Dakota farmers' leader., March 12, 1891, Image 1

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

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VOL. I. NUMBER 38
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One Price
We get the cash.
statement.
the rank of clotlnng.
the ladder.
tii|^|M3uges.
We have just received the finest line of
ready made clothing, that you ever put you
eyes Qn, and our goods are sold at the
Closest Margin Possible.
Every man can convince himself of the
benefit of our system, and the truth of our
We are anxious to convince you and
can Only do so with a trial, or a personal ex­
amination of our good.
We are not occupying a small place in
We are wide awake and at the TOP of
Our bargains are striking hard, and our
prices cutting deep in the flesh, of long
Our styles the latest, coupled with our
cut prices will peal the scales from the eyes
I of the people, till our bargains will shine
like the sun irresistible.
tional Bank,
—Proprietors of-
Main Street, one door South of First Na­
Canton, South Dakota.
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A Faithful LEADER in the Cause of Economy and Reform, the Defender of Truth and Justice, the Foe of Fraud and Corruption,
THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
The News From the National Capital ae it
Effects the Interests of the West
ern Farmers.
Only Two More Dai/s of Republican Legis
lation and then the Democrats
Will Take the Floor.
NO EXTRA SESSION.
WASHINGTON, March 3.—Special
Correspondence: Will there be an extra
session? Although only two legislative
days remain of the present session no man
ean answer that question with certainty.
Of course the general opinion is'that there
will be no extra session but unless the
republicans of the house will either give
up several measures they are anxious to
pass or-discover some way of shutting off
the democratic opposition thereto all of
the appropriation bills will not get
throngn in time to prevent an extar sess
ion. My own impression is that there
will be no extra session, but that some
very careless [and immature legislation will
be turned out during the last 48 hours of
the session, and as the greater part of it
will be regular appropriation bills it will
be impossible for the President to veto
any of them without making it necessary
to call an extra session, and it it not pro
bable that any of it will be sufficiently
important to justify that.
The senate has agreed to the house a
mendment to the direct tax bill, which is
now in Mr. Harrison's hands, and repub
licans say they have agreed to sign it.
The bill pensioning the widow o^ Ad
miral Proter at $2,500 per anum is also in
the president's hands, having passed both
house without opposition.
Several days ago when ex-Senator Ma
hone, who is a very tricky individual,
came out in a gushing newspaper inter
view endorsing Senator Gorman for the
democratic presidential nomination, a ru
mor was current here that Mahone was
about to flop over into the democratic
party, but such was not the" case. He
was only up to one of his lobbying tricks
he wanted the aid of Gorman, and he took
that method of obtaining it, and he suc
ceeded. Mahone has apiece of, ground in
this city that he is anxious to tell to Tihe
government for $250,000 to be used as a
new government printing office, and hav
ing failed to get the committee appointed
to select a site to report in his favor, hf
began working, as the next best thing, to
prevent any site being purchased by
this congress. He had Senat or Cameron
with him from the stump—they have
been, and are in a good many things toga
ther—and Senator Butler, who always
dances when Cameron pulls the string,
was made to get in the senate and deliver
a blackguard, personal and abusive speech
which he will probably live to regret, in
favor of a resolution offered Gorman to
postpone action until next December,
which resolution was adopted. There is
much indignation in the labor organiza
tions at the deception, they were promised
last winter that this congress would ap
propriate money to build anew printing
office in place of the unsafe and unhealthy
rattle trap now used, and they threaten
vengeance .Cameron doesn't care as he has
been elected to anew term and in Butler's
state—South Carolina—they don't count
for much, but Gorman will And that he
has added a new force to those existing
that will oppose his re-election to the
Senate, and the Maryland Farmers Alli
ance has already demonstrated that he
will not have a walk over.
There is much rivalry between the
'members of the two parties in congress as
to which shall be most attentive to Sena
tor-elect K}ie, of South Dakota, who is
here looking over the ground.
Another death in the fifty-first congress.
Senator Hearst passed quietly away Sat
urday night
WASHINGTON'S HOME AMD TOMB.
Mina Steensland, of Highland Township is the
Author of the Following.
The following is an essay on which a
prize was awarded by the teacher of the
school (W. L. Meinzer) in Highland
township, district No. 7.
Washington's home is situated at Mt.
Vernon on the west side of the Potomac,
river, on elevated grounds. The house is
two hundred feet long, in front of the
house is a piazza, as long as the house,
whetr? one can overlook the Potomac for
miles both up and down the river. There
is also, between the house and river a
lawn of pbout five or six acres, where
there are many trees planted by Wash
ington. In one corner of the lawn is a
garden laid by Washington himself. In
the house there are six rooms on the
lower floor of which two are about the
same as they were when Washington
lived there. There are his library, and
bed room and in one of the parlors there
are some of his clothes, a sord, a spy
glass, and a large key given oim by Lay
fay fette. The key belongs to a well
known man in France. His lurnb is a
Dr. Moore and Cockrell voted for
Palmer and Taubeneck for A. J. Streeter.
CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH, 12, 1891. •(.00 PER ANNUM
short distance from the house on a steep
hill side, where it was cut in the hill, and
built off brick, first there is a rough iron
door, over which is a passage of scripture
as follows: "I am the resurection and
the life he that belleveth in me though
he were dead yet shall he live." And on
the eutside of this there is another iron
gate which is written "here lies the body
of General Georga, Washiugton." During
the eivil war the soldiers destroyed much
of the country they, passed through but
they never disturbed the tomb of General
George Washington
MINA Steensland.
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE,
On the 164th Ballot John M. Palmer (Democrat) was
Elected United States Senator.
SPBINGFIELD, 111., March 11.—Special.
It seems evident that after the repub
licans found tjiat matters had been fixed
with two of the' Independents to elect
Palmer. They in their desperation were
willing to elect Dr. Moore (Independent)
in preference to allowing a Democrat to
be elected and held a republican caucus
early in the morning of the 11th which
resulted in the steering committee offer
ing Moore 100 republican votes, Dr.
Moore did what few men would have
done under the circumstances and said
"I regret to be obliged to disappoint
you, gentlemen 'said he, "bat your offer
comes to late. Aftjer waiting eight weeks
for the republican support Mr. Cockrell
and myself havepecided to give our votes
to Gen. Palmer' and have affixed our
signatures to an address to that effect."
The Third Party Conference.
A dispatch from Topeka, Ean., states
that the Citizens' National Industrial Al
liance perfected its organization, and is
sued a call for a national convention of
reformers, to be held in Cincinnati be
tween the 10th and 20th of May. The
call issued at the Ocala convention was
considered premature, and the change in
date is made in order that the conven
tion may be held at a time when legis
lative proceedings may not interfere
with it
The whole matter grew oat of the
Ocala convention. About 900 delegate*
from, six states participated in the meet
ing. Thomas CHlruth, of Kansas City,
Mo., was elegtedjxrefftdent of the organi
sation, and'w. F. Rightmeiere, of To
peka, secretary. The work of the na
tional organization was placed in the
hands of Capt. C. A. Power, Terrs
Haute, Ind. Ralph Beaumont, Wash
ington, D. C. Mrs. M. E. Lease, Wichita,
Kan., and N. Wood, Stevens, Ean.
The Citizens' Alliance will add the
Knights of Labors' strength to the
Farmers' Alliance.
John Davis, of Junction City, a mem
ber of the executive ooancil, Knights of
Labor, and congressman from the Fifth
Kansas district, said today that the new
order would afford the Knights of Labotf
a chance to enter politics without inter
fering with their old business organiza
tion.
The Alliance leaders are confident of
carrying the Dakotas, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and
Ohio in
Hear Thua 'Who Know.
Farmers frequently do some very
fOoliah things, for which they can give
no good or substantial reason. Now,
who ever heard of a medical society in
viting a farmer to. deliver an address on
therapeutics, or of a legal fraternity
calling some tiller of the soil to talk on
criminal jurisprudence? We will vent
ure that the oldest inhabitant cannot
recall so ludicrous an event. Yet at
nearly every agricultural fair some law
yer or doctor, who is as ignorant of
practical agriculture as the average Hot
tentot is of Greek, is booked for an ad
dress to farmers, is to talk to them upon
a subject with which they are, or at
least should be, entirely familiar, and of
which the speaker knows next to noth
ing. The farmers of thi« country should
drop this custom, whichhas nothing but
its antiquity to recommend it, and get
some of their own class to talk to them
on such occasions.—Farmers' Friend.
Government Control.
Grand Master Carr, of the Wisconsin
Patrons of Husbandry, in his A.nnna.1 ad
dress says the express and telegraph
companies should be brought under gov
ernment control. The people have been
bled by them altogether too long. That
extortionate monopoly, the Western Un
ion Telegraph company, reports receipts
for 1889 of oyer $20,000,000, expenses
114,500,000, leaving a profit of $6,200,000,
with an average toll of thirty cents a
message and an average cost to the com
pany of twenty-two cents a message.
The public, therefore, is paying to the
oompany a profit of nearly SO per cent,
for a service which the national govern
ment might render with a postal tele
graph at an enormous reduction in cost
THot It
The people's party in Kansas is noth
ing more than the protest against the*
slavery of 45,000,000 people to a pluto
cratic class among 17,000,000. Even Mr.
Ingalls said that in his last speech, and1
if he had been clever he would have
read history quickly enough to have said
it a year ago.
There is not a hint of anarchism in:
anything the Alliance has done, and nc
prospect that anybody will be hurt.—
Kansas City Times.
city, and the
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GOODS!
GOODS'
L. B. STRAW & CO.,
CLOTHIERS,
Have purchased
A complete Line of all Kinds
That has ever been brought to this
Lowest Prices!
L. B. SMif
CO.
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Canton, South Dakota.
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