Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-27

NO. II.
els of last years wheat in this State,
still in first handsome can under
stand why all our wholesale merchants
(whose sales, last year, were over
twenty millions of dollars,) report
sales for the spring months, of this
year, as largely over those of the same
months, last year and why our city
manufacturers (whOse products, last
year, were 81, 500, ,0O0) also make
similar report, and. further, why it is
still a good place for merchants and
manufacturers to come with their
capital, experience and machinery.
Our lumber products equal, if not sur.
pas, our agricultural, while it takes
from thirteen to fifteen millions BUSH
els of wheat to keep our present mill
ing capacity in motion. Then we
have the full lines of minerals. from
iron to silver, in large deposits in the
1855 miles of undeveloped territory in
our State, skirting the north shore of
Lake superior.
But | will not weary you with more
detail. A few practical words and l
will close. We have passed the age OF
sunset and Hiawatha romance, and are
closely nearing the mature manhood of
4 vigorous and fully developed state,
though rs yet not five per cent. OF our
tillable are;. is under cultivation. The
border-l;tnd of romance still exists.
but it has moved hundreds of miles to
the west and northwest from st. Paul.
All the retinemepts of cultivated, set
tied life, Minnesota now possesses.
No State, think, has, to-day, a larger
permanently invested school fund,
while the area of the as yet unsold
State srhool-lands is greater than the
entire acreage of several Eastern
States. The healthfulness is simply
wonderful, us thousands Of living wit
nesses can testify. She still invites
within her borders, with I'LL her prac-
tic;.l, golden opportunities, the poor
man, the tradesnIln,t the manufacturer,
the mechanic and the capitalist, to her
virgin acres OF forest and prairie, ut
government free gifts, and w-priced,
longtime railroad lands, opportunities
of trade, manufacturing, investments
and loans. am frank to say that. in
writing these words, do so in the
hope they may may prove words of
cheer, show new avenues of hope to
many in New England, and that in old
Massachusetts, my native state, and
for over 20 years my home lin WOr-
cester and Berkshire counties), some
in after years may be glad they read
THOMAS DowsE.
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CANADA'S APPREHENSION.
From the Montreal Herald.
| The events on the Yellowstone may
have an important bearing on our
, northwest territory. The American
government will unquestionably send
Il larger force to the scene of their late
defeat than they have previously had
upon the grounds, and the consequence
must of course, be to drive the Sioux
before them. There is only one place
of refuge and shelter for the outcasts,
and that is behind the British line.
That many of them will put that line
between them and danger is matter
of almost certainty. Ii they do not do
so as a matter of policy, the survivors
of their bands will gradually be forced
over by the constant approach of their
enemy. Now t us event will create a
very delicate state of relations be.
tween our government and the United
States. The rule of international law
rs we understand it, permits the pur.
suit of an enemy into neutral country
DUN fervet opus-that is to say, in hot
pursuit. In other words, an army has
no right to avail itself of the security
afforded by the neighborhoOd of q
neutral country to provoke attack
where it could, but for this rule
screen itself from the consequences ot
defeat. In European warfare, indeed
a victorious enemy would probably
use this right with very great discre
ton, especially toward a power will
which he desired to he ut peace, ant
victorious generals are usually helt
we'll in hand by those whom they
serve. But on the northwest frontier
we may not be perfectly secure of that
disciplined moderation OH the part o1
the American soldiery which would bt
expected from European army. Thu
contempt and hatred of race, and thu
desire for revenge, are element:
which may not improbably lead t.
rash action on the part of the United
States general in command of thu
force which, in few weeks from thi!
will be pushing the Sioux, and burn
ing for the honors of an easy an(
bloody triumph. Who shall answer
for what NAV happen if that triumpt
be disappointed by our territory bein:
placed Ivy the fugitives between then
and their pursuers! This shows tina
we may possibly have very ugl.
complication of affairs with the Am
erican military, perhaps, also, will
the American civil authorities.
Bl,SlNESS PROSPECTS.