The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-09
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Ransom.

: Ransom.
Miss Stella Rowland, a former resi.
dent Of Ransom, is visiting here for a
short time with her old friends and
aoqoaintanoee.
Aletter in the Ransom postofice
for Wilhelm Abble, remains uncalled
for, Il
Miss Prideaux,of Worthington has
been spending 9 few days with he,
friends here. We have to acknow.
ledge pleasant call.
A brother of Mrs. Mons Sorem
from Hardin county, Iowa, is here
for = short visit. When he left home
tho roads weresin wretched condi.
tion,so much 50 that he had to make
his way from his home to the depot
on foot, a. it was about impossible to
travail by team.
recently read an interesting arti-
Gle On our law-makers at Washington
a low points are worthy of notice,
And tirst, We may say that they more
truly represent the different condi-
tions in seciety than many of us, per-
haps, might think. To be sure most
OF them today are in good circum-
stances if not wealthy; yet it is just
as true that very large proportion
OF them began life with just about
nothing, and have come from almost
every conceivable walk in life, from
the coal miner to the college profess
sor. They are thus the better able
to judge of the actual conditions in
life, and of the Legislation needed to
meet them. Of the nearly four hum
dred and fifty members in both
houses, we are told that at least
eighty-four were poor country lads,
who had to earn their daily bread at
farm work till.they were IL or Is, and
and some of them Is or 20 year old.
As to their present callings, however,
the lawyers greatly outnumber all
othera there being not fewer than
three hundred and twenty of them in
the present congress. A large pro-
portion of our congressman, we a1e
told, are what are known as self-made
men; whose wealth represents
sobriety, honesty and good judgment;
qualities which ought to make them
good legislators. Another feature of
interest 10, that Notwithstanding we
have 80 large a foreign element
among US, yet men of foreign birth
form q very insignificant part of the
iaw-mafing body at Washington.
To be sure, the native borne members
are an admixture of the various ma.
tionalities whose people have sought
our shores, but of lthe nearly four.
hundred and fifty representatives in
the two houses, but twenty-five are
of foreign birth. Of these twenty.
five eight were born in England; six
in Ireland; three in Germany; two in
Scotland; two in Ontario; and one
each in Norway. Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and the Ducby of Lusem-
bourg. Minnesota sends the only
Norwegean-Senator Nelson. An
other noticeable feature is. that very
statea are represented in full by men
born within their own borders. On
the contrary many of the newer
states do not have single represent
ative who was born in the state he
represents. Of the nine members
from Minnesota, but one, Mr.. Eddy
was born in tho state; and. indeed, he
is the only man ever sent to congress
from Minnesota who was native of
the state. We are fitting sort of
people; here today and there tomor-
row, ever seeing new fields to develop,
so that we need not wonder if the
Virginian should be a representative
from Iowa or the New Yorker should
hail from California. There is some
good comes even of this, however; it
tends to weaken the sectional feeling,
and binds US more closely together as
one people. On the whole, I am in
clined to think that our lawmakers at
Washington are not such bad lot
of men as some of our partisan papers
would have us believe. They are
human like ourselves, and have their
weaknesses and their faults; but.
take them all in all, they are, think,
very creditable representatives of a
progressive and freedom-loving peo-
pie. ROBERT SHORE.
DR.. Church will be at his Office in
Worthington on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays instead of days
h haretoforo uaa1