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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

their stems and remain in the scoop, whence
they are transferred to the tray which each pick
er has close at hand. An expert picker with a
machine will do the work of from half a dozen
to a dozen hand pickers.
The cranberries as picked on the boys are
placed In huge wooden boxes and transferred
to a nearby frame building. where they are
passed through a machine known as a "separa-
tor" which takes out all the leaves, twigs and
other foreign matter. Then they are sorted for
the elimination of any bad or worm.eaten ber-
ries. and finally are placed in barrels, which are
hauled away to railroad yards to be loaded into
cars to the tune Of from 220 to 240 barrels
to the car, refrigerator cars being used exclu-
sively. Up to the present time cranberries have
been sold In bulk, but this year sees an innova-
ton In the appearance of evaporated cranberries,
for which are claimed all the advantages of evap-
grated peaches or apples, and In the introduction
of cranberrles put up in pasteboard cartons.
Bearing cranberry boys of the most desir-
able kind cost from $500 to $1,000 per acre,
but in a bumper year a grower may get his
money back the first year, and during the worst
year the industry has known in a decade most of
the growers made from 10 to Is per cent. on
their investment, and that, too, in spite of the
fact that cranberries were so plentiful that they
brought only 81 a barrel, whereas IS to 81 a bar
rel is accounted an average price, and there have
been years when a famine Of cranberries sent
the price up to $40 per barrel.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09
LENT ~INsPlRATIoN.

II am gratifed," said the first prom
inent citizen, Ito observe the under
current of Joy in the Thanksgiving
proclamation Of the governor. Hith-
erto the proclamations have been along
the old cut and dried, stilted forms.
but in this instance there Is a certain
tone of joyousness,o of thankfulness, Of
pure gratefulness that is really in
spring" a
YES" agrees the second prominent
citizen, but it's no wonder the govern
or felt good when he wrote that proc
lamation."
INC. He has started on what seems
destined to be a good administration.
already there is talk of promoting
him to some higher office in the gift
of the peo-v"
And BESIDES" interrupts the second
man, the owns one of the
largest turkey farms in the state.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

years, however, has witnessed a revolution.
Now almost all cranberries are picked by the
aid Of machines, and because 1t is tiresome
work manipulating these machines it has come
about that most of the women and children
have been forced out of the industry and the
task is largely in the hands Of men. the more
skillful of whom receive from So to IS per day.
The picking machine most extensively used
has the appearance of a huge wooden scoop.
the bottom of which is made up of a row Of
metal bars, tipped with sharp prongs and set
close together. In operation this scoop Is
showed with some considerable force into the
tangle of cranberry vines and then Is drawn up
ward and backward with the result that the
vines which have been caught slip between the
metal bars but leave the berries, which are too
large to pass through the openings, as do the
vines, and in consequence are stripped from
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

The pious, hard-driven, WORKOUT, but
thankful Puritans who sat down at
their tables one November, a few CEN
turtles ago, and made the first Thanks
giving Day, never knew to what
lengths they were to drive the in
genuity of their poor descendants.
But it wasn't their fault after all, that
the preparer of the Thanksgiving feast
today has to attend just as much to
the turkeys surroundings as to the
turkey itself. 1t was good enough for
them to have a w~ell-stocked larder
from which could come the turkey, the
celery, the pumpkin pie, the cranber-
ries and all the other goodies which
history puts down to their credit.
Even the comparatively recent New
Englanders were content with all
these as long as they looked tempting
and tasted good. But today, ever the
important fowl itself is hardly more
important than the ribbons, the can
dies, the favors, the adomments Of
Thanksgiving table.
Don't bother about having too
much to eat" an up-to-date daughter
was heard to say to her New England
mother the other day. Il want plenty
of room for the ribbons and the candy
boxes"
It's the same way with other daugh-
tiers of an esthetic turn Of mind, rath-
er than a practical one. and it looks
as II their ambitions to make things
look pretty may be realized this year,
for there is a goodly array of Thanks
giving favors and table decorations Of
all kinds.
OF course the turkey reigns SUI
preme, even If it is in paper, and is
seen in all sizes. all kinds, roasted to
a beautiful dark brown as the cook
book says, or standing important and
majestic with its big fan-shaped feath-
er tail high in the air. In most cases
the favor turkey is meant for candy,
but certain new china turkeys are
mustard cups.
The pumpkin is next in importance
and Is seen in many of the novelties.
There are large paper pumpkins for
c~enterpieces and all sorts Of small
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

missed from the name. most of these tracts are
located adjacent to rivers or lakes or ponds,
SO that they can be flooded in the late au.
tumn and kept under water until spring. The
berries grow on a vine which nestles close
to the ground In a perfect tangle, and save for
keeping out the weeds and battling with the
insect pests, which are numerous, the cranber.
ries do not require very much cultivation or
attention until harvest time approaches in the
autumn. Then the cranberry grower must look
forward to a period Of anxiety, a careful, SER
ious scrutiny of the weather. He must
keep close watch on the weather, for if a frost
comes ere the crop is harvested it will work
sad havoc unless the grower has been fore
warned and flooded his bog or built great bon
fires to keep up the temperature.
In years gone by the harvesting of cranber-
ries was done solely by the hand picking meth
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

ports by British ships and the impris-
onment of American seamen.
Another cause for Thanksgiving, &C
cording to the same high authority, is
the great degree of internal tran
quillity we have enjoyed" TO which
is added our cause for thankfulness
for the recent confirmation OF that
tranquility by the suppression of an
insurrection which 10 wsntonly threat
ened It"
And in another place the president
repeats this idea. asking his people
''te rsudsr . tribute Of psaiss and graf
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

attention on this solemn occasion. our
exemption from a foreign war" n
next proposes, as ian object Of graft.
tude" the increasing prospect Of the
continuance of our exemptions from q
foreign war Which propositions evil
IDENTIFY relate to the settlement,
through special envoy, John Jay. Of
our serious troubles with Great Brit
ain. growing out Of the continued DC
cupation by the British Of the western
forts ON Lake Erie. contrary to the
treaty Of 17S3: and tho seizure q
Arsrican vessels bound for Tfsach
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

tude to the Great Disposer of all
events, for the seasonable control
which has been given in a spirit of
disorder in the suppression Of the late
Instruction What the president
had in mind in this allusion was the
great whisky Instruction in Penn.
sylvania in 1874. caused by the as
sage by congress of acts imposing du-
ties upon spirits distilled and upon
stills. It was finally suppressed BY
Governor Lee Of Maryland, With l5. 900
troops. acting under orders Of the
president.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09
Thanksgiving in Year 1895

Nowadays the Thanksgiving procla
nation of the state n national ex-
ecutives are brief compared to what
they were in the early days of our
republic. In the case of the latter he
doesn't foreshadow his forthcoming
annual message as was somewhat the
vogue in President Washington's time.
This is seen in the Thanksgiving
proclamations issued by u great and
~good first president in the early part
OF the year 1895. in which he appoint
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

ed Feb. 10 as "a day OF public thanks
giving and prayer" The Father Of
His Country" vas then SO years of
age and was serving his sixth year as
president. It was a long document
and covered quite q number Of points.
OF these. 1 will advert very briefly to
only three or -four which are peculiar
II significant
In the presmble he mentions, q the
1rst subject demanding the public
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

heported and cranberry growers have been so
Increasing their productive areas that despite
The increase in demand, due to the countrys
Increase in population and other influences
there continues to be year by year a pretty
lavish supply of the crimson berries, and most
kble prices.
Cranberries, like so many Of the other good
things of life, are distinctively American dell
Sacies. To be sure, cranberries grow wild IN
fome other quarters of the globe-for instance
In Europe, but it is only in the United States
hat thew have been cultivated as an article OF
bod. Even here the growing of cranberries IS
confined largely to three states-Massachu'
Setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin,. How impor-
ant an industry it Is may be surmised, however,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

ton by the governors of New York
began in 1917. From that time the
observance gradually crept southwark
and westward, and in 1885 Governor
Johnson Of Virginia adopted it, and
though in 1857 Governor Wise OF V1r-
ginia declined to make the proclama-
ton on the ground that he was unau-
thorized to interfere in religious mat
tiers, In 1858 a Thanksgiving day was
proclaimed in eight Of the southern
states.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

The day had thus naturally grown
to be a national institution of almost
universal observance. when the Civil
wal brought to sudden ripeness this
along with many other tendencies. and
President Lincoln put upon 1t the seal
of his Official proclamation. Presi-
dent Lincoln's first proclamation was
In 1862, on account of the first impor-
tan victory Of the national arms. He
issued a similar recommendation in
1863.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

from the fact that the
Cape Cod district in Mas
sachusetts. the greatest
cranberry region on the
globe, sends to market as
many as one-third of a
million barrels of cram
berries in a single season.
The average person is
wont to term all berry
areas "pstohes," but cram
berries do not grow in
patches but in boys
and, as may be sur
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

cd, much as raspberries
or Strawberries are
picked, and most Of the
cranberry picking was
done by women and chill
dren. The Cranberry
King" used to hire as
many as 100 pickers
on his great bogs on
Cape Cod and the pick
ers, many of whom jour
neyed long distances.
"camped out" on the
boys during the picking
season. The past few
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09
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ks<%SZV va community. Plymouth.
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WZMI healthy and wealthy.
A$H Sickness. though it had
~%~ destroyed one-half the
~~Dun company Of pilgrims,
had ceased. and the
crops, as a whole, had been good, the
peas alone failing. All the houses in
the settlement had been put into con-
Hilton and a goodly stock of furs and
prepared lumber had been made ready
Sor export to England by the next
bhip. The waters swarmed with fish
Ind see fowl were abundant. The call
bf the wild turkey vas heard in the
woods and the patter Of the fleeting
deer was nothing strange.
The summer was past: the harvest
ended. The pilgrims decided Upon a
period Of recreation. The governor
sent out four huntsmen, who in one
day secured game to last the colony
2 week. Hospitality was extended to
M~assasoit, of the neighboring settle
uent, who brought 80 people with
him. The guests remained 80 days.
The company engaged in rounds Of
a~musements, in which military drills
and religious services formed a part.
Thus, heartily and Loyalty, was inau-
gurated the great New England festl-
val of Thanksgiving. For two centu-
r1es it has continued to be observed,
ut first mostly in the eastern states,
but 1t has now become national, its
annual return finding a welcome from
boundary to boundary. both at top
and bottom and either extremity OF
The nation.
Thanksgiving day is peculiarly an
American custom, though there are
some writer's who claim that it is not
possible to determine the date of the
first observance. John A. Goodwin,
in his historical review. The Pilgrim
Republic" is positive, however. that
the first celebration occurred in the
fall OF 1921, this being followed in 1923
by the first Thanksgiving proclama-
ton, by the governor Of Massachu-
sets. In 1880 there arrived at Plym-
outh IA vessels, bringing with them
$50 colonists. making the number
nearly 1900 instead of a mJre 800. On
July s. 1850, another Thanksgiving
was held in acknowledgment for this
accession to the ranks of the colon
fists. The Dutch governors of the New
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

EXT to a goodly supply OF
turkeys the most impor-
tant requisite for a sue
cessful Thanksgiving is a
plentiful measure Of cram
berries of just the proper
tart flavor. AS we'll have
a Thanksgiving dinner
without turkey as without
the appetizing cranberry
sauce. However tn people
of the United States have
scant cause to worry be-
cause Of this feature of
their holiday menu. 1t has
been years since a failure
--~~.rv avon uy0C
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01
PAGE NINE

If you hire a negro to chop cotton or a
white boy to clerk in your store do you go
off and leave the work to them without see
ing how they do it? Certainly not. You
realize that eternal vigilance is the price that
you pay for success in private life. Without
the application of the same vigilance to your
public affairs this republic will never be what
your forefathers intended.
To arouse your interest in your govern
mental affairs, to explain to the people what
reforms are necessary for the general good
of the country and how to get them, the edu-
cational campaign was launched. If all of
you will cooperate with me, earnestly and
persstently, we WILL by 1912, be able to elect
Congressman who will be able to do some
thing which their. secretaries could not do
representatives of the people who will do
something more for them than to hunt little
jobs for offlce-seekers, send out garden seed
and copies of speeches which, perhaps, were
never delivered on the floor of the House or
Senate.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01

The campa on of education which we be-
gan Immediately after the October elections
IN Georgia is meeting with the most crafty
ing encouragement. Inasmuch as [ am not
seeking anything for myself friend and foe
alike realize how disinterested my labors are,
and the consequence is that / get fair hear
ing, for the first time in twenty years. The
natural result is that our principles are Win
nmg more supporters every day.
After covering Georgia, it is my purpose
to extend the campaign into other Southern
States. From North Carolina to Texas the
same gospel shall be preached, -towit: that
under our government, every citizen is
equally responsible for the kind of legislation
and the kind of men we have in office
:. The indifference of the people to their pub
lie affairs gives the ringsters their golden OPP
portunity Inattention to the doings of pub
lie servants emboldens those servants to be-
tray their trusts We have not been demand
ing an account of the stewardship, and there
fore the steward has not done his duty by
us.
What has your servant in the State Legis-
lature been doing as your representative
there? You don't know. To Judge by your
actions, you haven't cared to know. Conse-
quently your servants in the Legislature have,
in many cases, betrayed YOU
What have your servants been doing for
you In your National Legislature,
gress? You don't know and you've been act
ing as though you didn't care.
How on earth can you, as a reasonable man,
expect your public affairs to be properly at
tended to if you pay no regard to them your
self?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01
THE JEFFERS ONIAN

Everybody who has bought window glass
within the last twelve months contributed
something toward that 400 per cent. profit.
In precisely the same way every one of these
sudden and enormous fortunes has been made
The manufacturers have been allowed to make
the laws to suit themselves, with the result
that there is almost no competition and the
people are compelled to pay the most un-
reasonable prices for the commodities con-
trolled by these trusts.
Suppose that window glass from foreign
countries were allowed to come into the
American markets without the payment of
any Custom-house duties: what would be the
effect? There would be competition between
this foreign product and that of the Ameri-
can Glass Trust; therefore, prices would fall.
Let me give you a convincing example.
Many years ago there was a heavy tariff duty
imposed upon quinine. 1t couldn't be brought
from other countries and sold here without
the payment of this high license Fee Con
sequently this license fee got into the price
of the drug, and at one time this scared to
$3.50 per ounce. Thus you see that heartless
lawmakers became the allies of fever and of
DEATH
Two or three American dealers in the drug
were heaping up riches, while thousands of
the sick, who were unable to pay those ex-
orbltant prices, persisted for the lack of
proper medicine. If my memory is not at
fault, the huge Winans fortune (Baltimore)
was built upon this hideous foundation
When DR.. William H. FELTON,, of Georgia,
was elected to Congress, he made a speciality
of breaking up this quinine monopoly. AS
the result of his labors mainly, it was put on
the free list--that is to say, it was allowed
to come through the ports of entry without
the payment of any fee or duty. The result
was that foreigners began to ship cinchona.
bark and quinine into our markets, competing
with the American monopolists, and bringing
prices down with mighty tumble You can
buy it now almost anywhere for so cents per
ounce.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01
Calico Charley Makes the Point OF
Inconsistency" Against Editor
StOVall

Made it first with his pen, and afterwards
with his fists. This is how it was:
1ou will remember that during the sultry
days of last Summer when Congressional De
serters and DonOthings were running around,
seeking another term, some salty charges
against Congressman Chas g. Edwards, of
the First District, appeared in THE JEFFER-
sONIAN.
Lest forget, the charges were these:
Q) That he had deserted to the Repubi-
cans, on the 10Th day of March, 1909; and
had given them indispensable aid in the adop-
ton of the Cannon rules, without which that
old rascal could not have packed the commit
tees and passed the $50 amendments which
that other old rascal, Aldrich, tackled on to
the Payne bill III the Senate. The base be-
trayal of the people by the % Democrats who
deserted to the Republicans is costing the
country about million dollars day, in the
increased cost of living The bride offered
Edwards was Federal patronage and commit
tee appointments. Everybody saw how the
Deserters controlled Federal appointments in
their Districts; whereas the Democrats who
did not desert had no influence whatever in
the naming of Census enumeratOrs, P0stmas-
ters, etc. ,x
(2) 1t was charged that Edwards paid
Claude Bennett forty dollars for writing
speech which was neither spoken or read in
the House; but, which was circulated in his
District as a speech delivered in Congress.
To make the deception more complete, the
word, "Applause," was put into it, time and
again, to indicate that Edwards was not only
addressing his colleagues, but was being APP
plauded by them while he was doing so.
A gross fraud was thus perpetrated upon
his constituents, and the Postal laws were
violated. While Edwards sought testimonials
from j. Howard Wells, who breaches in
Washington City, he produced no denial from
Claude Bennett, who runs an Information
Bureau there. Yet the charge inpOz0es moral
tu'pitude Of the 0izest sort, and If 1t aoe1V
szamder, Benefits denial aoOu7d hare been Sc
cm'ed
(3) That his private secretary walked in
on him one Sabbath afternoon, and found
him seated in his office at the capitol, with
young woman in his lap.
OF course, the secretary Immediately shut
the door, and went away. Next morning,
when Edwards met his secretary at the capt.
tai he said, with laugh, "You mustn't come
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01
Another Short Preachment About
Our Tariff


up our National Congress, and Parliament is
the supreme law making body for vaster
empire than ours. Yet the annual cost to the
british people OF maintaining their national
Legislature IS less than $1,3O0,000, while the
American Congress costs the people upwards
OF S14, 100000 per year. That's the price we
pay for having our laws made in the interests
of the Trusts. Each of us contributes in
proportion to the amount of manufactured
goods of foreign make which we purchase.
a twohorse farmer who has to purchase
several hundred dollars worth of family and
plantation supplies pays as much or more
toward the support of the Government than
Andrew Carnegie does. Thus you see how
accumulated millions escape national taxa
ton, while the Government draws it's revenues
from the unprivileged millions who have to
buy these various articles to which the Tariff
applies. Don't you think that it is perfect
outrage that a national tax should be hidden
away under the price of practically every
thing that you buy to clothe YOURSELF furnish
your house, kitchen, and dining room, work
at your trade as a mechanic or your calling
as farmer? whereas the ungodly fortunes of
such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould,
Vanderbilt & Company contribute nothing
whatever to the support of the national adj
mlnlstratlOn.
HOW are UlOSo COLOSSAL pies OF money
heaped up? No such accumulatOns by in
dlvldual citizens were ever known in the his
tory of mankind.
We know we'll enough how the rich people
of England got their wealth. They were
granted immensely valuable tracts of land by
the king. and this wealth has been handed
down from sire to son for many generations.
Frequent rebellions and changes of dynasty
afforded golden opportunities for the confs-
cation of property and the enrichment of
royal favorites. Some of these large English
fortunes date back hundreds of years.
We also know the origin of the Rothschld
millions. More than century of money
lending, of floating national loans, buying
and selling national securities, have been the
means whereby the Rothschild brothers grew
wealthy
But how did these American fortunes be-
come so immense in so short time? An in
teresting fact which throws lime-lig CHIT over
the whole situation, developed the other day,
when the Window Glass Trust was under
examination. 1t was capitalized at $9O0O,-
600 and its profits had been 400 per cent.
Now il you will take your pencil and calcu-
late what $9,00O,000 would grow to within
ten years at 400 per cent, periodically COM
pounded, you will have an idea of how these
American fortunes are accumulated.
The glass manufacturers simply combined
in one big corporation, and thus secured a
monopoly of the home market. That is to
say, if you needed window glass, you couldn't
get it excepting from this combination of
glass manufacturers.
Now, window glass is as certainly neces-
sary of life as house to live in is; yet here
was an article needed by the cottage and the
palace alike--an article which was being
manufactured at many different places-but