The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-05
THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1884.

RAILROADS CENTERING IN WORTH
" T." INGTON.
Railroad Commissioner Bakers re-
port gives the following statistics of
the railroads centering in Worthington
for the year 1882:
CHICAGO, ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS
AND OMAHA.
Gross Earnings. $1.2O4. .993 20
Taxes Received by State, &c, ,149. 20
wORrn1NGroN AND SIOUX FALLS.
Gross Earnings, $69,442.95
Taxes Received hy State, 1855. SO
BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS AND
NORTHERN.
Gross Earnings. $50, ,422 25
Taxes Received by State, 1,194.3S
DO FARMERS PAY?
The recent failure of the North
western Car Company, of Saltwater,
has made a sensation in tile Northwest.
A large amount of the assets are in
farmers notes, and Saltwater cor
respondent srys:
The lowest valuation placed upon
the farmers notes held AS security was
O.OOO, while Mr.. Gilfillan, who was
present, claimed they were worth $780,
600. 1t seems that the car company
las kept 4 careful account for q num-
Der of years of the payments made upon
notes given by farmers for farm ma
clllnery. and the surprising result has
been i showing Of 9j TO 9S4 per cent
paid.
This is certainly very good showing
for the farmers.
GOOD FUR JUDGE SEVERAvCE.
The Iuverne Herald, in it's court re-
port, mentions al interesting liqnor
case. n fellow named G.. NJ. Ienton
went into john NJ. Park s drug store
and procured some whisky claiming
that he was not feeling well. lie after
wards complained and had Parks in
hictet', and admitted that he did so for
the purpose of securing an Indictment.
rlc Herald report says:
Before the sentence was passed Mr..
Park was permitted to make u state
ln-nt and said in substance that Mr..
lLenton claimed when he asked for the
liquor that he was not feeling we'll and
wanted the liquor bpcanse he thought
:. little stinulant would do him good.
The Judge -tated that he did not ap.
prove Of the means that had been en-
plOypl III this Instance and could not
He- III the Otfl';se, unh-r the circum-
stances, any great depth Of moral tur-
pituhe. Upon the suggestion ~ the
county attorney that it was il Case Of
"CnmSt men to obtain
evidence-the court said that there
Ongl,t tn Ce Il law passed that WOnld
impose upon the man who hires an
other to get such evidence q fne three
times rs great rs that imposed upon
the man who sells the liquor; and that
he would favor Il law that would pun
isl, the man who buys as we'll as the
man who sells liquor. The court re
fused to charge the costs to the de-
frmlant. and Mr.. Park paid his fine and
was discharged
We are heartily glad to hear Judge
Severance speaking in condemnation of
this devilish Comstockism which has
become the stereotyped method of
fanatics all over the country. We have
condemned It here in Worthington
time and again in about as strong
terms rs can we'll be used and have for
years been ''pegging away" at Com
stock and his methods and the internal
business he is plying for a salary lie
is the agent of IN American lnquisi-
tion, a society of ecclesiastical bigots,
and although the outrages committed
are not as bloody as those of the old
1nquisition, the principle is in many
respects the same, All effort to unite
the ecclesiastical and the civil, and to
prosecute, entrap and punish men for
difference of opinion upon moral, social
and religious questions.
OF course. Comstock's society have
nothing to do with these local perse-
cutions, but the "method" is the Same
and that is what we condemn.
We have been cursed up and down,
from top to bottom and bottom to top,
by bigots and fanatics for condemning
Comstockism in such strong terms
through the ADVANCE, but SO long as
we can get lead pencil to write with
and a newspaper to publish an article,
we shall do what we can from our
':little corner" to oppose principles and
methods 80 utterly at variance with
the liberty of the people and the genius
of our institutions.