PRINCETON UNION.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
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DUNN, EDITOB AND PROPRIETOR
Office: FirstSt., East of Court House.
PRINCETON, MINN., NOV. 23, 1893.
JUDGE CORY
MAJOR BALDWIN
enl un-American mugwumpian
secretary of state, is the same in
di\ idual that a coterie of Minne
sota Republicans were booming
for the presidency in 1888. The
Minnesotians who supported him
at Chicago in 1888 thought they
covered themselves with glory.
HE Minneapolis Journal is
authority for the statement that
potatoes are deteriorating in qual
ity, and suggests as a remedy more
care in the selection of seed and
the introduction of new varieties.
The Journal is right. Farmers
potato-iaisersshould make it a
point to introduce new varieties.
The Early Everitt, the twin sister
of the Early Ohio, is one of the
best and most profitable of the
new varieties recently introduced
in this vicinity. They are very
early, yield well, a splendid eating
potato and good keepers.
HE RE is an editorial paragraph
taken from the columns of the
Minneapolis Tribune which the ad
vocates of the single gold standard
would do well to ponder over:
Accordingly, if Japan is to go into
the market for gold, where will she get
it and what will she have to pay?
When gold is apparently so scarce and
every civilized country on earth, ex
cept the United States, is scrambling
for it, how can it retain its freedom as
a medium of exchange and how can it
avoid the threatened premium? Aus
tria and Russia directly or indirectly
paid a premium on their hoards. Be
fore many more countries go into the
gold market for currency reserves, the
premium threatens to be general.
BRO. DUNN, of the Princeton UNION,
and Bro. Dare, of the Elk River Star
News, are indulging in an interesting
discussion on the silver question.
While Dunn uses the most forcible ad
jectives Dare has the best of the argu
ment.St. Cloud Join nal-Press.
From your standpoint Bro.
Eastman, Dare has the best of it.
The UNION, however, is not dis
cussing the silver question with
Bro. Dare or anybody else at pres
ent. The advocates of the repeal
of the Sherman law argued that
confidence would be restored and
business would hum when repeal
was accomplished. We are wait
ing patiently for some signs of the
promised business revival, but
nary a sign is visible.
i^^'^^^fE^i^p^rrw
of the St. Paul
municipal court holds that the
anti-pool room ordinance recently
enacted by the council of that city
is invalid and unconstitutional.
SENATOR PEFP ER predicts the
disappearance of the Populist
party from the political field next
year and the formation of a great
national party with the silver
question for an issue.
HE wealth of the Minnesota gold
fields is no doubt great, but not half so
alluring as the wealth of our wheat
fields.St Paul Globe.
At 50 cents per bushel there is
very little wealth in Minnesota
wheat fields.
HE new American war ship,
Columbia, is the fastest vessel
afloat. She was tested off Boston
last Saturday and averaged 22.81
knots an hour in covering a dis
tance of 88 knots. A knot is a
nautical mile of 6,086 7-12 feet.
will not opit
pose the resolution for the relief
of the Mille Lacs settlers. On the
contiaiy he will favor the passage
of the 1 evolution. Unprincipled
people have been attempting to
deceive the Major, but their false
hoods have been refuted.
GALLANT Gen. Jeremiah M.
Kusk died at his home at Viroqua,
Wis., on Tuesday morning. He
was a brave soldier in the war,
served three successive terms in
congiess and was thrice elected
governor of Wisconsin, and he
was albo secretary of agriculture
under Harrison.
WALTER C. GRE&HAM, the pres-
JOHN J. KYDBR, formerly of the
St. Paul Globe, is now manager and
editor of the Rock County News,
published at Luverne. Jack
Ryder is a Democrat of the pro
nounced type, but an able writer,
an eloquent talker and a
whole-souled gentleman. He will
make the JVews the recognized or
gan of the Democracy in southern
Minnesota.
HON JACOBSON, of Lac
qui Parle county, one of the Re
publican leaders in the last legisla
ture and the uncompromising op
ponent of jobbery of every
description, is a staunch bimetal
list. Mr. Jacobson is always in
touch with the people of south
western Minnesota, and we never
knew him to champion a doubtful
or dishonest measure. He was a
delegate to the last Republican
national convention and when the
office-holders tried to bulldoze
him into supporting Harrison he
answered: I know the sentiments
of my people. Nine out ten of
them are Blaine men, and I am for
Blaine. My vote will be recorded
for him even if he does not receive
another vote in the convention."
ALTHOUGH the daily press teem with
telegrams and announcements that the
times are reviving all over the country
is an absolute fact that there are
more people out of employment now
than at any period during the year.
The coming winter will go down in
history as an exceptionally hard and
trying one on the laboring classes.
St. Paul Bi oad-Axe.
When will the good effects of
the repeal of the Sherman law be
gin to be felt by the common peo
ple? Eminent financiers tell us
that it was the Sherman law that
caused the paralysis of* business.
The obnoxious purchasing clause
has been wiped from off the federal
statute books, "confidence has
been restored" and the laboring
people should be contented and
happy.
HE department of agriculture
bulletin issued Nov. 10th says of
potatoes:
The November returns relative to
potatoes give the estimated average
yield per acre in bushels. The yield
per acre as averaged for the whole
country is 72 2 bushels. This is 7.8
bushels less than the average for a ten
year period ending 1889. The general
quality is shown to be good, and
though the dry weather tended to re
duce the size of the tubers, they are
generally sound and mealy. The per
centage of quality stands at 89.
There is a scarcity of potatoes in
the country but there is a greater
scarcity of "honest" dollars among
poor people, hence potatoes are
lower than they were a year ago
notwithstanding the greater short
age this year.
Gov. NELSON is a man that is
not afraid to take the bull by the
horns. C. H. Dart, treasurer of
Meeker county, was suspended
from office a few weeks ago, and a
special commissioner was appointed
to take testimony and report to
the governor. In the meantime
the county commissioners of
Meeker county reinstated Dart as
treasurer. The special commis
sioner submitted his report to the
governor which corroborated the
charges that had been preferred
against Dart, to-wit: that he hadwhile
been in the ha*bit of lending the
county funds and taking personal
checks as security. The governor
adjudged Dart guilty of malefeas
ance in office and immediately re
moved him from the office of county
treasurer.
W E would very much like to see the
free coinage of silver made an issue in
the congressional elections in Minne
sota next fall If it is not done some
free silver man is liable to slip into
congress without the people knowing
it, while if it was made a well-defined
issue, no man tainted with the free
coinage heresies would stand a ghost
of a show We even doubt if any poli
tician of standing wound dare to make
a campaign on a free silver platform.
Elk Biver Star-News.
John Lind is and has been for
years "tainted with the free coin
age heresies," yet he has repre
sented his district in congress for
three successive terms and could
have been representing it yet had
he not peremptorily declined a
fourth term.. If the silver ques
tion is an issue next fall old party
lines will be obliterated, and some
of the arrogant, domineering
"honest" money shriekers may be
treated to a surprise party.-
CONGRESSMAN BLAND proposes
to introduce a free coinage meas
ure at the commencement of the
regular session. In a recent inter
view he is quoted as saying:
I do not see that the repeal of the
Sherman law has changed the situation
for the betterindeed, it appears
rather to have changed it for the
worse. The truth isand the people
now thoroughly realize itthe silver
purchase law has had nothing to do
with the hard times. The hard times
came on and they are with us, and they
cannot be waved away by the wand of
any magician, however potent his
charms or however essential his per
sonality. We have simply got to go
through a process of liquidation before
good times can come again, and that
was necessary whether we repealed the
Sherman law or not. This panic, like
all other panics, finally reached a point
where the people got afraid of the
banks and afraid of each other, and
there has got to be a general liquida
tion and blotting out and a beginning
anew. The repeal of the Sherman law
will only tend to make liquidations
harder for the debtor class of people,
because it contracts the currency and
leaves the business interests of the
country without sufficient volume of
money to supply a growing papulation
and development of industries. One of
the greatest mistakes those people
seem to have made about repeal is that
their plan was to promote schemes in
Wall street, bonds and mortgages and
things of that kind. It was supposed
that repeal would do this, because it
was thought that the European capital
would be invested here more readily
by the repeal of the silver purchase
act than by letting it stand. But it
seems that even in that they have been
greatly disappointed. There seems to
be now less confidence in our financial
condition than before. They are send
ing no money here, and continue to
draw away ours. If the gold basis
which we have here now tends to con
tract currency, it is making the times
harder everywhere. The contraction
of the currency and a gold basis will
tend to make a sharp demand for gold
in Europe as well as here, and will in
jure our producers by causing lower
prices for everything we send to Eu
rope. This also makes lower prices
here, and hence, since the passage of
the repeal act, wheat and cotton have
gone down in the market instead of
going up.
No intelligent student of trade and
currency statistics, no intelligent ob
server of the conditions prevailing dur
ing the last few months can doubt that
we have too much money rather than
too little, and that it increases too rap
idly rather than too slowly in propor
tion to the growth of business.Pio
neer Press.
With the Sherman act repealed,
the purchase of silver and issue of
treasury notes stopped, and the
national bank issues during the
past 10 years contracted over
$150,000,000, the Tribune can with
difficulty take its contemporary
seriously when it says that our
currency "increases too rapidly
rather than too slowly in propor
tion to the growth of business."
Since 1880 the corporate and real
estate mortgage indebtedness of
the United States has increased
from less than $7,000,000,000 to
nearly $20,000,000,000. The real
estate mortgage indebtedness of
New York alone is over $1,200,-
000,000, and during the late cen
sus decade increased 148 per cent.,
population in that State in
creased only 18 per ceDt. In the
past four years ending Jan. 1,
1890, the aggregate mortgage in
debtedness of five western and
southern states, grouped by the
census department, increased 50
per cent. The stock and bonds of
the railroads during the recent de
cade increased from $5,000,000,000
to nearly $10,000,000,000. In the
presence of such enormous exten
sions of credit, not to mention the
country's yearly commercial and
industrial development, our con
temporary would certainly not
favor a policy of monetary con
traction. But unless ways and
means be provided to prevent our
national bank currency from be
coming extinct by the gradual ex
piration of our national bonds, or
a substitute currency be provided,
contraction will be the condition
which will confront us until the
lasj 4 per cent, bond expires in
1905.Minneapolis Trihwne.
How to Improve the Cows.ri
Ed.^ Hoard's Dairyman:We
Pennsylvania dairymen like your
paper for it seems to be the only
one in existence that is run by men
who are studying the same prob
lems we are. I have always been
struck with the close, practical
character of your replies to cor
respondents. That is worth a
great deal to the subscriber. Now
I want to see if you can cut out a
piece of advice that will fit my ne
cessities. I have been keeping a
limited number of cows for some
years. They are all of that mixed
blood we call natives, some of them
are right good ones too. But thebelief
Dairyman kept spurring me up
till I thought I would see just how
good they were. So I bought a
Babcock tester, a pair of spring
scales, all advertised in the Dairy
man, and went at it, for a straight
six months. I tell you it is a great
revelation. Fully a third of my
cows are not paying for their keep
one third barely pay, and one-P.
third bring me some profit. Now
I see where the leak was and why
I could make scarcely any money.
I want to get into the right track
as soon as possible. Will you
kindly tell me what to do? My
farm is intervale and hill pasture
like most of Pennsylvania farms.
SUBSCRIBER.
Westmoreland Co., Pa.
While we appreciate the confi
dence "Subscriber" expresses in
the practical quality of the Dairy
man in its advice, still it is very
difficult to so shape a suggestion
as that the person desiring it can
always make it fit his particular
case.
First, we wish to call attention
to what "Subscriber" has done for
himself. He has gone at work
like a sensible, intelligent man toM
find out the. truth about his cows.
No more fooling away of years of
labor for him on a blind leak.
That's sensible. W will wager
he will come out all right without
advice, but we will offer a few
suggestions. There is a great deal
in breed, as much in cows as in
any other animal.
First you must keep up your
dairy, for that is your source of
revenue. Sell off those poor cows,
two-thirds of the lot. Get what
you can for them, but don't keep
them a week longer than you are
obliged to. Start out with your
Babcock tester and scales and test
the cows of your neighbors when
you find a good one buy her if you
pay a high price for her. Remem
ber that money is worth no more
than the interest it will bring, and
$50 for a cow is only $3 annual in
terest in Pennsylvania. She will
be apt to pay you 50 per cent, on
the investment besides her keep.
At the same time select a young
registered bull, not less than a
year old, of some one of the speci
fic dairy breedsthe one you like
best. He should be a good animal
individually, but look well to the
mother and grandmothers behind
him. A good pedigree is worth a
great deal. You are buying him
for the blood or breeding power
there is in him, and that is very
largely dependent on the blood or
breeding power that is behind him.
Handle him rightly and keep him
long enough to breed to the best
and strongest of his daughters, but
not to his granddaughters. Make
a rigid selection of the heifers,
just as you would of the cows you
bought. Give your neighbors a
limited use of the bull, but only
to first-class cows, free of cost and
on the basis that if the produce is
a heifer you shall have the privi
lege of buying it at a fair price.
Keep an eye out constantly for a
first-class cow, and don't be afraid
of paying a good price for her.lain
The man that sells her is the loser,
not you. Work along in this way
until you have a herd of your own
raising. Study hard the problem
of wise feeding. I is a great
study. Also study the comfort,
for you are not selling that. Bend
everything to the idea of keeping
the largest number of cows per
acre, and have them well kept,
and getting the largest number of
pounds per cow.
There is a big chance in this
problem for all the brains and in
telligence you or any other man
can muster. Have faith in God,a
your wife, the cows, and yourself
and drive ahead.
^^^-^Manly Sentiments.
The editor of this paper is not a
Catholic, and never attended Cath
olic religious services more than a
dozen times in his life. He is,
however, an old soldier, and has in
his safe an honorable discharge
from the Union army, received
after the close of the war. His
opportunity to learn who are the
friends of this government and
who are not has been ample. His
experience and observation have
been such that he is firmly of the
that any organization which
seeks to shut out by any means
from the rights and privileges of
citizenship the members of any
church is without a vestige of loy
alty to the government or patriot
ism in its make-up. That is the
reason he he does not like the A.
A., an organization that con
sists almost entirely of men who
never bore arms in defense of this
country, and yet stand upon a plat
form that would deprive a crippled
veteran of the Union army, if he
happened to be of the Catholic re
ligion, not only of the rights and
privileges of citizenship but of the
daily employment by which he
earns his bread. We declare with
out reserve that such a platform is
outrageous, such an organization
is infamous, and such principles
are disloyal to the free institutions
of this country.Drainerd Jour
nal.
FORESTON BREEZES.
MAILS arrive from St Cloud and all points west
and south at 8 35 A From Milaca and Prince
ton at i 05 Mails close for St Cloud, west
ern and southern points at 3 30 For Milaca
and Fnnceton at 8 00 A Office open from 7 A.
to 9 E E RIC E
Stillman Thornton returned
from Stevens county last week.
Mrs. Jeff Orton is visiting in
Greenbush this week. Poor Jeff
is still on crutches.
Sam Orton's two sons from
Greenbush were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. N. G. Dunning last Sun
day.
Dean & Lochren have begun
logging operations on the West
Branch. Jim is a rustler these
days.
Berton Heath has come to For-N
eston to stay anci the lasses are all
pleased, for he is a fovorite among
them.
Mrs. A. D. Jesmer came home
slightly improved in health. Mr.
and Mrs. Jesmer now reside in
their own comfortable house.
Mose Cone is still obliged to use
crutches. His friends hope he
will be in condition to run a foot
race before Thanksgiving day.
Thomas Pearson is doing as well
as can be expected. The boys
gave a dance for his benefit last
week and realized $11 for him.
Dr. Cook left a tiny little 'boy
at Andrew Norgreen's last Wed
nesday. May the kid live to grow
up and be a comfort to his parents.
Foley Bros' superintendent, Mr.
O. W Swenson, is on the go
night and day. The logging
camps of the firm are in full blast.
Foley Bros, aie not afraid to pur
chase all the logs that are offered
them.
McClellan's Cleveland Bays,
Ben and Grover, gave him a good
shaking up last Friday. The
horses had a disagreement over the
president's Hawaiian policy and
Ben kicked Grover in the ribs,
hence the run-away
There were 36 relatives of the
Dunning family present at the
wedding of Mr. G. G. Chamber
to Miss Kittie Dunning last
Wednesday. Mr. Chamberlain is
secretary and treasurer of the
American Progressive Investment
Co., of Minneapolis, and stands
high in business circles.
John Howard was here last week
and in behalf of the railroad com
pany agreed to pay $4.00 per ton
for the hay that had been destroyed
by the recent fires. But he did
not say when he would pay. The
agents of the railroad companies
are long on promises but short on
fulfilling their promises.
If you want a good pair of towels or
table cloth go to Max Mark &
Co.PRICES
There you can find a good assortment
and at the very lowest prices. Sorge
building, Main street.
Commercial Hotel,
Princeton, Jftinn.,
NEWBERT, Prop.
Free:'Bus:From:and:To:all:Trains.1
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS
For Traveling Salesmen and Transient
Guests.
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL
Is First Class in All Its Appointments, and the
Aim of the Management is to Make the Guests
Comfortable
When Yon Visit Princeton Stop at
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL.
PRINCETON
LIVERY STABLE,
LIBBY & SMITH, Prop's.
Corner Main and First Streets, Princeton.
Having Kecently Purchased the Stables we are
prepared to accommodate traveling men and all
others with Good Kigs at cheap rates Drivers
furnished if desired
LIBBY & SMITH, Proprietor.
C. K. YOUNG. O. BUCK.
YOUNG & BUCK,
MBLACKSMITHSh-
All Kinds ot Blacksmith Work
Neatly and. Promptly Done.
We Make a Specialty of
Horse Shoeing
and Plow Work.
Shop two Doors West of Citizens State Bank,
First Street, Princeton.
Boot and Shoe Store
-AT-
SOLOMON LONG'S,
ON
orth Ma in St., Princeton, Minn.
An Immense Stock ot
Direct From the Factory.
No Middle Men to Pay!
I wan the Public to understand that 1 can pell
Men and Youth's Boots and Shoes, Ladies' and
Children's Footwear at Figures that Cannot be
Discounted in Princeton
B~Boots and Shoes Made to
Order as Heretofore, and I Al
ways aim to Please My Custom
ers. All kinds of Repairing
Neatly and Promptly Executed.
SOLOMO N LONG,
North Main Street, Princeton, Minn.
JOHN JOHNSON,
MERCHANT
JAILOR
First Street,
(Opposite Union Office)
Princeton, Minn.
He Uses the Bebt of Material,
Does Good Work, and
Guarrantees a Perfect Fit.
His Terms Are Very Reasonable.
NEW! NEW! NEW!
Flourand FeedStore
FIRST STREET, HRINCETON,
WHEELER & ORR, Props.
A Fall Line of All Grades of
FLOUR
Constantly on Hand.
Also Corn Meal and Graham.
Hay, Corn and Oats
Bought and Sold. Highest ash Price Paid
for Same.
^Goods Delivered Free to anyFpart
of the City
ONE PRICE STORE!
Groceries, Flour, Boots,
SHOES, NOTIONS,
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Oarpets by Sample.
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