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Griggs courier., 1897-12-24

~ Ssso W0yS NAEs 4EuOOu0W 10 OAUO
their now post,naster, and has his two
oaaoss in his own bilding-the post
Office in front and his printing office
In the rear-of the old Virgo building,
next door to the Palace Hotel, ON main
street, . most fitting location for both.
Without any doubt, no town in North
Dakota of itstsize, possesses a better,
or more convenient postofiice than
Cooperstown. It's furniture is of hard
wood: the very latest, and is so ar
ranged that the public can be waited
upon with neatness and dispatch. The
good people of Girl .sgs county may we'll
feel proud of their newspaper and
postoffice. CT course we did not over
look our old friend, DR.. Bergstrom,
who enjoys ~ large practice, and
who has won the respect of the people
of both Griygs and Steele counties,
through his f.lithtnl service to all
who call him, and his strict ;,tten-
Jion to business. ThedocGor is POPULAR
everywhere, and many Hope people
are glad to know he is succeeding SO
We'll. Johnny Ole. collector and real
estate man, whom we used to know SO
we'll, years aud years ago, is also en-
joying a fine Grade; as is VIM. Glass
in the same business. Attorney Bart
lett looks and feels we'll, and why not?
Attorney Baldwin is kept busy looking
after his increasing law, collection and
insurance business. Then, there is
that whole-souled good fellow, John
McDermott, who has sold horse mill
linery to every farmer in the county
for a score of years past-at the same
old stand. John Syverson has the
largest and most improved up-to-date
store in the state, town considered.
He told us his business is good and
folks are all we'll. Thenthere is Pete,
l.. Nelson, Anton Enger. Sheriff jack
son, Rollef Berg, Treasurer Udgard,
Auditor Melgard, Messrs. Stevens,
Crane, C.ark, Cowen, Olson-and
scores OF others, all enjoying life and
doing we'll. The general appearance of
fhe town has improved wonderfully in
the past few years. Large brick blocks,
churches, hotels, livery barns, school
houses, business blocks, fire depart
ment, nice large streets, and numerous
other changes and additions for the
better, go to make our sister village a
beautiful little city. There is just one
thing lackiEg-and that is good base
u;lll team. En-, Percy? But they are
all good boys. 'hough. Hope Pioneer.
B'as.klen's Arlais.a Snlve.
The best salve in ll,e world for cuts,
br uists, soes, ulcers, salt rheun,, fever
sores, tet,er, cllapped hands, clilblains,
corns, and all ski" eruptions, aud posi-
lively cures piles or no pay req"i'ed.
II is guaranteed to give perfect salts.
fact'om or money refunded. Price 25c
per box. For sale by H. H. Isaten,an 4
lt0
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

Populists have been faithful, but there
are enough traitors to block a great
deal of good legislation.-Topeka Advo-
cate
The Kansas legislature is a true pic
ture of the effects of fusion. The legis-
lative record shows that Democratic
and Republican members unite on every
occasion to prevent Populist legislation
1t is silly to consider any member of
the Kansas legislature a Populist who
votes against the redemption of Populist
platform pledges. The facts are that
the Kansas legislature is in the hands Of
class of men who always have antag-
onized the fundamental principles Of the
Peoples Party. In addition to sac
r1ficing the integrity of the Peo-
ple's Party, fusion places the destiny
of the party in the hands of an antagon-
istic minority. 1t is to be hoped that the
results of the last election will be
warning to all Populists to stay in the
middle of the road.-Southern Mercury.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

the Peoples party, the only party which
stands for the welfare of the great
common people. 1t is policy. 1t is the
only way to win.
When our party was founded
thought it should be named American
Party" in contradistinction to the two
old Tory parties, but that is past. The
Peoples Party has no record to blast it.
1t offers a home to all patriots ai
In what I have said am not re-
ferring to the efforts of the editor Of
New Occasions" 1 believe he is per-
fectly honest He simply offered the
columns of his magazine as means for
reformers to voice their sentiments in
regard to the formation of a new party.
The many letters published plainly show
the utter uselessness of all such efforts.
The Populist letters all go to show, by
logical reasoning, that the plan is inn
practicable. The letters from leading
Democrats are nearly all on the plan of
the chairman of the state central COM
mittee Of the Democrtic party of Min
nesota which is short and sweet, viz:
'The Democratic party is good enough
for me; everything seems to be coming
our way"
That's it. The men who run the
Democratic machine want it all. Even
Bryan gives the POpulists credit for only
1,5O0, 900 votes and the Dems for 4,5OO,-
900 and this in face Of the fact that he
knows that at least 100000 gold Demo-
Gratis voted for Mckinley.
l have not forgotten that in the cam
paign of 1892 when an old farmer was
nominated for congress, that one of
the central committee Of the Democratic
party in St. Paul wrote the committee
in the aforesaid district and see that =,
the Populist candidate for congress,
was not indorsed by the Democrats, as
''the id fool would, if elected, vote
for every principle in the Peoples Party
platform
They found Populist who was not
such a id fool and I for one am
UOLC NOIluS LII SuCl hluu vi CdCClC.
And now as finishing finale; as a
sort of soughing, signing requiem over
the grave of Populism, comes the in
telligence that at a meeting Of the arch
traitors-traitors to their party and
their countryside friends of aliens and
shylockism in general, the Clevelands,
Carlisles, Palmers ct al, who say that
Republican principles on tariff matters
are so repugnant to their sanctimoni-
Gus, hypocritical sensibilities, that they
can swallow free silver sooner than go
to bed with Mckinley again. This
means that they will swallow Bryan,
and the whole Populist party in order
to get to the pie counter and then talk
tariff as the Republicans are doing.
Shame on my enemy when he fools me
once; shame on me If he fools me
twice." L. G. Long.
Magnolia, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
A MurderOus System.

While in Carthage, Mo-, short time
ago an incident occurred that was per-
haps hushed by the press. A poor man
out of work went to store where he
had purchased all his goods, and asked
for credit on sack of flour, as he was
out of work and his family were in
need of bread, and on being refused,
said: Il have paid you thousands Of
dollars, and will pay you for this some
time, but my family must have Bread"
and before any one was aware of it he
had taken sack of flour and was in the
street. One of those men appointed to
protect the people (an officer) called
out Halt! Stop, thief" and because
the man kept on his way with bread for
his family, he was shot down like a
dog, and the officer was complimented
for his dispatch in executing the law
John Riley.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
IS NOT CONTEMPT
HONEST NEWSPAPER CRITICISM
MAY BE INDUCED IN
Dingley Reveals His PurpOse-Popu.
lists I'm Congress Show How the En-.
actment Of Their Ideas Would
Result.

Peoples Press Bureau, ST.. Louis, Mo,
May 2O.-A case of much interest to
newspaper men was recently tested in
Cleveland, Ohio. Louis F. Post, an ed
1torial writer on the Recorder, having
scored a Judge, was brought into court
and fined 5000 and costs for contempt.
The case was carried to higher court
when 1t was decided that honest news
paper criticism is not contempt.
Dingley, McKinley's worthy successor
as tariff crank, has announced that
the real purpose of his tariff bill is to
create surplus by tariff tax, with
which to seize and impound the green
backs, thus further limiting our money
supply and crippling business
The report Of the secretary of the
treasury for the last fiscal year shows
war debt of about 81 ,O25, 900, 900, more
than it amounted to in 1868, although
sum equal to the principal has been
paid as interest besides 81 997, ,515 900
for pensions.
President Mckinley and his advisors
are reported to be much worried over
the recent attack on the gold reserve.
Populists should appreciate the work
done by their representatives in both
houses of the national congress. They
have not let an opportunity pass to
show how Populsts' beliefs, if enacted
into law, would give relief to many of
the abuses of the day. Such work must
have it's effect in time. One of the last
Of these instances is the passing of a
resolution through the senate, by Sena-
tor Butler, calling upon the state de-
partment to furnish information as to
the nature and operation of the postal
savings bank systems in other coun-
tries. This will bring the many excellent
points of these institutions before the
legislators and later before the people.
p. r. Chapman, whose trial preceded
that Of Havemeyer and Searles in the
Sugar fraud trials has secured the
signature Of all the senatorial commit
tee except that OF Senator Allen who
refused it as it would establish prece-
dent that would easily extricate the COR
ruptors of legislators from the dilemma
in which they now find themselves.
The Minnesota house of representa-
tives has memorialized congress in favor
of government ownership of railroads.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota,
in response to many mentions of him.
self as presidential candidate in 1900,
has written an editorial in the Repre-
sentative, in which he acknowledges
the compliment with his usually schol-
arly diction, but declares himself as not
in the race.
The state convention of the Peoples
Party of Pennsylvania, which will con-
vene June l. promises to be well attend-
ed and representative gathering.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Ours is a government where the form
is democratic, and the spirit plutocratic.
The legislation is all for the classes. A
SOP of few thousands may be thrown
now and then, to flood sufferers in the
Mississippi valley but the steady stream
of the millions go to the Carnegies, the
Rockefellers and the Havemeyers. The
legislative machine is operated almost
exclusively for the benefit of trusts,
combines and corporations.
In England, on the contrary, the form
of government is monarchical, but the
spirit of it is very largely democratic.
Parliament assembled few days ago,
and the budget showed a surplus in
stead of deficit, and a reduction of the
public debt, instead of an increase.
Some changes were proposed, and these
changes are entirely in the interests Of
the people at large. While Dingley and
the Republicans are increasing our taxes
by more than one hundred million dol
lars on the necessaries Of life, England
proposes to reduce her duties on the de-
livery of express packages; and also
proposes to deliver all mails free to the
country people, as we'll as to the people
of the towns and cities.
Thus we see England reducing public
burdens and legislating In behalf of The
masses. In this republic we see both
the old parties adding to the public
burdens, and legislating for the sugar
trust, the steel combine, Standard Oil
company and the whisky trust.
How is it that England is able to re-
duce her public debt, and still have a
surplus in her treasury?
She taxes the great landowners.
She taxes the incomes of her million
aires.
She taxes concentrated wealth when
it passes by death from the ancestor to
the heir.
She taxes the fine French, Italian aud
German wines and brandies imported
by the grandees of England.
In this way the English government
compels the rich to aid the poor in sup
porting the government which protects
both rich and poor.
In our country, cursed by class legis-
lation as no other land is cursed the
middle and lower classes bear all the
expenses of the federal government. Our
millionaires and our corporations pay
nothing.-Tom Watson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

Nothing can save the existing social
and Industrial system. Competition is
doomed. Cooperation is inevitable.
Ignorance may delay the final death
struggle of the present idiotic system
if it can be called a system-but the end
is in sight,
Capital abandoned competition years
ago. No wise man now quotes that sense
less motto, "Competition is the life of
trade" He knows better. Competition
is the death of profits. Only fools ad-
vocate competition.
The competitive system of industry
was well enough years ago, but the
world has progressed beyond it. The
introduction of machinery doomed the
competitive system. The only way to
save it is to destroy all machinery and
set back the hands on the clock of
progress.
No great industry is now conducted
on competitive lines. It is impossible.
Hence trusts are formed. Railroads
cannot compete; hence pools are formed.
A few weeks ago the supreme court de-
cided against the legality of pools. The
great papers have been full of the SUBJ
ject. Their pages have teemed with
editorials denouncing the supreme court.
It is not often that New Occasion finds
itself in line with these papers, and we
take this opportunity to congratulate
them on being in good company for
once. From hundreds of clippings the
following has been selected. It is
from the New York Journal of Com
merce. the ablest capitalistic paper in
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
THE DISINHERITED.
(UnkncWn,)

(Unkncwn)
From street and square, from hill and
glen
OF this vast world beyond my door,
l hear the tramp of marching men,
The patient armies of the poor.
The halo of the citys lamps
Hangs, vast torchlight, in the air;
1 watch it, through the evening damps.
The masters of the world are there.
Not ermine clad, nor throned in state,
Their title deeds not yet made plain;
But waking early, toiling late,
The heirs of all the earth remain.
AS guide the planets in their sweep,
The children of each 0utcast heir,
The harvest ripe of time shall reap.
The peasants brain shall yet be wise,
The untamed pulse grow calm and
STILL
The blind shall see, the lowly rise,
And work in peace Gods wondrous
will.
Some day without trumpet's call,
This news shall Ger the world be
blown
The heritage comes back to all,
The myriad monarchs take their own.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

the country. and it thus sounds the
keynote:
There is no aggregate of invested
capital in this country that on the aver
age yields less than that represented by
the stock and bonds Of our railroad sys-
TENS A condition OF cut-throat compe-
tition cannot be established between
these without wiping out most of what
is left of railroad profits and entailing
a legacy of widespread financial distress.
A few large shippers might grow rich In
the general scramble among the rail-
roads for business, but the great body
of consumers would reap no benefit
from it, and some Of the most important
branches of our commerce would be sub
jected to new risks and uncertainties.
There can be no general prosperity in
presence of conditions productive of
railroad bankruptcy"
Why, of course. Some of us knew
that and wrote about it years and years
ago. But there is way out of it for
the present, and the Chattanooga Times
explains how it can be done, as follows:
us it within the bounds of reason
that the owners of $4,000, 900, 900 worth
of railway property will sit still while
their investment melts away? OF
course it is not They are going to
save the money they have invested if
they can and the one means that has
been found most effective in steadying
net earnings is combination, under cor
porate ownership, of great groups of
roads that pervade and virtually must,
when welded by single head, monop-
olize the business Of large sections of
the country. If the people like this
prospect better than they do the present
condition, they are in a fair way of get
ting what they better like A few
more turns of the screw by the legisla-
ture and courts and we shall have our
whole mileage of 1S1 900 miles of line
in the hands of four to six vast incor-
porated combinations The combina-
tions will have proper arrangements for
exchange Of business, etc., as the roads
now have, and the coming corporate as
sociation will have learned enough in
the school of experience to evade any
laws now on the books made to enable
politicians to meddie with them and
help lawyers to pluck them
See how easy it is. Combine com
bine, combine. And finally there will
be one system, and only one Who will
own it? The United States of America
will own it, and it will not be run for
profit. It will serve the people as the
postoffice now serves the people. 1t will
be scientific, progressive and splendid
beyond anything yet accomplished by
man, and all the fools on earth cannot
stop it.
The men who rail at trusts, the men
who howl about department stores, the
men who lament the displacement of
labor by machinery, are wasting their
breath.
Competition will die In child birth,
but the babe will live and it shall be
name o-operation.-New Occasion.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
A Municipal Ownership Straw.

The report of the water department
of Chicago shows that the taxpayers
are profiting almost as largely as those
of New York from the ownership of the
water works. In brief, the report reads
as follows:
Operating expenses .......... $4,000
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
.$2,941.OOO
Net earnings

Net earnings 90. .$2,9 941 900
The investment in Chicago water
is $2S,000,O00 When interest on bonds
to this amount is deducted from the net
earnings the remaining profits are over
81, 900, or SIS year for every family
in the city. The public also receives
free the vast quantities of water used
in it's parks, streets and public build
ings, to say nothing of the incidental
advantages of cheaper fire insurance
than would be possible were the water
supply in any way inadequate.-C
go Commons.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26
TREMENDOUS

l.. G. LONG, PRESIDENT OF THE
STATE FARMERS ALLIANCE
SKINS THE FUSION DONKEY
ALIVE; AND MAKES
GLUE OUT OF HIS
HOOFS AND
TAIL.
a Ringing Cnustic Letter From q
Man Who Never Went Back
the Cause of the People.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-03
RoME's INTEREST in AMERICA.
BourSe Cochran Tells of a Long Per-
sonnI Interview with the Pope.

BOurke Cochran Tells of a Long Per-
sonaI Interview with the Pope.
Bourke Cochran, who recently re-
turned from Europe, gives very in
teresting account of his tour. He had
personal interview with. the pope, of
whom he says:
His questions showed q close famil-
iarity with our government and with
the social and economic questions which
must be solved under democratic insti-
buttons. He spoke much of his desire
for reunion of all Christian churches.
Asking several questions, which an
swered, he leaned forward his chair,
struck his breast with singularly ina
pressive gesture, and said:
81 would gladly take to my bosom
the whole world and embrace it in the
holy Catholic faith, not for any benefit
it would do me personally, but to adj
vance the welfare of men in this world
and promote their prospects of happi-
ness in the next. The Catholic church
is universal and the whole worldf dear
to me, but your country lies especially
close to my heart. The Catholic church
has shown here in the old world for 19
centuries that it is not merely de-
pository for spiritual truth, but that as
it was in the beginning the cradle OF
civilization it now is the bulwark. But
IL the history of the Catholic church lies
in Europe, its future lies in your grea,
nation. You can, therefore, understand
the great interest that l take in the
American people and the anxiety with
which 1 look for tidings of the growth
of the church in the United States"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-03
WORKED AN OLD TRICK.
The Deaf and Dumb Man Had "a
Sneak.


''In my time" said broker to his
friends at Delmonico's the other day,
according to the New York Times, II
have observed many sad and touching
scenes, but never one which affected
me as much as the one witnessed last
week.
Passing along d busy thoroughfare,
/ paused for an instant in order to read
and reflect upon the miseries of man
who bore the legend Deaf and Dumb,
picturing to myself my own condition
under like circumstances, when the fol-
lowing remark somewhat startled me:
"'Say, Jimmie, here's poor deaf and
dumb man. Father gave me five cents
to spend, but I think I'd rather give it
to him. He needs it more than do
"This was followed by the chink of a
coin in the tin cup. .--.ft~ az
"Instinctively 1 turned to the boy
who had made this remark to his COM
panion and said:
"'Noble boy, overheard your gener-
Gus words. You shall not want for the
money. Here is dime
with curtsey and Thank you, sir
he fed.
81 turned to the deaf and dumb man.
The muscles of his face seemed to be
working to degree rarely seen on a
man bereft of those important senses.
Unable to contain himself longer, he
blurted out:
"'Say, you're dopey. That kid has
worked that racket before. That
f-pence is made of lead!'
Il went home and communed with
myself" -
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-03
WeII-peserred snrcnnm.

A few years ago the celebrated Pot
ter family, of which Bishop Potter is
a member, held a reunion. During the
banquet that followed, the various
heads of the different families arose and
gave a short account of the pedigrees
and deeds of their ancestors. After all
the speakers had finished, william NJ.
Evarts, who was present as the legal
adviser of the New York branch, was
called uuon for speech. and responded
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-03
CUPID IN JAIL.
A 1ReminIscence of n sly Courtship
Years Ago.
myself

A "Reminiscences of n Sly Courtshtp
Years Ago.
Cupid is no respector OF persons OF
places" says member of well-knowl
Washington family, according TO the
Star, "for while love laughs at lock-
smiths Cupid, to my knowledge, has
made himself felt behind prison bars.
Do you remember the old Washington
infrnary, which stood behind the
courthouse? Well, that was the Jail
in old times-froIn 1904 to 1888. In
those days there.was imprisonment for
debt, and quite handsome young man,
unable to meet his obligations, became
a prisoner. The jailer lived in part of
the building, and his family included
pretty daughter. Cupid set to work,
and the bars were no obstacle. In a
little while looks betrayed Cupid's con-
quest. One day, while on the street.
debtors being allowed to go outside,
but not beyond the prison bounds
they met, had talk which ended in
the procurement of a marriage license,
engagement of minister and the mar
rage. They returned TO the Jail, and
telling what they had done, the father
gave the son-in-law Job as assistant
jailer, thus enabling him to pay the
debt, and when he died the SON sue
ceeded him."