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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
QUESTION OF HEALTH.
What Baking Powder Shall We User

This plain question comes home to
every house keeper. We all desire pure
and wholesome food, and this cannot be
had with the use of impure or poison
GUS baking powder. There can be no
longer a question that all the cheaper,
lower grades of backing powders con-
tain either alum, lime or phosphate
acid. Asloath as we may be to admit SO
much against what may have been some
of our household goods, there can be no
gainsaylng the unanimous testimony of
the official chemists. Indeed analysis
seem to find no baking powders entirely
free from some of these Objectionable
ingredients except the Royal, and that
they report as chemically pure. We
find some of the baking powders ad-
vertised as pure, to contain, under the
tests of Prof. Chandler; Habirshaw and
others, nearly twelve per cent, of lime,
while others are made from alum with
no cream of tartar. This we presume,
accounts for their lack of leavening pow
er as sometimes complained of by the
cook, and for the bitter taste found in
the biscuits so frequently complained of
by ourselves.
But aside from the inferiority of the
work done by these powders, the phys
into the system in such quantities as this
are injurious. Their physiological effects
are indigestion, dyspepsia, or worse
evils.
The question naturally arises, why do
these cheap baking powders makers use
these things2 Alum is three cents a
pound, lime still cheaper, while cream
of tartar costs tbirty-fve or forty. The
reasons for the chemical purity of the
Royal Baking Powder were recently
given in the New York Times in an in
teresting description of "a new method
for refining argols, or crude cream of
tartar. 1t seems that it is only under this
process that cream oftartar can be freed
from the lime natural to it and rendered
chemically pure; that the patents and
plant for this cost the Royal Baking
Powder Company about half "a million
dollars, and that they maintain exclusive |
control of the rights.
Professor McMurtrie, late chief chem
ist of the department of agriculture, at |
Washington, ID. c., made an examlna- |
ton of this process, and reported upon |
the results attained in the refined cream |
of tartar. The following extract from |
his report would seem to answer the
question repeated at the head of this
article, and which is 80 frequently pro-
pounded bv the housekeeper:
"I have examined the cream of tartar
used by the Royal Baking Powder Com
pany in the manufacture of their baking
powder, and find it to be perfectly pure
and free from lime in any form. The
chemical tests to which have submit
ted the Royal Baking Powder prove il
perfectly healthful and free from every
deleterious substance. The Royal Bak-
ing Powder is purest IN quality and
highest in strength of any baking pow
der of which have knowledge.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
ENGLISH INTEREST IN THE
AMERICAN TARIFF.

While the men who are seeking to
break down the protective policy in the
United States are destined to encounter
opposition and ultimate defeat, they are
not without the encouragement of good
words and hearty support from the Eng
lish press and politicians. The peans of
approval of the Presidents late message
were somewhat hushed by the warning
of the Pail Mall Gazette "to moderate the
ecstacy of their jubIlation, as every word
spoken in commentator of the message
would be used as powerful argument
against the adoption of its recommends
TONS" But repression was no longer
possible when the terms of the st. Louis
platform and the denomination of Mr..
Cleveland were made known.
The mere fact of this foreign ecstacy
is suggestive; but when we come to read
the terms in which it finds expression,
and the reasons given for its existence,
patriotic indignation is we'll nigh over
whelmed in amaZement at British arro-
gance and the turbulence of its American
abettors.
Referring to the shouts Of the st. Louis
convention and its waving of red hand
kerchiefs woven on British looms, the
London Star said, I'VE may very well re-
echo that enthusiasm on this side of the
water, for the reelection of President
Cleveland means the adoption of his pro-
gramme of tariff revision, and his ideas
on that subject go a long way towards
free trade"
And why this enthusiasm over the
prospect of free trade? Here is the an
swer given by the London Economist ::
"On the adoption of free trade by the
United States depends the greater share
of English prosperity for good many
years to come" And the British Hosiery
RerieU reiterates: I'VE venture to as
sert that England will reap the largest
share of any advantages that may arise
from the adoption of the ideas now adj
vocated by the free trade party in the
United States"
During the recent session of the Eng
lish Labor Convention, it was asserted,
without contradiction, that England has
100000 workmen out of employment,
and numerous mills and workshops
closed or working on short time. II was
further asserted that relief from this I'M
fortunate condition could be secured in
but one of two ways First, assisted en-
igIation. Second, reduction of the Uni
ted States tariff, 80 as to secure free adj
mission of British manufactures, priv
iiege now refused by England's own col
onies.
Neither of the alternatives here pre-
sented are likely to find many sympa-
thizers among American workmen who
are now called upon to decide between
the English policy of free trade and the
low wages it entails, and that policy of
fostering home industries by which our
country has attained her present envia-
BILE prominence among the nations of
the earth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS.

Two prominent cities of the West al e
those whose names head this paragraph.
Chicago, the chief marvel of city growth
IN America, fifty years ago only a small
fort on the frontier-an Indian trading
post in q swamp-now known all over
the world as a wonderful emporium of
commerce and busy hive of industry,
whence nearly million workers send
out their products to be used of all ma
tions. st. Louis, founded in the historic
''earlv days. when the lilies of France
claimed dominion over the Mississippi
Valley--now sitting commercial queen,
the centre of vast river commerce, and
sentinel at the gateway of the great and
growing Southwest, q city of wealth, in
tAlligence and solid worth, much talked
of as future location of the National
Capitol. These are worth pilgrimage
they draw thousands of visitors, and
1.-THE Burlington" has its own line into
both of them, 80 buy your tickets by
that line, or write TO w. ]. G. Kenyon,
Gen. Pass. Agent. C., B. & N. R. R., st.
Paul, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
THEY ME AN BUSINESS.
Five Towns Want Better Railroad
Facilities and Say SO.

A mass meeting of the citizens of Hen
derson, lie Sueur St. Peter, Kasota and
Mankato, was held in st. Peter FRI
day. The object of the gathering was to
adopt such measures as might be condu-
Give of success IN an endeavor to induce
the Milwaukee railway company to ex-
tend their road from Mankato to point
on the Hastings & Dakota branch, which
would give these cities another direct
route to st. Paul. The road is already
built to Mankato, and the intention of
the company is supposed to be to build
further on. The meeting was an enthu-
siastic one and largely attended. E. R.
Smith, OF LeSueur, was chosen president,
and j. A. johnson, of st. Peter, secre-
tary. The following were in attendance:
Henderson, ]. B. Sharp, A. F. Pehler,
Q. L. Rudor, G. Westeman, E. L. WEIGH,
N. b: Simpson; LIE Sueur, E. r. Smith
and W. Patten; Mankato, A. R. Pau,
B. d. Smith and W. B. Dawes; Kasota.
.. T. Buell., o. M. Robbins, G. w. Bah
cock, st. Peter was represented by
everv business man IN the city. A del
egation was chosen, representing the
various towns to wait upon the officials
of the system at Milwaukee and urge
upon them the advisability of building
the extension. The committee, which
is composed of two business men of each
town, will leave for Milwaukee on the
30th inst, and is as follows: Mankato,
j. c. Wise and A. R. Pau; st. Peter, P.
Dick and j. A. johnson; Kasota, o. P.
Buell. and M. A. Ostrander; Henderson,
A. f. Poehler and ]. B. Sharpe; LIE
Sueur, Michael Doran and w. H. Pat
ten, ...
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

The event in the Senate Tuesday was
Mr.. Hoar's speech on the fishery ques-
ton. The speech was "scorcher" for
the administration, as these extracts will
show:
The question of the fisheries is the old
est question in the foreign relations of
the country. Nearly every important
maritime power of ancient or modern
times owe the foundation of its CONNER
cial prosperity and its naval strength to
its fisheries. When these flourished, its
strength increased. When these went
to decay the power of the nation depart
ed. The naval greatness of England
came from the same source. The desire
of Canada and Great Britain to contract
within the least possible limits the fish
ing ground to which America shall have
access and to possess themselves without
obstruction of the calling which brought
to the great American market its supply
of fish for food and fish oils, has vastly
larger purpose than a mere struggle for
a profitable industry, important as that
might be.
England has already taken possession
of all the great routes of commerce, and
is now adding the land route across Cam
ada. To keep open this imperial high
way at both extremities, the 10000 fish
ermen of the dominion must form an al
most indispensable element of the great
est strength. They would issue out from
Halifax at one end of great continental
lake and from Vancouver's island at the
other, forming in time of war q menace
to the commerce of the United States.
This was struggle on the part of Great
Britain and Canada to increase their
naval strength and diminish that of the
United States, to Increase the numbers of
a naval school, where graduates would
be a constant threat to American COM
merce in time of war, both on the Allan
tic and Pacific.
The Americans are not quarrelsome
people. When we remember whose
children We are we have always shown
a surprising readiness to yield our just
rights for the sake of peace. We have
little left to use even of that rash humor
which our mother gave US. But we can
never live IN peace with Canada if we al
low her to think that the methods she
has taken for the last three years are the
ways to gain concessions from us. We
can never live in peace with England if
we permit her without instant protest to
try once more the experiments on our
forbearance which preceded the revolu-
ton, which preceded the war of 1912,
which accompanied the war of the re-
bellion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

The Pioneer Press supported the Re-
publican platform and ticket for about a
week after the nomination of Harrison
and Morton, and the Republicans of the
state took courage in the prospect of
having the aid of that influential news
paper in the hard battle to be fought
this fall. Their hopes have, however,
been entirely dissipated as they see the
paper dishing up its old tariff vagaries
and every day containing editorials
which can have no other effect than to
demoralize the Republican ranks. No
longer ago than Yesterday a long article
appeared in which the impression was
conveyed that there is no difference be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
parties on the tariff question, and that
one is no more united on the subject
than the other. The alleged support
which the Pioneer Press is giving to the
Republican ticket merely amounts to a
few small paragraphs of praise for Har-
rison and Morton. The big guns of the
editorial force are daily devoted to firing
shots at the tariff policy of the Republic
can party as laid down in the platform
adopted at Chicago. In campaign in
which it is admitted the tariff question
is to form the main issue, what can be
the effect upon the Republican party of
having its leading organ daily proclaim
ing doctrines and sowing seeds which
are entirely for the benefit of the oppo-
sition? If the Pioneer Press doesn't know
it we can assure it that its course on the
tariff question finds mighty few endorse
ments among the Republicans of tins
vicinity. They admire its ability and
enterprise but it is fast driving them
from its friendship by the disposition it
shows to give aid and comfort to the
enemy.
In this connection it might be stated
that the Minneapolis Tribune is a very
good paper for Republicans to tie 10. It
is vigorous, outspoken and able in it's
advocacy of Republicanism. 1t gives
all the news, too, many times excelling
any of its contemporaries in this direc-
ton. AS an instance of this, Yesterday
Senator Hoar's great speech on the fish
cries was reported in full in the Tribune,
while the Globe and Pioneer merely gave
q few lines concerning it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

Hon. NJ. III. DUNNELL's friends sue
ceeded in nominating him for Congress
Wednesday. as noted in last evenings
FREE Pass, after mighty struggle, but
if they succeed in electing him they will
perform o feat not looked for among q
large number Of Republicans scattered
throughout the State. 1t goes without
saying that Mr.. Dunnell would more
truly represent the people of the First
district and the Northwest than that willy
trlckster Wilson; but it is not always
possible to succeed with the "best man"
in politics. In fact an interruptions
demagogue of the stripe of Wilson is
much harder to defeat than an honest,
open-handed, broad minded man like
Dunnell or Lovely. Were the Republi-
cans of the First united, however, there
would need be no misgivings as to the
result, as the district Is good for 5, 500
majority with harmony in the party.
But unfortunately Mr.. Dunnell's name
is not calculated to bring that peace OF
mind to the Republican family of the
old First which would seem to presage
success. There are hundreds of the
most loyal Republicans in the State
residents of his district-who do NOS love
Mr.. Dunnell for the enemies he has
made. His action in a campaign not
many years ago which resulted in the
defeat of ex-senator Window, still
wrankles in the breasts of many, and his
more recent refusal to assist the party in
electing members of Congress from his
district, is not calculated to draw much
sympathy for HIM in the pending can
vass. 1t seems to US that the convention
might have selected a candidate against
whom the members of its own party
would not have these objections. 1t has
seen fit to do otherwise, and it is not un.
likely that Wilson will have another
lease of two years in which to misrepre.
sent his constituency. 1t is hoped that
by-gones may be forgotten for the time
at least in a common desire to retrieve
the district from Democratic control
and if such shall be the case, even Dun.
nell's bitterest opponents outside his
district will rise up as one man and say
Amen.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
First ins. July Is; last August "A.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

nEFAULT having been made in the pay
~ ment OF the sum OF ten hundred and
eighty-fiye dollars and fifty-four cents,
| (Sl ,0S5.54), which is claimed to be due at the
date of this notice as principal and interest
upon a certain mortgage duly made, executed
and delivered by William G. Reed and Carrie
b. Reed, his wife, to p. j. Murphy bearing date
the Goth day of April, 1888, to secure the pay
ment of one thousand dollars ($1, 0O0) on or be-
fore i've years from the date of said mortgage
| together with interest thereon at the rate of
seven per cent per annum and with power
of sale therein contained, duly recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds within and
Minnesota on the oath day of May, A. D. 1888,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, in Book nine
teen C9) of Mortgages on page seventeen (17) /,
and the said mortRators having failed to pay
the taxes on the premises described i'm said
mortgage and hereinafter described for the
year 1887 as therein required, this MORTGAGE
has, at the date OF this notice, paid the taxes
for said year, amounting to the sum Of seven
teen dollars and thirteen cents ($17.13) on said
premises, and no action or proceeding having
been instituted at law or otherwise to recover
the debt secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof.
Now therefore, notice is hereby given that
by virtue of power of sale contained in said
NOR gage and pursuant to the statute in such
case made and provided the said mortgage
will be foreclosed by the sale of the premises
described In and conveyed by said mortgage,
The south half of the southeast quarter, of
section seventeen Q7), township one hundred
and five i105l, range twenty-seven (21l, the
same consisting of one entire farm and being
used and occupird as one entire farm and said
premises being situate in Blue Earth county
and state of Minnesota with the heredita-
ments and appurtenances, which sale will be
made by the sheriff of said Blue Earth coun-
ty. at the front door of the court house. in the
city of MankatO, IN the said county and state,
on the
2Sth day of August, 1885,
at ten o clock in the forenoon of that day by
public vendue to the highest bidder for cash,
to pay said debt and interest and the said tax
es on said premises and fifty tb0) dollars attor-
ney's fees as stipulated IN by said mortgage i'm
in case of foreclosure and the disbursements
allowed by law; subject to redemption at any
time within one year from the date of sale as
provided by law.
Dated July 9th, 1885, p. j. MURPHY,
CLAPP & MCCARTNEY, Mortgage.
Attorneys for Mortgage.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

THERE were some mighty interest
ing developments upon the floor of the
House Monday night when it was brought
out and even admitted that Havemyer,
the great sugar monOpolist, was allowed
to fix the sugar schedule of the Mills
bill. What becomes of the Democratic
cry of trusts" and monopoly directed
at the Republican party when the peo-
pie remember that the Democratic ma
jority of the Ways and Means committee
permitted the most obnoxious out
growth of the most dangerous forms of
capitalistic combination, the sugar trust,
to fix duty which costs the consumers
sixty million dollars year in addition
to the higher price they must pay TOR
their sugar because Mr.. Havemeyer was
granted a privilege which enables the
trust to put its own price on the article.
In calling attention to this latest ex-
pose of Democratic demagogism the
Minneapolis Tribune tersely says:
''The Democratic party il bound hand
and foot by the most rapacious and ex-
acting monopolies of the country. The
whisky trust, the Standard oil trust, the
sugar trust and the vote trust in the
South are all Democratic creations. By
their influence Democracy has gained
control of the government and in return
for services rendered it permits these
dangerous combinations to dictate Its
policy
The Mills bill is the illegitimate child
of Democracy's intimacy with the trusts
in the Dark Lantern committee. Are
the American people going to adopt the
bastard?
The Republican platform speaks in no
uncertain language about the danger
threatening the people from the grasp
ing power of trust combinations. 1t is
Republican policy to bring the power of
the state into action whenever necessary
to protect the common people against
corporate oppression. A vote for the
Republican ticket is vote for the sup
preston of trusts by the Intervention of
the power ofthe government.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

The editorial rooms of the Century
magazine were seriously damaged in the
confiagration which last week visited the
block in which they are located. Rich
ard w. Glider revised the last proofs of
the August Century Saturday, protected
by an umbrella from the stream flowing
through large hole in the ceiling above
him. About him were the wrecks of his
temple-his sanctum and his editorial
rooms, despoiled by fire and water.
Mr.. Glider, who, indeed, with his tai
ented colaborers, has the hearty SYM
psthy of the entire public, says the loss
of the Century Company will amount TO
between 81, 900 and $4,000. represent
ing a library, elaborate carvings and
works of art. Fortunately the company
has not lost any manuscripts or plates.
Says Mr.. Glider: What We regret
most is the loss of the life-size bust of
DR.. Holland, which was carved in wood
by Miss Eggleston, daughter of the
well-known novelist, and which was
naturally highly esteemed by all con-
nected with the Century. Our large col
lection of engravings, from which those
in the magazine were reproduced, is
also u serious loss to US. How much
greater it would have been if we had
been in the habit of keeping our manu-
scripts and original plates in the Office
you can readily imagine"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13

The first step toward redeeming the
promise of the Republican platform for
antitrust legislation was made in the
senate Tuesday when Mr.. Sherman
offered resolution, which was agreed
to, directing the committee on finance
to inquire into and report, in connee-
ton with any bills raising or reducing
revenue that may be referred to ii, such
measures as it may deem expedient to
set aside, control, restrain or prohibit
all arrangements, contracts, agreements.
trusts or combinations, that tend to pre-
vent free and full competition in the
production, manufacture or sale of art
icles Of domestic growth or production,
or of the sale of imported articles; or
that are designed or tend to foster mo-
nopoly, or to advance artificially the
cost to the consumer of necessary arti-
cles of human life, with such penalties
and forfeitures as will tend to preserve
freedom of trade and production, the
lowering of prices by such competition,
and the full benefit designated by and
hitherto conferred by the policy of the
government to protect and encourage
American industries by levying duties
on imported goods.