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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
THE PEOPLE RADICAL

! THE PEOPLE RADICAL
From Beecher's lecture, 1.-The Reign
Of the Common People,"
Therefore, the very amusements nj
the country become democratic. Thev
are swept from under the control ri
managers through the memorable ne.
cessities of the times. Take Lectures
and things of that kind. 1 have heen
III the lecture field a great while.-
l went into the lecture field while the
antl-slavery cause WAS OIL, and this il
| my experience: that the best peopIe in
| almostaL the towns were conservative
and they didn't want Il hot-headpd
fellow like me to come and lecture in
tie town. They were opposed to It.
and the only reason that they ever
consented was that after experience
they found that folks didn't want to hear.
conservatives and they did want to
hear the lecture that turned the world
upside down, and they would hear
them, and they would pay to hear them.
ana the lecture courses that had the,
radicals III them always paid, and the
lecture courses that had no radicals in
them never paid. So the " isles of the
common people. their desire for fair
play, their determination that the mass
OF the common people should have sub
jects discussed has brought down the
whole lecture system to us very much
less priviledged than it was before. 1t
was not reserved to the upper and re-
fined, the literary classes. 1t was
brought to the common people and
they would hear who they would hear,
whether other men liked it or did not
like it. You don't see very much more
OF that old-fashioned talk. If an audi
ence was small, it was always select.
1t was always said in the newspapers,
''small but select. Laughter Yes,
these select audiences. Youknow what
they mean ,tlabby pockets for the preach
Ell or lecturer. Nobody wants !, select
audience. Laughter
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
RUSHMORE.

Messrs. Rushmore 4 Banks are put
ting machinery into their elevator for
elevating grain, and also for grinding
feed. They purchased at St: Paul one
of the Ames Straw Burning Engines,
and will he prepared to grind feed, shell
corn, receive grain, ETC., in a few days.
Farmers can bring their grain, deliver
it and get away without delay.
Messrs. Seney Il Thompson are using
the screw revolving Harrow on then
lands. They are said to be excellent
for pulverizing the sod and save back
setting.
Some five or six lots have been re-
Gently sold in Rushmore. They will be
improved by the parties soon.
Grasshoppers were here few days
but are now gone and left but few eggs
Farmers in this vicinity expect te
10 bushels to the acre.
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1918.
1UI-I3,
THAT WFUL HOPPER STORY.

THAT A WFUL HOPPER STORY.
Sept. 16, 1878.
EDITOR ADVANCE: In your last
weeks issue, l saw an article copied
from the Pioneer Press, in which GER
tain Il. Sullivan first has my crops dew
astated by hail and then eaten up by
grasshoppers. Both statements, and
indeed the whole report, is almost more
than exaggeration and hardly worth
being noticed. I believe when Mr.. s.
saw the sun ''obscured us by 4 cloud -
by the grassh"ppers, his brain must
have been somewhat clOuded; at least
neither nor any one else sawanything
of the kind. True, my crop was slight
ly injured by hailstorm, but had it
insured in the St. Paul German Ameri-
can Hail Insurance Co., and my loss
was completely repaired by them; and
as regards the 'hoppers, the harm they
have done is not worth mentioning.
Yesterday, we finished up thresIiing
in our town. with quite a satisfactory
result, circumstances being considered;
that is, it might have been worse. Mr..
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THE LIGHTNING ROD SVINDLERS.

411E| A1UH 1 ~ ~ " NV = ~ AZ LIINS.
VIM. Barker and J. p. Howard, alias
p. J. Taylor and Ed. Rayburn alias Ed.
Mouter, were arrested last week and
held to await requisition. After strug-
Cling frantically but vainly to cxtricate
themselves from the mesl,es of the law
10y dilatory motions and change Of vell-
ne, they were removed to Lemars on
Wednesday, by Sheriff Hopkins, of
Plymouth Co., under the warrant of
Gov. Pjllsbury. Their mode Of opera
ting seems to have been to get notes
from farmers for H. ltning rods, giving
any time and amy price, then they forg-
ed new notes for large amounts Oh the> e
parties, sold the notes and jumped the
State. There were three more of the
gang who were not taken. Some of
them are on their way TO the peniten-
tiary.-Rock Co. Herald.
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BIGELOW,

John DeBois is building an addition
to his store.
r. Jones has made some improve
ments in his store. lie has also re-
ceived his fall stock. lie is taking in
considerable flax.
There was a sociable at Mr. Morse last
week. They had 4 good time.
Rev. Van Fossen preached his fare
well sermon last Sunday.
c. Chamberlain will move next week
to Adrian.
G. W. Ketchum intends to move to
Bigelow this fall for the purpose of send
ing his children to school.
Il. J. Belknap and family intend to 80
back to Iowa to spend the winter with
friends.
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TUE NATIONALS.

The Maine election astonishes those
Republican newspapers which are in
the habit of assuming that the Repub-
lican party is invincible. Maine has
been Il ''solid' Republican State so long
that when the Republican candidates
for Congress in the Fourth and Fifth
districts are defeated, and that, too, by
Democratic Greenbacker in the
Fourth and regular National Green
hacker in the Fifth, the Republicans
scarcely knew whether to swear or to
howl. The legislature, moreover, has
been lost, and as the election of Gov
ernor rests with that body, all opposi-
ton Governor will be chosen. At last
accounts the house stood G5 Republi-
cans, 70 Democrats and So Greenback-
ers,
The rapid strides which the Nation
als are making compels the Republican
papers to u tardy' acknowledgment of
the fact that the new third party is to
form al important element of our po-
litics hereafter. This ought long since
to have been apparent tc any editor who
is not party blind and party deaf, as
most Of them are, we regret to say
In the ADVANCE Of May 9th, we said:
The next Presidential election will
develop IL strength for the element
which demands radical changes and re-
forms i'll the relations of labor and can
ital, which will astound those who can
not now see the great uprising on these
questions coming. We should not be
surprised to see what is now called tile
National party come up us the leading
political party i'll the next national
campaign.
The Maine election, however, has al.
ready astounded some of them. In the
ADVANCE of August 18th, we said:
The ADVANCE has seen the hand.
writing on the wall for II long time and
has steadily asserted that the party
which can include the Nationals or the
La'Dr P'my ~ - '"'Xt campaign. viii
carry The Country AID yIeo. It's Pvesi
dent. If the Republican party docs not
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TIE IRREPR ESSIBLE YANKEE.

From Beecller' lecture on the ''Reixn
OF the Common People,"
We do not diffuse learning, but we
diffnse intelligence which is great
deal better than learning. knowledge
is good, but what is better is the apti-
tude for knowledge. 1t is the capacity
for experience. And we are working
the p' ime facilities of human nature
in this country from top to bottom ill.,
to such i condition as that every man
is facile to think, facile to will, to plan
and act as they are in no other coun-
try on the globe. A Yankee may be-
gin whiting Il single. and whenever
lie becomes bankrupt with Il shingle lie
will take a plank; bankrupt him Will,
plank and he will turn OH Il log: bank
rupt him with log and he will turn
out Il carpenter with Il full chest of
tools and bankrupt him rs !. carpen er
and he will be a merchant; and bank
rnpt him as Il merchant and he will
turn ont Il lawyer, and, il worse comes
to worse, y minister. Langhter.]
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19

Holbr0ok threshed IL bushels No. /
wheat per acre. Hacket Brothers avG h.
aged IA bushels No. Mr.. Fay thresi-
ed PSI bushels No. wheat from Is acr6.
G. c. Whitney, from Worthington, did
the threshing with his new Aultman.&
Taylor thresher, giving entire satisf;c-
ton. - II s.
We are all busy blowing and backset-
ting, l for my part, getting 100 acres
ready for the spring sowing. Corn is
very good. G.. KNIPs & Son.:
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A. G. Croft has sold his interest in
the Rock Co. Herald to A. L. Slough
ton. Mr.. S. becomes thus sole propri-
etor Of the Herald. lie is n No. prin-
ter and we judge from the neatness and
good s"nsp with which he writes the
usual salu,atory, that lie will make an
equally good editor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
Elk,

The NJ. E. Sabbath school, held in the
Plctt's school house, was visited on
Sunday last by number of persons and
the occasion was quite al interesting
Osle and Brown, G. B. Lcveies ase and ID
lady. F Lewis and lady, r. L. Braden
and lady, and Geo. Plumb. Addresses
were made by Rev's. Ogle and Brown,
g. b. Loveless. F. Lewis and Il. l.. Bra
den. The music was led by Geo. Plumb.
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COUNTY NEWS.
INDIAN LAKE.

John Upstrom has threshed. His
wheat turned out to 8 bushels to the
acre. Oats good. .:s7@s5~
Messrs. Upstrom, Lofstedt & Ander-
son arc running their thresher about
Oclleeda.
Corn is now safe and the biggest crop
yet raised in thisltown. ]. A. Larson
and a few others have already cut their
corn.
Farmers are busy blowing and pre-
pairing for another crop.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
JERSEY.

Wheat is turning out very poorly
around here. Oats are better and corn
l., good.
The hOppers are rost all gone
Men who lave examined the eggs re-
port two-thirds rotten.
Frank Wilsbacker is putting up a
nice grainery on his farm east of town.
Mr.. Wagner is building new house
on his new farm.
Mr.. Burlington, of St. Paul. was in
town. lie came down to purchase land
here.
A. IIendricks0n's Brother is in town
on u visit to his brother.
Mr.. Wilsbacker's brother is here
from Ohio on visit.
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100 acres of land, four miles from
Worthington, on main road, twenty
three acres in crop, for sale. Will give
to 10 per cent. more off than the rail
road company is allowing on cash sales,
Apply at ADVANCE office.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
WHITE WASHED HIN.


At the request Of Rev. n. II. Kerr,
his passionate over the Presbyterian
churcl! at st. Peter, has been dissolved.
the congregation passing Il resolution
testifying ito his ability and fidelity as
u minister Of the gospel from the pulpit,
and in his daily walk before his fellow
men; for his christian charity, and for
his patience under adverse and trying
circumstances, and for his zeal in up
building the Church of Christi
1t would have been cruel in the church
to do otherwise than give Rev. Kerr :.
good sound embarrassing on his retire.
lnent. But unless lie can satisfactorily
explain number of things which the
legislative committee ask him to ex-
plain, in his accounts as Secretary and
Treasurer of the Asylum Board of Trus-
tees, Rev. Kerr will come under the
head of those ''whited sepulchers" men,
toned by the man Of Nazareth, which
were beautifully whitewashed outside,
but inside were full Of dead mems bones
and rottenness. Mr.. Kerr's zeal in up
building the church Of Christ" 1t has
been charged, was in upbuilding the
Presbyterian Church edifice ut st. Pc.
ter with stone and labor gotten from
the State. Church zeal and Christian
zeal are as far apart and dissimilar as
Theology and Clrist's gospel.
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come out boldly and radically on the
labor question, and fight the battles of
the workingmen, it is a doomed party.
If the Democratic party should blunder
into lucid interval of wisdom, thing
it has not had since the Republicans
came into power, and should Join with
the Nationals upon Il platform and u
candidate, it will ride into power.
The St. Paul Globe now sees this and
in its comments on the Maine election,
says:
Democrats and Greenbackers in other
States can learn wisdom from the re-
sult-can learn that by pooling their is
sues on q moderate platform, patterned
after that of Ohio, they can accomplish
most satisfactory results. 1t Is lesson
that the Democrats of every Congress-
ional district IN the country, not ex-
cepting the Third Minnesota, should
heed and promptly act upon.
If it were not for the greenback plank
in the platform Of the Nationals, we
believe that party would soon include
half the Republicans. A majority of
the Republican voters are hard money
men, and the financial hobby of
the Nationals is the only thing that can
keep them out OF power. The laboring
classes are moving for reform and u
hearing. They will have that hearing
in the next Congress even, and may
have complete control of the following
one
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
MINNESOTA 70 THE F7ROyT

All the flcts have combined this sea-
son to- advertise Minnesota. The hard
money Republican papers everywhere
are praising the Republican State plat
form, While all the papers, of every par
ty, are commenting on tie two great
Fairs. Blaine's speech ut Minneapolis,
which was packed as full Of Minnesota
history as al egg is with meat, called
out very general notice, east and west,
and the Presidents speech at st. Paul
was given by all the leading papers, &C.
companied by comments, pro and con,
and supplementary mention of Rarus,
Carver and Bogarslus. Good for Min
nesota! For the first time in her his
tory she has advertised on large scale.
Now send the ADVANCE broadcast
cxer the country and gather in the set
tiers.
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MIttht'1gtcu @dranfe,
Terms 4a.oo Year, $500 for Six Months.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1878.

Now it's lively. Now we I'LL rub our
hands with satisfaction to see the st.
Paul papers belaboring each other. The
r. r. calls the Dispatch Journalistic
cur" and intimates that it is Lying"
''insect." Tie Dispatch strikes back
and calls the r. r. the ''big fence-strad-
der" and the matchmaking, black
guard newspaper" with a ''dlrty fin
aer,>
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THE SCHOOL FUND.

Supt. Burt announces that the
apportionment of the current school
fund to be made in October will amount
to about one dollar to a scholar for the
public school, Of the State. This is
quite al increase, and the help thus af-
forded will be especially needed in the
newer counties like our own.
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ger."
The St. Paul Dispatch calls for 4
Chamber of Commerce committee to
investigate the charges made against
st. Paul and the State Fair manage
ment as to extortion and inetliciency.
The State press are almost unanimous
u agreed that neither ST. Paul nor the
State Fair managers were prepared to
handle the immense crowd in attend
ance, and that in everything which
contributed to the comfort and con-
venience of the multitude Minneapolis
was far in advance of St. Paul. While
the Chamber of Commerce is inyesti-
eating, we propose that the st. Paul
City Council be interviewed rs to why
the bHss and hackman were not regu-
lated and u uniform rate established
for carrying passengers.
The Irish Catholic Workingmen of
Oakland and Alme(la, California, held
u meeting recently and denounced Mr..
Beecl,er. DR.. O'Donncll called Beech
era "clerical libertinc," and said he mad
least reproach upon our sacred relig-
iOn." That's it. Mr.. Deecher don't
belong to the same church with O'Don-
nell and isn't Catholic priest. Go for
him, Doctor, for he's outside of the pale
of the true church." Besides, he be-
ieyes that Chinaman has us good 4
right to come to America and get work
rs O'Donnell and his countrymcn have.
This, of course, is rank hercsy. This
great American nation is the exclusive
property Of O'Donnell and his fellow
foreigners, and if any Acknowledged Chi
naman comes around asking for clothes
to ''washee," the O'Donncll's will hit
him Oh the head with a slillaleh.
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ton, it is recognized that III point of
locality, Martin county is certainly en-
titled to the Senator this time. This
county had the first member after the
district was organized. Jackson had
the next following; Mobiles had the
next. and Mr.. Smith, OF Cottonwood,
filled the chair last winter. If, there
fore, Martin presents Ter claims. and
does not send too many mell-afraid-of-
tleir-ballots to the convention, prob
ably her claims will he recognized. AT
least, we do not see why they should
not be, rs she, with one exception, has
heartily supported the candidate that
has been put in the field by the Repub-
lican district Conventions. Let us
hear what she has to say upon that mat
ter. 1t is proper that fair canvass be
given, as the Office is now of four years.
continuance, and in that respect, i'm
portant.-Madelia Times.
The Window Reporter in a spirit
most fair and candid, Claims Of rs to
know why we believe it not j lst to the
interests of the district that Senator
Smith should he re-nomillated. The
Reporter has the right to make this in
quiry, and We briefly answer: That,
while it may not be understood by the
Reporter, Senator Smith has reason to
know that our objections to his candi-
dacY, if lie is Il candidate, are not based
on grounds impugning his personal
character for integrity, his ability or
his moral worth. We may state frank
ly that our objections are mainly local,
and the fact that he is the regularly en-
ployed agent of the St. p. il :. G.. rail-
road company, which is certainly max
ing Il strong war against important
rights and interests of II large part Of
the district. We don't believe it Just
or right that this interest should repre-
sent the district. We do net desire to
have amy heated controversy or to wit
ness any political war over this ques-
ton. In our view, the better way is to
select All impartial, unparalleled man
for Il candidate-one who represents the
balance of opinion-the neutral ground.
II this is not fair and just will the Re-
porter please tell us why the personal
claims Of Senator Smith should stand
III the way and be insisted upon us they
are plainly likely to be. and if Senator
Smith, like an honorable man us we he.
licye he is, is not candidate, it is much
wiser and more sincere with his friends
who deserve respectful consideration
for him to say so. We will gladly join
hands with the Reporter in promoting
the political and local interests of the
Whole district and only maintain that
| under the circumstances, our esteemed
contemporary has not been us franl
upon the question ut issue as we think
has generally expected.-Martin Co.
Sentinel.
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