The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-27
Not Effect
he Sentiment this Great and Growing Commonwealth
Although American Economist Tries to Make
HAppear Differently.

| tariff schemes. That is left for such
publications as The Economist.
And by the way-what is The Am
! erican Economist? Who controls it?
What is back of it?
The American Economist is the Off
cial organ of the radical high protec
tive tariff element of the eastern states.
What is back of it? Millions of money
ready to be put up to maintain the ex-S
listing high tariff schedules, in order that
certain interests which no longer need
protection can reap rich ripe harvests
at the expense of the American people.
Who are back of it? There are TWEEN
ty members of the board of managers,
Of these five are from New York, the
great converging point of the money
millions of the country. Three are from
Pennsylvania, the home of the steel
trust and the plate glass and pottery
trusts. Rhode Island, the little state
not so large as Blue Earth county, New
Jersey, the home of the big trusts, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, and Maryland,
! have a member. There is one member
from Ohio, Hon. Myron T. Herrick, who
was defeated for governor of his state
last fall through the fearless speech of
William HI. Taft, secretary of war. The
great Mississippi river valley which
pours millions into the lap of New
York is unrepresented Illinois, Indi-
ana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. have
no member. Your correspondent is adj
vised that several years ago these
states each had a member. Perhaps
Congressman j. 7. McCleary, who pub
fishes his speeches in this publication
and sends them broadcast to the world,
is the member ex-officio for the entire
middle west. What do the people of his
district think of their congressman who
makes purported speeches in Washing
ton and ''holds them up in Minnesota
1 for weeks after The Economist prints
them?
1t is time that these things were bet
ter understood
| Look at the title pages of The Am
| erican Economist. On them appear ad
vertisements from the Croseouses of
wealth of the American continent On
the first page is the advertisement of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, the
| Continental Color company, the Elec.
! trio Crane company. Others are the
American Cordake company which is
| fighting Warden Wolfer of the Min
nesota pennitentiary tooth and nail.
| The American Felt company, the Linen
Thread company, etc. On another page
the gentle reader is advised in plea type
that the speech of Congressman Nc
Cleary of Minnesota on "Why First
Voters Should Be Protectionists'' can be
had at the rate of 60 cents per dozen.
This speech purports to have been de-
livered in congress Jan 18th, 1904. 1t
was never delivered. 1t is dated New
York, 1904, printed by The American
Economist and then sold and circulated
through the mails as part of The
Congressional Record.
In that speech Congressman Nc.
Cleary seeks to misrepresent the sec
ond district and the state. The people
of Minnesota are in favor of tariff re-
vision. The republican state convention
has so declared and that convention was
made up of the representative party
men of this commonwealth.