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The Republican journal., 1892-05-26
ARE THE CHILDREN SAFE.


Thank God that my darling is resting
Safe in the bosom of God.
Praise Him for little hands folded
Under the churchyard sod
| M glad that on the white forehead
I've printed the last, long kiss
DO you ask why I'm glad and thankful,
And can praise God so for this?
Last night us | sat in my window
Looking ont ON the mopnlit street.
My neighbours once beautiful boy
Went by with unsteady feet;
And | remembered how had envied
His mother that sorrowful time,
When God sent His wmte-winged angel,
And, leaving her boy, took mine.
But now she sits in her lonely home,
In tears. broken-hearted, and old;
While the stainless feet of my darling
Are walking the streets of gold.
Thank God for taking my child so soon,
Lest he might have gone astray.
For none are safe while doors of sin
Stand wide as they do to-day.
| pity the children of years to come,
And mothers, who little know
What lies for them in the future,
OF tears and bitterest Woe:
For as long as men are licensed to sell
The hor id, accurSed thing,
Ii we cry not aloud against 1T,
The curse on ourselves we shall bring.
Ion may be the next one to suffer,
Though little you think it now:
The stamp of sin may be printed next
On your boys pure white brow.
Draw hun ever so carefully, lovingly,
Tenderly, close to your heart;
Remember the day is now coming
When mother and son must part,
When he must go out in the busy world
Alone, man among men;
Shall we fling wide the doors of temptation
To lure our boys in them
We all have a voice in the matter,
And you and I'll have to stand
In the last great day of Judgment,
At the bar at Gods right hand,
TO give account whether for or against
This evil we've raised our Voice,
How for God OF sin, for gold OF souls.
We made everlasting choice.
The Republican journal., 1892-05-26
The Standard Granite Company.

The Standard Granite Company of Mt.
Desert, Me-. are doing a rushing business
This firm lately succeeded to the granite
business of c. j. Hall, and the members
of the firm are {. }. Hall, E. l.. Warren.
manager: II. Mixer. superintendent. The
last two are young men Of experience and
ability and have grown up in the granite
business and deserve their success. This
company is now doing as large Il bust
ness as any granite concern in Maine
They now have crew of ninety-two men
on their payroll and they pay promptly
the fifth day of each month. They are
making one hundred and twenty five
thousand granite paving blocks each
month and are buying a large number
from outside parties in addition. They
also have a crew of cutters working ON
cut work for Fall River and employ IA
crew of quarrymen getting out rough
granite for New ork market. They will
keep up this gait all summer This com
pany recently loaded and shipped one
hundred thousand paving blocks and two
hundred and fifty tons Of rough granite
inside of seven days. Ira Robertson is
lllelI FOREMAN ana is equal TO Ine occa-
sion. We wish them success.
The event of the season took place
Thursday, March II, in the form of ded-
ication of the hall over their new store.
The company gave a free ball and over
sixty-tive couples were dancing at one time,
many being present from adjoining towns.
Everything passed off very pleasantly.
The floor directors, M. Doohan and Thos.
Mccormick, understood their business and
made the ball success. All pronounced
it very enjoyable time and the crowd up
on dispensing gave three cheer for the
Standard Granite Company. Ellsworth
American.
The Republican journal., 1892-05-26

The trustees of the Westbrook Seminary
have unanimously elected Rev. Harrison
S. Whitman, of Bowdoinham, as president
of the Seminary. Nh Whitman is grad
uate of Bowdoin College, class of 1869.
He was for several years professor of
Greek and Latin at Dean Academy, and
later was principal of Rockland High
School. In 1877 he graduated from Tufts
Divinity School and entered the Universal
list ministry. He was settled over the
parish at Dexter, and afterwards at Au-
gusta, and is at present secretary OF the
Universalist convention.
The Republican journal., 1892-05-26
Are the Children Safe?

To The EDITOR OF THE JoURNAL: Several
have expressed a wish to have a copy of the
following poem, the prize recitation at the
last medal contest (hy Blanche Gilmore)
and / thought You might like to print it in
the journal. b.
The Republican journal., 1892-05-26
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The Republican journal., 1892-05-26

One person in four in the good old State
of Maine has money deposited in the say
ings Bank.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
TRY AGAIN, BAKER:
Honorable Democrats Are Not Sat-
fsfied With Your First Attempt.

HOnOfODlc DemOCf0tS are MOI sui.
isfied With Your First Attempt.
The chairman of the Minnesota Democ-
racy and the hired tractarian Of the Chi
cago wheat ''galns'' should try again.
Prominent members of Chairman Baker s
own party repudiate the slur which his
campaign roorbach has cast on the party'S
intelligence and integrity, and the Islander
on the Northwest's principal industry.
Col C. McC. Reeve, Democratic member
of the state senate, correctly sums up the
Chicago Herald and st: Paul Globe politi-
cal ''whcat steal,' thus: ''It has more
to do with politics than the question Of
who is to be the next king of Dahomey."
Wheat men are not members of any one
party and no political party has been APP
pointed their guardian, or been given power
to govern their individual dealings.
Hon. Henry Poehlcr. ex-congrcssman and
prominent Democratic leader, stigmatizcs
the ''great conspiracy fake issued by the
Chicago wheat gamblers and by the state
Democracy. as not only untrue but bad pol
siders that the fabrication can inspire only
disgust. .
Such we'll known Minneapolis business
men and Democrats as HORACE ira nan a. - -
n Ostrum. Strong and Miller. do not hes.
itate to pronounce the supposed author OF
the Chicago roorbach blackmaiicr, and
paign trash, an outrage on their city and
an insult to their party: Mr.. c. f. Wen
eel refers to the Herald-G,Obe yarn as
"dirty, piece OF business taken ', from an IN l,
reliable sOurcc'-''a tissue of lies from top
to bottom"
Such is the reception which honorable
Democrats give to Chairman Bakers latest.
cago wheat gambling colaborers. would do
we'll to try again.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13

some years very small or none, depending
very much on different conditions. The
Northern Pacific Elevator company one year
made, thiL dividend of 40 per cent.
Others have; made r per cent and 80 per
cent. This year, think, the dividends will
be very small, even II anything Is paid.
The paper issued by these companies. as q
rule, Is good, and In many cases is indorsed
by tile Individual stockholders of the ele:,
vator companies. The notes are .isstied for
the purpose of raising money to buy wheat
TO Insure the elevators being occupied and
therefore able to earn elevator charges. Al
the wheat purchased stands, or should
stand. as security for the notes given, 1t
makes the paper thus issued very good.
The Northern Pacific Elevator company
has, on tile whole, been the most prosper
GUS. 1t has. a line Of elevators at the sta
tons and a terminal elevator at Duluth.
The Plllsbury elevators are located largely
on the Manitoba system of railroads. with
4 large terminal house in Minneapolis.
These elevators have usually paid large
dividends. The st. Anthony Elevator COM
pany has a large terminal house and d
large number OF country elevators. The
Elevator company has two
large terminal elevators in Minneapolis.
This company paid handsome dividend
last year, but Will pdy none this: -
II you will write me q, little more defii-
is required, I may be able to give You ad.
ditiOnal facts of value. Yours very truly.
w. u. WASHBURN.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13

Investigation shall be nade, and the tes.
every one will have confidence, to be agreed
upon between ps; or If we cannot agree
upon person We will mutually agree upon
parties who shall select tie person. After
such person Is selected AID the arrange
ments for investigation are made 1 hereby
agree to deposit two certified checks
FOR FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH,
with instructions to turn thsm over to the
Democratic state committee, on conditions
as follows:
FirstITo turn over to said committee one
check for 5000 If fail to phoye,, on such
investigation, that the statements under
oath, and above referred to, aresubstantial-
" true as to the amount of the IrOtits of the
elevators and mills under my arrangement
during the time named.
SecOnd-TO turn over to said committee an
additional check for 5000 if fail to prove
on such investigation, that the statements in
the letter to Arnold which you daim are
contradictory to those contained N other
letters of mine, were substantially true and
correct, as to the profits of our devatOr
company on the crop Of that season re-
ferred to.
I mean business, Mr.. Editor. Now, II you
mean business Also and are not engaged In
political game of humbugging the people.
please name q time for an interview and
Will arrange details with you and have the
true facts ascertafned In this matter and
!ald before the voters long before election
CHARLES A. PILLSBURY.
Minneapolis, Sept. 20, 1892.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
Senator Washburn Clearly Dis
closes the Origin Of, the
Scheme.
Prominent Citizens Give the
Record of the Man &C
WOlcOtt.
The Hired Tool of the Gamblers
Denounced as a Black
mailer.

The voters OF the state are entitled to
know the foul source from whence has
sprung the dark aud turgid stream Of false
1ood contained In the pamphlet which the
chicago wheat gamblers have supplied to
the Dessocratic managers. They are en-
titled to know also the causes II the pres
ent attack upon Senator William u. Wash
9Ern, the author of the anti-option bill,
and upon G. A. Pillsbury and the millers
and elevator men Of this state. Senator
WashbulN exposes the inception of the con-
spiracy In the following language:
of the boards Of trade and chambers Of
came firm believer that through their
agency nc; and and gambling methods the farmers
OF millions Of dollars annually. This con-
s MGtt90 n1ompted me to istroduce the first
~ N the senate IT ths United ID, States
as the Bntterworth bill. This was intro:
4 9Sce.i., to draw The fire Of the enemy, and
public attention to the bill: Upon the in-
upon my own responsibility and without
OF it to various leading men throughout
the State Of minnesota and the country.
and wrote to them asking for suggestions,
70 ~ ehS Az tne measure m1xat Ike perfected be-
"1mong the men to whom I wrote were
-. a. insDutt, ana this was the first time
subject by me, and 1 believe was the first
time his attention had been seriously at
tracted to the subject.
received letters of all shades of Opin-
Ion In regard to the question from an army
OF men all over tho country was par
t1cularly pleased in getting MFR. rilabNry 8
Perie!ce In the grain business he thorough
y c%lncided with ME as to the manner of
checking this
I,fC AN,rrr. ~ AAtpr wv r,x,rr
which was undermining the moral sense Of
the country and promising nothing but alb
Ject ruin to legitimate trade in farm prod
!cts, and robbing the producers Of the en-
tire nation In an utterly constituencies man
ner. The seat and center Of this iniquit-
Gus trafic was in Chicago. and from that
city mas come most of the virulent hostility
70 thia Kind of legislation.
~ 1s not necessary to 60 Into full par
ticHiars rs to this measure. After the dis.
and myself met and agreed uDon n common
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
THE HOLCOMB CASE
Humanity Did Not Suffer When He
Was PardOned Out.

Humanity Did Not Suffer When He
Was PardOned Out.
The charge is made in the Globe article
that the governor is In league with the al
legged combination of elevator men and MILL
ers, the basis for the charge being the fact
that a man named Holcomb, convicted Of
stealing wheat from Minneapolis elevator
companies, was parl0ned by the governor
before his sentence had expired The alb
surdity Of this charge will he readily per-
ceived when the fact is stated that Hol-
comb was pardoned by Gov. Merriam only
one day before his sentence expired, and
that this pardon was granted Oh the petit
ton of friends of Holcomb. who desired that
he should save his citizenship.
This course is frequently pursued by the
governor in cases where the prisoners have
been well conducted, and in so doing the
chief executive simply carries out the senti-
ment predominant in this state that the dis
charged prisoner be given a chance and
every opportunity 10 regain The place III ST..
ciety which he has lost. it would DC es-
teemed a churlsh act for the governor to
refuse the request and 1t was for the pur-
pose of giving practical effect to well timed
and judicious leniency that Col. Clark Cham
bers was appointed state prison agent with
power to carry out this humane and go
cially economical policy.
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To Allow Itself to Become the
Tool Of Chicago Wheat
Gamblers.
It Editorially Eenounces the
State Democratic
Managers.
Blames the Last Legislature for
Defeating Useful Meas
ureS.

The Minneapolis Times is Democratic
newspaper, but it does not believe In SELL
Ing its columns to the Chicago wheat gam
blers. 1t takes serious objection to the al
lance formed by the Democratic state CEN
trail committee with the bucket shop spec
ulators Of the Windy City, and commenting
editorially on the matter yesterday the
Times says:
''The Times has declined to join in the at
tack Of the Chicago Herald upon the milling
and elevator interests of Minneapolis or to
give currency to the vicious assault upon
the business reputation Of Mr.. Pillsbury and
the other gentlemen who stand at the head
OF those interests. 1t has no sympathy with
the attempt to manufacture party capital
out of charges that, SO far as has yet beeii
shown, have no other basis than the iiiisup-
ported allegations Of seedy scamp who Is
not fit to unloose the shoelatches of the gen.
tlemen whom he seeks to dcfame. If men
Of character-men who have long held in
fuential and honorable positions in the com
mercial world-are to hold their regulations
at the mercy of disappointed blackmailers,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
THE REASON WHY.

Senator Wnshburn Plainly Shows
the Animus Of the Attack Upon
! Him.
Senator Washburn first heard of the at
tack made upon him and the anti-option
blu In the Wolcott pamphlet. the Chicago
Herald and the st. Paul Globe. friend
came to him and said that most atrocious
article was to appear in one Of the Chicago
papers that morning. in which he was most
viciously attacked, the party saying to him
that the substance Of the article had been
taken from a pamphlet recently published
Also that an attempt had been made to Sc
cure the publication Of the article in ques-
ton In the New York papers, and that all
papers had declined to do so, but that the
interested parties had finally succeeded in
getting it published in one Of the Chicago
aailies, which one he did not know. Sun
day evening the reporter of the Chicago
Herald came to him exhibiting a telegram
which he had received from his paper in
Chicago, calling attention to the article in
question, and more especially as to what
was said with reference to himself, stating,
among other things, that he was interested
in Minnesota and Dakota; that he was, and
had been connected with the great wheat
combine for the purpose Of depreciating
option, bill was only blind to cover his
rascalities In the line of depreciating the
price Of wheat, etc, etc.
When the senator returned home to Min
neapolis he was interviewed by u reporter
for one OF the daily papers and he stated
that he had only been able to glance hasti-
~ through the question but
that he had never known during his life
60 many Misrepresentation, deliberate
ana vicious scandals brought TO-
he was concerned there was not n single
statement that was not only false, but ab-
Senator Washhurn," asked the reporter,
..have you any idea who is the author Of
the H, Ea%H lEh IN ?Hesti9n M, o,,o
0of Course do not know M> Who - tRs mn
thor" was the reply, "but it Is as clear to
me as the sun in heaven ut midday that it
was insgi7ea by the opponents of the anti
why do you say this?" =
II say this because 1t is perfectly clear
that the purpose Of the whole publication is
bill, in which have taken SO much inter
est, and those who have favored its being
made ana a
the country BY these same parties. This has
been done Persistently during the last four
pose Of injuring myself and my influence in
connection with this bill. There is NO false
hood base enough but what these people
Having been utterly unable to answer the
arguments or controvert the facts set forth
in my speech made in the senate on the
stroy my influence By raising false false issues is ss
my personal character. This pamphlet is
who i the author Of ills p.pticaiar 81 1oc 10
Of the alleged Information seems to have
es%e1 Tea S tSs cy nesaa MfS
whom I had scarcely any acquaintance, and
knew only By reputation; He had q: very
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13

the elevator conspiracy. Then he would
send out his Farmer Alliance friends to
circulate the report that 1.-THE old combine
had raised the price of wheat to crush him
OUT, and appeal to the farmers not to al
low the combination to crush him, but to
come to his aid by selling their wheat to
MIN at reduced price. Thousands of un-
suspecting victims were thus imposed upon,
ana ne succeeded In making considerable
money out or the Ignorance Of the prOduc-
ers IN certain localities.
His trip to Europe was taken partly to
get away from the men he had victimizeI,
and partly to swindle monied foreigners by
representing his corporation as bonanza,
ana selling 1t out to them through fraud
and falsehOod.
almost to desperation by the men he had
swindled, and it was mt this time that he
had sent one of his agents to a reputable
business man in Minneapolis with the fol-
lowing propositions: To furnish a few thou.
sand to the Scandinavian Elevator COM
pany, which was to be Invested in ware.
houses In villages where the methods Of
to secure as much wheat "a could he con.
veniently done after the harvest. shin Il
out and sell it by stealth. and decamn WITH
the proceeds. That proposition was actually
made by one of Wolcott's agents.
TIM .+o,,- THE ~ SCENE TO SELL
pany to the suckers Of Europe fell hat and
after Mr.: ,Amsden dishonored Wolcott's sec,
scarce in the Woicott treas,rv' ne' 'e'"'ne
1t was then that a brilliant matchmaking
1dea presented itself to his fertile mind. ii.
r: -: stewart was an employee of the Credit
with Stewart and got him TO write The col.
ebrated letters to various grain men in the
Northwest. Among these We're letters 70 r
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
A Great Merchants Opinion.

NJ. X. Thurber in New York Commercial:
am a protectionist because thrift follows
the enactment of wise laws.
Because l love my own country better than
do foreign countries.
Because protection builds up our towns
into cities ard enhances the value of our
hOus es and lands.
Because every dollar sent abroad to pur-
chase goods that VIC can produce at home
makes us q dollar poorer.
Because protection In this country gives
labor better wages than free trade.
Because it is better for this country to
feed, clothe and house our own labor in this
country than to support foreign labor in
other countries with our money
Because it is true, as Peter Cooper well
said: mo goods purchased abroad are cheap
that takes the place Of our own labor and
our own raw material"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
woLCOTTs DARK PAST.
A Genius I'm Organising Disreputa.

BILE Schemes.
1t is necessary to go back little to learn
all Wolcott's history. After he had remov-
ed to Minneapolis and entered the grain
business he commenced trying to organize
a ''snide'' elevator company, the purpose
of which was to levy blackmail upon the
established companies. Reputable grain
men, knowing his methods, refused to have
anything to do with him; and then VOL
colt gathered around him two or three con-
cienclcss adventures like himself, and pro-
ceeding to North Dakota Incorporated the
Scandinavian Elevator company. BY hook
and crook he got possession Of few shan
ties on various lines Of road and started
into the field as full hedged elevator COM
pany. He allied himself with some of the
disreputable members Of the Farmers ALI
ance, and thus secured a small quasi fol-
lowing with the farmers Of the Northwest
The name of this company was intended to
impose upon the Swedish and Norwegian
farmers Of Minnesota and Dakota. It was
called the "&candinavian Elevator Com
pany, although there was no man Of Scan
dinavian blood either nearly or remotely
'' TIE NODE Sd 70 Of HIS OPERATIONS !
was picturesque and varied. Here is one
.vetor Of warehouse at a station ana then
advegtiee through the local paper that his
hsuse wss % '3ndspsndent buyer" outside
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Inviting Pestflence.

New York Sun: Just about 100, 900 Rus
sian and Polish immigrants have landed in
this country within the last fiscal year.
They have left Russia and Poland under
circumstances. At least three
infectious or contagious diseases are prev
alent in the regions from which they have
come, and are yet coming. We have
learned by the experiences of the past
year, during which they have brought
typhus fever and smallpox to our city, that
self-protection requires us to be on our
passengers from plague-ridden regions. es.
pecially from those regions in which the
Asiatic cholera is now prevalent. 1t may
be necessary to raise the bars against dan
gcrous immigrants from Europe. It ia
criminal to open our doors to pestilence.