The Grange advance., 1874-01-07

Otateo Auu Moot u VIC OIAte legislatures
are in full blast, won't it rather beat " Old
Probabilities to keep track of the wind?
The Chicago Evening Post, speaking of
man who has been found guilty of MUIR
der and is trying to get new trial, says :.
"We can't for the life of us see why our
Judges need to interfere, when, for the first
time Of his life, man like Rafferty, is in a
fair way of being put where he will do the
most good"
A leading Republican newspaper OF Ore
gon mildly alludes to that eminent states
man, Senator Hipple- Mitchell, as ga man
whose history is summed up in few words,
seducer, wife-beater, deserter of wife and
children, embezzler of moneys collected for
his clients, keeper of a mistress whom he
passes off to society as his wife, bigamist
for over seven years, and United States
Senator under false name"
And then say that $500 per half year
is too much for mon like that
We4ublish to-day the prospectus of the
st. Paul Press for 1874. This paper has
long been acknowledged as the leading Re-
publican journal Of the northwest. While
it is strongly partisan, and sometimes ad-
vocates men and measures upon purely po-
litical grounds, yet it must be acknowl-
edged that its editorial columns give daily
proof of very high order of ability.
Judge Blodgett, Of Chicago, in an appli-
cation by r. J. Smith & Co., asking that
the Manufacturer's National Bank be de-
clared insolvent, dismissed the application
on the ground that national banks were not
within the purview Of the bankruptcy act.
Ample provision for these banks is made
in the currency act. which the Judge holds
was not repealed by the bankrupt act
All aboard for 1874. Winter is the time
that farmers have for reading and mental
improvement, and this is the month for lay
ing in supply Of good newspapers. We
want two thousand new subscribers in this
month, and if our friends 90 to work we
shall have them. There can be no more
powerful agent for the advancement of our
noble cause than newspaper wholly devo-
ted to the work, and such paper is useful
just in proportion to the support that it re-
>ceives. Come friends roll in your clubs.
Remember that our club rates are only
$3.50 per year.
The New York Times suggests that the
tax upon passports should be revived, and
that ten dollars each would not be too
much. The suggestion is very good one,
but the price is too low. We should say
that $50 each would be none too much.-
How many thousands who have made i'm.
mense fortunes in this country 20 away
each year to squander it in foreign parts.
This is tax above all others that would
fall upon those who are able to bear it
There are not less than 5000 passports is
sued annually. Let us have this tax by all
means, and let it be good round one.
The St. Paul Press says:
"The Legislature Of 1874, whatever else
happens to it, will not be pestered by the
everlasting platitudes Of Old Daddy Ayers. "
All, that's what you call them, is TO-
" Platitudes." Well, what's in name?-
Truth would be no less the truth though all
imen should call it = lie. By the way, We
semember some Of farmer Ayers " plati-
<udes." II hold" said he, "that oorrup-
ton is sire death to any government in
which it has full sway" "Repnblic.nism
and monopoly ats as antagonist,c as free
dom and slavery" Integrity and patriot
ism are to the body polite what pure air
and pure food are to the physical body
Yes, the old man was full Of these "plati-
tudes," and out OF the abundance Of his
heart his mouth spake. But although g Old
Daddy Ayers will not "pester,' the next
Legislature with these old-fashioned, out
of-da&e "platitudes," yet the Press is very
much. mistaken if i snpposes there are 40
other men in this Legislature who are
troubled with the "plutitudes.
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