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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
BONUS ON GOLD
Deadwood (South, Dakota) Busi
ness club has addressed a communi
cation to those interested in gold min
ing urging support of the McFadden
bill now pending in congress, which
provides for a gold bonus of $10 per
ounce. The communication says:
Notwithstanding this legislation is
of such vital importance to the gold
mining industry and w'ould result in
immeasurable benefit to the com
panies that are operating in the low
grade gold ores, and in fact to all
gold producers, when the hearing?
were being held by the wrays and
means committee on this bill on June
1, only one representative of the gold
mining industry was present to give
his testimony, and to present the
data on behalf of the gold producers.
It is true the American mining
congress took a very active part in
helping to wrork up sentiment in be
half of this bill and has rendered
most valuable services, but the Amer
ican mining congress is an organiza
tion which has a wide variety of in
terests, and cannot be expected tc
devote a large measure of its time
and its resources to the interests of
any one of the Industries.
It seems incredible almost that the
gold miners of America would take
so little interest in a matter of such
vital importance. An effort must
be made at once to stimulate a- larg
er interest if we wish to succeed in
having this legislation passed when
congress reconvenes.
we are anvisea on most rename
authority that the ways and means
committee was very much impressed
with the data produced in behalf of
the bill and that several members
of the committee expressed them
selves as favorable to it, but thought
best not to make any report on the
bill at present, because the session
of congress was about to adjourn and
a number of members of the commit
tee were absent and had not had an
opportunity to be present at the hear
ings.
It is not necessary to call atten
tion to the fact that if a favorable
report is made by the ways and
means committee, it does not then
follow that the bill would have a
certainty of favorable action by the
senate and house, but a favorable
report by the ways and means com
mittee would mean a great deal in
the way of a guarantee that the bill
can be finally be adopted.
The time between now and the
first of December, when congress re
convenes, should be taken advantage
of to make preparations for a more
thorough presentation when hearings
are resumed and for the presentation
of such an array of data as will con
vince not only the members of the
. ways and means committee but every
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member of congress also, of the im
1 portance of. this measure for the re
lief of the gold mining industry. A
great deal of work remains to be
i done and can be done if the gold
miners can be aroused.
The mining men of every district
where gold is produced, the news
papers, the bankers, and the busi
ness men generally, must take hold of
the proposition.
The time is now ripe when an or
ganization of gold miners must be at
tempted. Every other industry is or
ganized to look after its interests. The
copper, zinc, lead and iron interests
have been organized for many years
with the result that they have been
able to meet the new conditions which
have come about on account of the
war, and the increase in the price of
labor, supplies and other conditions.
Gold mining, alone of all the indus
tries, is without an organization, and
when a hearing was being held in con
gress a few w7eeks ago on a matter
which was of vital importance to the
industry, it had only one representa
tive from all over the United States
to present its case.
I We must have an organization that
will include all those who are engaged
in gold mining, or dependent upon it
in any way, the prospector, the miner,
bankers, lousiness men, stockholders,
as well as the actual producers of the
precious metal. Action must be taken
at once. In every distrct where gold
is produced the ctizens must get to
gether and form an organization, elect
officers, and prepare to send repre
sentatives fully equipped with all nec
essary data to Washington when the
next session of congress meets to rep
resent the industry at this hearing.
Evidence is to be introduced in con
gress proving that unless a larger
price is paid for gold, of not less than
$10 per ounce, the gold mining indus
try may be considered as a thing of
the past.
Newspapers in every district are
respectfully asked to give publicity to
this circular, and it is earnestly de
sired that the different districts will
communictae with one another as to
the progress of organization, so that
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quick action can be obtained. Our
committee stands ready to co-operate
at all times and to answer any and
every inquiry that is made.
If prompt action is taken and this
legslation is secured it will have the
effect to prevent many mines from
being closed down altogether, and the
loss of many millions of dollars. In
many districts gold mining companies
are merely hanging on, hoping for
something to happen to keep them
alive, but things do not happen usually
in this way; it is necessary to put
forth an effort to get what is desired.
Our committee, representnig the
mining interests of South Dakota, in
the effort of effecting this organiza
tion, is addressing this letter to the
gold miners of the United States and
Alaska.
All communications in regard to this
organization should be addressed to
the Mining Committee, Deadwood
Business Club, Deadwood, South Da
kota.
SUN-DRIVEN ARCTIC CROPS
Yukoners will be particularly inter
ested in the theory just advanced to
the effect that development of plant j
life is due more to the duration of the j
sunlight than oft*.temperature changes i
of the seasons. If the idea proves cor
rect, it may account for the extra
ordinary success of crops in the short
open season prevailing in the Arctic
and the sub-Arctic.
It has seemed anomalous to resi
dents of temperate climes that there i
should be a vernal land in Yukon and
Alaska and similar latitudes from
May until October, and that root
crops, berries and cereals should ma
ture in this region. Northerners long
j have recognized the fact that with old
Sol working a 24-hour shift, and
practically forcing growth day and
night, the crops, other conditions be
ing favorable, could do naught else
but grow rapidly. The following from
Popular Mechanics has an interesting
bearing on the topic:
“That the development and evolu
tion of plant life is dependant upon
the number of hours of light in a
day, rather than upon the tempera
ture changes of the seasons, is' the
| startling conclusion just reached by
i government scientists.
“Experiments on a number of
greenhouse plants demonstrate that
I artificial lengthening of the light of
day greatly accelerates the flowering
and fruiting stage, while shortening
the light period by morning and
! afternoon darkening retards the pro
cess, even to the point where that
stage is never reached.
“Iris plants, given 18 hours of
light in 24, bloomed two months ear
j lier than their neighbor’s under nat
; ural light, in the same temperature.
; This discovery is expected to furnish
! a key to many difficult crop problems, i
Even the migration.of birds is thought
to be affected by the same principle.”
-Dawson News.
President Wilson is so disappointed
with the Republican platform that we
have suspicions that it must be a good
one.
Still, running for president on the
Democratic ticket wouldn’t keep a
man away from his business very
long.
Nothing but a party built on a
Solid South could hold together with
both Bill Bryan and Governor Ed
wards in it.
The principal objection the Dem
ocrats have to the Republican plank
on the League of Nations is that it
didn’t split the party.
The position of Chancellor of Ger
many is open and it would probably
be hard to find even a Southern Dem
ocrat willing to take the place.
William Randolf Hearst is for a
third party again, and everybody un
derstands that he has the name and
address of the party he has in mind.
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In reply to Mr. Hoover’s statement
urging everybody to support Harding
the Democrats might say, “We asked
him for bread and he gave us a
stone.”
In being too busy to run for pres
ident this year, Mr. McAdoo shows as
much ability in sidestepping trouble
as he did when he resigned as rail
way administrator.
Probably Mr. Hoover’s decision to
support the Republican ticket was
due in part to the close-up view he
got during the war of a Democratic
administration stripped for action.
Senator Harding’s admission that
he will consult his party leaders
will be refreshing to the millions of
people who are tired of prima donna
candidates in all political parties.
One of the meanest Democratic par
tisan papers in the country is the
New York Times, and the worst fea
ture of its offending is that it cam
ouflages its unfairness under the label
of “independence.”
President Wilson has publicly shed
some crocodile tears over “the tragedy
at Chicago.” He may as well save his
real ones for the tragedy that is des
tined to overtake his party ^11 over
the United States on November 2pd.
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President Wilson says in framing
their platform the Republicans must
have been thinking of Bismarck and
Bernhardi instead of Lincoln and
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Washington and by the same token
Mr. Wilson must have been thinking
of Bebel and Andrew Jackson when
he conceived his League of Nations.
“I am as confident today,” says
president Wilson, “as I was \yhen T
returned from Paris finally in July,”
that the people of the country are for
the un-Americanized covenant of the
League of Nations he brought home
with him. And Mr. Wilson is probab
ly as confident today as when he
wrote his campaign letter of 1918
that the people of the country are
awaiting an opportunity to give bis
administration a vote of confidence.
It was certainly a mean trick pn
the Democratic and near-Democratic
newspapers that had their mouths
all puckered up to yell “fraud and
corruption” upon the nomination of
some Republican presidential candi
date who had stood for the high cost
of primaries, for the Republican con
vention to nominate a man who had
only entered a couple of them and
had spent next to nothing. These
peeved publications are getting re
venge by declaring that anyway
Senator Harding doesn’t amount to
much, having never heard a voice in
the air, or handed any command
ments down from Mt. Sinai, or ad
mitted that he was smarter than any
body or everybody else.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
William J. BryaiT’s heart is in the
grave with his dry plank. Being
without a heart does not seem to have
effected his mouth any.—Douglas
News.
If you want to heap indignity upon
a reporter, hand him a written state
ment and tell him that you have
written it out because you wanted to
be sure and “get it right.”—Ketchikan
Chronicle..
The best of coffee at the Alaskan
Grill. 17-tf
The Alaskan Grill caters to partic
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The best sense—the sense of humor,
Motto for gossips: Look up, Let
up.
There is a time for everything—
except knocking.
Who remembers a town that didn’t
have a Main street.
Time changes all things—except
your honest-to-goodness opinion of
yourself.
Many a young soldier who failed to
smell powder has come home and
tasted it.
Why does every old photograph
make the victim look like he had just
had a hard spell of sickness.
You may be young enough to be
foolish but you’re never old enough
to be foolish.
Because you make many dollars
doesn’t necessarily mean that you
have much sense.
This world may be a vale of tears,
but how do you know the next one
won’t be a mountain of fire?
If the average married man was
thrown out of his regular job he
could get one' in a restaurant as a
waiter.
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Everything is relative. An aching,
corn is a joy beside an aching tooth,
and parsley is only fit to eat because
beets are not. *
A man gets sore all over when his
son develops his father’s bad traits
of character and blames them all on
the boy’s mother.
THE POINT OF VIEW
There'll always be a tremendous fam
ily
Of the children of darkness
Until the children of light
Learn to wear grins
That don’t indicate something else
Than gums.
George Anderson, piano expert, is
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