The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-07-17
THAT ANACONDA,

Nlu, W. SLOuN Sc0 ACSISNA AA SAsV
church which would astonish the other
dead churches.
THAT ANACONDA.
The Pioneer Press announces that the
St. Paul & Duluth road has passed into
the hands of parties interested in the
Milwaukee and Chicago railroad sys-
tenn. Well, this anaconda is closing a.
round Minnesota, and we can hear the
ribs of St. Paul and Minneapolis crack
every morning. They will probably
hurry up now and get road from St.
Paul to Ashland. If this big anaconda
should swallow the Sioux City Il st.
Paul yet, we will not be any better off
than we are now.
Il MINI EsorA RAILROAD SYSTEM
The committee appointed by the meet
ing of delegates Of the st. Paul Cham
her of Commerce and the Boards of
Trade of Minneapolis and Duluth, have
issued an address to the people of Min
nesota, asking for sympathy and coop
Grafton III the effort to save Minnesota
from being a mere feeder to Chicago
railroads.
There is great danger that the whole
State will fall into the grasp of the iron
fingers which Chicago is now closing
around every State in the West. With
nerve and capital, Minnesota may be
the centre of us i great railroad sys-
TEN rs that Of Ill:onis. Duluth is as
near to Buffalo us Chicago, and the
products of the vast country west and
southwest Of Duluth may be made to
meet water transportation at Duluth
rs we'll us at Chicago and Milwaukee.
In natural advantages, Minnesota is
vastly superior to Illinois. AS an ag-
ricultural State it is equally as good,
while in manufacturing advantages and
commercial facilities it is far superior.
Minnesota has fcty rivers which afford
water power for manufactures and may
become, i'll fact, must become, the New
England Of the West in this respect.
Minnesota is the mother OF the two
great water ways of the continent, the
Mississippi and the Great Lakes, and
no interior State can expect to equal
her in commercial advantages. if her
people are wise enough to pursue their
advantage. Minnesota is the Pivotal
State, the Summit State, the Water
State, Of the continent. She is the
Mother Of the Father of Waters, and
ought to be called the Grandmother of
Waters. Nature and manifest destiny
declare that she must he the Hub State
in which the spokes of commerce centre
and from which they radiate.
But this great Minnesota is just now
in danger of being dashed to the car OF
a foreign rival and made to grace the
triumphal march of Il far-away city to
commercial supremacy and empire.
By all me ms, let us have Il Minnesota
railroad system.
But if by minnesota system" is
meant the exclusion of Chicago rail-
roads, or III other words, of that health
1ul competition which prevents monop-
oily and which the interests Of the people
demand, we want no Minnesota system.
We want to see a race between two
great systems for the commerce of all
the vast region which naturally is trib-
utary to Minnesota.
Nv "EXPER1.'
superintendent kiudle's book on
Spiritualism has aroused no end of dis
cussion upon the tabood subject. 1t
has run through two editions and let
ters nre pouring in upon Mr.. X, says
the N. Y. Sun, from all parts of the
country congratulating him, coming
mostly from Christian and Bible Spirit.
ualists.
The book, we suppose, precip,tated
the two articles from the pen of Dr..
Geo. NJ. Beard, on 1.-The Psychology OF
Spiritisn,," which appeared in the July
number OF the North American Re.
view, and another III the July Scvibner
on 1.-The Delusions of Clairvoyance.
DR.. Beard claims to be an ''expert'
In Psychology and, we believe, during the
Mollie Fancher discussion, intimated
that there were only about half doze,
men like himself capable of passing
judgment upon such cases and the
questions which they involve. We arc
lea therefore to the conclusion that
great is DR.. Beard, the expert"
Being one Of these half dozen experts,
he speaks ex catliedra, and relegates
clairvoyance, spiritism and all kindred
phenomena to the domain of what he
calls Psychology. In other words, where
genuine, the phenomena are all in the
mind Of the medium or subject, and
where not genuine of course they are
decisions and belong to jugglery and
trickery.
So great is this Dr.. Beard, so sure il
he that he is right and that all Other
scientists arc wrong, that lie sits in his
own office and refuses even to inyesti
gate such cases rs the Mollic Fanche]
case. lie evolves the whole explana
ton ont of his own transcendent an,
superior inner consciousness and ex
pertness. Like the pedagogue VIII,
quietcd the alarmed villagers by telling
them that IN unusual appearance il
TIE heavens was ''nothing but Il phe
nomenon," this great and superciliou!
export assures the alarmed church peo
pie and others who are afraid of ghosts
that Spiritism is ''nothing but ment
al phenomenon" And thereupon the,
retire to their homes and sleep soundly
knowing upon the authority of u grea,
"expcrt." that the wonderful NANTES
cations in the spiritual heavens art
merely mental phenomena.
Such n man is invaluable. At ont
full SyOOD lie knocra fl,o c,,D,o,t r