The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-01-30
. Gloomy G1Onna In
The State Again
Things Do Not Turn out Accord
ing to hig Prophesy in This
State

Instead CT being at Washing
ton attending to the duties for
which he is paid $500 per year,
AISLE, j. Gronna, U. S. senator,
is travelling over the state spread
ing standpat gloom, calamity
personal and political interests.
howling, and looking after his
Things have not been going
well for the Lakota statesman
in a political way Of late. The
disaster which he pondero,lsly pre-
dicted would follow the passage
Of the currency bill, and which he
voted against, has not materi-
lied. Indeed, he now realizes
that he fell all over himself to
obey, gave him what is vulgarly
known as the .'big interests
whose dictates ''bum- steer He
now discovers that the bill he
rallied, against so vociferously and
so s..learnedly,'' = is the best piece
Of legislation enacted in fifty
years. The big bankers from
whom Gronna drew his inspiratio
now declare that the new c1lrr
ey law is a great and good thing.
In fact the whole country is vel
coming it as god-send. All of
which has a tendency to make
AISLE j. feel like a man thinly
clad in the rear, with a cold
wave blowing frome Medicine
Hat. N y
And to add to his misery things
are not turning out at all we'll
with reference to the prophecies
of disaster which AISLE was sure
would follow the. passage of the
tariff bill. Do you recall how
he declared that it was the crime
Of the age, infamously unfail. to.
the farmer and would have the
result Of doing incalculable and
irreparable INJURY to the agricul-
curists of North Dakota? For
days following his eruptions Of
gloom and despair the sun was
scarcely visible through Asle's
eyes. But from the very day
the bill passed the prices Of every
thing the farm produces have
been advancing, and today wheat,
barley, oats, flax, corn, hogs, cat
tie, eggs and butter are higher
than they have. been at any time
during the past year.
But" AISLE says, we haven't
got free wheat yet. Of course
We haven't. But three months
ago AISLE said We had the same
thing as free wheat and the bill
would be a calamity just the
same. The duty on wheat was re-
dnced from 25 cents per bushel to
ten cents a bushel. Still the Price
Of wheat instead Of falling Is
cents-tlle difference in the
changed duty-has been going up
right along, in spite Of the fact,
tso, that we grew IS million more
bushels Of wheat in this country
in 1913 than in 1912.
Still, AISLE j. is praying for
and preaching calamity. He
thinks he sees ray Of hope that /
his evil forebodings may yet be
realized, and, he is now pinning
his faith to the extremely remote
possibility that the Canadian
spariment will remove the bar
which now makes free wheat i'm;
possible, and then. and then,
AISLE says the judi day
win have arrived, and his evil
prophesy will be vindicated.
Them TO use his words at Grand i
Forks yesterday, will Cana dian:
wheat enter the United States on
20 equal basis with native
Wlleat &. s
4 But Asle ID doomed to still fur
tier disappo The Canad-l
ID % have not vet removed the
barrier, admitting their wheat
into thi1 country free of duty.
And when we consume more than
We grow, we want to buy ii %