Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-07-21

Black rust has appeared III some OF the
grain fields i'll South Dakota, and the whole
question of the crops depends on whether or
not the weather will be favorable to the devel-
opment of the rust. Last year there was dry
weather after the Fourth, and the black rust
had no chance to develop. Only the same
kind of weather can again save the crops this
year.
No less than forty of the offce-holders and
candidates for office in st. Paul neglected to
pay their personal property tax the amounts
ranging from 80 cents to $685. The list of
persons who neglected this primary duty of
lcitzen includes some prominent state officers,
some members of the Legislature. and thus
down the scale to clerks, policemen and
jantors.
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In it's contest with the powder trust, the
government has decided to erect powder mill
of it's own, probably at Rock Island. In this
way the cost of making powder will be ascer-
tanned, and the government will then decide
what it is willing to pay for powder. If the
trust is willing to meet that price, it's powder
will be accepted, but if not, the government will
proceed to erect plants sufficient to make all of
it's own POWDER
The crusade for cleanliness in the packing
houses and pure foods, which started in this
country, is now travelling around the world.
Europe had just begun to point her finger at
the United States, when it found that
filthy conditions prevailed in the butcheries,
the result has been that we now hear less
about conditions in this country, and more
about conditions in Europe. Cleanliness is
good for ALL
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Congressman McC1eary is really deserving
of sym pathy for the troubles he has had with
that high tariff speech. McCleary is a stand
patter of the ultra type. He got up a high
tariff speech pleading for the sacredness of the
Dingley tariff schedules, gave a copy to the
American Economist to print, and somebody
blundered, and the Economist printed the
speech before Mr.. McC1eary had a chance to-
deliver it. In fact, he got chance to
deliver it, and was given 'leave to print
But the Congressional Record is complete,
and McClearys speech does not appear. Mean
while further troubles arose from the fact that
the Duluth convention declares that the time
was ripe for revision Such are the troubles
of the man who does not keep his ear close to
the ground, and listen for the voice of the
people.
Oklahoma has deservedly received much
attention in the newspapers of late. Its growth
from a and unfinished post to civilized
proportions has been astonishing In few
years it has developed from wilderness, with
large bands of desperate outlaws to a sovereg ign
commonwealth 1t has material resources of
the best climate and soil which favor the pro-
has immense mineral resources, especially coal
and oil. It's population numbers in the neigh
borhood of 100000. There are 326 banks in the
state and 219Z school houses. With all this it
is still new and unfinished, compared to the
older states, but if it continues IT'S present pace
of Development it will at no distant time gain
recognition of the foremost states in the
unioll.- olenwood Herald.
Do American manutacturers-who are
protected by a tarf-sell cheaper in the foreign
than in the American markets, and if SO to
what extent is it done? These are questions
on which reports differ widely that one is at
a loss to know just what to believe. The follow
ing from the Minneapolis Journal shows how
reports differ. The Journal says