The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-10-11
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Exchanges for Readers Of The
5ss ; Irish Standard.
ECHOES Of THE CAMPAIGN.

Bishop STANLEY Protested Against the Ac-
tion of Indian Commissioner MORGAN
Relative to Schools.
MINNESOTA.
The Democrats Of Freeborn county
have endorsed the Farmers Alliance
ticket.
The Democrats OF Benton county
have nominated John r.. Quinn for
sheriff and Hugh Mulligan. judge Of
probate.
4a The LIE Sueur county Democratic
ticket contains the following Irish
American names: Dennis Doyle, for
senator; M Keogh, for auditor, and z.
O'LearY for clerk Of court.
At the Swift county Democratic con
vention j, y Collins was nominated for
register Of deeds; Joseph Moore. for
clerk Of court; 2. S. Gallagher. for
superintendent Of schools: and Jas.
q Donneli and Jas. O'Connor for coms-
mlssioners.
Labor Commissioner Lamb has his
annual report ready and it was gwen to
the printers last wesk. II is very IA"
hauslive, anu will make book Of about
500 pases There will be over 100 pages
of tables. 1t treats Of the four TOPIC
school attendance, child labor. manual
and technical training and working
mems earnings. The report will be
ready in book form about December
Little Tommy @ RnDrke, who was
lost In the woods near Foley Station III
Benton county, eyer since Saturday.
September Is, was found by his cousin
Michael @ Rpurke. The Child was dis
covered sitLing on a Stun b ailp q. mile
and half from W here he was last seen.
and was almost in a famirhed condl-
tlon. With careful nursing, however,
he will live In the interval he had SUB"
sisted entirely on acorns and cranbel"
ries.
There are in the State institutions Of
Minnesota 3,425 inmates. When the
State was organized. thirty years ago.
there were but sixteen inmates in State
institutions. In 1870 there was one in-
nAte for every 1O33 inhabitants; in
1880 one for every 62b. in 1890 there is
one for every 423. '.'Ae this rate sa,s
the official whose duty it is to Offer these
alarming statistics, t'we shall all be
living on the State before long, aud the
Bsllam5 scheme will be realized"
The PilIsbury Wasllburn Milling
Company has just paid it's dividend to
it's employees Of the years profits. in ac-
cordance with the practice Of the Pills.
bury company, which was the first
PROMINENT company IN the country TO
adopt the policy. The company dees
not like to name the amount Of the
dividend. but it IS very satisfactory 20
the employees. 1t covers a period Of 10
montns, as the new company assumed
control of the mills November I, and
the dividend was made on the business
done up to September l.
This is what Judge Wilson said Of
railroads in his acceptance speech at the
Democratic state convention: am not
here to say word against railroads or
corporations. So long as I continue to
practice my profession I shall never re-
fuse to act az the attorney OF q railroad
company. If the services which itreqnires
of me is inst and honorable. To build
and properly aud honestly operate q
railroad is to benefit the. whole con-.
munity. But as railroad is lot 8
private enterprise. for the benefit Of it's
stockholders merely, it is not properly
|or fairly operated if it disregards the
public interest or the interest of any
citizan, no matter how lowly. always
hold that the people have right and
that 1t is their duty to egulate and coz
troll railroad companies that, while
yielding a fair and reasonable income
to the stockholders on the capital act-
,1al,v invested. they shall also in the
greatest possible degree subssrve the
interest of the whole people. that they
should be treated and controlled as the
servants OF the people Without the
aid Of an Intelligent lawyer railroads
could not be successfully MADE OF oper-.
ated The ablest and most eminent at
ttorneys Of this country have been at
storneysso sofs railroad conpanips. Abra-
ham Lincoln. who Is justly the idol Of
the whole people. WAS a rstilroad attor
ney, jeremiah Black. who was the
ablpst and most radical attorney and
adviser of the grangers ID their contests
with the IN IIr0ad s.sa and thousand of
otlneIs. aa eminent as lse. we're and are
Eattorneg 4 IS rallr roads.