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Year: 1878

The Ruling of the Secretary of the Interior


and Its Effect Upon the Settlers Along the


Hastings s. Dakota Railroad-The Kinds


Substitute Vindicated.


The decision of the secretary of the in
terror, published in The GLOBE of the 10th
inst, and affirming decision of the de-
partment, made last October, is most i'm
portant one, and likely to exercise consider
able influence in the determination of titles
to a large amount of lands in this State
The decision was made in the case of land
grant railroad, and contrary to the usual
tenor of the prior rulings of the department,
is calculated to protect the settlers rather
than the railroad companies.


In the discussion of the Hastings and Da-
kota extension bill in the House, some
weeks ago, the very same question came up
and was fully considered. Many of the ad-
vocates of the bill took the ground that the
settlers, whose interests the opponents OF
the bill, notably, Mr.. Kinds, of Shakopee
were endeavoriog to protect, were, in fact,
trespasser, and had no rights upon the lands
now occupied by them. The decision above
referred to would seem to be complete
vindication of the position assumed by Mr..
Kinds.


The secretary of the interior in the case
before him-that of Streeter VS.. the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad company, decides
that the settler on the public lands who has
made his location before the local land office
had received notice from the general
land office that the lands were
withdrawn from settlement and sale by
reason of the survey and location
of the railroad line, is entitled to hold the
same, as against the road under his home
stead entry or pre-emption claim.


Prior to the decision, the practice of the
general land Office at Washington had been
to reserve the land for the railroad company
from the time the railroad company gave no
tice of the survey and location of its line OF
road. Thus the settlers, who went on the
land after the survey of the road and prior
to the time the local land Office received no.
tice that the land had been withdrawn from
sale, were placed wholly at the mercy of the
railroad company. AS a matter of fact
in Minnesota settlements were made on the
line of the Hastings and Dakota Rail
road nearly two years after
the survey and location of the
road, before the local land Office received no
tice from Washington that the land wa.
Withdrawn from settlement. During thi,
entire period of twenty-four months, ths
local land office permitted the settler to ente
Year: 1878

you, dlCoI AeaI1uB tuiS passage Ietto, " 1eaIu
that the fifth section has nothing whatever to
do with the provisions and sale of the new
bonds. It provides for this and no more:
that the secretary of the treasury might for
two years, receive gold on deposit, and issue
gold certificates bearing low rate of inter
est, and that the deposit might be withdrawn
at any time after thirty days. upon ten days
notice, and that 25 per cent should be re-
tanned in the treasury to pay the certificates,
and the residue used to redeem fve-twenty
bonds. I was criticised by this gentleman
for using the words gold and coin as synony-
nous in a public speech; yet to maintain
his argument, he asks that it be believed;
that coin and gold cain are loosely used in
the same sense in different sections of one
of the most important laws of the
United States. Gold certificates were
to issue only upon gold de-
posits, but in the second section the bonds
we're to sell for coin, and in the first section
they were to be redeemable in coin of the
present standard uaIue. The solemn assur-
ance given by that law to the public creditor
was, that the bonds issued under it should be
redeemable in gold and silver, of the weight
and fneness then fixed by law. Upon this
subject have no new opinions to express


In my letter accepting the st. Louis nomi-
nation for Vice-P President said: "Gold and
silver are the real standard of value"
Indeed I would rejoice if our supply of the
precious metals were sufficient for the wants
of our trade and commerce. But we all
know that it is insufficient; and that we may
also have paper currency, and therefore
have opposed the policy of a forced resump-
ton of specie payments, based upon con-
traction, by withdrawing the treasury note
from circulation. The treasury note has
been safe currency, and the people have
had confidence in it, and have not asked for
its redemption. While it is safe currency,
it is also cheap currency in the sense that
it does not represent an interest bearing OBJ
legation of T, the government. In that
respect, and in the respect that it is
a legal tender, it is a better currency than
the national bank note. Because of these
4 views, have urged the repeal not only Of
the resumption clause, but also Of the pro


vision that sought to substitute bank note.


for the outstanding treasury notes.


/ No higher duty rests upon the legislatio,
Year: 1878

Snail 1t render no account to the country?
Capital and labor are employed. Business
is stagnant, and enterprise paralyzed. Alarm
has seized the people. They are threatened
not only with poverty, but with destitution
and want. When an industrious and intel
igent people are found in such state and
condition, it is the dictate of wisdom to seek
and remove the cause. Our country pos
sesses wonderful advantages of soil and eli
mate. Its products include many of the
great and valuable staples which command
the markets of the world. It's mines have
been productive. In such a country, why is
it that the people tremble with alarm as they
contemplate the present and look toward the
FUTURE? The party that seeks to
continue in power should answer that ques-
ton. What answer can be made? Have
the special enactments and the general policy
been for thu few and against the many?
The contract between the United States and
the public creditors has been changed, and
the change has been against the people.
The currency has been changed, but it has
been by contractions, to the hurt of the
debtor classes. The resumption act was
adopted by party vote in Congress, and to
serve party purposes. The great contest
for its repeal was in Ohio, in the fall of
1875. Governor Allen led the movement.
His defeat by Governor Hayes was the de-
feat of repeal. The st. Louis convention
declared in favor of the repeal of the re-
sumption clause, and the Democratic House,
then in session, made the pledge of our
party good and true by passing bill for
such repeal. The Senate was Republican
and refused to concur. That body accepted
Governor Aliens defeat as popular in
dorsement Of resumption. Since the
Inauguration of President Hayes
1 have regarded repeal as hope.


less. He was pledged to re


sumption. Every vote for hin
was for resumption. Secretar.
Year: 1878

injury of the business of the latter.
The speaker told him all the better if
the Southern Minnesota came, for that
would afford competition which was in
the interest of the people. The speak
Ell said Mr.. Kniss would bc repudiated
ut home, and if elected, it would be ly
men in the other end of the district.
When the news reached Luverne of the
nomination of Mr.. Kniss, some OF his
friends said 1.-THE Southern Minnesota
is beaten" It was understood there
that he was in the interest of the stub,
and the speaker thought that if he had
nothing better to do ut St. Paul than
to represent the stub he had better stay
ut home.
Year: 1878

This department Of the ADVANCE Is open toany
one to express his or her views in appropriate
language upon any subject whatever, whether
religious, philosophic, scientific or political.


The conditions are: Breyity, write OIL one
side Of the paper only use appropri .tc language
and avoid personalities. The name Of the writ
er must accompany communications, not for
publication unless desired, but rs q guarantee
OF good faith.
Year: 1878




EDITOR ADVANCE: I wish to offer
few thoughts on a few itcn Of All ar
ticle III your paper Of Oct. 81 which is
headed 1.-THE Beautiful Experiences of
all Orthodox Family and Etlicacv of
Prayer" etc. Now, in my view, the
article us Il whole should he regarded
and denounced us vile imposition, us
IN insult to the understanding of all
thoughtful men. The common sense
Of all intelligent men must certainly he
outraged by such an absErtity.


The composition Is no doubt of Spir-
itualistic manufacture. This is evil
dent to my mind from the following
considerations, (D the initials and not
the full name is given. This is always
suspicious; ~ it was published III the
Banner of Light, paper not recogniZ-
ed us an Orthodox paper by Orthodox
! Christians: ~ the article represents an
Orthodox family as praying to God for
his when in the act of doing wrong by
spirit commerce or by consulting the
dead.


l wish to say in regard to the head
ing Of the article that 1t is also q vile
slander upon the Christian name for
Orthodox Christians never had such
experiences in this world and never will
to the end of time, but bogus Chris.
tians may have them, and to talk about
the efficacy of prayer lis offered to God
in such cases is sheer absurdity. This
will he evident to the common sense of
any man who looks ut these two things,
first that the God of heaven has most
directly and III the strongest terms for
hidden the consulting of the spirits of
tile dead, and secondly. that the act of
consulting these spirits is IN act of
treason and rebellion against high
heaven. Can any man, ask, who has
the proper use of his senses suppose for
Il minute that prayer offered to God
under such circumstances could he any
thing but an abomination. Again, the
object Of this writer was no doubt to
show that God and the Bible and Chris
tianity sanctions this devilsh dplusion
and the wicked practice of spirit com
merce. But this is 10 new thing. It
is All old trick of the enemy of souls,
see Acts IL, 16 to Is. The tlamsel DOS.
spsSe'l with the Spirit of dlvillation
sought to associate herself, her work,
her sins and her aims with Paul and
Silas when she followed them saving,
these are the servants of the most
high God.'' lIeraim was to impress tie
people with the i.lel that she was of
their party and one with them, that
their work and her work was one and
the same. She certainly uttered Il great
truth when she said ''these are the ser.
wants OF the most high God, which
siew unto us the way Of salvation, ,
but she was Il bad woman and had q
bad object in view and therefore Paul
being grleved turned and said to the
spirit, II command thee in the name OF
Jesus Christ to come out OF her and he
came out the same lour.''


wish now to notice the item in the
, article which shows so plainly that
when people are SO foolish as to seek to
converse with spirits they may bring
themselves i'll contact with wicked spir:
Year: 1878

BROOK Trout FREE-All citizens
Of the State wishing Trout t. ssock
waters Of the State, can get them,
free Of Charge, onapplication at Druid
Hill Hatching House, on and after
january Is next. This distribution
will be gratuitous; but the Fish Com
mission cannot either undertake to
furnish vessels for transportation, or
meet any of the expenses of their
tranler from the uatching House to
the localities for which they may be
destined.


Persons. a5hing application must
take 10 tho Matching House with
them, vessels in which to remove .ne
fish. Ordinary milk cans are very
suitable and q five gallon can will
ho'1 about as many hundred trout.
The young fish should be deposited as
near the head Of the stream as posi-
bic, and tie deposit be made after
dark, if PractioabIo-this ,enablss
them to become accustomed to theS
water ana find hiding places during
The night, when most Of the larger
fish do not feed.


The employee of the Commission
in charge of the Hatching House,
will be furnished with blank receipts,
on which must be stated the stream
in which the fish are to be deposited
by the person making application.
Year: 1878

Within a few years this country
has been flooded with a perfect del
uge of little books, the avowed OBJ
ject of which is the teaching of a
science in the brief space of six or
twelve weeks. In discussing this
subject the Providence Press re-
marks that it is entirely useless TO
say that knowledge picked up in
that way possesses very little or no
value. A man might as well read
through cyclopedia and then coz
slider himself a learned man. True
kno Wedge costs labor, and there is
no knowledge which can possibly
hope to cover the whole field Of
human interest. As a rule readers
would do well to conGne their at
tention to any one thing and TO
master that. A man who has not
fully mastered any one thing, be it
ever so uninteresting, is not a
scholar, and he is in danger either Of
becoming a charlatan or of remain
ing a novice through life. To read
bOO mum 10 40 hdu XVI Ohn 10 ~ - w
read too little, and 1t is better 20
read a hundred books all bearing
upon one subject, say the finances,
or the history Of the exact sciences,
than TO read one book on each of
hundred different subjects. The
great faults of our schools Is that
they undertake too much. 1t is
impossible for a high school girl
to do justice at The same time 10
her health, her needlework, her do
mestic duties and her school work,
the latter too often involving the
study Of half dozen different sub
jects, including two or three Ian
guages, as many sciences and some
historical branches. The fault Of
our age in matters OF study is that
it favors encyclopedia information
rather than solid quality and real
thoroughness. Yet a person who
is thorough in any one thing is n
master, while all others remain
mere apprentices.
Year: 1878

Young men, cut out these rules
and paste them in the inside oil
your hat whore you can read them
three times a da,. Women, read
these rules every morning u your
husbands. They are worth pei pet
uating:


If you wish to be always thirsty
become a drunkard, for the oftener
you drink the more thirsty you will
be.


II you wish to prevent friends
from helping you along in the
world, be a drunkard, for that OF
itself will defeat all their kindest
efforts.


If you are determined 20 be poor
become n drunkard, and soon you
will become ragged and friendlcss.


II you wish 10 starve your fami-
ly become a drunkard, for that will
consume all OF your money.


II you wish TO be imposed on by
knayes be a drunkard, for il is a
sure road TO destruction.


If you would have no resources
when past labor but the poor house,
be a drunkhrd, and you will accom-
plish 1t most ehectually.
Year: 1878

This is the only agency that can
protect the country from the greed
of rapacIous robbers who now prey
upon it to the amount of two mil
lions q year. AS the Texas Pacific
company ask nothing but the good
will of the government to enable
them to sell their bonds at par,
build the road cheaply and then
carry freight and passengers at
half the present rates; the country
is in favor of governmental encour-
agement, especially as this cannot
draw dollar from the national
treasury. No doubt the greedy
monopolists will renew their fight
against this enterprise at the ap-
preaching session of Congress,
but the country and its representa-
tives have come to understand this
matter so well that there is the ut
most confidence of early and favor
able action.


But even if the present Pacific
line and the proposed one on the
OCOu pStidllCi, WcAO UObu III hOIhiuR
order, and charging reasonable rates,
they could not meet the demand tor
a railroad from Fort Yuma to the
Pacific on the 32nd parallel. All
north western Texas, Southern New
Mexico and Arizona, a region of
marvellous and incalculable mineral
wealth as well as agricultural re
sources, must remain comparative
ly valueless until great highway
of this kind is constructed. Such
a road, too, with branches extend
ing south into Mexico for which
liberal concessions have already
been granted, would not only pro-
tect our Southwestern border, but
add annually millions to our trade
with that republic.


Let us have the Kansas, Colorado
and New Mexico railroad on the
Both parallel, let us have the North
ern Pacific on the 47th parallel, and
above all, let US have the Texas
Pacific on the 32nd parallel.


JAY ELTEE.
Year: 1878

Easy way to make money: Take
a counterfeit So bill; enter a store
at dusk with a witness and ask the
honest tradesman if he can give you
silver for a 81 bill. The honest
tradesman will slam the bill into
the till and count out the silver.
When ne discovers that the note
was a counterfeit, you have a wit
ness to swear that you received just
50, hence the bad V. can't have
been given bV YOU.
Year: 1878

The Democratic House repealed
the resumption act, but the Repub-
lican Senate refused TO concur.


The Democratic House passed a
bill restoring silver TO a perfect
equality with gold as money met
al, but the Republican Senate re-
fused TO concur.


The Democratic House passed n
bill making greenbacks a full legal
tender, equal with gold and silver,
for the payment Of all debts. public
aud private, but the Republican
Senate refused to concur.


The Republican party in their
State platform declare that the
financial question has been settled,
but this the Democratic party do
nies, and declares that the financial
and labor questions are the only
issues in the campaign.
Year: 1878

EDITOR CITIZEN In the Ameri-
can of Aug. 80, there appears an ex-
tract from the New York Herald
under the head of business pros
poets in New York. A part of the
article is made up from an inter-
view with William Libby the busi-
ness head of the house of A. L.
Stewart & Co. Speaking of cotton
manufactures Mr.. Libby said: eve
anticipate good business this fall.
/ don't think there has been an
overproduction in cotton fabrics.
Prices are on a lower plane than
they were last year even, and there
does not seem much prospect of an
advance. They can only be adj
vanced by a scarcity of the raw ma
terial of which there is no indica-
ton. Low prices will rule through
out the season. But, as rule, l do
not believe in low prices. Every
honest man is willing to pay fair
price to the manufacturer and allow
a fair profit to the merchant. 1t
would be well if our merchants
learned this. We need better
modes of doing business and more
honor and fair dealing in trade.
The great curse from which bust
ness suffers in this country is the
constant effort OF a certain class of
merchants to break down the mar
ket. There are so many fools in
business anxious to make a name
by selling goods for less than they
can be made, and for less than they
can buy them, that it is no wonder
honest dealers, trying to trade in a
legitimate way, are often forced to
fail"


Now, sir, it is almost useless to
call your attention to the instances
that have occurred even in your own
town as to the certain ruin that fol-
lows the course of the merchant
who in the first place tries to break
the market, and failing in this sells
certain class of goods for les
than their cost. This has been pc
culiarly the case with the cotton
goods made in Tenn. One mer
chaut in p, before his failure, sold
Richland sheetings at a cent and a
half less than they could be manu-
factured for. The farmer does him
self an injury when he buys goods
at these rates. He ought to know
that breaking down the market on
cotton goods affects the raw mate
rial which he raises, and in saving
50ets on 100 yds.of cotton goods he
loses $3.50 on every bale of cotton
he raises, and if he sends twenty
into market he comes out loser to
twenty times the amount saved on
his cotton goods bought below a
fair, living price. The manufac
turer seeks but small margin and
it seems that our home merchants
should be the last ones to sscut prl-
ces" on home manufacture. The
manufacturer has his margin upon
but one article, the merchant upon
many lines of goods. II he sell to
a farmer fifty yards of sheeting and
loses a dollar on it he makes it up
in a pair of shoes for the farmers
wife and a parasol and fan for his
daughter. The case is different
with the cotton manufacturer, who,
restricted to one class of goods must
look alone to that for his profits.
1t is asked that these ideas be
looked al in the light of actual facts.


Vourc n
Year: 1878

The following beautiful lines were publish
ed originally in the Spectator, and suhse-
quently in Littelrs Living Age, of July 8, '76
/ sat alone with my conscience
In place where time had ceased;
And we talked of my former living,
In the land where the years increased.
And felt should have to answer
The questions it put to me;
And to face the answer and question


Throughout an eternity.
The ghost Of forgotten actions
Came floating before my sight,
And things that l thought were dead things
Were alive with a terrible might.
And the vision of all my past life,


Was al awful thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solemnly silent place.
And thought of far-away warning
Of sorrow that was to be mine,
In a land that then was the future,


But now is the present time.
And thought of my former thinking


OF the Judgment day to be;
But sitting alone with my conscience


Seemed Judgment enough for me.
And wondered if there was future


To this land beyond the grave;
Dub no Ou0 gave IL0 aI ausHeI3


And no one came to save.
Then felt that the future was present,


And the present would never go by;
For it was the thought of my past life


Grown into eternity.
Then ! awoke from my timely dreaming,


And the vision passed away;
And knew the far-away warning,


Was warning of yesterday.
And pray may not forget it,


In this land before the grave;
That may not cry in the future,


And no one came to save.
And so have learnt lesson,


Which | ought TO have known before;
And which, though learnt it dreaming,


hope to forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience,


In the place where the years increase;
And try to remember the future,


In the land where time will cease.
And know of the future judgment,


How dreadful so e'er it be;
That to sit alone with my conscience,


Will be judgment enough for me.
Year: 1878

A man met us on a back street
the other day, where we had no
friends, and offered us the indignity
of forcing a five dollar bill upon us.
We saw we could't help ourselves,
and we pocketed the insult, but we
just dare another chap to try and
run the giraffe over US in that
kind of style.-[C [Cleveland Banner.


Yes, and the first thing anybody
knows you will be going back on
your profession and setting up a
national bank or something of the
kind, and become a bloated, infer
nal, thleving bondholder. What a
curse wealth is to some meni
Year: 1878

Some men have become tired of
the Democratic party because they
havn't been provided with place and
power. All right, gentlemen, step
down and out, and don't stand
upon the order of your going. We
don't want men in our party that
have to be hired to stay in it.
I Cleveland Banner.
Year: 1878

When a man gets too proud 10
work and too lazy to steal you'll
End him haranguing the gutter
snipes about the unequal division OF
property IN this country. Then
he'll steal carefully in the back door
OF some saloon and stand the bar
tender of for a drink while his
brother sufferers go thirsty or get
what satisfaction they can smelling
bis breath. There's a sample mem
Der. and embryo ofIice-seeker OF the
great political party that propose TO
revolutionize this country and di
vide the property pro rata pro bono
pubtico, 6y ginlgiHyf
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that You
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced TO adhere TO a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such .
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


es- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance