The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-20

You business men know that. this is
true. You know that you are doing all
that You can to down st. Joseph's hos
! pital. Then you come to US due
tors and want us to boost your
propositions, All of abe physicians
know and say how you treat them. We
don't object if patients go where they
please, but we do object to their being
influenced to go away" .:@
case. He said, that he had never heard
of this before.
ruption, said that the city is now get
ting another hospital, but the business
men are trying to kill it. He said that
he would not be small about the mat
ter, but would subscribe $500 toward the
street railway project. This announce
ment was received with applause.
Supported By DR.. Schmauss.
Dr. Schmauss said. that he had been
anxious for long time to have this
matter brought up, He would not make
it as strong as DR.. Andrews had done
but what he had said was true, and he
cited instances where patients coming to
Mankato to be treated bad been advis,
ed by local business men to GO else
where 1t had been brought home to
the members of the club that they ought
to patronize home industries. The doc
tors are expected to live and subscribe
for this and that enterprise that the
business men originate, but they must
have money to do this with. AS sOoT
as people come to the city to be operat
ed upon they go to the stores to trade
and the back handed work begins. The
merchants may not intend to do this
and they may not know any better. A 10
cal paper last week printed a. column
hospital, claiming for it things that are
not so. These things do not contribute
to the building up of Mankato. He had
calculated that $4,000 from Mankatc
goes to Rochester every year, and three
fomths of it ought to stay in Mankato
! Judge Plymat said that he was GLAD
that these men had spoken. They hac
knocked the knockers not half hare
enough. Not all of the business mer
are knockers. Some of the very best
business men of the city have spoken
strongly in favor of our local hospitals
and physicians. The trouble is canset
/ by the knockers, and they are alst
knocking the railway enterprise. They
should stop here and show the broat
1spirit that DR.. Andrews had shown.
DIR. Andrews spoke of the way news
papers keep booming the Rochester hos
1 pital. Not all the papers did this, how
ever. AS professional and business mer
we cannot afford to let the street
4 railway proposition fall down. .Ther'
!. never was such a good proposition pre-
sented to the city before. Let us rails,
the money here
! =. More Money Subscribed.
i A. g. Johnson said that he would sub
scribe 500. f..
4 George T. Brett said that he would
4 give 5000, and perhaps. little more
vested to- try to secure a street rail
way.
that he could get relative of his tt
raise his subscription.
/ George NJ. Palmer said that like Mr.
Brett he had sunk $3.50 last year il
trying to get a street railway line HI
put his name down for $500.
Secretary Spencer read the list of sub
scribers
Judge Plymat signed for 500.
Some one asked whether North Man
katO had subscribed any, and President
Iixon, said that it had beaten this side
of the river every time that a PROPOSE
/ ton had been presented, in per capita
subscription. He said that the physici
ans and lawyers are loyal to the city:
interests, and the business men might
well follow their example. 1t was hare
to believe that any business men haC
willfully nocked the doctors. 1t was
the duty of every. member of the cluf
to "plug" for the doctors and lawyers
instead of knocking them. The knock
ers had injured the factories and were
! injuring the street railway. This is en-
countered in all towns, however. He be
lieved that what the business men hat
said had been unwilling, and now that
the matter had been brought up he hop
ed that he would not hear of any more
knocking.
A. III. SLIDER subscribed 500.
Invited to Visit Mills
| George M. Palmer said that the tall