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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
price of Wheat At Duluth.

WHEAT Cash, No. hard $1.O5; No
Northern, $1.05; No. , Northern,
81. 90; No. spring, 9411c; rejected, sl@
SIC; to arrive, No. hard, 81 05; No.
/ Northern, $780, September No. North
ern, 9734c; December. 9511c,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
Grain Prices at Minneapolis.

WHEAT-August closed at $1.06h;
September, 947sc December, 939sc. On
Track--No hard, $l,067s; No. North
srn, $l.057sc; No 2 Northern, $l.03M.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
poultrx. Rutter and Eggs.

Live poultry, quiet Turkeys, 9@loc;
chickens, 7@716c; spring chickens, 10c;
ducks, S@81c. Butter, firm, cream
cries. 12@1Sc; diaries, 10@l5c Eggs
firm; fresh, 13c.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25

The game of golf on Sundays on
the courses round London has now
become so common as to create no
surprise.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Grain Prices at milwaukee,.

WHEAT-No / Northern, $1.03i No.
spring, $l.OO; December, 95Ac.
CORN-No :, 81 &c.
OATS-No. 2 white, 2214@23c.
BARLEY - No O. 47c; sample on
track 256D47c
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF STEXrENC IS.

OOUNII OF 5IEN EMS, J
r. J. Hall, John Sanders, William Gaus-
man, P. F. Casey, L. D. Perkins, Geo. W.
Borrill, Thos. McCanney, H. Hodgeman,
Louis Thoele, NJ F. Finnegan and L. J.
Schlattman, to me personally known,
came before me personally and being first
duly sworn each for himself says that he
executed the fore going articles of incor-
preparation voluntarily and freely and for
the purpose therein set forth,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of July, 1897.
O. E. LOFTHUS,
(SeaD Notary Public
Steveps County, Mimi.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
REGISTERS OFFICE,

REGISTERS OFFICE,
Stevens County, MINI
Filed for record the 3rd day of August,
A. D. 1897, at 9 O'Clock M, and recorded
in Book D of Miscellaneous, pages 40, III,
172. ED. J. LEHMAN,
(SeaD Register.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25

Eknans Tabules cure dyspepsia
kkipans Tabules cure torpid liver.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
Live stoek Prices at chicago.

HOGS-Market active, &c higher.
Sales ranged at "a 00@4.25 for light;
S3. 9o@4.20 TOR mixed So 1904 10 for
heavy; SO. 10 Us 50 for rough.
CATTLE-Mark steady; 10o higher
Sales ranged at $500 0o. 40 for beeves;
S1.9O04.4 40 for cows and heifers; 50. 600
40 for Texas steers; So. 5O94. As for west.
ems; So. 400 80 for stockers and feeders
SHhEP-n1arke steady.
SAFES ranged at So 20@375 for native
sheep; 81. 75Qg3. 20 for westerns; So. 25@5 %
tor lambs.
Receipts-Hog $1,000; cattle, 1900;
sheep, 10000
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
GRAIN and Provision Prices at Chicago.

WHEAT August, $3.50; September,
e6c; December, $3.50; May, 97c.
CORN-A1gust, 3OAc; September, Bic
December, 325sc, May, 35Ac.
OATS - August, 1916; September
l94c; October, 2O4c; December 2O14c;
May. 23c.
FoRK-August, 1857; September
lS57 December, $3.50
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25
STATE OF MINNESOTA,

] hereby certify that the within instru-
ment was filed Tor record in this office on
the 10th day OF August, A. d. 1897, at
O'Clock a. M, and was duly recorded in
Book R2 of Interpretations on page ST.
ALBERT BERG,
Secretary of State.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-08-25

The names of the persons forming this
association are as follows: Thos. Mccain
ney, President; r. ]. Hall, John Sanders.
William Gausn1an, p. f. Casey, L. D.
Perkins, Geo. w. Borriu, H. Hodgeman,
Louis Thoele, n. F. Finnegan and L. J.
Schlattman, all of Morris, MINI.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

to the savings banks. II the currency
were deprecated 60 per cent. as 1t would
be were silver coined free at the ratio of
16 to 1, the depositors would lose 10 1-3
millions. No friend of the free coinage
plank mentioned that fact or argued that
building and loan association Investments
would be affected injuriousiy.
The constant experience Of the world
has been that when there Is a change for
the worse in the money standard the
wages of abor are slow to adjust them
selves to it. The price of commodities ad-
vance rapidly. The price of labor lags
behind. Thus there is a real reduction in
wages. Though they may be nominally
a little higher, their purchasing power IS
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
Work of the Dingley Law.

Reports from the little State of Rhode
Island are full of cheer. 1.-The mill sitaa-
ton is better than it has been for five
years. says special dispatch to the St.
Louis GlobeDemocrat. TIE Lonsdale
company has started full time opera
ton, employing 5000 men and women.
In the Woonsocket wOrstsd mills. the
200 employees had their hearts gladdened
by the restoration of wages to what they
were in 1893, which is virtual increase
of IA per cent But more than this,
ground has been broken for the erection
of new mill in the Olneyvilie district,
and plant near Blackstone, which has
been idle for almost five years. will be
purchased by n new company and started
into full opera ton. 1t will not require
a microscope to observe that the develop
ment in the mill situation is the direct re-
suit of the Dingley tariff law. 1t means
prosperity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

1t was very unkind on the part OF the
Director of the Mint to delay his recent
statement about the comparative value of
the coins of tie world until the departure
of those silver patriots who recently has
tened to Japan to learn the true cause of
the characterization of silver there. Had
they had opportunity to study Director
Preston's little table they might have
stayed at home and devoted their ener-
gies to explaining to the farmer why
wheat has gone above a dollar a bushel
while the free coinage dollar has fallen
below forty cents. Director Preston's
table shows the comparative value of the
silver and gold yens of Japan during the
past decade. One minutes study of these
figures would have been sufficient to show
these peregrinating patriots the true cause
of Japan's action. Hare are the figures
rpad them for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
BRYAN AS a DEApeEAI

He Attacks the Corporations and Then
Asks and Accepts Favors from Them.
The more Mr.. Bryan tries to explain
away his foraging expeditions on railroad
passes the more he conyicts himself of
demagogy and willful deception. When
the San Francisco papers made public
the fact that Bryan had solicited and ac-
cepted favors from Huntington's South
ern Pacific Railroad in the shape of rail-
road passes, Bryan's friends at first de-
MED the charge. They backed their de-
mails by producing the reQuisition written
by Bryan in which he applies for the free
ticket over the Southern Pacific on ac-
count of the Omaha World-Herald.
Upon inquiry at Omaha it developed
that Bryan had severed his connection
with the World-Herald a year previously
and furthermore that the World Herald
had no advertising contract with the
Southern Pacific and was not entitled to
any transportation for any advertising
done for that road. To parry this ex-
posture Bryan retorted over his own name
that he was still stockholder in the
World-Herald. By this, matters were not
much mended for the reason that as a
stockholder in a newspaper he could have
no claim upon any railroad for free rides
and Furthermore that under the interstate
commerce law interstate railroads are for
hidden from giving free transportation ex-
cept to railway employees.
The Southern Pacific is not, however,
the only railroad on which Bryan has
been foraging. Mr.. Bryan travelled to
st. Louis some ten days ago over the Wa
bash and dead-headed his way with an
1897 annual pass. The pass is ostensibly
issued on account of the World-Herald
but bears on it's face the fiat contradiction
of the pretense that it is business trans
action. Railroads do not issue annual
passes in exchange for advertising. In
the nature of things they could not know
how often they would be used, for what
distance and how much advertising value
they would represent.
The discreditable part of Bryan's dead
heading over the railroads arises not
merely from the fact that he poses as the
champion of the anti-monopoly forces and
denounces the railroads for discrimina-
ton in favor of influential non-producers
as against the common people who must
pay their way, but also because while
amply able to pay his fare he is resort
ing to deception to cover up his accept
ance of railroad giftS.-Omaha Bee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
CONE, MR.. BRYAN.
Try to Be Consistent in Your Theories
and Assertions.

and Assertions.
At Atchison, Mr.. Bryan made a speech
from which the following are detached
sentences: Last fall the Republicans
said we were repudiationists because we
wanted to lessen the purchasing price of
and corn is governed by the law of supply
and demand solely. The law of supply
and demand governs the value of a dollar.
If there is a short crop of money dollars
will rise. Nature makes a short crop of
wheat. Man makes short crop of dol
lars by law"
A year ago Mr.. Bryan asserted that the
value of dollar was not influenced by
any power whatever except the declara-
ton by the Government that it was dol
lar. He asserted in season and out of
season that such a declarat ton was suf1-
cient not only to make every silver dollar
worth gold dollar, but also to raise every
ounce of silver bullion In the world to the
value of gold at ratio of 10 to 1. With
such a record as this. how can the man
have the audacity to now come babbling
about the value of the dollar being gov
erned by the law of supply and demand?
He says the dollar has grown too vaiua-
BILE because it has not kept pace with the
law of demand. The more money there
is in the country. he contends, the less
the dollar will buy, Does history bear
out such a claim? In one of his lectures
Mr.. Bryan presents a table to show that
since the crime of 1873 there has been a
steady diminishment In the price of pro-
ducts. To make his theory good he must
also show that there has been a diminish
ment in the number of dollars. On the
contrary, there has been a steady and
rapid increase in the number of dollars
since 1873, until now we have q per cap
ita circulation OF $24.3O, whereas in 1878
we had but S1sO4.-Kansas City Jour
nal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
UNAMERlCAN,
The Princip pies of Debeiszn Will Not BE
Welcomed by Patriots.

the Princi pies of DebeisIn Will Not BE
Welcomed by Patriots.
The ferocious hatred for the rich felt
by men like Mr.. Debs and his Social Dem
Ocracy Is utterly un-American. 1t argues
in the men who feel and express it an
estimate of the Importance of wealth so
inveterate that it has destroyed their self
respect. Apparently they cannot breathe
freely-can hardly live. so miserable are
they-so long they see other men far
richer than themSelves-that is to say, pos
sessed in fur larger measure than they
Of the only thing that they think of impor-
lance. To them, the men who have wealth
belong necessarily to different class from
the men who have not. Not brains, nor
learning, nor character, marks the differ
ence between men, they think, but wealth
only. No men have expressed q more alb
ject Difference to wealth than these So
cia1 Democrats, who wish to kill all who
possess more than little of it. They
cannot, apparently, conceive of poor
man being as self-respecting, respected,
as happy and a. useful as a rich one.
1t is a fortunate thing for the country
that the Social Democracy speaks out
its mind frankly. and government will be
very unwise il it does anything to sup
press its spirit by putting penalties on its
excuses. A few weak-minded or vicious
men, 1T is true, may be misled and even
rendered dangerous to society, but the
best arguments against the semi-socialis-
tic, semi-anarchistic purposes of the So
ciai Democracy that can be addressed to
the masses of the American people are the
utterances of the Social Democrats them
seives--New Orleans Picayunc-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
Postal Savings Banks.

Tt Is announced that Postmaster Cen
eraI Gary, after thoroughly studying the
subject, has concluded to favor the estab-
lishment of postal savings banks in this
country, and viii make the advocacy OF
such a measure a feature Of his incum-
bency of the Postofhce Department. He
has not as yet Formulated q plan. but
will do 30 in his report to be submitted
to the President on the opening Of the
NEXT session OF Congress-.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

The Illinois Federation of Labor has re-
adopted, as part Of its platform, demand
for the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. But on this, as on previous
occasions, the advocates of the plank fail
ed to point out wherein labor would be
benefited by the granting of such a de-
mand. No attempt was made to contro-
vert the specific statements as to where
free coinage would do irreparable harm to
labor.
million dollars invested in building and
loan associations. A change to the mono
metallic silver standard of a free coinage
371L-grain dollar would reduce the value
of these investments about GO per cent,
and labor would lose forty-c;cht million
dollars on one item.
The working people of this State have
loaned 25k millions in gold value dollars
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

The free traders took their last shot at
the farmers in June: they hustled in ev-
erything availn bic on which the new tariff
law increased the rates Of duty. The fol-
lowing shows the value of some of the
more important farm products in June,
1897 compared with June 1896:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

in the case is that there has been sub
stantially the same healthy advance In the
prices of other properties of about the
same sensitiveness to the market. This
proposition was brought out with special
force by Gov Tanner in an interview
given to the st. Louis Globe-Democrat-
At the time the Governor spoke the adj
vance in wheat had been 80 cents per
bushel, and he added:
But railroad stocks. manufacturing stocks,
and all other stocks OF a character to feel the
effects of prosperity have increased all the
way from 80 TO so per cent. en- the former
values at the samei time that wheat has
been making this gain or 20 cents bnshei
Cattle, hogs, corn, cats, redtop seed ali
farm products. have gone up almost. II not
quite, in the proportion that stocks and
wheat have. Bonds and mortgages have en-
HANGED Taking the vast interests repre-
sented by stocks and Uonsts, you Will md
that the increase in the total value made
during the past three months IS $4,000
OOO The advance on other things. cattle,
hogs, corn. and So on, has amounted to more
than $500. 600. 600 There is grand total
of 81 300. 600. 600 added to the wealth of this
country 1t has been done by tie adoption
of wise and encouraging economic policy
which has restored the confidence of our
people--Chicago Inter Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
No Time for Croakins.

The propensity Of the calamity bowler
TO predict misfortune for this country and
to emphasize the dark side Of life, will find
little encouragement by contrasting the
present condition and prospects of the
American people with those Of the rest of
the world. For such a comparison will re-
veal the fact that We are vastly better off
to-day than most peoples. While other
countries are threatened with distress ow-
ing to short crops, we Americans have
been blessed with one of the most abun-
dant harvests in our history. While the
far East is suffering with famine and
while the harvest in Ireland is reported
ruined by unpropitious weather, we in
America are chiefly concerned with the
problem of transporting to market the
surplus products of the farm. While ris-
ing prices will bring dismay to those
parts of the world which are under the
necessity OF buying, the American farm
er, with granary overlooking with wheat
and corn. looks with complacency upon
the steadily climbing grain markets. The
great laws of supply and demand are
working in our favor, and are bound to
bring renewed prosperity to our country.
Detroit Free Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

In other worus, we hive ante-panIc
values and ante-panic prices. The crop
i. worth $25, 100000 more than it has
been in the best year for FIVE years.-New
York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
southern Cotton nIiIls.

One OF the most encouraging features
of the business season ended on the first
of this month was the showing made By
Southern mining and manufacturing en-
terprises. Reports from reliable sources
indicate that all of them were fairly pros
porous, even while similar industries were
depressed in other parts of the country.
the result being due in great measure to
the advantages Of the proximity Of the
raw material to points Of consumption OF
manufacture, and to the favorable climat-
ic conditions. This was specially true of
cotton manufacturing, which evidences a
growth both continuous and of remarka-
BILE extent For the first time the con-
sumption of Southern mills exceeded a
million bales.-Memphis Scimiter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
PROSPERITY IS NOW GENERAL.
Business Improvement Moves Forward by Great
Leaps and Bounds.
The Dolefui Cries of Calamity Howers Cannot
Check the Advance of Good Times.

the markets will again be as low and weak
as the price of silver"
This sort of explanation can never be
effective, for two reasons The first is
that it goes too far for the average voter
to follow with much interest. The second
and the best is that it wholly fails to ac-
count for the advance in many important
commodities which have nothing to do
with the harvests in Europe or the famine
in India. Has there been a famine in
hides anywhere? Has the leather crop
failed? What bad weather has made
iron scarce and raised the price of steel!
What is the force that has lifted the mar
ket for wool as far, in proportion to for
mer quotations, as wheat has risen? Why
are lambs much higher than they were
when the Dingley bill was passed? How
about the butter crop? Has that failed
in India? Is the cheese market feeling
the effects of the harvests in Russia
Where is the cotton crop a failure? Who
has heard of a lumber famine?-Cleveland
Leader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
The Iron Barometer.

Among the proofs of reviving prosper
ity, which some people are trying hard
not to see, must now be included the in
crease of II per cent in the output of pig
iron within about one month after the
new tariff was enacted. For many years
there have been not few among the fore
most practical business men who have re-
garded the production and consumption of
iron as the surest barometer of the con-
ditions upon which depends increase or de-
crease of general prosperity. This is IN
part because the production is of necessity
months ahead of the final consumption in
finished forms, and is based upon all that
some of the shrewdest practical men IN
the country can foresee of the future de-
mand for rails, car materials and other
railway supplies, for freight vessels along
the lakes and ON sea coasts, for business
buildings and the structural shapes of
which their skeletons are framed, for ag-
ricultural implements and the iron ana
steel entering into their construction, for
extension and improvement of farms, and
SO for fence wire and wire rods, and for
erection of residences and other build
ings, and so for nails and hardware of all
kinds. When evidence points to material
ly increased consumption in so many
forms trained business men calculate that
better times are coming.
The production of pig iron started this
year with weekly output of about 16O.-
UUU tons, having enlarged TO tndI extent
from 112, 1872 tons last October, a gain
of more than 40 per cent. There was
little further advance to about l1O,OOO
tons in March and April, but as the pass
ing of the tariff bill came to be considered
more remote or uncertain and stocks of I'M
sold iron accumulated the production was
diminished to 164, 900 tons at the begin
ming of July, showing a conservative de-
termination to defer further increase of
output until the conditions necessary for
future prosperity were more positively as
sured. This assurance came with the
passage of the tariff bill late in July, and
the weekly output was slightly raised
Aug. 1, and increased 20, tons weekly
during that month. But the output Sept
1 was already the largest ever known for
that month, excepting in 1S95-when
sudden furry lifted prices about to those
of 1S90--and it was $4,000 tons larger
than Sept. 1, 1892.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09
Breidentha1 Admits 1t.


examples of a Populist who has discarded
the calamity howl for the prosperity
whoop is J. w. Breidenthal of Kansas.
He is the Bank Commissioner of the
State, and less than one year ago he was
a Bryanite, who could see no prosperity
and no salvation for the country unless
the Boy Orator of the Platte was elected
and silver given free coinage at the heav-
en-erdained ratio of 10 to 1. But Breiden-
thai has changed since then. He has
seen great light, and this is what he
has to say to-day:
Never in the history of Kansas has there
been as much money with which to pay debts
has struck a wonderful streak of luck Con-
ditIons brought good wheat crop; the prices
good price. These conditions found Kan
sas In good position to profit immensely
There never has been time In the history
Of the State when the farmers have not
magnificent year, with immense crops and
high prices. and It Is little wonder they are
ing an earnest effort to get out of debt, and
when they succeed in doing this the Kansas
farmer VIII be the most Independent person
on earth, because he knows enough to keep
out of debt when once he gets started in the
In the Union: .fhere viii be 10000 home
Of what that means the mortgages will
average $1,000 each. which means the ex-
this State is becoming a Commonwealth of
homes.
II Breidenthal had said last November
that in less than year 10000 Kansas
farmers would pay off $4,000 600 of
mortgages, under Republican President
and the gold standard, his fellow Popu-
lists of Kansas would have chartered a
special train to convey him to an insane
asylum.-Kansas City journal.
Cotton's Best Year.
This butchery is sickening. There is
no hedge, nor bush, nor rock on all the
stricken field in whose slim shadow some
shuddering silverite may not be found
hiding from the statistician's steel. They
are thickest behind the refuge Of foreign
crop failure. A poke in these sets all
sorts and sizes to wriggling, Grandpa
Bland and Boy Bryan, and Teller wall
ing now that christianity and morality"
depend on more business for Nick Hills
smelter. And as they wriggle they squeak:
famine, you brutes! You are gloa ting
over famine. You are exulting in the mis-
cries of the victims of the gold standard
in India and Austria and England and
France. There Is nothing in this wave
of prosperity which-ouch-is giving US
some temporary embarrassment but a for
eign shortage in wheat"
Let US stir up the wrigglers little
1uFtQer. 1nere mas peen no foreign snort
age in cotton. IL there had been, it would
not matter in the sense that a wheat
shortage matters, for we supply 40 per
cent of the worlds cotton anyway. and
never more than 25 per cent of its wheat.
Yet we are getting an extra 10 per cent
this year-say, $4,000. 900 on $500, 900. :
0O0-for our cotton. These are the fig
ures just compiled by the secretary of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Mr.. Hes
ter:
81 Vain