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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DR. z. II. WILSON,
DENTIST.

u prepared TO do all kinds OF denta work.
parspns desiring prompt and first class work
llnu at office one door south of Palace Drug
ean ara a. Miller. s. ID. At home office every day
sscant wednesday and Thursday.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11

Glen M. Farley, the new President
of the State Press Association halls
from Madison, and he is all right.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11

The diplomatic argument which
occurs at Mitchell August 9th
promises to be interesting. Major
Picker will very likely be in it.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11
Republican County Ticket.

For States Senator,
q. W.RUDD.
For Representative,
J. c. THOMAS.
For County Judge,
G.. E. BRIGGS.
For Sheriff,
j. L. RAMEY.
For Clerk of Courts,
r. $. MEAD.
For Auditor,
III. G. HURD.
For Register OF Deeds,
PETER GEIyER.
For Treasurer,
j. W. SCHULTZ.
For States Attorney.
J. T.. COLE.
For superintendent OF Schools.
j. II. SNoDDY.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11
MILLER LAUNDRY.
w. S. MORROW, PROP.

Ihave started "A new Laundry in Miller
.nd am prepared to do the best OF work.
Snnd i'm your good shirts collars and cuffs
ron, all parts OF Hand county and have
them nicely done up. Particular attention
will also be given to family washing.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-08-11
DrsEY & BALDWIN,
LAWYERS.

Practice before all the courts OF South Da-
tnta Office in Morrl brick block. doors
north of most Office, Miller. South Dakota.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20
REV. WILLIAM RAIDER,

the industrial revolution began This dates from the invention of the steam engine in 1769.
 It is estimated that in the production of flour the labor of enc person is equal to that of one hundred and forty-f four persons in the time of Ulysses. In the iron industry twenty-five times as much is now produced as in the Pyre- nees with the old methods. Among the causes Of lack of employment and dis satisfaction among skilled workingmen may be mentioned the rapidity with which men have invented new things and discovered old forms. The brain rivaled the hand. The wage system was introduced, competition began and the evolution of transportation became an industrial factor
 Another cause is the large number of men who are trained in our technical institutions and who are constantly contributed by these schools to the class of skilled laborers. Our indus trial development has not been com mensurate with this annual army. They are more numerous than the op- portunities. It is hardly true that the worthiest of our trained minds re- ceive employment. Sometimes they do and sometimes they do not.
 The country Is full of idle experts. Many causes operate to keep them idle, among others the fact which every
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the streets. They congregate about the employment offices, assemble in front of the bulletin boards of such news papers as display their want" pages, and hang around places where there is likely to be work, ready and willing to do anything.
 The arguments advanced by most of these men Is that machinery ought not to be used unless there is an absolute need of It. Most of them incline to the belief that the time will come when the Government will have to prohibit the use of machinery in certain cases as is frequently done in France.
 Why should a steam digger that Is r,1n by two or three engineers be used when there are thousands of men ready and willing to handle the pick and shovel? Is a question many or them ask. The very fact that the steam digger is displacing laborers, causing them to be unable to buy the neeessl- ties of life is sure to have depressing effect on other industries.
 Some ten years ago the officers who have charge of the gasighting depart ment of the city of Paris. France. de- cided to introduce an electric gas lighter. The contrivance was of the simplest description and cost hardly 10 cents for each burner. The idea was to turn OH the gas IroIii lHe CeheI dI Sta- ton in the morning and so extinguish it all over the city at the same time. In the evening the gas was to be turned on. the electric current made to send a spark across each burner and the whole city illuminated at the same instant. The idea worked like a charm. But it displaced about 2000 lamplight- CTS most of whom became charge upon the community.
 After investigation by the proper au- thorities of the republic 1t was decided that the electric gaslighter benefited nobody but on the contrary was a worker of harm. It was then ordered that the electric gaslighter be taken out and the walking lamplighters put back to work.
 The unemployed of San Francisco have not word to utter against in vention that is really invention. The telegraph, the telephone, the phono-
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the country. Such labor has a distinct stake in the foundation, maintenance and extension of such enterprises. As far as it's inf1u- ence can go in politics, the formation of public opinion and the securing of confidence in the country's financial and industrial future, it's interests are at one with the employers of labor
 A current and very serious mistake on the part of such labor is the grow ing idea that it's employer is its enemy, and anything which it can do to his in jury is a benefit to itself. With this mistake corrected and a renewal of the former cordial relations and conditions of mutual friendship and dependence between skilled labor and its employers there will arise that confidence in the future of active enterprises which be- gets their expansion and makes neces- sary the employment of more labor.
 Statistics show that the annual va cancies in the whole field of labor in this country, from agriculture to the skilled trades, amount to 100000 That many every year drop out by mortality or advance to independence, and fur nish room for an equal number of new individuals. If the field were left en- tirely to the domestic supply there would be but few unemployed Ameri- cans.
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danger that new mechanical contri- vances will cause the disastrous results which the question implies. America has always been justly proud of the 1n- ventive genius. of her people. In Eu- rope to say that a certain thing is done according to American methods is equivalent to saying that some me chanical contrivance is used.
 We are quite right in the pride we take in this peculiar feature of our civ ilization. The introduction of machin- cry is a great blessing to society, Tor it cheapens production, bringing goods, once costly. within the reach of many persons who could not have them De- fore. It renders possible a great in- crease in production, vastly multiply ing the wealth of society and enables the enjoyment of a greater diversity Of commodities. The use of machinery brings about high degree of dlv1slon of labor, or separation of empioymentS which is essential to economic progress. In the end it gives employment to far larger number of persons than De- fore For the increased production calls for many hands to run the machines, and many more to send the goods to market and to sell them. The number of persons employed in those industries where the use of machinery has been most marked has increased with the greatest rapidity. Without the nu- merous mechanical contrivanceS now in use the world could support but small portion of it's present populatlon.
 These and other advantages are not had for nothing. There is some ground for the question. It is true that the bright picture for the future Of any industry frequently has, when machin- cry is first introduced, a dark fore ground. In that gloomy foreground we see the starving families of the nope less men whose means of earning hy- ing have disappeared.
 The most striking instance of this occurred after the introduction of ma chinery into the textile industries something over hundred years ago. It early became apparent that the pro. duct of the old spinning wheel and Of
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graph and the animatoScope have been inventions that made work for thous- ands. But the same cannot be said or the combined harvester nor the self acting street sweeper. Why, they de- mand, should a machine, that possibly does not actually represent more than ten days actual work for two men, be put into field and made to do the work of hundreds, who can only look on and long to be machine. Why should an automatic street sweeping machine be put to work when men are ready to handle the brush. They claim that none of the machines mentioned does the work better than it can be done by hand.
 It is machinery of this kind that our unemployed object to. When men can not get work as laborers at living wages they make an effort to learn something, and generally get in as machine hands," Here their wages are of the lowest and they are keeping out of work people who might be kept at work as skilled mechanics.
 The general verdict of the unem- ployed is that machinery should be used when there are no men to do the work When men are idle, they argue, the use of such machinery should be prohibited.
 At present there are in San Francis co about two hundred young men who have learned the shoemaker trade and are now unable to get work at it. These young fellows are ready and willing to do anything. but cannot find work.
 Electricians have also been made to feel the effect of improvement In their business. Eight years ago it took ex- perience to be able to run a dynamo, but now the apparatus is so simplif1ed if can be managed by anybody with common sense.
 And so it goes all through the list of trades. Even office men complain and say that improved methods have left them nothing to do, as their work can all be done by girls and boys.
 What is to be done with these unem- ployed? They cannot be killed and they cannot be allowed to live as they are, for a generation or two of such lives will turn them into criminals. Follow ing are the opinions of some of our
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kicked frightfully. I guess 1t was as scared as l was.
 Anyhow every wriggle and kick seemed to send it further from my clutch, and I began to perspire in de- spair At least I didn't know very we'll what l did at that dreadful juncture. If that mouse had been an elephant 1t couldn't have demoralized me more. l tell you. size don't count in such case When a live mouse is scampering down your inside you don't figure any on it's size, breed and particular weight.
 My sensations were simply inde- scrbable. My head swam and ached. I think I reeled about the room. My senses were all benumbed. I felt ter rible, sickening pain all over me. It was not in any one particular location. It seemed to change locations. The mouse was in one part of my anatomy most of the while, but every time it breathed or thought of moving 1 fam cied it was scrambling up and down my whole nervous system. It's no joke
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guess the mouse was getting the best of the bottle about that time. The doctor seemed to think so, too, for he remarked that he guessed the rat would have to stay till he could be regular ly digested
 Think of my feelings even if I was dazed when he talked like that in his calm. professional way.
 "The mouse had reached my stomach by that time; at least the doctor seemed to think so, because it had quit clawing and was comparatively quiet. Only trail of fire and pain remained where he had clawed his dreadful way down my throat. The doctor suggested that the animal might be drowned in the liquids with which they had been dosing me.
 But nothing that the doctor could say was. very cheering to me just then. I had experienced some of that mouse s mad maneuvers and 1 did not know what it might be up to next. But the doctor assured me that if 1 was man
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my back, put out the light and lay back on the bed and fell asleep.
 night and gnawed and squeaked about the room. On this particular occasion, however, I heard no such sounds. l do not recall being awakened by any small animal running over me.
 The fact is, l awolSe without start, feeling slight choking sensation about my throat. Without rising l rubbed my throat sleepily. As be- came gradually awake the stifiing sen sation became more pronounced, and l sat up and tried to swallow.
 "It was then that the muscles tight ened and I felt pain. My throat was en- | tirely stopped up and I could scarcely | breathe. I tried to swallow again, and the obstruction slipped downward a little.
 Then was simply paralyzed to hear something inside of me so distinctly Squeak. squeak!' I felt it. must be | rat 1t felt so large.
 T was simply dumfounded.
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him a helpless burden on the commu- nifty.
 There are too many carpenters, shoe makers, machinists, electricians and such workers being turned out, as well as too many professional men. New ap- plications of mechanical forces are con- stantly being discovered by inventive minds, and the cry that men are being supplanted by machinery grows stronger daily.
 It would not do for the Government to restrict invention, or the use of in- ventions. That would savor too much of the paternal rule which is diamet- rically opposed to the principles of our free land, and when new ideas come forward which reduce cost to the man. ufacturer he most certainly will take advantage of them, even if by so doing he reduces his working force of men to the minimum. No manufacturer or business man is bound in any way to employ more men than he can use to his own advantage, but the men thrown out of work by machines should bestr themselves to do those things which machinery cannot do.
 A man who finds himself out of em- ployment should, instead of lettering about hoping for a chance to work at his special trade, go to work at the first thing that comes to hand that he is physically able to perform. It is no disgrace to a cabinet maker, a shoe maker, an electrician or a lawyer to wash dishes or wait on tables when other work is not to be obtained. It is far more of disgrace to stand about idle or endeavor to foment trouble and disturbance because conditions are not to their liking.
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A writer in a magazine has made the prophecy that in 300 years from now the eword will only know three lan- guages-English, Russian and Chinese. The English language will be spoken all over North and South America, in Australia. India, Africa New Zealand and the islands of Australia and the Pacific. The Russian tongue will have conquered all Europe, except Great Britain, and all Asia, except India. Chinese will hold sway over the rest of the world. If present indications go for anything, it is just possible that in 300 years China. as a nation, will have ceased to exist.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20
ROlLA V. WATT.

tion of the problem of providing em- nlovment for the unemployed would be to have the land cut up into small farms. on which men could move With their families and earn an honest and sire living This, to some extent, would relieve the present congestion of our cities
 The fact that there are more shoe makers than are required to make shoes for other people. places no obli- gation upcn the community to support these men as shoemakers. If too many men study law or medicine the living of all lawyers and doctors will be in- terfered with, and all who are educated for those professions will not be able to make a living therein. This whole question is simply one of demand and supply.
 I do not believe that we can or should interfere with the results of invention. We must adapt ourselves to new con- ditions as they arise, and here is the rub. This is a question for political economists, and any one is forced to give the matter more or less consider ation.
 The determination on the part of the general public to buy what they require at the lowest possible figures forces interruptions manufacturers to take from their employees in order that they may undersell their competitors; the very people who complain the most about our social conditions are the most likely to stand in line at sale where goods are offered below cost, when they know that any sale of that kind is in reality trading in the lifeblood of their brothers and sisters.
 Let the people avoid bargain sales and all goods offered for sale below cost; let those who are doing we'll pay a fair price for everything that they buy, and they will be to that extent relieving the pressure from below.
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ported. Why is San Francisco so SLOW in regaining the lost ground? Why are there still so many Norkingmen, es- pecially skilled mechanics and artisans in nearly all trades, anxious but unable to find employment in this city?
 The demand for skilled labor depends mainly upon the amount of goods and materials consumed at home and for export In the field of exports San Francisco cannot compete, because of unusual burdens in this city upon com merce and manufacturing in the shape of high taxes, tolls, licenses and other restrictions. In filling the demand for articles consumed here we are also heavily handicapped by these em- bargoes.
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WHAT ARE THE CHIEF CAUSES OF LACK OF ENPL L0YNEhTSi

The next army of the unemployed will probably be collected from those who have ideas, and not from men with hoes. There is a market for the intelligence which is skillful enough to invent machinery calculated to throw working men out of employ ment.
 The objection to this is not because it is wrong to invent, but because in- vention competes with honest labor.
 The trouble is not with brains or muscle, but with the industrial sys- tenn.
 try in which skill shall be active and no muscle shall be f1abby for want of something honorable to do.
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T can remember nothing of what did. I remember only the clawing of the terrible creature inside of me Two or thre hours afterward when began to have gleams of what 1 was really doing, I discovered that I had put on my pants and coat, but did not stop to put on shirt I recall vaguely going into the next room and mumbling that l had swallowed rat.
 II could scarcely make a sound.
 At first my neighbor did not under stand
 Bosh!' he said. Nobody in his senses ever swallowed rat-even a lit tie rat. Don't be walking around in your sleep dreaming you're a human rat-trap. Go back to bed.'
 "But I insisted that something seri- ous was the matter. Then the whole house got to work; but the mouse was there to stay, and we could not budge him.
 Then somebody said, Get a doctor
 T dimly recalled seeing pr. Grin
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J. RICHARD FREUD.

It is constantly changing. The skilled artisan, through lack of em- ployment to-day becomes of necessity the unsklled laborer tomorrow. The unskilled workingman out of employ ment tries to fill the place of the skilled mechanic. Thus each class reacts upon the other, and want of employment ag- gravates the affliction pf both.
 Each decade of the worlds history appears to witness a period of depres- sion. The United States has just un- dergone such a critical epoch. Many parts of the Union, however, are rapid ly recovering and better times are re-
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and give 1t due and serious considera- tion, since the welfare of the nation depends upon the welfare of the indi- vidual.
 I believe firmly in technical schools, and in having every boy, whether wealthy or poor, learn to use his hands as well as his brain skillfully and intel ligently; but such practical education should be of a kind to make the pupil an all-around workman, rather than of a kind to restrict him to some partic- ular line of industrial occupation which, failing him, perhaps through some re- adjustment of conditions, would leave
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zCTnlG EXPERIENCE MINISTER WHO SNAIL OWED MOUSE

wheel again and started me for home. I hadn't gone more than a hundred wards when the universe began to turn over again, and for minute l thought that dreadful mouse had started in to finish me. Afterward, when the fit was over and I had come to my senses, l discovered that the quarts of emetics I had swallowed had joined in the battle. I was very sick, but, sick as was, I felt content when it was all over and there lay that dreadful mouse De- fore me in all his drowned misery: l tell you, sent up a shout of great joy.
 "Now, I'm all right, except for sore throat, trail of fire and pain, put lts gradually subsiding.
 "Maybe it is unnecessary for me to remark that I don't sleep with my mouth in the same position l used to- It'll be wise mouse that l nave to drown out again"
 It is a fact not generally known that the first and last stands of the Con1ed-
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where stares us in the face of more men than places. An illustration of this on small scale Is seen in the Kamehameha schools of Honolulu, in which the native boys are trained to use tools The islands do not afford sufficient opportunities for these skilled students to use their Knowledge; there fore many are necessarily idle.
 The most miserable man in the coun- try Is he who has no place to apply his skill. In the old days if a man could make a shoe better than his neighbor he had the freedom to make it. But under the present regime a man must compete with institutional industry.
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enough for a tenderloin steak I was man enough for that particular mouse, and I needn't be worried so long as it didn't try to bore m use hole to free dom through my ribs. But that was just one of the thousand and one other points I wasn't sure about
 Anyhow, the doctor put me on my
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"I didn't know what to do. I realized I must dc something and do it quickly, so I clutched at my body. and so tried to grasp the beast and keep it from slipping down any further. knew the further down it got the harder it would be to get it out. But I clutched in vain, for the mouse wriggled and
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]" HE solving of the problem of what to do with our young men is occupying the attention of some of the strongest thinking
 minds in the country. The most
 able men in our own city have contributed their ideas of what should be done to help the able and willing unemployed. The unemployed also have ideas on this subject, and un- theoretical as they may appear to some they are certainly straight to the point. As a general thing they attribute most of their trouble to machinery.
 At almost any hour of the day hun dreds of these men can be seen about
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crates were made on land owned by the same man. A part of Bull Run battlefield was owned by MT. Mclean. After this famous battle he decided to move to locality where there would be less fear from the ravages of war. By a strange coincidence he took up his abode at Appomattox, which subse- quently proved to be the final battle field of the civil war.
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TRIBULHTIONS OF A CIVIL
 ENGINEER.

At one time I had a good standing as civil engineer. That was some years ago. Now I am glad to do anything that will bring me in an honest dol lar. My profession is worthless and I never expect to work at it again. I think my trouble is due to an overproduction of half educated boys from cheap schools. GEORGE WHITE.
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AMONG SHOEMAKERS LOOK
 ING FOR JOBS.

I am victim of the factor ies. I learned the shoemaker trade, but now cannot get a po- sition at it. It is three years since I have had a steady job and have no hope for the fu- ture. I would gladly go to work as a laborer, but cannot get even that. It is all we'll enough to theorize, but give me work, even if it's scraping the streets.
 OTTO MOHR.