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House that Ward Built
Business is brisk. Fall orders are coming in heavy and
everybody is busy. Have you given any thought yet to your
Holiday purchases ? We want our patrons to "come early
and avoid the rush. " We can take care of everybody nicely ,
but why wait until the last moment. Look over our catalogue
now and see what you'll need in the next SO days. You can
save SO to SO per cent by ordering all your supplies of us.
If you. haven't our catalogue and don't know how to get it , ask your
nearest neighbor. If he doesn't know try the next. Something is
wrong in your community if you can't find out without asking more
than three people.
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Christmas goods can be shipped at the same time , thus saving
freight charges. Order blanks or any information desired
will be promptly sent free of charge. Jtddress
Montgomery Ward 6r Co.
Michigan Jivenue and Madison Street
Chicago
The House That Tells the Truth and Sticks to It
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ECONOMIST WILSON.
Economist Wilsoii of the agricultur
al department , is still struggling for
industrial independence. He now an
nounces that experts of his department
' ' will hunt all over the United States
and its possessions for conditions
favorable to the cultivation , of filler
tobacco , such as is now raised in Cuba ,
so that , if possible , all the filler to
bacco now used in this country event
ually may be raised within the bound
aries of the United States. ' '
What cuts him to the heart is to
learn from the treasury record that
this country is now paying $8,000,000
a year for filler tobacco. Ho feels
that we must not bo permitted to im
poverish ourselves by sending all of
this money out of the country to
Cuba. He feels that we will surely
go to gehenna if we don't keep this
money at home in Porto Rico and the
Philippines , for instance.
Of course , if Cuba were ' 'annexed"
it would be "home , " just as the
Philippines are , and it would be all
.right to send 'the money there , just as
it is all right to send a good deal
more to Hawaii for sugar and other
tilings.
When Mr. Wilson leaves a great
void in the agricultural department ,
as in the course of events he may be
expected to do some day , lie should
bo given the chair of political econ
omy in the coming republican pro
tectionist university.
From that scat of learning he may
be expected to explain for the benefit
of students and the public why it is
more profitable for 100,000 men , say ,
eara
to spend eighty days in producing fil
ler tobacco "at home" than it is for
the same number of men to spend six
ty days in producing flour at home
which will exchange for the same
quantity of Cuban filler tobacco of
better quality.
Professor Wilson should explain
why ho thinks the people will not , if
left to themselves , produce those
things which they can produce with
the least expenditure of labor and
capital and exchange them for other
things which they cannot produce di
rectly without a greater expenditure
of labor and capital.
He shoiild explain why he thinks
the people will not follow the lines of
least resistance , if left free to choose ,
and supply their wants either by di -
root production or by exhange accord
ing as they find that by one mode or
the'other they can supply those wants
most abundantly and with the least
expenditure of moans and effort. '
There is one thing which he should,1 ,
by all means , keep out of the hands of
his students. That is Mr. McKinley's
last speech. The minds of the pror
tectionist youth of the land must not
be poisoned by such heterodox litenir
ture. All such heretical economic
discourses must bo put under the bain
Chicago Chronicle , Oct. 80th.
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booklet telling bow tbose
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NATIONAL ARBOR DAY.
The New York Independent , com
menting editorially on the proposition
of O. M. Sanford , of Pittsburg , to
make next Arbor Day a memorial of
President McKinley , says that' ' it
would probably give an impetus to
the plan for reforestixing the country
if the sentiment of the people were
; hus touched , in honor of one loved
by all classes , sections and parties.
* * * Notwithstanding all that
has been said and done , the destruc
tion of trees goes on very much more
rapidly than the planting. Where
we should have been but for Arbor
Day , and protective legislation is hard
to see. * * * The end is easy to
foresee. In spite of planting as it
now goes on , our woodlands will bo
practically annihilated within the
next quarter of a century. If Presi
dent Roosevelt shall make special is
sue , during his administration , of
some of these far-reaching problems ,
we believe the country will be hearti
ly with him. A correlative phase of
the forestry problem is fathered by
Ex-Governor Morton , of Nebraska.
He holds that the government of the
states should assume a more definite
control of the highways. He proposes
to make all rpadways heavily shaded
avenues , under state control. The
end sought is to secure a largo amount
of forest , and at the same time an ob
ject lesson in right forestry. This
model lesson would extend all over
the state , and could not fail to bo of
great value to land holders. Much
of our present forest decrease is ow
ing to ignorance. ' '