The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-10
THIN RELIEF QUESTION.

everybody else into deep mourning and
giving the impression that the whole
county is desolated and starving. That
talk has the true ring, and now let the
people know what is actually required
to relieve the needy and it will be forth
coming, and the begging missionaries
outside of the State can be called home
without delay.-St. Paul Press.
That is just what we have been doing
all along. We have stated if almost
every issue of the ADVANCE that there
were a number of families in the
county who will need aid to carry them
through the winter. We have con-
stantly urged the people to write and
make the facts known, and we will
publish the facts. We have a Relief
Committee and Board of County
Commissioners who have had the re-
lief matter in hand and the people
should make their wants known to
them, and we are satisfied that every
thing possible will be done for their re-
lief.
People abroad should not suppose
that because we have raised partial
crop, there is no need of outside aid
Mobiles county is not able to take care
of her own destitute, and must have
relief from outside sources. The right
thing to do, as we have constantly
maintained, is for the State to make an
appropriation for the relief of the peo-
pie. In few years the State will get
back from this garden spot of Minneso-
ia a hundred fold for all that may be
needed to relieve the present distress.
Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, have
not hesitated to take prompt action,
even to the calling of extra sessions of
the Legislature, and why should Min
nesota be behind other States which
have suffered. While the States named
have suffered from the grasshoppers as
much as Minnesota, they have man.
aged the relief question with much
greater tact. "Poor Minnesota, "as our
State is called in New York, has gone
begging over the country, and even
Kansas and Nebraska, concealing their
own sufferings, are pointing to Mime
sofa as in a state Of starvation, and are
pocketing the immigrants. Let the ill.,
coming Legislature take prompt action
for the relief of the frontier counties.
GOOD TIMES.
For some days railroad and other
stocks have been advancing in the New
York market, and financial and CON-
mercial authorities are predicting a
general revival Of confidence and an
easing up of the money market. The
Chicago Inter- Ocean says:
1t is beginning to he easy to get mon
ey for almost any legitimate enterprise
now that will bear Investigation. The
depressing effect of the Granger move
ment on railroad stocks is beginning to
disappear as it becomes apparent that
the number OF roads affected by it will
be comparatively small. But even
aside from this, it is believed with good
reason that the whole granger move
ment is on the wane, and, while it has
demonstrated to the railroads that it
will not do to exasperate the people,
1t IS becoming more and more apparent
that neither side can commit a wrong
without having its effect reflected on
themselves. In this view of the case
stocks have begun to advance, and the
probabilities seem in favor of greater
| activity and more confidence in all
sorts Of Investments and industrial en-
terprises before long.
The Cincinnati Times says:
Financial authorities everywhere.
eager to understand and express Il true
view of the situation, are exceedingly
sanguine, and the impression prevails
everywhere, save by those whose polit-
ical purposes are furthered by an oppo-
site view, that an era of greatly increas-
ed business and prosperity is before US.
LAND GRABBER
The Rochester Post. puts it in this
way, which is about as we'll as we could
have done it ourself:
A correspondent to the st. Paul Press
makes 4 good point in reminding the
Democrats, who are denCuncing Dun
nell as salary grabber, that their own
candidate, Judge Waite, is a land grab
Der; and asks them how much above a
salary grabber is land grabber?''
He shows how "Judge Waite saw fit
to make pilgrimage to St. Paul to use
his personal influence with Governor
Austin to induce him to sign the $780,
600 acre Land Grab bill. Governor
Austin's refusal to sign the bill-which
was the child of corruption, more de-
moralizlng than dozen salary grabs
won him a place in the hearts and
confidence of the people which will last
till the last day of his life. What,
then, must be, in contrast, the thought
OF those who advised him to take the
peoples lands Must salary-grabber
be condemned and a land grabber extoll-
ed for his virtues?"
| Admitting the worst that NAV be
said Of the salary bill, how much worse
is it than the land grab bill. If Mr..
Dunnell deserves defeat for taking
some three thousand dollars that was
fixed against his vote as the amount of
his salary, what does Judge Waite de-
serve who exerted himself to rob the
people of the whole State Of five hun
dred thousand acres Of land for the
benefit CT his own real estate in Manka-
to?
The St. Paul Pioneer, speaking of
the reception given to Beecher OIL his
return to Plymouth Church, asks:
Is this Christianity? Is it that sub.
lime doctrine Illustrated in the Life of
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