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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

vision downward, the republican plat
form stood for il and President Taft
favored it in his public speeches, and
in the face of this Aldrich and his
trust senators have been able to over
throw party honor and deny the de-
mands Of the people by the aid OF the
republican traitors, men who have
disgraced their states and the people
who made it possible for them to sit
in the senate.
Western senator's and congressman
who think more of Cannonism and
Aldrichism will find when they face
their constituents again that broken
pledges and party dishonor makes re-
tirement to private life a fitting re-
ward for their pertidy.
The tariff robbery is an open book
and from this time on the real battle
for an honest tariff and an income tax
will be carried on to a successful is
sue in spite Of the robbcr trusts and
traitors to the people.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
What Will Taft Do?

Under the above heading the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, one of the strong
est republican papers in Minnesota,
in IN editorial expression concerning
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill which
is intended to increase the trust
robbery practiced under the Dingley
schedules, says:
The tariff bill is now in the hands
Of a conference committee, composed
of senator's and representatives who
are firmly pledged to a maintenance
of high protection and who have been
the allies of Payne and Aldrlch in
forcing an upward revision of the
schedules. 1t is probable, of course,
that certain concessions will be made
in conference, but there is no prospect
or change Of any bill being produced
from the committee that will furnish
any relief to the people or meet the
public demand for a lowering of the
tariff schedules.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

ID. |. Whitlow of Mitchell was a
Canton visitor last week.
Hon. w. f. Durham went to Sioux
City Wednesday to take part in the
meeting of the Northwestern Iowa
veterans of the Civil War. He expects
to meet members of his old regiment.
Frank cortland, James Stanley,
William Bell and John Lee were hold
ing a conference Wednesday over that
drainage ditch" that won't drain.
Their language was moderate and
their temperS smooth.
The funeral of Miss Greta Peterson
who died Tuesday took place Wedncs-
day under the direction Of Undertake
er Anderson. She had been sick for
nearly two years and was about 10
years old.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
Congress Has Betrayed the
Country.

Editor Keene of the Arlington Sun,
a modest progressive republican, who
believes in a square deal and party
honor is compelled to denounce the
Aldrich's of the Senate, and he speaks
for 90 per cent. of the republicans of
this state when he says a republican
congress has betrayed the country.
Here is the way Bro. Keene looks at
the trust boss and his cronies.
"The supercilious dictatorship of
Aldrich on the tariff question is one
OF the hardest blows the republican
party has had to stand for years. The
t%ruculent following Of him by men
who hold their present position upon
the strength of platform pledges
which they are deliberately breaking
has destroyed public confidence in
them, and left the party in many
places without leaders. The tiercely
denounced criticisms of the party by
the democrats seem destined to be-
come true. Congress has betrayed
the country and the only hope now is
that President Taft will attempt to
stem the tide alone. He stands in
the same position that Grover Cleve-
land did when he defed congress and
vetoed what he considered an iniquit-
Gus tariff law. Even if he does it is
not likely he will be able to accomp-
fish more than did the sturdy demo
cratic president. Congress is in a bad
| way"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

The bill will satisfy neither the
Republicans nor the Democrats nor
the consumers. What will President
Taft do with it? His position on the
tariff question Is we'll known. He
came out much more squarely in the
last campaign than did the men who
wrote the platform on which he made
the successful race for the presidency.
He has declared openly and repeatedly
for a downwar revision Of the tariff.
Congress has declared, by the passage
of the Aldrich bill, for an upward
revision Of the tariff.
No matter what concessions are
made in the conference committee,
the net result of the bill, If the house
is gagged into accepting the measure,
must be an increase over the Dingley
schedules. 1t is estimated by experts
that if all the lowest schedules in the
two bills be agreed upon by the con-
ferees the general tariff average
would be nearly 2 per cent above the
averages of the Dingley bill. The
Dingley duties we're admittedly placed
too high for the purpose of trading
in the negotiation Of reciprocity treat
les with foreign countries. The
senate refused to ratify those recipro-
city treaties and for a dozen years
the consumers of the nation have
paid duties that we're confessedly
exorbitant when they were adopted.
The consumers of the country are
beginning to understand the manner
and methods by which they have been
buncOed into paying tribute to the
monopolies, under the gulse of pro-
tecting American industries. The
discomfort of the nation has been
sharpened to a keener edge by the
disclosures Of trickery, misrepresenta-
tion, robbery and plain lying in the
consideration of the tariff measure in
the senate. The average citizen has
been treated by congress as if his par
%ticipation in the burden of protection
we're limited only by his ability to
provide himself with the necessities
of life. When he discovers the fact
that he has been used as a tool to
serve the needs of the special interests
he may become galvanized into action
that will force a political betterment
of conditions in this country.
There must be a limit somewhere.
Higher duties, of course, lead to high
er prices, and the people who have to
pay the prices have just about all they
Can do now without having an addi-
tional burden placed upon them
through an increase in rates. This
condition cannot long endure. The
American people are not in the mood
to submit to further extortion.
AS the situation now stands, it
would be better for the country to
have all Of the Dingley rates retained
than to have the misft Payne-Aldrich
bill placed or the statue books.
President Taft could do the country
no better service than to veto the bill
when it reaches him."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
THE CkNTOH LEADER
ARTHUR LINN,
Editor and Proprietor
Tariff war Only Begun.

Ii the present tariff bill is passed
with concessions to the house mem
bers who did much better than the
senate in revision downward, and is
signed by the President, the Aldrich
crowd will realize that the tariff bat
tic has just commenced. The people
have never had a chance to learn be-
fore how nicely the trusts have con
trolled the Dingley tariff law when 1T
was framed, Or how determined the
trusts are to continue their robbery
under the Payne-Aldrich bill in face
Of a republican pledge to revise the
tariff downward.
The trust robbers care nothing for
party pledges by a republican presi-
dert, nor how the masses are skinned
In support OF tariff robbery; they care
nothing for the country or party hon
or, their chief ambition is to rob the
consumer, and the vast fortunes made
by the trust barons indicates that
they have had agood havest.
Heretofore the tariff discussions
represented republican or democratic
politics, and the masses regarded the
matter from a party stand point and
hurrahed for their side. Today it is
different. Owing to the fearless re-
publican insurgents the tariff ques-
tion has been laid bare and the peo-
pie have learned for the first time the
inside history Of the robber game. 1t
is q fight Of the rich to rob the con-
sumner and compel the masses to sup
port the government, while the mil
lionaires refuse to contribute their
share to support a government that
protects them and their ill-gotten
wealth. The inside OF this tariff CON
spiracy has been exposed by the So
called insurgent republican senator's,
and the people have learned a lesson
that will not be forgotten in the COM
Ing struggle for an honest tariff and
an income tax.
The people understand the tariff
dodge as they never did before and
there will be no peace until the ques-
ton Is settled right. Protection to
labor was the slogan that
kept the masses in line and in bond
age, but the slogan Is full of holes
md can never be used again as a
cloak to rob the consumer and build
up great fortunes for the favored
At no time In the history Of
bhe Senate has the people watched
The attitude of their senators SO close
y as during the Aldrich battle for
,he trust interests, and every vote
has been carefully noted, and all
WESTERN senator's will have to answer
or their support of the Aldrich high
iariff robbery, "The people be
lam'd' doctrine will not work any
0nger. The country demanded a re-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

the issue. Democratic members Of
Congress who followed the Fitzgerald
leadership should have opponents in
the field making their party betrayal
the issue.
Remember, too, that now is the
time to begin to look after your Unit
ed States senator, no matter when his
term of office expires. He may have
been just reelected. The men you
choose to represent you in your next
state legislature are likely to be re-
elected and may determine the choice
of your United States senator, who
still stand for progress against Aid
rich, or Aldrich against progress. La
Follette's Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
Take Atdrichism to the Pri.
marieS.

IlldFlcSs
1t is a natural reaction from the old
order of things for men to exclaim in
their disgust that the republican oar
ty will have to nswer at the polls for
this tariff legislation; that it will be
''p~unished" and will "reap the whirl-
wind"
But there should be a new order Of
things in those states that have a
system of direct primary nominal
tions. We should remember that it
was because experience had demon
strated that a change from one party
to another did not bring relief, and
that the Interests controlled which,
ever party was in power-that the
long struggle for direct nominations
of all candidates by the people was
made. The primary law is still new,
but we must not forget its application
in this national crisis-nor else where.
Even if the Democratic party had not
shared the responsibility of perpetu-
ating the hold of Cannon and Aldrich
and what they represent in both
branches of Congress, there still
would be no justification for change
of parties.
The primary was for the express
purpose of taking nominations out of
control of political machines and
placing this first power in govern
ment in the hands of the people.
Word comes from Kansas that those
Republican congressman who sup
ported Cannon for Speaker have OPP
ponents in the field, and CannOnism t.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

Congressman Payne of tariff fame
says an income tax would make US
a nation Of liars" He knows how it
would be in his own case, but he in
suits those with modest incomes by
such a falsehood. The time is not
far or when the rich will be compell-
ed to pay taxes according to their
wealth.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

Misses Eva Yasak and Fern Church
Ill of Minneapolis are guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Payne.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

Peter J. Keynes of Beresford was
among our new subscribers this week.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

A Dutchman, addressing his
dog, said, "You vas only a dog,
but wish / vas you. Ven you
20 NIT your bed in you shust
turn round dress times and lay
down; ven ! 60 NIT de bed in |
how to lock, up de blace, and wind
uu de clock and put de cat out
and ondress myself, aud my irou
wakes up and scolds, den de bu-
by wakes up and cries and l hal
to valk him NIT de house round
den may be yen | get myself to
he'd it is time to get up again.
Ven you get up, you shuststretc
yourself, dig your neck a Ieedle
and you vas up. ! haf to light
de FIRE, put on de keddle, scrap
some NIT my wife already Wit,
and get myself breakfast. You
play around all day and h q
bIenty Of fun, ! haf to work all
day and plenty Of drubble, Ven
you die you yas dead; ven | die
haf to 60 to hell yit."
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
'ot, cannot be. Of any conse.

not, cannot be, Of any conse.
quence.
The candid citizen must con
fees tina I il the policy Of the gov
ssnment upon vital questions al
iecting the whole people is to be
irrevocably fixed BY decisions Of
the Supreme Court, the instant
they are made the people will
have ceared to be their own ru-
lers. havirg to that extent prac-
,ically res'gned the government
into the hands Of that eminent
tribunal.
Intelligence, patriotism, Chris
tianity, q firm reliancs on Him
who has never yet iorsaken this
favored land, are still competent
ito adjust In the best way all our
difficulties.
Let us have faith that right
makes might, and In that faith
| let us to the end dare to do oui
duty az We understand 1t.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

Don't overwork q dollar any
more than you would q horse.
Three per cent is q small load for
it to draw; six is q sale one; when
it pulls IN ten for you it's likely
working ont West and you've
got to watch to zee thas it does
not buck; whenit makes twenty,
you own q blame good critteror
q mighty foolish one, and y o u
want to make dead sure which;
but if it draws q hundred it's
playing the races or s,.mpthing
Just ~ hard on horses and dol
lars, and the first thing y o.
know you WON'T even have Q car
cass to haul to the g'ue factory.
--Ex.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
Watch Repairing.

More good watches are ruined
inthp hnnds oiInexperienced work
men than in any other way. A
watch IL too costly an article to
entrust to any one who may
claim the title Of Matchmaker.
During my manv years OF bust
ness I have always given the clio.
sest attention to the careful re-
pairing and adjusting OF watches
brought to me aud have bought
none other than the best mater.
al. My charges are never exces.
sive; only enough to cover the
cost Of the work; neither do un.
necessary work nor charge for
work / do not execute. Don't
wait until your watch refuses to
run before having it cleaned, ad.
iusted and freshly oiled.
J. w. BRYAN,
GraduateW atch-maker & Jeweler
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

Mr.. Justice Connor would bring
dignity to anv position to which
he may be called in the future as
well a. in the past. First OF all
the judge is a superb gentlemen.
He is q jurist OF the highest type.
He is learned in the law, and ifhe
is appointed q Federal Judge, his
court and bis DECISIONS will have
the respect and confidence OF the
people and this is what our iud-
yes and courts must have to up
hold the majesty of the law in
this land oil ours:-The Catawba
County. News.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

TWO Receipts Tor Makins Whuksy.
We give below two recipes for
making whirkey which we take
from tho Asheville Citizen: 1st
recipe.
The irst recipe calls for one
ingredient which 10 not 70 easily
to get az the others, and that 10
3 gallon OF fresh corn whiskey.
To this add 2 gallons ofrain wa
ter, one ounce each Of prickley
ash, cayenne pepper and lauda-
mum. Shake well and take as di.
rected. Hnot strong enough add
more pepper. The recipe Is sup
posed to produce two extral gal
Ions. II one drink does not fetch
the coroner or t he police no
charge will be made.
The second recipe is q little
more complicated, and perhaps
1T Is well that this is 80 because
most ot the ingredients are rank
poisons. Take some quillaya-
extract OF carnnabis Indian, tine
ture OF guinea pepper, tincture OF
p'llitory, acetic ether, sulphuric
acid and powdered opium and
mix with 4 gallons of water.
Shake we'll and place in sun to
cool. To produce the genuine
flavor OF old Bourbon, add three
drops OF winter green, and to
make real Irish whiskey add
three drops OF creosote. Some
connoisseurs add q little tincture
of tobacco to give the stuff thu
right grip. The plan OF adding
domestic I've is not approved.
It is suspected that the deaths
!!of two men some months ago II
this city were due to the drinking
OF concoctiOns similar to tn
ai,oye.
| No doubt, a lot OF the whiskeJ
that comes through the express
office il made according to ON
Of the above recipes. Whiske.
made from either OF them ant
drank would call for the coroner
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

Throughout the eastern part
OF Siberia il. il no extraordinary
sight to see peasants in the hila-
rious state OF intoxication,
brought on by eating bread. In
thAregion between the sea and
the river called Missouri, the hu-
midity of the climate as we'll as
the soil, IL remarkable. In many
parts the humidity is. so intense
that there grows upon q species
of fungus. Al a result OF this, the
bread made from the corn gives
all the effects ofan over dose oi
alcohol. Whole districts aresome
times inebriated by this strange
kind of alcoholic bread.-Ex.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
Words To Freeze The Soul.

Words 10 Freeze Inc SOut.
"Your son has consumption. His
case is hopeless" These appalling
were spoken to George E. Blevlns
= le,ding merchsnt at Springfield.
N. c., by two expert doctors-one
a lung specialist, Then was shown
the wonderful power of Dr.. Kings
New Discovery" "After three weeks
usc,'' writes Mr.. Bleyins, che was
as we'll as ever. I would not take all
the money in the world toi what II
did for my boy" Infallible for
coughs and colds. its the safest, sur.
est cure of desperate lung diseases
on earth. soc. and $I.oo. Guarantee
satisfaction. Trial bottles free at all
druggists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

q ~ r. q \
London Chronicle.
As q circumstance ghost sto-s
~. and one that stood the cold
scrutiny Of q court OF law, Boo.
ty's case il without Q parallel.
The date given is 1883 when Mrs.
Booty brought an action for
slander against one Captain Bar
naby for what he had said Of her
late husband. According to an
extract from Q journal produced
in court, dated Friday, May 10,
1857, the captain on that day
went ashore with q large party
OF friends to shoot rabbits upon
Stromboli, the island Of Italy,
which from it's ever burning era.
ter is called 1.-THE lighthouse OF
the Mediterranean"
At about $50 in the afternoon
two men were seen running to.
ward the volcano, which was em.
itting flames. Captain Barnaby
then exclaimed: "Lord bless me,
the foremost lie old Booty, my
next door neighbor." They then
vanished in the flames, a fact ol
which every one present took no.
tice. p
Upon Captain Barnyby's re-
turn to England he learned that
"old booty" had died just about
the time of the strange occur.
renee at Stromboli. He t b n
made q remark which was thu
subject OF the action. that hs
chad seen old Booty running in
to the flames Of hell pursued b,
the devil" Mrs. Booty claimed
81, 900 as damages, and she cas'
came on in the kings bench be
fore the chief justice Sir Robert
Wright. For the defense, in addi
ton to the defense Of Captain
Barnaby and his friends, oil
} Booty's clothes were brought 10
; to court and identified by sever
al witnesses as being similar t.
those worn by the foremost MAJ
that ran into the crater-even Il
the peculiar buttons on his coat
The Judge was 80 impressed b.
! this evidence that he said: 'Lor'
, have mercy on me and gran
, that l may never see what yo
. have seen. One, two, three, ma,
he mistaken, but not thirty.
I. And so Booty's widow lost til
S day, and the case remains, pei
. haps, as the only judiciary a'
cepted ghost story on record
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
Swept Over Nirgara..

This terrible calamity often hap
pens because 4 careless boatman ig-
nores the rivers wairing-growing
ripples and taste, current. Natures
warnings are kind. That dull pain
or ache in the back warns YOU the
Kidneys need attention. if you would
escape fatal maladies -Dropsy, Di-
abetes or Bright's disease. Take E..
lictric Ritters at once and see Back
ache fly and all your best feelings
return. "After a long suffering from
weak kidneys and lame back, one
$i.oo bottle wholly cured me-"
writesJ. R. Blankenship, Of Belk.
Tenn. Only soc. at all druggists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

"a dollar was never 80 hard to
get or 20 easy to get rid or was
the graphic portrayal OF pres
ent conditions in q Cooper Union
meeting. And yet the Republic
can Congress -is busy trying to
make q dollar buy less than it
does now. without any way Of
making it easier to get the dol
lar.-Ex.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

The MArshville Home pu t 9
much in little when he ga vs: "The
prosperity Of the farmers of the
South will increase inst in prop
ortion to; the manner in which
food produces ceslncrease aid cotton
production decreases, and no fas-
tr.-Newton Observer
CA - ToREA.
B.snsas ~ khd ym Nan Alsr Dsrit
-" Nzz4z<zx
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
I'D Rather Die, Doctor"

than haye my feet cut off," said M.
L. Bingham, of Pineville, Ill.,, "but
you'll die from gangreene (Which
had eaten away ten toes) ifyou
don't,' said all doctors. Instead, he
used Bucklen's .Arnica Salve till
wholly cured. Its cures of Eczema
Fever Sores, Boils, Burns and Piles
astound the werld. s5c. at all drug.
gists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20
A strong Argument.
The Parish Visitor.

The Parish Visitor.
The following card male into
a blotter, signed by a dozen gro
Gerry firms of Delaware, Ohio, has
been scattered by the thousands,
and has proved very effective in
a campaign which, writes DR., C..
W. Barnes, "is moving on nice
ly":
"Any one who drinks three
glasses of whiskey q day for one
year and pays ten cents a drink
for it, can have in exchange at
any of the firms whose names ap-
pear on this card, three barrels
OF -four, twenty bushels Of pota-
toes, 200 pounds of granulated
sugar, one barrel ofcrackers, one
pound OF pepber, two pounds Of
beafafty pounds Of butter, ten
pounds OF cheese, twenty-five
pounds OF coffee, ten pounds oi
candy, three dozen cans OF toma-
toes, ten dozen oranges, ten dos-
en- bananas, two dozen cans oi
corn, eighteen boxes Of matches,
hall a bushel of beans, 100 cakes
of soap, and twelve packages Of
rolled oats, for the same money,
and, get $3.50 premium for ma
king the chang in his expendi-
lures"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-05-20

tack the vital organs, causing catarrh -
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Bladder troubles almost aleays reA4
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q cure Is obtained quickest by Z proper
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ing badly you can make no n1istake ~
taking Or. Kilmer's Swamp .ROot, the
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It corrects inability to hold urine ard
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comes that unpleasant necessity OF being
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It stands the highest for it, wonderful
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Swamp Root is pleasant to take ard =
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writing mentioa reading tllis oena1Q
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