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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30
SOUTHERN RAILW Y
Effective Jan. 10th, 1904.
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND

TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND.
200 a. m.-Daily. Local for Charlotte
IL 80 p. m.-Daily. Limited BrFet PulIua-,
TO Atlanta and FL aingham, New Orleans
memphis, Chattsr ,ga and all the South.
wv p. NIX. u ", Key sville.
ivNVp. m.-Daily; United; pullman ready
9:30 p. M, for all { h South.
YORK &IVER LINE
The favorite TO routs Baltin ore and east.srn
points Leave Richmond 4 80 p. m. Daily ex-
20 A. m.--Except Sunday. Local mixed for
West Point. Avn
2;l5 p. m Mon. Wed Fri Local for West ttoiut
~ p. m.-Except Sunday. For West Point
connecsing with steamers for Baltimore and
river LsnuiuYs Mon. Wed. md Friday
TRAINS ABBIVE RICHMOND
90 a. m. ana AZ p. M From all the South
s;x6p. m.
20 .. m.-Fren Keysville
e;25 a m--Baltimore and West Paint
$50 p. m--From West Poiu..
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30
ALCOHOL AND DEATH RATE.
Accurate Statistics Gathered bv SSvisa
Government show Alarming
. Condition.

switzerland is a country in which
very little drunkenness is to be OBJ
served, for the good and sufficient rea-
son that the police arrest ON the spot
every person who shows the least sign
81 intoxication. There is nevertheless
a large amount of secret drinking. and
especially in French Switzerland abb
anthe has of late increased in use until
Its ravages are very noticeable.
The government recognizes the drink
problem as most serious one, and il
doing all it can to find means for its
control. One Of its recent inVestiga-
uens concerns the death rate from al
coffoiism. Statistics of this nature are
usually Inaccurate, for the reason that
IT is often impossible TO find out lust
10 what extent deceased person has
eecn gwen to the use of liquors. Rela-
uves and even physicians conceal the
facts out Of the natural desire to pro-
tect the dead mans good name. Two
years ago the Swiss government estab-
hshed. however, a system under which
the facts can be secured without re-
veaiing the identity of individual
drunkards. Doctors are required to
make full reports, but on blanks that
bear numbers instead of names. ONLY
by circuitous method involving appli-
cation TO the central government at
Berne can names ever be connected
with the reports.
The facts thus collected show that
among the males over 90 years of age
the deaths from delirium tremens aver
age half of one per cent. This is ten
times the rate officially recorded in
France by the old imperfect statistical
methods
For males over 10 years Of age alco-
hoi is given as the principal or con-
comitant cause of death in Ten per cent.
of the cases
The general death rate directly refer
able to acute or chronic alcoholism.
without including hepatic cirrhosis or
other subsidiary conditions. is three
per cent
This showing must admittedly he re-
garoed as an alarming one, and as suf-
naent justification for the most strenu-
Gus efforts in the cause of temperance.
The worst of IL is that there Is no rea-
sen to believe that the Switzerland
death rate would appear exceptionally
Aigh II the real facts for other nations
were known.-Chicaso Record Herald.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30

prescribe tobacco while on duty and
when about stations. AS for the cigar
cite. the order against 1t is almost as
severe as that against whisky. The rule
is being strictly enforced.-Journal or
lnebriety.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30

A Michigan Specialist Finds an Easy
Way to Cure Any Case of Sexual
Weakness Even in the Oldest Men.
This Wonderful Cure Has a Most
Marvellous Record of Successes.
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Turn Your Eye. from Yourself

Turn Your Eyes from Yourself.
Think as little as possible about any
good in yourself; turn your eyes res
olutely from any view of your acquire
ments, your influence. your plan. your
success. your following-above all,
speak as little as possible about your
self. The inordinateness of our self
love makes speech about ourselves
like the putting of a lighted torch to
the dry wood which has been laid In
order for burning. Bishop WILDER
force
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Railroad. War on the pr,,,

Railroads throughout the country are
vas1ng war against the use of intoxicat.
aoe liquors and tobacco by employees
VINO are engaged in operating the lines
rne nat has gone forth generally that
employees who drink or frequent places
where liquors are sold are not sfe n
hn.s3st with the lives OF patrons or
WHO the valuable property transported
Dy tae railroads. The rules which have
recently been inaugurated against the
ese OF tobacco are not SO stringent a,
sapse against liquor, but generally they
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30

Progress Means Effort.
You cannot expect to gain without
effort that which cost Christ all His
Hfe RAMS Horn
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His Point of View

why do you consider his reputation
for truth and veracity so badf"
because | once traded horses With
him. "-Chicago Post.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

sixteen to eighteen years of age can
make from fifty to seventy cents day,
adults rarely make more than one dollar
a day; children's work is grinding and
nerve racking; in many instances child
rem are held in hopeless bondage to their
illiterate PARENTS; the normal order of
things is too often inverted, and the
pitiful spectacle of weak children sup
porting able-bodied, lazy parents, is Of
fered instead of the parents caring for
their children, and that not one out
of twenty of these little workers can
read or write" The reason for this
terrible condition rests upon the demo-
cratic legislatures of the states in ques-
ton, because they have refused to enact
legislation protecting the children in
their employment and forbidding the
employment of very young children.
Due credit must be given Texas for
enacting about the most tyrannical labor
law that is to be found anywhere. This
law in part reads: "For two or more
men to leave the service of employer is
legal" This law was passed by demo-
cratic legislature. Yet the democratic
party says it is the friend of the labor
ing man. What farrell
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
DUNN AND GOOD ROADS.

Robert c. Dunn, the republican candi-
date for governor, is an advocate of
good roads, and if elected governor he
will do all that will be within his pow
ed to promote the improvement of high
ways. From the remarks he has made
one would be led to believe that John
A. johnson, the democratic candidate
for governor, does not believe in good
roads. In speech at West Duluth Mr..
johnson attempted to belittle state.
ment made by Mr.. Dunn regarding the
necessity for the construction of good
roads. Apparently Mr.. johnson failed
to comprehend the facts and figures
quoted by Mr.. Dunn at that time or to
appreciate the Importance that the con-
struction of good roads is for the set
tiers of the partially developed coun-
ties in the northern portion of the state,
and what it means for the farmers in
the thickly settled part. Mr.. Johnson
passed OIL the question with a fiippant
remark that the bicycle people would
take care of that. Mr.. Dunn, on the
other hand, expressed himself as strong
ly in favor of securing better legislation
to enable the counties and townships to
construct better roads where needed,
and in the speech referred to he said.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
WINNERS OF PRIZES.
State Scoring Contest Is at An End
The Lucky Ones.
From Wednesdays Daily.

w. w. P. Mcconnell, dairy and food
commissioner, yesterday gave out the
high average scores for the past twelve
state butter scoring contests, the win
ners in which will receive silver cups.
The highest average was won by AL
fred Schroeder of Lafayette, whose aver
age for twelve contests was 96.43 per
cent. The second place goes to j. C.
Joslin with an average of 95.95 per cent
and the third to M. Sondergaard of
Hutchinson with an average of 95.79 per
cent. The scores of all of the contest
ants were high, 25 per cent being over
ga.
The silver cups which are to be given
to the winners will be presented by the
Minnesota worlds fair commission, the
state dairy and food commission and by
Gov. S. r. Van SAINT.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
DEMOCRACY AND CHILD LABOR.

There is nothing in the democratic
party or its principles that should APP
peal to the laboring classes. 1t is the
party that encourages child labor, and
if there is any one thing which is alb
horent to the workingmen it is child Ia
Dor. For years organized and inorganic
ed labor has worked hand in hand to Sc.
cure the passage of laws which will
prohibit the employment of children in
factory and workshop. In this the work
ing people are to be commended and
they have the support of all right-think-
ing men and women, who believe in Civ
ing the young folks an education. Not
only is this important in itself, but the
fact should not be overlooked that these
little ones toll in competition with the
wage-workers of other states, for the
bulk of child labor will be found in the
south where democracy is supreme. The
democratic party has it within it's power
to put stop to this cursed evil, but no
hope is expressed by those who under
stand conditions down there that the
party of Parker, Hill, Tillman and Muir
ply, will do a thing looking to this end.
The conditions under which the chill
dren work are of the worst. Unsani-
tary surroundings, unprotected machin-
cry, long hours and wages that are so
meagre that they are hardly to be desig-
mated as wages. Really these little ones
are white slaves, treated worse, if any
thing, than the blacks were in the most
terrible days of their bondage. Should
the working people of the north give
encouragement to party which per-
mits such terrible state of affairs to
exist? Summing up the condition of the
child workers in the mills it has been
said: "From one tenth to one-fifth of
the operatives are mere children; they
work from eleven hours to twelve hours
a day; they make only from ten to
fifty cents a day; boys and girls from
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

Roosevelt and a republican administra-
ton; they are the opponents of republi-
can senators and congressman, the OPP
ponents of republican legislature, of
republican state and county officers who
President Roosevelt. Our infu-
ence and political responsibility, our po-
sition as political factors within the par
ty giving expression to our unity as
American citizens postulate steadfast-
ness in political action both in state
and national politics.
Of what benefit will Swede as a
democratic governor be to us republi-
cans? WI there be an endeavor to
tickle our political ambition in order
to give room for the derisive allegation
that Swedish republicans flung their poll
tics and principles to the wind voting for
things political? We are first and last
and all the time American citizens, in
the next place we are republicans and
lastly we are of Swedish extraction
Duluth Poster.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
RECORD OF R. c. DUNN


During the administration of the state
auditors office by r. c. Dunn, the pub
lie school fund of the state was increas-
ed largely through his efforts and bust
ness ability, by over $4,SOO,OOO. When
he assumed office in January, 1895, the
school fund amounted to $l0500,000 and
when he retired, eight years later, the
school fund had increased by a few
thousands less than $l60O0,0O0. Some
of the items going to make this large
addition to the school fund were as fol
lows: Land saved from the Little Falls
& Dakota Railway company's swamp
land grant, valued at 100000. Enhanc
ed prices secured for the state timber,
the increase amounting to 100000 more
than the state had obtained for its tim
Der in thirty-one years previous; $780,
600 collected from trespassers on state
timber lands, which was ten times more
than was ever collected in the previous
history of the state. Increased prices
secured at the sale of agricultural his
tory of the state. Increased prices Sc
cured at the sale of agricultural lands
by State Auditor Dunn's taking advant-
age of the condition of the market and
the increased, demand for lands during
the years 1898 to 1901, inclusive, by
which not less than one-half million of
dollars additional was secured for the
600 acres of land during those years and
for which the sale price was increased
not less than 81 per acre.
The interest received from the invest
ment of the school fund is apportiOned
twice year among the schools of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

"The only state fund available for the
improvement of roads is the interest
derived from the internal improvement
land fund of about $280,O00 and the
5 per cent of the proceeds of the sale of
government lands: the receipts of the
latter source will diminish gradually as
the area of public lands decreases. This
fund is frittered gradually as the area of
public land decreases. This fund is frit-
tered away among the several counties
of the state by piecemeal appropriations
and the public derives but very little
benefit therefrom. In my judgment this
fund should be used for the construction
of roads in the sparsely settled dis
tricts. A constitutional amendment
adopted in 1898 which provides for a
tax not to exceed one-twentieth of one
mill was a bungling piece of legislation
and the legislature has failed to act
under it."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
OLD MAPLETON NEWS.

Miss Matte Iams departed Friday
for st. Peter where she intends studying
for a nurse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Taylor Sundayed
with Will Morrow in Mapleton.
Mrs. S. Cornell, Mr.. Frank Cornell and
daughter of Amboy were visiting with
Judd Cornell Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kune returned
last Tuesday from their visit at Glen
coe, MINI. He reports crops poor and
corn an entire. failure.
Miss Whitney and Miss Glasoe were
visiting with the family of Judd Cor
nell over Sunday.
Will Iams of Delavan was visiting
with Will Mead on Sunday.
Joe Stevens and family visited at the
home of his brother Charles on Sunday.
Mr.. Starkey is out husking corn for
George Phelps.
People in this neighborhood have COM
menced husking corn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Libby of Mapleton were
visiting Mr.. Phelps on Monday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
NOT A CHARGE SUSTAINED.

In regard to the reports made by
Public Examiner Samuel Z. johnson, as
to the accounts and business of the
state auditors office during the admin
istration of r. c. Dunn, after all is said
and done there is not word or charge
which has been sustained, that shows
that the state ever lost one dollar in
money or one acre of land through any
action OF Mr.. Dunn; but on the other
hand it has been shown beyond dis
pute that the state gained millions of
dollars through the business sagacity
with which Mr.. Dunn protected its in
terests; that he collected more money
from the sale of state timber during the
eight years that he held office, than
was collected in the thirty -one years
previous, and that he collected ten times
as much from trespassers on state lands
than has ever before been collected in
the history of the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

work with that party. For it is self
evident to any citizen that gives the
least rational thought to the political
situation that it is only through CO.
operation with other people who enter
tain similar political views that he can
hope to accomplish his purpose. If he
allows himself to be led by accidental
motives to part from his political as
sociates he will find himself utterly i'm
potent to carry out the principles he has
professed and give aid to his political
opponents who will rejoice to make use
of him as an irrational tool for ac-
complishing their designs of destroy
ing the results which his party through
untiring efforts has already attained
He finds that he has made himself an in
strumentality through which the enemy
is injuring his friends and himself.
We do not work for persons but for
ideas and principles in the political field
We aim to maintain good and bene-
fcent government for the country and
for the people. The republican admins
tration under Mckinley and Roosevelt
has certainly given us good and pros
porous times. As the national republi-
can administration under Mckinley and
Roosevelt has certainly given us good
and prosperous times. At the nation
al republican convention in Chicago last
summer Elihu Root, the temporary
chairman, said: "When the next adj
ministration shall have run but half its
course the republican party will have
completed the first half century of it's
national life. Of the eleven admins.
trations since the first election of Abra-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

The Albert Lea Tribune says the ex-
tension of the primary election system
to cover the election of delegates to the
state convention is being advocated by a
few machine politicians, but that is not
the manner in which the law should be
amended at the next session of the leg.
islature. The Tribune has hold of the
right end of the shovel in this matter.
If the law is to be amended at all it
should be framed so that every voter
can express his choice of candidates, and
not leave the nomination of state Off
GERS in the hands of comparatively
few individuals. Place the nomination of
all candidates for office in the hands of
the people, and then if the best men are
not selected the people can hold them
selves responsible.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21
GIRLS AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES.

Labor Commissioner O'Donnell will
recommend the passage of a law that
will prohibit the employment of chill
dren in slaughter and meat packing
houses. Such a law ought not to be
necessary, but the greed some men have
for gold stunts their better nature, and
they employ children of tender years in
places where none but men should work
because the wages paid are not so great
as the men would demand. Think of it,
young girls at work in slaughter houses !!
1t is enough to make one shudder to
think of it. The commissioner of labor
comments on the matter in this caustic
language:
"By what curious twist in the fabric
of our social life does it happen that
men and women, earnest for the better
ment of humanity, stand passively by
while young boys and girls earn their
daily bread amid the nauseaus fumes
rising from tubs of entrails, from floors
wet with blood, from troughs steaming
with carcasses of freshly killed animals
submerged in scalding water before life
is extinct?'
Commenting further, the labor com
missioner says he has no criticism to
make of the slaughter house owners,
"but of the general condition of apathy
that makes it possible for young women
to have every instinct of refinement and
sensitiveness blunted and calloused; that
makes it possible for boys to be brutal
lied and Injured to the sights of blood
and butchering in their simple efforts to
maintain a daily existence.
"This investigation does not purport
to deal with boys in connection with
factory employment, but we cannot re-
frain from calling the attention of the
public to the injury done to boys in the
formative period by these sights of
blood and butchery."
There are 1900 girls at work in the re-
commissioner declares that the women
who patronize them are mainly respon-
sible. Contact with these women, he
says, carries with it dislike for their
ways and repugnance for homework
WI fhoir
The average wages of beginners in st.
Paul retail stores are from $3.50 to $3.50
a week. The maximum is $40. For SER
wants the average weekly wage is found
to be So. Two hundred women are
found employed in cigar factories, aver
aging 81 per week. In wholesale gro
ceries 300 women are employed. Four
hundred garmentworkers find employ
ment in the city. Of the total 70 per
cent are foreign born. There are 300
employees in the fiberware factories of
st. Paul, earning from So to $l2 per
week. Four hundred girls are employed
in st. Paul boot and shoe factories.
More Women work on furs than in any
other st. Paul industry. Over $50 are
employed. Five hundred women work
in st. Paul laundries at an average of
81 per day. In millinery the wages
for employees run from So to $40 per
week, while the average is from 81 to
S.. Apprentices receive So per week.