The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-07-13
AFFAIRS At WASHINGTON CITY
Current News of the Week and
Events of Importance in
Which South Dakota
Figures
Especial TO the NewS)


the Canadian reciprocity matter.
Senator Gamble devoted himself
somewhat to the principle of the
protective tariff policy and warn
ed the senate that there should be
no attack for reductions on that
principle. The following is an ex.
tract from his speech: Since the
inauguration of the protective pol
icy by the republican party we
have accumulated and added to
our material wealth upward OSLO
OOO,OOO,OOO, which is practically
one-fourth of the wealth of civili-
zation. Under the same policy and
the range of prices therefor from
the wealth of the soil our agricul-
tural production is the greatest in
value each year of any people in
the world. There has been built up
under the same system our manu-
featuring establishments that pro-
duce each year practically one
third of the manufactured product
of the world. As result our ex-
port trade exceeds that Of any of
the governments of civilization.
We therefore should take care
that the matter now in hand should
not invade the protective principle
of the party and imperil the pros
perity of any class of our people
or overthrow through this process
the bulwark of protection that has
made possible our marvellous de-
velopment and accomplishments. "
The census bureau has deter
mined that there were 5l,GS3, $50
sheep and lambs in the United
States in 1910. These are all of the
kind that live on farms and ranges
and are independent of the breed
that hang around " all street and
other stock exchanges. because the
count was made of the sheep and
lambs with wool on their backs in
stead of the kind where the wool
has been pulled over their eyes.
OF the animals counted there was
in South Dakota a sheep popula-
tion Of 5O2, ,5O5 in 1910, in Nebras-
ka there were 245. 195 sheep, and
in Kansas FOG, 49S. These figures
show an increase in each of the
states.
Senator Gronna of North Dako-
ia, drew the attention of the Cap
itol to himself during his speech
this week concerning Canadian
reciprocity. The senator opposed
the measure on the ground that it
was unfair to the farmers of the
country. The principal feature of
his remarks concerned the success
full efforts of President Taft to
put over" Canadian reciprocity,
and Washington is wondering how
long it will be before the senator's
who have met failure upon this
measure will stop their scolding.
At the beginning of the present
year one post Office in each state
was designated as postal savings
bank. The plan hiss proven so
successful in the experimental stag
es that $50 new Offices are to be-
come postal savings repositories
on July 18th. The Offices desig-
mated for the state of South Dako-
ia are Brookings, Canton, Dallas,
Deadwood, Huron, Lead, Lemon,
Redfeld and Yankton.
About a year ago the Merchants
Association of New York, started
a movement against the express
companies which was joined by
similar commercial ORGANIZATIONS
throughout the country. While
others were agitating the need of a
parcels post through the pest Office
department, these commercial or
CARNATIONS have persistently
fought shy of that issue and in
stead have contsnded for the reg