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That Bargain and Sale-A Compact by
.yn; Which Hayes is Bound. asT

on the pledges to the South, says: The
resolutions made in regard to the bargain
by which Hayes purchased the support
of certain Southern Democrats during
the progress of the electoral count, have
created great excitement, and the Presi-
dent is making a desperate effort to shirk
all responsibility for compact in which
he was one of the contracting parties.
It is not easy to see how he can clear
himself. His conduct since his inaugu-
ration has been that of, a man who felt
himself bound in honor TO adopt just
policy towards the South, and yet was
slowly yielding to party pressure! More
over he has shown by his conduct to- the
men who carried on the negotiations with
the Southerners and pledged him to a. re-
cognition of the Nichols and Hampton
governments, that he approved of their
action; and it is a settled rule of law
that principal who accepts the work of
one unauthorized to represent him, by
approval, makes him an agent. But
there is another rule of law which holds
that a principal is bound by the acts aof
persons whom he allows to appear before
the world as his agent, and transactbusi
ness for him.. Hayes knew that Stanley
Mathews and Foster were representing
themselves as authorized to make prom
ises for him, and not only failed to warn
the country against them but praised
what they had done.l His relations with
Stanley Matthews were such that only
the most specific warning could put the
Southern politicians on. their guard
against that gentleman, for he was the
counsel of Hayes before the Electoral
Commission, and, as such, empowered to
act in his behalf in all negotiations touch-
ing a settlement of his clients title to the
Presidency. If the denials of Hayes are
to be taken as anything more than9 state:
ments, that there was no formal agency
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2 i LAMP iw,icks should be changed fire,
quently if a clear bright afiame is de-
sired. ij ..>,l:s' c'nfijaf ,itaTtei
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49,, RATES., OF SUBScRLpu0M-Two DOLLARS
and ONE 1st of six e.s
'hlh liberal sla a SsassIoas iclubs of ten or
more subscribers.
RIEES OF 1DHERZ1SLNG-one Dollar per
Ysqpare Of oneinchfos the first insertion, anFif
sSgsntsper sqaarefor Subsequent less than
s'threeA Anfonths. No advertisements counted less
than square. -.
Liberal contracts Will be made with those Wishing
to advertise for three six or twelve months Ad-
;.yertising by contract must be confined to the I'M
business tho firm or individual contrac-
"'absSsaary Notices exceeding ave lines Tributes
II OF Respecss and all personal communications or
matters!oS interest Will be Charged for
atadvertising rates. Annoqneemepts Of marriages
and deaths and hetces Of s are are
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Don Cameron and Governor Vance.

The following peppery' bit of cores
pondence between Don Cameron, theex-
Secretary of War, and Governor Vance,
of North Carolina, throws some light on
the Presidential campaign as it was con-
Quoted in the latter State: - "
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FIVE miles over a.: country road and
through November landscape; pros
,pects-address by Dea Thomas Jones
music, that rare and intricate: compost.
tion, sShall we gather at the river2"
secured the position of watchman at
our store every other Sunday night
Aunt asked me if expected extra pay
for thi. service, and I said I did. Eveli'
ma had talked Of green reps for our par.
lor, but I found that calculations had
now, ascended to some kind Of rose-celor-
ed something, value about treble that o1
the reps: ls 10;
Aunt was at length seized with an
"attack" of more than ordinary violence
I called three physicians, for l shrnnk
from exposing myself to the irresponsible
village gossip which might accuse me OF
not employing every effort for the pro-
longation of herlife. With three doctors
in attendance, she not unreasonably felt
that this attack would prove final, and
sent for lawyer. I was in a state o.
great nervous trepidation.
"Is:there anything I can do for you
Nothing now:"
"Has your nurse arranged your pillows
quite comfortable"
Perfectly comfortable? ?"
Solemn scenes have no place in this
narrative, and pass on to the time when
we were assembled for the reading of the
wiil-the lawyer, the doctor, the minister
and myself: That instrument ran az
follows: -
80 CATER. paying my just dues and mJ
funeral expenses, aud providing suta
BILE monument, l give and bequeath te
my beloved nephew, Samuel 0. Haynes
his heirs and assigns, for their use anc
behoof forever, all my wearing appare
and personal ornaments, with the excep
tion of my gold beads, which bequeatf
to my namesake, Louisa Haynes of st
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WHOLE NO. 143.

600 acres of Internal Improvement land
to pay the debt. Properly managed,
those lands will pay the interest for
thirty years, and then the State will be
so rich and prosperous that the debt will
be mere bagatelle. If we do not ac-
cept the pending proposition we run the
FISK OF having some future legislature
settle the deot on a worse basis for the
State apd without referring it to the
people; for the Supreme Court Of the
United States has decided that any such
reference to the people is null and void.
If we can avoid these risks in the future
and get clear of the stain of population,
Is 1t no. better to do it !? It is not ques>
ton as to whether the original issue of
the bonds was or was not fraudulent, but
how can we honorably get out Of the
scrape we are now in ?-EDIToR ANTI.
MoNoPoL1sT7
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WHITE BEANS.

1t is currently reported that Gen. &C.
Andrews, of st. Cloud and Sweden, is
among the foreign ministers who are Sc
lected for decapitation by President
HAYES. The Tribune doesn't hesitate to
pronounce this story monstrous hoax
1t is simply impossible to be true. Gen.
Andrews is one of the most able, intelli-
gent and faithful ministers in the service.
We know it. He says so himself; and
TO remove him would be as effectully to
put an end to the boasted reform of the
civil service as to remove one Of the suns
attendant planets would be to plunge
the whole solar system into chaos. 1t
can't be done. and mustn't be DONE
Minneapolis Tribune.
Amen to that! To remove Gen.
Andrews would be TO fling an insult in
the face ofevery, white bean in America
for the Generals essay on the culinary
preparation of that delightful vegetable
was one OF the noblest fruits of the late
civil war. In fact it is to be doubted
whether that essay did not repay thi.
country for all the loss Of blood Ianl
treasure which the rebellion occasioned
The future historian will probably CO M
mence his great work as follows: "Ir
the fulness of time God had it in mind t
give to the people of the earth revela
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OUR ADVANTAGES IN
RAISING.

A recent writer says, speaking of the
cost of raising cattle in England
The English grazier pays, to start
from the beginning, at the rate of s25
per acre per annum, for pasturage,
while hay, oats, barley, and all kinds of
fodder are dearer there than here, I'm
der these conditions it becomes possible
to send American beef a distance Of 3d.
900 miles and retail it to the English
consumer at % per cent less than the
native article. Arrangements are now
being perfected to largely increase this
branch of our export trade. So far the
pioneers in the movement had much to
content with the way Of bigh charges
and imperfect accommodation-natu
ally incidental to the establishment of
an entirely new industry. A healthy
competitor is likely to decrease the cost
of transportation and enlarge the vol>
ume of exports. New outlets for Amer.
lean beef will be found at all the great
centers OF European population, within
- hours of Continental seaports by rail.
Masses of people abroad who hereto
fore have been unable to provide them
selves with meat as daily article of
food will hail this new American indus
try as blessing. Boats are in future
to be built with special view of accom-
modating this growing trade, which
promises to be source of great wealth
to the country. 1t is believed that
Europe will take within few years all
the fresh beef we can furnish at 16 cents
per pound.
If the English farmer has heretofore
made money in raising stock, after pay
ing s25 per acre per anum for pasturage
why can not the farmers of the west
on land that costs them nothing, or at
most dollar or two an acre, realized
handsome profit?
This opening up an European marke
for fat beef is one of the great facts O
the century. 1t will help to promot,
immigration to this country, while i
will raise the price Of western lands.
Why cannot compartment cars b.
built on the same plan as the steamers
so that beef can be killed in Minnesots
and delivered fresh in England or Franc
or Germany This will come in time
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as he walked beside me down Broadway.
he kept look of anxiety upon me as he
tried to read my answer in nv counte-
nance.
''How long have you been in the city?"
| asked.
"Three months, sir | came from the
West. l thought to get something to do
here, but every thing has seemed to go
against me. | lodge in James street, sir,
at fifteen cents night. get my meals
"A bowl of soup and bread-for five
cents. have made out very well; but
for two nights l have to stay out in the
streets. and then | stayed in the Her.
aid office most OF the time, and when
| got drowsy I'd go out, and the air
would revive me. I am a good hook
keeper, understand double and single
entry, but can get nothing to do at it.
| have shovelled snow, put in coal, done
anything could get to do. know there
are great many imposters, sir; but,
sir. am not an imposter. A gentleman
gave me dollar one night, and he fol-
lowed me everywhere | went, then he
gave me this letter."
took the letter and read it. It testi-
tied that the writer was convinced Of the
bearers story, and commended him to
the kind consideration of the charitably
disposed, and added that the writer had
secured employment for the bearer, but
that he could not get the employment
until the first of the following month.
After reading the letter | gave the
petitioner small small pittance-so
small that l was almost ashamed to
offer it.
lie was grateful very grateful for it,
and still following me, went on to say !:
thank you for this, sir, but more for
the kind words you have given me-
There are impOstors, and l am thought
to be one. They call me beat, drunk.
ard, and it is hard but | will not give
up. | have the use of a backing brush
and raisor, and | keep myself looking
as respectable as l can" With this he
babe me good night.
We're this man a horse, Mr.. Bergh's
tender care would soon be given him.
VERITAs,"
How gratified that poor wretch must
be to know that the premium on gold is
now only 104 rs, AS this government
was formed, not for the benefit of thu
governed, but to make the bankers paper
dollar worth dollar in gold, why
should the starving multitudes complain
Is it not fulfilling its proper functions
And what after all is man, with all hi
intellect, affections, moral nature, ant
aspirations, compared with little rount
piece of yellow metal, with picture Of
a screaming eagle upon it?
i Man was made for the dollar-not tn,
dollar for man. That is the doctrine O
the present highly civilized age.
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TIE GRANGER DECISIONS.

An influential Massachusetts ex-
change says: Some OF the papers, the
New York Evening Post included, take
up the old wall, the Wall street nonsense,
that the decision OF the Supreme Court
that corporations are subject to State
control, renders railway capital ''inse-
cure" It was the waste, extravaganza
and imitation of the railroad building era
which have ruined railroad enterprises
and rendered the capital invested inse-
cure. If the grange legislation had
been enacted ten years earlier, and en-
forced, more moderate ideas of the OPP
portunities and some conception Of the
duties ofcommon carrying might have
resulted.
The idea of the railroads was that, no
matter how many rings fattened of
from construction accounts, the commu
mites using the roads would be bound
to pay the interest on their inflated
cost forever. The people revolted, and
we don't blame them. Nevertheless
the bankruptcy which has overtaken the
railroads Of the country since 1873 has
been due far less to the Granger legisla
ton that to the collapse of the credit o.
railroads from natural causes. The bus
mess of many of them has proved sc
much below their expectations that i
needed no"regu!a,ion" to make it made
quate to pay the charges.
Before 1878, the amount of railroad
bonds on which interest had been de
faulted had risen to 1874, 900, 900, ant
during the past four years this has riser
to 1914, 900, 900, or 80 Der cent, of the
entire bonded debt Of the railroads 0
the country. Payment has been resu
med on some portion of this, and a much
larger proportion has been satisfied b,
foreclosure. But viewed in the broa'
and future aspect, the greatly increased
strictness of railroad supervision which
is the fruit OF the grange era will rende
railway capital more secure instead 0
less SO. 1t secures degree of publicit
of railroads affairs which was never be
fore attempted.
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ErHEAp SCHOOL BOOKS.

As the matter now stands, the whole
burden of risk is upon the county. The
State is secured, but it is far from cer~
tain whether the county will ever get
the money back which it advances for
this questionable enterprise. The dis
position is to make no orders for books
and allow the law to become O. dead
letter.
The book ring has been broken and
publishers are offering terms as good to
cities and districts as those named in the
text book bill. We are credibly inform
ed that St. Paul has already completed
such an arrangement with Wilson, Hin.
kle d Co., of Cincinnati. Other cities,
towns and districts could probably buy
to nearly if not equally as good advan'
tage. There remains, therefore. no
necessity for the bill,t and with the end
sought practically accomplished we shall
PROBABLY hear nothing more OF text
book bills. ST. Cloud Journal.
A great fraud dies hard.
This is new dodge. A law which
gives the people books at less than one
halt the old price is to be allowed to be
come dead letter through the comm
vance of the local officers!!!
And the bill. "having broken the ring,
is 70 longer necessary!
Suppose Merrilrs contract to be wipet
out, how long would it be ere the OLE
Ring would come together again, ant
books 90 upto their former high prices
A good deal CT the present outcry
comes from the local book sellers. The.
used to make 80 per. cent. on all thu
school books they sold; now they will
make nothing; and they are indus
triously engaged trying to demonstrate
that school book is cheaper at 81 .0
than ut As cents.
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OUR LANDED ARISTOCR4RT

The banker, broker, lawyer, doctor.
merchant. tradesman, manufacturer, la.
borer, in fine all are dependent upon re-
turns from investments made by the hus-
bandman in the only stocks recognized
in Sacred Writ. As Ralph Waldo Emer-
son beautifully puts it in one of his es-
says: The glory of the farmer is that,
in the division of labor, it is his part to
create. All the trades rest at last on his
primitive authority. He stands close to
nature he obtains from earth the bread !;
and the food which was not, he causes
to be. The first farmer was the first
man, and all historic nobility rests on
the possession and use of land.n
That's the way it should be; but in
this country the owner of the land is sim,
ply bondman whose duty it is to sup
port usurers and Office holders He goes
clothed in rags, and half-fed on the
coarses fare, while those who live of
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him "wear purple and fine linen and
fare sumptuously every day." The
ownership of the land in other countries
makes man a gentleman; here it sim-
ply enables him to sw eat and pay taxes.
That sarcastic wit, Dean Swift, sent
his hero, CULVER. to visit land where
the horses were civilized and cultivated,
while the men were degraded beasts
who did the work of the fields. The
horses dwelt in fine residences and lived
in luxury, while the men supported
them. That is the state we are approx.
mating to in these United States. Our
servants have become our masters. We
need Gland Owners>League" for self
protection.
Miss kellogg, the great opera singer,
some years since invested few thou>
sand dollars of her earnings IN lots in
the upper part of the city of New York.
That investment has become the curse of
her life. Year after year the taxes have
been rolling up against the property,
state taxes, county taxes, city taxes,
water>taxes, street>grading taxes, etc.,
etc. Miss Kellogg begged them to take
the property in settlement. But they
knew a trick worth two of that. They
are following her up with law suits. She
is.chained to that piece of real estate like
galley slave to his oar; and her splen
did vocalization is simply an instru
mentality to pay taxes.
II has got so in this country that the
shrewd fellows will not own real estate
but they lend. money to those who do.
Where is it all to end?
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contented with less than a Barmecide
feast. The beef looked just as well as it
does in any market in New York Great
piles of it. still wrapped in coarse can.
vas, were in inner depository, and from
the rapid manner in which it was SELL
ing, doubt if any was left next day.
The price was cheaper than the pub-
lie had been accustomed to, and an
English gentleman at the Adelphi Hotel,
with whom l talked about it, declared it
was much better beef than the English.
He said it was not so fat as the English,
but that it was natural" in quality, the
product of good pasture and proper ma
turity-rot forced from birth in close
stalls, and stimulated with oil-cake; it
was like the best Scotch beef, and supe-
rior to that.
'Ohl the Roast Beet of old England;
And oh ! the old English Roast Beef"
The Kings beef.eaters ted on Yankee
beef! looked at the bluff face of Will
liam Hogarth yesterday in the National
Gallery, and thought of his picture OF
1.-The Gates of Callas," the Englishman
staggering under his load of ribs of beef,
while a lank Frenchman takes Ientil
soup.
Have both English and French come
to the same necessity? Now, indeed,
the Frenchman has the most beef, the
prodigal Englishman has eaten his up.
After Liverpool AID Glasgow had got a
taste of the American article it was not
long in getting to London, and is now
advertised to be delivered by the quar-
ter at 1>2 pence per pound,or cheaper,
l imagine, than it is TO be had in New
York. [ am told that the agency in
Upper Thames street is besieged by GU
rious and interesting crowds. The Eng
lish are prodigious meat eaters They
cook beet in enormous '.joints" anC
| whirl it about the tavern coffee room:
from table to table, each guest DIRECTING
his cut. May their good appetites al
| ways be we'll supplied.
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LABOR AND GOLD.
We find in the Irish World the follow

We find in the Irish World the follow.
ing significant article:
"No country can flourish long unless
its laws are framed in the interest of
productive industry. Our laws of Fl.
nance in this country are entirely in the
interest of class OF rich money lenders.
and inimical to every kind of productive
labor, and as consequence we have
hard times. We have no gold, and can
not have any tor ages according to our
present system. Yet the privileged money
power wishes to sustain the present
ruinous system Of basing our currency
on gold which we have not, and the can
didates of the money power are sup
ported by the very workingmen who are
pinched and robbed by the swindle.
Were the Government to loan money at
one per cent to the people, as it does to
a class. many would borrow at the low
interest, and business would revive ;but,
according to the Shylocks, the Govern.
ment having no gold for basis, should
issue no more paper money. Thus bus
mess must be paralvzed production must
cease, fields must lie uncultivated, fac
tories must be idle, and families must
starve, because the Government prefers
gold to real wealth as basis for the
currency. This deplorable state of
things has existed for over three years.
During last year no less than 1902 fail
ures were reported in the United States.
The greatest number in any preceding
year was 7,74O in 1873, and the next
6,993 in 1861. In the following, the
number of failures, the amount of liabil-
tiles, and the average of liabilities tor
each failure, are given for twentyyears:
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Anti- y; satlollopolist.
lcNATlUS OONNELLY Editor.
HARD AND SOFT WHEATS.


The Mankato Review says: "Now
that the seeding time is at hand, we
would impress upon farmers the neces-
sitv of looking we'll at their seed wheat.
Within the past year there has been an
important change in the grades, IN the
eastern markets, discriminating heavily
in favor of hard varieties; and at the
nresent time Minnesota hard rates eight
cents higher than any other variety Oh
No. wheat 1t will pay farmers to as
card the soft varieties, and SEED Inc
hard
All very pretty: but the farmers raise
wheat to sell, not to grind. If one Va
rie,v of wheat will yield 80 or 40 bushels
to the acre and another ID or ~ 1t IS
clearly the interest of the farmers to raise
that which yields the most. We have
never known one cent. per bushel more
maid for hard wheat in Minnesota mark
cts than for soft. If the mlllers want
us to raise Scoth Fife let them pay a DO
nus for it. Our home price for wheat Is
graded on the Nil waukee price OF soft
wheat-not the hard.
We would not recommend the farmers
s.to put al of their eggs in one basket
They should raise Scotch Fife, Lost Ma
ton. and the other varieties, and let the
question of profit decide them as to the
future. They are working for them
, selves; not for the millers. The millers
will not pay off their mortgages on their
farms. What they want is the kind OF
wheat that will do that.
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1t was impossible to OBTAIN last years
stock at Lansing, but the receipts up to
this time last year on the crop were
425.000 bushels against $1,000 bushels
this year.
1t should be stated in connection with
the above figures that much OF the wheat
now in the warehouses and elevators
along the river is owned by mlllers and
will be used here. A large share of i.
must be deducted from the amount of
wheat actually ready tor shipment.
This makes total of 951, 600 bushels
this year, as against 2 ,s53, 900 last year !;
or little more than one third. After de-
Quoting seed and bread there will not
probably be half million bushels out of
this 951, 900 to ship to Milwaukee or
Chicago.
And yet wheat does not rise! Iowa,
Wisconsin and Illinois, are in no better
condition than Minnesota. The Chica-
go Journal of Commerce says:
Wheat-The range of price has been
quite regular. The receipts are less
than the shipments here as we'll as at
other points and the visible supplies are
light, The stocks in elevators are some
what reduced below last week though
shipments are still light from the sea-
boards. Number Of cars inspected in for
the first Il days OF this month PIG,
against ,0SS for the same time one year
ago:
We cannot but think that great Ring,
extending from Liverpool to Minneap-
oils, is holding the price of wheat below
| its natural level.