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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
The Reciprocity Movement.

In a recent interview Representative
McCleary is reported as saying:
"The reciprocity movement has done
a vast deal of harm. In the first place
it is selfish move, inspired by a few
men who desire to gain something. Whc
can point out to me the man crying fol
reciprocity who hopes to have the duty
lowered on his product? The manufac
turers of New England, for instance, ask
for reciprocity with Canada, well know
ing that the farmers of the west would
be compelled to bear the burden and that
New England would benefit through the
sale of its manufactured products in
Canada free of duty. There is not a
single argument advanced by the leaders
of the movement not founded on demo
cratic doctrine In the second place.
the movement leads to instability and
uncertainty of commercial conditions"
This is hard slap at President Roose
welt who believes in the principles of rec.
procity. If the reciprocity movement i:
one founded on democratic doctrine.
then James G. Blaine and William Nc
Kinley were democrats, according to Mr..
McCleary's measure of the principles
which underlie this great proposition
Both were ardent champions of reciproc-
ity, the former really being the origina
tor OF the idea, and it was largely
through his instrumentality that the
principles were put into practice. e1t
there are a good many of us who will
ever look upon both Blaine and Nc
Kinley as having been among the true
blue and stalwart republicans; also we
will continue to regard President Roose-
Walt as the leader of the republican par.
ty, although he does not view reciprocity
through the same glasses as does the
congressman from the second district.
Reciprocity is not asked for by the
few, but by the many, and they are
not confined to any particular section,
as was demonstrated by the large gath
ering at the conference held recently
in Chicago. Manufacturers, farmers
cattlemen and producers were in evidence,
making it representative body.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Will Accept Tainted Money.

BY its action the American board has
given notice to the world that it is
ready to accept money from any source
and it makes little difference to the
board in what manner the cash was OBJ
tanned. Such an action is calculated tC
make good men lose faith in the sin
certify of Chrictian bodies. They advo
cate the teachings of Christ, yet they
would accept cash from the money
changers instead of driving them from
the temple as Christ did
DIR. GLADDEN. made a strong fight
against the action taken by the board
He was outnumbered in that body, but
he can console himself with the knowl-
edge that there are thousands of people
in this land who agree with him that
money obtained through unlawful means
should not be handled by christian bod
les for the purpose of trying to convert
the heather.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Corporal James Tanner.

Corporal James Tanner, the new COM
mander-in- chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, has had remarkable ca
rcr In view of his infrmities he has
managed to accomplish a great deal of
good for himself and his country. AT
present Corporal Tanner is recorder of
wills of the District of Columbia. This
is one of the really good offices in the
gift of the president in Washington. He
is one of the most popular of the sur
vivOrs of the war; He lost both legs
below the knee in battle, and during all
the years since 1865 he has stumped
about on artificial limbs. and he has
done vast amount of stumping. In
every campaign for twenty five years,
Corporal Tanner has travelled in many
states. How one of his slight frame,
and suffering from the nervousness which
invariably attends such physical ills as
afflict him, has been able to keep up
the campaigning is beyond the compre-
hension of even those who know him
best. He has been particularly effective
campaign speaker, and at old soldier
gatherings he has won thousands of
friends.
During the campaigns up to and in
GLIDING that of 1888, Corporal Tanner
did much effective speaking among the
veterans of the Civil war. He made an
active contest to secure the most liberal
pension legislation possible for the SOL
diers. AS reward for his party serv-
ices, he was made commissioner of pen
sions. That was the undoing of the cor
poral. He had SO many outstanding
pledges of what he would do for the
veterans if he were in position to do
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
OH MY! OH MY!
President Roosevelt Is called to Ac-
county BY w. CT u.

Pittsburg, Sept. l4-"Did you get
that beer?' is the burden of communi
cation to be sent from the Allegheny
County W. c. T. L. to President Roose-
welt, and his excellency will be expected
to reply.
The good women of this temperance
body today declared themselves "agin"
Mr.. Roosevelt until he can clear himself
of the story that some time ago he ac-
|cepted sixty bottles of beer sent by
some brewers; that he had sent let
ter of thanks and acceptance to the
brewers. and that the latter was on the
White House stationery.
This matter was brought up at to-
days meeting of the w. c. T. U. Young
er members were inclined to condemn
the president in hot resolutions at once,
but it was decided to give the nations
executive a chance to be heard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
WORKED AN OLD GAME.
Harwarden, Iowa, Saloon Man Caush
BY a Clever Trick.

From Fridays Daily.
Here's an old game worked recently.
A man walked into Weidenfeller's sa
loon and asked if he could stay there
few minutes. Henry Roper said yes, and
as the man kept hanging around and
looking uneasily at the clock, he inquir-
ed as to who he was waiting for. The
man said he had just met a stranger
having no money who requested loan
of 500 to pay freight bill, agreeing to
meet him at the joint at eleven o'clock
and return it. The saloon man said he
would never show up. The stranger in
sisted that the man was honest; the
man said he was acquainted with his
people in Indiana. The saloon man
said that he would bet $50 that the
man wouldn't show up. The bet was
made, and promptly at eleven O'Clock
the stranger came in and paid the
money and the saloon man lost his bet.
-Harwarden Chronicle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

crops and breed their cattle. AS re-
suit he has scientifically increased the
yield per acre very largely; has raised
the grade of the cattle, which insures
property and a better class of citizens.
''He saw the evil devotion to single
crop and the superior condition for stock
raising in this new country, where the
native varieties were of low grade, and
he scattered among the counties along
his roads blooded cattle and hogs, i'm
ported by himself, in order to improve
the native strains of stock.
The aggregate valuation of the farms
pierced by the Great Northerns lines
has increased to billion and a half
dollars. Their grain product has risen
to 500,000,0OO bushels, and their stock
is worth nearly half billion more. The
magnitude of Mr.. Hills efforts, under
his immediate direction, appears from
the fact that for a period of fifteen
years, on the average, a mile of railroad
was built and equipped each working
day.
Mr.. Hill preached the gospel of low
grades, heavy power, large capacity cars
and big trainloads at a period when
these things appeared visionary to most
i l. H.,
in the adoption of standards for rail
way location, construction and operation,
which have revomtionized the industry
of rail transportation and reduced the
cost to level much below that which
any foreign country has been able to
reach. His chief ambition has been to
haul upon his roads bigger traffic at
lower rates and yet with profit to his
company that any of its competitors
could on theirs, and as result the aver
age freight rate per ton per mile to
the producing shipper has been reduced
from cents per mile to s mills.
As Mr.. Hill distances competition on
land products, so he claims his ships will
master it on sea by their conquering
low freight rates. American bidders were
able to furnish Japan with steel rails
from Pittsburg to YokOhoma for So per
ton, and now the farmers and millers of
the Northwest are looking to the Orient
for their best customers instead of to
Europe, and the new demand has sent
up the price of their grain.
"The commercial invasion of the orient
and the making of new markets are
some of Mr.. Hills victories on the bat
tlefield of the Pacific, and the work has
only just begun"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

that when his old comrades
drew on him to make good" Corporal
Tanner as commissioner of pensions rul
ed SO literally OH pension claims and
laws governing the questions arising in
he pension bureau that it was asserted
It the time he practically invited the old
soldiers to back wagons up to the vaults
IF Uncle Sans treasury and carry off
What was piled up there in the way
# ready cash. His decisions in what
vas known as the double disability"
asses told President Harrison and the
secretary of the interior, Noble, which
way things We're going. In three days,
T, dozen of the doubly crippled soldiers
extracted from the treasury more than
$4,000 as the result of the ratings
made in their eases by Tanners orders.
Then he was asked to resign.
Corporal Tanner is wide awake, clev-
n and whole hearted man. He was a
rood soldier and he has made a fine
record in all positions to which he has
been called, and he under circumstances
which would have placed most men in
Invalid chairs for life. He has suffered
most from enlargement of the heart in
lis devotion to the cause of his com
rades.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Locate The Fair in Mankato.

There is strong feeling in this see
ton of the county that the county fair
should be removed to Mankato, says Tho
Mapleton Enterprise. Stockmen an5
others in this section would like to make
a showing say that they do not pro
pose taking stock across the countr!
twenty-five miles, but if the fair were
to be at the county seat they would not
hesitate about loading it on the cars and
shipping it down. The same with fruit
and vegetables. The Enterprise has 9
small fair of its own of farm products
which people would liked to have sen.
to the fair but could not do so without
making a double trip across the cOun,
ty. Garden City has ideal grounds but il
is not the place for the county fair.
The Enterprise is right. Mankato is
the proper place for the Blue Eartl
county fair. Without casting any re
Elections upon the management of thu
fair, The Free Press is free to say that
the fair is not what it should be foi
a county of the size and Importance OF
Blue Earth. There is no opportunity al
Garden City to show up the many and
diversified resources of this county. The
managers of the fair recognize this tC
be so. They have put forth their best
efforts to give the people good show
but these efforts are not rewarded as
they would be were the fair located il
Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Tax on Coffee Democratic.

The Washington Post discusses Con-
gresham McCleary's advocacy of a
tariff on coffee by saying that the Hon.
Mr.. McCleary, the most radical of all the
standpatters, has secured his own con-
sent to a tariff duty on coffee. The
late Pig Iron Kelley was the most elo-
quent of all the protectionists. He start
ed in political life free trader, and was
convinced of the error of his position by
a study of the preachments of Henry c..
Carey, and for more than twenty years
Judge Kelley was the most conspicuous
and the most jealous protectionist in
congress. His eloquence was elaborate,
his mannerisms theatric, and his tones
sepulchral. He was never so eloquent,
or so earnest as when pleading for "a
free breakfast table" That was when
he was advocating free coffee and tea.
A tax on coffee is not only democratic,
but eminently democratic. Morrison
was for 1t. so was CarllSle. 30 were
Mills; Wilson, Tucker and the whole
bilin' of free traders of twenty years
ago. If Benton McMillin had been made
to see that the income tax was nothing
but a doubtful lawsuit, tax of $780,
100000 on coffee and tea would have
been put in the Wilson bill. That would
have covered the deficit and more, and
the deficit was the chief crime of the
Wilson tariff
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
HonOred Dr.. S. II. Ward.

At the ninth annual convention of the
International Live Stock Sanitary
boards, now being held in Guthrie, 0. t.,
DIR. S. H. Ward of st. Paul, secretary of
the state sanitary board, was elected
secretary and treasurer of the inter-
national organization. This is an honor
both to Dr. Ward, who has worked zeal
ously for the cause of live stock santa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Plan That Should Succeed.

Every citizen who takes pride in
the growth and prosperity of Mankato
and this county will give his hearty
endorsement to the plan to organize in
this city fair association. For years
the county fair has been held in Garden
City. That fair has not at any time
met with the expectations of the large
majority of the people of Blue Earth
county, and especially have the citizens
of Mankato been disappointed with
the showing made by the agricultural
society. As this paper stated few
days ago, there can be no fault found
with the management of the fair be-
cause of the lack of proper display of
the diversified resources of this county,
nor can they be censured for the limited
number of attractions on the grounds
each year. They have worked with
might and main to make the fair a
success, but the people have not given
them the support which they have all
along desired. Garden City is lacking
in accommodations, and it must be adj
mitted by all reasonable minded peo-
pie that it is no place to hold fair,
such as Blue Earth county is entitled
to. But the movement started in Man
kato yesterday is not so much for the
purpose of trying to make away with
the annual exhibition at Garden City
as it is to furnish a creditable exposi-
| ton for the residents of this county
and southern Minnesota. In carrying
out this plan, Blue Earth county's
needs must necessarily be catered to.
This is one of the most important as
well as one of the wealthiest counties
in Minnesota and it is deserving of a
fair in proportion to its standing in this
| commonwealth. With the proper or
ganization, the management of the asso-
| citation placed in the hands of practi-
cal business men, who have had eXper-
| fence with county eXpositions, and with
| the full-fledged support of Mankato
residents and those of the county as
| well, there can be no good reason why
this county should not have an annual
| show that will eclipse anything of like
| character in Minnesota. Southern Min
nesota should become interested in this
| worthy enterprise. 1t is scheme de-
serving of success. It's promoters would
be highly pleased if the gentlemen who
make up the Blue Earth County Agri-
cultural society should join with them
| in making it a success worthy of the
ward in that direction. They will be
| invited to come forward and lend a
hand, and whatever they can do to
push along a good thing their labors
will be highly appreciated by their fell
low citizens in Blue Earth county.
A meeting to discuss the formation
of fair association will be held in the
council chamber on Monday night and
all citizens are not only requested, but
urged to attend. Those living in the
towns and villages and the country side
are invited to this gathering This is
an opportune time to promote and carry
out the plan which has been wisely
suggested by the midsummer festival
committee. Every business man should
at once recognize the great benefits
which are bound to accrue to not only
Mankato, but to the county at large
by the holding of fair worthy of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

name in Mankato. 1t is hoped that
the meeting next Monday evening will
be well attended and all those who do
meet there should come permeated with
that spirit of unity which will always
lead to the success of any undertaking
which means for the upbuildng of tn
community and the adjacent territory.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

John E. Miller, president of the Illinois
Manufacturers association, is treasurer.
The slogan of the league is ''the fight
of the west" for a dual tariff permitting
foreign trade.
1t is the purpose of the executive COM
mittee to add on members, increasing
the number to thirty
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

Sheriff Williams was today presented
with beautiful watch charm by A. A.
Buck. 1t contains two fine elks' teeth,
held by broad gold band, with an elk's
head on one side and NO. 225" on the
reverse side. 1t is gift that Mr.. Will
liams values very highly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Extended Call to Rev. Brono.

Members of the Trinity Norwegian
church have voted to extend call to
Rev. Brono of Crookston. An answer is
expected from the gentleman in few
days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
Hodges Is Appointed.

From fridays Daily.
w. r. Hodges, editor of The Sleepy
Eye Herald, has been appointed MEM
Der of the state board of equalization,
vice Hans Mo, resigned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

A peculiar fire occurred in Lura town
ship, last Friday, when the residence of
William Colby had narrow escape from
destruction. Mrs. Colby was away at the
state fair and Mr.. Colby had not had
a fire for several days so it was hard
to conjecture how the building became
ignited. A stranger passing the place
noticed the smoke and gave the alarb,
Mr.. Cloby being in the field. The fire
seemed to be between the studding and
was only extinguished by hard work.
The house is a new one built about two
years ago-Mapleton Enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

Alum baking powders, their character disguised are
urged with great efonery upon the public Their promoters
of their EMBELLISHMENTS but the enormous profit
their manufacture they but two cents pound and
sold at twenty-five cents pound twenty-five cents
for twenty-five ounces all consideration upon the part
Of their makers for the health of the consumer
Alum baking poquders retard the digestion of food in the
stomach que of tartar baking powder promotes IT,
These facts. and they of serious import to the public.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22
STORIES FROM COUNTY PRE- SIS

August Pomranka returned Saturday
from Canada. where he has been attend
ing to the building of a house on his
lands there, of which he owns LOO
acres. He says his son Ed is doing
nicely and that his wheat crop will ay-
erage about thirty bushels to the acre,
OF Hon. f. J. Meilicke, former resi-
dent of this place, now operating large
tracts of land there, he expects to har-
vest fully 10000 bushes of wheat. Mr.
Pomranka intends to move his family into
town this fall to give his children the
benefit of our excellent school work.
Good Thunder Herald.
Good Thunder had at least one ex-
hibitor at the state fair. says The Her
aid. whose culinary art won for her sew
eral premiums. Mrs. S. r. Bartlett Sc
cured first on peaches, blackberry jam,
currant jam, gooseberry, and second on
white cake, currant and raspberry jam
and gooseberry jelly.
Hiram Graham, who has been running
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

The good people of Sterling are rails
ing funds with which to erect monu-
ment to the memory of Van Garren,
the lone colored man of that township
whose death occurred some time ago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

w. A. Hanna has returned home from
Nebraska. At Sioux City he had lit
tie experience with pickpockets. An old
gentleman seated on the opposite side
of the car discovered that his pocket
book was missing just as the train was
pulling into Sioux City He stepped to
the door and would not let anyone out
and Mr.. Hanna stood in the aisle, pre-
venting egress in the opposite direction.
Three young fellows, one of whom was
seated with the old man, were in the
group when the conductor and brake
man arrived on the scene and police
man was sent for. Seeing that they
were cornered they were willing to be
searched. Looking on the floor of the
car Mr. Hanna discovered the pocket
book under the edge of one of the fell
lows heels He picked it up and handed
it to the owner and as nothing could be
proven against the sharpers they were
allowed to take their departure. Maple
ton Enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

the Conroy farm for the past two years,
thought to better himself and recently
removed to a farm near Willow Creek.
On Tuesday night of last week the barn
on the place was burned to the ground
and Mr.. Graham lost a valuable team of
horses, a quantity of oats and numerous
other articles which he could i'll afford
to lose. Friends here are circulating a
paper to partially reimburse his loss,
Good Thunder Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-22

Hiram Graham, who has been running
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-13
BUSINESS cHANcEs-continued.

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