The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-09-14


~ " tuesday g this week & 1 o'elock
~ a., = passenger and express train
on the Lake Shore Railway was held
up by force Of twenty masked and
armed men, who shot the engineer.
using dynamite to shatter the express
car and open the safe. There are con
fllctlng statements in regard to the
amount Of money secured by the rob>
pers, but it is guessed at as between
S15O, 600 and $25O,OOO. The passengers
were put in mortal terror while the
shooting and dynamiting was going on.
we do not believe that it is necessary
That the people should any longer be
subject to this reign of the bandits. It
Will, OF course, be said, that no better
protection can be furnished either to
to traveller or treasure. We do not
think it either just, manly or brave
for the American people to look on
supinely while most powerful system
OF brlgandage Is strengthening and
dltfusing itself over the country. This
business of train robbing is becoming
very formidable. It has a large amount
OF capital at command both for often
slve and defensive operations. 1t has
engaged in its work an army of inpe-
NOUS, experienced, skillful experts,
who are not lacking in either depravi-
" or courage, They calculate chances
and provide for emergencies. With
them no human life is sacred. It has
at its command all the arms and ex-
p'oslves which modern science has
perfected. The criminals do not ad-
vertlse in the public journals, nor
put their OH stocks on sale at the ex-
change but they are organized and in
working order, nevertheless.
It's the first and highest duty of IL q
government to protect adequately the
lives and property of it's citizens. A
nation able to suppress Il mighty rel ell.
non, which occurred thirty years ago,
ought to be able, and is able to root ont
and stamp out an underground confed-
Grafton OF highwaymen, the worst that
ever terrified any civilized people. In
this confederation are representatives
from the cut throat banditti OF the
older countries of the world. When
any of this gentry are brought before
the courts they have money enough to
retain eminent lawyers, who are very
glib when they make out the Pinker-
tons or other detectives to be the only
real criminals in our civilization: thew
have aids and allies ready for perjury
at any time, in proving alibis and the
ike. Ordinary methods Of proceeding
with so formidable an enemy to the
public peace, are not sufficient, Let
Congress utilize the standing army to
amply protect our Interstate CON-
MERGE. The Indians and Mexican bor-
der raiders to whom they are now de-
voted are not so dangerous as the ban.
ditti which kill faithful bank cashiers,
railway engineers, and express messen-
gers, so that they may steal the prop
erty of others. Let express trains be
guarded whether it is government pro-
perty they have ION board or private
property. Let the states in their ad-
ministration at the crime centers do
something to make the way of the hon
est detective a little easier and the
way of the professional incendiary,
burglar, murderer, and all around
criminal Il good deal harder than it has
been Of late, and the travelling public
will be spared much annoyance loss
and peril.
A fine steam roller grist mill for sale
or exchange for land, almost a new
plant. Owner in other business.
3l-tf NJ. E. LAWTON
The Committee on Ways and Means
is hearing from the various interests
affected by tariff legislation. A men,
Der of the committee, Mho was also
member when the Mckinley bill was
was framed, on being asked his opinion
of the result of the investigation thus
far made into the effect of the protec-
tion policy, said: 1.-THE tariff hearings
thus far have been particularly inter-
esting to Republican members of the
committee and have indicated the wis
dom of the Mckinley bill. On the
other hand, the free traders on the COM
mittee have been discomftted, and one
after another of their pet theories have
vanished in the light Of actual facts"
A couple of Bermuda planters, both
members of the colonial parliament
of the Bermudas, demonstrated that
the producers of Bermuda potatoes and
onions pay the entire duty on those
articles exported by them to the Uni
ted States. Their plea was that they
were paying $150,000 of our taxes an
nually, and they asked to be let off,
On the same day a Malaga grape grow
er demonstrated that the Spanish pro-
duer paid the duty. He was also forced
to admit that since the additional du-
ty under the Mckinley bill California
had developed the Malaga grape indus
try to a wonderful extent. The people
of this country are buying cheaper
Malaga grapes now, because California
produces them abundantly. A Mr..
Witcomb at one time made metal bed
steals in Birmingham, Eng, and for
over three years has made them in
Connecticut. lie employs here some of
the same operatives employed by his
firm in England. For the like labor fox
which they pay $3.50 in England they
pay ia here. Competition has reduced