The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-08-10

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sober-minded, law-abiding. clean and
healthy country-and the city has
the best Of 1t to date.
And the city publisher is gloating
over his millions of magazine and
newspaper circulation with which he
is building up the city stores and
banks and wholesale houses and in
surance companies through bringing
the countryman's money and trade
into the city instead of letting it re-
main to prosper the countryman's
own community.
Aided and Allotted
BY the Government
Millions for postal service to dis
tribute the city publications to the
country people but not one dollar for
one cent postage" Is the policy of the
acknowledgements or Republi-
can, it makes no difference, for the
city publisher has been getting his
little million dollar a week graft out
of the postal department under both
for years.
Help the city all you can," is the
cry in Congress. Crush the country.
man. Build up Chicago, St. Louis.
New York as jobbing and manufacture
ing and railroad and packing and
brewery and publishing centers. Don't
let a single state have a wholesale
center of it's own unless it's located
where it can help US politically. Regu-
late railroad rates to compel the
whole country to buy everything from
these great political centers and to
send everything there-wheat, cattle,
cotton, cash.
kill of the country merchant and
the country store. They interfere
! with centralized control. Kill of the
country banker. He keeps some Of the
peoples money at home. XIII OF the
country publisher. He appeals to a
free and intelligent people and has
power we must curb. Drive all gen.
| eral advertisers to use only the big
city publications and let the mail
order advertiser get all the local trade
away from the country advertiser who
| supports the country newspaper.
Hurray for Capitalization. The coun.
try people supply US with everything
| we eat and wear and now let's make
'em supply all our cash and buy moth
ing except what's advertised In our
publications" ri.
That's the Cry
Of tho City ~
That's the cry OF the city-the hun!
cry, sensual, wicked, selfish, lazy,
cruel, cursed city that takes our young
people and converts them into dis
ciples of mammon, into non-religious,
non-virtuous, non-intelligent support
ers of city systems Of graft and greed
and now wants to take all our other
possessions, including our independ-
ence of thought.
And the city publisher goes about
it shrewdly.
glance to be honest articles, setting
forth the facts about "Frenzied
Finance" and meat methods and rail.
reading and private car system and
insurance scandals, but which ere
really inspired by motives that will
not bear analysis. The plausibility
of these articles IN their shrewdest
point.
They look exactly az II they were
written For the Common Good" but
they should all be labeled Central
lie Everything in the Cities" From
rate legislation to packing house ex-
posures they all aim to create condi-
tions that will compel all business to
be done in great cities by great trusts.
The local butcher can't kill cattle un-
der government inspection, the coun-
try store can't sell goods In competi.
ton with the city mail order house
and the ordinary jobber in any state
center can't compete with the 1obber
in big cities that are favored by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
rate legislation.
But when the country newspapers
band together and enjoy men of tai.
ent to write regarding great subjects,
men who will give the facts and let
the people Judge for themselves, .he0
Iuo COuAIly puUASA0I pIOISClS JjIus~
self and his patrons. This is exactly
what thousands of them are doing.
They are combining to have the truth
brought out regarding the trusts and
thus putting their readers in position
to enact legislation that will safe
guard the country against the attacks
of the city and the city's publishers
and politicians.
Thus the country puulisnGr is as.
sorting himself and will be able to win
in the struggle for his own existence
and that of his patrons-the country
storekeeper, farmer; cattleraiser and
banker.
The publication Of the facts regard.
ing cattle and cash, meat and wheat,
railroads and rates, private cars and
fruit, vegetable and beef distribution.
insurance and "Frenzied Finance"
will place the great country people,
the producing and prospecting popula-
ton Of the nation, in position to exer-
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