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7 1 ! AWAS a famous: ; victory !"
, 'Twas dies Ircel; 'Twas
complete rout for the Re
publican chieftains who
have been lording it over
the house. The issue was squarely
Joined, sugar trust versus the Ameri
' can people, and the people won out in
the house of representatives, and the
Republican party in the house, with its
boasted majority of forty-three, Is torn
Into tatters, Into bitter factions," lntd
emithereens, while the Democrats are
Jubilant. For nearly two weeks the
machine Republicans and the insurgent
Republicans' poured broadside after
broadside into each other in a, way
that was refreshing to lovers of jour
country. It was a bare knuckle per
formance. Their blood was up. No
quarter was asked or given. The ma
, chine was beaten, horse, foot and dra
goon. The Democrats lined up to a
man. taking "the differential" off re
. fined sugar, which means cheaper sug
ar to the American consumer. The 18th
of April, 1902, is a day to which Demo
crats can point with pride. On that
occasion the conduct of the house Dem
ocrats was superb. By that day's work
and their, united support of the Demo
cratic minority report of the committee
on foreign affairs in favor of the rigid
exclusion of Chinese coolies the Demo
crats have almost assured the election
of a Democratic house in November
and have gone far 'toward electing a
Democratic president in 1904. As noth
ing can be more edifying to Democrats
than to read the wrathy opinions which
these, belligerent Republicans express
ed' for each other and as no Republican
paper will dare to publish them, I offer
no apology for making long quotations
from their speeches.
Hepburn After Grosvenor and Long.
General Charles Henry Grosvenor of
Ohio, member of the ways and means
committee, and Colonel William Peters
Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce, are- two Republican bell
wethers. They are veterans in serv
ice, and both are close; to the psalm
ist's allotment of threescore years and
ten. They sit side by side in the
house. Both are bitter and unrelent
ing partisans. They both unreservedly
subscribe to the main article of the
Republican creed, "The earth belongs
to Jthe salntsj and we are the saints."
But there are saints and saints. Hep
burn has a streak of Independence in
him which Grosvenor , lacks. Conse
quently while Grosvenor, swearing be
would ne'er consent, consented to sup
port the Payne bill Hepburn sturdily
held out and took his place with the
beet sugar insurgents. Here is the
manner in which Colonel Hepburn
paid his compliments to General Gros
venor: "I listened with great attention, as I
always do, to the utterances of the
gentleman from Ohio Mr. Grosvenor
on my right. I remember what he
told us. He said that when this prop
osition came to him, coupled with a 50
per cent " reduction, he indignantly.
spurned It. When the proposition.
came for a 40 per cent reduction, again
he refused, and then at SO or 33 again
he refused. And finally, quoting his
language, when the ultimatum of 25
per cent was proposed again he said
he would have nothing of It But
when they came at him with that oth
er ultimatum 20 per cent, when that
little nickel differential appeared
then it was that his virtue weakened.
Think of it, Mr. Chairmanl He de
picted here the unfortunate position in
which the 'reconcentrados' were, in
whieh the 'insurgents' were, 'those
who were engaged in the division of
the great Republican party, 'who were
destroying the integrity of its coun
cils', and 'who were in revolt against
authority and the leaders of the par
ty, as being of the most serious and
pernicious character. Yet think how
nearly he came to being In that most
unfortunate plight. If that nickel had
never -appeared above the horizon of
his vision, he would have been a recon
centrado. He would have been today an
Insurgent. He would have been a rebel
against authority, and he would now
be engaged, quoting his own language,
in dividing the Republican party and
Imperiling the future of the republic.
"Great God, on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things!"
Having disposed of Grosvenor, Hep
burn took Hon. Chester I. Long of
Kansas, another Republican member
. of the ways and means, through a
course of sprouts as follows:
"Mr. Chairman, I have listened with
great attention to this debate. I listen
ed to the great speech of the gentleman
from Kansas Mr. Long the other day
a great speech in certain lines. I
think he spoke for two hours and thirty-five
minutes; to be minute and ac
curate, 155 minutes. I thought it was,
physically speaking,, the greatest effort
of human endurance that I had ever
witnessed, and I thought then that If
the gentleman had begun in time and
had had proper training and had the
moral qualities there might be yet a
great future before him in the prize
ring under the Marquis of Queensberry
rules. -; - : ' -
"But I was sorry, Mr. Chairman, to
Bee so much of physical endeavor de
nted to the destruction of what I sup
posed ; to be the Republican idea of
reciprocity that policy of ours that
was to aid protectif
ours that was to enlarge the labor
field, ;thaV policy that was to make
more of , days' : work in this country,
that, was to augment the . wage, that
was to bring more of comfort into the
homes, that was to give more of sta
bility to the political power of this
country through contentment and that
was to serve the purposes of the great
Republican party: in 4if ting up the la
bor of this country ikbd' giving it its
proper: status in this land. I did not
know until rheard bis speech that it
was to be used as a convenient-vehicle
by whi h ' particular gain ' could be
brought to particular men without re
gard to this vaster question of the ben
efit of labor, of the United States'
Cushman's Sunday School Traci."
. The way that CushmanVf Washing
ton, a Republican, went after the
speaker, the committeemen, rules and the
Republican organization In general
was one of the richest ' performances
seen in the bouse in years and marks
Cushinan as a master of wit, sarcasm,
humor, invective a.nd all the other ele
ments .that go to make a great popular
orator. Speaking of the rules of the
house, he said In part: f
"It Is with humiliation unspeakable
that I rise In my place on this floor and
admit to my constituents at home that
In 'this house I am utterly powerless
to bring any bill or1 measure,-no matter
how worthy or meritorious it may be,
to a vote unless I can first make terms
with the speaker.
.'It may be a matter of news to some
of the good people within the confines
of the American republic to know that
there is no way of getting an ordinary
unprivileged measure considered and
voted upon in this house unless it suits
the speaker. I am aware, that there are
several theoretical ways of getting a
measure up, but they have no actual
reality, no fruitage in fact. I make the
statement on , this 1 floor now that no
member p this body who introduces a
bill not a private bill, but a public bill
can get it considered or brought for
ward for final determination unlerss it
suits the speaker, and if any one wants
to deny that statement I am In a per
sonal position and in a peculiarly hap
py frame of mind right now to give a
little valuable testimony on that point.
Imagine, if you please, a measure-
not a private measure, but a public
measure which has been considered at
length by a great committee of this
house and favorably reported with the
recommendation that it do pass. That
bill is then placed on the 'calendar.'
The calendar! That is a misnomer. It
ought to be called a cemetery, for there
in lie the whitening bones of legisla
tive hopes. When the bill is reported
and placed on the calendar, what does
the member who introduced it and who
is charged by his constituency to se
cure its passage do?
"Does he consult himself about his
desire to call it up? No. Does he con
sult the committee that considered the
bill and recommended it for passage?
ISo. Does he consult the will of the
majority of this house? No. What
does he do? I will tell you , what he
does he either consents that thatr bill
may die upon the calendar .or he puts
his manhood and his individuality in
his pocket and goes trotting down that
little pathway of personal humiliation
that leads to where? To the speaker's
room! Aye, the speaker's room! All
the glories that clustered around the
holy of holies in King Solomon's tem
ple looked like 30 cents yes, looked
like 29 cents compared with that job
bing department of this government.
"Then you are in the presence of real
greatness. What, then? Why, the
speaker looks over your bill, and then
he tells you whether he thinks it ought
to come up or not.
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"The question ' that ; now arises to
confront as is, Have we put a club in
the hands of some one5 else to beat us
to death? Have we elevated one man
on a pinnacle so high that he cannot
now see those who elevated him? Is
the speaker of this house a mere mor
tal man of common flesh and clay or
is he supernatural and immortal? What
miracle was wrought at his birth? Did
a star shoot from Its orbit when he was
born, or did he come into existence in
the good old fashioned way that ush
ered the rest of us into this vale of
tears?
"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow
world .
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at uome time are masters of their
fates; '
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings, V
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A Free Lilliputian Show. -v'
"We operate here under a set of rules
confessedly designed -to belittle the
hopes and dwarf the ambitions of the
Individual members of this body, while
that same set of rules vests more power
In the hands of two or three men than
was ever enjoyed by an oriental despot
or a ten button mandarin.
"Here we sit like a lot of human midg
ets and legislative lilliputians trying
to do business under a set of rules es
pecially designed to dwarf the power
and dim the hopes of the vast majority
of the members of this body, while the
same set of rules, on the other hand,
Is intended to swell the power and en
large the influence of a;few men be-
that policy of yond the point that it was ever intend
ed that the influence of any one man
should go in a free legislative body.
"The system is rotten at both ends,
It is rotten at one end because it robs
the individual members Jn this house
of the power that the constitution of
his country and the credentials of his
people entitle him to; it is rotten at the
other end because it vests power in
other men that they have no right to
and of ttimes places on them duties they
have no capacity to fulfill.
"Mr. Chairman, there are people in
Washington city today who ire going
down to a theater and paying out ou
cents each of lawful money of the Unit
ed States of America, of present stand
ard weight and fineness, in order to see
what? In order to see a performance
of lilliputians.- Great God, what a sin
ful waste of money, - when they can
come up here and watch this house per
form six days in the week for nothing!
"I am not now: making war on the
Republican party, but I am making
war on the methods and the men of
that little clique who are laboring un
der the mis'-aren idea that they are the
Republican part. , J
,"Who are they? You might think
from the "power, they assume that each
one had been born with a scepter in his
hand and a halo round his head to dis
tinguish him from the ordinary con
gressional scrub. ;. ' !
"On , the contrary, they feed on the
same kind .' of meat and are made , of
the same kind of clay as the rest of
us, and a pretty common brand of mud
it is too. - ,
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. "xnese rew remarks or mine may
never be published as a campaign doc
ument by any political party. I shall
be satisfied if they pass down to pos
terity in the form of a Sunday school
tract, being a bright and shining ex
ample of the fearless recital of a few
wholesome truths and , unvarnished
facts."
Amos J. Cummings.
The American people, without re
gard to political affiliations, will regret
to learn that Amos J. Cummings of
New York is a very sick man, lying at
death's door, for , Amos is perhaps
known to as many persons as any oth
er man in public'life, barring the pres
ident. Some men are made to be ad
mired, some to be loved, and a few-
very few to be both admired and lov
ed. To this small and goodly company
Amos undoubtedly belongs. I doubt if
he has an enemy in the world. I don't
see how he could have, for he is the
most generous, of mortals. His bright
sayings have made his name familiar
to the ears of his countrymen, his fer
vid oratory has stirred their hearts and
his intense patriotism has awakened
their love. He has said more kind
things about his fellow members than
any living man. There are representa
tives and senators who owe long ca
reers to something Witten favorably
of them at the right time , by Amos
Cummings. Individually I feel under
deep and lasting obligations to him.
What a varied career this genuine and
enthusiastic American has led! . He
was a filibuster under Walker in Ni
caragua. He boasts that he has set
type in every state in the Union. He
wears a medal for heroic conduct un
der McClellan at Antletam. He has
edited great dailies and served nearly
a generation in the house. Let us all
hope and pray that this big hearted
man may speedily recover.
Every Prospect Pleases.
Not only are the Republicans all split
up in congress, but the G. O. P. appears
to be in the process of disintegration
everywhere. It is given out that Gov
ernor Benjamin Odell of New York Is
considering seriously considering
whether he will accept another nomi
nation for chief magistrate of the Em
pire State. Why this coyness on the
part of Ben, who has never been known
to refuse any good thing before? Ben
jamin isn't a fool, and he sees, or
thinks he sees, the handwriting on the
wall to the effect that the Democrats
,are about to sweep' the state, and he
does not desire to be caught in the
storm. Ben's reluctance to accept the
nomination is a straw showing which
way the wind is blowing.
Quaysylvania.
There would be nothing particularly
Btrange in the Democrats carrying New
York, for New York is normally a Dem
ocratic state, but the prophets are pre
dicting that Pennsylvania, or Quaysyl
vania,, may not increase, its Democrat
ic delegation in congress, but may elect
a Democratic governor and, what is
more incredible still, may elect a Dem
ocratic legislature which will retire
Boies Penrose and send a Democrat
to Washington in his stead, a consum
mation devoutly to be wished. The
Washington Post says that all those
things are possible. .r
Demoralized.
Republican demoralization is so thor
ough and widespread that their talk
takes on the character of a "sauve qui
peufcry. Who killed Cock Robin? and
Who smote William Patterson? are fa
miliar queries. Wherever two or three
Republicans are gathered together the
question discussed is, "Who did it?"
i. e., Who set the Republicans by the
ears? Then begin criminations and re
criminations which suggest that it is
time to turn in a riot call. Some blame
Teddy; some are' desirous to make
Mark. Hanna a sort of universal scape
goat for Republican sins; others still
cuss the Republican leaders In the
house, .while not a few undertake to
make the Republican senate responsi
ble; but, no matter how they parcel
out the odium, the fact remains that
the G. O. P. is groggy and sparring for
wind. Whether it can, get Its second
breath and win out remains to be seen. I
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Stock Foods
We are frequently asked in regard
to stock foods and sometimes cen
sured for . advertising them. While
we are satisfied that there are many
worthless brands on the market, there
are some which we are convinced are
meritorious. We have a knowledge
chiefly of the goods sold by the Inter
national Stock Food Coi of Minne
apolis, which has been advertised
continuously in this paper for several
years past. The publishers of the
Dakota Farmer have made a spe
cial point to investigate this firm and
their products.' We have seen hun
dreds of letters from breeders and
stock feeders testifying to the merits
of International Stock Food; we have
talked with dealers who handle it and
who come in -direct touch, with . men
who use it, and we have talked with
the. men themselves who have fed it,
and we have yet to meet the first man
who from bis own personal knowledge
says it will not do what the manu
facturers claim for it. .;
We have frequently had letters from
subscribers informing us that this
whole business was a fraud, and ex
pressing surprise at our advertising
stock foods. We have carefully fol-
owed ud all such complaints, and t x
not one single instance have we . had
a complaint from a man who has ever
used International or any other stock
food ever advertised by us. The men
who are talking the loudest are those
who know nothing about the subject
except as they have heard it from
others. Press them for a reason and
nvariably they will attempt to close
the subject by saying that if stock
are properly fed and cared for they
will not need a stock food. This point
we are willing to conceed. Where
stock are in a vigorous and perfectly
healthy condition, and properly
housed and fed balanced rations In
short, kept under ideal conditions,
there will be little if any need for
these preparations, but there are few
herds or flocks In the Dakotas that
are kept under anything like ideal
conditions.
International Stock Food is not a
ood in the sense that corn and oats
are foods. It is a purely medicinal
preparation ' and as ; such the manu
facturers paid a war tax of $40,000.00.
t is a well-known fact that the aver
age animals on our farms do not havrt
perfect digestion, and it is right at
this point that the, manufacturers of
nternational Stock Food guarantee to
show profitable results. Their strong
est claim is that it greatly aids di
gestion and assimilation, so that
each animal obtains more nutrition
from all the grain eaten; and by
system, it will save 30 days or more
in fattening stock. v If the use of
nternational Stock Food in growing
or fattening cattle or hogs will give
.
an extra gain of 2 to 3 pounds per
bushel of corn, then it can be justly
claimed that Its use is a paying prop
osition. The claim is also made that it
purifies the blood, and tones up the
entire system of the animal, and thus
enables it to ward off or prevent many
forms of disease. Just as , quinine,
sarsaparilla and other tonics tone up
the human system. 'It has never been
claimed or advertised that any one
could afford to use it on any other
basis. The fact that the ordinary feed
is one tablespoonful is , evidence
that it can have only medicinad value.
It is simply absurd for any one to
compare an analysis of it with that
of the ordinary feeding stuffs and atr
tempt to judge it by that standard.
It would be just as reasonable to com
pare the analysis of quinine which
ronsists of carbon, hydrogen, nitro-
een and oxveen with the analysis
of an egg .which contains all these
elements and a few other healthful
ingredients thrown in, and then draw
your conclusion that, any druggist
who sells quinine at flOOO a pound
Is working a fraud on an unsuspect
ing public, since an equal amount of
these 7 elements can - be bought for a
few cents. in the form of eggs. Any
paper which attempts to pull' the
wool over the eyes of its readers by
giving them such gush is not only act
ing dishonestly but Is offering an in
sult to the intelligence of its readers.
International Stock Food1 ia sold
under a positive guarantee that it
will do all that is claimed for it or
moner will be refunded and there is a
standing offer of $1,000.0G for evi
dence of any case where this guaran
tee has not been made good. The as
tonishing part of it is that the feeder
is to be the sole judge as to whether
the results have been satisfactory or
not. Nothing on earth could be fairer
than this. We do not know of any
other article in all the range of
manufactured goods that ' is put out
under such complete protection to th
user "
Now let's be fair and honest about
this "matter. If you have no 'positive
knowledge on the subject, be careful
not to repeat misstatements you have
gotten from other likewise misin
formed, and do not conclude that be
cause one farm paper in the United
States has a personal tight on with
the International Stock Food Co., anl
are making a desperate effort to get
some glory out of it, that all the
other papers are "bought up." f. Bear
in mind that until recently this same
paper not only accepted this adver
tiseing but endorsed it,' and' never
discovered the fraud In it until after
they had lost - the business becatn
their rates were too high for .their"
actual circulation! If you must talk
on the subject, first buy some of the
goods and give it a thorough test.
Thenr you will hav$ a ' right to apeak
and your evidence' will be good. It
will cost nothing , to folow this sug
gestion, for if the result is not sat
isfactory v and -you feel that you have
not ' gotten value received in the
improved condition of your stock,
your money will be refunded. Da
kota Farmer. -
MALLOCK VS. GEORGE
Mr. Dfcvlson Olret His View of Mr. Mai-
lock's Criticism
Editor Independent: I notice you
invite short articles in reply to Mal
lock's criticism of Henry George. It
seems to me there is a good deal of
quibble and sophistry in the criticism.
I shall notice only- the second propo
sition in Mr. Mallock'8 summary:
"The laboring class, creates Its own
wages as it receives them; it being
wholly false that wages are drawn
from capital." It is a well-settled fact
that all wealth is . the product of la
bor, whether it be wheat, corn, horses,
cattle, hogs, or money all capital 1n
different forms. It is a self-evident
fact that the wages paid laborers are
a part of the product of their labor.
If a farmer employs a man at $20 per
month, and that man cannot earn $150
per month, what object would he have
in employing him? , All labor is em
ployed with the view that it will earn
its wages and a profit above for the
employer.: Otherwise, employing la
bor would be a losing game. All em
ployers of labor, whether railroad
corporations or manufacturing com
panies of all kinds, expect a profit
from the labor employed; and were li
notj they would soon be bankrupt.
Employers of labor are not doing
business just for their health. While
the laborer may not be paid out of t the
product of his identical labor, but
out of the product of some other man's
labor; and some other man may be
paid out of the product of his labor.
It is only a quibble to say he was
not paid out of the product of his own
labor; and is small business for a
man who sets himself up. to be a
critic. -
The first proposition, like the second,
needs no argument.- It is a self-evident
fact that "as the production uf
wealth- grows greater, the share that
goes to the laboring class grows less'.'"
I partly agree with The. Independent
that the ''enormous gifts given ths
corporations" in -land, government
credit, and. franchises, is partly re
sponsible for conditions. But in my
judgment there are other and greater
causes : our monetary system is all
wrong the worst In the world. ' And
our system of transportation and dlv
tribution Is all wrong. And these two
systems as at present operated are
capable of ; absorbing the major part
of all the ' wealth sooner than a great
many f car think. Their motto it
"charge all the traffic will bear." And
with a panic thrown in now and then
to help out which they can bring on
whenever they think there would be
more money in it than otherwise.
A. DAVISON.
Prairie View, Kas.
(The fundamental difference be
tween Henry George's idea of wagrs
and that of the old economists is this.
The old economists assert that au
increase in the number of laborers,
other things being equal, means a de
crease in the average wages paid eac i
laborer.. Mr. George asserts that an
increase in the number of laborers, by
permitting still further division of la
bor, means increasod production ui
the part of each laborer; that a3
"wages are in reality drawn from the
product of the labor for which t!-w
are paid," under proper conditions -in
increase in the number of laborers
must result in an increase of waciM
for each. Of course this rarely hap
pens, and Mr. George lays; Uie blamo
on private ownership of land, assert
ing that the landholding class ab
sorbs all the increase in production,
leaving the laborers no better off than
before, and as a rule worse off. The
socialists lay the blame on "capitalist
production;" that is, the private own
ership of the means of production and
distribution. Ed. Ind.)
J. Sterling Morton, founder of Ar
bor Day and secretary of agriculturo
under President Cleveland, died at
Chicago April 27.
W. II. Reeves, one of the three men
recently sentenced in 'Cuba for com
plicity in the postal frauds, has been
pardoned by Governor Wood.
Recent dispatches announce that two
towns in Guatemala, Central America,
have been destroyed and it is feared
that several lives have been lost.
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