Mower County transcript., 1904-11-30

were determined TO rldo rOughShOQ
over the people that the merger is op-
pressin'.
1t does beat all how competition does
liven up things all round. I see that
the 500 opened up their new line to
Winnipeg last week and put on fine
train service and reduced the time and
here come the old roads that hav been
givin' the public any old service and
time the aforesaid roads desired and
hav shortened up their time and i'm
proved their trains and the public get
the benefit. There amt an idjit in the
state of Minnesota and Minneapolis
plantations but believes that the old
merger service would hav stood rite
along and the public be hanged, if the
new line hadn't made competition. 1
tell you it's alWus so. Look how Aus
tinites used to get to Omaha and look
what competition brings 'em now in
the way of steamheated, electric light
ed flyers that hardly touch the ground
in their whizzin' by Competition is a
vital necessity and the town that amt
got it might as we'll quit business. It's
so all round. See how competition livens
up business in any town and draws
customers for forty miles. I'm talking
Of real competition where the old gang
hav been robbin' the people imposin' on
'em with slow time and poor cars and
high rates for haulage and the new
competitor makes 'em hustle to i'm
prove and please and charge right.
knew it, knew it months ago and
said that the boodlers would try to buy
up the next legislator for some mil
lionaire to misrepresent this glorious
state and try to defeat Nose Clapp the
peoples candydate and the peoples de-
mand. That's why l calkerlated that
legislator men should he pledged for
Clapp before election and then every
thin was safe and there was no chance
for boodlin' millionaires to hav their
legs pulled by middlemen and no chance
for Legislators to get a few thousand on
the side to defeat what the people de-
mand. I tell you that every legislator
man elected that was not pledged be-
fore election is now looked upon as
bribeable and purchasable and amen
able and susceptible. It beats all what
gall lots of folks hav. I'm glad that the
whole push from this county is tied up
solid for Clapp. 1t takes 'em out of the
doubtful class. don't reckon that
there will be enough malcontents and
susceptibles to turn the tide agenst
senator Clapp but there is powerful
strong under current of schemin' goin'
on. Nose Clapp has got more brains
under one side of his hat than hund-
red moneybags pushers could collect in
a thousand years. He is true blue,
loyal to the people and ready to fight
for their rights. He ought to hav a
walk over in the comm Legislature. He
is the unanimous nominee of the Min
nesota republicans in convention as
sembled. 1885,. ....E..
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It's queer how president Roosevelt
agrees with Farmer Ben in so many
items. / see on the tariff revision item
that he says that conditions change and
the laws must be modified from time
to time to fit new emergencies. I reckon
that he's got the grit to push this tariff
revision along conservative ways. But
he s got an awful tough bunch to punt
! If he makes touchdown. All the
radical stand patters, the big protected
monopolies, the steel, lumber, and the
rest are all lined up for the fray and
they've got the usufruct. There amt
any doubt that on lots of things the
tariff is higher than is necessary and