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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK LEAGUE.
Shows That the Government Is Re.
ceiving Private Deposits.

Chicago, Nov. 3.-That Uncle Sam al
ready is in the banking business and
that the acceptance of savings at mon
ey order postoffices would be needed
extension of it and not an innovation
that is ominous of paternalism is the
answer made by the Postal Savings
Bank league to the objections raised by
the American Bankers association The
league quotes the figures cited by Con-
gresham Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock of Oma-
ha, member of its advisory board, in
speech urging postal banking, in
which he said: "The government is
already in the banking business. Our
$4,000 money order postoffices are sell
ing hundreds of millions of dollars of
exchange every year incompetition with
banks. l understand the money order
business amounts to over $500, 100000
year and involves 5O,OO0,OOO transac-
tions. The same officials could handle
deposits. Not only that, but our gov
ernment already has in successful OPP
GRAFTON two big savings banks. The
war department, through paymasters,
accepts deposits from enlisted men. In
June, 1906, there were in this military
bank 26,224 depositors, with deposits
aggregating $3,064 ,253.2S. The navy
department had to the credit of sea-
men SS60,020.2S. In both cases the
government allows four per cent inter
est, and the effect has been, it is said,
very salutary OIL the men by inducing
them to save instead of sGuandering
their money" Advocacy of postal bank
ing has been declared editorially by
the Woman's World, the magazine of
the largest circulation in the world,
over 100000, with this practical sug
gestiOn added: can examination of
the postal savings bank system of
England proved that more than fifty
per cent of its depositors are married
women, spinstcrs, widows and children
That tells the whole story. Are the
women and children of America less
worthy of having the strong protecting
arm of the national government thrown
about their savings and their children's
savings than are the women of Eng
land? No! Thrift-family thrift-is
the foundation of every sound and es-
tablished home, and in nine cases out
of ten where that thrift exists wom
an is at the bottom of it. The Ameri
can Bankers association is bending
To Iofo hn do
mands for a postal savings system,
and unless you get busy and come into
the game in personal way it seems
likely that this powerful organization
will be able to strange the bill in
A big individual member
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
|OR. ADDISON JONES

The regular and reliable Chicago
specialist now making his fotwt6h
years monthly visits to ManRato
will lie at
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05

Cures permanently the cases heJun-
dertakes and sends the incurable home
without taking fee from them. This
is why he continues his visits yearfaft-
er year. while other doctors have made
few visits and stopped. DR.. Jones' is
an eminently successful specialistAin
all chronic diseases, proven by the
many cures effected in chronic cases
which have baff1ed the skill Of other
physicians. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made hin4 SO
proficient that he can name and locate
a disease in a few minutes.
Treats all durable cases of Lung DIS
eases, Consumption in early stage,
Stomach Liver, Kidneys and Bowels,
Gravel, Paralysis. Neuralgia, Nervous
ness, Sick Headache. Heart Blood and
Skin Diseases, Epilepsy, Appendicitis,
Rupture and rBright's Disease, Diseases
of Bladder, and Tobacco habit.
Absorption Treatment given for Cat
aract and Granu}ated Eyelids.
Special Attentions given to all Surgical
cases, and all Diseases of the Eye, Ear,
Nose, Throat, Ringing in Ears Eahd
Deafness.
have a seldom failing,remedy for GOiter.
Cross Eyes Strengthened without pain.
Glasses fitted and guaranteed. i
Remarkable cures are perfected in
cases of Catarrh, and all catarrhalbdis-
charges, Rheumatism of, muscles and
joints, Eczema, Gall Stones, Blood Poi
son, Nervous Debility, ST. HituS Dance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
Judson

Rees Roberts is husking corn for j.
&c. Roberts.
G. J. Owen has hired out to pick
Ecorn for C. G.. Jones.
Miss Florence Little spent Sunday
with her aunt, Mrs. Ruth Roberts.
Annie Davis who has been staying at
George Peterson's was home over Sun
day.
Miss. Esther Evans is staying a few
weeks at William Morris home in But
ternut Valley
A bright baby boy came to brighten
the home Of William Morris and wife,
about two weeks ago.
Mrs. Robert j. Thomas has been
confined to the house with a severe cold
but is reported as better.
Evan L. Evans of Shakopee came
to spend few days. with his children,
and remained over Sunday.
The Dackins Threshing Company have
moved their outfit to Cambria, where
there are several jobs to belthreshed.
Corn husking seems to be the order
of the day at present. The rain last
Sunday night and Monday, viii put
la stop to any threshing that is left
for at least a while.
R. P. Williams, H. R. James and J.
C. Roberts took trip to Aberdeen,
IS. D., for the purpose of registering.
Mr.. James and Mr.. Roberts brought
1 IF Cfa xuhi oh
intend to fatten his winter.
Evan Williams and wife, and Morris
Williams and family, have moved from
this vicinity onto their own farm in
Butternut Valley. The people of Jud-
son were very sorry to lose those two
worthy families from the community.
Philip McGiveney returned home a
few days ago, after an absence of near
ly two years. He travelled a consider
able part of the time through Washing
ton, Montana and Idaho, but claims he
did not see anything better, nor equal
to old Minnesota. His friends were
all glad to see him back again.
No More Football This Year.
West Point, Nov. because of the
death of Eugene A. Byrne of Buffalo
n. Y, no more football will be played
by the West Point eleven this year
This statement was made by Colonel
Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of the
military academy. after conference
with the athletic officers on the death
of young Byrne, who expired this morn
ing as the result of injuries sus-
tanned in the Harvard game yesterday
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
of rice, and Texas is Americas natural

of rice, and Texas is Americas natural
sugar bowl.
and" continued Mr. McClurg hui
morously, recently when l made this
statement in Toledo, next morning the
Toledo Blade said: When Mr. Nc
clurg finishes enumerating the firsts in
which Texas ranks, he makes the alb
sent minded Buckeyes stop to count
their presidents in order to maintain
Ohio's long-boasted supremacy
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05

tion Texas ranks second in the nation.
Texas produces one third of the cotton
of the world, her cotton crop alone
amounting to one hundred and sixty
millions of dollars. Texas has first
rank in the United States as to the
number of her cattle and horses. She
is the first state in the Union as to
oil fields and oil production, surprising
Pennsylvania. This year she will UNI
doubtedly take first rank in the yield
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
Husky Brother to Help Her.


"She has pretty husky brother, "
observed Mrs. McNickle, "and a broth
erinl law, for that matter, so she
won't be all alone.'
Miss ,McNiekle is stenographer and
has spent practically all her life, with
the exception of the recent vacation in
the west, in Milwaukee and Chicago
The farm she has won is in the fruit
country of the northwest and her win
ming rights are valued at $4,000 above
what the land actually will cost.
Il really would like. to tell you
about all those other letters" said the
young woman as the interviewer with
drew, "but you know that wouldn't
be fair either to the writer's or to
me-"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05

ship in the Postal Savings Bank league
is being enrolled at its Chicago head
quarters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05

If men could make money as easily
as they can make love we should all
be millionares in short time.-Chi-
cago News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
Wonderful Cures

Perfected in old cases which havedbeen
neglected or unSkillfully treated. 40
experiments or failures. We do not nm
dertake incurable cases, but cure thou
sands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential
Reference, Drexcl State Bank
Address DIR. ADDTSONeyO ONES
764 OAKWoOD BLVD, CHICAGO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
Chronic Diseases of Men and
Women a Specially

Space forbids the mention of but few If THE
Chronic Diseases which treat of both menpnd
women. If you nervous, excitable and irritable
Respondent, weak and easily tired out Ii You have
lack of energy of confidence, deposit in urine
or if you are woman and have headache, backac he
or pain in Side my treatment remarkably Success
full. Married ladies should be accom- panied by thciI
I'M Stands
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
Piles, Fissure, Fistula {

Guaranteed Cured Without Surgical
Operation Detention from EusST5esss.
All kinds of piles and rectal seases treated
Piles njure the general health produce indi gesdion
bloating and nervousness. Often cause urtoid Suf-
fering and much loss of blood. Come and seeOme
even though you have been told surgica operation
was necessary. Hundreds of such cases cured.el
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
PhiIateiy of Aviation.
pany.

One of the very few, genuine "vari-
cites" in stamps is announced. 1t
would be more correct to say it is a
rare postmark. Rare it will be if in
terested parties did not take advan-
tage of the occurrence and have ad-
dressed to themselves thousands Of
envelopes bearing the mark. 1t seems
that during the now, historical avia-
ton week at Rheims temporary
postoffice was set up on the aviation
ground and all letters there posted
bearing the ordinary French stamps
were postmarked INSTRUMENTATION, y
besides the various service marks.
The marking stamp was hexagonal
instead of round. These stamps will,
no doubt, be curiosities. Time will
tell whether they will be sought after
like the unnecessary Brunei provision
ais, which in the aggregate must have
fetched just as high a sum as the
years revenue of the swamp in
which they were issued.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
Tariff Eioht Clearly Defined.

President Taft has forced the tariff
issue between the two great parties
to the line from which there is no re-
ceding. The twilight zone" between
the Democratic party and the Repub-
lican party on that question has dis
appeared. BY his speech at Winona
the official leader and spokesman OF
the Republican party notified the Re-
publican tariff reformers of the north
west and the middle west that the
party has nothing for them.
The Democratic party is the only
agency through which they can get
what they want. The president has
destroyed the usefulness of Republi.
can tariff reform delegations in con-
gress. He has pointed Chairman Llyod
and the Democratic congressional cam
paign committee to the ground fon
which the great tariff battle of next
year is to be fought.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05

convention to order Saturday morning
and set forth briefly the aims and
plans of the organization. He said the
deep waterway work is now in this
condition:
l. The sanitary district of Chicago
has built the deep waterway, practi-
cally to Joliet, nearly 40 miles, and
100000, 900 have been spent thus far
on the work.
2 The entire route of the lakesto-
the-gulf deep waterway from Joliet to
New Orleans, through the Des PLANES
river, the Illinois river and the Mis-
sissippi river, has been surveyed un-
der direction of congress by United
States engineers, who have officially
reported to congress that the building
of the deep waterway is feasible.
J. The people of the state of Illi-
nois have adopted a constitutional
amendment providing for a bond is
sue of S20,000,000, the money to be
spent in constructing the deep water
way southwark from Joliet.
f. A bill introduced by United States
Representative Richard Bartholdt of
Missouri is now pending in congress,
providing for the issuance by the
United States government of bonds to
the amount of $500, 100000, the money
to be spent in constructing this deep
waterway from the lakes to the gulf
and other meritoriOus projected river
Improvements.
5. 1t is intended to ask the Sixty
first congress to pass bill providing
definitely that the United States gov
ernment undertake the construction
of the deep waterway from the point
where the Illinois work will end, to
the Gulf of Mexico.
In the afternoon, following the ad-
dress of President Taft, Clifford Pin
chot, head of the government forestry
department, made an address on the
conservation of the nations natural
resources.
In the evening the delegates to the
convention were entertained at stag
smoker by the Progressive union OF
New Orleans. This evening all the
delegates and the ladies accompany
ing them were the guests Of the Pro-
gressive union at the New Orleans
Opera house, where La Juive" was
given by the French Opera Com
pany.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
AS UNDERSTOOD IN BOSTON
The Traditional Episode Of Little
Miss Muffet"- Brought Into
Everyday Cognizafice.

A diminutive specimen Of juvenile
femininity yclept Miss sMuffet had
placed herself in sitting posture
upon an article, of household furniture
ordinarily termed an ottoman or has
sock
Miniaturing to the qualification of
her gustatory organs by ingurgitating
the cOagulated portion of bovine lac
teal fluid mingled with the watery
serum of the same which remains
after the coagulated portion has been
segregated and withdrawn.
Happening to glance downward she
observed that a specimen of the genus
Aranea, class Arachnida, remarkable
for it's ability to produce tilaments of
extraordinary tenuity from its own in
terror, had taken a position upon the
ottoman or hassock in immediate prOx-
unity.
Which totally unexpected incident
aroused her apprehension to such an
extent that she Immediately, not to
say precipitately, arose from her sit
ting posture and departed from the To-
cality, leaving the intruder in undis-
puted possession of the apartment.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
a Disappointment.

President Taft and Congressman
Tawney were in the same boat. One
signed the bill and the other voted
for it, AS matter Of expediency, not
only for maintaining party solidarity
and usefulness, but for the purpose OF
ending the tariff disturbance and per-
hitting the resumption of business,
their action was justified. Adequate
defense of their course did not neces-
state such unqualified Endorsement OF
the bill, with the exception of the
wooden schedule, as the president
gave before his Minnesota audience.
The president has disappointed an
army of consumers who have had
faith in his positive interest in re-
vision downward directed against ex-
orbitant profits, and who, heretofore,
have credited him with being an un-
willing acceptor of the Aldrich-Payne
bill only as the best measure obtain
able under the circumstances.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
FINE RECIPE FOR COLDS.

Any druggist can supply these In
gredieats or will get them from his
wholesale house.
Mix half pint of good whiskey, two
ounces of glycerine; half ounce OF
Concentrated pine compound. Shake
the bottle well each time and use in
doses of teaspoonful to tablespoon
full four times day" This prescrip-
ton is said to work wonders.
The Concentrated pine is special
pine product and comes only in half
ounce bottles, each enclosed in an air
tight case, but be sure it Is labeled
concentrated"
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
CLAIM MUST BE CONSIDERED
People of District of Alaska Within
# Their Rights When They -
Protest.

Alaska is 500 miles wide and 1,100
miles long. 1t is more than IL times
as large as New York and more than
twice as large as Texas. In 1900 IT
had a population Of $4,000, not quite
one-half being Indians. OF the whites
more than $4,000 were grown Men.
The white population has increased
materially in The last nine years.
The District of Alaska is ruled by
congress, governor and a judge. It's
people are ambitious and progressive
and for some time past have been Pc
tltioning congress for territorial
form of government. There are twice
as many white men in Alaska as are
to be found in Nevada, more dwellings
and fewer mortgages. Alaska's min
eral output exceeds that of Nevada.
Yet Nevada is state while Alaska is
a dependency.
When the Northwest Territory, now
embracing the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, was
organized as a self-ruling territory it
had but 5000 voters. 1t is held now
that Alaska's population is shifting
and uncertain, but worse epithets than
these were used against the pioneers
of the northwest
Everybody believes that Alaska has
great future 1t is rich in minerals.
1t has an abundance of fuel. Its for
ests are of unknown extent It's agri-
cultural possibilities are considerable.
Unless the American idea is to be set
down as a failure this great domain
cannot be wisely and justly developed
without republican form of govern
ment. Just now, it resembles crown
colony, ruled by non-residents, with
less freedom than Porto Rico or the
Philippines.
AS showing the alarming growth Of
the idea that American citizens may
be governed by outsiders and without
representation, and of the equally
novel theory that under some circum-
stances it is not safe to intrust Ameri-
cans with government, the fact
should be noted that the president
himself is, in the case of Alaska, the
most powerful advocate of these doc
trines.-New York World
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
Dodoinu the Main Issue.

President Taft lays much stress
upon side issues in his western dis
cussiOns OF the tariff problem. He
tells the western farmers that the
country will gain immensely from the
tax on corporations. He points with
pride to the new tariff commission.
which will furnish a scientific base for
future tariff adjustments.
What his western hearers really
wish Mr.. Taft to explain is why he
signed a tariff law that admittedly
violates the Republican party's sol
emn ante-election pledges. Mr.. Taft
admits that the woolen schedule is
direct violation of these pledges. But
his only answer to the main question
is that if he had vetoed the bill in its
entirety he would have endangered
the Solidarity" of the Republican
party.
This might be considered an argn-
ment if President Taft's hearers were
exclusively partisan Republicans.
Even then it would be lame apology.
For we cannot assume that the Re-
publican party lacks patriots or that
a Republican president would not play
better politics by keeping his pledges.
The main issue is still written large
throughout the west. If President
Taft does not actually evade it. his
explanations hardly measure up to an
adequate standard.
The west would like to know why 1t
will pay tribute Indefinitely to eastern
mill bosses. And President Taft will
not, or cannot, tell.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
TAFT WITH ALDRICH
WEST MUST UNDERSTAND POSI-
TON OF PRESIDENT.
Chief Executive Signed Measure Real.
king That II Meant Repudiation
OF the Party's Pledge to
the Country.

Mr.. Tafts derense of the Aldrich
Tariff in his .Winona speech is bitter
disappointment to the west. That Sec
ton approved Of the action of the ten
Republican senators from Minnesota,
Wisconsin,, Indiana, South Dakota,
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, and it
cherished the delusion that Mr.. Taft
on his western trip would express
sympathy with their views. Far from
being pacified by his labored plea in
support of 1.-The best tariff bill that
the Republican party has ever passed."
1t finds fresh cause for resentment.
AS a matter of fact, there never
pect that Mr.. Taft would attack the
Aldrich tariff bill He signed it with
out hesitancy Immediately upon it's
passage. and on signing it issued a
statement defending it as an adequate
fulfllment of Republican pledges. Dur
ing the last days of the session when
be urged reductions upon the confer
ence committee he called none of the
western insurgents into consultation.
His attitude all through the earlier
stages of the tariff fight had been stu
diously neutral, and while in the end
he secured concessions that the insur-
gents favored, he showed no sympathy
with their attacks upon the stand-pat
leaders.
Mr.. Taft's ambition in revising the
20. ~ I,
In the party. He is still so solicitous
about maintaining the party solidari-
ty for accomplishing it's chief pur-
poses" that he protests against any
show of indignation and would post
pone further tariff agitation until after
the next presidential election. The
western Republicans are angry at be-
ing robbed and want to renew the
fight at once.
AS a harmonizer Mr.. Taft failed at
Winona. Perhaps he did not realize
how seriously the west had taken his
campaign pledges in favor of an hon
est and downward revision, or that
many Republicans there are still cap
able of regarding the tariff as moral
as we'll as a political issue. His ex-
preston of joy that "a number of
those who thought it their duty to
vote against the bill insist that they
are still Republicans" has not served
to make matters better.
The western progressives have no
misgivings about their own Republi-
canism 1t is Mr. Taft's Republicanism
that they are finding fault with.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05
ADDED TO THE MISFORTUNE
coy to Bring Other Unde-
sirabIes.

Asa Paine, vice-president of the
American Automobile association, said
in st. Augustine of the automobile
industry:
Cars are now made to last The
rich man no longer finds his 1907 car
questionable, like his 1907 coat, in
1909.
"At the beginning of the industry
car was antiquated in no time-so
.antiquated that people laughed at it.
''They tell a story in Detront about
a dealer who had, in 1900, an anti.
quated 1895 car. He tried vainly to
sell this car. He put lower and lower
price tags ON it-$100, $50, $10-and
finally he put on tag to the effect
that the car was to be given away.
Even then there were no takers.
$50 one evening, desperate, the
dealer left the 1895 car in vacant
lot beside his shop, hoping that some
one would steal it IN the night. But
when he came down to work the next
morning, not only was the old car
still there, but another one of similar
pattern had been placed beside it,
Somehow the majority of our habits
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-05

ment of waterways had been carried
forward in a haphazard fashion in
the past, and that new method
should be adopted.
Il believe in the deep waterway"
said the president Il am for 1t, and
/ shall use all the power that l pos
sess in doing what may be accom-
plished to give you citizens of this
great valley what you so earnestly de-
sire. 1t is all part of still great
er movement inaugurated by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and properly called
by him the conservation of our ma
tional resources.
''The projects for irrigation and for
the improvement of waterways in the
future are not to be for the purpose
of distributing pork to every part OF
the country Every measure is to be
adopted on the ground that it will be
useful to the whole country. They
are not to be adopted for sending
certain congressman back to Wash
ington or for making certain parts of
the country profitable during the ex-
penditure of the money.
1--WE should take up every compre-
hensive project on it's merits and de-
termine whether the country where
the project Is to be carried out has so
far developed as to justify the enor-
NOUS expenditure of money and if 1t
will be useful when done. When we
decide in favor of a project, | believe
in issuing bonds to carry it to COM
pletion as rapidly as possible. 1t has