Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-07-12
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLEIGH co.
WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?

LIN SAC ALL 49, ~
fce.holder and the politician are all just
now interested in the same subject
what shall the harvest be. The agricul-
turalists throughout the United States
as a whole are this year enjoying a sea-
son of prosperity, but especially in
North Dakota is the prospect for a
bountiful harvest most hattering. The
prices of what the agriculturalist pro-
duces are also looking up so that from
present indications our farmers will be
we'll pleased with what the harvest will
be. The mechanic finds ready employ
ment, when crops are good. The pro-
cess Of repairing the old and constructing
the new gives willing hands ready m
ployment when the farmer prospers.
With the prosperity of the two former
classes, that of the merchant is assured,
and he can count with reasonable GER
tainty on enlarged sales and prompt COL
l~ections and calculate on what the har.
vest shall be.
With professional men it is gener-
ally supposed they prosper best in times
of distress as their services will then be
most in demand. Nothing could be far
ther from the facts. Prosperous times
increase the clientage of every profess
sional man worthy of his profession. It
is only the pettifogger, the quacks and
the shyster who fatten on the misfor-
tunes of the community: and every days
sunshine and rain conducive to a boun-
tiful harvest gladdens at least the heart
of the professional man when he con-
templates what the harvest will be.
With the ofice-holder prosperity is a
blessing and a boon. When times are
prosperous positions in private life are
more lucrative than public office and so
the number Of aspirants for places are
materially decreased and the hearts of
those who hold positions are gladdened
at what the harvest shall be. With the
politician, however, 1t is entirely differ
ent. 1t depends entirely upon what his
political creed is in what spirit he
asks what shall the harvest be? If a
republican, whose first care is his coun-
try and second his party principle, his
Joy would be to know that Providence
smiles alike on the rich and the poor;
that peace and contentment abided for
the nation at the fireside. If a demo-
GRAFT, his greatest concern, will his party
receive any credit for returning prosper
ity: True, they are in power so far
as government patronage is concerned,
but as the clouds of despair, which began
to gather when the party was politically
supreme, did not drift aside so as to
leave even one small stretch of clear sky
until republican principles have again
been asserted and democratic defeat
assured, the question of what the harvest
will be to the democratic politician is a
serious one.
But with the p%opulist, who has posed
from the birth of his party as a calamity
bowler, who rolls under his tongue as a
sweet morsel that "the rich are getting
richer and the poor poorer" who, like
Russian cactus, hourishes most during
seasons of drouth and disappears when
conditions are favorable for a bountiful
harvest, the question of what the harvest
shall be is all absorbing. When the
term "populist politician" is used, it does
not mean populist generally-only that
select few who farm the farmer but do
not till the soil; who are ever ready to
sacrifice self for the good of the party
and the fees of Office. With such the
inquiry is a wall, and they are, politi-
cally, in sackcloth and ashes at the pres
emit prospect of whatthe harvest shall be.
There is another class who a%nxiously
await the answer to his inquiry of what
shall the harvest be? The newspaper
man. Fol years he has sat at his desk,
battling with the elements, the dis
gruntled, the unfortunate and the dema-
gogic, in the upbullding of his beloved
state, sending broadcast, at home and
abroad, words of advice and counsel, to
Dear patiently the many i~nconven1ences
and distresses that inclement seasons
have brought. No farmer subscriber
has been cut off or deprived of his paper
because he was not able to pay, but,
through adversely and prosperity, the
printer has been the same uncomplain-
ing, toiling n~ewsgatherer and dissent
nator of those things that would enter
tain his readers and prosper his state.
And nov that nature seems about ready
to smile on the whole state, and bestow
a bountiful harvest, the heart of the
poor newspaper man is gladdened at the
prospect OF what the harvest will be.
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