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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
Trade Reciprocity a Necessity.

1t is inevitable that national Jealous
les should play large part in direct
ing the course of national trade. Al
ready those countries whose products
have been largely excluded from the
United States by our unnecessarily high
tariff laws have shown disposition
to retaliate. Germany, i'll particular,
has adopted retaliatory tariff that will
infict immense injury on both our farm
ing and manufacturing classes. In self
protection, Great Britain threatens a
similar policy. France, Italy, Switzer-
land, Russia, Austria, and other coun-
tries of Europe have adopted or are ac-
lively moving to adopt high protective
duties intended primarily to exclude
American products in retaliation for the
similar protective duties by which the
United States excludes or restricts for
eign products. We sell to Europe year
" merchandise valued at more than
thousand million dollars-more than
two-thirds of our total exports. The
greater part of this immense trade is
likely to be taken from us in the near
future, not only by the direct opera
ton of prohibitory tariff duties, but also
as the result of discriminative duties,
duties under reciprocity treaties, where
by the products of other countries will
be much less heavily burdened than will
those of the United States.
This country is, therefore, face to face
with the question whether we shall be-
come the victims of retaliation or the
beneficiaries of reciprocal trade-whether
we shall sell our surplus products to
foreign nations at a good profit OF
keep them at home to cause condition
of overproduction and destroy our pros
perity. To persist in our present policy
is to isolate ourselves, to close our
foreign outlets, and to greatly impair
the now thriving export trade so vital
" Tic HdIioH lHuuSi1ldl SIOWlu anu
general prosperity.
The policy of protection has develop
ed this country enormously; but commo-
dities that can not be exchanged cease
to be wealth, and in many lines of man
ufacture the conditions of non-exchange
recur with alarming frequency. The
way to prevent the recurrence of this
disastrous condition is to modify the
policy that has hitherto prevented ex-
change with foreign nations and to
adopt instead of it a policy of reciproc
ity that shall, without inficting harm
on our great staple industries, permit
freedom of trade with nations with
which we can cultivate profitable trade
relations.
Alarmed by the danger impending over
our export trade, the Chamber of Com
merce of New York, the Merchants As
ISOLATION of New York, the New York
Paroduce Exchange, the Chicago Board
of Trade, the Chicago Commercial as
ISOLATION, the Illinois Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, the National Association of
Agricultural. Implement and Vehicle
Manufacturers, and number of other
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
Estimated. Census report.

llHldUtu AtHSuS
'1n connection with the favorable crop
promise the indications of an active for
eign demand-some exporters claiming
evidences of foreign demand equal to
that of our best. export years-are GER
tainlN an important factor III the finan-
cial situation. american miIlers are
taking new winter wheat and are con
tracing for new spring wheat to such
an extent thai shippers have thus far
been practically unable to name terms
or give refusals to the foreign clients,
who are showing much urgency. These
indications of demand for American
mer, and through him to the American
manufactures and the American trans
portation lines. Exporters are already
offering above 30 cents for corn deliver
able during the latter half of Deem
Der, or within 10 cents of the spot price
of old corn, whicl9ns supposed to be
more or less under manipulation. Rus
sian wheat and rye prospects are so
poor as result of long continued
drouth that Russian papers are already
advising legislation to restrict exports,
while usually reliable authorities state
that corn in Roumania and the entire
Danubian Valley is much below the av-
erage In addition to bumper crops,
therefore, we are reasonably assured of
good foreign demand and in turn con-
tinued satisfactory prices for our ex-
port surplus.
''The money situation will soon be
to the test, as the time is now at hand
when funds will be needed at the west
to finance the crops. Western bankers
are particularly confident this year
that they Will not have to borrow mon
ey from New York financial institutions.
They are unquestionably correct in the
main, but their statement is technical
so far as the money supply is concerned,
for this reason: New York is cen
trail reserve city, and the out town
banks are permitted> to count their de-
posits in New York as part of their le-
gal reserves. Therefore, as is usually
the case, when funds are not needed
for crops and the western bankers can
not use them in their own localities
they send them to New York and the
New York banks either pay them inter
est upon these funds as deposits or pur
chase with them commercial paper or
other forms of maturing investments.
Naturally, this form of employment for
western money is so arranged as to
make the funds available when most
needed at the west; and the currency
therefore, becomes adverse
to New York at crop moving periods
even though such movement reflects
merely the return of the vests own
funds. So far as the financial. strength |
Of New York is concerned it really |
makes little difference what these west
bound funds are called since they figure !
in the statement of the Associated
banks and contribute to the reserve The |
larger the crops the greater the CON
of currency required to
finance them; and it is hardly prob,
lble that this year of brilliant harvests |
is going to entirely escape some period
IF monetary contraction
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18

c. W. Carter, city marshal at Marsh
field, Oregon, is sure that Al. Buck is
at that place and so notified Sheriff
Bowen July 3lst. Not receiving a re
ply from that official he wired the Ma
pleton State bank last Saturday. As a
half dozen men have been picked up by
various officials answering the descrip
ton of the defaulter, it indicates what
close watch is being kept for men who
are wanted. In this instance of course
it is the wrong man as Buck is
in the custody of Sheriff Williams.-Ma
pleton Enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
Five Thousand Applicants.

]. W. Olsen, superintendent of public
instruction. with a force of sevemty-fve
readers, began work yesterday ON the
examination of papers of teachers want
ing grade certificates. There are 5000
applicants.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
STORIES FROM COUNTY PRESS
The total amount paid out for stock
in Mapleton last year was $l66,5O0.

The repugnance some people have for
work! 4 farmer in this community re-
Gently made the following offer to Il
vagrant to induce him to enter the
harvest field: Two dollars day, three
square meals daily, lunch both forenoon
and Afternoon and whisky five times IA
day The fellow wanted three dollars.
-Mapleton Enterprise
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
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Minnesota Peaches.

From Fridays Daily
The Free Press Is in receipt of peach
from a tree on the farm of c. A. Goodel
on Route No. 4 Mankato township.
Mr.. Goodell has some real Minnesota
peaches, and they are luscious.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18

Little attention has been given to Gu
ban affairs outside of government and
commercial interests. Few are aware
that great changes have taken place on
the island in the agricultural line and
that other products than sugar and to-
bacco are receiving the attention of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18

sydney Sherman is at Ottawa for a
lew days.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

the horse and the horse jumped in the
air and came down kerchunk on an
asphalt pavement, the horse would ex-
piede and when the rider came down
covered with sausage covers and horse
meat, he would be dead or would want
to be. Dad said the anarchists went
into executive session and took up a
collection to send a man to Berlin to
fill the emperor's saddle horses with
cut feed like dad suggested.
Well, the anarchist story was too
much for Switzerland, and the next
morning dad was told by policeman
that he had to get out of the country
quick, and it didn't take us Is minutes
to pack up, and here we are in Venice.
Well, say, old friend, this is the place
where you ought to be, because nobody
works here, that is, nobody but gon-
doliers. We have been here several
days, and have not seen soul do
ing anything except begging, or SELL
ing things that nobody seems to want.
If anybody buys anything but onions,
it is for curiosity, or for souvenirs, and
yet the whole population sits around
in the sun and watches the strangers
from other lands price things and go
away without buying, and then every
body looks mad, as though they would
like to jab knife into the stranger
The plazas and the places near the
canal are filed with hucksters and
beggars, and you never saw beggars SC
mutilated and sore and disgusting.
= nerer supposed human beings could
be so deformed, without taking an az
to them, and it is so pitiful to see
them that you can't help shedding your
money.
AS hard hearted as dad is, hi
coughed up over $40 the first day, just
irving to beggars, and he thought hi
had got them all bought up, and thai
they would let him alone, but the mex
day when he showed up there were tel
beggars where there was one the da!
before and they followed him every
where. and all the loafers in tn,
plazas laughed and acted as if the.
would catch the cripples when dad go
ont of sight and rob the beggars. Dat
thinks the way the people live is b.
dividing with beggars. A man who ha
a deformity, or sore that you can Sc
half a block away, seems to be- con
sidered rich here, like man in Amer
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

head out Of water, but nothing showed
above the water where Garibaldi was
except red patch on his black pants.
Dad was yelling fer help, and finally
the gondolier got his head out of tho
water, and said something that sound
ed like grinding butcher knife on a
grindstone, and yelled, too, and the
gondolas began to gather around us,
and the two men were rescued. The
gondolier had been gondoling all his
life and he had never been in the water
before. and they thought it would
strike In and kill him, SO they
wrapped him up in blankets and put
him aboard his canoe, and he looked
at me as though was to blame. They
got . boat hook fastened in dads pants
and landed him in the gondola and he
dripped all the way to our hotel, and
he smelled like fish market.
asked Garibaldi, on the way to the
hotel, II he was counting his beads
when he was down under the water
with nothing but his pants out of the
water, and he said: you're dam
right" but don't think he knew the
meaning of the words, because he prob.
ably wouldn't swear In the presence
OF death. Dad just sat and shivered
all the way to the hotel, but when we
got TO our room / asked him what his
Idea was in jumping overheard right
there before folks, with his best
clothes on, and he said 1t was all Carl
Daldis fault, that just as dad was get.
ting a good grip on the paddle, the
gondolier heaved long sigh, and the
onions in his breath paralyzed dad sc
he fell overheard.
Then you don't blame your little
boy, do you?"Nsays I, and dad looked
at me as he was hanging his wet shir
on chair. Course not; you wer,
asleep in the cabin. But say, if | eve
hear that you did tip that gondola, i
Will go hard with you," but Jus
looked innocent, and dad went on dry
ing his shirt by charcoal brazier an,
never suspected me. But am gettin,
the worst of it, for dad and his clothe
smell SO much like a clam bake that |
makes me sick.
Well old friend, you ought to clos
up your grocery and come over her
and go to Vesuvius and Pompeii wit
us, where we can dry our clothes b
the volcano, and dig in the city tina
was buried in hot ashes 1000 year
ago. They say you can dig up mum
mics there that are dead ringers TO
you, old man.
o, come on, and have fun with Vi
Your friend,
! HENNERY
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16
COURT KNEW THE GAME.
And Took Judicial Notes of the Fine
Points as They Were
Narrated.

Senator Clay, of Georgia, is looked
upon as one Of the best raconteurs in
the upper house of congress. In negro
dialect stories he is inimitable, SAYS
the Louisville Courier-Journal This
is his latest
When Judge David Irwin was hold
ing court in Marietta, Ca, negro was
brought before him for smashing the
nose of companion while the two
were engaged in a supposedly friendly
game of cards. There were a dozen
witnesses who testified that there was
no provocation whatever, but that the
prisoner had suddenly leaned over the
table and smashed the nose of the
man opposite, nearly knocking that
organ out of place.
The belligerent was convicted of as
sault and battery and sentenced to six
months imprisonment. The man had
in the past borne good reputation
and Judge Irwin had known him for
years, and besides the judge was noted
for his clemency to first offenders. So
he asked the prisoner, when the case
came before him for review, why he
had acted In such a manner.
"You must have had some reason"
he said. Nov tell me all about it, Just
between ourselves"
"'Deed did hab some reason,
jedge; deed l did," the negro blurted
out. "Jedge, did you eber play seben-
up?"
The stern dispenser of justice de.
clined to answer the question
whether l play seven-up or not has
nothing to do with the case" he said
"But 'ded it hab, jedge; it hab heaps
to do wifi it." the negro insisted, "foi
lessen you can play seben-up you cain't
understan' how this yere happened
You see, jedge, me and that Niger
ober dar was ylayin' and l dole The
kairds and l turn-up de nine-spot OK
spades, and | hab in my han the jael
and the ten and the deuce. He bes
and | glib i'm one, an den what YOU
think dat niger ober dar done? HI
lead de ace oh spades an put on my
deuce. Den what you think dat niggeI
ober dar done? He lead de king oil
spades and give him hard look, bu
put on my ten Den what you thinl
that onery, low-down, sneakin' niggel
done, jedge? He lead de queen oil
spades l put on my jack, and den
Just lean ober an smash he's nos
clean often he's face"
When order was restored the judg
solemnly revoked the previous sen
tence. II think that If the defendan
pays one dollar" he said, "all the re
quirements of justice which the SOY
ereign state of Georgia demands will
be bountifully satisfied"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

of the gondola, and grabbed the pole
or paddle from the gondolier, and said:
Now, Garibaldi, you go inside the
pup tent with Hennery, and let me
punt this ark around awhile"
Garibaldi thought dad was crazy,
but he gave up the pole, and just then,
when they were both on the extreme
point of the gondola, and she was
wabbling some, peeked out through
the curtains and thought the fruit was
about ripe enough to pick, so l threw
myself over to one side of the gondola
and, by gosh, if dad and Garibaldi
didn't both go overheard with a splash
and one yell in the English language
and one in Eyetalian, and rushed
out of the cabin and such a sight you
never saw.
Dad retained the paddle, and had hi;
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

dress clothes and sit on verandas, or
eat and drink, and talk Eyetalian, and
ride in gondolas, and play guitars, and
smoke cigarettes, and talk love. 1t
is so warm you can wear your sum-
merpants, and the water smells of clans
that died long ago. 1t is just as
though Chicago was flooded by the
bursting of the sewers, and people had
to go around ;cate street, and all the
cross streets, al Michigan avenue, in
fishing boats, with three feet of water
on top of the pavements. Imagine
the people of Chicago taking gondolas
and riding along the streets, landing
at the stores and hotels, just as they
do now from carriages,
We had been riding in gondolas for
two days, getting aground in the mud
when the tide was out, and going to
sleep and waiting for the tide to come
in, when it seemed to me that dad
needed some excitement, and last night
gave it to him.
We were out in our gondola, and the
moon was shining, and the electric
lights made the canal near the Rialto
bridge as light as day. The Rialtc
bridge crosses the Grand canal, anC
has been the meeting place for lovers
for thousands Of years. 1t is a grant
structure, of carved marble, but il
wouldn't hold up threshing machine
engine half as well as an iron bridge
Well, the canal was filled with thou
sands of gondolas, loaded with thu
flower of Venetian society, and tn,
music just made you want to fall IL
love. Dad said if he didn't fall in love
or something, before morning, HI
would quit the place. made up m,
mind he should fall into something, s,
I began by telling dad it SCENE,
strange to me that nobody but Eye
Italians could run a gondoIa. Dad sal,
he could run a gondola as well as an,
foreigner, and l told him he couldn'
run gondola for shucks, and he sal
he would show me, so he got out o
the hen house where we were seated
and went back on to the pointed en-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

lean who owns stock In great corpora
tions. These beggars pay more taxes
than the dukes and things who live in
style.
/ suppose dad never studied geogra-
ply, so he didn't know how Venice, was
situated, so he told me to go out and
order a hack the first morning we were
here, and we would go and see the
town. When told dad there we're no
hacks, no horses and no roads In
Venice, he said I was crazy in my head
and wanted me to take some medicine
and stay in bed for few days, but
convinced him, when we got out
doors, that everything run by water
and when showed him the canal and
the gondolas, he remembered all about
Venice, and picked out gondolier that
looked like one dad saw at the worlds
fair, and we hired him because he
talked English All the English the
gondolier could use were the words
you bet your life," and ''you re dam
right" but dad took him because II
seemed so homelike, and we have beer
riding in gondolas every day.
On the water you can get away from
the beggars. This is an ideal exist
ence. You just get in the gondola, un
der a canopy, and the gondolier doe'
the work, and you glide along between
buildings and wonder who lives there
and when they wake up, as all da.
long the blinds are closed, and every
body seems to be dead. But at night
when the canals are lighted, and tn
moon shines, the people put on thei
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16

make you irritable; you can't sleep,
you are unable to quietly and calmly
perform your daily tasks or care for
your children.
The relation of the nerves and gen.
erative organs in women is SO close
that nine-tenths of the nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, the blues,
sleeplessness and nervous irritability
arise from some arrangement of the
| organism which makes her q woman
Fits of depression or restlessness and
irritability. Spirits easily affected, SO
that one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and
between the shoulders. Loss of voice;
nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry
at the least provocation. All this points
to nervous prostration.
Nothing will relieve this distressing
condition and prevent months of pros
tration and suffering so surely as Lydia
II. PinlSham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. M. e. Shotwell, of 1os Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
~ cannot express the wonderful relief
have experienced by taking Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. / suffered for
long time with nervous prostration, back.
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not sleep and would walk the floor almost
every night
~ had three doctors and got no better, and
life was a burden. / was advised to try
Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it has worked wonders for me.
81 am well woman, my nervousness Is all
gone and my friends say look ten years
younger"
VIII not the volumes of letters from
women made strong by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound convince
all women of its virtues? Surely you
cannot wish to remain sick and weak
and discouraged, exhausted each day,
when you can be as easily cured "a
other women.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-16
Dad Plays He Is an Anarchist in
Geneva-In Venice They Give Aims
and the Bad Boy Upsets Con-
dola in the Grand Canal.
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.

DI HUN. GEORGE w. fECh.
GET Governor of Wisconsin, Formerly Pub
Usher of Peck's Sun, Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" Etc.)
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
VENICE, ITALY.--MY DEAR OLD
CHUMIRENO: Dad couldn't get out of
Switzerland quick enough after he got
thawed out the day after we climbed
the GLACIERS. We found that almost all
the tourists in Geneva were there be-
cause they did not want to go home
and say they had not visited Switzerland,
so they just jumped from one place to
another. The people who stay there
any length of time are like the foreign
residents of Mexico, who are wanted
for something they have done at
home, that is against the law There
are more anarchists in Geneva than
anything else, and they look hairy and
wild eyed, and they plot to kill kings
and drink beer out of two quart jars.
When we found that more attention
was paid to men suspected Of crime in
their own countries, and men who were
believed to be plotting to assassinate
kings, dad said 1t would be a good
Joke IL a story should get out that he
was suspected of being connected with
a syndicate that wanted to assasslnate
sGrIe one, so told fellow that I goi
acquainted with that the fussy old man
that tried to ride glazier without
any saddle or stirrup was wanted fol
attempting to blow UP the president
of the United States by selling him
baled hay soaked in solution of dy
Mantle and nitro-glycerine.
Say, they will believe anything II
Switzerland. 1t wasn't two hours before
long-haired people were inviting dat
to dinners, and the same night he wal
taken to den where a lot of anar
chists were reveling, and dad revelet
till almost morning. Wien he cam,
back to the hotel he said his hosts go
all the money he had with him
through some game he didn't under
stand, but he understood it was to e.
into fund to support deserving anar
chists aud dynamiters. He said whel
they found out he was suspected as
sassin nothing was too good for him
He said they wanted to know how h
expected to kill president by soakin
baled hay in explosives, and dad sal
it came to him suddenly to tell Their
that the president rode on horsebac
a good deal, and he thought if hors
was filled with baled hay and nitro
glycerine and the president squire