Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-01

sold $302,734 worth Of horses out of
the state; paid farmers for cream at
creameries $43S, 1850, and marketed
other products of considerable value
of which no statistics were obtained.
The wheat crop of North Dakota
alone in that year was worth about
500 per capita, and averaging five
persons to the family, about $500 to
the family, on a basis Of 400, 900 peo-
pie. And yet Senator Purcell de-
clares in the senate that in 1904 we
raised no crop whatever. Now" was
that speech made to give the facts,
or was it inspired by a desire to
create wrong impression as to the
effect of republican policies in North
Dakota?
The replies of Senator Purcell to
the inquiries of Senator Hepburn are
evasive, and he hesitates to make a
definite reply to questions as to the
prosperity of North Dakota. OF
course, he knows that the prosperity
of the whole state has been the SUBJ
ject of columns of newspaper COM
ment and fulsome speeches by the
states public men in the past few
years. He knows that the granaries
have been full to overlooking, and
that railroads have been taxed to
haul out the crop. He knows that
the farmers have been getting I'M
precedented prices for their prod
ucts, buying automobiles, building
better homes, buying more land and
adding to the wealth of the state
from their savings. He must have
read the bank statements and learn
ed of the great increase in deposits
the savings of the ag-
ricultural classes and those who deal
with them in other lines of business
He must have seen figures as to the
increase in the assessed valuation of
the state. And yet before the senate
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he conveys the impression that
North Dakota has been just strug-
Cling along, and that Gin 1907 the
farmers made little money"
And he says that in the western
part of the state there have been
much more hard times and some
people have been suffering" Was |
one of the sufferers Flax King Smith
Of Beach, who took $35 900 of profit
off of 1000 acres of flax? Was it the
hard times in the western part of
The state that has raised the price
If land from 1925 to $50 and $40
an acre in the past seven or eight
'ears? Was it the hard times that
QUILT the towns of Beach, Sentinel
Butte, Belfield. Marmath, Bowman,
aettinger, Mott, and a dozen other
settlements in the past four
n five years, till buildings rose on
he naked prairies like mushrooms
'ver night? We fear Senator Pur- !
ell has not been inquiring into con-
itions in the western part of this
tate, from his senate speech. Either
hat, or he hesitated to admit that
@ state in the Union has made more
apid advances, produced more
'ealth proportionately to its popu-
alton, built more miles of railroad,
pened more farms, and created
lore actual value than North Dakota
1 the ten years from 1900 to 1910.
We comment thus extensively upon Il
he speech of Senator Purcell to
how the character of the democratic h
rgument against the tariff bill and
gainst the policies of government
nat have enabled the people of this
nd other states to achieve such re- y
larkable results in the past decade ,
wen a casual analysis shows the .
tier fa11acy Of its argument. !:
That is not at all such speech as |
enator Purcell would make at :
ounty fair, a commercial gathering, e
n the state senate, or elsewhere,
ay at Fourth of July celebration.
was a calamity speech-and not
UGH a one as We had expected from
he second senator from Richland
ounty and the democratic represent
alive in the upper house of congress.
The announcement of W. c. Taylor
f LaMoure has been sent to the
ditors Of the state-without a check |
nd the explanation that twenty odd
ears in a country print shop is the
eason for the absence of the check.
'ay1or is a progressive republican"
andidate for the nomination as in
urance commissioner. He has been
ditor of the LaMoure Chronicle for
~ 80, ,-A