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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-10-23
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
In County Court.

In the matter of the estate of Ed
mund Sweeney, late of the city of Wa
tertown, deceased. The application OF
Anastcaia McGolrick, for an order for
conveyance upon contract. D. Hall,
executor. John G.. Conway, attorney
Judgment made for a conveyance &C
cording to contract.
In the matter of the estate of Abigail
Brennan, late of the city of Waterto wn
deceased. Application of James Bren,
nan for proof of will, etc. John G. Con-
way, attorney. w. III. Porter, guard
ian ad Item. w. D. Stacy sworn. Will
proved and admitted to probate, and
James Brennan appointed executor
Jefferson Banner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

THE leading Democrats of Madison
generally have strongly defined views
against making the Bennett law an
issue in the next state campaign.
Mayor NJ. R. Doyon is a notable ex-
ception. He says: 81 am not in fa-
vor of dragging the Bennett law into
the state campaign, but if it is intrud-
ed [ shall vote for the Republican
nominees from the top to the bottom
of the ticket. [ go farther even than
this. I shall vote for Hoard any
way, if he is renominated, for I feel in
duty bound to endorse his noble
stand on this question. And retract
my first statement about not want
ing the law dragged in. [ now say |
believe it should be made an issue,
and the question determined oncefor
all, and as soon as possible, whether
or not ecclesiastical rule shall prevail
in Wisconsin"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09


"No, here is a letter received this
morning from prominent German
Democrat at Jefferson. He says:
Permit me to thank you for your address al
Waukesha. The German Lutheran church and
Democratic party should take warning You
may remember the opinion advanced by me
during our chat on the cars, lately, that the Lu-
theran clergy are merely biting Off their own
noses, q thing they cannot see at present, but
will see when the mirror ofconseQuences will be
held up to them. They are driving the rising
generation from the churches. There may be
some Republicans ignorant enough to vote
against the Bennett law, but there are numbers
Of Democrats of German extraction too, like
your humble servant who never voted the Re
publican ticket and voted against you, who will
be with you hand and heart, no matter on wha
ticket you run, it your lame is connected with
the Bennett law
"Now as to the vote of the German
Lutherans that has heretofore been
given to the Republicans, I think that
not over Is or possibly 20 per cent
of it has been cast for Republican
candidates. In Jefferson county
where I live, not Z per cent. of it is
Republican, and / am informed by
well-posted men that not per cent
of the voting strength of the German
Lutherans in Dodge county has been
Republican. The Catholic Germans
have never voted the Republican
ticket to any extent In Wisconsin.
want to say that there are a good
many side issues involved in this one,
questions that will of necessity adjust
themselves during the progress of the
campaign and lift the veil of obscurity
from the situation so far as some OF
the factors therein are concerned. 1t
is quite evident there is not an entire
unison of sentiment in the Catholic
church in opposition to the Bennett
law. 1t is a sentiment quite freely
expressed among intelligent Irish and
American Catholics that if the church
was controlled by men who were warm
and ardent American sympathizers
they would not be placed in seeming
opposition to American institutions
and thus attempt to array the patri-
otism of the Catholic people against
the true behests of the state in matters
of education. For instance, O. very
important part of the teachers of the
state in public schools are of both
Irish and German origin, and of Cath
Ollie belief. They are among our very
best educators, and warm supporters
of the Bennett law and everything
that is distinctively American. The
state and the nation have no more
faithful workers in behalf of American
civilization than these teachers. They
have already been heard FROM"
"What manner of campaign will
it be, quiet or aggressive?"
"The prospects are for an energetic
campaign. Party lines will be obliter-
ated, and the contest will be on the
question of the maintenance of the
state as against ecclesiastical dicta-
ton"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
For sale by all druggists.

SAVING AN ARM OFF.-Col. III. G.
Hamilton, clerk Of the United States
district court, was telling recently
how it felt to have limb cut off. He
was perfectly conscious when his arm
was cut off in field hospital, and
says of it:
'It really doesn't hurt except when
the first cut around the limb is made,
cutting the skin. That's because the
nerves are all situated just under the
skin, and after they are cut there is
nothing to convey the sensation OF
pain. Cutting through the flesh is
like cutting nail Or a bit of dead
skin-a dead feeling. Even saving
the bone is only dead feeling. The
real pain is over when the knives get
into the flesh. "-Atlanta Constitution.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
From a Lady of Clarence, Iowa

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Mrs. Reid is we'll known, and her
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Clarence, Iowa.
For sale by all druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
Gross Cruelty.

Parents too frequently permit their
children to suffer from headache, fits,
st. Vitus Dance, nervousness, ETC., when
they can be cured. Mrs. P. was cured of
sick headache, dizziness, dyspepsia, ner-
vous prostration of eighteen years stand
ing, after failure of sixteen physicians
Mrs. K. of sick headache for 35 years
Mrs P of twenty to fifty Fl night
others from this vicinity could be men
toned who have been cured by that won
derful nerve food and medicine-Dr-
Miles Nervine, which contains no NOR
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sample bottles may be had at Eberle's
drug store
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

In his splendid speech at Wauke-
sha last Wednesday Gov. Hoard
spoke of the right of the state to di-
rect all secular education, and among
other things said:
Il know of an instance in Jefferson
county where a young man, 26 years
of age, has lived all his life within
sight of a district school, yet he has
never attended the school and is un-
able to make himself understood in
English. He has attended the church
school and can read and write in Ger
man. Who is to blanche this young
mans ignorance of the language of
his own country? Have his parents,
the pastor or the church, who entered
into the conspiracy to darken this
young mans understanding, have
they, say, no responsibility to an
swer for to the state? There are
townships in the state where the
town records have been kept in Ger
man for years to the utter destruc-
ton of all validity or legality Every
act or tax levied is illegal because of
such a state of affairs. In one town
in the state a vote was taken to loan
the public school money to such as
wanted to borrow, and it was loaned.
Instances have come to my knowl
edge where the English language has
been banished from thepublic school
house"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
Gov. Hoard ON the Situation.

In an interview at Madison last
week Gov. Hoard, in answer to in
terogatories, spoke of the effect of the
Milwaukee election on Republican
politics this fall as follows:
'The effect is to warn all patriotic
citizens, Democrats as well as Repub-
Hcans, against the dangers that
threaten the integrity of our common
school system"
"You speak of Democrats. Doyou
refer to the American-born Demo
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

Gratis alone?"
"No, here is letter received this
morning from prominent German
Democrat at Jefferson. He says
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

In the meeting of the Union Labor
party committee of One Hundred, in
Milwaukee, Sunday, Louis Getz made
a speech favoring the reelection of
Gov. Hoard in event of his nomina-
ton on platform making the Ben
nett law the issue of the next election.
There was no opposition to the SEN
timents expressed by G@tz. The mem
bers of the committee are to a man
in favor of the principles of the law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

The Chicago Herald, Democratic,
speaks out in meetin' to it's Demo
cratic Wisconsin friends on the Mil
waukee Peck land slide as follows:
"The Democrats of Wisconsin seem
to be on the eve of a stupendous
blunder. The election of their ticket
in the recent Milwaukee municipal
election appears to have turned their
heads, and they are now contemplate
ing the policy of stalking everything
in the approaching state election on
their opposition to the Bennett bill
and compulsory education. Nothing
could be more shortsighted and sui
cidal.
eff the Democrats should happen to
carry Wisconsin on such a platform
it would not be Democratic victory
any more than if they were to carry
it on a protective tariff platform.
The National Democracy is not OPP
posed to compulsory education. On
the other hand, it is irrevocably com
mitted to the public free school sys-
tenn, to the principle of state control
over public schools, and to compnl-
sorry education. A party may assume
any name it pleases, but if it antago-
nizes compulsory education it cannot
be Democratic party, and it's victo-
ries cannot be called Democratic vic
tories. The present vagary Of the
Wisconsin Democracy we must CHAIR
tably regard AS local and ephemeral
If it should ever achieve victory we
gladly quit-claim in advance all our
share in the glory.
1.-The Democrats now have the Re
publicans on the run in regard to the
real issue between them, which is the
protective tariff system. A great vic
tory is assured us, unless, unfortu-
nately some new issue should be
sprung. But if it can be made to ap-
pear that the Democratic party is in
imical to the public schools, the much
needed change of venue will be grant
ed, and we shall be led like sheep to
the slaughter in 1892. Yet this is
precisely the service that the Wiscon.
sin Democrats are striving to render
the Republican party. We counsel
them to look before they leap"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
Heart Disease.

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swollen ankles, ETC., you have heart dis
ease, and don't fail to take DR.. Miles New
Cure for the Heart. Sold at III. T. Eberle's
drug store.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

THERE are now 1O1 Union soldiers
in congress and eightyon one who served
in the Confederate army. Of the
Union soldiers ninety-two are Repub-
licans and of the rebel number only
one is counted on the Republican side.
His name is Thos. H. Bayly Browne,
representing the First district Of Vir-
ginia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

The following statement gives a
clear and easily understood analysis
OF the present condition of the pro-
ducer. It occurs in an address by
Norman j. Colman, of St. Louis:
But it is not only in meat produc-
tion that prices have been forced
down, without any sufficient cause,
but in other branches of agriculture
as well. While we have had only an
average crop of wheat the past year,
estimated by the Department of ag-
riculture at 400 and one half millions
of bushels, and we had 5O4 millions
in 1880, and 512 millions 1884. and
the production has not been in ex-
cess of increase of population,
yet we find that the price has been
forced down about 33H percent. not
withstandinga short crop in Europe.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
And Yet Again.

If any one feels bumptiOus about
our railroad building estimates they
may take up the following cling
the figures for which are under
oath:
We can show up railroad the
length of which is 16 miles, the cost
of which is less than $4,000 a mile,
and with total investment Of $67, ;
600 including buildings, four locomo-
tives, thirty freight cars, and a
coach.
The cost per mile ($3, ,S30O includes
the equipment, rolling stock, etc. 1t
is built like all our Minnesota prairie
roads, with from one to two cubic
yard per lineal foot grade.
Again let us repeat that a ''cut" of
less than 9 feet depth for every mile
makes road cheaper to grade than
a dead level. Let the "Guffs" talk to
these figures! =.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
An Important Matter.

The farmers are marshalling their
hosts to fight their relentless enemies
and crush the robbers who are keep
ing them in poverty. There are sew
eral hundred newspapers in this
state. Some of these are helping the
farmers; Others are helping their op-
pressOrs, and at the same time ex-
pecting the farmers to support them
out of the little they have left. Now
in this war there is to be no quarter.
The editor who is helping the Rings
to keep the people poor should not
have a penny of the peoples money.
The farmer who pays for the knife
that stabs him and the whip that
scourges him, is unworthy of a place
on the planet. That is the gospel of
the Alliance
Let it be understO Cd, first and last,
that the farmers are in earnest and
mean business this time-and that
the enthusiasm and devotion is in
creasing every hour. Those who are
not with us-openly with us-are
against us.
A friend of the Alliance suggests
that every delegate to the State AL
lance brings with him the names of
those editors who stand by the
farmer in this fight, and that such
editor be made honorary members of
the Alliance. This would be good
plan if it would work up to a given
line. But some members would
recommend some very doubtful pa
pers-and in six months we would
have lot of wire-pullers as honor
ary members.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
The Great Question.

One of the grandest men in the
great Alliance movement has written
us letter full of surprises, and yet
not surprises either. The letter is g.
private one, but asks this question:
lis your great state going to be kept
out of the great national movement
FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES ?'
He reveals much that we did not
understand in reference to our Min
nesOta delegation at St. Louis. And.
though he admits it is possible that
he is mistaken, he says the reason
Minnesota did not join hands was
because there was some scheme
which the stalwart workers there
could not understand. His history
of events throws a flood of light up
on matters.
The question of Union with the Ma
tiOnal Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union will come up at the state
meeting, March 4th. Our cores
pondent says that it was privately
given out that the opposition to
Union there by our state was be-
cause the southern alliances were
democratic
We can assure our friend-who is a
Northern man, and a republican
that politics will either, be abolished
everlastingly from the Minnesota al
lance, or it will have a serious sick
spell. A writer in the Farmers
Friend speaks of the situation in
the following words:
"Our work is enormous, our task
is great. Is the Alliance equal to the
surroundings? Will the members re-
spOnd to the roll call when the hour
comes? Can the Alliance be depend
ed on to accomplish it's work? To
perform this great work the Alliance
must be united more closely and con-
sOlidated more firmly. The Alliance
members must understand their du-
ties. Our National leaders are and
powerful men, equal to any in the ma
ton. They can be depended on they
can be trusted. They will lead where
any will dare to follow! Their record
is such that the nation should be
proud to do them honor. Our tramp
should be onward and upward, firm
and steady with no faltering. The
| word fail should never he known in
our ranks" f.
We believe the Minnesota Alliance
will be counted among the faithful
and great work in that direction,
is expected on the 4th of March,
1890. If the spirit which comes to us
in letters is any prophecy of the fu-
ture, there is going to be a mighty
change-and the Northwest will then
be unit with her sisters throughout
the UniOn
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

A gentleman on the train to La
Crosse, the other day, a total strang-
er to us, and resident of Wisconsin,
said to, us on mention of the GREAT
VEST:
"Why yes, that is that paper
which has shown up what fraud
there is in railroad building?"
''Yes sir, had you heard of it?"
Heard OF it-why the paper is
talked of in communities where they
have never seen copy"
"What do they think of our state
ments and denunciations?'
''They don't know what to think.
But it is creating stir. People pro
pose to know whether your figures
are correct or not"
"Good! When they do they will
ascertain that there is scarcely a
railroad in the United States that
cost $4,000 a mile the exceptions
being for certain limited sections
and that the great majority were
built for 81, 500 a mile. One-fourth
cost less than Sc, 900 to the mile.'
"You do not include the Pacific
rOads?''
"Well, if 1000 miles of the Pacific
roads were built for $4,000 to the
mile 81, 900 mile more would yield
81, 100000 for extra work on the
other 1000. No, we except the Pa
cific Roads and give them $1,000
more"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

The "terrrific assault of the GREAT
WEST" on the Associated Press, is
creating a stir which does not easily
down. A western exchange observes
'This editor gives evidence of know
ing what he is writing about, and his
statements carry conviction to the
reader. eve do not know whether the
arraignment in this paper will bear
actual fruit. but we do know that
the corporation of plutocrats have a
more complete censorship of the press
than any government on the face OF
the earth excepting Russia-and
these rich tyrants are not even news
paper men!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

Bro. Poore, of Renville County,
writes us tnat 60 farm mortgages
were recorded in the county seat
which he visited, and that for two
weeks preceding the number had
been greater. And then he observes
'"The Rip Van Wrinkle of the Union
still claims that the farmers are pros
porous. I suppose the grey matter
OF his brain would throw off scales
like the opening of rusty hinge If he
could once realize that he was mis-
taken" And then our active county
lecturer suggests that the mails
are very lightly burdened now with
that remarkable sheet. Mr.. POOre
has just met the farmers OF Buffalo
Lake.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

1t takes Ignatius DOnnelly to write
an Off-hand address. At the recent
meeting of the Executive Committee
it was ordered that an address be
sent out to all the subordinate al
liances, notifying them of the State
Meeting. In the midst of talking and
crowding around him, Mr.. Donnelly
sat at the table, and in twenty min
utes had the address ready which is
sent out this week by the Secretary
without erasure or change of a
word. The address speaks for itself
as literary production,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

The Plainview branch of the North
western, in Olmsted county, about
Is miles long, cost Z or 50, ,OOOto the
mile-is Is miles long-and Plain
view, Elgin and Viola gave 500, 900
to build it with. The company put
about So, 900 q mile into the road
and take traffic interest on $4,000
to the mile.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
Farnino in MICHIGAN.

In 1880 there were in Michigan
about 1000 farms, and these
were valued at $5OO,OOO,OOO. From
a recent report of the Commissioners
of labor it appears that, of 81, ,OOO
farms in Michigan, about one-hall
are mortgaged for one-half their
value. The annual mortgage inter.
est is about three millions OF dollars,
and the annual value of the farm
product is about $2,4OO,OOO. Non.
sense" says the wise man, 'you can
not pay three million with but two
millions and a half" Certainly not
but then, there are the houses and
barns and farming implements, all ol
which will bring something when the
sheriff gathers them into his execu.
tion grab bag. Never fear but the
last faruhing will be paid, even if the
Michigan farmer, after losing his
farm, has to rent it from his execu.
tion creditor, and thus become vas.
sal to some Chicago broker. In 1850
Michigan farmers owned the land
they worked upon. There were some
62. 900 farms titled by men who could
say: II own this farm" In 1880
there had come a change which show
ed that one farmer in nine was but 8
tenant to some broker. And now il
has come to this, that one-half tht
farms are mortgaged. and, of those
that are not, one in five is titled by
tenant farmers. Truly, the tariff has
been great protection to the farm
er!-Harrisburg Patriot.
The above does not teach the les.
son intended because OF it's serious
errors. The value of the farm pro.
ducts'of Michigan is more than $2,-
100000. Without taking time to
look it up in the reports we would
saythat single counties produce that
much, and the total value must be
close upon $2OO,OOO,OOO. With this
product an interest OF 50, 900, ,OO0ca
not be paid successfully. For the to.
tai receipts will not leave a net profit
of over 2K per cent-or $5,OOO,OOO.