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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

There are more strikes on in the Uni
ted States to-day than since the big
railway strikes of 1894, and with the
difference, too, that now they are scat
tered all over the country. The strikers
are generally successful in carrying
their point, either for an Increase OF
wages or a reduction in the hours of
labor.
1t is significant, however, of the rela-
ton between employer and employed
that the workingmen should have to
strike in order to secure some small
share of the prosperity which has
come to their employers. 1t becomes
an object lesson to the laborers that
they are under obligations TO no one
but themselves for the wages which
they earn. Strikes are a bad omen for
the party in power.-Burlington Qowa)
Demoerat-Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Demand for You,g Reel.

twenty-five years ago the prize beef
animal was a 10 to II year old OK
which had served his day and genera
ton as beast of burden, doing farm
work, and then was fed year until he
made carcass of 1900 or 1000
pounds. 1t will be remembered when
it was believed that the best beef was
that grown on to the framework of
such an aged beast and when what is
now called beef was of no account
Times have changed. A steer seldom
now lives more than three years, most
of them less. The public taste is de
manding young beef, even baby beef,
which finds market at year old.
The calf of the beef breeds which is
kept fat from the day it is born and
turns the scales at 1000 or LOO pounds
at fifteen months will bring the top of
the market and the most profit to its
owner.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

aanking movement which was recon-
mended, if not actually prescribed in the
secret instructions, he should, forthwith,
have acquainted Butler with the course
he propoaed to adopt. There is nothing
to show whether he did so or not. But
it is only fair to Warren to point out that
Butler appears througnpdt to have been
aware of what was hsNlening." Further
on he says: But whatever faults War
rem may have committed, the failure must
also be attributed to the dissemination
of the officer in supreme command to as
sert his authority and see that what he
thought best was done, and also to the
unwarrantable and needless assumption
Of responsibility by a subordinate officer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

there is grave danger that about 1905
from New York will remain abroad I'M
til after election and thus jeopardize
the chances of your Uncle William Nc
Kinley for reelection. The friends of
Brother Bryan are not worrying about
any OF his supporters going abroad for
such a stay. They are going to stay
right at home and, saw ice. ] suppose
a law could be quickly passed by Con-
gress which would make it treason for
Republican to remain out of the coun-
try on election day, and surely the Pres
ident would sign such bill. The mat
ter could be left to the government Off
Gals at the sailing point, and the tour
lists could be compelled 10 give bonds
that they would return before Novem-
Der How lucky Col Bryan is that he
does not have to worry about his rich
supporters getting so attached to the
wickedness of Paris that they will for
get 10 come home and vote. If Com
missioner Peck, the original Mckinley
man, Knows his business he will order
all Americans out of Paris about the
LIST of November. and save his country
again, as he has done ON several occa-
sions-Peck' Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
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MORMONS IN CANADA.
Spread of the Sect Is Alarming Do
miniou Officials.

miniou Officials.
Canada is becoming seriously alarmed
at the rapid spread of Mormonism i'll
some parts of the country, especially i'll
the northwest. The Mormons themselves
claim to be increasing in the Dominion at
the rate of thousands per year, and, ac-
cording to Quebec correspondent, assert
that within the last year they have
brought in over 1000 emigrants from
Utah alone.
If this is continued Canadian public
men fear that they will shortly control
large sections of the country. As the
bulk of the people in southern Alberta
have come from Utah, and as the Nor
mons have so thorough an organization,
it is dawning upon the country that they
may become a serious menace to the
State, especially as there is grave sus-
picion among their Gentle neighbors that
polygamy is practiced secretly by these
Canadian Mormons.
Many of the leading elders in Alberta
assert that polygamy is one of the chief
privileges of the communion, and it is
asserted that in some cases the privi-
lege has been held out rs bait to would
be adherents of the baser sort.
Outside of Alberta and the other north
west provinces of Canada the Mormons
claim to have no fewer than 10000 mem
bers in the province Of Ontario The
leaders or ''evangelists" of the church en-
deavor to obtain footing in new centers
by posing as ministers of the gospel"
They profess at first to follow Christ and
the apostles very closely and keep the
peculiar doctrines of the Mormon church
very much in the background until they
gain the confidence Of their converts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Eirhtr.tiye Per CENT Iustiee.

The action of the merchants of Porto
Rico ought to move the heart of the
congressman if they are amenable TO
any appeals from our SUBJECTS in
Porto Rico. Although they ought 10
be expected to hail with joy the appro-
priation of $1,000, 900 for their benefit,
they have shown no gratitude for the
charity voted them, but are more
strenuous in their appeals for chance
to help themselves. They will accept
a punishment even of - per cent tax
il only they are given an opportunity
10 transact business and industrially
to recuperate
They are in the condition of work
men. who have gone on strike for
Just cause, but, being starved into sub
mission. are willing TO give their as
sent to pluck me stores. in order to get
an opportunity 80 return to work. The
fact that in their extremity the Porto
Ricans are willing to accept 81 per
cent. of justice does not absolye Con-
gress from the injustice of treating our
new possessions as colonies TO be ex-
plotted. Evansville Courier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
IarfuI ON the Farm

A good spray pump is a useful art
Gle in many ways about the farm. lit
can be used TO spray the potatoes. 1t
is used 10 apply kerosene emulsion to
destroy the suctorial Insects, such az
the aphides, or plant lice. on plums,
cherries and young apple trees, and of
which propose TO treat in a future
chapter. And it can be used 10 white
wash the cellar. the poultry house. the
stable and other buildings. 1t can be
used to advantage in applying disin-
fectants for preventing the spread or
contagious diseases. etc.
A word or two as 10 the, cost of spray
sng. Say You have four or five acres
Of orchard, it viii take about I'VE bar
rels of mixture for each spraying.
Twenty ponds bluestoRe. at I cents
per pound. S1.40: Paris green. 80 cents:
lime. Is cents: total. SOS for material.
4 man and boy with horse win do 1t
IN one day: say s. for wages. and you
have the cost OF each spraying, $4.05.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The British casualty list lengthens out
steadily.
Italy has refused to intervene in the
Boer war. e
If hard pressed, the Beers will retire
across the Yaal river.
Close estimates place the number of
Bocrs in Natal at $4,000.
Kruger attended a conference of Boer
commandments at Brandfort.
Beers practically again hold the Free
State eastward of the railroad.
Gen. Chermside has taken command Of
Gatacre's column at Blocmfontein.
Commissioner Fischer says the present
Boer strength at the front is $4,000.
The Boer forces have changed their
tactics and are now on the offensive.
Three thousand armed Basutos line the
frontier to resist Beer encroachment.
The death rate among horses in Rob
erts' army is estimated at 5000 monthly
Seat Of Transyaal Government may be
removed to Lydenburg, north Of Pretoria.
Winston Churchill declares that 2JO,-
900 men will be needed before the war is
ended.
Frank Smith, wealthy mine owner OF
Barkley West, has been captured by the
Beers.
HiIyard Stcyn, brother OF Free State
President, expects the war to last till
Christmas.
The British losses at Wepcner in four
days fighting were eighteen killed and
132 wounded.
The British Government Is closing con
tracts in New York for $4,000 horses for
army service.
The British war Office proposes 70 land
IT Cape Town before the end Of May,
10000 horses.
British officers are instructed not tc
take any more expanding bullets 10 At
RIGA for revolyers.
The Beers have mounted several heavy
guns in commanding positions IN the Big
garsberg mountains.
Free Staters are disTegarding their
oath Of allegiance, and are joining the
Beers 10 large numbers.
II IS calculated that Lord Roberts now
has 214,0O0 effective troops, with 1850
more afoat Or under orders.
Lord Roberts has warned Cape Colon
lists that further acts Of hostility will be
treated with rigorous martial law.
Fifteen thousand British are required
to guard 10I miles Of railway between
BlOemfontein aud Noryal's Point
Gen. Cronie. his wife and other prison
ers are now at their prison home on St.
Helena. Cronje IS IN good health
4 British scout who has visited the
Bloemfontein water works reports that
the machinery and dams are intact.
The Beers have again crossed the Or
auge river into -s.<r---z 49, Colony,
stirring up a new rebellion among the
Dutch
IL i reported that the Beers recently
smuggled thirty pieces OF artillery. some
OF large ellie, through Portuguese ter
riIory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Dcmccrats Arc for Bryan.


The announcement of Dewey's candi-
dacy for the Presidency has done one
thing that it probably was not intended
to dot has shown conclusively that
the great mass of voters in the Demo-
cratic parry will have no other candi-
date than William Jennings Bryan, 1t
has shown how strong n hold lie has
on the affections of the people who
supported him in 1896, and who will
be only too glad to do 50 this year In
refusing to accept Dewey as candi-
date they do not seek to belittle his
achievements in Manila Bay, nor do
they try to make him any the less the
idol of the American people. If he loses
any of his prestige it will be because
he has put himself in a position to be
distrusted by half the people-the half
who are not of his announced political
affiliations. Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

CusA'S CENSUS COMPLETE.
Shows Population of I,572797, with
a White Majority

Shows Population of 1,572797, with
White Majority
Cuba numbers 1,572, 797 Souls, accord
ing to the census just completed by the
United States Government. 1t is said
that this is the first accurate enumeration
ever made in the island. Officials of the
War Department now acknowledge there
is no reason of further delay in granting
of municipal suffrage. The census shows
that the white native-born Cubans hold
safe majority of the votes under the
property and educational limitations to
be imposed upon the exercise of suffrage
in the island. There are 1882 white
adult males who were born in Cuba. as
against goose born in Spain, 6,794 born
in other countries and $4,000 colored.
The figures themselves show that the pro
posed basis of suffrage would not result
in the Spaniards gaining control of the
island
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
SHUTDOWN OF THE MILLS.
Nearly 10000 Men in the Steel and
Wire Business Idle.

Nearly 10000 Men in the Steel and
Wire Business Idle.
1t is claimed that the sudden shut
down of the twelve mills of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Company has thrown
ployment. The mills affected are at Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Joliet, H., Newcastle,
Pa, Anderson, Ind, and Waukegan and
De Kalb, H. These mills have. eapac-
ity of between 5000 and 1000 tons of
manufactured product a day, and their
shutting down during what was believed
to be period of great activity and profit
making came as a surprise to people gen
orally.
The cause of the shutdown is given by
John W. Gates, chairman of the board OF
directors of the company, as slack bust
ness and eyer-production. The slack bus
mess, it IS explained, is brought about
by a decline in the building trades owing
to widespread labor troubles The sus-
pension of building operations shut off
the demand for some of the products Of
the American Steel and Wire Company,
such as nails, etc. Another product OF
the company is fencing wire. and the
price of this had gone so high that the
farmers refused to buy it.
The American Steel and Wire Company
was incorporated in January, 1899, with
a capital stock Of S9O,000,000. Its com
mon stock sold last May at 70 and on the
day of the recent shutdown the selling
price was 81 Preferred stock sold at
over LOG last March.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01


A Kansas City horseman has con-
tracted to supply the Government 900
cavalry horses at $112.50 head.
The prune growers of Washington.
Oregon and Idaho have combined to
advance prices, and if the rest or the
coast producers join them they promise
a raise shortly.
Many farmers who have marketed
much maple syrup from Vermont have
become discouraged on account of the
ravages Of forest worm, which is
killing the sugar maple.
Oleo production in Chicago in Feb
r,lary was 4.10e.00O pounds. compared
with 3.9S7.000 pounds year ago. Six
ty-seyen licenses to retail oleo were is
sued, against forty-One a year ago.
The early sovn plots OF sugar beets
have given larger crops than those lat
err sown at all the experimental farms
of Canada The average results from
all the farms show a difference in the
crops of 1890 Of three tons 200 pounds
per acre in favor Of the early sowing.
The only cereals grown in the Phil
ippines are rice and corn. OF these.
rice is by far the more important, be-
Ing the staple food Of the native popu-
laEion. as well as the inhabitants OF
other oriental countries. A scarcity
Of rice always brings hardship and sui
fering TO the people.
From the Scientific American it is
learned that horse can draw on the
worse kind of road about four times
as much as he can carry on his back.
On a good macadamized road he can
pull ten times as much and on paved
road twenty five times as much ard on
street railway ffty-eIght times as
mach as he can carry on bis back.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
HAVOC BY THE FLOOD.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IN MANY MIS-
SiSSiPPl TOWNS.
Many Southern Rivers Are Raging
Torrents Several People Drowned
and a Number of Buildings Wrecked
Railroads Suffer Severely.

New Orleans has ceased to regard the
flood situation as i temporary inconven-
fence. As time has passed and as the
full scope of the excessive rains has been
learned the conviction has been irresist.
IDLY brought home that a calamity of APP
palling magnitude has been experienced,
and that instead OF the worst being over
the evil has just begun. Partial reports
of the damage incurred in the storm belt
have run the figures up into the millions,
and, taking into consideration the losses,
real and resultant. the amount fools up
to an enormous figure.
Adviees received in New Orleans from
Pennington say Pearl river has reached
its highest mark since 1874. The tim
Der booms have commenced breaking up,
and thousands of dollars worth of timber
has foated ont to sea. All business on
the river is at a standstill. The sawmills
have had to discontinue operations. The
water has reached the first floors of all
stores along the river Traffic of al kinds
is suspended. Every bridge from Pearl
ington to Logtown has been swept away
The water in the public roads is deep
enough to swim Il horse. People living
on the Louisiana side have been forced
to abandon their homes and flee to the
Mississippi side for safety. Hundreds of
head of cattle and hogs have been drown
ed. Deer and other game are swimming
across the river ut every available point.
All farms and gardens will have to be
repanted.
Belated news is beginning to arrive re-
garding the loss of life. -Four people were
drowned near Meridian and two near
Hattiesburg, Miss. In the Vicinity of En-
terprise, Miss, the waters Oh the Chicka-
sawha are raging. The water is five feet
deep in the main streets. The three
bridges between East and West Enter
prise have been swept away The En-
ternrise Academy, a building which was
the pride of the town, is gone. A NUM-
Der Of buildings were demolished.
Shubuta and Desoto, Miss, are inundat-
ed. The rise of the Chickasawha has so
far been in the neighborhood of thirty
feet, and the torrent is rising. The Pas
cagoula river, too, is raging and much
damage is feared to the lands adjacent
to its banks. The floods have been worse
than ever before known. The railroads
entering New Orleans have incurred dam
ages which, figuring the loss of business,
will amount TO hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Too Constitutional.

Lcary, paciiicator and statesman or
Guam, it appears, has been deposeo be-
cause he failed to ignore the fact that
the Constitution of the United States
extended, ex proprio yigore. to our
new insulap possessions when they be-
came ours quite as much as it does to
our old continental territories. Leary
was right. but not from the dollar mark
viewpoint of Rockefeller, Hayemeyer.
Sprecklcs, Duke and Hanna. What is
required of az island governor is ad-
herence to the noble saying; What's
the Constitution betune frinds:-
washington Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
MUCH MONEY IN CIRCULATION
Treasury Report Shows So, ooO,OOo,OOo
Among the People.


Among the People.
The circulation statement issued by the
Treasury Department for April l makes
some remarkable disclosures. 1t shows
that more money per capita, more gold,
more silver and a larger total of money
is in circulation at the present time than
ever before. For the first time in the
history of the country the per capita cir
culation has crossed the $40 line, and the
year 1900 carried the total for the first
time past the $2,000000,000 line, while
the amount of gold and gold certificates
in circulation is larger than at the CORE
spending date of any previous year.
The circulation statement shows the
total money in circulation on April /,
1900, to be $2,021 ,272 500, and OH April
/, 1899, 81, 927, SAG, 942, while or thC cor
responding date in 1898 it was Sl,756,
05S645; on April ], 1897, it was $I,669,
000,694, and on April l, 1896, $l,52S,-
629, 463. This shows an increase in total
money in circulation in four years OF
$492, 645, DAB, or 30 per cent
The per capita money in circulation, or
the average amount for each individual,
in the United States is also larger than
ever before, being $26.12 calculating the
present population at 1895 200, against
$3.50 one year ago, $23,69 two years
ago, $23.01 three years ago and $2l.53
on April /, 1896.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
skim Milk for Pigs.

The time has passed when the swirl
barrel was considered a necessary adj
junct to the keeping of pigs. No food
was filthier than that from the swill
barrel, and the pigs were compelled to
accept food that had undergone fermen-
tation until it was sour, but which was
a mass of disease germs. The inven-
ton of the cream separator has worked
changes in the feeding of swine. II is
now cheaper to give the fresh skim
milk to the pigs than to attempt to
keep it, and the ground grain is thus
more easily fed at the same time. Pure
water, clean food. dry pens and com
Portable bedding have done more to
eliminate disease than medicine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Two Kinds of Flags.

1t appears that the country has been
misled into a wrong notion of the
meaning of the word flag" as used by
Mr.. Mckinley on occasion. There are
few now living who will remember
his language in various stump speeches,
statue dwellings, Sunday school gath
erings, banquets, etc, to the effect
that I'VE have hauled up the flag; who
VIII dare haul it down." And it has
been the general impression that he re-
ferred to the flag of the United States.
This impression proves, however, to
be mistake, and Senator Spooner OF
Wisconsin deserves the thanks of be-
wildered people for having removed it
and also removed the stigma of treason
from many who have been accused of
Decorating il. Says the Senator in a
speech upholding the Porto Rico tariff,
and arguing against the citizenship of
the hapless inhabitants of that beneY-
olently assimilated isle:
Does the Constitution follow the
fag::" he inquired NO, it does not
Our army entered Cuba during the var
with Spain. Our flag IS there now.
But is our Constitution there? Certain
ly not Can we legislate for Cuba? No.
we cannot. Our soldiers are there, but
the Constitution is not The only law
which follows the flag is the law of
war. The flag follows The Constitution,
not the Constitution the flag"
So we have all along been worrying
about the wrong flag. 1t is the McIHin-
ley flag we have been taking for the
genuine, whereas 1t is counterfeit,
Hereafter, with Senator Spooner's flag
in mind, we shall feel ut liberty to walk
over it, haul it down and express the
contempt for it every citizen must feel
who loves the grand old genuine ban
ner of the nation that Washington hon
ored. and which has waved over the
Constitution since the beginning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Is Mr.. Mckinney Inevitable:

During the next six weeks the Re
publicans VIII choose that part of their
national convention which will decide
who shall head the Republican ticket.
And although the Republican revolt
against Mr.. Mckinley Is at its height.
although signs ominous of disaster if
Mckinley leads multiply, there is as
yet no indication Of q movement to
throw over the discrcdited leader and
his policies of palter and falter and
perfidy and privilege.
Until the Porto Rican affair Mr.. Me
Kinley was in the position of a man
against whom the evidence was con
yincing TO the impartial mind. but not
of that hopelesSly conclusive character
which silences even the most partisan
and prejudiced Friendship. In the Porto
Rican affair the accused has confessed.
How can his friends deny when he him
self admits and presents the proofs
that his confession is true?
Those who few months ago de-
nounced the allegations against Mr..
Mckinley as partisan misrepresenta-
ton and refused to look or reason or
listen are to-day wondering how they
could have been so blind that they did
not penetrate the disguise of JUNCTION
and sacrosanctitude until the man was
caught in the act" before their very
eyes In the strong light of Porto
Rican perfidy they are seeing at last
the truth about Algerism, Eaganism,
Sons of Somebodies, embalmed beef,
pest camps, the Philippines proclama-
ton, the betrayal of civil service re-
form pledges, the appointments of the
offscourings of the slumS to high Fed
eral offices, the Standard Oil bank
scandal, the ship subsidy scandal-all
that amazing composite of conscience
without courage and courage without
conscience" called McKinleyism.
The point of view is everything.
Porto Rico has suddenly put the Re
publican thinking voters at the proper
point Of view
Is Mr., Mckinley really inevitable?-
New York World
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
KANSAS Farmer SAID Their Lant


Two farmers living near lola, Kan,
have received a 40O00-pound car OF
salt from Hutchinson. WHICH they will
use on their farms. says the Abilene
Chronicle. Both have extensive farm
interests which they look after them
selves and they propose to SOW the salt
with oats. wheat and fax. on the the
DRY that land so treated is given the
chemicals required by those grains and
in the belief that chinch bugs will shun
the fields. Some of their impractical
town friends have rather a hankering
for the belief that wheat so treated
will grow loaves of self-rising bread.
At any rate the test is one which Will
be watched with interest and the farm
ers may reap good returns from the
500 or more invested by these gentle
men in an experiment.