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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

HE HAD NO NEED TO TRAVEL.

Duluth Herald: Reed Smoot, sana-
tor from Beet Sugar, Wool and Nor
mon church, and chief defender in the
United States senate Of the Aldrich
brand of tariff craftsmanship, closed
his speech against the democratic
tariff bill with this peroration:
II have visited the leading industrial
countries. Of the world. I have seen
there the value placed upon human
labor. / have seen the poverty, the
squalor and suffering to which the
labor is subjected. I have seen, the
effect OF such upon the men, women
and children of those countries. and u
have made a vow that no act Of mine
shall ever place an American work
man in the position of having to COM
pete with such conditions. ! There is
only n way to prevent 1t, and that
is by, a protective tariff, and there
fore | have been, and am still, a pro-.
Ist~ectionist without qualification
Also, senator, o are a ~hypocrite.
You had no need to travel to find
humanity oppressed by working con-
ditions, or squalor or suffering or hui
man beings stunted and distorted by
low wages and shameful poverty that
shamefully goes hand in hand with
willing industry.
You could have found the same
things in the highly protected textile
industries OF New England.
Indeed, you could have found the
ann people YOU studied abroad; for
while those Of your stripe profess that
you will never consent to let Ameri-.
can labor compete with the underpaid
workers of Europe, you have COM
placertly permitted that very conpe-
tition in its worst form by letting your
pet manufacturers import all of these
laborers they pleased.
In the textile towns of New Eng
land ycu will find that these imported
laborers have crowded American
laborers completely out of the filed.
You will find squalid homes, empty
by day because the father, mother and.
all the children are working in the.
mills, their combined wages not equal
ing the UNI that wise and humane,
students have declared the minimum
efs.
You will find adult workers, heads
of families. Iaboring for a pittance sos
small that their wives and children
have to be Impressed into the mills
to Keep body and soul together.
You will find that where the mothers
are not ait work ia the mills, they are
keeping boarding houses at home i'll
shacks SO eongested with humanity
that home life is utterly destroyed,
and children are d in conditionsg
that absolutely deny them their cod
given right to- a wholesome childhood
and the training for good citizenship
which the national welfare demands.
In the protected textile industries
Eofs New ENGLAND and the south YOU
will ind child workers toiling long
hours when they should be ali play or
Id school You will find children talk
ing up the burden of toll at the age
of 40 and AR, and stunted and made
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they get right off the roosts ia the
night and begin scratching. The
something the matter, was starva-
ton, which ultimately took all the
hens. 4
Swanson gave way 4 a retired
preacher who, out of the meager sal
airy Of country parsons, had saved a
pittance. How long that will carry him
on land which needs an investment of
fertilizer twice as great as the origin
al cost, and In a business Of which he
is painfully ignorant, no one can tell.
But the n~eig1bors are specializing; and
the tenor of their ~speculations is not
a happy one.
The most intelligent resident OF the
corners. the m maj who has really
made farming there pay, has formulate
ed these rules for the guidance of such
friends as write to him to inquire the
| prospects for their success on a farm:
First-Don't buy any land anywhere
until YOU have the unbiased Judgment
of some one whom You can trust as to
the value of the land and its lowest
net return to you the first three years,
even under your unquestionable mis-
handling.
Second--While many farmers are un-
progressive ap5 sluggish. the mere fact
that YOU are from the city does not
make 1t certain that YOU will succeed
in competition with them. They have
been at their business good many
years, They will be inclined to resent
any air of superiority in your manner,
whether real Or fancied. On the other
hand, they will probably be- able to
help you a good deal If YOU go willing
to learn, AT any rate YOU must eX-
pect for the first few years that your
standard OF living will have to APP
preach pretty closely to theirs; that
you will have to work about as long
hour as they do, and that our wife
will have TO drudge as their wives do.
Gradually your better trained mind will
work out improvements, but the pro-
cess will be gradual.
Third-Don't buy a farm until your
wife has had a chance to live on a
farm for a little while. A man can
get along in some fashion in the city
unmarried, but the farmers wife is the
n absolutely essential person or thing
on the place. If your wife@is not we'll,
If she cannot stand up under really
hard labor, ii she cannot find satisfac-
ton in her own company and yours,
stay in town. You will not succeed
on the farm.
Fourth-If you have only enough to
buy the farm INK nothing to pay the
expenses of the first year you are
not in a position to make the venture.
Fifth-Ffnally, if you have never
lived on a farm, but have just a fugi-
tive notion that you would like to-;
from the breeding of chickens, or if
you think that living on a farm is an
easier life than living in town, don't
go. The place for you to do your
farming is in your own back yard.
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An i~nterurban track crossing a coun-
try road $50 miles from Chicago forms
the Corners. A dozen houses stand out
within sight of it, in the center of al
great loose-soiled country that was
once rich enough to grow the peaches
of the world. Persistent draining of
the soil left 1t little better than sand.
The orchards died off, and the original
owners died or moved away, leaving,
the country to be repopulated by the
real estate agents from the neighbor-
Ing city. And they have done their
work well.
In the past five years the sixteen
farms lying nearest the. Corners have
been sold no less than forty-five times.
And not n tof these sales has been
made to a practical farmer. Practical
farmers In plenty have come and seen,
but they would not purchase One look
was enough. The purchasers nave been
frugal members of the city's lower
middle class--painters, carpenters,
masons, mechanics--who have saved
their money in the fond hope Of buying.
independence on the farm. There have
been q couple of ulderpaidf preachers
also, some teachers and one saloon.
keeper. Their knowledge of farming
and farm values may be epitomized IN
this, In more than one instance the
sale has been made in the dead of
winter when the whole farm was COW
cred knee-deep In snow.
This is a chapter in the story OF the
back-to-the-land movement which for
some reason all writer's have failed to
write-the story of those who have
gone back to the farm and back again
to the city. There Is human interest
In It, and a deal of woe.
The Druggist From Egypt Way.
Perhaps the Henderson place lis as
typical as any about the Corners. OLD
Joe Henderson, the first owner, was a
.sfiftless aborigine who took his profit
from the land year after year, return
ing nothing to 4, until there was no
profit. Then he concluded to sell. Just
how he gotsim touch with SmedIey4j ITS
not known. Smedley ran a drugstore
down att Cairo Tl. But after hours,
and between safes, he read books on
farming and adyertiseInentso f Ireland
companies. Of all the land advertised,
that Hill low Michigan near the lake
seemed to be cheapest naedley did
not stop TO ask why it was so. 1T ap-
Eealed to him immensely. Eis little
business translated into acres of rich
Illinois cor1l land would q naoun To
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tious career of his offspring, though
all. thettinegaWaraSof8it
Perennial responsibility lis mott bt
so lightly shaken off, Al fathers duts
is something moreA#than a mere com
mand TO cease outragfng law and de.
cency; at CARRIES with 1t the obliga.
ton to: enforce that command. The
elder Dfggs Is drinking Of the cup OF
sorrow that he brewed for himself, and
for other parents.
The trialHof Caminetti on the same
charges as Diggs comes up this week.
Judge Van Fleet will preside then also,
and from the in which he con-
Quoted the. first trial, and his i~nstruc-
tons, to the jury, it is fairly certain
that the other, If lesser villain in this
foul affair, will get the same dose as
his fellow criminal.
One of. the lessons to be drawn from
the Diggs case is aptly pointed out by
The Marshalltown, Ia, Times Republic
can in the following comment:
There is a similarity between Diggs
and Harry Thaw. Both were sons of
wealthy parents. Both had altogether
too much money to spend and " llttle
useful to occupy themselves at. Both
went to the devil and dragged others
with them. Both arc centers Of litiga-
ton which is maintained on the ability
to pay lawyers and court costs. Both
were to all appearances utterly devoid
Of moral consciousness. And both will
be able at liberty to"occupy the courts
and the newspapers for a long time
because somebody has the price to pay
for such opportunity.
It Is easy enough to see where the
yellow press finds response to its ap-
peal to the masses" against organized
society. 1t is hard for the moneyless
man to understand why his son is sent
swiftly and surely to the penitentiary
while the Thaws and the Digs and
their ilk stay at large through the abil-
ity to pay. That one is as guilty as
the other merely a~ccentuates the feel
ing of. discrimination made, not as
against the poor criminal, but in favor
of the rich criminal.
1t seems to many not altogether I'M
able to consider and conclude thought
fully that the right Of appeal is a
.p~urChaseable one; that the higher court
is under the circumstances available
only to those who can pay. And with
THIS conclusion arrives the thought
that under the law things are unequal,
that absolute justice and equality un-
der the law fails when Diggs can await
at liberty the decision of a higher court
while Smith is taken from the dock to
the p~enitent4ary. Nobody Is worried
over Smith. He is getting what he has
coming to him. But why should Diggs
buy with money, privileges which are
denied to Smith?
The yellow press, the anarchistic
propaganda make the most of it. They
point to Smith in the prison and Diggs
equally guilty outside in a limousine
car. And a million Of their readers
take notice. y
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25
PET A cREMATED.
Linneyin Mikes Coffin Reduced Re.

Linesin Mikes Coffin Reduced Re-
mains to Ashes.
New York American. The body Of
Mike a dearly beloved cat that be-
longed to Mrs. Martha Neffler, a
widow, of Jacksonville, N. r., was ac-
cidentally crernated, instead Of being
buried with mournful ceremonies ID
her garden today.
10 honor Mike Mrs. Neffger
bought a small, but ornate. coffin. she
covered the bottom with lime, and,
weeping, placed Mike inside.
Whether the widows tears were toe
scopious or the cellar where she place
ed the coffin too damp, moisture slack
ed the lime, witch ignited the cofln.
Awakened by smoke, the distracted
Mrs. Neffler rushed to the cellar. only
10 find mingled the ashes OF mike
and ofsthe coffin.
This cen an age of big guns and
AtkEAA M NJ va q
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Marital Longevity,

Knoxville Sentinel: The, married
law joke which. is to. say it is as old
mems Joke is as old as the mother-in-
as marriage. The rhymesters and bal
lad mongers have exhausted their
shafts of ridicule at the married. The
~cartoonist has taken up the same old
~threnody Of the woes of the paterfa-
mli1as. The epigrammatist gave what
ne thought was an unanswerable re-
tort to the amateur statistician who
said married men lived longer. ooh,
no, it just seems longer" But the
amateur statistician has been rein
forced. by the professional. The New
York board Of health has dished out
the cold facts. After four years of
investigation" the board declares:
The death rate of married men be-
tween 20 and 20 years of age is "A in
the thousand; of single men, &C. in the
thousand; Of widowed and divorced
men, ~ in the thousand.
The death rate of married men be-
tween 80 and 80 is So in the thou
sand; of single men, h2.9, and of wild
owed and divorced men, AL.
The death rate Of married men be-
tween so and So is II in the thousand;
of single men, 1877; of widowed and
divorced men, 30.5.
The deadly parallel was drawn for
all the decades up to 80, with similar
results.
There seems to be ample compensa-
ton in home comforts and home inter-
ests for home cares.
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Bruce Barton in c%oIIier,s

Bruce Barton in Golfers.
The story of some forty couples
who went back to the land and
back to the city again. Names and
places given in this article have
been changed for obvious reasons,
but the story is actual, and details
have been verified carefully.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The daughter of a. Mitchell, Bag
dad, KY, had a bad case Of kidney
trouble and they feared her health was
permanently impaired. Mr.. Mitchell
says. She was in terrible shape. but
I got her to take Foley Kidney Pills
and now she is completely cured"
Women are more liable to have kidney
trouble than men Int will find Foley
Kidney Pills a safe dependable and
honest medicine. Economy Drug Co.;
Fargo Drug Co.-Advt.
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Beneficiary.

washington Herald: Since YOU
worked Your examples 50 nicely said
the pretty teacher, shall GIVE you
a kiss
Teacher, didn't know there was iii
be reward responded the horess
lurcfin. s'It's only fair to ten you thar
nay hig brother did thesa mas
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Colored blindpiggers are not at all
popular in the. country tributary to
Edgeley-one, recently, will not soon
forget the trouble he got into.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

THE highest point Of Kildeer noun
tain is 500 feet above the prairie, level
and 1000 feet above the Little Missouri
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Postoffice troubles at M~innewaukan
have been settled and Mrs. Mary Mott
Ike will be named postmistress.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The famous stock farm established
by Andrew Loughlin at Lisbon is for
sale. Mr.. Loughlin was n Of the first
commissioners Of agriculture in this
state. 80
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The Mail at Edgeley boasts Of the
lead that city has in LaMoure county
In the item Of bank deposits.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The open esason for free speech"
debates in this state is from Thanks
giving day to March 1-other times the
farmers are too busy making their
money. .
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Beef from the ranges tributary to
the Standing Rock reservation will
be a little late this year.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

It seems to be the settled opinion of
the great majority Of farmers that
early fall blowing produces much bet
ter results on the next year crops than
late blowing.
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a Simple Proposition.

New York Post: 1t was all as
simple as could be. When the gate
was opened and the milk wagon drove
into the courtyard of Matteawan pris-
on. the turnkey happened tosbe on one
side Of the wagon and Mr.. Harry K.
Thaw happened to be on the other
side. So Mr.. Thaw walked out. It
was the one cats trick worth the
dozen tricks in the fox's bag that had
already been tried-the pitched bat
ties of legal infantry, the brilliant
charges of a~lienist cavalry, the skirm-
1shes fought about the governors par
doning power, the bribing of high
prison officials. ALL these pains for
nothing, when 1t was a mere question
of waiting for the gate to open and
the milk wagon to drive in. The only
necessary preliminary was that Mr.,
Thaw should be roaming at ease in
Matteawan courtyard in the early
hours Of morning. But that presented
no peculiar difficulty, seeing how on
previous occasions all the our of
the state had been brought into play
to make Stanford Whites slayer as
comfortable as could be during his
enforced sojourn-not excluding auto
mobile trips into the pleasant coun-
tryside. Thus the greatest of our
causes celebres continues to swing for
ward in its orbit. Splashed abroad in
the newspaper columns for boys and
girls to dabble in, the slime Of this
Thaw affair has been the fertilizer of
corrupt thoughts. It has ~bedevilled the
legal machinery Of the state, made a
laughing stock Of our professional
ethics, and brought the science of
medical Jurisprudence into ~disrepute.
1t has demonstrated the ridiculous
ease with which a man can be induced
to state his price. After such tri-
umphs, h mere purchase of a few
prison Officials would he nnln ]. triha
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Travellers say the auto ride between
Fargo and Edgeley is an inspiration
to any man.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The individual boosting for the
county fair at Dickinson ought to count
big for success.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Word has ben received at Caring
ton to the effect that Arrowwood lake
is to have a dam placed at its south
end by the state and the water there
by raised several feet. 2
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

This Gems an age of big guns and
,h@a&@ ships.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Farmers in the vicinity of Gladstone
are busy harvesting their crops. Some
had counted on only a partial crop and
are ~agreeably surprised at the fine
Weld. which is beyond their ~expecta-
lions.
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Way.

Boston Travellers It Is President
Wilson, of course, who is in charge OF
the negotiations with Mexico, although
IT is necessary for the sake Of ap-
pearances to keep Bryan In Washing
ton during the present crisis. But the
TACT must not be ignored that Bryan's
PERSONAL and political friends are be-
Ing employed to- visit Mexico as rep
resantatfves of the administration.
John Lind has been an ardent adj
r1lircr Of Bryan ever since he decided
70 quit the republican party. William
s. LYONS Of Denver, who is said to be
p ward worker III Interesting person
aiityt6 has3 been hurried to Mexico.
LYONS has been pressing state
department FOR position Id the con-
sular service. TTe does not SPEAK spa1-
|isi1,#and he Will have no ofieial status.
The President is meeting the situation
in an interesting way: Behind him
stands the country, even though His
way may be derided and denounced by
diplomatic experts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Six cars Of lumber recently arrived
on the 500 and two on the G.. N. at
Lidgerwood, which will be used for the
building Of grain elevators by the Os-
borne, Mcmillan Elevator Co, which
will be located on the right of way
way in three of the towns. Two big
auto trucks. belonging to Thompson.
of Wig, are being used in transporting
the building material to Veblen, SO
that the buildings will be ready to re-
ceive grain when the rails get to town.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

George W. Woods, superintendent Of
race attractions for the coming Rich
land county fair is known as the
man who put the "wahp" in Wahpeton.
A feature Of the fair will be the Home
Coming celebration.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25
North Dakota
Kernels

Threshing tributary to Lidgerwood
has been delayed by rain.
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Hundreds of horses have been killed
on the Standing Rock reservation this
year by the government veterinarians.
The animals have been afflicted with
both CHAMBERS and durine. The In
dams receive from 50 to 500 per ami
NAL for all those shot. but the amount
paid is rarely anywhere near the actu-
al value and the losses fall heavily
practically all their property tied up
In the animals. One handicap Is hat so
many mares are being Killed and it
will be difficult to secure breeding stock
to REPLACE them.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

This from The sisseton, Is. d.,
Standard: Miss Helen Oliver. niece Of
w. c. Oliver, ex-county auditor, for
merly a teacher in Roberts county,
has been appointed deputy in the
county superintendent office at Wah-
peton, Richland county, n. D., at a
salary of $1,000 per year. In addition
to this deputy. there is also a field
deputy there, who draws a salary of
$85 a month. North Dakota seems to
believe in looking after It's schools.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The Broadaxe at Lidgerwood cites
stories from the %thfeshing machines,
some twenty-five and a half bushels
to the acre" and whole crop now
estimated at sixteen to eighteen BUSH
els" but does not give the variety Of
the grain,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

States Attorney. and Mrs. Burke Of
Minnewaukan returned home Friday
from their trip to the, Yellowstone park,
having. made the trip to the park, en-
trance in their Ford automobile. The
trip was made by easy stages via the
Glidden tour route as far as Mondak,
thence to Glendive and Livingston, to
the park entrance at Gardiner. A day
was spent at Billings, where they met
a number Of Minnewaukan people and
enjoyed a pleasant visit. The trip
proved to be an enjoyable one through
out.
Hundreds of horses have been killed
or the Standing Rock reservation this
xraa :" 1axy" &Nn t.~xr@.va ~ ~ a. ~,o+n-s = = - - 80
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

The State bank at Gwythers shows
prosperity in it's recent statement Of
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How different the views on the labor
troubles at Minot, are those Of the
veteran Wardwell Of The Pioneer Press
at Pembina and the editor of The
Broadaxe at Lidgerwood., The former
believes in the preservation Of the gov
eminent and homeland that liberty
is not license" ~
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-25

Edgeley merchants are prospecting
from Business on the Midland line.
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