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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

have seen in the popular subscription
OF eleven hundred millions to a three
per cent loan, the marvellous financial
resources of the country, while the
unanimity of congress In comforting
power on the president and In the dec
laration of war has demonstrated to
them a degree of patriotism and unan-
unity in foreign affairs which they had
not foreseen. Today they realize that
with its boundless resources and It's
vast wealth, it's intelligence. mechani-
cal ingenuity and patriotism, the
United States constitutes n Of the
greatest military powers in the world
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

The ordinary Spanish soldier returns
home to find no reception awaiting
him, and may starve so far as the
government is concerned; and the
Spanish officer returns TO find his life
threatened by Spanish citizens and the
advice OF members of the cortes that
he hang himself with his own sash
The bitterness Of defeat is relieved by
no spark Of sympathy. and the frater-
nization born of sorrow has no place
in the spot where there ought TO be a
Spanish heart.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03
We Need More Markets

THE great problem before our states
men at the present time. therefore, Is
to SO shape the policy OF the United
States that We shall find an outlet for
u goods and shall find venuc OF
sale for the product OF our constantly
.augmenting industries. / believe that
the Spanish war has not only given US
IN occasion for the inauguration OF q
new policy, but has presented to us
great advantages in enforcing It. The
nations Of Europe will not grant us an
inlet into their lands for our goods on
humanitarian grounds. They will give
us the right to trade only In exchange
for valuable concessions or through
fear. Prior to the outbreak of the war
with Spain they did not regard US as a
military or naval power and while they
watched with anxiety our industrial
growth they did not consider us an i'm
portant factor In the politics or the
world. They dismissed us under the
somewhat contemptuous title of q ma
ton OF shopkeepers."
To-day Ii is quite different. They
have seen a spectacle which has alarm
ed them o than our industrial
growth. They have seen this nation Of
s~hopkeepers, with no army and with a
navy which many OF our own newspa-
peis and public men declared could not
feat in a gale. within three months
time put in the field. drill and equip a
magnificent army and win a series Of
brilliant victories which have COM
manded the respect and admiration Of
the veteran soldiers and sailors OF the
old world. They have seen that the
shopkeepers al instantly be turned
into unexcelled fighters and that we
have generals and admirals who for
courage. strategy and energy are equal
TO their noted commanders. And they
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03
VIII Make Us Rich

"This is what I understand by the ex-
ransion proposition. the expansion OF
trade. 1t is the great policy of the flu
ture and the Spanish war has given VA
the, occasion for inaugurating II and the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

The information from General Pando
that the wal is not ended Is startling.
When does the general propose to re-
sumo the shooting?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

When a man marries a girl with
golden hair and it gradually assumes
a terra Gotta hue he Is up against the
old g%old-brick swindle In a new form.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

To things which you bear with i'm
patience you should accustom your
self. and. by habit you will bear them
well.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

Spain has pictures belonging to her
,vernment worth two hundred mill
On dollars. Is there a Napoleon
nong, our peace commissionersg
-esldept Polk said that a failure to
cure indemnity might amount TO
tionai dishonor. Would it be ma
anal dishohor not to demand those
prSs Of arty
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

IS an unfortunate disposition
a man to attend much more to the
altsso Of his companions which offend
u. than 10 their perfcgtions Yhieh
Sc him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

Most OF our misfortunes are more
~supportable than the comments OF our
friends upon them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

The respect due to old age g always
dealt out with a ladle to the wealthy
grandparent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

An old bachelor says he never mar
ri.d because he was always lucky in
love.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03
Volume 10.
Political

POlitlCn
The Populist
much about the
now. They are
Il has been sho'
p~rossenting al,
have exempted
he Northwester
| employed as att
| ~ and Royoe' |
| Pop Machine.
,hown that last
| vent into Cour
| permanent in'
! bidding the To-
Great Nor'her
making this az
sloners throuS'
ed in writing
we're invaribly
duce the rates
10 the railro|
consistent W
been given Q
known and
Great Northe
contributor t
campaign fun
is his persona
During the
become evide
election got
Spain will m
lance agains
peace. Bla
send no mor'
Cuba. Reir
way to the
Spanish Pc
using every
and meanwl
Madrid are
orators ant
that the PEI
are opposed
policy. 6
and Russia
lend their
IDLY their l
in case the
themselves
stration.
admitted t
is endorse
NIT.
Bartlett
Austria {
leader OF
has come
the Chics
administr
war and
ing that
lean tick
thousand
have an
followin
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03
DANGEROUS c

A writer In the st. Louis Republic
says that the nos vicious and fearless
member of the brute creation Is the
peccary. or wild hog, Of Mexico. This
animal seems utterly devoid OF fear.
and displays intelligence In fighting
man strangely at variance with its ap-
parently complete lack OF mental at.
tributes.
Their ability to scent men Is par
ticularly marked. The only thing to do
when they get after you is to run away
from them as fast as a horse can carry
you. And then there is no certainty
that they won't catch you. They are
nearly as swift as a horse, and their
endurance is as great as their vicious
ness.
A friend OF mine encountered a drove
OF them in a wild part of Mexico a few
years ago. and his escape was almost
miraculous. He very foolishly sho,
and wounded a number of them. Then
ne TOOK refuge in O tree.
The p~eccaries kept him in the tree
all that day and through the night.
They circled round the tree, grunting
and squealing their delight at the
prospect OF a feast. He soon exhausted
his ammunition. and brought down a
peccary at each fire. but this had no
tsrrors for the beasts.
Toward morning they began to eat
those he had killed, after which they
formed In line and trotted OFF. II they
had not had some of their " number
10 devour they would have guarded
that tree until my friend. through
sheer exhaustion, dropped from his
perch and allowed them TO make a
meal OF him.
The wildcats and tigers that infest
the Mexican wilds fee from the pec-
carries with instructive fear. and even
sattlesnakes keep out az their path.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

bod positions secured By students
he Sioux Falls Is. Dak.) Business
9ge. Catalogue free,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

The greatest Indictment to guilt Is
the hope OF SHINING with impunity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

The broker who is long on wheat Is
always anxious about his future.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03
Nightly changes OF scene break tn,
monotony OF the actors life.

When men congregate in front OF a
bar the swallows homeward fly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08

this country. The United States will
never know that YOU are president IN
less You inform them of the fact. Then
why not cqntinue 10 be consul? There
is no reason why a president should not
carry or q great and glorious business
like yours, especially when he can, if be
chooScc,, c0nt:scate all the logwood in
the country. Beloved friend and pre-
server, Let nat beg you to accept the
presidency to which an admiring nation
has elected YOU. If you do not like the
position. YOU can retire before your
term of office expires, and l will take
your place. | forgot to say that | am
your vice president, and that while die
tator | also promoted myself to the rank
Of lieutenant general. and to the su-
preme Of the army"
Well, | talked a while longer with
Mendoza, and then | took 10 minutes to
think the thing over. SO far as | could
sec, l was at least as good a president as
President Hayes, and as there was no
work for an American consul to do in
Orlzaba, | didn't see that | iced resign
an office that wasn't anything but a
name. SO, on the whole, | decided to ac-
cept the presidency, and marched arm in
arm with Gen. Mendoza to the palace.
- DtOJblt III
my life than the people of Santa Rosa
They lined the sides Of the street. and
cheCred for me as if | was Abraham
Lincoln come to life again. / was sur
prised at this, but Mendoza afterwarJ
told me that there was a policeman
with Il knife standing behind every citi-
zen who hadn't previously expressed
his confidence in me, and that any man
who hadn't cheered for me would have
ound himself in difficulties. nere is
nothing 80 easy to arouse as public en-
thIslasm,' said Mendoza. provided YOU
know how to do it, and can trust the
police Mendoza wasn't what YOU
could fairly call a great man, but he
knew politics from 4 to Z.
| hadn't been president three DAYS be
fore | saw the tremendous ADVANTAGES
of the place. | had the best sort Of good
and drink. and lodging and clothes. and
although | couldn't collect a particle OF
salary. owing to the treasury bein9
empty. | had all the comforts that Ori-
zaha could produce. | found that there
WPrent any taxes whatever. When old
Alvarez wanted money he sent word to
the rich men of the country that he
wanted a government loan at 10 or per-
haps 20 per cent. just as the notion
struck him. and that each man would
please to send so much-mcntiOninc the
exact amount-to the palace within n
hours. When | made it understood that
no more such loans would be asked for
| had every man in Orizaba who was
rich enough to Wear shoes on my side
10 raise a avenue l imposed take
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08

president. When | got back to San
francisco l complained to the govern
ment that | had been forcibly expelled
from Orizaba, and | demanded SlIUg
as damages. The government being
glad Of a safe chance to display a shirt
ed foreign policy, sent a man-of-war IL
Santa Rosa without delay. and NOT only
collected that $1,000 from President
MENDOZA, but required him to resign his
position as president in favor of tho
president of Central America. The fna;
result was that Orizaba lost IFS ;ndo
pendence, and became once more . ~
OF Central America. and that Nandozs
had to emlSrate or be shot as y ,r.;+or
As ne mad no money. he probably starved
70 uea'h ~ some South American repub-
ie never leaked out in the United
states that | had been presidont -
orlzaba. and shouldn't tell the stow
~" Il IL were not that | am out of tha
consular service for good. and am riah
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08

that YOU viii listen 10 my advice, and
not run into danger.
II So happened that ! was bchinlhanl
in my correspondence just then, and the
monthly taamcr for San Francisco was
To sail i'm three days more. While |
didn't feel like hiding in my house from
any number Of greascrs, | thought that
| might just as we'll take the next two
days for squaring up my correspond
encc, and at the same time avoid the
danger that Mendoza limited at. SO |
told him that | would do as he SAID, and
he went away thanking me warmly and
assuring me that | could count on him
% the death.
The next day at daybrcak | thought
I heard . lot Of musketry, but | fell
asleep aga.n. and when | woke up for
all day rather imagined that / had
been dreaming. The next day after that
was as quiet rs a New England Sunday
but on the third day, at about y O'Clock
in the morning, Menloza marched up to
my dDGr with an escort Of % soldiers,
and when | showed myself the whole
gang began to yell Long life to Presi-
lent Smith,
"What's the meaning of this?" l said
TO Mendoza, when he and l were alone
in my back office.
ct means" said he, that you are the
president of Orizaba, and ! have come
to escort you to the palace
considering that | am not a citizen
Of Orizaba, and that | am an American
consul, and furthermore, that | know
nothing whatever about your political
affairs, it seems to me that a man ought
to be ashamed Of telling me at so early
an hour as s O'Clock in the morning
that | am president Of your publishing
republic
Pardon, your eXcellency." said Men
doza. 1T pleases you to joke. and it is
not my place to find fault with a presi-
dents jokes. Permit he to remind you
that | owe YOU my life. Also, / beg to
say, that ! very nearly owed the late
Pres Alvarez my death. | have reward
ed Alvarez hy overthrowing him, and he
Is BOW on board the steamer on his way
to your former country. To you, I
have tried to show my gratitude by
making YOU president. | fail to see
that there s anything amusing in this
but, my dear young man. | ex-
claimed, I'm very much obliged to you
for your gratitude, but, as | said be-
fore, I'm not a citizen of, your republic,
and | don't see how YOU are going to
make a president out of a foreigner"
Again | beg your eXcellencv's par
dem, said Mendoza. The day before
yesterday. when | arrested Alvarez, I
made myself dictator. The first decree
| issued was one making YOU Il citizen.
1h"n | ordered an election for president.
which took place yesterday, and you
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08

cheeks. and Sworc that he would meier
forget that ] had saved MS life-Whlch
there isn't the slightest doubt that |
had.
That was the beginning Of my friend
ship with the colonel. We got To he as
thick as thieves in a short time. and the
colonel hardly ever failed to come and
smoke my cigars in the evening when
he was off duty. lie was polite. brave
and gGal tempered. and as for honesty,
be seemed now and then to have a little
linking Of what it meant, which was
more than could be said for any other
Orizab.an. If he had been raised in q
newspapers and honest elections he
would probably have turned out to be a
tirst-class man.
One evening Mendoza said to me as he
was starting for home. Don Smith, |
want YOU to promise me that YOU won't
90 out Of this house for the next two
days. You will be perfectly safe 50 long
as YOU are in your own house, but |
can't answer for your life if You step
outside your door, until / sent you word
that the danger is over"
whats up?' said |. Are you going
to have a ~revolutiOn:'
Il can tell YOU nothing he replied.
Remember that @ once stood be-
tween me and a mob that would have
shot me in an hours time if you had
not interfered. That mob was acting
under orders from the president, as L
suspected at the time, and now o
You are not exactly a popular person
at the palace just at present, and peg
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08

bod the usual majority Of 1906 votes
I.,nr lvcrsarv. Or. Del Vale, havlng
300 80 YOU see You are eguiarlS erect
cd and have. of course, resigned hs
position 4 dictator.
"Rnf. Won amiable %lunatic. said l.,
.do YOU mean 10 tell me that 'to'ooo
Deopfa. or t~heraabouts. voted TOT me-
fhou.,h most Of them had, never SO Inuch
as heard OF ny existence before election
day:
votDI for yol. Don Smith, ne replied;
.-rhrre are never more than ~ or 4oO
who yot, iii any election IN TINS II
II \. H.. business OF the police to con
d1ct an election, and to give n proper
candidate the proper number or votes.
AIy.rez always had from - TO
$1,000 majority. and we Thought 1t
rirhr that YOU should have the same.
assure YOU that everything has been
done in the most regular and cOnstltu-
+ioual way. and your election IS as valid
as that Of the president OF the United
States"
could have told my friend that he
hadn't hit on a very good COMPARISON
for the president of the United States
at that time happened to be Mr.. Hayes,
who owed his election to the tact that
the Louisiana returning board-a set OF
gamblers and thieves-who counted the
votes Of Louisiana, sold the vote Of the
State to the Republicans, though It fair
Iy belonged to the Democrats. How
ever. Mendoza didn't know that little
circumstance, and wasn't going to give
my country away by mentioning 1t.
III admit said l, for the sake OF
argument, that | have Deer elected
president, and am a citizen Of Orlzaba.
But | am still the American consul, and
if | accept your presidency | must re-
sign my consulate. and give up my log
wood business, and l don't mean to do
either.'
Your heart is most noble, Don
Smith, said Mendoza, but you do not
as yet fully understand the customs Of
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enousb not to want any more favor
from the government. | shall feel n lit
tie sorry for Mendoza. for he was a good
fellow in his way. though a full trea-
snrv was something that he couidn
keep his hands off. He must have been
considerably ~astonashed at the way l
turned the tables on him. AMI | don
doubt he was heartily sorry that he
hadn't been faithful to me. Any maj
who does a mean action in order 20 make
money. and fnd> that he doesn't make
it. must 1eeI more or less sorry If there
is ANYTHING GOOD in him.
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