Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-09

blcd to the tune Of $50 900 and Austlr
declined; and when said Il. r. Co. tt
have revenge, formed a junction tw,
miles away and threatened to build :
rival town, which every sensible man
knows was only designed AS a buybear
the Austin Democrat with few Of it:
kindred croakcrs, who were even the.
counting the dollars to be made il
Wells" went about the streets yelling
that "Auslin was killed. Tho Demo
crot published the f:lsehood and it wal
aopicd far and wide, doing much to in
jure the fair reputc of our city, and pre-
vent capitalists from coming here.
Cause Number THO.
The Democrat and Register botE
had'tuoNy,, persiste"'!y and ~iyu%3
uphold eve1y f'oud, no matter how
glaring, that corrupt and dangerou:
elan Of men known as the Austin ring
may practice upon the people. Take
an illustration. Not one word has cvor
in either Of those papers con.
demnatory of the School house swindle
that has been going on the last year
They have not kept silence through ig-
noraacc ofthe facts. They have done
it for petty re~ard They suppress
the truth, stultify their conscicnccs-aye
more, they publish the shallowest false
hoods because they are told to do so by
the men who clothe and feed them, and
in fact own them. Twenty thousand
dollars have been used in putting in the
of a school house which the
best builders in town say should not
have cost ten thousand, and still the
editors of these two delectable sheets
pretend they see nothing wrong and
with falsome fattery puff the men who
pocket the money. This they do for
the very plausible reason that they do
the printing for the board.
Cause Non,Jcr Three.
Both Of said papers espousc and ad.
vocate the cause of every ring man who
devours the peoples money, continually
declaring,' what every tax payer of the
county who has devoted an hours
thought to the subject, knows to be
false-that our county business is man
aged prudently and efficiently. These
notorious falsehoods they publish 70,
mere pay,-they get the county printing.
Let that be taken away, and two weeks
will not pass before they would brand
every county officer as rascal and free
booter.
Cause No. -Four.
The disgraceful mobs, riots, disturb
.snces ofpublic meetings, abuse and pro
scriptiop of new settlers, all perpetra
ted by this old ring within the past
year, have done more than all things
else to cause Austin to be Stunned b,
men Of character and wealth. and t.
place it in the category of New Uln
and other like, towns. The report ha.
gone abroad, every word Of which is true
that heretofore Austin has been rulee
by a gang Of outlaws and cut-throats
who only wait fair opportunity to pill
lage private enemies as they do now the
public, and spill the blood Of every mar
who, stands in their way. !. i
In the light Of all these facts the tw'
papers spoken of, encourage, approve
incite all such proceedings all of which
would be condemned by any half civ
lized nation on the face of the earth
We challenge either editor to show on
word he has ever published condemna
tory Of a single outrage that has beef
per2etrated in Austin in which tn
ring were principal movers.
!. These are a fe,o Of the main reason
why the value of life and property il
Austin have diminished and why goo
Citizens are leaving. The truth in
nut. shell is this. The Old Austi
Ring and the newspapers thut are co,
:roled and fed By its members are hiz
ing the torn. The sooner the pcopl
realize it the better. Some say thcs
things ought not to be pub ishet
What? Shall crime and outlawry be co,
cealed'? Shall an earthly Pandcmoniu.
strinSt; UP and o1;at in our m;Ast an
nobody know it ? And we. a christio
people! Away with such SUFFERING
blackcr and more dangerous than til
Father Of Lies by whom it was bego
ten. s!Ehe~Devil wants nothing bette
than to have his iniQuity concealed, an
every newspaper in the land that COZ
ceals che truth about tbs wickcdness I
men is serving him in the mos
cfectual way, and rapidly working il
way to home in their fathers l,ous
Beautiful theory in christian lane
Fill the town with crime but let n
body knov i'll
| boldly, plainly and earnestly, do v
| proclaim that there will n=ver be peac
happiness, public and private prospe
ity in Austin and Mower county unit
Fthe people arise in their might ar
Isl,ake off the CALM, yoke of this tcrrib
wicked clan Of deSpcradoes who hay
brought" upon us this lasting di
GRACE, so deeply lamentcd. Let Il
people cease mourning and go
work like men at the root Of this CIV
a volcano boilin" and foaming vii
! liquid fire cannot be buried nor co
cca'cd, nor can the soothing pit Of il
putty into which so many have be-
drawn by this ring he hidden by a co
erinr of gauzc. Les us have l;cht. |