The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-17
OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS.
A .."Tired Reader Upsets Some
POpulistiC Theories.

EDITOR FREE PRESS: Will you
klLuIy grant NE little space in your
paper To answer an article which ap-
pears in the Dec. SGh issue of the
Lake Crystal Union, IN which the
editor of that Republican ~ sheet
says that the present famine in India
Is the direct result Of Mark Hanna
and the Pierpont Morgan & Co. Syndi-
cate, Of England, combining to COM
pei England to stop the raising OF
wheat III India so that the price of
| that cereal would advance in this
country. If this was fact the peO-
| pie of the u S ought to shout God
bless Hanna and the Morgan Co. But
such an article as the above mention
I'd is scarcely worth a moments
notice by any thinking person and the
only reason that we take the trouble
to reply is that the statement of the
Union is not founded on facts. But
| is an endeavOr to avoid the truth and
substitute some other theory than
the correct one for the present ad-
vance in the price of wheat, as we'll
as the large increase in other
branches of trade that has been
noticed in the past few months. Such
state ments would only appeal to a
class OF voters who never think for
themselves but suck down such stuff
| for the truth without ever stopping
to think how absurd and ridiculous
they really are. The fact is the
En-, lish government has no more to
do with the amount of wheat raised
in India than the president OF the U.
S. has with the amount of wheat, corn
or oats raised 10 Kansas or any other
state. That matter is left to the
people to decide what kind and how
many acres they wish to plant and
then the proper weather to mature
the crop. The only trouble with the
Union is it claims to be Republican
(Lhe truth of this claim we have al
WAYS had some doubts) and for this
reason it and few like Frank A
Day and the Jackson Republic
thought they were competent to run
the whole Republican party, and be-
cause everything did not go just as
they thought they should, they were
like the little boy that would not
play any longer, and have sought in
every way to defeat the party that
has made them all that they are.
1t is vain effort on the part of the
few hairs on the end of
the elephants tail trying to wag the
animal.
More than year ago when this class of
boilers were buried under that ter
rible drift of ballots on Nov. 3rd, 1896,
it was thought they would never be
found again. But they crawled out
and like the man that had been
knocked into the ditch by locomo-
tive jumped up and shouted sit never
hit me-" And since that time they
have endeavored to strengthen their
mistaken position with such state
ments as that which appears in the
Union, rather than to honestly admit
that they were mistaken and then
put their shoulder to the wheel and
help along the good times that were
promised and are coming in spite OF
all such obstacles as they can throw
in the way.
The man whose name appears at
the top of the Unions article, Frank
A. Day, is the same man that ran fol
Congress on the Popo-Dem ticket and
when he was beaten out of sight
by the schoolmaster, of Mankato,
crawled back into the Minnesota
legislature and held seat as a
Republican, not because he had any
moral right to the position, but be-
cause of some technical point that
would permit him to do so. 1t is this
class who claim to still be Republic
ans and think they are the whole
cheese when in reality they are only
lot of maggots which could be dis
pensed with to the great improve
ment of the cheese.
Thanking you for this space in your
paper / will sign myself
| A TIRED READER OF THE UNION.