Weeders." The lot was knocked down
at OBS Cd, or about $3.50 per head, and
will net the ranchers about SAT- a
head, after freight and all other expenses
have been paid.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

In selecting St. Louis as the place for
the republican convention, the com
mittee has not chosen a president-making
city. The only national conventions of
the leading political parties held in st.
Louis were those of 1876 and 1888. Both
Of these were democratic conventions,
and the nominees, Samul j. Tilden and
Grover Cleveland, failed to reach the
White House. Neither has the com
mittee, in selecting the 10th of June as
the date for the convention, paid very
much heed to the demand for a shorter
presidential campaign. Presidential
campaigns begin very soon after the
nominations are made, and the demo-
cratic nominees will soon follow the
Republican candidates into the field
possibly they may precede them-and
then the campaign will be waged with
vigor until November. There will be
almost five months of political warfare,
which should certainly give each party
all the opportunity desired to present
its side of the case.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

AMBASSADOR BAYARD, had he been
wise, would have taken a lesson to him
self from the fate of William L. Wilson,
and refrained from arraigning the policy
of protection, before an English audi
ence. Mr.. Bayard, however, was too
eager to find favor with the British, and
his Edinburgh speech has brought him
into unpleasant prominence as a candi-
date for impeachment. The policy of
protection has been deemed a wise one
in the United States for longer than the
span Of Mr.. Bayard's existence. His
action in denouncing it SO vigorously
in a foreign county was ~unbecoming his
station as a representative Of this nation.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
BELL IN BUSINESS.
How Grand Forkers Feel About the
League Spoilers.

Ega Ert =0 RSP0Ss~A sa-rltE@fE-=F
Bismarck does not appear to be alone
in the opinion Of blind pig and other
spoilers. Bell, the spotter who was here
sometimes ago, arrested a woman in
Grand Forks, but on the cases coming
up, couldn't find his witnesses, and the
case was dismissed. There Herald
there says: $40 make things more
binding the m in the case had Mr..
Bell arrested for malicious prosecution,
and by the bond process he gained a
continuance. Bell struck town Satur
day and the first thing he did was to
get the ear of a business man and fill it
full of Bismarck talk" It didn't 90
with the listener and the matter was
soon tipped off. Grand Forks is the
best conducted city in the state, and
there is no use whatever for such people
as Bell or his associates, and the citizens
in general are against such procedure.
If Mr.. Bell had any evidence against the
woman he had arrested he should have
produced it, and by that means he would
have saved himself considerable no.
toriety."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

ALASKA, Indian territory, North Da-
kota and Vermont are the only states
and territories without wholesale liquor
dealers, yet it is a curious fact that
there are 635 more persons and firms
engaged in the liquor business in the
prohibition state of Iowa than in Ken
lucky, where the manufacture of whisky
is considered a fine art and it's consump-
ton an accomplishment.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
AND Editor Packard of the Mandan

AND Editor Packard of the Mandan
Times is angry, too. He says:
After the new code goes into effect on
January l the sale of cigarettes in North
Dakota will be unlawful. This is
another sumptuary law that will never
be enforced, unless we have a state en-
forcement league to back it. Here will
be an additional harvest for the profess
sional spotter. Now that we have liquor
andibeer and cigarettes prohibited there
is nd logical a why cigars, tobacco
nd}pipes should not receive the atten-
ton of our brilliant legislature. Then
let us prohibit limburger cheese; fried
onions, chewing gum and corsets and
make it a felony for a woman to wear a
shoe more than one size too small. If
the present style OF legislator continues
on earth for a few more years North
Dakota will be made a paradise-for
oh fools.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The cheering of the senate. upon the
receiving of the presidents message
anent the Venezuelan matter is indica-
tive of the feeling of the whole country,
and the stand of the president will be
generally indorsed. Some days ago,
Lord Salisbury said that the result Of
the controversy between Great Britain
and the United States might be in ''clear-
ing the air." When he learns of what
occurred in the senate yesterday, he will
see that there is a probability, stronger
than ever, that the air will be cleared.
He will see that the United States
does not propose to submit to any land
grabbing on this continent by any
foreign power, and that the doctrine laid
down by President Monroe is still held
to be in full force and effect. It would
be the graceful thing for England to
submit the matter of the Venezuelan
boundary to arbitration. Surely if her
claims are just she need have no fear of
the results of arbitration. And if they
are not just, then she must not expect
to enforce them without opposition. If
she attempts to proceed now to occupy
the disputed territory, she must do SO
with a certainty as to what the conse-
quences may be be. Twice already has
England provoked wal with the United
States, by the assumption of rights and
privileges which we're not justly hers.
1t is not without the bounds ofpossibity
that there should be a third example
made Of her avarice and greed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The Constantinople correspondent of
HThe Speaker" the London paper which
first gave publicity to the Armenian out
RACES, is now known to have close rela-
tions with the Consulates in the Turkish
capital, and from information derived
from them he estimates that not less
than 10000 Armenians have been killed
or ire now dying of starvation, beyond
the hope Of timely relief. He says that
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

In connection with the recent up
heaval in Kentucky, it is of some inter
est to note the production of hemp in
Kentucky and the protection once given
it. In 1850 the production was 17,7S7
tons, equal to 1854 1000 pounds. The
tariff was 30 per cent ad valorem by the
act of 1916. In 1860 the production was
80, 400 tons, equal to 7S,818,O0O pounds,
the tariff being "a per cent ad valorem
by the act of 1857. Hemp was a very
expensive agricultural product, which
made the duty Tin 1850 at 80 per cent,
and at "a per cent in 1850 highly pro-
t%ective. In fact, from 1916 to 1924, the
duty on hemp was 1923 a ton; in 1925 it
al fixed at $35, from 1928 to 1880 it
was from SIS to $50, reduced to $40 in
1886, at which figure it remained until
1916, as above stated. The result was
that it's production between 1850 and
1860 increased over 100 per cent. The
recent vote tends to show that ssfree''
hemp is not regarded in the Blue Grass
state as sound policy. Mr.. Bowman,
who was commissioner of agriculture in
Kentucky in 1885, said hemp was then
one Of the best paying crops in Ken
lucky. In the very nature of things,
domestic hemp cannot survive the free
trade blow leveled at it by the German
tariff Of 1894, and the farmers of Ken
lucky seem to know it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The New York Herald has made
poll of the members Of the republican
national committee, as to their choice
for a republican candidate for the presi-
dency. Mckinley has ten supporters, in
the members from Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and Maryland.
Reed has eleven of the national commit
teemen, from the states of Alaska, Con-
necticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Lou
isiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia.
Allison has nine supporters, from the
states Of California, Colorado, Indian
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The National Civil Service Reform
League met last week under auspices
entirely different from those which con
fronted it whensits first annual meeting
was held fifteen years ago. Then the
civil service legislation Of 1883 a still
in the distance, and public sentiment
had not been aroused in favor Of the
reform to anything like the extent which
has marked its course during the last
half decade. Naturally, therefore, the
speech Of President Schruz, Of the Civil
Service Reform League, was Of q more
hopeful and encouraging character than.
was possible when the league began its
work. AS a matter Of fact, vast adj
vances have been made in comparison
with the state Of legislation and exec
utive regulation existing a decade and
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

at#N.NN H.#l# ~
after the soldiers had attacked the Ar
menian towns and villages the Kurds
completed the plumber. The latter
mixed what grain they couldnot carry off
with dung and set fire to the houses,
leaving the people with no food and their
homes heaps of s%mouldering ruins.
These outrages still continue, and the
powers parleyawith the authors of these
butcheries and are content with promises
of a cessation Of the horrors Of massacre.
It is time something dropped upon
Turkey, in the name of civilization and
common humanity. The spectacle as at
present presented is revolving, and the
Indifference and inaction of the Euro
pean powers nothing short Of barbarous.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

NUMEROUS professions and occupa-
tons are represented in congress.
Among the members there are 238 law
yers, Al farmers, q editors, % manu-
facturers, l railroad manager, 2 steam
boat owners, IA teachers and college
professors, Is bankers, 20 merchants, 1
house builder, 8 clergymen, 7 who say
they are ''engaged in business" 8 doc
tors, n architect, | music teacher, /
owner Of oil wells, 5 miners, 2 insurance
agents, l theater manager, l manufac-
turer Of ice, 3 civil engineers, 8 lumber.
men, 2 owners of stone queries; 2 real.
estate agents, l pharmacist and steam
ship captain.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

informed of this action on his return to
Washington several days later, he APP
proved it, but in such a way, it is said,
that Secretary Gresham declared that
he would never again assume a similar
responsibility, regardless of the provo
cation. The presidents place, in a
time like this, is at his post of duty,
not off on a jaunt away from the reach
of the telegraph. But the president
cares not at all, it seems, for the pro-
prieties. His manner of dealing with
questions of Importance is not regulated
by any precedent of craftsmanship.
For the people, he cares not at all. He
il self-conceited and egotistical, and it is
satisfying that his term as president is
growing short.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

SENATOR HANsBRoUGH has introduced
n the senate a resolution which has
passed, calling upon the secretary of
agriculture for information as to whether
he had expended all or any part of the
last appropriation for the purchase and
distribution of seeds. Secretary Morton
has refused to spend this money, and
has discontinued the distribution of
seeds, and the lawmakers are after him.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

SENATOR CULLoM touched a popular
chord in his speech on the Monroe doc
trine. "We have reached che said, Z" the
time when it becomes our bounden duty
to say to the world, with dignity and
frmness, that thus far, but no farther,
shall foreign systems of government be
permitted to approach. Our policy is
the American policy, our doctrine is the
protection of American interest, andour
motto is America for Americans. We
do not claim that the world is ours, but
we will insist on u right to be consulted
upon affairs pertaining to the American
continents. Let us build so strongly
and speak SO plainly hat the way of the
future executives, prime ministers, and
ambassadors of u country shall be un-
doubted. Let it be SO clear that no
statesman Of the future can find, as Mr..
Calhoun did in the senate, any ingeni-
u theory to weaken it's force and value.
Let it be so certain and emphatic that
no secretary of state can hereafter be-
come a willing party to a treaty yielding
a share of the control and supervision Of
any ~inter-oceanic canal to any European
country, asin the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
And let it be so straight and practical that
no American ambassador to the British
court shall feel at liberty to question: the
policy Of his own government orpossibly
apologize for the Declaration of indie
pendence and the Monroe doctrine of
l813."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

In %lamenting the degeneration Of the
United States senate, the Chicago Times
Herald appears to overlook entirely the
relic Of past greatness which exists in
the person and whiskers of the esteemed
Senator PETER of Kansas.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The fact that 100 hardened ~convicts
in the Indiana p%enitentiary have become
converted leads the Christian Endeavor
ers to believe that the 3,000prayers which
were given up for Colonel Ingersoll, in
some way got switched off unto the In
diana sidetrack.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

IT seems to be the general opinion
that if General Harrison is really going
after the presidential nomination, he
cannot afford to waste much time in
getting married.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

IT IS becoming the general impression
regarding the next republican presiden-
tial nomination that she who runs may
(be) Reed
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

ONE result of the recent hangings
throughout the country should be to
modify the laws relative to executions,
and make them as nearly private as pos
sible-exclude all persons but the neces-
sary officials and physicians. Let not
innumerable columns of details 60 forth
to the public, as in the last hanging
which has excited;general interest. The
effect Of such publicity is bad. It
creates, among the criminal classes and
the easily influenced a sort of coarse
admiration of the victim, andl is likely
to bring about, in some cases, a desire
to emulate the example of Hayward.
Let the man who is sentenced to death
go forth to his doom in the night, and
let the people be not aware of when that
doom is to be meted out to him; let
there be no dramatic. speech by the con
demned man; anything which he may
have to say may be written, or, if
spoken, be SO done without sensation, or
any spirit of bluster or b~raggadocio; let
all the surroundings Of the execution be
such Is to impress people with horror
and dread, and a sense of the utter
degradation of such a mode of death.
This will have a salutary effect, and the
example will be a healthful one. But in
the minds of no small number of people
Harry Hayward is nota felon but a hero
and his death was that of a martyr, and
not of a condemned and disgracedscrim-.
inal. It should be 80 provided that the
public should have no word from the
execution chamber, but the simplesstate-
ment that 6, convicted of murder
was executed in jail, on 1905 ((date)
at ~ o'clock" There is too much of
8 eneation in the present mode Of execu
ton, and it is made more of an exhibit
ton than an execution. #
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The new political party which has
been launched by Coin Harvey starts
out with a lourishirg membership, con-
sisting of Mr.. Harvey and Coins Finan-
cial school. ..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

If Lord Dunraven were single, he
might take y fiendish revenge on this
country, upon his coming visit, by we'd
ding some rich American girl.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

Ware assured however, that the in
auguration of a republican governor will
have no effect whatever in deteriorating
the quality Of Kentucky whisky.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

IT becomes more plainly evident day
by day that in this pardon matter, Gov
ernor Altgeld of Illinois is blindly en-
%deavoring to break somebody's record.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

If there is any doubt as to the merits
of the state of North Dakota, the i'm
migration convention should certainly
settle it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

THE Grand Forks Herald and Fargo
Argus both issue holiday editions which
are in everyday commendable and a
credit to state neWspaperdom.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
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In her race for the republican owen
ton, Chicago appears to have gotten it
in the neck.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

The fact that there are now thirty
editors in congress is an indisputable
evidence that this country is growing
hoffor
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

In the impeachment matter, Ambassa-
dor Bayard appears to taken the ''Let
her go, Megaarden," position.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will go down
to posterity as one of the foremost duck
hunters of his time.