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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

South Africa for $3.50, difference of
II per cent.
Rope, for which the farmer has
much use, is sold at II cents PEI
pound in South Africa, while 13 cents
per pound is charged for it in New
York state, where it is manufactured.
The difference is % per cent
Is it worth while, says the Utica
Observer, to maintain a tariff which
robs the workingman, the farmer, the
artisan, the housekeeper, to the ex-
elusive benefit of the manufacturer
Why should it be possible for Amer
lean goods to be sold more cheap!y
abroad than they are here? Is it not
rank injustice to the consumers in
this country to be obliged to pay high
er prices for American-made goods
than does the foreign consumer? Can
the republican party deny the charge
that it is the operation of the tariff
that enables the protected manufac-
turers to send their goods half around
the world and sell them at profit for
lower prices than they are enabled to
demand in this country, even in The
very state in which the goods are
manufactured?
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
WHAT WE PAY TO TRUSTS
Every American Family Contributes
$94.48 Per Year to Tariff
Nursed Combines.

Suppose the average American work.
ingman pays eight dollars month rent
for his house. That is at the rate of 500
per year. House rent is usually the most
costly item in the expense account of
every non-home-Owning family, and it
absorbs large percentage OF the work.
er's wages. 1t is the most inveterate
enemy of "the little dinner pail The
wife of the average workingman would
think she was rolling in wealth" if she
could have for household account the
money that goes out for rent.
Now note some pertinent facts, dis
closed by accurate data, pertaining to
the trusts and the high protective tariff
of the republican party which makes the
existence of the trusts possible.
The average American family pays a
tribute of Sill year to the protected
trusts Of that amount the government
gets in taxes from the trusts the sum of
1882. Deduct that sum from the total
contribution of Sill and the balance is
s94.48 The latter figure is the amount
flched from the average family by the
tariff which supports the trusts.
The facts thus stated, says the Los
Angeles Herald. are derived from calcu-
lations of average consumption by
American families and the tariff duties
imposed on the articles consumed
Every American family, in the average,
pays $94.4S tribute to the trusts. sum
fully equal to the average yearly house
rent of 1.-THE man with the dinner pail. I"
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WHAT THE EDITORS THINK.

Perhaps those republicans who
are forbidding people to talk about i'm
perialism would also like to have them
promise not to talk about any other is
sue.-Chicago Daily News.
Let us have an end Of the enor-
mously costly, jingolistic. chip-on-the-
shoulder craftsmanship by electing the
safe and sane candidate. Alton B. Par
ker, to the presidency.-Troy Press.
1t is said that German-Amer-
leans throughout the country are flock
ing to the Parker standard. They know,
by practical experience in their own
country. what the militarism that Pres
ident Roosevelt advocates means
Boston Traveller.
Gov. Peabody has been renomin-
ated by the Colorado republicans. This
should put the issue of militia, anarchy
and vigilantes rule squarely before the
Colorado voters, to the advantage of the
MISUNDERSTANDING Constitution.
Mr. Fairbanks says Mr.. Roosevelt
is sure to be elected. but the democrats
keep right on hunting votes. Mr.. Fair
banks may be prejudiced-N. Y. World.
Certain rude democrats are in
sinuating that the president might bet
ter call a peace conference in Wisconsin
instead of al The Hague. --Chicago Jour
nal.
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its close. So far as elective Office Is con.
cerned it was damaged again by his dc.
feat year ago at the polls after an.
other coed administration. Grant has
done nothing in politics since his term
ended, and has shone mainly as social
butterfly. Edson's death was hastened
by the scandal of his hayward son, who
stole money from church, deserted
his wife and finally killed woman and
himself while apparently crazy. Strong
died in sorrow over the antics of his
son, Putnam Bradlee Strong, whose es-
capade with the actress wife of British
nobleman was the scandal of all the
miles that lie between New York and
Yokohama. Besides. the failure OF
Strong's dry goods firm embittered his
last years. Van Wyck is the only one
OF these men whose personal reputation
suffered while he was mayor, which, OF
course, ends him politically. Grace and
Gilroy were business men; and as they
continued business men after their
terms closed they may be called fairly
successful in spite of their. dip into
politics.
There remains Edward Cooper. very
old, very intirm, very much beloved ;
the son of Edward Cooper, the friend
and aid of Cooper Union; a slender
bowed, white-haired old man, like a
memory of the past; man who has
served we'll and nobly in philanthropy
and in politics.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
GENERAL GLEANINGs.

Otto Wiche, q prominent New York
politician, whose check is worth $685.
900, at one time lived on five cents q
day and slept in the City Hall park.
|, The first Japanese to receive the de-
gree of doctor OF medicine from Wash
!ngton university, st. Louis, is Noakazu
Fujimori, who has just graduated. He
Is also graduate of the Toxic Saisel
medica. cc!.1ege and the New York state
university.
The japanese have offered to lot their
Russian prisoners work at building q
harbor at Matsuyama, to pass the
time" and earn the usual wages, with
which they will be able to buy them
selves luxuries during their imprison-
ment.
Some of the business men at Coney Is
land want the name of the place changed
to Surf City -by-the-Sea. They urge
that the place has past to live down
and that it could do so more easily
with a new name. Others are opposed
to change, saying that reform can be eff
fected without adopting the cumbersome
name suggested or any other.
A bank clerk writes to the London
Chronicle stating that he is afraid the
irritation caused by his high collar will
produce a cancer under his chin. But he
does not know what to do, "for," he
says, II dare not assuage my anxiety by
resorting to the low or turned-down va
riety, for am sure should be imme-
diately dismissed from my bank"
More than 5000 women are employed
In the various government Offices in
Washington, 2,044 of whom have en-
tered the service after competitive exam
nation. Nine hundred Of them are paid
salaries ranging from $1,000 to 81 800 a
year, the others being paid the CON-
pensation of ordinary clerks-$6O0 to
5000 year.
The North German Lloyd company's
4,000-ton schoolship Herzogin Cecilie
arrived in London from San Francisco.
She is manned entirely by 60 German
youths, who are thus educated for COM
mand on the company's ships or other
German merchantmen. They serve four
years and their training is very thor
ough. The cost to each boy is about 5000
Z year.
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below generals rank draws pay
ranging from the $1,400 of the young
second lieutenant to the $4,000 of the
colonel after 20 years service. He has
house room free in most cases, travelling
allowances and the privilege of buying
supplies at cost in commissary stores.
Ten per cent. is added to his pay if he
serves outside of the United States
proper.
These sums do not sound so small out
side of New York. 1t is probable that
Gen. Corbin was speaking with the New
York standard of living in his mind;
perhaps even from the standpoint OF one
whose marriage with a wealthy woman
has made luxury familiar. AS mat
ter of fact, the second lieutenant's 81, 400
is not very big here. A New York
police patrolman gets that sum, lives
in a tenement if he likes and has no
exacting social standards to maintain.
Under the circumstances the policeman
is more likely to save money than the
young army officer who marries on his
salary.
Yet even in New York public senti-
ment is Overwhelmingly against the
Continental idea which practically re-
quires an officer to marry girl with a
fortune of from $4,000 to $250,OOO, ac-
cording to the grade and regiment Of
her affianced. 1t has always been the
theory that poor boy has chan 'e
in our army or navy. Has he, If the
government says he may not marry
upon his salary?
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THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON
KNOCK AT THE DOORS OF
CANADA FOR WHEAT.
A Crop Of 100000 Bushels OF
Wheat Will Be the Record
of 1904.

The results of the threshing in
Western Canada are not yet COM
pleted, but from information at hand,
it is safe to say that the average per
acre will be reasonably high, and a
fair estimate will place the total yield
of wheat at 60,000,00O bushels. At pres
ent prices this will add to the wealth
of the farmers nearly $60,0Q0,000. Then
think Of the immense yield of oats and
barley and the large herds Of cattle,
for all of which good prices will be
paid.
The following official telegram was
sent by Honorable Clifford Sifton, Min
lister of the Interior, to Lord Strath-
coma, High Commissioner for Can
ada
"Am now able to state definitely
that under conditions of unusual diff
Guilty in Northwest a fair average
crop Of wheat Of good quality has been
reaped and is now secure from sub
stantial damage. The reports Of in
jury by frost and rust were grossly ex-
aggerated. The wheat Of Manitoba
and Northwest Territories will aggre-
gate from fifty-five to sixty million
bushels. The quality is good, and the
price is ranging around one dollar per
bushel."
Frank H. Spearman, in the Saturday
Evening Post, says
when our first transcontinental
railroad was built, learned men at
tempted by isothermal demonstration
to prove that wheat could not profit
ably be grown north Of where the line
was projected; but the real granary Of
the world lies up to 300 miles north
Of the Canadian Pacific railroad, and
the day is not definitely distant when
the United States will knock at the
doors of Canada for it's bread. Rail-
road men see such day; it may be
hoped that statesmen also will see it,
and arrange their reciprocities while
they may do so gracefully Americans
already have swarmed into that far
country and to a degree have taken
the American wheat field with them.
Despite the fact that for years little
Dakota station on the St. Paul road
-Eureka-held the distinction of be-
ing the largest primary grain market
In the world, the Dakotas and Mime
sofa will one day yield their palm to
Saskatchewan.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
Lincoln Yarn Neatly Applied.

The contention of some of the SPELL
binders that the present administration
is responsible for the prosperity which
has attended the labors of ou- farmers
in recent years reminds us of a story
told by Abraham Lincoln. He said
there was woodpecker away up in the
top of tree pecking and pecking and
pecking. After while windstorm cane
along and blew down the tree and the
woodpecker believed to its dying cay
that it had pecked the tree down.-Field
and Farm.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

all the guests dress as babies of the
story books.
By the time this letter is read, if NJ
citizen has had the courage to protest.
the automobile race for the Vanderbilt
cup will have been pulled off" on the
public highways of populous Long
Island, from which the "peasantry'
have already been directed to keep their
children and themselves for ten hours
and to "chain up their dogs and lock up
their fowls"
The fairs in every county near New
York have been captured from the
farmers by rich suburban estate owners
who go to them to see and be seen. and
to caper about in infantile pleasures
Long Island has not yet ceased to Cos
sip about the hospital fair at Mrs
Nackay's great house on Harbor hill
when the common people" were prac-
tically invited to pay admission fees tt
see the members of, the 400 at Gloss
quarters; when ollie" Belmont mixed
drinks behind the bar and Mrs. Mackay
herself. Mrs. Belmont, Mrs Vanderbilt
and other great ladies donned peasant
costumes to sell toys and trinkets a
fancy prices.
At Bernardsville, at Westchester, a
Mineola, the summer people invent thu
devices of the idle to kill time, as if i
were the great enemy. Always Their
is race meeting going on somewhere
and the automobiles of society jostl,
at the entrance&the haggard clerk VIII,
has fingered the money in his employer
till to back the little ponies against odd
that amount to certainly for tn
'booky."
All this is very English, no doubt
But isn't there danger that the SCUM,
and the flashing of it all hide too mucl
the humdrum millions who simply d,
their daily work, of the thousands VIII,
! devote wealth and leisure to philan
thropy? And these thJre are, even il
New York.
OWEN LAECDON
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A Great Victory in Sight.

The splendid spirit shown by the New
York democrats means that they will be
satisfied with nothing less than success.
And they have never failed to win when
thew all worked together, as they have
shown that they mean to do. now. On
the other hand. the republican factions,
headed by Odell and Platt, are lying III
ambush for each other with their trusty
bowie knives unsheathed and ready for
business. New York may Just as well
now as later be put in the democratic
ist.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
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WHAT ROME THINKS
THE POPE'S PHYSICIAN ENDORSES
AN AMERICAN REMEDY. "
Dr.. Lapponi Uses DR.. Willinms' Pink P1l1s
In His Practice Because Results
Meet His Expectations.

DR.. Lapponi Uses DR.. Williams' Pink Pills
In His Practice Because Results
Meet His Expectations.
DR.. Lapponi, the famous physician to
the Vatican, whose name has recently
come so greatly to the front on account
of his unremitting attention to His
Holiness, the late Pope Leo XIII, and
the high esteem and confidence with
which he is regarded by the present
Pope, His Holiness Plus x, is man of
commanding genius. He is more than
mere man Of science; he is man Of
original and independent mind. Un-
trammeled by the "etiquette Of the
medical profession and having used DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People in
his practice with good results, he freely
avows the facts and endorses the value
of this remedy with all authority which
no one will venture to question.
Dr.. Lapponi's Letter.
II certify that I have used DR..
Williams Pink Pills in four cases
of the simple an@nlia of develop
ment. After a few weeks of treat
ment, the result came fully up tony
expectations. For that reason l
shall not fail in the future to extend
the use of this laudable preparation
not only in the treatment of-other
forms of the category Of anemia or
chlorosis, but also in cases of neuras-
thenia and the like"
(Signed) GIUSEPPE LAPPON1,
Via del Gracchi 1872, Rome.
The "simple anamia of Development
referred to by DR.. Lapponi, is of course,
that tired, languid condition Of young
girls, whose development to womanhood
is tardy and whose health, at that period,
is so often imperiled. His opinion Of
the value Of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Tor Pale People at that time is of the
highest scientific authority, and it con.
firms the many published cases in which
an@mia and other diseases of the blood,
as we'll as nervous diseases such as ner-
vous prostration, neuralgia, St. Vitus'
dance, paralysis and locomotor ataxia
hare been cured by these pills. They
are commended to the public for their
efficiency in making new blood and
strengthening weak nerves. After
such all endorsement they will be &C.
copied by the medical and scientific
world at their full value.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
Five Hundred Real Mourners.

ORE than usual the
poor wrecks of hu-
manity were obliv-
ious of the little
knots of gayly
dressed and pros
porous ones who
had gathered to see
the Line. 1t is one
of the sights of the
city; and not sell
dom some faunt-
ing red automobile
brings down a load
of merry men and
" o m e n w h o
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come perhaps to feel thankful
that they are not as these, and who
softer. end by pressing trifes OF money
Unto trembling and unnerved hands
Among them, too, passed this night the
news of death AS midnight struck
there were 500 men in that army OF mis-
fortune. doubt if dead man had ever
more sincere mourners. More than one
OF these men had been cheered and en-
couraged by personal words of hope by
Mr., Fleischmann. More than one who
now sees the Line no more was drawn
from it back to better days by his quiet
aid.
The Bread Line" has figured in lit
erature hundred times. Once at least
by Albert Bigelow Paine it was made the
title of a novelette,. In his story one
of the most successful of American au-
thors now is described as he was in his
{ struggling days when trying to found
q weekly paper. The story was so nearly
true in the large and in the little de-
tails that it was hardly fiction. Paine
himself was one of the thinly disguised
CudrdCLcIS, anu lulCC we'll hhO " IL o. Sl0S S
are minor characters. The hero, who is
represented as an invincibly optimistic
Col. Sellers of man. perhaps it is as
we'll not to name. In the story, the five
men who have just agreed to found the
paper happen along by the Line just as
it is forming and in their golden dreams
of wealth give generous largess to the
men that stand there. And again they
cone, to it after the last issue of the
paper has been printed-this time them
selves to take the loaf and the mug of
coffee. That part was of course an ar
tiss'c exaggeration.
According to the staid Philadelphia
Public; Ledger a dinner was given in
that city to IS persons recently by the
Hon. Charlemagne Tower which cost
$1Ot per plate where the menu consisted
only of oysters. chicken soup, mutton
and lettuce-costly simplicity Simple
lty of another sort is the Bread Line"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

Philadelphia in 1876 and started there
at the Centennial the Vienna bakery
1t is no secret that Yankee bread was in
those days upon the average pretty bad.
Fleischmann succeeded, came to New
York and in the shadow of Grace church
established real Vienna cafe like those
OF his native city. At this point the
Hungarian quarter reaches almost to
Broadway from it's center over near the
East river. To-day there are SO Hun
garian cafes in that region less pros
DerUus anG less famed, but equally Eu-
ropean.
#sEfThere was much poverty in 1877, the
ebb Of the great panic, when Flelsch-
mann began giving out every midnight,
after the days business was over, a
loaf of stale bread and a mug OF hot
coffee to any man that asked. He was
never afraid of "fakirs" waiting in all
Hweathers for that inconvenient hour
AS matter of fact, most OF the men
who came to the BREAD Line" are gen.
$uine enough The line is always longest
ON Sunday nights, because on Sunday
men without regular work can get no ODD
Jobs to do.
Never was a. mans death more dra-
matte than FleischmaDn's. The
"Bread Line forms long before mid
night; it is a sort of club to the men,
whose time is of no value and who talk
Etogether in low tones while waiting the
dole. .Fleischmann died about 10
O'clock of a Sunday evening when the
line is longest and earliest in assembling
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
The Mayors Of New York.

He death of Frank
lin Edison so soon
after William r.
Grace leaves as liv-
i n G ex-mayOrs.
Low, Grant. Gilroy
Cooper and Van
Wyck.
Is there bad luck
in being N e W
York's ma or?
Lows political
prospects W er e
clouded for 20
years by his sue
cessful I1ayoralty
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
Army Officers Wives.

STORM OF abuse
has descended upon
the high held head
of huge Gen. Cor
bin for daring to
suggest that army
officers should get
the consent of the
army department
before marrying
such consent, as in
Germany, presum-
ably being condi-
toned upon the
financial prospects
Of the happy pair.
An army officer
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
The Madness of Wealth,

HE fact is, there is
something in the
air of New York
that drives many
people wealth
crazy.
A millionaire
horseman gives at
his country home a
nursery party
where the father a.,
his wife appears az
a Little LOr
Fauntleroy with
gray whiskers, and
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
GOTHAM CHARACTERS.
GOSSIP OF INTERESTING PEOPLE
OF NEW YORK. CITY.
", .lr4:. ..7~ igt:y5s sits, y 5
THREAD LINE' Man DEAD
Louis Fleischman Was q Philanthro-
n pist in PracticalSWay and Is,
Mourned by Many-oth-
y er Gossip.

ND the man who IN
vented the Bread
Line" is dead.
Louis Fleisch-
man was a brave
officer in the Aus
trian army that
Molthe broke at
SaGowa; his medal,
won there and be-
slowed by En-
peror Franz Josef,
was his most
proudly valued pos
I session. He came
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

There are 1913 species of roses
known, and 4ss of chrysanthemums.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

Of Brooklyn getting tangled Up Win the
Blaine eight il the republican party at
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20
Western Canada S
Magnificent Crops
FOR l9O4=

uvWgxz1lGI7 Western Canada's Wheat Crop
@
VkyS1 | this year will be &C, OOO, 900
D2IJ1ESR Ky | bushels and wheat at PRESENTS
I2slASfkHA ! worth 90 bushel.
NNHlNESS2 The oat and barley crop win
Cy213S also yield abundanty.
SnIendid prices for all kinds of grain. cattle and
other farm produce for the growing Of which the
climate is unsurpassed.
About 1!SO, 900 Americans have settled In
Western Canada during the past three years.
Thousands Of free Homestesds Of I 90 acres each
still availa Bile in the best agricultural districts.
II has been said that the United States will b
forced TO import wheat within a very few years.
Secure n farm in Canada and become ono OF th0so
who will help product 1t.
Applv for information to SUPERINTENDENT %
IMMIGRATIoN, Ottawa, Canada; ort
T. r. HOLMES, SIS Jackson Street, St. Paul, Hlnn.
c. PlLLING, Graud Forks, Nsrth Dakota.
Authorized Canadian Government AgentA
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-10-20

Western Canada's Wheat Crop
this year will be 60, 900. 900
bushels, and wheat at present 10
worth IL, 90 O bushel.