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Show 18 ONLY A GiSpCE Protest Against Canadian Canadi-an Reciprocity Is a False Alarm New York, June 15. "Its a ghost dance" said James J Hill the railroad magnate yesterday in spenklng in opposition op-position to Canadian reciprocity In tho Northwest. "Its a ghost dance, that is all It Is," said Hill. "The farmers of the Northwest North-west aro not opposod to reciprocity with Cannda. A gToup of politicians up there, who are being pulled by strings that He 'ocyond their domain, aro trying to oxcito the farmers Just as the medicine men, or snake doctors, doc-tors, used to do nmong the Indians when devilment was afoot Theso snake doctors would get the Indians around a gamp fire and start a ghost dance that worked thorn up into a frightful fury. Then the Indians would go out aud ravage the whlto settlements. But theso snake doctors who aro now trying to raise the devil In the Northweat are finding out that the dance can't be worked on the pale faces up there." |