Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-01
COL. LAUNSBERRY'S Letter

we'll as the enjoyment Of honors 80
we'll earned by your earnest and sue
cessful efforts in behalf of the veter-
an Union soldiers and sailors and
the widows of those of our deceased
comrades. Sincerely your.
John R. King.
President.
Every soldier whom l meet. know
Ing that l am from North Dakota,
express the warmest friendship for
him and the greatest solicitude and
most fervent hope for his recovery.
The letters quoted express the gen.
eral tenor of the several hundred re-
ceived from all over the country. Hun
dreds Of kilograms have been receiv-
ed from G. A. r. posts, and from his
friends in the state.
The senator is himself anxious to
resume work in the senate and take
part in the investigation of the prices
Of the food products, which he was
working on when he was stricken.
Some years ago certain class of
editors were called sod corn editors.
Horace Greeley spoke of another class
as little creatures" etc. One of these
fellows. about as useless as a stalk
of sod corn stricken by an early fros>,
noticed, made light, sort O. gigled
over the senator's illness. The gob-
blins are waiting for such fellows.
Another denied some statistics the
senator gave as to what O. North Da-
kota steer would bring if cut up and
sold at the prices charged the men,
bers of congress and their guests at
the Senate restaurant. If the fellow
knew what he was talking about, or
had occasion to sit down with friend
at this restaurant and start in with
porter house steak at $3.50, and
other things in proportion, he would
admit that he was taking the first
steps in high life. If he should be
so unfortunate as to gain a govern
ment clerkship in Washington and pay
40 cents pound for butter, 40 cents
per dozen for eggs, IL cents a quart
for milk, 80 cents pound for steak,
80 cents a pound for ham, IS cents
pound for chuck. 80 cents a pound
for liver, 20 cents for a quarter peck
of potatoes, and everything else in
proportion. and from $50 up for a
four room fiat. he would begin to see
why there is unrest among the resi-
dents of all of the great cities, and
begin to understand that there is a
reason for the high price inquiry that
is being made all over the country.
He would also begin to have a faint
appreciation of the fact that there is
no community on earth that has less
to complain about, aside from the
combinations of the grain dealers and
the packers, to beat them on grades
and prices, than the people of North
Dakota.
. The farmer who sells hic eggs in
summer to the local dealer at 10 cents
a dozen would be compelled to pay
40 cents to the packer who has kind.
ly preserved them in cold storage for
the next spring. He sells his butter
for ten cents a pound and buys it
back at 40 cents as choice creamery
hutter. Beef goes at $3.50 on foot.
he rushes his bunch to market and is
compelled to sell it at 81 to $3.50, and
If he wanted beef for his dinner he
could not get bone for soup for less
than ten cents. There is somebody
that is not getting square deal, and
it is not the villainous crowd who are
rObbing the farmer on the one hand
and the consumer in the city on the
other. Senator McCuhber has been
after them during his whole term in
ME senate.
r. Mr.. Marshall of North Dakota, is
getting one bit of advertising for
which he did not bargain. The |
Washington Times of this evening, |
publishes a double column portrait |
of. his as Governor Marshall of In
diana. Since North Dakota needs is I
wealthy insurgents to make the cam
paign Interesting, we will not be able |
to spare Tom until it is over.
The Congressional Record of Mon
day contains Senator Purcell's speech
on the Court of Commerce. He roasts
the lumber dealers, quite equal to
the roasts given them by the republi-
can senators, and from democratic
point, justifies the state, when it be-
comes wholly democratic, in select
ing him for the hall of fame, as North
Dakota's greatest man. That is the
logical result of prohibitioiists and
republicans voting the democratic
ticket just because they like Governor
Burke and Doc Purcell.
The Record of Tuesday publishes
Mr.. Gronna's speech on the with
drawal of public lands. showing the
advantages to the country from the
policy of encouraging settlers on
small farms under the homestead act,
as exemplified by The homestead set
Elements in the states of Iowa. Min
nesota and North Dakota. showing
products aggregatiHg scme !, thirteen
hundred million dollars during the
year 1909. He believes the presi-
lent already has ample authority tot
withdraw lands.
The land department has commenc-
ed to issue patents under the coal
aw. the government retaining title
% the coal. Where the special agents
export no coal, or where the lands are
lot classified, the lands are relieved
rom the election. So none in North
Dakota need hesitate to elect to take
surface title, if they are required to