The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-11

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public do. that confessing one day and
denying the next isn't a good thing for
ones yeracity.
The legislature at it's last session
passed the following amendment to
article 9 Of the State constitution,
which is to be submitted to the people
for approval OF rejection at the fall
election:
SECTION Is. The legislature shall
not authorize any county, town, or
other municipal corporation to issue
bonds, or to become indebted in any
manner, to aid in the construction or
equipment Of amy railroads to any
amount that shall exceed five (5) per
centum of the value of the taxable
property within such county, township,
city o. other municipal corporation.
The amount of such taxable property
to be ascertaincd and determined by
the last assessment of said property,
for the purpose of State aud county
taxation previous to the mourning Of
such indebtedness.
The ssolid South'' is III unsafe pow
er to manage the debt. Eight States
Of this South have repudiated OF State
debts $105, 1877 900; Alabama, $25, 4G4,-
40; Arkansas, Sl7,3O6,Sl2; Florida,
S5,21o,GOO; Louisiana, II ,1S5, 433; Ten
nesec, SIS ,037 900; Virginia, SA,728,-
69G. The men who repudiate State
debts are not safe custo'lians OF a ma
tional debt created in suppressing their
rebellion. Kentucky elects Blackburn
governor and then announces She cAn-
not pay her current obligations. Put
the "solid South" in power and the
debt will, as the Democratic platform
demands, ''be put in process of EXITING
ton. ''-Spcccll Of Hon. VIM. Lawrence
ut Sand,,slSy.
lie forgot to mention Minnesota
among the regulators, but then Min
nesota is a Republican State. Uow do
you like it, Minnie, to he classed along
with such States rs Arkansas, Alaba-
ma, and the rest Of 'em?
De Young's pretext that he shot Kali
loch for slandering his mother is rather
thin. Kallocll pronounced DeYoung
a ''bastard." This of course was re-
Election upon Mrs. DeYoung. Of
course it was. 1t reminds us of what
happened here in Worthington a few
years ago. We called attention to a
picture of 4 man-monkey in the Jour
nal and said, in q jocular way: that it
was good picture OF the then editor
Of that plpar. immediately the black
guard friends Of the Journal issued out
and asserted along the street that we
were Slanlrrin1 the EDITORS wife. OF
course, if the editor looked like mon
key the inference WIS clear that his
wife WAS living with Il monkey. This
was fearful-an inexcuSADle insult to
IL lady, in the eyes Of the blackguarls.
All this. however, is too thin. 1t is
only towards who hide behind petit
coats and drug their wives and moth
ers into their political controversies.
TIE Lew LES SE.V7INEL.
Since our friend Buchanan, of the
IcmalSSentincl, began to talk back to
the bloody :o:lth III the style of the
Okolouo States he has gained a nation
III reputation. The Lelnars Sentinel is
quoted from one end of the country to
the other. The Ku Klux Of the South
are raying and sending him all sorts of
threatening letters and we do not
doubt for Il moment that if Buchanan
should set foot in Mississippi he would
be shot down at sight. Such is poll
ties in the still semi-burbarous United
States Of America!
We do not agree with Buchanan as
to the oblitcration of all State lines but
we do believe that the Federal Govern.
ment should have power to punish the
political s;ss2ssins Of the South when
the States will not do so. And We
have maintained from the day Lee sur
rendered ut Appomattox that the Soutl
should have been reduced to a territor
i'll state, governed by the General Gov
ernment, and that every leading rebbe
should have been disfranchised.
THE SPELLING REFORM
The ADVICE has maintained for ;
long time that the introduction of thu