Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-25

rope, body inclining forward, and the whole
person firmly embedded in sand. 1t is sup
posed by the observers that u person could
not live an hour in the place and position in
which this man was found.-Rochester Post.
Testimonial to Mrs. Thyng.
AUSTIN, July Esd, 1873.
Mrs. TYING Madam: I heard you
say during your lectures last winter
awhenr a woman will shc~will and when
she won't she won't" This 1 know to
be true and much as 1 have tried to still
my conscience and refrain from writing
you, yet I am prevailed upon. We have
both been working in the temperance
cause-you in reform clubs and public
meetings, reaping bountiful harvest,
and helping greatly in spreading the
work all over the county. l have tried
to do some good by reaching the Sunday
schools through the Sunday School Tenn
perance League, and am satisfied that my
small gleanings have becn-what they
are. You came among us stranger
before the public. On every occasion, a
every gathering, in every house where l
have heard you spoken of, 1 have ap-
proved you, have recommended your &C.
quaintance to others, and as it were, stood
by to protect, in my feeble way, your re-
putation as speaker, as a worker, as a
woman.
When heard Of your being present at
Sherman Pages lemonade banquet, of
your standing up before that promiscuous
crowd, and asking God to bless that man,
and telling that crowd that you loved
him for his being a prominent temper
ance worker, and smiling so benignly
on him, I stood like one struck dumb |!
What made you do so? What made you
spread such pail over all the noble
work you had done? Why have you
struck such blow, to crush and tramplc
down all your years hard labor! i.
Sherman Page a temperance worker in
deed! Listen. lie told some Of our
German citizens that had he been here
last election day, he should have voted
for LICENSE; and because it might have
enhanced his own interests, he would
have had men at every poll to buy and sell
votes to destroy our glorious victory-the
victory Of no license. Earnest worker!
Did he not incite the people to arrests, to
law suits and pcrplexlties during the
Woman's Crusade, thus turning the minds
of interested people to his troublesome
brolls, and so interfering with the jealous
ardor of the crusaders.
He injured the educational interests of
Mower county, years ago, by raising dis
sension among lovers Of education.
Everywhere, where he could enhance
his selfish interests,spite of public benefit
or public need, or the prosperity of pub
lie peace, even though lie ruined pros
poets, which others by months of hard
labor had built up, he has never hesitated
to intrude his offensive and iDsolent pres
ence. You come here, and though
knowing very little of the state Of affairs
though being warned against that man
and his influence, you yet stand up and
deliberately step on and tread under your
own feet your future success, future good
work, future influence, as a temDero nee
worker and true citizen, fcr Il e SAX Of
spreading little hoEey On SheI mar
Pages fast moulding bread and butter.
I hear you are going t. speak FOR him
throughout the county. The friends you
had in Austin are sorely grieved at the
step you have taken. They are even in
dignant. What did Sherman Page care
for you or yours, till he found he could
use you as tool to hew path for hi:
most unworthy feet? Every thorn YOU
pluck away from his path will pierce yor
and your past works through and through
When the impeachment trial was ove1
the people decided to let the past be bur
ied-to commence decently and peace
ably and accept the issue. But Page
came home like live fury, burning
fire, mad with more meannesses than there
we're seething reptiles on the Gorgon':
head; and vet you love him, soft woman
and turn from the multitude to pat hin
on the head, because he deigns to notice
you.
Stand by him now-nobody cares! l
Stephen gets stoned, don't you dodge
ITO die, to die for those we love is nobler
far than wear CROWN
| Yours, Mrs. EUGENE Il. CRANE.
ILet not our beer loving citizens be de
ceived by any specious promises of Page
that he will support the license move
ment. He promises to be license man
to us here, while in the country Mrs
Thyng is talking temperance and Page in
the same breath.-ED.