The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-05-29
We Cd i real sa lat Columbus

did discover uS-a nd5 tina sa Ie 0i
Us have been found gu 4
IT was alright for Edwin Mark
ham TO write about the & Man With 1
the Hoe, but the poem was for an
earlier age. sachiner had done
away with the hoe Tor the man en-
tirely and about all that We see
now is the woman with the hoe.
A man won't buy anything that he
can { sit down on.
Mr.. Bede then recited the settle
ment of the Original thirteen colon
les. and the attendant result that
King George III was told to pack
up his authority and cross the pond T
to England that be WASH t WantedJ
here any more Then came our
pushing Of Napoleon off the map,
the province Of. Louisiana having
been ceded for a few millions il
1903. Next Spain was relieved OF /
her stock ID Florida, then SAM
Houston gave US Texas. followed
shortly afterwards BY Mexico ced-
ing the territory il the southwest,
the Gadsden purchase and then Rus
STA was told that that monarchy
WASH t wanted and we bought the /
bear S icebergs and gold mines Of
Alaska. A few years ago Queer
lii was sitting on her perch over in
Hawaii We told her to come off
and she did. Then Spain was re-
|lieved OF provinces which she had
|drenched in blood and the stars
and stripes were guaranteeing free
dom to the people Of those islands.
Speaking Of our power to solve all
problems Mr. Bede said that we.
found polygamy running at large IN
Utah at the rate of 16 to /, and that
I've reduced it to a parity. In
northern Minnesota last winter, he
lsaid, debating societies were at
work on the question as to whether
a married man lived longer than a
single. After All all winters dis
I.cussion the referees brought ina
decision that the married men do
| not, but that itsimply seemed long
Ter. Mr.. Bede recalled to his mind
| the following of a Salvation Army
by an adept, who thought that, there
was going to be a circus somewhere.
On arriving at the barracks he in
|quired what they did there The
captain told him that they were saw
ling men. Don tyou save women?H
the man asked. The reply was IN
! the affirmative well, then, I
want you to save one for me
Mr.. Bede said that the race prob
lem was one Of the biggest ques-
/ tions we had to solve. The people
of the south were now laboring un-
] der double burden thatof having
i separate institutions for the white
i and black He thought it not an
impossibility that we would eventn-
ally have to give the blacks a few
Estates OF their own tofrule and gov
Iern by their own people with a
representation IN Washington ac-
eording to their population Poll
! teal questions were being solved
4 in the best Of spirits, and different
q religious denominations mingled to-
4 gether IN the most friendly spirit.
He remembered of having recently
!. been with six or seven people, all
belonging to different churches.
y They each told their denomination
i The last remarked that he was an
S. sEpiscopalian with leanin 9
towards Christianity
The speaker thought that inven-
3 tions should belong to the public
j from the start-that a court Of APP
praisers. should be established at
Washington to state what every
4 new invention was worth, this price
! to be paid by the inventor to the
3 government, and that the in ven tion
4 be given to the public to use as il
pleased. This would prevent max
ing millionaires OF men who never
d invented, but made themselves rich
/. il the production Of some other
man S brains.
!, There is pow no need Of going
abroad for an education. This Van
i kee Nation had the best Of every
81 thif11r Even nIlr arti ctS fenk the