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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
The Apostle of Reciprocity.

The reciprocity conference held at
Chicago on Wednesday and Thursday
developed number of interesting fea-
lures. The stirring speech of Governor
Cummins of Iowa produced an enthusi-
asm which just such a gathering was in
need of and it awoke renewed agita-
ton in favor of more friendly trade
relations between this and foreign ma
tions. The governor is the godfather
of the "Iowa idea," which has never re-
ceived any encouragement from the
stand patters. Like all other reform
policies it has been buffetted about on
the seas of political adversely, but it
cannot be swamped by the waves of
protest created by the ultra protection
lists. The principles inculcated in the
'1owa idea" are bound to receive the
Endorsement of the people of the United
States, realizing as they now do that
they are right and can be made prac-
ticable.
Governor Cummins' speech contained
some striking passages. One of them is
as follows:
Reciprocity has been damned by
false friends long enough" he declared
f'It has been coddled in conventions and
crucified in congress. 1t is time to I'M
mask and to fight to win or to lose.
If we lose we shall at least drive out
of the shadows of concealment the cow
ards and traitors who have been skulk-
ing there"
"The friends of reciprocity, the advo-
Gates of reciprocity, have passed through
years of depression and encouragement,
simply because it has been coddled in
convention and crucified in congress. 1t
has been eulogized in the abstract and
condemned in the concrete"
The address of Governor Cummins
was full of fire and eloquence. 1t was
a vigorous and wholesom exposition of
the ideas and sentiments of those who
stand for the proper kind of protection
to American industries and the COM
mon people Portions of the governors
speech are here given:
81 do not pretend to be master of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
Look Out!

From Thursdays Daily.
This is in line with the "look OUT
that the fellow yelled at the Dutchman
when he was about to stick his head
out of the car window as the train
was crossing a bridge. "He tells me
to look out and | gets my head knock
ed off near"
One of those game wardens, Towne,
or Township, was up from Mankato,
Sunday 1t is reported that he follow
ed out of that city one of those gorillas,
who is always first on the field killing
off all of the birds before the law is out,
but instead ran upon three young fell
lows, who were shooting ducks in a
pothole on their own farms. One had
seven birds. The three young men were
requested by the warden to appear in
Mankato, Monday.
The Union has been requested by par
ties to say to all hunters, who go out
before the law says you can, you are
taking great chances. If the practice
is kept up, you will get your heads
knocked off.---Lake Crystal Union.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25

to plant deep in the minds of the peo-
pie the truth that many OF the sched-
ules are too high and should be reduced,
to create a sentiment that duties can be
changed without imperiling business sta
bility, and to make the men of Amer
lea feel that protection in its true sense
markets but breaks down barriers
around foreign markets.
$50 long as it is popular to assert
that duties cannot be too high and that
they must be universal; so long as APP
plause accompanies the declaration that
it is brilliant craftsmanship to construct
Il system that makes the home cosum-
er pay more than the foreign consumer
for the same product from the same
factory, there is no hope for reciprocity.
II appeal to the protectionists of the
United States to stand by the old doc
trine; to follow Blaine and Garfield,
Mckinley and Sherman, and not to con
found the time-honored and time tried
policies exemplifed in those leaders of
men and leaders of thought with the
selfish fallacies that are now proclaimed
as the faith of the fathers"
The frequent applause and cheers
which punctuated Governor Cummins'
brilliant address is evidence enough that
the conference was in hearty sympathy
with the sentiments expressed therein.
Governor Cummins is staunch repub-
lican, and against him the charge that
he is an enemy to the protective policy
of the party cannot be substantiated.
He is, however, opposed to a measure
of protection beyond all reasonable
needs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
ENJOYED THE TRIP.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Have Delightful
Journey Overland.

From Fridays Daily.
Mr. and Mrs Ed Austin and daughter,
Helen, returned yesterday from their
drive to Minneapolis, where they spent
week visiting relatives. They were ac
companied home by Misses Mary and
Ruth Austin, who had been visiting
there during the past four weeks. They
enjoyed the trip very much. Crops all
along the road are very fine. From lie
Sueur to Shakopee, they are especially
good. Farmers say that wheat will go
from twenty to twenty five bushels to
the acre, and oats from fifty to sixty
bushels to the acre. Two thirds of all
the grain is all ready in the stack.
They know nothing about black rust
there. The outlook is for a larger crop
of corn for number of years. There
is an abundance of hay. In great
many farms yards they saw from ten to
sixteen large stacks of grain and
great many stacks of hay. On the way
down, women and children were help
ing in the field. One woman said that
they had one hundred acres of wheat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
private plaything, and now it is the
limelight that has scorehed him.

private plaything, and now it is the
limelight that has srorched. him.
Whatever fondness for the center of
the stage Depew may ever have had has
been thoroughly dispelled by the Equit
able illumination. First from Paris,
where a few Americans encountered him,
came the word that the insurance revel-
ations had aged him painfully, but even
then he showed bold and, in a meas
ure, smiling face to all the charges and
suspicious. Caught in the newspaper
dragnet at the pier on his return home
he protested that he would confront and
refute every accusation. He seems to
be taking no steps to that end himself,
but the latest indica tions, and they are
freely voiced here, are that the potent
mechanism of the republican organiza
tion in which he has been so important
a cog, is to be employed to reinstate him
in popular confidence and esteem. In
that case the work is cut out. Pending
the investigation Mr.. Depew is keeping
in the background, but people who have
met him, in one watering place and an
other, agree that the Equitable affair
has told upon him direly, and that he
is an almost pathetic figure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
Killed and Injured.

Notwithstanding the precautionary
measures resorted to by officials and
employees, the introduction of modern
appliances designed to safeguard the
travelling public, lO,046 persons were
killed and s4,l55 injured on the rail
ways of the United States during 1904.
Of the killed AL and of the injured o.
Ill were passengers, or one Killed out
of veery 1922 ,267 carried, and one in
iured out of every 1888 carried.
These figures are given in the annual
report of the interstate commerce COM
mission for 1904. The report shows
that at the end of 1904 there were 297,
O73 miles of railroad in the United
States owned by 2,lO4 railway corpora
tons. OF this number Lose maintained
operating accounts, s4S being cassed as
independent operating roads and 23S
as subsidiary roads. During the year
companies owning $500 miles of line
were recognized, = merged, consolidated,
etc. The length of mileage operated
by receivers June 80, 1904, was 1928
miles The number of roads in the
hands of receivers was %, and at the
close of the previous year p.
There were in the service of the rail,
ways 46,743 locomotives, the increase be-
h. fat, %
elusive of those owned by private COM
panies, was 1885, SCI, an increase of As
l72 OF these 39,752 were in the passen-
ger service and 1921 in the freight
work. Practically all of the passenger
locomotives and cars were equipped
with air brakes and automatic couplers.
The same was true of freight locomo-
tives and a large majority of freight
cars.
The number of persons on the pay
rolls June 80, 1904, was l,296,l2l, or GIL
per 100 miles of line. The wages and
salaries for the year amounted to $751;
59S.slO
The par value of railway capital out
standing was $l3,2l3,l24,679, represent
ing ,265 per mile. Of this capital &c.,
339, S99,239 existed as stock, of which
S., 050 ,529 ,469 was common and 81 $780,
369,86O preferred, and the remainder,
Sc, 1873, 225, $50, as funded debt. Current
liabilities for the year were 1881 ,62S,-
720, or $4,2Ss per mile of line.
Of the total capital stock outstand-
ing, $2,696,472,OlO, or 1888 per cent,
paid no dividends. The amount of divi-
dends was $22l,94l,Oi9 equivalent to
500 per cent on dividend paying stock.
The number of passengers carried was
7l5,4l9,6S2, an increase of 2O,52S, l47;
tons of freight carried, l,3O9,S99, l65,
which exceeds the tonnage of the pre-
vious year by 5,5O4,S42 tons.
The gross earnings were $l,975,l74,-
09l, or $74,327, lS4 greater than for the
previous year, and operating expenses,
$l,33s, s96,253, an increase of $Sl,357,-
4Ol.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
Accepts a Position in the West.

From Thursdays Daily.
Miss Sadie Barney, daughter of the
late Attorney S. F. Barney of Manka-
to is here on farewell visit to her UNI
Gle and family Miss Barney goes to
Santa Fe, n. NJ, where she has accept
ed a position in the public school. Mrs.
Barney and family will leave soon for
Los Angeles, Cal, their future home.
We always remember two men in par
ticular, Messrs. S. +. Barney, and j. Z.
Wise, since we left Mankato twenty
three years ago, because they went to
the depot to see us off. Both men were
visibly affected at our leaving Mankato.
Tears stood in the eyes of Shell, as we
called him and expressed himself as
very sorry to see us remove to another
location. These two men have passed be-
yond. God bless them.-Lake Crystal
Union.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
ATTEMPT CLEVER SWINDLE
Carl Ross Tells Remarkable Story in
Answer to Complaint.


Fergus Falls, Aug. 22.-Papers in a
somewhat remarkable suit were filed
here, being an action brought by Her
bert w. Allen to collect promissory
not signed by Carl Koss, farmer of
the town of Ellington. Mr.. Koss, in his
answer, declines to pay, and alleges that
he never signed any such promlssory
note. or that at least he nexer signed
it, knowing it to be a note.
He alleges further that on Oct. 10
last. two men came to his home and one
of them represented that he was an
agent for the state of Minnesota and
was looking for citizens affected with
various diseases. All that was necessary
was for them to sign a paper giving
their names, ages and symptoms, and
they would receive treatment suited
to their case. Koss alleges that he is
a German with only an imperfect I'M
Outstanding of the English language
and that one of the men acted
as interpreter while the other professed
to be the agent of the state.
The statement was duly signed and
now turns out to be a promissory note,
About fifteen other farmers of the same
locality signed similar notes and they
hox oil 70
who are endeavoring to collect them.
Some of them have been paid, while in
other cases the persons who signed will
try their fortunes in the courts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
WILL AUCTION OFF PINE.
One Million Feet to Be Sold at Capitol
October17.

October17.
rrom Fridays Daily.
Minnesota will auction 100000 or
more feet of state pine on Oct. II at
the capitol.
The sale and date was agreed on to-
day at meeting of the state timber
board, and it was arranged to put cruis-
ers at work locating and tabulating the
tracts.
The timber is that in danger of fire,
and which may menace the growing tim
Der which the state is holding in re-
serve. Considerable jack pine and tam
arack will also be offered at the sale.
The board extended number of
small timber permits and settled tres
pass eases involving about $500. The
full penalty was eXacted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
BRAND NEW HYMNAL|
CONTINUED From Page One.1

ception of members, the administration
of the Lords Supper, the celebration of
marriage and the burial of the dead.
The classification of the hymns is
somewhat different in the old book but
the old hymn of Charles Wesley, ooh,
For Thousand Tongues to Sing, is
still the first song in the book.
Among the new hymns, which are the
best of modern writer's, are twenty by
Professor C. Lutkin, head of the depart
versity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
BOND PRESENTED.
Ii Accepted, A. A. Buck Will Leave the
Jail Today.

From Fridays Daily.
Alfred A. Bucks bond was completed
this afternoon, and signed, and after
the necessary formalities are completed
he will be given his liberty. 1t is ex-
pected that the bond will be approved
this afternoon, so that he can leave the
Jail, where he has spent the past eight
days.
The four bondsmen were anxious that
their names be not published but they
are all good citizens. Mrs. Laura Abbott
is the fifth Mr. Buck will remain in
the CITY until his ankle needs no more
treatment, then he will accept an invi-
tation to visit on farm.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
"Old Salt" Is Pleased.

From Thursdays Daily.
"Old Salt" a Free Press subscriber,
expresses his thanks for the picture of
Admiral Togo and his subordinates pub
lished in this paper a few days ago.
sOld Salt" writes that ''there is nothing
very handsome in the appearance of
Togo, but handsome is that handsome
does, and surely he did handsome
thing when he knocked the spots off of
Rojestvensky. Hurrah for Togo!'
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
II didn't know that J. J. Wall had
any credit except at saloons and brew
cries. Geraldine Wall"

Mr. Frank Nickerson left for Wau-
pun, Wisconsin, to attend a family re-
union, Tuesday being the ninety fourth
anniversary of his mother. This event
is recognized every two years and the
mother and nine children take much
pleasure in these gatherings Mrs. Nick
erson is well preserved old lady and
the sons and daughters look forward to
other reunions as the years roll by
Good Thunder Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
Evangelizing Gotham.

One of the most astonishing develop
ments of religious life in New York
and religious life is really abundant
here though it has not the prominence
allotted to some other phases-is the
gospel tent work which was begun a
half dozen years ago. Every summer
enormous tents are pitched upon vacant
lots in some of the most ungodly parts
of New York. Beginning with one such
outfit, the movement has now grown I'M
til ten tents, each big enough for re-
spectacle circus are in use in the ser
vice. Seventv-fve meetings are held ev-
cry week, with an attendance approach
ing $4,000 Catherine Slip, "HelPs
Kitchen" and other neighborhoods where
ten years ago or even less the gangs
ruled absolutely and murder was a
commonplace, resound nightly with
hymns and prayers and the preaching
of a very plain and broad gospel. The
preachers nave Ildu W COHJCut
guns, brickbats and other signal forms
of argument, but they are winning out
in the most extraordinary fashion, and
on fair nights the services are held to
standing room only"
No Tainted Money for New Workers.
To visitors from the south and west
New York is paradise in one respect
at least, 1T has plenty of paper money.
When twenty dollar bill is offered to
pay for a twenty five cent purchase in
indianapolis, the customer gets back
nineteen "stove lid" dollars and his
small change. In New York the silver
dollar is so uncommon that almost any
man will look twice at it. The paper
money with which practically all the
cash business in New York is done is
at the present time almost wholly new
money!, fresh from the treasury. This
condition is no doubt due to the aglta-
ton in recent years regarding disease
germs. Fear of contagion among wom-
en- customers induced the department
stores to make change in brand new
bills. and one bank secured the entire
account of an immense establishment by
promising to provide unused money in
any amount desired.
The demands of another similar con-
Germ for new bills were so great that
none of the banks nor even the sub
treasury would undertake to supply it,
and the store was forced to get it, at
all cost. direct from the treasury in
Washington. In western and southern
cities nearly all the paper money one en-
counters is in the last stages of dirt
and SUPPLEMENTARY filthy lucre
In New York banks, and the large shops
it is rarely you find a bill showing signs
of age
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
RAPIDAN MILLS NOTES.

W. A. just has improved the front of
his store building by a fine porch.
Be sure to attend the ice cream social
on julie Just's lawn Saturday evening,
the Goth. Come and enjoy yourself with
fine ice cream and cake.
A woodshed is being built at the
back of District 100 schoolhouse.
Apple orchards seem to be popular
moonlight resort for Rapidan boys.
Mrs. F. c. Davis, who has been quite
sick for some time is reported better.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
Awarded a Contract.

From Thursdays Daily.
Kleinschmidt Brothers have the con-
tract for a two story frame dwelling to
be erected for Erick Engwalson on Wall
nut street between Fourth and Fifth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
WANTED Energetic,
trustworthy

WANTED Energetic, trustworthy
man or woman to work in Minnesota
representing large manufacturing com
pany. Salary $40 to 800 per month,
paid weekly; expenses advanced. Adj
dress with stamp. j. II. Moore Man
.kato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25
WALL VS.. WALL.
How Wife Got Back at a Too Pussy
Husband.

The following advertisements appear
ed in The Nanimo, B. c., Free Press:
II hereby give notice that from and
after this date l will not be respon
sible for any debts contracted by my
wife, Geraldine Wall. j. j. WALL
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25

Swift's Pride Soap, made from the
best grade of tallow, cleans and pre-
serves your clothes. Try it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-25


from which we may view the common
welfare. The only justification for in
reference with absolute free trade is,
first, to provide a revenue, and second,
to diversity and increase the products
of the country, and it is just as essen
tial and Just as beneficial to our pro-
ducers to preserve and enlarge their
markets abroad as it is to preserve and
enlarge their markets at home.
1.-The folly of maintaining tariff
schedule that will enable us to sell
ST. 900 of manufactured merchandise in
our own markets but which will pre-
vent the sale of $4,000 of manufactur-
ed or agricultural products in foreign
markets is so striking that it can only
be explained upon the hypothesis that
we have surrendered to senseless fear
of disturbing commercial tranquility.
Tranquility is very desirable, but to be
lasting it must be founded on industrial
justice.
''The demand we make is not new.
The men who today are the opponents
of the stand-pat theory of government
are not protectionists; they are exclu-
sionists. They have no title to the lead
ership of the party of protection, and
they are using the policy for purpose
that would be Indignantly repudiated by
it's most distinguished champions were
they now in the land of the living.
'The first step toward reciprocity is
Evening journal., 1905-12-07

was a murmur OF satisfaction, and he
took his position resignsdly. There was
a quick clearing Of the floo-, girls sour
ried to the wide staircase that wound
up to the floor above, the men hung
over the balustrade.
He raised his right arm high above
his head and stood there moment
laughing. The light in his eyes was
reck. .ess, but the smile on his lips was
very sweet watched him triumphlng
in the intr.cacies of the steps. His feet
spun, and twinkled, and shutiied, and
S apped the floor, his head was thrown
back, he was smiling now in obvious
enjOym, MT But it was the beautiful
body that refreshed ones eyes-slend-
er waist, powerful shoulders. clear red
tan, eyes narrowed TO a brilliant line,
cleft chin thrust out. A sudden intoxi-
cation flashed from him to me, his
lifted hand beckoned mel felt my
sef out in the open, in midsummer,
with a sweep of grassy hills around
me, the good suntaked earth sending
up its breath. And b.llows Of hills b..
yond, which drew me-and little road
Evening journal., 1905-12-07

CLEANS. The girls were delightful with
their red cheeks and windblown hair,
the men were unconscious and grace
ful in their easy strength, the music a
habitant fiddler pressed into service.
We danced country dances. Partners
met, courtesied with abandon, the
men cut pigeon wings Down the cen
ter and swing your partnerl Every
dance ended with a romp.
There was a stir in the room, a
pause, laughing voices in contention.
Everyone was looking toward the mid
die of the room. A mans voice near
me explained:
"Oh. they're trying to get Car
michael to dance a pas seul."
"A double shuttle you mean, -"
laughed Archie Hanson Gle knows
every step the lumbermen and Canuck
trappers can teach him"
Through an opening in the merry
crowd about him. | caught a glimpse
of Jimmie Carmichael standing vigor-
ously protesting. AS looked. he caught
my eve. and smiled straight to me
across the crowd--as IL in answer TO
something he saw there Next, there
Evening journal., 1905-12-07
DELAWARE CITY
Work on Canal and Government Bar
racks Progressing.

racks progressing.
Special to The Evening Journal ...
Delaware City, Dec. THE Canal
Company's dredge is still at work in
the canal. The mud dredged from the
canal is placed on the banks for filling.
Work of constructing the retaining
banks around Fort Dupont has been
completed. but the filling in Of the
north and south basins is being con-
tinued and the work will not be stop
ped until the ice forms.
Work on the foundations of the new
barracks and storehouse at Fort Du-
pont is progressing rapidly. Foundation
for the barracks is Of different stone
from the Old barracks and makes a
pleasing contrast, looking very much
like marble.
Muskrats are more plentiful than
ever before, bags of fifty a day being
reported by one trapper Many make
good wages during the winter months
trapping the rats for their fur and
meat.
H. c. Clark lost his valuable horse
Belle last night. The animal was
sick but a few days and no fatal re
lsults were looked for.