Dakota farmers' leader., December 05, 1890, Image 8

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BAILEOAD TIME-TABLES
Until further notioo, trains on tho C. M. & St.
P. Ry, •will arrive and depart at Canton station
as follows: ....
COINO WEST.
No. 1, passenger Monday excepted, 11:00 A. M.
No. 3, passenger, Sunday oxeepted, 11:40 A. M.
No. 7, .way freight 12:30 P. M.
DOING EAST.
No. S, passenger, Sunday excepted, 3:45 A.
No. 4, passenger, Saturdays excepted,4:45 p.
No. 6, freight 2:50 P.
GOING NOHTH.
No. 1, passenger
No. 5, accommodation
No. 6, freight
11:00 A. M.
11:30 A. N.
4:40 P. M.
GOING SOUTH.
No. 4, passenger
o. 0, freight
For tickets and rates to all parts of tho
United States and Canada, inquire at ticket
4:45 P. H.
6:25 A. M.
W. V. HOWARD, Station Agent.
HIE NEWS AMD HOE
Misses Ida Ingalls and Eva Cuppett
are each occupying a position in A. G.
Noid's holiday emporium. They are
both fillingtlieir places very creditably.
A. G. Noid has on hand" as fine a stock
of holiday goods as any .store in this part
of the country. Call on him for anything
wanted in his line and be supplied cheap
ly and well!
Mrs. A. T. Sheldon has been seriously
ill at her home in Highland township for
the past two weeks. Her case has been
so severe that Mr. Sheldon and the rest
of the family have not deemed it safe to
leave her bedside.
Hans'Brynjulson received a telegram
from Syskeston, N. 1)., last Friday, cou
vej'ing the intelligence of the death of
the wife of his brother George. Mrs.
Brynjulson died very suddenly and none
of her relatives here knew anything of
her illness.
Wm. Kundertcame around Saturday
morning with a box,.of cigars which' he
was distributing among the boys with a
lavish hand. On asking the cause of his
exceeding'generdsity, he replied "a boy"
and its a great big, solid, republican like
hislather.
A universal wedding-present. The
publisher of The Household evidently be
lieves in encouraging matrimony, as will
be seen by his offer in another column to
send a wedding present to every bride
who may apply for the same. See his
.offer headed "To Young Housekeepers."
Hans A. Skie and Ole Gorder of Grant
township started for Norway last week
where they will spend most of the winter,
visiting friends and relatives and enjoy a
few months recreation. Both these gen
tlemen are hardworking and industrious
men and TIIE LEADER hopes that their
winter sojourn will be'a source of much
pleasure and profit to them.
The stockholders of the FAICMEH'S
LEADEK assembeled in annual meet
ing at the court house, last Tuesday but
adjourned without doing any business
owing to the fact that it is necessary for
the board .-of directors, to meet first and
prepare their report to be acted upon by
thftineeting. The board meets according
to pail next Saturday and the stock
hblders meet next Tuesday, Dec. 9.
H. M. Donoho and F. F. Wilson have
purchased the Canton Exchange store, rf
Donoho Henderson and will hereafter
conduct the business under the firm
name of Donoho & Wilson. Mr Donoho
is well known in this community, having
had charge of the establishment- for some
time and Mr. Wilson came here recently
from Illinois to make his home. They
are both deserving gentlemen and THE
LEADEK takes pleasure in commending
the business of the new firm to the
farmers of this locality.
Helmey & Kelman's drug store was
broken into last Monday night and a keg
of gin and one of port wine and some
other goods taken away. Entrance was
effected through the window in the
front of the basement, under the side
walk. It is believed that, the perpetra
tors are parties who are well acquainted
with the surroundings or they could not
have lodated the particular goods they
evidently came for. Mr. Helmey, says
that they have as yet found no clue as to
who,the guilty parties are though it is
evident that they reside in this city.
THE POSTKASTEE'S DAUGHTER.
Mail
Mr.d Because tho Leader Don.t Appreoiato tie
Service.
WoKTi:ii o, Nov. 38—J. F. COOLEY,
EDITOU LEADEK The charge brought
against me with regard to LEADEES. I do
not understand. Your paper came to
this office regularly every week excepting
election week: none came, therefore I
could not distribute them. They must
have been miscarried and are in seme,
office dead, and in justice tome I will ask
you to look them up and you will find
that they never reached this office. Mr.
Henry.is an enemy of fathers, and says
many things that are not true. He has
tried to got father out of this office for
the last two years but failed. Why I
should have anything against your paper
I am at a loss to say. It makes no dif
ference to me what papers cotne here
they are distributed as they should be,
and wlic'it ever exira copies oi your paper
cam? I'handed, them to the most pro
minent farmers who did not take the
paper. I cannot help but feel hurt over
such an insult to a young lady. I tend
to this office myself. leather is not in the
office much and' everyone in this neigh
borhood knows that I tend to the ofticu
and my eyes ha've "been open, neither
have 1 been sleeping: I am afraid that
charge will not raih friends for your
paper in
f/:in imghbcrhocil.
We a'! know
ivho your correspondent is and no atten
tion is paid to him. He is simply a
laughing stock here and the less you have
to deal with him the more friends you
will have. I wish to know who your
subscribers are who have been complain
ing! I wis them to give me a reason for
their complaint. Why do they not qome
this
office
and
complain.
Again
I will
ask you to hunt up that roll of papers
belonging to this office. You will surely
find them somewhere. If Mr. H. can
walk this earth with a clear conscience,
he will not in the next world as all such
wrongs will be rewarded in some way.
Tliose whom we cannot trust or ought
not to be trusted, are always mistrusting
others. Respectfully,
JOSEFIIENE B. GERBEK.
P. S. I sincerely hope you will correct
some of the insults heaped upon my inno
cent shoulders such as the "sleepyheaded
outfit" etc. J. B. G.
TEAOHEB'S ASSOCIATION.
The follwing interesting program has
been prepared for the next meeting of the
Lincoln County ^Teachers Association to
be held at the public school building in
Canton on Saturday Dec. 13, 1890.
Morning session opens at 10 a. m.,with
singing.
Rectitation, by •.... .Amy Allison.
A class exercise in number work, by....
Nona Miller.
A lecture on general exercises by
W. S. Bently.
A paper on youthful influences by
.: W. L. MeiBger.
INTERMISSION.
Afternoon session opens at 1.30 p. m.
with singing.
Recitation by .Lena Goding.
A class exercise in primary reading by...
Maud Russell.
Mathematical geography. .Homer Davis.
Orthography C. B. Isham.
Teachers, let us make these meetings a
success. If you are a true teacher you
cannot fail to be interested.
Yours Respectfully,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
W0RTHISG WAIFS.'
Our little town is fearful dull these
days. No grain coining in and trade is
nearly at a standstill.
H. J. Frank, accompained by senator
Jackson, spent a few days at Sioux Falls
last week.
F. A. Leavitt, is now entertaining him
self attending to his farm near here. In
conversation with the gentlemen concern
ing election matters, he said that he felt
in no way discouraged over the situation.
He feels that the new party has made a
wonderful fight in this campaign and he
is satisfied that the movement will win in
the end. As to his own defeat Mr.
Leavitt regards this only a sscondarv
matter. He believes that in 1892 the
people will, ellect everything on their
party ticket. The old rings and old party
machines have run the country long en
ough and the people are now taking hold
to redeem themselves. Mr. Leavitt has
just returned from the state Alliance
meeting at Mitchell, where he says many
new things were. brought up and dis
cussed.
H^nry Bradshaw, of Lindoln Center,
boarded the west bound train here last
Monday for Mitchell, presumably to
attend the state Alliance meeting.
T. J. Leavitt was here this week on his
way home from the Mitcuell convention
and expressed himself as highly pleased
with the meeting of the Alliance held last
week. He says th6 people are becoming
thoroughly woke up and he thinks that if
the election was held now the people's
party would carry by an overwhelming
majority.
Several friends of Mr. Iverson started
for Norway a few days ago to be gone
several months.
Quite a number of our young men will
attend college at Sioux Falls this winter.
Gus Deavitt, it is understood, will start
next moiiday.
MBS. RILEY'S LETTER.
She is Right and Eer Suggestions Should be fol
lowed.
Mrs. L. A. Riley, who is a well known
and highly esteemed member of a Kan
sas City church, and a devoted worker
in the different charities, has the follow
ing, very kind letter: "Too much can
not be said in praise of the Housekeeper.
It not only brings brightness and good
cheer into our homes, but meets, as no
other paper of its kind does, all our
varied needs, both as house and home
keepers. Tile publishers have my best
wishes for continued success."
The Housekeeper is published twice
each month, and contains from 10 to 24
pages of the best and most suitable
matter. The publishers would be very
much pleased to mail you, for examina
tion, a sample copy, also their 1S90-1
premium list, which contains some re
markably good offers, these will cost you
nothing, except the trouble of sending
your address to "The Housekeeper," Nos.
10, IS and 20, North 4th Street, Min
neapolis, Minn.
New England Farms.
Compared-with the abandoned farms
of the west those of New England are
paradises. The same amount of labor
and privation which is expended upon a
new farm in Kansas will make a man
very comfortable on an old farm in Mas
sachusetts or Vermont. The success of
the Swedish colonists in Vermont is suf
ficient proof that frugality and industry
•will accomplish for the average farmer
as much here as at the west, and if Ver
mont purposes to continue its excellent
plan of advertising abandoned farms it
ton do no better than tell far and wide
how the Swedes are getting on.—Spring
11.(T.r.nss.) Union
AGRICULTURE'S RETROGRESSION.
Extract from the Address of President
Folk, of the Farmers' Alliance.
The following is taken from an ad
dress delivered by Col. L. L. Polk, presi
dent of the National Farmers' Alliance,
at Columbus, O.:
At no period in our history have we
witnessed such progress and develop
ment in all departments of industrial ef
fort as that which has marked the past
quarter of a century. Railroad and
manufacturing enterprises in all their de
partments, towns, cities and villages all
over the land flourish and prosper as
never before. The din of workshops,
the hum of mills and factories, and the
grand running of trains, the ringing
clatter of hammer and trbwel, the rush
ing tramp of our busy millions—all go
to swell the grand chorus of the world's
happy song of industrial progress. In
all of this the tillers of the soil and all
patriots must heartily rejoice, but in
our rapidly advancing civilization forces
have evolved socially, morally, indus
trially and financially, which are dan
gerous alike to the rights of citizens and
the'lif of the republic. That equilibrium
between the great industrial interests of
the country which is absolutely essential
to the preservation of our free institu
tions and to our prosperity and happi
ness as a people has been destroyed.
Retrogression in American agricul
ture means national decline and utter
and inevitable ruin. The greatness and
glory of the American republic cannot
survive the degradation of the American
farmer. Why this unrest and mighty
upheaval among the industrial classes
of the country? Why, instead of the
cheering notes of plenty and content
ment, do we hear the universal wail of
hard times? Why should bankruptcy
stare the farmer in the face and the
giant form of poverty haunt his once
happy home? Why in this period of un
paralleled development should agricul
ture languish, droop and die? Why in
this God favored land, the richest in
soils and climate on the globe, produc
ing all the staple crops demanded by
commerce, with transportation facilities
equal to the productive power of the
country, with the teeming millions of
earth as his customers, why should the
American farmer, sowing in hope, toil
ing in faith, be forced to reap in disap
pointment if not in despair? Is it his
fault? No class of men work so hard, live
so hard, and receive so little reward for
their labor as the average American
farmer. Is it God's fault? With the eaxly
and later rains he has given us the richest
legacy bequeathed to man.
Where, then, is the fault? It is in the
wicked financial system of the Ameri
can government. A system that has im
posed on agriculture an undue, unjust
and intolerable proportion of the bur
dens of taxation, and has made it the
helpless victim of the rapacious greed
and tyrannical power of gold the sys
tem which taxes the sweat, blood and
muscle and brain of honest labor to
further arrogant monopoly a system
which robs the maiiy to enrich the few
a system which strikes down the great
middle classes and is filling the land
with paupers and millionaires:
Ji system
whose unjust exactions have reduced
the independent American farmer, to a
dependent tenant a system which makes
the rich richer and the poor poorer a
system which is sapping the pluck and
energy and spirit of American manhood
a system that is paralyzing Qur industrial
energies and threatens to ingulf tfs. in
financial ruin.
Look around you. You see centralized
capital allied to irresponsible corporate
power, overriding industrial rights, in
vading the temples of justice, subsidizing
the press, controlling conventions, cor
rupting the ballot box, robbing the many
to enrich the few, intimidating official
authority, fostering official 'corruption,
destroying legitimate competition, an
nulling the law of supply and demand,
dictating legislation, state and national,
and defying the constitution.
Eighteen years later, and during which
time the cultivated acreage had nearly
doubled, farm hands had doubled, agri
cultural implements and machinery had
vastly improved, these same crops sold
for less than 2 per cent, more than in
I860. From 1881 to 1888 exports of
manufactures increased 46 per cent.,
while exports of agricultural products
decreased 31 per cent.
The policy of our government, instead
of preserving the great middle class of
our people, is rapidly resolving our pop
ulation into two classes, the extremely
rich and extremely poor. We are manu
facturing paupers and millionaires. In
all ages and all civilizations the great
middle class has been the bulwark of
civil liberty—the breakwater against
fanaticism, whether in church or state.
•The life of this republic, the spirit of
civil and religious liberty, must find
•their "city of refuge" in the homes and
their citadel of safety in the hearts of
the great middle class of our people.
PRESIDENT POLK'S 03SERVATKJNS.
What the National President of th«
Farmers' Alliance Sees to Cheer Him.
Hon. L. L. Polk, president of the Na
tional Fanners' Alliance and Industrial
union,'arrived in this city yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of addressing
the county Alliance this afternoon.
Seated in front of a sociable grate fire
in a modest room at the United States
hotel, surrounded by a score of well
known citizens of the county, ho was
found by a reporter last night. He was
engaged in an earnest talk to his
auditors, who were listening with im
pressive attention. When through he
stated that he was on his way .home
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from an extended vMt to the Alliance
in the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Mis
souri, Iowa and Illinois. He had heard
such encouraging reports from Ohio
that he concluded to spend a few days
in the Buckeye state.
"The growth of the Alliance is remark
able," he said, "and particularly so in the
states I have just visited, The enthusi
asm displayed by the farmers in joining
the organization is demonstrated by the
fact that in December, 1889, when the
Alliance was organized in the state of
Kansas, the scattering alliances con
tained only 35,000 members, and today
it has over 145,000. In the northwest
we have a rapidly growing organization,
and in Michigan we have a model Alli
ance. We have now alliances organized
in thirty-five states, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and Canada to the Gulf.
We have oyer 34,000 alliances, contain
ing a membership of nearly 2,000,000.
In a year we will have over 2,500,000
members."
"What do you think of the progress of
the Alliance in Ohio?'
"It is remarkable, but it is the same
in every state. I find that the alliances
in Ohio are larger than in any state I
have yet visited. The result here is
encouraging, and you need not be sur
prised to see 1,200 alliances in tbe state
next October, with a membership of
150,000."
"Is it not one of the objects of the
Alliance to seek a confederation of all
other farmers' organizations in the conn
try?"
"It is. There is now another organ
ization known under the xuoneof the
Alliance, which is a strong and power
ful factor among the farinqro of the
western states, particularly in Nebraska.
The objects of this and our organization
are practically the same. We have a
mutual Understanding, and it will not
be long until the two are confederated.
We want to get all the organizations of
the farmers together and are not at
tempting to do so by absorption, but by
uniting with them."
"The Alliance appears to be causing
the twp prominent political parties some
fright in particular sections of the coun
try'/"
"Yes, but the local alliances are re
sponsible for this. The chief principles
of the Alliance are non-partisanship and
non-sectionalism. When a man enters
tho lodge room he leaves his party and
religion behind him. The Alliance is
united by ties of financial and home in
terests. We want to labor for the edu
cation of the agricultural classes in the
science of economic government in a
non-partisan spirit, to develop a better
state mentally, morally, socially and
financially, and to suppresa personal,
local, sectional and national prejudices."
Col. Polk is a striking man in appear
ance and a typical southerner. He was
born, raised and has since lived in North
Carolina. He ia'one of the leading farm
ers of the south, and is the owner of one
of the finest plantations in his state. He
is well educated, is an eloquent speaker
and a most interesting conversationalist.
—Ohio State Journal.
Let Us Hope for Better.
The congestion of the nation's wealth
in the hands of a few is causing some
alarm in the minds of those who see, or
think they see, in this a source of dan
ger to the future prosperity of the coun
try. Various remedial measures are pro
posed, but it is not likely that anything
will be dome to change the current of
events until a crash comes. When the
mischief has been done a remedy will be
adopted, and not before. Farmers'
Friend.
The organized fanners of the Fifteenth
congressional district of Illinois at their
Tuscola convention formulated a de
mand "to have signal service flags placed
in all country towns, where the farmers
may have the benefit of them, or abolish
the system."
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Forty years ago the farmers of the
country owned 70 per cent, of the wealth
and paid 85 per cent, of' the taxes. To
day they own less than 23 per cent, and
pay over 80 per cent, of its taxes. Not
withstanding thi3 great depreciation in
the ownership of property by the farmers,
the aggregate wealth of the country in
creased during that period 45 per cent,
and the agricultural population increased
89 per cent. In 1866 the wheat, corn,
rye, barley, buckwheat, hay, oats, pota
toes, cotton and tobacco sold for $2,007,
462,810.
EOI'ICE i'0 3TOOZHOLDEBS.
Tho stockholder:) of the Farmers' Alliance
'.Yirrobouso Coral.:i: 'vl:l hold tlielr regular
ivnuii'a mooting at tbeir warehouse In Eden S.
D. on the ^ad Satui'U-.'.v -f Dca. (13tli day of
the month.) at 10 o'jhio'.j, a. m. As tho lusUiess
o£ t'ae corapur.y ior :hi.- is very iur e.
it Is requested i.'jiit ii:l sicmbera boon hand
promptly at the 2,p oiit^d hour.
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DAVID BBLLEsrn:r,D. President.
Secvbtr.ry.
i»s vocals.-
A fine line of stationery and other
writing materials to be found at Helmey
& Kelman's.
On Jan. 1, 181)1, TTflmoy & Kelman
will srive away a $25 music box.- Call
and learn particulars.
If yon intend to do some painting this
fall call at Helmey & Kelman's where you
will fluda coniplet line of paints etc.
Smokers! If you want a Ioc
smoke for 5c call at Helmey &
Kelman's and. try the Dan Webs
ter.
Highest price paid for corn.
C.B.Kennedy.,
SALE.
Ml
Eight high-grade, three year
old colts. J. A. Goding.
'FOB SALE./
Poland China boar, eighteen
months old, a No. 1 animal will
sell cheap. Wm. Haw.
$100.
On Sec. 8,u2 nton, Tp.
BELoifiais.
'By their works ye shall know
them." Donoho & Henderson
pay tilC highest market
price for wheat and cprn at the
Beloit Mills.
Donoho & Henderson.
Canton,
tier
NEW CLOTHI
—WE HAVE
Opened aNew Clothing store in the ^gtore
room formerly occupied by W. C. Putnam.
New Firm, New Goods, New Prices,
Having purchased our entire stock di
rect from he manufacturers, we will jell at
the very lowest figures, for spot cash. We
invite the public
tq
call and examine our
stock and get our prices. We have no idiide,
shoddy or shelf-worn stuff, at a fancy «S§e.
We. guarantee' good goods at reasonable
prices, realizing that, in these days of hard
times, the clothing merchant as well as
other dealers, must content himself with a
close margin of profit.
Remember Us before Buying.
Christopher & Olsen.
-DEALER IN—
We carry a complete stock of all kinds of Lumber, which we
purchase in the best market. We are prepared at all times to fur
nish as good grades for as little money as any other dealers. Our
stock of coal is also complete and prices as low as they can beH||
made. We also carry Cord Wood, Stove Wood, Posts Lime, ijf
Cement, etc.
Office and yard east of the city scales. Q-f
CUT THIS OUT,
Good for 5 cents on the $ at
Davenport's Bargain Store. /.
Great 5 and 10 cent counters.
We have placed nearly all our toys and no
tions on these counters, many of which are*
sold at 20 and 25 cents elsewhere. A dol
lar here will supply a whole family of child
ren with toys and make them happy. Save
your money. Remember the place and
come early,
Davenport's Bargain Store.
REWARD.
E. WENDT,
—DEALER IN—
Drv and
Magnificent SM of New Goods.
-One Hundred Dollars—
I offer a reward of $100 to any person who will prove to me that there has ever*
been brought to this, city, as large a stock of dry goods as I have received this fall^i
Nearly everything has been bought from the manufacturers at cash prices and we
will sell everything as cheap as the cheapest.
To encourage cash trade, we will give a fine large life-like portrait of yourself or
any member of your family, free with every $35 worth of goods bought at our store.
E. WENDT,
Opposite Court Hons©
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