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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
send your apples to our market free -
Canada imposes duty of 20 per cent.

send your apples to our market free -
Canada imposes duty of 20 per cent.
on American lumber. Theorist Will
son saws "Send your lumber to our
markets free" Canada demands Is
cents per pound on American sole
leather. Our Theorist admits Canada
leather to our markets at &c. Canada
admits copper free. A mining plant
made in the United States, costing
$4,000, pays the dominion govern
ment $4,000 duty, but Grover Wilson
and "me too" Baldwin with his coat
under Cleveland's coat tails, says,
Bring all your iron to our markets
free" Barley and sheep growers are
special objects of theorist hatred.
All farmers are made to feel the hos
Utility by the repeal of all reciprocity
treaties, by which the markets Of
Spain and several other countries
were opened to their grains. And
meat products. But great is theory,
and great is the party that knows
nothing but theory, and, consequent
ly, great is the Democratic party and
it's great theory, Grover-a failure
from 1887 to date. b.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

THE New York Press has made a
complete poll of the senate on the
Wilson bill and income tax measure
as passed by the house with the fol.
lowing result: The views of all but
eleven of the eighty-tve Senators
were taken geographically SO that
the result laay he axaende s9na as
practically correct. Several Demo
cratic senators say they will defeat
the tariff bill in it's present form, but
an amended bill may pass. The
income tax obnoxious in the east,
makes the bill stronger in the south
and west. This is the result of the
poll as exactly as it can be given in
figures. Opposed to the Wilson bill
in any form: Republicans, SO; Demo
Gratis, Z; Populists, 2; total, %; Re-
publicans in doubt, 2. In favor of
the bill-Democrats. 81; Populists, /;
total SO. Republicans in favor of in
come tax if separate measure, 4;
Democrats, %; Populists, 3; total, 30.
Opposed-Republcans, "a: Demo.
Gratis, 10; total, "a. Non-committal
or in neutrality-suspicious., 10; Demo
Gratis, II; total, q,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
A FORTUNATE FAILURE.

In recent interview in ST. P al,
Hon. ). j. McGrath, a member of the
legislature from Winona county. is
quoted as follows regarding wheat
culture:
"rhe best thing that ever happened
to southern Minnesota was the great
wheat failure of 1878. Up to that
Time the farmers had been raising
wheat almost exclusively and they
had an idea that Was about the only
thing that country was good for in
the agricultural line; besides it had
been bringing good price, and did
not require the constant attention
necessary to the raising OF stock or
the cultivation of corn and other
crops. The failure Of 1873 went hard
with the farmers; then came oJher
failures in the following two years,
which made matters worse, and for
time things looked pretty blue, but
the farmers and dairying in small
way. A small creamery was started
near attield, in Olmsted county, ana
then the first thing we noticed was
that money was good deal more
plentiful in the summer time than it
had been before, especially among the
farmers. We soon found that the
creamery was responsible for it.
Others were started, and then the
farmers soon bad some stock to sell
and money became still more plenti-
full. From that time on the dairying
and stock raising interests have in
creased steadily, and as this increased
the farmers have become more and
more prosperous, until now they are
money lOaners in our section of the
country. OF the $4,000 that had
been deposited IN our banks up to the
18th of September not less than S124,-
0O0 belonged to the farmers. Then
they have sent thousands Of dollars to
ST, Paul, where they get and per
cent. for it. higher rate than they
get in the local banks. They have
good houses and good farm buildings
throughout the county now, but /
believe that, without a doubt, if they
had continued to. raise wheat ex-
clusiVely they would still be living in
the Old shacks into which they
moved when they first settled in that
country. The farmers agree with me
on that proposition, too"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
A PARTY OF THEORY.

EDITOR OF FREE PRESS 1t is not
to be wondered at that England and
her Canadian colonies, and even Aus
tralia, should sound the praise of Gro
ver's administration. There has new
er, since our government was estab-
4ished, an administration so openly
and unblushingly proclaiming its I'M
compromising determination to carry
out theoretic course of action large
ly beneficial to ensure more largely
detrimental the industrial and labor
ing interest of the United States, as
has been proved beyond all doubt ey-
cry time it has been tried for sixty
years pasta theoretical which Eng
land has been unremitting in her eff.
forts to secure as the revenue policy
of the republic, has contributed large
ly in money to Democratic campaign
funds, and largely to the support Of
the Golden free trade begun in New
York, for the last fifty years. And
now the queen of England, empress
Of the United States, as Of India,
sends no governor to rule over her
American colonies, more determined
to carry out the fayorite policy of the
British manufacturers at the expense
Of the Americans, and bring the
American laborer down to the level of
the labOrer in Europe, than is the
bumptious autocrat of all the United
States and self-conceited queen maker
of the Sandwich islands. A man de-
ficient in every quality Of statesman
ship, incapable of reasoning from
ca use to effect, or gaining wisdom from
past experience, whose colossal ego
tism was never before eQualled in the
presidential chair of the republic, re-
garding himself as the great genius Of
destiny, and whose mission on Go rth
is to evolve the great theoretical poll
icy which should govern the republic,
too vain and too self-conceited and un-
patriotic to admit the value to the
past prosperity Of the country that
we have carried, too ignorant and
stubborn to divert'the finan-
cial crisis brought upon the country
before the first year of his admins
tration-is due solely to the dread of
threats to carry out his oft-repeated
theory. He blunders on, expecting to
return to the country by dIscarding
the policy which had secured an un-
PARALLEL degree Of prosperity for thir-
ty-two years, and a return to tradi
tionS Of the Buchanan era from
whence Mr.. Cleveland draws all his
and all he knows of the
government in the past and
evolves all his theories for the future.
Mr.. Cleveland has an apt coadjutor in
his paramount in framing his tariff
theory not to raise revenue to pay
its expenses, but to bring the indus
trial and labor classes, especially the
latter, down to meet the demand of
the British manufacturers. We have
a few samples of this theory, for like
his master he knows nothing but the
Dry. Canada imposes duty of 10 per
cent. on apples. Paramount Theorist
Wilson retaliates by saying, "Please
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
MUNICIPAL REFORM.

At the meeting held in Philadelphia
last week in the interest Of better
municipal government. Theodore
Roosevelt spoke as follows in the
course OF his remarks:
1t is not the man who sits at home
in his parlOr, the man who reads his
evening paper before the fire and
says how bad our politicians are, who
ever works an improvement in our
municipal government. 1t is the
man who goes out to the primaries
and the polls, who attends the meet
iDgs OF bis party organization, if he is
a party man, or who gets up effective
independent organizations if he is not
party man, the man who wins is &C
tual hard fighting and who is not
afraid of the blood and sweat-he is
the man who deserves our gratitude,
he is the man upon whom we must
ultimately rely for results. Meetings
like this, where all of us believe alike,
get together, talk with one another.
and learn to see the situation as it is,
and try TO plan methods for making
it better, serve an admirable purpose,
too; but the real battle must be
fought out on other and less pleasant
fields. Above all, remember
that there is nothing more cOntempti-
BILE than to finch from task because
you find it disagreeable or because at
first you fail to achieve the success
that you think you should.
To this the Minneapolis Tribune
adds as follows:
Leagues and conventions are useful
in arousing public opinion. The best
methods of municipal organization
are required. But after a city has
adopted the best method conceivable
by the brain Of man, and has formed
leagues and conventions, passed resO-
lutionsiand given publication to thrill
ling addresses and sermons and edi-
tOrials. that same city may have the
most rotten government under the
sun, if the people will not get out at
primaries and at the polls and do the
practical and unpleasant work which
has 70 be done. Faith without works
Is vain, and nowhere more SO than in
politics and government. Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty under
the most perfect system of govern
ment ever invented. If the reformers,
the orators, the preachers, the editors
and the numerous league delegates
aud committeeman sit by their fire.
sides on the night Of the primary
meetings and conventions. and if they
refrain from using their influence in
winning votes, their loud reform cries
will be mere sound and fury, signify
ing nothing and amounting to nothing
when toe votes are counted. asaal4-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
NUMBER So

THE cruel war is over for the pres
ent, and MankatO can again be seen
by gaslight. The Electric Light Com
pany was represented at the council
meeting Saturday night by Messrs.
Meagher and Hubbard, who asked
that the company be permit
ted to withdraw the notice
of cancellation Of contract filed
some time ago and that the lights
would then be turned on. No Objec-
tion being made by the council
to the proposition, lights were
turned on Sunday night. The time
the notice Of cancellation was sent to
the council, that body was in a mood
to accept it and thus terminate the
contract with the Light company. But
the Mayor objected on the ground that
the Light Company having turned off
the lights without good and sufficient
cause, they would be held responsible
for accidents which might occur
through failure to furnish lights.
When the company proposed to with
draw their previous notice and turn on
lights, the Mayor again objected. He
thus put himself on record for and
against, and no one knows where he
stands. But just the same we are to
have lights and that is what the
people want at this time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

In his closing address upon his
tariff measure in the house Thursday
Professor Wilson said that Mr.. Reed
could not "draw from his armory of
sarcasm and wit in order to stop the
advance of this cause Of tightening
the burdens CT taxation" Wherein
has Mr.. Wilson and his party reduced
the burdens of taxation? 1t costs as
much or more to run the government
as it did before his party obtained
control. Mr.. Wilson and his associates
have not provided for the reduction
of the burdens of taxation to the eX-
tent of one cent. They have merely
shifted the matter little and made
it more odious in form. They reduc-
ed the burden some $40, 1000, 900 in one
direction, but admitted they could
not remove it, by creating other ways
Of raising it fully as burdensome and
far more odious. These burdens are
none the less burdens because they
are shifted, and in SO shifting them,
they have created other burdens,
which bear more heavily upon the
masses. With his reduced wages, or
no wages at all the American work
ing man is staggering under heavier
burden than any tariff burden eyer
placed upon his shoulders by the dis
eased imagination of free trade
theor list.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

AS HAS been expected for several
days rast, the Wilson bill passed the
house late yesterday afternoon by
vote of 204 to 40, seventeen Demo-
Gratis voting against the measure.
There has not in years been tariff
bill before congress which has excited
the opposition in the party framing
it, as has the Wilson bill, and had
there been upon the floor Democrat
of Sam Randall's ability to lead the
Democratic opposition to it, the en-
acting clause would have been str k
out several days ago, Undoubtedly
there were many Democrats voted fol
it feeling that it would either be de-
feated in the senate or so changed
that the harm it Viii work will bt
greatly reduced
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
AFTER a good deal of scratchin

AFTER a good deal Of scratching
around the administration has nnahy
found "disinterested person " VINO
agrees with it in the Hawaii matter,
and testifies that the change OF gov
eminent at Honolulu was the result
If conspiracy. However, the pre-
nonderance of testimony is against
him. The administration mlgh'
nossibly find another disinterested
witness in it's behalf If it skirmlshee
around little more.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

A GREAT many Democratic papers
are publishing the statement that the
Democratic administration of Wis
consin has reduced the expenses of
the state government thousands of
dollars. The Milwaukee Journal, 10
trying to defend Gov. Peck's admins
tration, gives figures furnished by the
Democratic secretary of state, which
show that the expenses of the first
term of the Peck administration ex-
ceeded those of Gov. Hoard's admin
istration by SlO5, 1851. The sane
authority gives figures showing that
the first year Of Gov. Peck's second
term cost over 100000 more than the
first year of his first term. This is a
sample of how Democracy reduces the
burdens of taxation"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

The report of the commissioner of
immigration at the port Of New York
shows that 352. 1856 immigrants landed
during the past year. Of these 54,576
were unable to read or write. Italy
sent the largest number of immi-
grants, 69,074, of whom Al per cent
were illiterates. Next in numbers
were the Germans, 55,0S1, of whom
only 1889 were illiterates. Russia
sent 81, 100, of whom III per cent were
illiterates, Of the PATIO from Hun
gary 20 per cent were illiterates. OF
the 5000 from Poland, SO per cent
were illiterates
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

IHE DEL Aecfats have attacked the
prote ~6tVe policy on the ground that
20 billed up wealth uneQually, and
how they admit that their tax on in
comes of $4,000 and over, will only
touch $4,000 people out of over
100000 II this proves true, it
would look to the average man as
though the millions of wealth which
has been created in this country
during the past third of century
must be pretty evenly distributed
among the people, and proves just
what the protection advocate has al
WAYS claimed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

WITH the great diversitlcatiOn of
crops which is going on here in the
northwest, many of which crops were
supposed to be impossible to raise in
this latitude few years ago. the st.
Paul Trade Journal remarks that the
time will come when the people in the
sO-called wheat region will wonder
how it was ever possible for the pro-
ducers of that section to hang on a
single crop.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

THE american Economist calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Wilson bill
offers a premium to the importation
of cholera and other vile Asiatic and
European diseases by lowering the
tariff on foreign rags by 10 per cent.
The danger of disease from this source
is a matter of too small Importance
for the members Of the free trade
clique at Washington to bother their
heads with, however.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

IHE mouse CT ,mmittee on banking
oeclded unraV orahly, yesterday, by a
vote OF 10 on the bill introduced
Dy hepf sentative Cox, to repeal the
YAK on tate bank issue, This Dill re-
lieVe' the tax on bank circulation, DuC
dlo not extend to notes of circulation
II sued by individuals or corporations
Chairman Springer thinks this Is not
a final disposal Of the matter, as tnere
ore several other bills having the
same object in view, and he THINKS
some of them will get before tn
+ house in some form or other, thougl
nersonally he is opposed to the repeal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

WITH the passage of the Wilson bill
through the house Thursday, the
Democrats took up their line of march
through the slaughter house to an
open grave" which Henry Waters on
so eloquently described 10 the fall of
1892. They will get 10 the grave in
November. 1894.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

THE St. Paul Trade Journal says that
while there is not yet large accumu-
lation of funds in the west and north
west because every resource has been
drawn upon for other purposes, such
an accumulation is now beginning to
show itself with the revival of trade,
which is slow, but none the less posi-.
tive.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

TILDEN, the patron saint or Dem
ocracy, declared the income tax to be
Unconstitutional and resisted the
navY1ent of his share Off to the last
extremity, and was loudly applaudeo
by the Democrats for his action. NO"
this same Democracy endorses the
taY
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

Mr.. Baxter of Amboy was out with
a pack of dogs, giving the Willow
Greek boys and foxes little exercise.
They bagged one fox and the next day
before the fever worked off the Toys
went out and got another. Amboy
Herald
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
SOME of the ,apers are calling

SOME Of the papers are calling -
tention the fact that while gov
u did not
from the senate ON bis az
which he is now trying <po'n
to Mr.. Cleveland. It % aouiini' ~
parent to all by TIL ousAi0 ~ CT
ator Hill does not IS Ciaii0 O""O
when they stanS care fci " ooiN
they may be o In ms way, w.
his own making.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

CONGRESSMAN BoURKE CocKRAS
attacked the income tax feature o7
csuse he said it would create CLASS
distinction. However MI. Corklan .
marty always did like class dlstinc.
tions. Tt was an ardent defender Oh
the slave-bolding class once on time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09
MASTER

MASTER --
says the WoRhMAN " sNatod
if not bona issue VIII ~ $3.50
othe. oy an injunction than some
Ao way will be found to defeat IL.
8 the amount called for has peen
INSCRIBED, and the courts nave ue
cided the opponents to the bond issue
hav no standing in court, 1T looks al
thu sagh mir. Carlisle would issue INT
; be ,nds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

TT is SAID that the tramps ana iiehO
fingered gentry are working tnelr way
toward San Francisco, attracCeu
hitber by the midwinter far. oah
Fro ncisco authorities will doubtless
no on the look out for them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-09

ASA grayedigger for his party, as
well as himself, Professor wilson mas
shown remarkable nerve.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-21
The Grand jury.

Thegrand jury has been getting in
its work. Four more indictments were
reported this morning and two cases
were dismissed. Nearly all the ladies
along the block in the vicinity of Nc
Curdy's have been subpnnaed before
that body this morning, and it is in
ferred that they are considering the
scandal cases in which Sadie McCurdy
was such an important witness. We
are informed that they will probably
be in session all next week.
Young Joe Mcdonald was discharged
from custody on account of his age, he
being charged with horse stealing, and
only fourteen years old. Booth, pris.
oner from Edgemont, was indicted for
horse stealing and willbe tried. Thayer
of Edgemont was indicted for grand
larceny. Chas. Pomgren was indicted
for assault with a deadly weapon and
Judge Frye was appointed to defend
him.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-21

Miss Ida Sherman who delivered such
I'm impressive sermon to q house full
Of admiring listeners ON Tuesday even
ing Is now in Lead conducting revival
meetings.
The grand jury made tour Of the
city this morning inspecting the build
ings Of more than two stories in height
to see IL the proper escape had been
arranged for, as the law provides, and
which It makes It their duty to do.
John and Wood Craven went up to
the Lady Gay mine this morning.
They inform us that they haven't got
done with the law yet, as no sooner had
VIM. Powell's case been dismissed
against them, than he commenced an
other action for damages. The Western
South Dakota Stock Growers associa-
tion has taken the matter in hand how
ever, and their attorney, Chas. F.
Brown Of Rapid City will act in the
case.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-21
A DECIDED Fall in Flour.

JIG. Richer & Co. received a car and
a half of flour Friday and stored it in
the rear of their store. About half
past four o'clock when most of the
flour was stacked up in great piles, the
sagging of the floor caused the piles
to tip over and the result startled near
ly everybody IN the block. A show
case and scales on the counter and
other articles were broken; the joists
in the floor underneath were cracked
in two and it is great wonder the
whole thing was not precipitated into
tho cellar. A number of sacks of flour
were torn open, but there wont be much
damage from that source. The floor
has been lacked up and the flour re-
placed. 1t is fortunate that it occurred
when it did as couple of boxes of
matches were Jared off the shelves and
ignited. If there had been anybody
under it they would have been crushed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-21
A Beautiful Drive.

There is no more beautiful drive
about Hot Springs than the one up
Hot brook. A great objection hereto
fore has been that the road was SO
rough and the crossings of the brook
SO bad that liverymen did not like to
let their teams go out that way. We
are glad to say that those objections
are being removed and the road is
being fixed up in splendid shape. Six
new bridges are being put in and the
road changed so that in future the drive
will be elegant. Mr.. G. A. Springer
has kindly furnished the planks and
timber and the work is being done by
the residents of the locality who are
obliged to travel the road. An attempt
to describe the scenery would be vain
in this article. It is enough to say that
We have nothing more beautiful in this
neighborhood where nature has been
90 lavish in her gifts than up this
canyon. We are glad to see the road
improved so that our visitors can go
up that way often. Mr.. Springer in
forms us that he has some excellent
improvements in contemplation on his
ranch at the head of the brook.