Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-12-15

meetings yesterday and indorsed
Champ Clark of Missouri, the minor
ity leader for speaker of the next
congress.
The center of population of South
Dakota is at Alpena, Jerauld county.
according to the last census. In 1905
it was about thirty miles east. at
point three miles west of Carthage,
in Miner county.
In Missouri 32s,216 democratic vot-
ers elect thirteen representatives,
while 3lS,s67 republican voters elect
only three representatives. You are
given only one guess in which to name
the party that did the gerrymander-
ing.
The declaration of the emperor of
Germany in favor Of prohibition
sounds a little bit like the zeal of the
American reformer who would en-
force such law for the benefit of
the poor workingman, knowing very
we'll that he will be able to get at his
club all he wants himself.
While South Dakota has done well
in gain of population, giving her tenth
place among the states in percentage
of increase, she needn't boast too
loudly. Her twin sister in the north
has done vastly better. Much of this
is due no doubt to North Dakota's
trans-continental railroads.
General Simon Boliver Bukner,
candidate for vice president on the
gold democratic ticket in 1896, now
lives in the log cabin in Kentucky in
which he was born and at eighty y-eight
says he is the happiest man in the
world. That is fine testimonial as
to the virtue and happiness of the
simple life.
The horse appears to be holding his
own against the automobile if we
judge from the figures showing that
the value of the oat crop this year is
1886, 100000, and that the nay crop is
worth more than the wheat crop this
year by nearly 500, 900. And the
price of good horsefesh itself is high
sign that it is here to stay.
Stockmen of Iowa, Nebraska and
the Dakotas are interested in the
movement to secure uniform health
certificates to be issued by all states
for interstate live stock shipments.
The plan has been taken up by the
United States Live Stock Sanitary
association as a part of program to
eradicate bovine tuberculosis.
When the government took charge Of
the mail of the Burr brothers, the New
York get rich quick outfit, they found
that single mail brought in $25, 5,OcO
from the immense order of suckers
born every second. This money was
saved and returned to the senders, and
the chances are that all of them were
sore on the government for the service.
Profit sharing between employers
and employees is being tried in many
industrial establishments, and gen.
orally is found to work we'll. The
announcement that Berkins, the great
fnancier, is to devote his life to the
work of extending this system Of pro-
fit sharing, in the hope of proving it
the true solution of the troubles be-
tween capital and labor, is interesting
and his work, no doubt, will throw
new and needed light on the subject.
Notwithstanding the defeat of the
electric headlight law at the recent
election, the railroads seem inclined to
adopt the electric headlight system.
For the first time in the history Of the
Northwestern read, fully equipped
and electric headlight, arrived in
Pierre on Thursday last. The law
was referendumed at the solicitation
of railroad people and the running of
electric headlights so soon after the
defeat of the law. created no little
Comment in political ciseles.