Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 10, 1900, Page 6

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I began Eradicates eae "8 " and in Scrofula. . of the sores.” OtHo B. Moore, Mount Hope, Wis. your pocketbook, say money talks. ow or amoke tobacco It has cured thou- you. Perfectly harm- sity Gum Com- hth street, St. If your druggist it, send 5 cents and get There fi m about another fe low’s widow that few men can associ- ate with their own. for Sale Cheap. and timber farm; 160 y hardwood without hills half mile from Mis- 4 ght and passenger railroad statio near; buildings; well; thirty or forty nred; unlimited hay 1 excellent soil. Bear, mocse, fish plenty. Work for beginner; ll year round in neigh- h is excellent. English- ed nationalities. Apply ite ‘to owner, Proprietor of Globe Lictel, St. Paul, Minn. MILE CONSTANT. de occupation a ne- scciety makes it a dut ke it a pleasure.—Capa << hab mption has saved L._ Baker, 4223 » Dec. 8, 95. Piso’s Cure for Cons me large doctor bill Rogent Sq., Philadelphia, P If brides wore wreaths of orange in- siead of the orange blossoms how odd it would seem. Thirty Days’ ¢r nuiely Free. President Those who never retract their opin- € yes more than they ften mars the prettiest face, t's Hamm Balsam. best cure for corns. Lets. rolcngs a man’s life stretcher. to put him on a Send for “Choice Recipes,” by Whiter Lee (© Co. L Dorchester, Mass., miatied free. h RESLSTSLSVSLSLSLSS % NONE SUCH sin pts | hobbles the muscles q and units for work like SSSe 3S) SORENESS and STIFFNESS Nothing relaxes them and makes a speedy perfect cure like St. Jacobs Oil SNAKE RIVER VALLEY RICHEST FARMING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. | A Complete System of Irrigation Ro- lieves the Anxlety About Rain That Prevails in Other Parts of the United States—East and West Compared We are permitted to publish an ex- tract from a private letter written by a gentleman who has recently been devoting his time to the personal in- vestigation of practical farming by ir- rigation in the west. His vivid por- trayal of the advantages of that sys- tem will no doubt interest our readers. He says: “There is a vast, an immeasurable difference between farming in the east and farming in the west. If the farm- ers of the east could only be made to understand the advantages enjoyed by their western brethren, I verily believe there would soon be no land for set- tiement in the great irrigation states. The irrigation farmer has absolute certainty of crop, and certainty of its perfect maturity. He never plants that he does not reap, and when I say reap I don’t mean the reaping of scat- tered stands of half matured grain such as the eastern farmer cuts at the close of a dry season; but the reap- ing of fields that frequently average 50 bushels of wheat to the acre—every grain of which has reached the perfec- tion of development. There is no anxious scanning of the skies for the ‘cloud no larger than a man’s hand’ and fervent prayers that it may en- velop the heavens and send down wa- ter to the thirsty fields. The irriga- tion farmer never thinks about rain. He watches his growing crops, and the day and the hour moisture is needed, he is out with his hoe flooding his fields with water from canals that skirt them. “Everything grows in the west that grows anywhere else in the United States north of Tennessee. Potatoes frequently yield 500 bushels to the acre, and barley is grown far better than any raised in the east. The fruits are delicious. I never saw any to compare with those grown in Idaho, where apples, peaches, plums, cherries, pears, apricots abound, and where there are thousands of.acres of Italian and German prunes which I am told have made fortunes for their owners. “To my mind, Idaho is the best wa- tered and most inviting arid state in the Union. I made a careful investiga- tion of the great Snake River valley in that state, along and tributary to the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and saw there evidences of prosperity such as I have never seen elsewhere in the United States. This wonderful valley is said to contain over 3,000,000 acres of arable land. It is threaded with great irrigation canals in every direc- tion, and there are vast tracts await- ing only the touch of the farmer to make them productive, The sun doesn’t shine on finer or more fertile land. When I saw the happy homes, the well filléd granaries, the sleek, fat stock, and the smile on the face of nature reflected in a smile of contentment on the faces’of the farmers, my heart went out in pity to the thousands in the east who are struggling along from year to year, toiling against adverse climatic conditions, and never know- ing how soon a drouth will wipe out the profits of prosperous years. “Lands can be had in this Snake River valley almost for the asking, but they are going, day by day. The Oregon Short Line is making extra- ordinary efforts to bring the advan- tages of Idaho to the notice of eastern farmers, and is flooding the country with conservatively written descriptions of the state. Write to the General Pas- senger Agent of this Railroad at Salt Lake for printed matter about Idaho, and read it carefully. It will be a revelation to you and I sincerely be- lieve will end in your removal to the west.” That Woke Him Up. A good story comes from a little town in the midlands. Among the members of the Methodist church is an old retired railway guard and ticket collector. During the morning service at his church not many Sun- days ago the railway man was called upon by the minister to assist in taking up the collection, one of the gentlemen who usually helped in the work being absent. The retired railway man _ started down the aisle with the contribution bag and passed it round like an old iiand at the business. Everything») passed off smoothly until he reached a good brother who had nodded him- self fast asleep, but*just as he was about to pass by him he was suddenly overcome by the force of habit ac- quired in his railway days. Tapping the sleeping brother on the shoulder with the bag, he shouted: “Tickets, please!”—Tit-Bits. , 4 What It Meant. “And the king rent his clothes,” read the Sunday school teacher from the les- son leaf . “Tommy, can you tell me what is meant by that?” “J dunno, ’less it means he hired ’em out.”—Ohio State Journal. Millais’ Preference. The first meeting between John Millais, the artist, and Mrs. Jopling, a pretty society woman of London, occurred at a private view of the ol@ masters at Burlington house. Mrs. Jopling was walking with a well known artist when Millais approached: “A good show of old masters,” re- marked the artist after they had ex- changed greetings. “Old masters be bothered. I prefer looking at the young mistresses,” said Millais, with a hu- morous glance at Mrs. Jopling.—San Francisco Wave. CONDEMNATION ALMOST UNIVERSAL, OF MINNESOTA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, For Its Action on Porto Rico Tariff. Heatwole and Fletcher Also Fall, for Both Condemn Their Party—A. Pretiy “Kettle of Fish"—Eyes Now on Knute Nelson—Outlook for Sweeping Rebuke to Republicanism This Fall—State and National Political Points—Peoples Party State Convention—“A. B. C.” Ticket and Campaign—Twin City Point and Point- ers—Note and Comment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, March 5, 1900. Almost sensational has been the effect of the divided action of the Minnesota Republican delegation in the. lower house of congress, on the Portd Rico tariff bill passed under McKinley whip and spur last Wednesday. Centering in the Twin Cities, but rapidly spread- ing throughout the state, the feeling has been that of condemnation, almost with- out exception. Previous to the final vote the wires were hot to Washington, Minneapolis taking the lead, in efforts of the people there to hold Congressman Fletcher down to vote against the bill. In St. Paul the feeling was that Stevens would follow the trust orders, whatever they were, as was the result. In the nearer portions of the third district, the gaff was thrown into the gentle Joel, because he stood out against party dic- tation. Thus, asis the case with most of the current issues, the glaring incon- sistencies of the Republican party were made continually more apparent. Ina word it was the case of being ‘‘between the devil and the deep sea.’’ If the dele- gation stood by the people, and voted against the bill, it condemned the party, and if the delegation followed the Hanna orders, as promulgated, carried out and explained by, Tawney, it slapped the people in the face. In the final result Heatwole and Fletcher slapped the party, and the remaining five slapped the people, who will proceed to,swipe them off the face of the political earth, if signs are not misleading. If Twin City Republican curses were “deep”’ rather than “loud,” the declar- ations from the country were along the line expressed by State Auditor Dunn’s paper, the Prineeton Union, which, even anticipating the possibility of just what has happened, declared that it would never advocate the election of one of the roosters who should disregard the ad- vice of McKinley and do the bidding of the trusts—just what they have done, but with McKinley’s ‘‘advice and consent.’’ From the Duluth district it is conceded even by Morris’ friends, that he has sealed hisdoom, and the same with Eddy of the seventh. The scalp lifters will also be after the hair of Schoolmas- ter McCleary. As to Tawney he proba- ply relies on his high position with the administration and his consequent power, to help him out. Further as to Heatwole. the friends of Frank Wilson claim that they have a ‘‘puddin’ ”’ in de- feating Joel for re-nomination. But in- side talk is that Joel will recognize the inevitable- and try for the gubernatorial nomination, hoping todo Van Sant by the strength of the anti-administration sentiment in the state. And so it is a merry ‘‘kettle of fish.’’ Congressman Heatwole’s endorse- ment of the Democratic position ought tocommend him to his people instead of subject him to intrigue for his de- feat, for the reason that the position is right. What inducement is there to our public servants to do right, if when they doso they receive the reverse of commendation. But possibly it has been done on the quibble that Republicans have gone wrong only 15 per cent. That was a stunning statement that Mr. Heatwole is alleged to have made to President McKinley, that a question ought to be 100 per cent right, and | not 15 per cent right, and that if the tariff is wrong, it is as wrong in principle for two years as for 50. Joel stood out on this question, but where will he be at when before the people he appeals to them to stand by that 15 per cent party? And Congressman Fletcher’s troubles are pitiful. The foxy old ‘‘guy,”’ as one of the leading Republicans of Hennepin | who has labored for years to defeat him dubs him, took no position until assured that the 15 per cent bill was sure of pas- sage, and then squared himself at home, as he thinks, by voting against the bill. The cute Uncle Loren has ‘‘squared’’ nothing. By voting against the bill he simply condemns his party, piling up the indictments the people have against it and whick they will see to it that Your Uncle Loren has to face in this campaign. But, Fletcher’s statement shows that he approved the 15 per cent wrong, and only. voted no because so hardly pressed from home. _ In short it is another ‘‘h-ll ofa fix’’ for Your Uncle. As to the delegation as a whole, Eddy, Morris (Little Pagey), Tawney (whip- per snapper), dunderhead McCleary, and Heatwole and Fletcher, isn’t Min- nesota proud of the whole trust serving list? Won’t it be a delight to see the people throw the gaffs into each next November? There should be no ques- tion about the election of a complete congressional delegation by ‘the reform ate American anti-monopolist lorces. {surrender of their | ministration! The unanimity of the important sug- gestion of Judge Caldwell as the candi- date for the American forces for vice president, is a striking incident of the national situation. Judge Caldwell was wanted for the same position with Bryan in 1896, by a very large and earnest ele- ment in the Democratic convention, but it gave way to the miserable. make- shift of locality and class interest talk, on the idea now about to be thoroughly that the ticket must straddle from east to west, and recognize the capitalistic class. And speaking of ‘American forces,” that is a specially appropriate campaign designation for the combined opposition to Hannaism that will be put up under the leadership of Bryan. Our forces are American in opposition to war of con- quest, and destruction of republics, in the Philippines; in our adherence to the doctrines of the Declaration of Indepen- dence and the Constitution; in advocacy of a financial policy for Americans, and for the interests of all her people; in bearing sympathy with the South Afri- cans struggling against English oppres- sion, plunder and conquest; in demand- ing the abolition of government by in- junction, and governments by the trusts for the trusts and of the trusts; and finally, American is applicable because already, under such patriotic impulses, the American flag is to fly as our em- blem of political success. Hurrah for the American Forces! If the American _ ‘ticket should be Bryan and Caldwell, it might be called the “A. B. ©.” ticket, and everybody could understand it. The flour mill trust has gone to pieces, but only temporarily; is merely spit- ting on its hands to get a better hold. Incidentally the dupes who placed their money in the trust stock will be squeezed out and the slick geesers who | stay in get the cream. Meanwhile the thousands of men out of employment by the consolidations of which these failures are an incident, will have time to reflect on the beauties of Republican gold standard administration. And the growth of trusts goes on at the same rate as formerly. In January New Jersey chartered $70,000,000, West Virginia $55,000,000, Delaware $12,000.- 000, and other trust favoring states $66,- 000,000; total for January, $203,000,000, against $200,000,000 all told in Decem- ber. The grand total now exceeds 600 trust corporations, with capital of $10,- 000,000,000, which the people must pay dividends on, water and all. If flour trust has not yet paid there are plenty of the trusts which have. American Steel and Wire declares a div- idend of 7 per cent, on its $40,000,000 preferred stock, and has left of 1899 earnings enough for 18 per cent on its. common stock of $50,000,000. Standard Oil has just declared a 25 per cent quar- terly dividend on its capital of $100,- 000,000, which rate will duplicate its capitalin a single year’s profits. Stand- ard Oil raked in $25,000,000 profits from raising oil 3 cents per gallon recently. And speaking of Bryan’s now almost certain election, the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, which opposed him in 1896, gives the figures of Bryan’s tre- mendous and constantly increasing strength, which we thus summarize: In 1898, ’94 and ’95 the Democrats lost every Northern state, and were defeated in six Southern states. Bryan on the Chicago platform, the adoption of which sent one-third of his delegates out to sulk, or secretly oppose him, carried all the states that remained Democratic in 1895, and gained eleven | states,Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washing- ton and Wyoming and, with a few hundred votes more, would have had all of Kentucky and California, of which he received one electoral vote in each. He cut the Republican majorities in Indiana and Ohio down one-half or more, and carried Kansas by 13,000 when the Republicans had carried it by 70,000 the year before. This year Bryan will have the cordial and en- thusiastie support of hls reunited party, and the allies will be recruited by thou- sands on thousands of Republicans leav- ing thefr party on account of imperial- ism, the reign of the trusts, and the party body and breeches to the money power in the gold standard banking bill. And while Standard Oil boosts kero- sene, the match trust commences to use cross-grained wood in order that matches may break on being scratched and in- crease the consumption. But the farmer goes right along enjoying his 50 cent wheat, while barb wire, binding twine, nails, lumber and all else that he needs is boosted under Republican adminis- tration. Hurray for the McKinley trust ad- Barb wire and kerosene up, wheat and cotton down! The best estimates obtainable, as to the traveling men affected by the trusts, are that the number laid off in 1899 ex- ceeded 150,000. At the low average of $200 per month—and the trust salesmen doubtless averaged twice that, salary and expenses—this means a lossof $360,- 000,000 to traveling men, railroads, hotels, etc., which sum goes to trust presidents at salaries equal to that of the president of the United States, and to pay immense dividends on real and watered stocks. The week’s biggest chunk of Twin City ‘‘prosperity”’ has been the sale un- der the hammer, of the celebrated Guar- anty Loan building, Minneapolis. Cost- ing, land and building, up into the mil- lions, it brought at foreclosure sale, rising of $570,000, the amount of ac- crued claims under the mortgage. The ownership is said to be between Thomas Lowry and one of the New York banks, who it is said will redeem. But what of the part they do not ‘‘redeem,’’ rep- resenting the people’s thousands on thousands, the shrinkage in property values, and the dollars wrung from peo- ple in the Menage swindles? - Echo answers what. On account of the low price of wheat, Senator Knute Nelson has introduced a bill to increase Surveyor General Warner’s salary! During all the years of great labors in that office, the pay has been sufficient, but now that the sur- veys are being completed, and the work of the office next to nothing, the pay must goup. That’slikeit—is simply Hannacratic, not to say Nelsonian—for Senator Knute is very fond of caring for the poor (political) farmer. And, be- sides if there ever was a rea] poor such “farmer” it is Eli S. G. 8. 0. - | Woman "Ss Kidney Troubles Why trifle with health when the easiest and surest help is the best known medicine in the world ? is known everywhere and thousands of women have been cured of serious kid- ney derangements by it. Mrs. Pinkham’s meth- ods have the endorse- ment of the mayor, the postmaster and others of her own city. Her medicine has the endorsement of an un- numbered multitude of grateful women whose printed in this paper. Every woman should read these letters. Mrs. Pinkham advises suffering women free of charge. Her address is Lynn, Mass. N. W. N. 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