Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 17, 1897, Page 4

Published Every Saturday, - By E. C. KILEY, TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN) ADVANCE Six Months...... $1.00 { Three Months........50¢ Entered in the postoficc at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as second-class matter. I BREAK PARTY LINES. ‘There is no good reason why a pol- itical party should live a day after it has fought out and settled the issue outoft which it grew. New align- ments should be formed for every campaign and no political party should continually exist merely -for z Is getting or for purposes of plun- der and wa To break down sectionalism, to bury the prejudices of the past, to de- stroy the strength of the tiate spoilsman and to prevent morbid an- tagonisms and desperate feuds in the future it is nece ry that old polit- ical alignments should not be permit- ted to develop into lines of obedient slaves or columns of headless soldiers. political party held together by prejudices and plunder is a standing good government, and riotic citizen should do what- s able to do to assist in bring- bout its dissolution.—Minneap- menace to ing: olis Times. HAS REACHED AD ACUTE STAGE. The era of declining values which began in 1873, when silver was de- monetized, has now reached an acute Stage, Saysan exchange. The hold- ers of idle capital are beginning to feel the conditions that are bringing suffering on al] classes of people. If they cannot find use for their capital, they are in the same condition as the workingman who cannot find employ- ment. One lives on the income of his capital, and the other on the income of his labor. The weekly statements of the New York banks show that the large amonnt of idle money is being added to, and is larger now than at any time since the first of the year. ‘The inference is that times are grow- ing worse in the Hast. The conges- tion of cash in the great financial centers indicates stagnation. This condition has been growing more pro- nounced. People are afraid to invest in property of any kind, because val- ues are Geclining and prices falling. A man who had $100,000 in the bank four years ago and has left it there has the same amount today. Had he invested in anything else he probably would not have today $60,000, so marked is the decline in values. The pa: of the prohibitive tarii! mea- sul i hort spurt to busi- ness and temporary activity, but the question is, shall we restore activity and continued activity by returning to the policy of bimetallism and undo the crime by which silyer was ban- ished from the mints a standard money, or court financial death by clinging to the gold standard? AN EX-PRESIDENT ROASTED, Ex-President Harrison is one of the counsel for the Citizens’ Street Rail- way company of Indianapolis, his home city, in the fightit is making against being compelled to concede a three-cent fure. A Methodist clergy- man there, the Rev. C. E. Lasby, made his connection with the case the subject of some rasping crit on the ex-president, whom he fiercely denounced for allowing himself to be retained by the oppressive street rail- way corporation to aid it in contin- uing an imposition on the people of Indianapolis. Could Jefferson or Patrick Henry or George Washington return to us,” said he, ‘would they not cry out against such unjust ex- action? And can anyone imagine the president of a street railroad whose actual value is $2,000,000, but whose watered stock and bonds have a value of $9,000,000, approaching George Washington and offering him $20,000 to justify the greed of the corporation and defend its iniquitous exactions from the common people? When shall statesmen once more consider the rights of the people superior to the glitter of gold and unselfishly de- vote their talents in bebalf of the public good?” THE MINERS’ STRIKE, Another terrible strike is inaugu- rated in the eastern etates, the work- men going out being members of the United Mine Workers’ association. The strike affects quite generally all the coal mines in the states of Qhio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia and Illinois, and causes over 200,000 men to be idle. A large number of the mine workers complain that the wages paid and the number of days’ employment given them are insufii- cient for them to live on and keep pheir families from going naked and starving. oe It is a fight for bread with most of tle miners, and the numbers going out and the determination with which they enter on the almost hope- less struggle is proof positive of their pitiful condition. Mostof the mine operators have willingly let the strike materialize, knowing that if their mines remain closed now it will re- duce the output and give the man ex- cuse for greater profits on what they sell next winter. ‘The miners who are striking to bet- ter their condition are little consid- ered in the matter except by the po- liticians who see in the strike only another injury to business revival and a consequently greater excuse for di stion among the people with the present administration. whose promises of prosperity have already failed too long in materializing. Mark Hanna sees in the strike great cause for regret. If he don’t engineer a compromise in favor of the men very soon he will his seat in the U. 5. senate next winter, and if the strike accomplishes no other good that one thing will be well worth considering. But it will not compensate for the suffering families of miners engaged in the strike and the whole country must look on helplessly while one more contest between labor and cap- ital goes on record as a product of a protecting and a trust fostering sys- tem of government. The foolish rich and the foolish poor are more and more in evidence. PO OF THE TRUSTS. The ancient farmer was the nearest to a self-sustaining individual on re ord, and the farmer of the present day is the most dependent. The one crop idea has been the cause of this, and especially in the west; the farmer 's Wheat, for ample, has to y s vegetables and even uses store butter. This, inadegree, has rend- ered trusts possible. The farmer is simply a tool of the capitalists. Often the crop is mortgaged before, it has sprouted, and the price is fixed by the capitalist. ‘The people are powerless to prevent this and suffer the evil, For example, C. A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis is re- ported as owning 10,000,000 bushels of wheat, and Phil D. Armour has_ his allies control 14,000,000 bushels, leav- ing 5,000,000 bushels for the remain- der of the population, vf about 70,000,- 000. This means that the bread sup- ply of the United States is virtually in the hands of a very few men, who can buy low as they choose and sell as high as they desir The full meaning of this will be seen when it is considered that a rise of half a cent means to Pillsbury asum of $50,000, and in a degree he is able to raise or lower the price as he sees fit. Sugar is another staple which is at the mercy of the trusts. Fearful of an increased duty on refined sugar, the trust has been importing large quantities of sugar and storing ib, with a view to escaping the proposed increased tax. Hight or ten cargoes have already been stored, according to report, and the trust will doubtless lose no time in increasing the supply. In New York there are tens of mil- lions of pounds of tea stored away and stillit comes. A ship recently arrived in San Francisco with 4,700 tons, which will be sent to New York by rail. If the tax of ten cents is put on tea, this means so much clear profit on each pound of tea now in store and the public will be bled to that ex- tent. Still another element of the power of trusts is seenin the supply of cheap tea which has now been denied importation. When the law threat- ened this mixture of mud, tea leaf waste and stems, the trust imported immense quantities, which can be sold so cheap that a set of dishes can be thrown in with every five pounds. With these facts in mind it ishard to see where protection protects. ‘Trusts at home are as injurious to the public as foreign competition, and no iaws can be too stringent to regulate these trusts. The day may not be distant when the manufacture of iron will be con- trolled by a single combination and the country will be dotted with thousands of cold furnaces, while whole towns, dependent upon local work, will fall into decay and work- men will have to accept any terms or be unemployed and go hungry. So in every trade and business, the pro of combining and consolida- tion is going on, and the people are pauperized while the capitalist grows and richer. The wbole system is harmful to the. commun- ity; it keeps prices higher, narrows the field of employment and makes poverty universal. Down with trusts and give the hon- est toiler-a chance!—Marquette Min- ing Journal. Misconstrue his utterances and ideas as they will our gold-bug friends can never make a gold-bug outof Uncle Horace Boies. Nobody sees the enor- mity of existing financial evils clear- er thgn the old ex-governor does and he is a man who tries to think of safe and sure ways cut of difficulties as best he can. By the way, is there a Republican paper in the country that agrees with him? | Looking for Timber. G. A. R. Simpson of the Powers- Simpson Logging Co., returned last week from the north where he and Mr. Powers made a tripof about 150 miles in a canoe, looking up timber, says the Mississippi Valley Lumber- man. They started from Deer River, Minon., and went up the Mississippi to Ball Clublake and up that. From the head of Ball Club lake they made a portage back into the main river and up through Lake Winnebigoshish to Third river, which empties into the northern part of thatlake. They went along distance up that river up into the Red Lake country. Mr. Simpson says there is an immense amount of water up in that part of the state. There is a five feet greater head of water on the government dam at the outlet of Lake Winnebigoshish than ever before, and that the flow- age of the dam extends five or six miles up Third river and back up the main Mi ippi river into Cass lake. They Visited Walker. Among the passengers that arrived here Saturday evening were Messrs. H. D. Powers, F. J. Murphy and Dr. W. P. Drown of Grand Rapids, Minn. The trio had been at Brainerd taking part in the sfooting tournament. As they are crack shots they captured some of the best prizes, several of which they had with them; and they were quite interesting trophies, even if they disappear in small quantities when water isadded to them. The boys were en route hume via Leech lake end the dam, thence down the Mississippi river to Grand Rapids, where we hope they arrived safely. Sunday was passed by them by a boat ride to Steamboat landing. Had they had their store clothes with them they would have attended church. They seemed very much dis: concerted because they could not. As we know them all to be regular at- tendants of some place of worship when at home, we felt extremely sorry for them and tried to comfort them, but fear our efforts failed. On Monday they took a trip over to the agency and Dr. Brown nearly scared the life out of a squad of pa- pooses by taking a shot at them with his kodak. Had he not made for the protection of the steamboat there might have been a very handsome young widow in Grand Rapids. In the afternoon the boys here gave them a little shoot, with the follow- ing score: Murphy Sempi Powers Dufour. Brown. On Tuesday the trio loaded their boat, the Cunemekee, with their camping outfit and all the etceteras absolutely necessary for such a trip, and at 9:48 dipped their oars with a 42 stroke for Cedar point, where they hoped to catch a favoring breeze for the dam. The gentlemen were highly delight- ed with their sojourn here and said if it was not for disappointing their bet- ter halves they would like to have tarried here for at least a week. But being devoted, dutiful husbands, they were compelled to leave pleasure be- hind them and start for home. They have pr ed to come again and bring their spouses with them, when they can take a full measure of enjoy- ment, such as can only be had on the shores of majestic Leech lake.— Walker Pilot. Minnesota’s Standing Timber. One of the important features of the second annual report of Chief Fire Warden Andrews, of Minnesota, is an estimate of the areas of forest in twenty-three so-called forest counties of the state, and the number of feet of pine and deciduous trees in each. His figuresare only rough estimates and are undoubtedly far below what they should be, especially for the white pine, but they show the rela- tive amounts of each variety of tim- ber. According to this report the area of these forest counties is 22,855,- 000 acres. They contain 10,889,000 acres of forest. The number of feet of white pine contained in them is estimated at 16,849,000,000; of Norway or red pine, 3,417,475,000 feet; of gray or jack pine, 640,000,000 feet; of spruce 1,050,000,000 feet; tamarack, 450,000,- 000 feet; of cedar, 1,010,500,000 feet. Birch comes next in quantity with 706,000,000 feet, followed closely by oak, with 700,000,000 feet. Then comes basswood, 491,000,000 feet; pop- lar, 475,000,000 feet; elm 219,000,000 feet; mnaple, 178,000,000 feet, and ash, 126,000,000 feet. Well posted lumbermen who have spent nearly their whole lives in Min- nesota’s pine forests, and whose busi- ness is to estimate the timber they contain, place the amount of standing white pineat nearly twice the amount that Gen. Andrews credits the state with. Itis well known that those notin the lumber business are ac- customed to underestimate the amount of standing pine timber, and for years and years it has been time and again argued that our northern white pine forests would last but a few years longer. Stijl they exist and will continue to for years to come; perhaps for half a century lumbering will be carried on in this state on nearly as large a scale as at present. It is safe to predict. that our white pine forests will never entirely disap- pear, for, as that timber grows miore scarce, new substitutes are discovered to take the place of lumber in build- ing operations, and then, too, timber from the south and the west coast will come into general use, to give white pine a longer lease of lite. The total of 3,902,500,000 feet of hardwood timber will last for many years at the present rate of cutting hardwvod lum- ber in Minnesota. While Wisconsin and Michigan are great hardwood lumber states, Minnesota has quite a bit of bardwood timber, especially if the figures given in the report for the amount of hardwood timber standing are as low, comparatively, as the pine figures are.—Mississippi Valley Lum- berman. $25. Round Trip $25. Via D. S. S. & A. and Canadian Pacifte railways, leaving Dnluth 6:30: p. m., July 21. Annual Pilgrimage to St. Anne de Beaupre. Round trip fare from Du- luth $25.00. Tickets good to stop} over at any point in Canada. Return limit, August 3lst. Tourist sleeping cars will be run through from Duluth. Rate from Duluth For further particulars T. H. LARKE, Commercial Agent. 426 Spalding House Blk. Duluth, Minn. BEST LINE ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS | TO ST.LOUIS. PEE ODS ie xm Che Only Free Silver eeartoon Paper SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE Address UP-TO-DATE, Chica Mention this paper. BUY tm! BEST The “DOMESTIC” Is absolutely the best Sewing Machine made. 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