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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
THE NEW LEAGUE.

No meeting in recent years has
caused such statewide comment and
OF remarkably favorable character
las that one which was held in
Mankato last Tuesday and out of
which came the Southern Minnesota
Better Development league, an or
ganizatiOn that is certain to live
up to it's name-one that will sure
ly accomplish results of beneficial
character, not only for Southern
Minnesota but the commonwealth at
large. That the league will have an
influence for the best there is in
the way Of development, there can
be no question. The character of
the men who organized the league is
evidence of this.
The coming of the league is hailed
with words of commentator and
backed by the logic OF optimism.
For instance, The st. Cloud Journal
Press says: "The Southern Mime
sofa Development association meet
ing at MaHkato was a decided sue
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

The New Richland Star. refers to
the Southern Minnesota Better De.
velOpment league as follows: Repre-.
sentative boosters from nearly every
county in Southern Minnesota met
at Mankato the other. day and for.
mulated plans for properly setting
forth the advantages of this part
of the. state. Here's hoping that
the movement bears fruit and that
this fertile section will eventually
at least receive the recognition it
has so long deserved"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

It costs the United States govern
ment one and one-third cents, to
manufacture a 81 bill. When the
bill becomes soiled through contin'
ual handling it is sent to the treas
ury department, which destroys 1t
and issues a nice new clean bill in
it's place. The same may be said
of all other paper currency of large
denominations. Now comes Shell
byville, Ind, inventor, F. B. Churchill,
with machine for washing. ironing
and otherwise laundering paper
money. According to the Inventive
Age. Washington, the treasury de-
partment redeemed s1,1S3,0OO,0O0 in
soiled bills last year and issued new
ones in place Of them. Eighty per
cent of the bills might have been
washed at cost of one-tenth of
cent per bill and reissued at a
considerable saving in cost to the
treasury department.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

ty-six per cent. are dead: the per-
-centage Of deaths to- be expected, ac-
cording to the American mortality
tables, is thirty-fiye per cent. OF the
forty-two graduates OF the class of
1877, only eleven or twenty-six per
cent, are dead. Among nongraduates
the percentage would be thirty.two
per cent, according to the same ia
bles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
COMBINE TO. WHIP GRAIN TRUST.

~ III Iuc cuFfeHt ISSUE OF .farm anu
Fireside is begun new series of
articles, entitled "How We Whipped
Them" the story of the rebellion of
the farmers of the middle west
against the grain, coal and lumber
trusts. The author Of the series is
Edward G. Dunn of Mason City,
Iowa, secretary or the Farmers Grain
Dealers association of Iowa. 1t is
the story Of how the farmers are
combining in the middle west to get
hold Of farmers elevators through
which to sell their grain. @''i =
It is really a story OF the displace-
ment of the middieman's profit. Be
fore this movement began the grain
elevators were operated exclusively
by a sort of grain trust which work
ed in collision with the railroads
and took a large profit between what
the farmer received and what the
grain sold for in the market. For
example, in two little towns in Iowa
a few miles apart, there was a DIFF.
ference in price paid to the farmer
Of from three to Ave cents bushel
for oats, the lower price being the
grain trusts price at its elevator
and the higher price being the CO.
operative farmers price. at the ele-
vator which it now operates as a
result of the movement toward free
dom which MIR. Dunn describes.
This meant a: difference of from
$3.50 to .$5 an acre a year on land.
Since the beginning of the farmers
elevator movement in Iowa nine
years ago 337 farmers elevators
have been. built in Iowa and $500
farmers elevators in the grain belt
states of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
North and South Dakota, Kansas,
Nebraska and Montana.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

The Fairmont Sentinel says: '"The
outraging and numbering of a young
woman on the streets of Minneapolis
soon after, eleven o'clock one night
recently is a., very strong argument
in support of the restoration of
capital punishment. If the human
fiend who committed the horrible
crime is apprehended all that the
public can do to him in the way of
legal punishment is ito house him
comfortably and feed him for as
long a period of time as God AL
mighty in his mercy and long suffer
ance allows him to live"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
central western Minnesota were or.
ganized, and Marshall i WAS - asleep

central western Minnesota were or.
ganized. and Marshall WAS = asleep
at the switch. tct u. ',-s,A
Later the federated commercial
clubs of the entire state held an
important convention, at ST. Paul,
and Marshall was. not represented,
because its old Development club
was inhabitatfng the grave yard.
Last Tuesday the commercial clubs of
Southern Minnesota at a most en-
thusiastic gathering at Mankato or
ganized a Southern Development
league, to which cordial invita-,
tion was sent the Marshall CONNER
cial club, and which was given no
attention at its general meeting and
feed on the previous week. and at
which it had no representative.
Fortunately Lyon county was rep
resented through the energy and en-
terprise of our sister city of Tracy,
and we are pleased to note that
Tracy was given the presidency of
the association, by the election of
Thomas G.. Bonnallie of that city.
and a former resident of Marshall.
Last week Tracy entertained good
roads representatives from every
city, town, and hamlet on the line
of proposed national highway from
the Yellowstone Park to Chicago,
and again Marshall was asleep at
the switch. Comment is unneces-
sary, in the light of former plead.
ings for united public effort to pro-
mote the. growth and prosperity of
this city and Immediate territory.
Marshall will be given an oppor.
tunity to redeem itself when the
league holds its meeting, at St.
Peter in June. No doubt many
towns that were not represented at,
the Mankato gathering will send
delegations to the meeting which
will be held in our sister city. Now
that the league is organized and is
built upon solid foundation the
superstructure will be enlarged from
time to time and eventually it will
have every town in Southern Min
nesota on its membership role. The
league has a most excellent begin
ming. 1t is sure to succeed in the
work that it has set out to do. 1t
will live up to it's name in every
respect. 1t will grow in strength
and usefulness. LII.
The editorial in The News-Messen-
ger has had good effect. Business
men there have decided to organize
a Commercial club. A; meeting will
be held next Thursday to perfect
the organization. Several state, Of
ficials have been asked to attend
the meeting. This is well Towns
that contemplate the organization of
commercial clubs should study the
plan in vogue in North Mankato.
The club in that village is one that
can be patterned after with profit.
Its membership fee is low and in
consequence every man in the vii
lage is identified with the organiza-
ton. The result is all are deeply
interested in the success of the
club. There are no drones in North
Mankato. Everyone is alive to the
needs of the village and they all
work to one end. ID.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
SETTER FARMING, GOOD ROADS

FSStRtuttNSt SS~sS
Minneapolis Journal The prob
lens that confront. the new South.
ern Minnesota Better Development
association are; as State ImmieTa-
ton Commissioner Maxfield peril
nentfy pointed out, quite different
from those with which the Northern
Minnesota Organization has to deal.
In the north the pressing problem
Is that OF bringing the vacant lands
under cultivation, whereas In the
south there ID comparatively little
available land that has not been
broken. What Southern Minnesota
needs is better fartning-a need that
is expressed Id the name adopted
for the new organization. Is
southern Minnesota has actually
LOST population In the last decade III
sons sections. why? It's lands are
fertile, none more so. It's condi
tions uf climate, fdinfalt and prox
Unity to market are almost ideal
But these conditions have operated
naturally to increase the value oil
farm lands, and there has been a
certain movement from Southern
Minnesota, as from Iowa and Hi
tiois, to western Canada, North Da
kota, Montana and beyond. where
lands are cheap. ~
This state OF affairs suggests that
In better and more intensive farm
ing lies the remedy The land must
be made to produce more and bet
ter crops. This can be done with
put serious increase In cost Of till
age, as has been frequently dem
onstratei. The result will be that
the lands increased productivity
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
DON'T BEwAlL THE COST.

A Minneapolis paper reports tina
something more than million dol
lars was expended for Easter finery
i'm that city alone. They have il
figured out that it costs women al
average of $40 to get their Easter
beAnets, suits, gloves and shoes
willie man can fit himself out in
spring splendor at a cost Of $34
Not such a vast difference for the
additional beauty that extra Sc fur
nfshes for even that noted dandy Of
his day, Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of ouI
women of today in their new spring
outfits and a mere man nowadays
is but a dull, drab creature beside
my lady.
Commenting on the finery, the
young lady who edits The New Ulm
Review, writes that "this is an ex
travagant age, but after all, good
clothes go long ways toward help
ing to gain success, for they give
the wearer a sense of being fit, put
him at ease with himself and are
an indication that a certain measure
of success is already won. There's
no use denying their influence. sc
instead of bewailing the necessity
for Easter expenditures, let's hon
estly enjoy our pretty new things
and get into mood to match the
beautiful days now with us of which
Sunday was but a sample.
"The rain and wind of Saturday
were just what were needed to clear
and freshen the air and earth, te
make the basque flowers lift theil
heads to the glorious light of the
Easter morning. The old Saxon
word ester meaning to rise is
perhaps the most natural explana
ton OF the name Easter and the
Weakening and growing Of everything
in nature, the putting on Of beauty
at this season among the birds and
the flowers is justification enough
if indeed any be needed, for the
desire that men and women feel to
deck themselves in bright, fresh gar
ments to greet the coming Of
spring"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
PAYING THE PENALTY.

An echo of the killing of Mrs.
Hattie Kaufman in Chicago is heard
in the suits that have been brought
against saloonkeepers and the own
ers of the buildings in which the
saloons are located, because Of the
sale of liquor to the four convicted
slayers of the woman. Relatives of
the convicted men have Joined the
husband of the slain woman and his
children in bringing the suits. 1t
will be charged that the crime was
due to the intoxicated state of the
murderers.
The suits are being brought under
the dramshop law of Illinois. !, 1t is
held by lawyers that a verdict in
favor of the plaintiffs, of whom there
are ten, may revolutionize the sale
of liquor in the state. Four saloons
are involved in the suits. The &C.
lions are being handled by the Citi.
zens'. league of Chicago of which
Rev. Peter J. O'Callagan is presi.
dent and Dr., Annie, r. Ranes su.
perintendent.
!, IL the criminal law cannot be
enforced against the !. selling OF
liquor to persons who are already
stepped in the stuff, the recourse
is found in civil suits which touch
the pocket books of the alleged of.
tenders. 1t developed at the trial
of the young ruffians who killed
Mrs. Kaufman that. intoxication led
up to the dastardly crime. The
convicted murderers escaped the
moose, and ares serving time in the
penitentiary. The persons who
caused them to become intoxicated
should be made to pay, a penalty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

Miss Mary McF'adden, newspaper
woman, ardent suffraget and advo-
cate Of the "votes for women adj
dressed''a suffraget meeting in Hib-
bling few evenings since. Among
other things she said that women
did not want to be policemen. We
were in hopes they did. We would
just crave to be arrested and "run
i'm by a pretty and charming police
woman.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
THE NEW, ORGANIZATION.

Winona Independent: /. .'The South
ern Minnesota, Better Development
association is. q new organization
! that was born at Mankato Tuesday.
Whether it. is new. form of political
dodge, Or is to be an earnest factor
| in the Improvement of southern
Minnesota, Il remains to be SEEN"
The Independent is too suspicious
by far. The new organization will
not BIO used as an instrument to
advance any ones political fortunes.
1t will stick to the work in hand
and better develop Southern Min
nesota. ~.
This is what The LIE Sueur News
says of the new organization: "The
Southern Minnesota Development lea
que meeting held at Mankato Tues
day, was largely attended and was
! organized along purely business
lines. Willie we know but little of
the good work attempted at this
writing, we can assure. LIE Sueurites
the meeting, was called in the inter-
est Of all and to helpa the people
of Minnesota. Such an reorganization
! is needed even in Southern Mime
sofa" ssft y.. 40:
The Saltwater Gazette is optimis-
tic in its reference to the new asso-
citation: "There is to be peace, har.
mony and unity, now and forever
more in Minnesota, except now and
then. fight over: an extra session
or little whirl, in politics. The
Northern Minnesota Development asr
ISOLATION delegates met at Mankato
recently with the Southern Mime
sofa Developments association. and
there is to be no secession of either
from the balance of us. Just where
we stand is not, certain, but we
hope to be able to keep in line and
be recognized as being. a part. and
parcel Of the greatest state in the
union. The, Duluth men made few
stirring, whirlwind speeches, caught
| the boys from the south end, and
the fight has been declared off now
and forevermore. Anything anybody
desires is to have the support Of
everybody else, no matter whether
from Albert Lea or Duluth. The
chips carried on the shoulders have
been thrown into the furnace and
burned, and nothing but peace and
! harmony is to- be tolerated in the
future. The. world is growing bet
ter" ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
SIZING UP THE EDITOR.

This is the way The Joliet News
sizes UP the editor: "The editor has
d fine time. He is in the limelight
continually. The invitations to ban
quets and railroad excursions are
sent to the editor. He may write
poetry and get embalmed in Who's
Who tell his grievances to all the
world and make great politicians
tremble, but the business manager
must dig up the editors salary; dig
up hands to run the business; dig
for subscribers and advertising; stand
off any of the creditors or walk the
floor at night and be on time In the
morning. The editor is smiling and
fat, the business manager lean and
pessimistic. as rule"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
LEAGUE WILL aRoW.

The Marshall News-Messenger il
quite put out" because that city
failed to do it's duty and Send d
delegation of live citizens to, the
Southern Minnesota Better Develop
lnent congress which held meet,
ing in this city on Tuesday !. of last
week. The News-Messenger says:
Marshall lis sufficiently wideawake
within her own limits to suit the
demands, of the ordinary citizen
but seems to be content with crawl
ing into her own shell and remaining
there, SO far as combining the Ell
thusiastic outside municipal comb
nations in promoting the growth ant
progress of this section of the state
Recently the commercial clubs OIL
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
STAYING ON THE FARM.

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat has
been looking over some of the farm
boys in that state and now comes
to the fore with an article on why
Boys Stay on the Farm" The Globe
Democrat says: "The son of vi
emma township farmer. who has q
half dozen boys, will be twenty-one
within a few months. He is a good
farmer, trained under a. good farmer
He is young, however, and has MOI
acquired the ripe judgment of expe
rience and personal responsibility
This spring his father proposed {
plan. The boy was to- take charge
of the farm on shares. The father
furnished everything, the other boys
worked along Just as they had done
aid at the end of the season the
CROP is to be fed out and the profits
divided as per agreement. The sol
runs the farm as a partner with thu
father. The father will drive abou
and pick up "yoting stock" and gen
orally supervise and act as umpire
It is an arrangement extremely
agreeable to both and to the young
or boys. .fss
sit is going to be profitable to thu
farm owner and the boy who hae
been wondering just what he would
do when he came of age. And tina
farm will be well farmed and thu
stock we'll cared for. That is VIII,
one boy stayed on the farm. He ha'
an interest in it. No doubt he il
having dreams of farm and a home
Of his own-boys usually begin t.
dream such dreams and see sucf
visions when they near their major
ity-ahd he sees a good payment il
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

Mrs. Clara E.. . Fuller, editor oil
The Little Falls Transcript, pens
these lines! Club women of Min
neapolis have. rather agreed that
women out alone and unprotected at
night should carry whistles by blow
ing which If molested policemen
could be notified ! of their danger.
Looks to us as il the inadequacy
generally and in the recent Min
neapolis specific instance was not
on the part of the unprotected fe-
male to give proper alarm but to
the inefficieney of eathe police to
act when notified.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

will bring greater returns on the
Investment and in SO doing make
Southern Minnesota more desirable
for an, increasing farm population
than cheaper lands farther from mar
ket.
Since the villages and cities de
pend directly on the farms. it is
plain that everything accomplished
in the way OF better farming means
more business and more population
for both town and country. The dis
cussions at Mankato showed that
the prime need of Southern Mime
sofa for better farming is generally
recognized and that efforts are tic
be concentrated in that direction
Next to this need comes the need
of good roads. The estimate that
bad roads cost that region from four
to eight million dollars a year is
well within bounds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

This remarkable story is sent over
the. wire from Leipsic, Germany:
"a wonderful operation has just
been performed on an imbecile child
by Professor Edwin Payr, direc
tor of the surgical clinic attached
to the Leipsic university. The pro
fessor planted a piece of the thy
roid gland taken from a healthy
child born of a healthy mother fnto
the liver of an imbecife child. whe
Immediately afterwards began to inn
prove in intelligence which steadily
increased until complete cure was
effected"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

claim to have cure-alIs.s Should
the people not be protected: also
against this more damnabie and
dangerous form of swindling?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12

Fourteen boys whose average age
is. fourteen years have incorporated
at Quincy, Mass, the youngest bank
institution in New England. The
boys will deposit fifty cents each
week until the fund has become
large enough to invest in some
business enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
CONGRESS SHOULD BE AROUSED

CQNGHESS SHOULD BE AHOQSGD
Congress is really responsible fol
the foods which ruin and devastate
thousands of acres of land in the
southland. making homeless many
hundreds of people and creating nc
end Of disaster to cities and towns.
These floods leave death and desOla
ton in their wake. and yet congress
that body of wise men-sits idly
by-hddling as it were-while the
force of the water sweeps everything
before it.
Something can be done to prevent
these annual visitations Of disaster
In this enlightened day and age
anything can be accomplished-once
men set cut with an object in view.
Engineering skill can be brought
into activity and ways and means
can be devised to4 take care Of the
large quantity of water that accumu.
lates from melting snow and ice
with each recurring spring. Millions
are expended annually by the gov,
ernmeHt on dykes that give way
before the onrush of the floods.
Perhaps il congress consulted en-
cheering talent it would hit on
some plan whereby the country
would get the benefit of the foods,
instead of getting only damage"
says The Minneapolis Journal. "POs-
sibly instead of trying to confine
the Mississippi in one trench, a pro-
ceeding which the Mississippi seems
at times fiercely to resent. engineer
ing science could devise plans where:
by the surplus water could be drain
ed off in numerous lateral trenches
to freshen the countryside and to
enrich it's soil, instead of ripping
farms to pieces and driving human
beings helter-skelter from their
homes"
Congress has been criminally neg,
ligent in this matter-as it has been
in others that we could name. That
aggregation of gifted gentlemen
should arouse themselves to the situa'
ton and take measures that will put a
stop forever to such calamities as
has just befallen the lower Missis-
sippi valley. Instead of being view
ed as the most obvious things in
nature, they are held inscrutable
Congress flies to the relief of the
distressed, as it must when irrepara
bic misfortune overtakes those who
are utterly, unable to help them
selves comments The Journal
Congress then lapses into the state
of mind which views foods as some
thing the Lord gives and the Lord
will take away, at the same time
blessing his name-and going to
sleep again." sa >5-t