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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
"A COMBINATION
AGAINST WILSON

Half way between presidential cam
paigns, the republican party is without
candidate or an issue. and the pro-
gressives have candidate and an issue,
but no party There ID m old tale Of
man who could not walk, who clim bed
upon the shoulders Of . man whe could
not see, and one furnishing the motive
power, ard the other the power Of di-
rection, the two cripples reached their
destination. Naturally, some Of the re-
publicans and progressives are now hop
ing to mount the far-seeing Roosevelt
| upon the shoulders Of the blind Repuba
lican Party, and so beat Mr.. Wilson in
the next race.
We don't believe the combination
will prove as successful % the combin-
alton of the lame man and the blind in
the fable. 1t is easy enough for politis
clans to frame q terrible Indictment
against the Democratic Administration
today, but will it look like true. bill
1.-TWO years hence? The new tariff has
not flooded the country with foreign
good, and when the railroads ret the
freight advance they ask for, or begin
to feel the stimulus of the huge crops,
they will buy freely, and the very mod
crate dullness of the present moment
will be forgotten.
Two years hence the country will
have had two years experience with
banking system as much superior To-
what preceded it as the national bank
system of half century ago was. Per.
feet amity will have been restored to
our Colombian relations, and the very
large part of the American people who
do not approve of Mr.. Roosevelt's PAN
anna conduct will feel that an unpleas-
ant spot has been erased from the ma
tion's fame. The present indications
are chat in 1915 Mexico will be peace
ful and prosperous, the poems having
access to the land, and the general gov
ernment representing public opinion in.
stead of a combination ef military des-
potism and financial monopoly. The
great trusts in our own c0untyr will
haye been disintegrated, with the re-
suit of increasing the prosperity Of
their component parts, and Of the coun-
try at large, and Of opening the gates
to wipespread and healthful compet,-
tition. What would combination avail
against such record?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
THEIR COMMON GROUND

The Republicans want the Federal
Offices now held by Democrats.
The Progressiyes want the Federal
offices now held by Democrats.
The two factions heve common
hunger for place and power and pat
ronage; but have they anything else
in common
Both eagerly denounce the Under
wood Simmons tariff; but If there
were Republican Progressive ma.
jority in Congress. would it under
take seriously to restore the Payne
Aldrich or the Dingley schedulesp
Would it undertake seriously any
general scheme Of tariff reyisionp
Both arein sympathy with the prin-
ciple of central bank; put il there
were Republican, Progressive ma
jori.y in Congress, would venture to
amend in any important respect the
new currency and banking laws that
a. Democratic administration has
written into the statute books?
Both sneer at President Wilson's
Mexican policy; bu. would . kepub-
lican Progressive Administration
abandon his wise and humane at-
tempt to establish permanent peace
in Mexico by removing the cause Of
revolt, or would it turn 3 distracted
country back to pedatory poverty?
Worse still, would IT enter upon Z
war of conquest
Both complain Of the Wilson eco-
nomic policies, but would q Republi-
can Progressive party halt the inyes-
tigation into New Haven corruption,
would it refuse to enact laws giving
the Interstate Commerce Commission
power over railroad capitalization,
would it even repeat the proposed
amendments to the Sherman Anti
Trust act, in case they become law?
Would it give the Government back
to Wall street,
Most Of the Progressives and many
Republicans oppose the repeal OF the
Panama coastwise exemption clause,
but will lleither faction promise to tear
up the Hay-Pauncef0te treaty and
give the coastwise monopoly 81, ,OOO,-
600 or So year 1t the expense Of Ill
the American people9
What has President Wilson done
that the Republicans and Progress
sives, If they were returned to power
would undo? What hiss he left undonv
that they would do2 What has Ne
done that they would be likely to do
better?
It is always easier for minority To-
criticiss than Tor . majority to actI
|and Il is anatssr of record that no
other Administra ation| sincs Tho civil
[WAr hAs accompltshed ~ nnOh iui ~
4 equal slosl of tins q the "a lIfg SIfl
4 administrati ion
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
I'VE ARE PASSING OUT
OF UNCERTAINTY

One of the constructive business lead
ers of New York City is Irving T. Bush,
the man who is responsible for the Bush
Terminal facilities. When Mr.. Bush
speaks, he always says something.
Whether his comment is favorable or
unfavorable, 1t always possesses the
stamp of original thinking. MIR. Bush
said few days ago:
"a great deal depends upon crops
and confidence. So far as crops are
concerned, the Almighty seems to be a
democrat this year; and we are at least
passing out of period of uncertainty.
Whether we like the tariff or currency
changes or not, we now know what they
are, and will soon know who will direct
the new banking institutions. Present
evidence points to able men. We will
soon have decision in the application
for an advance in railroad rates. If the
decision be favora BILE, some of our most
pessimistic friends will lose their best
argument. II unfavorable, the railroad
officials can save the price of their hotel
accommodations in Washington, and
get busy handling the crops. We have
pretty definite idea what form the
new trust legislation will take, ,and ii
does not seem very terrible to any but
the 'Get-rich-quick Wallingfords' of the
nation. When these factors--taritf,
currency, crops, trust legislation, and
railroad rates-have passed from the
realm of uncertainty, we will have little
left to worry us. New York World
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
FAVORS NATIONAL
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

Ne better endorsement could be had
of the plan which Secretary Wilson, of
the Department of Labor, is seeking
to work out in the establishment of a
National Employment Bureau, than the
demand which has gone forth from
Kansas for 10000 men to work in the
harvest fields of the Sunfower State at
the present time. From now on until
frost comes there is opportunity for en-
ployment for this great number of men
at wages averaging $3.50 per day with
board
Oklahoma and Missouri are short
more than 25, 600 hands, and altogether
Secretary Wilson has calls for $4,000
men. In other words the calamity are
crying business depression there are
more than $4,000 jobs at good wages
awaiting those who are willing to work.
The beginning Of the work of reaping
by far the most bountiful crops ever
grown in the states Of North and South
Dakota is no more than two weeks off !,
when great avenue for laborers is GER
tain to be thrown open. Owing to the
scarcity of workmen here wages are
certain to go to $500 per day. and the
situation will force a nation wide call
at that.
{ Never nefore has any administration
democratic or republican, ever sought
to accomplish the proper distribution Of
labor. All that is now lacking it, the
government machinery to put Secretary
Wilson's plan into effect.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
WoEFUL WINDS

The progressive city of Watertown
was Tuesday evening, at $40, stricken
by tornado that wrecked many homes
and brought physical suffering to many
of its people, a few of whom will per-
haps die from the injuries they sustain
ed. 1t was a visitation to which all
communities are liable in all the lati-
tudes of the earth. No place is exempt
from destructive storms compounded in
the laboratory of the clouds and whirl-
ed to the ground to devastate the spots
that they touch.
In Watertown's misfortune there was
good fortune. The tWister missed the
business section of the city and spent
itselflin q portion of the residence Sec
ton. While the loss there was large,
it is not 70 be compared to what itwould
have been had the business section been
wrecked.
The destroyer left behind it devas-
tated area three blocks wide and sixteen
blocks long.
While people are wiping their weep.
ing eyes, Watertown will rise from
calamity and efface the scars of disas-
ter. This much can be said, though
aff1iction now besets the community.
The Rock Island passenger was near
ing the Watertown station; all the win.
dows was blown out the coaches. The
brakes were set and the train remained
on the rails. Three of the passengers
left the train and one of them, Johr
Ryan, was seriously cut by a barbec
wire fence.
Property losses are reported at Web
ster, and from Watertown to the state
| line of Wisconsin. At Minneapolis foul
persons were killed and the property
loss there is also heavy.
| Of course if those coastwise vessels
prefer to go around the horn rather tha,
pay tolls there is nothing to proven
them from exercising that option.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

No complaint has come from the boys
at Vera Cruz that they are being fed
upon embalmed beef, as were the lads
who fought in Cuba under another par
ty administration.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
Corn now is over Is inches high.

w. Dean Hurlbut, publisher of the
Mclaughlin Messenger, has sold the
paper to L. F. Sheppard of Toston,
Mont, who will take possession July
1st.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

Three Grant county farms were
sold last week for sum aggregating
nearly 100000. The land sold for an
average of $72. so an acre, and the en-
tire tract sold was nearly 500 acres.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

The bank clearings in the city of
Lincoln for the week ending May 20
were 25 per cent greater than for the
corresponding period of the year pre-
ceding. In Oklahoma City they were
SO per cent greater. This shows how
business is in those sections where
the shadow of Wall street does not
reach.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

"The failure of the primary is not
of sufficient magnitude to cause alarm
that the system is not the ideal
method of nominating candidates for
public office, for it is, and as such it
will never be superseded by the
ancient and dishonorable caucus and
convention SYSTEM" declares the
Manson Democrat.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

The thread trust has been ordered
dissolved by the supreme court. Which
suggests the remark that it is easier
for a camelto pass through the eye
of a needle than for the thread trust
to get past the supreme court.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

If the railroads were not spending
80 much money advertising for the
purpose of convincing the public that
times were hard, would they need the
five per cent raise in freight rates to
continue to pay dividends on their
watered stock?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

The republican party in congress has
reached the point where it has almost
ceased to be even party Of opposition.
Some of its members voted for the dem
ocratic tariff bill; many more voted for
the democratic currency bill; there were
only few scattering votes against two
Of the democratic trust measures, and
upon the third trust bill the republicans
could not muster enough strength to
demand roll call in the house,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

Of course if those coastwise vessels
prefer to go around the horn rather than
pay tolls there is nothing to prevent
them from exercising that option.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

w. Dean Hurlbut, publisher of the
Mclaughlin Messenger, has sold the
paper to L. F. Sheppard of Toston,
Mont, who will take possession July
1st.
No complaint has come from the boys
at Vera Cruz that they are being fed
upon embalmed beef, as were the lads
who fought in Cuba under another par
ty administration.
Three Grant county farms were
sold last week for sum aggregating
nearly 100000. The land sold for an
average of $3.50 an acre, and the en-
tire tract sold was nearly 800 acres.
The thread trust has been ordered
dissolved by the supreme court. Which
suggests the remark that it is easier
for a camelto pass through the eye
of a needle than for the thread trust
to get past the supreme court.
If the railroads were not spending
80 much money advertising for the
purpose of convincing the public that
times were hard, would they need the
five per cent raise in freight rates to
continue to pay dividends on their
watered stock?
The bank clearings in the city of
Lincoln for the week ending May 90
were 25 per cent greater than for the
corresponding period of the year pre-
ceding. In Oklahoma City they were
SO per cent greater. This shows how
business is in those sections where
the shadow of Wall street does not
reach.
"The failure of the primary is not
of sufficient magnitude to cause alarm
that the system is not the ideal
method of nominating candidates for
public office, for it is, and as such it
will never be superseded by the
ancient and dishonorable caucus and
convention SYSTEM" declares the
Manson Democrat.
Many thousands of dollars must be
returned with interest to wool grow.
ers of the west, principally in Wyom.
ing. Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado
New Maxico and Montana, by rail
roads which have carried their cliI
to eastern markets at freight rates
which the interstate commerce com
mission held excessive.
Winter wheat between Lennon
and Hettinger is ripe. Alfalfa, clov
or and hay crops are being harvested
and are proving rbundant crops this
year, the warm weather and excep
tionally heavy rains of the past few
days causing most luxuriant growth
in all forage crops. The yield pc
acre this year will surpass all pre-
vious records.
Miners of Butte, Montana, hav,
shaken off their allegiance to tn
Western Federation of Miners ant
have organized an independent union
Five thousand miners participated il
the secession proceedings and anon,
them were many members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World. Their
is fair show that the Butte miner
will become absorbed by that organ
ization.
| The republican party in congress ha
reached the point where it has almos
ceased to be even party of opposition
Some of its members voted for the dem
III 0cra tic tariff hill. roanu MORA voted FL
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

The good prices quoted on the mar
kets for the things that the farmer
produces threaten to wreck the hopes
of 9 good many aspiring republicans
who have been expecting to ride into
Office by showing the farmer how
hard he has been hit by the removal
or reduction Of the tariff on farm
products. It will require some high
and lofty juggling to get the statistics
to fit the republican congressional
candidates case.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

The controller of the currency,
John Shelton Williams, tells the peo-
pie that the new currency law is 60
ing to be a wonderful sustainer of
business, from the distribution of
money it will enforce. There will be
an end. he says. of great accumula-
tions of money at few centArs and
its control by few men. It will go
out over the country, where it will
be available to all and it will become
a promoter of general industrial con-
ditiods.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25

Many thousands of dollars must be
returned with interest to wool grow
ers of the west, principally in Wyom-
ing Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado,
New Msxico and Montana, by rail
roads which have carried their clip
to eastern markets at freight rates
which the interstate commerce COM
mission held excessive.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01
REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
Fact 10 Shown by Mans Eagerness to
Escape From Congestion Of
the Crowded City.

Why is 1t tina: railway magnates.
presidents OF banks and heads Of great
enterprises who must perforce do
business in cities. almost all try to
have homes on farms in the country.
where they develop soils, plant crops
and breed animals? II Is because there
is wearisome monotony in piled up
brick and stone. There Is confusion
in crowded streets and changing troll
ley cars and hot smoky railways.
These things man has made. and they
are needful, but they are not life, much
as the farm boy may imagine them to
be-
Life Is In the open country. Life is
In the growing grass, the waving fields
of wheat. the springing corn. Life Is
In the trees and birds, life is in the
developing animals Of the farm.
Any man who works with the land,
who feeds field and watches the re-
suit. gains real fundamental know
ledge OF the underlying foundation on
which rests all our civilization. II
makes him a sober man, thoughtful
man. a reverent man. and II he expert
ments wisely a hopeful optimist. Life
Is where things are born and live and
grow. On the farm is real life.-Breed-
er's Gazette.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01

Useful rules for raising beef success.
fully In the South are given In farm.
ers' bulletin ESQ. Just issued by the
Omitted States department OF agricul.
sure, under the title OF Beef Produc-
Aion In tho South" After discussing
In some detail the available pasture
lands and grasses. the bulletin sum
snarizes conditions as follows:
Eradicate the tick on the farm.
Good pastures arc essential ,,r
profitable beef production.
Plant pasture grasses over the
waste lands.
Use pure- bred beef bulls for grad.
lus up the native stock,
Always select the best heifers for
breeding purposes.
use the coarse fodder, straws and
the stalk fields for winterinR the
heeedlnG herd.
Wean the calves when pastures get
short Put them In the corn field
and ves fields while weauing and
Teach them 10 eat cottonseed cake or
cottonseed meal.
Raise and fluIsh beef cattle on the
uamo farm when possible.
A mixture Of cottousced meal. cot
eouseed hulls and alfalfa hay IL q
Good ration for fattening calves.
oilsss \ the best roughsge for tat.
ksninG any class OF cattle.
More care is necessary In feeding
calves than in feeding grown cattle.
Al the present prices corn s,lage Ia
4 oheauer ana better feed for fattep.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01

The greatest value OF sheep In an
orchard Ia found probably In their be-
fng used M a means Of fertilizing or
chards that are bearing.
II put In somewhat early In the
sprins and fed . suitable supple.
pnentary food with the grass which
the orchard may furnish. It will be
Found that the sheep will thus convey
Fertility 10 the land. and they will do
% Ia q Aarksd degree II fed on rich
kiala ee Apod.
esch tood may consist very largely
~ wheal bran. which 10 II itssif . val
nAbls fsetl0isss.
q nay ~ wise. 70 encourage the
hAesD 10 eat freely. 10 add . little
graln - Ne form OF oats.
| A lltNe ollsaks will also improve
kAe tosA.
1 TIE Groppinss thus lsft In the o.
lphard viii tend very much 10 its en
FichmsnI
TIE vutcome will be that where this
pystsa y peessvered In during consid
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01
GOOD PROFITS FROM CALVES
Experiment. Conducted by Depart
ment Of Agriculture and Alabama
station In Raising Beef

The United States department OF
agriculture and tho Alabama. expert
ment station have been conducting ex-
periments In raising beef calves.
Eighty cows were kept and two bulls
were used on the herd. A very fair
average OF 6t calves or calves from
80 per cent OF the cows was secured.
cured
During the grazing season the cows
we're kept on pasture. II consisted
mainly Of Japan clover and sedge
grass, although there was n small field
Of 30 acres Of Bermuda adjoining that
was used for some of the calves. When
the pasture began to fail the cows
and calves were separated and placed
on different feeds. The cows were
run In corn and cotton fields and given
a small feed Of cottonseed cake. The
calves were placed on . fatteuing ra-
tion and were given cottonseed meal.
cottonseed cake, corn silage and
broom-sedge hay. The cows we're pro-
vided no shelter. but the calves had
access to a good barn.
After being finished for the mar
ket the calves were sold In New Or
leans. Forty nine were sold and Is
heifers we're kept for breeding pur-
poses. After placing a proper valua-
ton on feeds used. interest on invest
ment. labor used In taking care Of
cattle. etc. a profit Of $6.Sl was left
for each calf raised. or Of SEAS for
each COW kept
This was very satisfactory. as In ad-
dition to this profit. tho farm had
rich manure to fertilize the land with.
The calves were kept free from
tick by dipping.
1t pays to keep cows Just to raise
calves when the best methods are fol.
lowed. The South can beat any 9th
er farming section at It.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01
NOT THE SECOND OF JULY
John Adams Wrong In His Idea Of
When Nations Birth Should Be
Celebrated.

Said John Adams to his wife Abb.
gail In letter written hundred and
thirty years ago: "The second of July
will be the most memorable epoch In
the history of America. am apt to
believe that II will be celebrated by
succeeding generations as the great
anniversary festival"
Time and circumstance have con.
firmed the spirit of the Adams proph-
ecy, but for another day. 1t is the
glorious Fourth instead OF the fateful
Second that we celebrate. Richard
Henry Lees resolution that these
United Colonies are. and OF right ought
TO be, free and independent states,"
was passed July 2, 1875. The elabo-
rate Declaration Of Independence.
wherein Thomas Jefferson drafted the
why and wherefore OF 1t all. was ac-
cepted two days later.
Among the instruments OF celebra-
tion recommended by Mr.. Adams In
the letter already cited were shows,
games, sports. guns, bells. boniires and
illuminations" Orators are not in
the list. In the old-fashloned Fourth
tley were starred next to the cannon
which awoke patriotic echoes at mid.
night OF July and to the "fantas-
tics whose midday parade appealed
to the elated spirit Of Yankee humor.
This decline In occasional oratory 10 to
b regretted.
The modern Fourth Of July, II 10
eainful 10 believe. involves more Of
infsntile delight In tremendous noise
than OF serious reflection ~ to what
the day stands for. II 10 an occasion,
too. Of greater annual slaughter than
Of Bunker Hill or many another Rev.
dictionary battle. In 1908 the day'a
dead were 4s6. the injured s.9ss. In
1904 the number Of dead fell to lss,
but The wounded Wsss svSsa
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-07-01

means Of which congress could be fur
nished with means for relieving the
army. He headed the list of subscrip-
tions with 10000. to which others
added sufficient to total f350,O00. BY
this means 100000 rations OF pro.
visions and 900 hogsheads of rum were
procured and forwarded to the needy
army. Upon still another occasion
Washington wrote him that the mill
tary stores were woefully depleted
and asked for aid. There was no am
munition but that In the mems boxes,
which was wet. All the lead possible
had been secured, even the spouts of
the houses.
Under such circumstances II was but
natural that Mr.. Morris should be
hard put to 1t to find way to supply
the lead. However. he was a guest
at an entertainment given by the
Spanish minister. and upon being
pressed by his host for the cause OF
his apparent worry. showed him the
letter from Washington. His host
then told him that one OF his ships
had just arrived at the wharf with 80
tons Of lead. which she brought as
ballast. "You can have my half OF
this fortunate supply" he said. "and
there are the owners Of the other
half" He secured the lead. set one
hundred men to work that same night
and before morning had sen: supply
Of bullets to the depleted army.