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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-02
THE RUSSIAN FLEET DESTROYED.
MEMORIAL DAY
Beautiful Day Fittiugly Observed
in City in Honor Of the
Dead Heroes.

With perfect weather, Decoration
Dav WAS appropriately observed In
SisSeton. In the language of the Min
neapolis Tribune, mature dawned
upon u Memorial, day with an azure
sky vaulting above to heights beyond
imagination, and a sun sparkling In
It's briliancy."
The parade In the InOrning to the
cemetery was II very Imposing and
brilliant one. The long column
formed on Second avenue east, ana
was headed by the SissetOn hand.
Next in lIne were the council. fol
lowed by the NJ. W. a. and Troop u
:. ID. n. q. Next came 1t e long line
of school children Eve never knew
how many students there were he
| forc), then the &. A. Il. with dunn
corps IN the lead and w. H. C. and
citizens in carriages bringing up the
rear.
| At the cemetery, the school formed
around the ground dedicated to the
unknown dead, tina cavalry Relief
Corps and G. A. II. forming outside.
After a prayer by Rev. Miilett, the
school sang "Ncarcr My God to Thee"
and marched In double lsnc,, deposit
ing wreaths and bouquets on tho SOL
diors' grave. Tho heautifuI ". r.
a.. service &" the unS 00wu uava FOL.
l".S e,i. nad d detail irom Troop y
gave & tlGe exhibition OF training and
perfect discipline IN their manner Of
firing the salute. Taps we're sounded
and the Woodman memorial services
then took place, completing the ex.
ercises at the. cemetery, after which
the parade marched hack to the city.
The services we're beautiful AMI im-
presslve throughout, and the deg
ideal. The only occurrence to mar
the entire satisfaction OF the pro-
gram was the fact that several Of
the children we're overcome by ths
heat and the long walk. No serjons
lndlsposltion resulted. however.
At 2 p. m. large audience eath-
cred at the opera honse for the fut-
ther exercises OF the day, and few
minutes later, standing room vas at
premium.
The program as published last week
was carried out with few changes.
RecitaLions were rendered by Mand
Lamke and by Henry Schpeidepeit,
the mascot of Troop D, who delighted
ali by his vigorous and animated De.
claiming, The recltations by Misses
Keefe and Wilkins wore delivered
with their usual excellence aud 90
higher praise oeed be given. The
songs by the pupils were we'll rem
dered, the last, "rhe Old Flag Never
Touched the Ground" rousinK th.
!loyal enthusiasm Of all, Rev. Nil.
) let's address was short, earnest Apd
pungent.
Taken ia the aggregate, probably
Sissetnn has never seen q more sRtts-
factory observance 0f Memorial Day.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

| ton, to the disregard and neglect of
the vastly more important problem of
building men at home, and creating
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larsing our home markets. which will
be unaffected by any foreign complica-
tions or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems of our export trade. that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually n
product aggregating in total value the
combined manufactured product of
the three other greatest manufactur
ing nations of the world. England,
France and Germany, and we con-
sumo ninety-two' per cent of our entire
annually manufactured. products ut
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And If every farm In the United
States were cut in two, and n new
home created on it so that the number
of farm homes, and the capital in
vested in, and labor devoted to agri-
culture throughout the entire United
States, We're thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement of our ipopu-
lation, our home market for manu-
~ stAiNA Hcui l'oNti os Il sAiANAoiA,
almost beyond the power of the imag-
ination to picture to the mind.
1t is to the development of its vast
agricultural resources and the creation
of a closely settled population of far.
mers and gardeners. who will culti
vate the soil by the most intensive
methods, that the Middle West must
look if it is TO achieve its full destiny
III wealth, power and population.
The resources of the great territor!
extending westward from the crest OF
the Alle%hany Mountains to the one
hundredth meridian-the edge of Tho
: arid rerion-and from the sources oi
the Mississippi River on the north tC
its outlet to.thn Gulf on the south. are
so largely AGRICULTURAL that ii offer.
the ideal section of the earth for tht
development cf n nation along tn.
lines of Japanese development, Will
Il preponderuting rural population.
There is no other section of III,
worlds surface where latent aCricul
tural resources of such inexhaustibl,
richness and extent lie practically un
developed.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

tion from Japan has not yet been
learned, and when President Roose
welt fails to see it,and demands only
more battle ships. as the lesson of the
great sea fight which has just been
fought, he unfortunately diverts the
minds of the people of this country
from facts of supreme and overshad-
owing Importance, whicn should be
burned into the public mind rs by II
stroke of lightning from every victory
won by the japanese
That lesson is the profoundly I'M
portant fact that the Japanese man,
the unit of her national strength, is
the product of mode of life and an
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life-from living next
to nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from con-
community life.
"A Nation of Gardeners.
The japanese are not Il nation of
farmers. Us we understand the word.
They are II nation of gardeners.
There is neither isolation nor con2es-
ton in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them, not in great
cities. but in closely settled rural com
munities. The ranch and the tene-
ment are alike foreign TO the life of
the Japanese.
The greatprinciple that mustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth is that the land shall be subdi-
vided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain Il
family in comfort, and that every
child, boy or girl, in the public schools
should be so trained in those schools
tract of land for Il livelihood.
In other words let us reproduce in
this country the conditions so well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August. 1904,
from which we quote the following
while Japan is cannonading its way
to rank with Christian powers as Il
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

nor military equipment, nor manu-
featuring skill. Western nations viii
fail fully to grasp the secret of til.
dynamic intensity of Japan today. and
will dangerously underestimate the
formidable possibilities of the Greater
Japan-the lIai NippOn-Of tomorrow
until they begin To study seriously the
agricultural triumphs of that empire.
For Japan. more scientifically than
| any other nation, past or present, mas
| perfected the art of sending the roots
of its civilization endurinGly into the
soil.
.'Progressive experts of high author
ity throughout the Occident now adj
NIT that in all the annals of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever APP
preached the scientific skill of Sunrise
husbandry. Patient diligence, with
knowledge of the chemistry of soil and
the physiology of plants. have yielded
results that have astounded the most
advanced agriculturists in Western
nations"
The Safe Foundation.
The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people of a
nation are rooted to the soil i'll homes
of their own on the land, is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism, but it is the only safe iouh.
dation for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build battleships, equip
armies and annex islands and dig
lsthlnian canals. is rs fatal n mistake
as it would be to build IL twenty-story
Skyscraper in Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of Lake
Michigan.
We need not muster ont our armies
nor dismautle our battleships nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the Isthmian Canal, but the
fact remains, as clear as the sun from
an unclouded sky at monday, that the
attention of our people as II nation Is
riveted on our naval and military af-
fairs and schemes of foreign eXploita-
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

'first-class fighting nation, ii is not neg
lecting its fields of rice, genge, m!liet
and muji, its groves of mulberry anu
bamboo, its priceless plots of tea ana
mitsumata shrubs, and its multi-mil-
lion gardens of berries, vegetables.
fruits and flowers. The thousands OF
patriots that have marched to the
front have not tllinned the ranks or
the mightier hosts tilling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutive nelus
of Japan.
Husbandry Dignified.
sFor twenty-five centuries the Sun
rise sovereigns have dignified hus..
bandry as the most important anu
most honorable industrial calling in
the empire. and now more than sixty
Der cent of the Mikado's subjects till
with incompatible skill the limited
soil Of his islands.
THE same diligent genius that ena-
bles landscape gardener in Japan fto
compass withinia few square yards OF
land forest, a idge-spanned stream
q waterfall and lake, a chain of ter
raced hills, gardens and ciirysanthe
NUNS, hyacinths, peOpies and .pinks. a
beetling crag crowned with Il tilwarfed
confer, and through all the dainty
pain Ps'ShS' N''ANAA AA'AN -
shrine and there a dainty summer
house has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire TO build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
Of arabic land the most rema rkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tillable acres OF
Japan We're merged into one field, /;
man in an automobile. travelling at thu
rate of fifty miles an hour, could skir
the entire perimeter of .arahle japan
in eleven hours. Upon this narrow
freehold Japan has reared nation o
imperial power, which is determined
to enjoy commercial preeminence owe
all the world of wealth and opportu
nifty from Siberia to Siam and already
by the force of arms. is driving iron
the shores of Asia the greatest mon
archy of Europe.
Roots in the Soil.
The secret of the success of. the lit
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been
mystery TO many students of nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddl
of its strength, neither can commerce
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

fifty million figure; it has stacked up
gold in its treasury, has created Il
great merchant marine, has captured
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarslqled commercial
America on the Pacific. has crowded
its cities with roaring factories. and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to its aggressive fleets and regi-
meuts And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit of harvests
cleaned from Il farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery III use
in the United States.''
Could there be IL more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words of David Starr
Jordan, that
stability of national character goes
with frmness of foot-hold on the
soil"
Comparison. of Areas.
Now compare Japan and its atlevel
opment with the possibilities of deval
opment in the Middle West.
The area of all the islands compris
square miles: of this only 1900
square miles is available for ,agricult
ure, for every available acre in tina
country is cultivated.
The total combined area of Wiscon
sin. Illinois and Indiana is 1856
square miles, and it is safe to say 'tha
considerably more than half Of thi
area-probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close n cultivation
and of sustaining rs dense popula
! ton per square mile as the cultivated
area of Japan.
The water with which TO irrigate i
now runs to waste. The water whicl
/ Chicago turns into her drainage canal
! instead of producing agricut .ra
wealth by irrigating the lands of Hi
nois. produces law suits with st. Louj
/ because it runs to waste past tha
city TO the Gulf of Mexico.
The time will come When irrigated
agriculture in the Middle West vii
absorb every drop of water fallin
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals an,
4 the irrigated farms of the AIiddl
WesJ will dry up the Ohio and tn
! Mississippi rivers. just rs irrigation
in the West has dried up Tulare LAX
in California, and is rapidly drying II
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, tn
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23
The Give In 1lnucricQ.

The annual output of olive oil in
California is about 100000 gallons; of
pickles 100000 gallons. The imports
to the country of oil amount to about
100000 gallons per year and of
pickles to ZIG gallons. The olive was
introduced into California 135 years
ago, which is a bad showing for use
of native olive oil. especially when
it is acknowledged to be the superior
of all foreign oils.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

,,,,y !, the way of 1t Is a mere Gus
TOM or habit, easily modified IA.
The terms of school OF all CITY
s,hnn,s should he changed. Ihere
shouId be ii short winter term, uul y.
in', which the time should be gwen 70
Instruction from the books ana III
hnuliicraft within doOrs.
There should be Il summer term oi
euual length during which the sehoois
woulu be transferred to the suburbs
and work in summer schooi saruehS. >.
The children should be taken pach
and forth to these summer school gar
,jans nj public expense, rs they are
now taken to and from the cohsoll-
dated rural schools on the trolley
l;u,s in some OF the New England
states
The vacation, which would not need
L., "a lnur. should h" divided between II
spring vacation and II fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school
Building a Strong Citizenship.
OF course many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it Impossible. as the
result of her system of great landed
estates, to provide her people with
homes on the land, and in conse-
uucnce her ruin as Il nation is only Il
question, of Il comparatively brlef
time.
Japan. on the contrary. put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England, seems impossible,
and behold the results in her strength
and power as Il nation.
1t is only Il question with us. rs n
people. whether we will follow the
lead of Japan. and profit by her les.
sons, or follow the lead of England
and share in her eventual ruin.
The influences which are destroying
England are ut work steadily and in
Sidiouslv in this nution. and though
it will take longer for them to work
our ruin. it is sure to come if we do
not lind n WAY to root the great
majority of our people TO the land in
homes OF their own, as Japan has
done. and rs we can do, unless we
are as blind and as impotent in deal
ing with our national problems as
seems to be the fate of England.
In the carrying ont of this great
patriotic purpose of building strong
citizenship by building rural homes
on the land, We are. nj the same
time, doing that which will cre,tte
the greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop 10 the high
est attanable point. not only the re-
sources of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23


tickled the earth over this immense
area
Our Own Country.
When we compare Japan, with Its
dense populaton. its wealth, Its rev
enues, its trade and commerce, us
national strength. with any section OF
our own country equal to 1t in area
and natural resources, we are amazed
ut the great possibilities of future de
yelopment III our own country.
The entire population of Japan Is
about forty-iive million, of which
thirty million is Il farming population,
and this vast population of thirty mil
lon farmers and their families is su>
tanned. on nineteen Thousand square
miles of irrigated land. There is no
agriculture in Japan but irrigated
agriculture. They have learned that
water is the greatest fertilizer known
to nature. and save and utilize 1t with
the same care that they use every
other available process for the fertlli-
zation of their fields.
Nineteen thousand square miles Is
an area about one hundred and thirty
five miles square. and in square in a
corner of the State Of Illinois, the com
parutive size of which to the rest of
the State is shown on the accompany
ing map, is sustained nation which,
to the amazement of all other peoples
on the earth. has sprung to the front
as one of the great world powers.
Source of Power.
And the Home Acre farms or gar
dens-the rural homes of Japan-are
the source of that national power
Commenting on this. the author Of
the article III tie August 1904 Book
lovers Magazine. quoted from above,
says in that article
''From what its advanced agricuit-
lre has made its plains TO yield. Japan
has fed and clothed and educated its
masses, fast nearing the
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23

For, in fact, they are undeveloped'
We have, as yet, hardly more than
tickled the earth over this immense
area
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-02

the uniformed men now being organized
have no police power, nor can they get
any.
Mr.. Ben KloDfer stated that the police
and fire patrol company here already has
three Of its uniformed men patroIling the
streets of Washington. He said the ter
ritory covered by these men extended from
AZ street and Pennsylvania avenue west
20 between 18th and 18th streets and north
to street.
Mr.. James P. Cochran. the acting presi-
dent. and Mr.. Ben Klopfer were named as
committee to prepare petition to the
business men of Washington in behalf of
the original night watchmen.
The statement was made that the pres
emit watchmen always act promptly in CO.
operating with the metropolitan police;
that they are given police badges and au-
thority on their several beats. and that
they are required to turn in every hour,
on the half hour. at the police patrol boxes.
which register their calls in the station
houses Also that they are under the con-
slant supervision of the regular police SER
geants and patroimen-
Incidents were related in which the night
watchmen, acting always in conjunction
with the police have rendered good service
In preventing robberies and arresting
thieves. The Case OF William Young, son
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-02
Ex-Slaves' Convention.

A. w. Rodgers of Williamson, N. c.,
president of the National Mutual Relief,
Bounty and Pension Association, is to ad-
dress the ex-slaves' convention. now In ses-
sion, at Providence Baptist Church, on q
street between Sd and AZ streets south
west, at o'clock this evening. Rev. Os-
borne Smith of Jacksonville, Fla, and
Owen c. Cobb of Georgia will also speak,
and a general discussion will follow. Seven
states and the District of Columbia are
represented in the convention.
The annual sermon to the convention was
preached last night by Rev. DR.. Shields of
North Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-02
IN THE LOCAL MARKET
APPEARANCE OF
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.

With watermelons. canteloupes, peaches
and berries of all kinds on the benches, the
local markets are presenting summer
time appearance sCantelOupes. grown from
Rocky Ford seed, are selling at from ~ 10
d cents each, and, 1t is said. not many OF
them have the genuine sweet flavor OF the
fruit. Watermelons are also from Florioa
and the condition OF them Is far superior
tn that of the canteloupe. They are to be
had at from 40 cents to 81 each. and the
demand for them Is good. Red goose piums
from Florida are % cents quart ana
blackberries are Is cents cherries from
MARYLAND and Virginia, some OF them al
most equal to the California stock, are
selling at Is cents quart box. biackberries
are Is cents aid strawberries ara 70 De nad
at from to 10 cents quart Almost
everything In the line OF vegetables Is
cheap. Peas are not quite so pientat1 Has rs
they were a few days ago and are a little
higher New ochre La being received from
Florida and Is to be had at Is cents quart
box Tomatoes are in splendid condition
and as good as those from this vicinity in
the summer. They are plentiful and are
to be had at the rate OF two POUNDS ior u
quarter New corn Is 50 cents dozen.
peas 40 and so cents a peck ana oeans ~
spring vegetables grown In this vicinity are
plentiful and cheap
Potomac Bass In Season.
Potomac bass are in season and some OF
the plymouth variety are to be had In mar
ket, Twenty cents a pound Is the price
asked for them. 1t is said that a great
many bass were caught during the closed
season, but they were either sent to other
markets or kept for use at the fishing
shores. Soft crabs are again scarce and
high They are bringing from $l.2 to LOO
a Dozen The scarcity, 1t is thought Is due
to the recent stormy weather. Hard crabs
and crab meat are plentiful and not high
Frogs are so cents pound and swapping
turtles are to be had at 10 cents a pound
Another week will end the shad season.
Shad are still In good condition and are
selling at from 35 to 60 cents each. White
perch are scarce and fishermen seem I'M
able to offer any explanation for their
scarcity Spanish mackerel are in demand
at 90 cents pound and Boston mackerel
are 80 cents each. Hahbut, salmon. cod
and sturgeon are also In demand.
Poultry Is still high. although spring
chickens are getting more plentiful and are
a trifie cheaper than they were last week
They are selling at from 80 to 40 cents a
pound this week Turkeys are to be had
for % cents and fowls are quoted at about
the same as turkeys. The meat market Is
easier and butter and eggs are about the
same as last week.