The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03

may say against US. When they are
willing to make the sacrifices for prin-
ciple that we have submitted to, it will
be time enough for them to criticize our
conduct.
"A number of our contemporaries
persist in asserting that we have been
purchased by the republicans, and we
suppose that they think an untruth, well
adhered to, as good as the truth. In
this matter they have the advantage of
us. We never expect to have oppor-
tunity to accuse them of being purchas-
ed. for we do not believe anybody would
buy them. Such an investment would
hardly pay.
We are told that fellow once excused
himself to the great Napoleon by saying:
''But your Majesty must live" see no
necessity for that" said the hero Of Auster-
litz -Anti-Monopolist.
Nor did Napoleon care whether the
man lived or died, provided that his
living did not contribute to the tyrant's
aggrandizement. Neither does Donnel-
ly care whether anybody lives unless
their living helps him in attaining his
desires.
-Rowell's Reporter says that Dom
nelly pays his printers but twenty-five
cents per 1000 ems, while other en-
ployers in St. Paul. and even in the
country towns generally in this region
pay 80 @ 37'a cents. But, then, DON
nelly is an anti-monopolist and working.
mans friend! Vive Ia humbug!
The anti-monopoly spirit, which
seems to slumber here in the west, be-
cause Of the charlatanism and hypocrisy
Of those who gained control Of the Or
ganization, is manifesting itself very pal
pably in the east, and will have an ex-
tensive influence on the politics of that
section in future canvass.
The case of the city of New York
against the estate Of James Watson, Late
county auditor, has been settled by the
payment of about $650,000 to the city.
1t is thought that the civil suit against
VIM. NJ. Tweed will be settled in SIM
liar manner.
Fifty workingmen in Ellsworth,
Me-, have formed themselves into an
association with the object of massing
their surplus earnings and investing
them, when the accumulations are suf-
ficiently large, in some remunerative
business.
Mr.. Uri Carruth, the editor of the
Vineland (N. j. Independent, who was
shot by Lands, the original proprietor
of that town site, seven months before,
died on the 24th ult., having lived all
that time with a bullet in his head.
Lands is in Jail.
-"Why, then, don't you advocate
Se]ah Chamberlain or E. F. Drake for
Governor ?" asks Mr.. Donne]]y. We
should have less objection to either Mr..
Drake or Mr.. Chamberlain than to the
trading politician who sells out his par
ty in order to aggrandize himself.
In the canvass just past, Seagrave
Smith, lifelong democrat, was the
candidate of the republicans and inde-
pendents of Dakota county for State
senator, and 1gnatius Donnelly, life
long-well,you tell what,-was the DEM
ocratic candidate. And this is politics.!
Moody and sankey are said to be
making converts by the score in Brook
lyn, and religious revivals are now the
fashion in all our large cities. It is
high time that something were done to
re-establish morality.
The week after election is a bad
time to select items. They are gener-
ally stale.
1t is stated that good deal of hay
was destroyed in this State by the wet
weather, and high prices are expected.