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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-12-12
WHEN RosINA COMES TO SEE US.

Rain may fall pouring torrent,
Skies above be dark and drear,
Winds may howl with sound abhorrent--
When Rosina comes to see US,
All the world seems bright and clearl
Oh, the music Of her laughter!
Oh, the sunshine in her eyesl
How it fingers, long time afteri -
When Rosina comes to see us, s&E
Gladness comes, and discord dies ~.
Oh, the sympathy and sweetness -
That she has for every onel ~
Sorrow flies with sudden feetness va
When Rosina comes to see us,
As the mists before the sun.
She's bit Of heavens own beauty,
And to her what is is best.
Life means love, and sweet Is duty.
When Rosina comes to see US,
On that day we have been blest!
Good Housekeeping.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-12-12
How TO Get TO California CheapIy.

Full information on this subject can
be obtained by addressing
JNo. q. FARMER, A. G.. p. IL II. A.
b., &. II. IL n. Ry,
TIL Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-12-12

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20
no FAL1ERINC UNDER
THE NATIONS Duty.
Silver and Expansion Are the
Paramount issues.
M. e. Ingalls,. q Life-Lorg Sound Mon'y
Democrat, Writes Of the Neces-
sity for Assuming a Larger
National Life.

One OF the most successful. distin-
guished and popular railway presidents
In the United States j. the Hon. Mel
vile Il. Ingalls, OF Cincinnati. From the
very ground OF railroad construction be
has worked his way up TO the presidency
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio aud Big
Four railway systems. among tie most
prosperous of our great trunk iines. Mr..
ingalls, is one OF the people, and is prdc-
teal in eytsy idea. He is a lifelong Dem
ocrat, and from the September issue OF
the North American Review the follow
ing extracts are made from Mr.. Ingalls,
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since November.
1896, TO warrant a reversal of the JIdg-
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls. II what
conditions have we entered on the pres
emit presidential campaign. and what. in
this regard, Is the duty Of patriotic citi-
gems, independent OF partisan utilization!
To the Democrat who voted for Palmer
and Buckner, as well as to the Dcmocsat
who voted for Mckinley -four years ago,
the situation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Prefcrring 10 act with
his party, when possible. the patrioric
Democrat must. nevertheless. answer the
call Of duty, no matter iii what direction
1t leads him.
The second and supreme trial of the
great financial issue, which never should
have been dragged into partisan politics,
will be made at the polls in November,
1900. This test viii. l believe. be con-
elusive. What are the conditions under
which 1t is TO be madet
There Is In the United States at the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

present day unparalleled prosperity, IN
which every citizen has q right to share.
IL any citizen Is prevented from sharing
in that prosperity, he is the victim OF
conditions which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in hat remedy. I'm
der the gold standard we have become
the leading creditor nation. and we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in succession. and we
are feeding Europe. We have had three
years Of unexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding a prompt and
generous market all over the world. The
American farmer. the American laborer
and the American business man were
never as prosperous as they are to-day.
Ii is by their SURFACES that this presiden-
tial election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selling for
31h cents a bushel corn which it costs
him l. centsdo produce. His wheat and
cotton. his beef and pork are selling at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in Injuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and. as he
looks from the ear windows over the
bountiful harvcsts. he is taking a new
view not only OF his native land, which
was never fairer or happier, but is also
thinking OF his new markets aud new
possessions" across the seas.
The laborer is to-day receiving more
wages than he ever received before. and
be is receiving them in a currency that Is
good all over the world. In many in
tances. undoubtedly. there must be a
reimbursement OF wages, and the sporadic
strikes now reported in various mannfac-
turing eenters point probably to the be-
ginning OF this readjustment.s 1n my opin-
ion. these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled. :
Now. can any sane man tell me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution OF the problems so vital TO him.
By voting to debase our standard of value
and thereby reducing his own wagesf
What has labor to hope from Bryan.
ostensihly the friend of the dissatisfied,
the champion of the aggrieved, and the
chosen candidate of all the ~long-haired
reformers in the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de-
pend. after all, upon preserving our
standard OF yalue, upon the non-partisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli-
cation 10 those great commercial. aggre-
cations, which are so peculiarly a pro-
duct of this age, of a system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust MS an evil. a menace to the ma
tional welfare? Is not the trust a nat
ural and essential development OF our
time? A quarter Of a century ago the
word Corporation implied IN inherent
reproach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which Is the incorporation OF corpora
lions. with the same disfavor. Yet 1t is
70 tine solution Of the trust problem tina
the American business man, as well as
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

the American farmer and iaborer, must
address himself. And in the solution OF
that problem he will find the present goal
Of patriotism.
The business man who does not nquire
into the politics of his b~ookkeeper is
asked By the supporters of Mr.. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected INFO
the circulating medium through which ne
carries on his business. He refused IN
1896, as be will refuse, | believe, in l9ou.
TO impute either Democracy or Repubh-
canism to the dollar. He will say that
it is not a political question, and that IL
should not be made such. Asking him
self where he shall seek guidance in the
casting of his ballot. he. like the laboref
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets opening 10 him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, as
a business man, that these responsible
ties must be grappled with and adjusted
on a business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend itself TO him.
Yet, into the field of partisan discussion
he ind these responsibilities dragged,
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And.
like the farmer and the laborer. he finds
his next national ballot invested with
unique Importance.
What will be the reply Of the American
patriot. who is nov asked TO believe that
his home and his pocketbook are staked
on the next turn of the ballot. that a
wrong decision spells ruin. and that he
must decide issues Of such moment as
were never before submitted to the Amer
lean electorate?
. Rryan's election appears to
irrespective of party, should vote for Ne
Kinley in November. That it * the duty
of patriots to do so I have no doubt.
The safety OF the Americas republic is
not menaced by a DOGGY. crowned with an
imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
Imperialism is simply a pretext of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blunder they made in
1896, the blunder Of dragging the dollar
TO the polls and e~ndeayoring to degrade
il. Imperialism is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts TO make il so.
Now, as in 1896, the real issue is the
Silver Danger. That is the peril threat
en;ng this country, not the imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was the Inevitable re-
suit Of a war for which the shriekers
against Imperialism were largely respon-
siDle. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres-
sion under silver, the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the standards of China and Mexico,
inc the abandonment of our position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
Shall we go forward or shall we turn
back? That is the question for the yot-
ers in November. Under Mckinley we
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20
The PATENT LAWS
BREED MDNOPOLIES.
A Drummer Continues II S Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization Of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities 10 the
Men - Expansion Gives Cr rimcrs
New Fields.
concluded from last week.

Monopolies in this country are duo
more to the patent SYSTEM than amy 9th
er cause; the average trust could not mo-
nopoiize its product, and il will not try.
IL il does, there is the same old remedy
which we free American citizens, who
are supposed to have something TO say
in the election of our State legislatures,
can apply. We can pass State laws for
the regulation of those m~onopolies. And,
by the way, speaking Of politics, the Re
publican national platform declares
against m~onopolies aud would propose
national legislation against them.
Gov. Roosevelt, a singdlarly clear
headed public man on civic questions. let
me tell you, sees the point. lie would
legislate against m~onopolies. | firmly
believe that this legislation will come,
and with it other laws intended to regu-
late industrial corporations, a good deal
ms railroads and banks are regulated now.
Why not? When the trusts really get 10
going so that they themselves know what
they can do. and so that they won't be
ashamed to show In what a cheap. prim-
AtiSE, tAptliuiNhlAA St3SC htONi VI thtiA
methods now are, then. like the banks
and the railroads, they ought TO be made
to "show down." and they will he.
Then the Wall street inyestor-for
whom we don't care anything in p~articu-
lar-will be protected from making bad
investments, and the unwary investors.
the widows and the orphans. whom ccr-
tain sand-bagging plutocrats like 10 tell
M about with so many tears, will be
doubly protected. Moreover. the cm-
ployes OF the trusts. the clerks in the
Offices and the hands in the mills. can buy
trust stocks, and they will want to.
I spoke about the Wall street investor.
He hasn't been making SO very much
money in industrial stocks of late. He
got caught lots of times. Perhaps You
recall the case of the bicycle trust. The
promoters OF that scheme went 10 Ger
tain bankers in New York on an eighty
million dollar basis. IL wouldn't 20. Ii
wasn't worth the money. There wasn't
the property in plants. good will. etc.
About q year later the promoters. the
same promoters, no doubt. who haI learn
ed q good deal in the meantime. came
back with the bicycle trust proposition on
a forty million dollar basis. and I, went
at that: could earn dividends OF. the forty
millions. 1t Is probably true that the
American Bicycle Company IS not fully
satisfied with every single one OF the mill
ion details Of It's business, bnt doubtless
1T will get there. Other manufacturers.
and big manufacturers, in the bicycle
business will also get there; and othek
big trusts liz the bicycle business are
bound to get there, too. You can't keep
good man down--os a good proposition.
You can't corner all the capital and
brains in the country. Remember that.
Buf I was speaking about the investor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

90 forward. under Bryan we turn pach'
The coming test of the silver questoh
at the polls must, in all human proua-
bility. be the final one. The VIII Oh tne
voters twice registered will not be the
third time disputed. Each year that we
nreserye our present money inc
gives If additional security. The Amer
lean people do not like experiments WITH
their currency. their school houses, their
churches or their savings banks. A re,
yersal of the popular verdict Oh iooo
would mean a reversal of all the achie'e
ments that make up our natlohal pros
perity. Bryan's election would mean mat
the sovereign people had deereed mat onr
lahorers shall be paid in silver, whlie
our foreign debts must still be pald IN
gold.
Convinced as I am that the
ones,ion is the paramount issue IN NO
yember. 1900, as it was in November
1896, il is worth while for benhocIh''
who supported Mckinley, as l dld lo"f
years ago. to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appear
ed to the American people with far pros
meets OF success, and what we can con
tend for in future contests, after TINS
economic and financial question is finally
| settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental auilih
istration. economy in governmental eN-
penditure, the taxation and regulation ol
opprpssfye trusts and combinations, ana
the immediate enactment OF a Just Emu
honest scheme of colonial government.
| These would have been issues upon whlch
every patriot could have been honestly
asked to vote. Why should we not set
| fairly about a reform in our old system
Of taxation, and. at the same time, ihiu'
ate a departure which might well result
in throwing the cost Of government upon
those who can best afford 1t!
The silver problem solved once for all, as
il will be in November, the colonial prob
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our dag,
and shamefully abandon the righteous
fruits of our proves by land and sea.
or we must prepare TO govern these dls-
tant additions TO our country fairly ana
honestly and capably. A per-
petual. constitutional barrier must be
erected against the statehood OF all our
non-contiguous possessions. That SUI
premely important problem Is to be met
and overcome. not by cowardly evasion
or disgraceful retreat, for the American
people will tolerate no such course. we
must institute honestly and wisely and
administer economically an American co
lonial system, worthy alike of our new
possessions and of their mother country,
We are not incapable of governing them
We are, as a nation, incapable of nothing
/ fully believe in the future of the
American republic. and that we are wise
and brave enough to bear the burdens
and fulfill the task Providence has allot
ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh
old. VI. +. INGALLS,.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20
RAW MATERIAL IMPORTS
Manufacturers Buy More
Make More Finished co"'" n

Make More Fiuisneo wv .4ss5
One of the most interesting W = y
OF the annual report OF the uea.,,srs
reau for 1900 concerns ihe
Of manufacturers materials, ua|
Crude and raw materials We "A
largely imported than ever ;msxs
formed a large share OF the io.a dtp|
Those included unmanufactu,.u hp6
raw silk. wool. crude india rnO The ID
skins. pig tin. and chemicals. a.ts 4
nortations Of these articles amOu. 4
the sum OF 500, 264,10 when S
per cent greater than IN any wbd5
year. Then there were ar 80 ss d
or partially manufactured, 10, W iuad|
terials In manufacturing, wns ,sn|
cd wood. leather. furs, cement M
oils. dyes. dye woods u c.. 40 rd1
calls. amounting to $Ss,4Ss.o' go ID 4
together. these materials Tor u !, se1
manufactures show an increase ,cqo. 1
37a'GoS yer those of the year Is a
AL, these imports were ,aA !, ap3S
manufacturers to be workeu !. ne ~
sold. and the returns indicate y - nj
est manner the prosperity o. .Ss.s n
featuring business. some dhty, "
Giles were free from customs bov !
others were dutiable, sho~nl syles "a
wise discrimination Of the pr q
LAW promoted both the interess 4 4
manufacturers and the nssieIss n
people. The share which aias onr
raw form for manufactu .n,lg lpef
have In the imports Is coss. NJ pd
ing. and in the year.) sisfory
FAR the largest total In tne
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

away what would be the result % ~
ton. 1t was a dreary day for ber n.
tried to knit, read or sew, to mass -
hours away, but 1t seemed as tho,,.s
she could not get interested in hor Wa.
Noon-hour arrived and Simon had $.
come home. rs he had promised crn
thia was disappointed. One o'cloct !.
rived. and still he did not appear IT,.
o'clock and Cynthia could endure i,
lonely anxiety no longer; so, putting !.
her bonnet. went we to her nelphho,,
(Mrs. Blank TO spend the afternoon
II was getting late in the a~fteruooD
when their conversation was interrun,'
ed by a knock at the kitchen door NJ.
Blank. excusing herself from Cynthlss
presence. Went to open the door.
Cynthia could not see the caller hrs
recognized the voice of Mrs. Bopg an.
other neighbor.
20 Mrs. Blank she said, "hava van
heard about the awful fight down n
Boonsvilley'
"Nn, Mrs. Bogg. Who's had a fghtr
Simon and Uncle Joe Harrington
and | guess Harrington most killed 81.
mon"
What's THAR said Cynthia, as she
hastily entered the kitchen.
beg pardon. Mrs. Grey" said Sarah
Bogg. Il didn't know you were here.
Il thought | heard you say" said
Cynthia, that Simon has had a fight
with Joe Harrington"
Yes. that's what | said. l just heard
about It,"
20 my! What shall | do? Where i |
Simon!'
'Oh, | guess he's all right now, Mrs |
Grey. Some men standing near by |
took Harrington off of him, and some |
If ems goin' TO bring him home right
lway. guess he'll live"
"0h. oh! Was he hurt so badi Ido |
wonder what caused the trouble"
Il heard that Joe Harrington told
around Roonsville that Mr.. Ezra Grey |
was Republican. and when Simon heard
II he got ravin' mad, and told Uncle Joe
that he lied. That was the beginning |
of the trouble"
Just then the sound of carriage |
wheels were heard, and Cynthia, look
Ing up the road leading to BoonsvIls
saw a carriage coming occupied BY two
gentlemen. One was driving and Tie
other sat with his head all bandassd
with n white cloth.
Its simon said Cynthia with :
sigh.
.
The election was now over; the polls
had closed, and the counting OF yots
began.
Political Simon was not, howeFe,
present to witness the counting. NM
his scalp sewed up and his head Vt
bandaged. the doctor said he though
he would get along all right II ne ny
quietly In bed for a few days.
1t was a sad, anxious night fr y
Crews. All but Mary were humillsaA
because of the fight. Mary SAID y ~
was pa she'd get even with Ola w..
Harrington yet, and If Winnie eve. w.
friends with Glen again pa ousn' !
djsown her. Winnie did not say mu.
but it was plain to see by her pais .~
that she was much affected. Sne Nv.
Glen Harrington, yet 1t seemu
fate was against her.
Many unpleasant Thoughts sTs
through her troubled brain, ais'u'u-
her slumber. and when morning
her pillow was damp with tears.
When she walked from her room
mie said he believed she was po"uA
"Gee whiz! Amt she whittier
Just then a weak voice was nsA
the adjoining room ,AxI
us Winnie out there?' came N
accents.
.Yes. pa" said Jimmie.
"Then tell her to come here, ple''r
Fr,a 10 oant;nued.)
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-03

where men alone We're crowded 10.
sether, and people were waiting pa
tiently to get a chance TO slip In. and
waited patiently, though the chance
never came, no one being willing TO
come out while Depew talked After il
was all over a senator was riding
downtown In a ear With a friend whom
ne had taken into the gallery to hear
the sneech
! was disappointed in one thing, =
said the stranger II thought Depew
would be sparkling and witty, telling
some bright stories ANA winding up
With a Joke or two. Instead of that ne
made serious constitutional argu-
merit"
Why that's just It." was the reolv.
You lost the point That was the
joke Depew making constitutional
argument Washington Star
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-03
THE NEW MANLY WOMAN.

The twentieth century woman will
be trained to a full and perfect knowl.
edge of the function of motherhood.
She will understand its meaning and
its responsibilities, and viii accept
them as a sacred trust, conserving her
life accordingly The present reckless
slaughter of innoCents through igno-
rance, selfshuess, or worse will cease,
and our statistics will not show that
less than twenty-four per cent, of in
fants reach mature life Nor will the
tiny life be crushed in embryo; rather
will it be tenderly, carefully nurtured
into perfect being. Its mother, the
manly woman of the new century will
have knowledge of every joint bone
and sinew of its small anatomy, the
food that will nourish it, the training
that will develop it physically, mental
ly, morally. and, behold, we shall have
a new race.-Susan b. Anthony in Les
lies Weekly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-03
WAS A COSTLY LUXURY.

We heard TRANCE story yesterday
A widow or rather. an estate in a
New England town is sued by an
apothecary, who claims $4,000 for TAX
ing care OF the leg of the husband. The
apothecary did not pull the leg daily,
nor ala he dress t. The husband was
injured and leg was amputatod
Either the man was absurdly proud
Of his leg, or be had fond association
or he was superstitious about it--as
some, who lose limb or an organ,
are; at any rate, he asked the apothe-
cary to pickle it for him After it was
spiced and picked II was kept in the
cellar, and the ex-owner would acct
sionally examine it, to assure himself
that it was comfortable The repre-
sentatiyes of the estate allege that
$4,000 is an exorbitant sum; that $500
would be nearer the mark Boston
Journal