Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-20
J MATTERS 81 j INTEREST / II y !.
garding Politics and Affairs
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st. Paul, MINI, June 10, 1899.
The mind Of Editor Sheets, OF
the Todd County Argus, came
"back to slavery days. and he
draws a comparison betweenfthose
who censured Lincoln in 1854 and
those who now criticize Me- inley.
MI Sheets EXPRESSES himself thus:
!: ..;sa.!.In the summer Of 1864 a num-
I bar of Democrats met and resolved
that the war, which was then: be-
ing waged, was a failure. Pres
dent Lincoln 'sopolicy was also de-
nouunced in the bitterest terms.
According TO- the judgment OF that
body he was not a patriot, but
was actuated BY selfish and partisan
motives that were bound to wreck
the country. Probably that was
their best Judgment at that time,
but many Of those men lived to
see the day that they were not
proud, of these utterances. The
evolutions of time developed and
made clear to them things the pro.
phetic vision Of Lincoln clearly.
saw years before and they were
forced to acknowledge that he was
one Of the greatest men Of the
century and prompted in every acs
ton by the most unselfsh motives.
The time will come within a few
years when those, who are now de-
nouncing President Mckinley and
his Philippine policy, and. charg-
ing our soldiers, who are battling
to sustain United States authority
againse an armed insurrection,
With being .murderers Of. innocent
men, will not be proud Of these
utterances. President Mckinley
has shown an IN unselish devotion
to the interests Of his country
since the day the destruction OF
the Maine made war inevitable
and time will demonstrate the wis
dom of his course. .... -.
That the Republican congress
men of Minnesota did q wise thing
in throwing their strength to Gen.
Henderson for speaker is already
apparent. It was done at time,
too, when it counted more than it
would havedone either earlier Or
later r The state press is univer-:
sally pleased over the action our
House mem erss took and the con-
gressmen are receiving much fav-
orable comment. The following
from Editor Whiteman of the
Pipestone Herald Star is an exam
pie Of what scores of papers and
pubic men say: .s ; 49,.
"Minnesota IS for David B. Hen.
derson, of Iowa, for speaker, our
congressman having voted to sus-
tain him at their meeting in st:
Paullast week. The selection OF
Mr.. Henderson will be notable
victory for the west, for this high
office has never previously gone:
west of Indiana. The Minnesota
members, in the event. of the sue,
cess OF their candidate, will natur-
ally come in for something good
IN the way of committee assign
ments, and it is through good
comm1tteesh1ps that congressman
are enabled to- be of use to their
constituents. Minnesota has been
for Gen. Henderson from the
start, so the action of our COR
gressmen will be gratifying to the
state at-large.
The Granite Falls Tribune man
met a, crcaker not long ago who
sand: 81 do not recognize the
poasted prosperity you Republic.
cans promised, but on the other
hand times are worse for the
farmer than during Cleveland's
administration. If l1want to hire
a man on n the farm he wants more
than / can afford to pay and it is
difficult to find "a man to- work at
any price. Your prosperity, is all
a. sham and half the stories we
read about increase'in wages is so.
much buncome.'"
; THE Tribune man looked him
in the eye and detected no signs
of mental alteration. yet the
calamity owler s whole demeanor
betrayed emotion caused by the
conviction thst times are actually