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THE TRANSCRIPT
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MOWER COUNTY
Entered a* second-class matter at the post, office
Austin Minuesota.
GORDON & BELDEN,
PROPRIETORS.
AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY, APR. 4,1894.
AN Ohio woman asks to be divorced
because her husband refused to take
her to the Chicago Exposition.
THE Windom Reporter thinks that
ourmottoshould.be "Get there" in
stead of "Excelsior." We still prefer
the latter. It expresses a continual
"getting there."
THE trial of the Van Leuven pen
sion fraud cases has been set for April
19, in the United Stages court at Du
buque, Iowa. There are 43 indict
ments embracing charges of accepting
illegal fees, conspiracy to defraud,
and falsifying indictments.
OF the four prizes offered at the re
cent exhibition of the National Acad
emy of Design in New York three
were awarded to women. Woman is
progressing in the fine arts with won
derful success. Everyone should re
joice. The day is not far distant when
at the ballot box and in every depart
ment of life, the American woman
shall be alioted her proper position
and rights. Merit and ability, not
sex. should win.
THE anti tobacco movement among
our boys is having gratifying success
and .should be encouraged by every
one. Tt is not a fanatical effort. It
simply seeks to keep our growing boys
free from the deadly narcotic until
they are of age. The lectures of Dr.
Spcrry commencing next Sunday
should be attended by every boy and
young man in Austin and vicinity.
In fact, we wish that every man young
or old would be fair minded and un
prejudiced enough to attend everyone
of them.
WE print elsewhere an extended re
port of Gov. Mckinley's great speech
at Minneapolis last Wednesday even
in?. which so many of our citizens
heard with delight. It was a straight
forward discussion of the principles of
American protection. These princi
ples have been on practical trial before
I he people for the past year or two.
and the masses are discovering the
fallacies of those who are seeking to
turn over the industries of our coun
try to foreign competition and cheap
labor. The address is clear, compre
hensive and singularly effective. A
careful reading of it must convince
any candid mind that its theory is the
correct one. We should protect our
own interests first and always. We
believe that the visit of Gov. McKin
ley to Minnesota at the present time
is opportune. The mission of the Re
publican party in the coming cam
paign is to restore the disturbed in
dustries of this country to their nor
mal condition.
THE public arc becoming nauseated
with the mammoth issues of newspa
pers which are persistently thrust
upon them. With some of these the
number of pages issued in a given
number is considered a standard of
enterprise. The Sunday editions take
especial pains to get out these blanket
sheets. We are glad to note the pro
test aga nst these. Publishers are dis
covering thatithe trash and rot with
which they pad out their huge editions
are unappreciated and unread. Intel
ligent readers are quick to see that
two thirds of the filling of such sheets
is worthless. The Sunday papers
which come to this office are the least
interesting numbers of the week.
They quickly find their way to the
waste basket. We know that this is
true in other offices also. We prophe
cy that within the next year, directly
the opposite course will be taken by
these same papers. The course which
the :\Tcw York Press and others of our
leading papers are taking ought to be
the coming style. Then readers will
find in ideal form all the news and all
interesting information in compact,
terse shape. It will be some comfort
to take up metropolitan dailies in
such form.
TIIE weary grind over the alleged
pension conspiracies has been drag
ging its way along the past week at
Minneapolis. The question whether
Van Leuven has been guilty of mis
demeanor in his efforts to obtain pen
sions is an insignificant matter com
pared with the essential thought in
this whole movement. We have no
sympathy to waste on VaniLeuven if
he is fairly convicted of wrong doing.
Let the law take its course with him,
if he has deserved its penalties, just as
with any other wrong doer. But the
pension spies, set on by Hoke Smith
and Lochren, care little for Van Leu
ven's conviction alone. There is
something of vastly more importance
behind this attack on Van Leuven.
President Cleveland in his annual
message to Congress last December
used the following remarkable lan
guage: "The discovery has been
made that many names have been put
upon the pension rolls by means of
wholesale and gigantic frauds. Thous
ands of neighborhoods have their well
known fraudulent pensioners, and
recent developments by the bureau
establish appalling conspiracies to ac
complish pension frauds." Here is
the secret of this whole movement.
The spies and tools of the administra
tion have their orders to make these
outrageous charges good. It will be
strange if, with all the power of the
present administration behind them
and with millions of the public money
to squander in the effort, they do not
make, out something. Off go their
heads if they do not succeed. No
wonder they are so eager.
DONNELLY'S LATEST.
The egotistical mountebank, the
literary imitator and plagiarist, the
only and original Donnelly, whose
reputation was officially declared by
a jury to be worth one dollar, has just
made another virulent attack upon
the country press because it persists
in showing up bis hollow pretentions
and exposes his political rottenness.
He thinks that because he is able to
humbug the Farmers' Alliance so that
they cannot throw off his clutch upon
them, he can humbug everybody else.
Read some of his insolence: "If we
can pay our hotel bills what business
is it of the shangdoodles and snolly
gosters of the old-party country press
(many of whom you could buy for a
fifty.dollar bill, and they would be
dear at the price) where we lodge? If
they had their way we should have
starved to death long ago. They have
kept us out of office, to the infinite
injury of the state, for twenty-five
years, and they were paid for it, but
it has not prevented us from making
a comfortable living, in the mean
time, and building up a reputation
which extends around the habitable
globe. There are thousands in Eu
rope who simply know of Minnesota
because we live in it. Our income has
gone as high as $10,000 a year and yet
these "miserables" who live on the
paste the cockroaches -cannot eat,
think we ought not to board in a first
class hotel! Their insolence is as
boundless as their venality." Such
intolerable egotism would phase a
brass image. There is one thing true,
ho we ve if' The people of this State
know Donnelly thoroughly. They
know enough to keep him out of office.
He may rest assured that* they will
continue in this good work just as
long as he is a candidate for any office.
It must be a great consolation to the
poor farmers who take him for a
champion to have him boast of his
$10,000 salary which he wrings out of
his politics. Of course, he can afford
to put up at the Ryan- in royal style.
Notes From Exchanges.
Fulda Republican: Mrs. Cameron
returned from a visit to Austin. Tues
day, and will spend the summer with
her son.
Northwood Index: An unmarried
woman was taken violently insane at
a revival meeting at Albert Lea and
rushing up to preacher she embraced
him while he was exhorting.
Wells Advocate: Frank Kinney, the
Austin architect, was in town Tues
day, and he informed us that he had
been drawing plans for a fine resid
ence which one of our citizens com
templates building.
Dodge County Star: The MOWER
COUNTY TRANSCRIPT has entered
upon its twenty-seventh year. It is
well supported by the people of that
lively city, and is one of the brightest
papers among our exchanges.
Le Roy Independent: Senator Avers
was down from Austin, Tuesday, and
made this office a friendly and busi
ness call. We did not learn his busi
ness, but presume he was looking
after political fences. Oscar is a
genial, whole-souled fellow and the re
publicans have no better timber.
The Larimore Graphic tells of a
graduate who thus describes the
manner in which a goat butted a boy:
"He hurled the previous end of his
anatomy against the boy's afterward
with an earnestness and velocity
which, backed by «the ponderosity of
the goat's avoirdupois, imparted the
desired momentum."
Spring Valley Vidette: Nathaniel
T. Johnson, of Waltham, Minnesota,
was married last Wednesday after
noon to Louise J. Duff, of Spring
Valley, Rev. Thomas Hambly officiat
ing. The bride was one of our popular
school teachers. The groom is one
of Waltham's most prized young
citizens. Best wishes to both.
Lyle Tribune: Geo. Robertson's
prospects for securing the nomination
for county clerk are becoming
brighter every day. We have talked
with several of the leading republicans
of Austin and other places in the
county and all seem anxious to see
him get the nomination. He is fully
qualified in every respect and enjoys
the friendship and esteem of all who
know him.
Waseca Herald: Rochester, De
corah, Austin, Owatonna, Albert
Lea, Faribault, Mankato and JWaseca
opera house managers met in
Owatonna, Saturday, March 31 for
the purpose of organizing what will
be known as the Southern Minnesota
Circuit. Manager Ward informs us
that this move will enable him to get
a much better line of attractions than
heretofore.
M'KINLEY'S SPEECJL
ENORMOUS CROWD IN MINNEAPOLIS
TO GREET OHIO'S GOVERNOR.
th« Great Republican J*ad«r Rtvlaws
(he Nation's Life and Conditions Under
the Different Tariff Eras, From the
Time of Washington.
Every seat and every foot of standing
room in the Assembly Room of the big
Exposition Building in Minneapolis,
was occupied Wednesday evening.
March 28, by an audience of folly 10,000
people, who had gathered from all the
Northwestern States, when Governor
GOVERNOR M'KINLEY.
McKinley, of Ohio, addressed the
Minnesota Leagne of Republican Clubs.
The Governor said:
MR. PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF THE
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA AND
FELLOW CITIZENS:—
Much has happened since the great Re
publican national convention of 1892 assem
bled in this hall. The platform and candi
dates of that great convention,admirable as
they were, were rejected by the people at
the election following but the people had
no sooner spoken than they realized their
great mistake—a mistake which they now
feel most sensibly and regret most deeply.
The principles enunciated at that conven
tion were true then they are true now.
They are as dear to Republicans now as
then they are better understood and more
ardently supported by the great body of
the people in the year 1894 than they were
in the year 1892. While the Republican
party failed to carry the election, the
cause for which it contended did not fail.
It survived the awful disaster and shines
more brightly and gloriously than ever
before.
Everything Suffered But Republicanism.
The past year has been a long one—the
longest since the war. It has been full of
changes and experiences which have been
impressive and instructive, but expensive.
All kinds of business have been seriously
disturbed. Investments have been sacri
ficed capital has been despoiled of its
earnings, and labor, more than all and
dearer to us than all, has succumbed to
the wasting blasts of the great change by
which industry has been cheated of its
just rewards. Everything has suffered
but the Republican cause. Everything
has been blighted but Republican princi
ples. They have escaped the mildew
which has settled upon everything else.
Even the Democratic party has suffered—
a calamity we could bear with resignation
if it had not also carried in its train the
vast and sacred interests of the people.
The Principles Enunciated,
What were the great principles and pol
icies thus enunciated in this hall? Let
me enumerate them: A protective tariff,
which shall serve the highest interests of
American labor nnd American develop
ment reciprocity, which, while seeking
the world's markets for our surplus
products, shall not destroy American
wages, nor surrender American markets
for products which can be made at home
the use of both gold and silver with which
to measure the exchanges of the people
and cheat nobody honest elections, which
are the true sources of public authority
the extension of our foreign commerce
the restoration of our merchant marine by
home built ships the creation of a navy
for the protection of our national interests
and the honor of our flag the mainten-
Who would "modify these principles
who would reverse this declared policy
who would strike from the Republican
banner a single star or stripe? Like all
Republican doctrines they are unchange
able. Upon them the Republican party
bases its claim to future supremacy, and
impatiently awaits the constitutional op
portunity to make its appeal to the people.
How the Democracy Won.
The Democratic party won in 1892, as in
every contest since the war in which it has
succeeded, by a campaign of profuse and
glittering promises. It now stands de
moralized on the field of performance, and
has, so far, signally failed to redeem a
single pledge it made to the people. It
has been for many years denouncing the
tariff, because some men became rich
under its operations and others poor. The
first year of Democratic control has cured
all that, and the prescription has proved
quite as effective on the poor as the rich,
for it has involved them all in a common
loss. What devastation and distress have
been wrought in a single year!
The review of different departments of
trade given today exhibits a collapse of in
dustry and business which is almost with
out precedent.
To add to the perplexities of the situa
tion under the menace of free trade, the
the Wilson bill, which has recently
passed the house of representatives' at
Washington and is now in the hands of
the senate, proposes ostensibly to reduce
the revenues $76,000,000. This reduction is
made on the theory of the Democratic free
traders that it will relieve the people of
burdensome taxation. Whether it does or
not depends. But of one thing we are
certain: It has relieved the people of em
ployment, of work, of wages, of prosperity
and of plenty, and some of them of their
homes. The blessings of good wages,good
prices and good times are more to be de
sired than the proposed relief from so
called "burdensome taxation." Such a
relief is no relief.
History of the Tar ff.
Mr. McKinley then reviewed the history
of tariff legislation, showing that the
founders of the Republic favored a protec
tive tariff- measure. The first protective
law was formulated by James Madison of
Virginia, and was favored and promul
gated by President Washington. South
ern members of house and senate voted for
the first and later protective tariff laws.
Calhoun, Washington and Jefferson were
protectionists.
Washington, in his message of 1796,
urged upon congress the "necessity of ac
celerating the establishment of certain use
ful manufactures by the. intervention of
legislative aid and protection." Jeffer
son in December, 1801, in his first message,
congratulated congress upon the revenue
derived from tariff duties.
Working* of th« Ravenna Tariff of 1810.
In 1816 the first revenue or free trade
tariff was enacted. Henry Clay in 1833,
seven years after the adoption of this tar
iff, thus described the condition' of the
country:
uThe
I
general distress which
pervades the whole country is forced upon
us by numerous facts of the most incon
testible character. It is indicated by the
diminished exports of native products by
the depressed and reduced state of our for
eign navigation by our diminished com
merce by successive unthreshed crops of
grain perishing in our barns for want of a
market by the alarming diminution of
the circulating medium by the universal
complaint of the want of employment and
the consequent reduction of the wages of
labor,' and above all, by the low and de
pressed state of the value of almost every
description of property in the nation.
No relief came until the protection act
of 1834. Among those who voted for that
law were three Democrats, who afterward
became president of the United States—
Jackson, Van Buren and Buchanan.
Tariff
of
1957.
Mr. McKinley then went on to give the
history of the repeal of this tariff in 1846
and the appeal to the country in 1848,
when it was repudiated by the people in
the election of General Taylor to the presi
dency.
Then came the tariff enactment of 1857,
placing duties lower than since the war of
1812, and resulted in a panic that swept the
country.
Is history worth nothing? Are experi
ence and its lessons to be forgotten? Are
the teachings of the past to count for
naught? Is the national distress, business
depression and the universal poverty of
the people, which have relentlessly fol
lowed the enactment of every revenue tar
iff measure in all our history, to be lost
upon us in the calm consideration of this
economic subject? Are all these to be dis
carded in the making up of our verdict? I
implore you to study them without bias,
for they will steady your judgment in
reaching a righteous conclusion.
THE WILSON BILL.
McKinley Calls It a Narrow Sectional
Measure.
moters forget that slavery no longer ex
ists. They do not recognize nor appreci
ate the independence and dignity of labor
and cannot understand that the protective
policy under which we have had such
splendid prosperity is not to be determined
A
A
De„ioc™tiTle^
ance of the most friendly relations with leacieis on internal taxes is
all foreign powers and entangling alliances
with none, the reaffirmation of the Mon
roe doctrine, and of our faith in the
achievement of the manifest destiny of
the republic as the best government of
earth in the broadest and truest sense.
that of coknpeting countries, and must
afways be in favor of the labor of our own
country and the home market for our
people. The principles upon which they
were made are not subject to amendment.
.The tariff policy of this country must be
protective. That is what we contend for—
that is what the American people mean to
have.
Mr. McKinley then referred to the Har
:rison administration and showed that he
left the presidency with a surplus of $134,
000,000 in the treasury, including the re
serve fund, which, under Republican pol
icy, had never been encroached upon.
A Difference of Tariff Schools.
The advocates of tariff taxation are di
vided into two schools. Both schools be
lieve in raising public money by a tariff,
and only differ as to the kind of tariff to
accomplish this purpose. One school, the
Democratic school, advocates a tariff for
revenue only the other, the Republican
school, advocates a tariff for revenue and
also protection. A revenue tariff has no
other aim or purpose and rtianlitinw every
other save revenue. A protective tariff,
while raising all needed revenue, is ever
mindful that the taxes imposed shall be
upon those foreign products which will
most encourage domestic production and
rest most lightly upon the consumer.
An Enemy to American Prosperity.
A revenue tariff is an enemy to the Am
erican shop, the American workingman,
to American prosperity, and American in
dustrial independence. It has not a single
element of patriotism. It has no national
spirit or instinct. To supply the needs of
the treasury is its chief and exclusive
concern. It has no other. It is a
sure precursor to national pov
erty, national bankruptcy and in
dividual distress. It, is -the' forerunner
of hard times. It is without a single
worthy triumph.
The Wilson bill is not like any of the Cleveland and the present Democratic con
early tariff measures, but is one in which g^ess did not agree upon any principle or po
the changed condition of the country and
its marvelous growth and development opposition to the Republican party,
are utterly ignored and forgotten. Its pro-. d^?S?BXo525
by geographical lines. The bill is a nar-1 y/p1 opr!!, ,c'use
Sots People Thinking.
,. Democratic leaders wou be ess enrm ^li
row, sectional and provincial measure, un- to disturb the tariff the free trader voted it
worthy the great party which proposes it in the be ief that the Demojr.itic leaders
and wholly unsuited to the needs of the would demolish all cusio ji houses and
country. inaugurate unrestricted commerce with all
Finance Committee's Action. U1® ^orJ
The prevailing widespread distress em lia
siz?8 the necessity for en.ightened t-uiuic pji
icv and wise statesmanship. The indlffer
enc which has be -n too prevalent for many
years, has given place to a deep a Absorbing
interest in puolic affairs. The masses of the
people are consi lering economic questions
more earnest than ever before, and are
arou red to their importance as affe ting their
o\\n individual happiness and prosperity. To
wi ely guide them cal. for the exercise jf the
highest wisdom, coolest judgment,,and purest
patriotism. No party can safely be trusted
witn the sacred interests of the peopeor the
contro of the government without it possess
fixed, nest and enlig tened purpose.
Singleness of purpose is necessary to every
reform, indispensable to wise administration
ana legislation. The want of this qua ity is
the infirmity of the pre ent administration
aid the present congresi. Their victory was
due to discontent of every ki ,d. It was not
tiie result of unity of purpose, nor of lofty
and urn tad public sentiment. It was the out
come of
Misguided Judgment, Pique, Passion and
-CC .. io ip out all pensions voted it. And wlion
tariff list, iron ore to the tariff list and
peculiarly an anomalous one. They are so
determined to break down the protective
system that they are willing to resort to
internal taxes, which have been opposed
not only by every Democratic national ad
ministration preceding the present one
from Jackson's to Buchanan's, but also,
as a matter of principle by every other ad
ministration, Federal, Anti-federal, Whig
or Republican in our history. The only
excuse for the resort to such taxation has
been the financial exigencies of actual
war. Laws imposing internal taxes have
always been repealed as rapidly as such
exigencies disappeared and have never
before been seriously proposed in times of
peace.
As to Reciprocity.
To my mind another hurtful provision
of the Wilson bill, entirely unwarranted
by experience and unjustifiable as a mat
ter of wise international policy, is that
which repeals section 3 of the act of 1890,
commonly known as the "reciprocity
clause." This, it will be remembered, was
enacted to secure reciprocal trade between
the United States and countries largely
producing sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and
hides, and under which this country has
opened up a foreign trade profitable to the
people and of the most promising propor
tions.
portunity in the face of the American
farmer.
Not Discussing Tariff Rate*.
Prejudice.
The majority of those who voted for Mr
)eJ/
it
lead to the tariff list, leaving free wool these various antagonistic and contending
alone, the only product of agriculture, to elements, the realization of their hopes a id
support the false theory of the house bill, the enactment of any ieyis.at ion for the good
I have looked with some degree of care country were of course found to be
through the bill. I find nothing but irri-
As the result of these commercial ar
rangements, and for the most part due to
them, our trade has shown a gratifying in
crease. The total increase in the value
of exports to all countries with which re
ciprocal arrangements have been made the decrees of the great campaign in which
had been $30,772,621, which sum is chiefly hs spoke settled by the great liberator
from wheat, flour, meat anddairy pro-
I am not here to discuss tariff rates or
schedules. These are subject to change
up or down, as new conditions require it
but my insistence is that these changes
mJnercial
had their several different reasons
poses or po.i ies. Fre3 silver inen voted the
IJe.nocr tic ticket: opponents to free silver
or to any silv in our circulating medium,
\otedit the wildest inflationists as we 1 as
iose inflexibly opposed to every form of in
flation of our rency, voted it the protec-
111
Ci!dre
d:
tli®
tRelieve
.„, I Heiny G.orge voted it, while thousands who
An examination of the bill by the Demo- h.tcnl. such vagaries voted it the silver
cratic members of the finance committee standard, th gold standard, the double stan
of the senate evidently convinces them dar i, tiie paper money advocates and tlieadvo
that Mr. Wilson's bill and his argument
c^tes
in support of the same are alike based on and those who were certain that
false principles. So coal goes back to the
tlle
a^gie tax men, the disciples of
of slate bank money voted it: pension-
to W.-D
+H he counted upon
was all over and ,he victory was won bj
ut
er'y imP°* iole-
tation and aggravation to the great indus- Failure and Disappointment
tries of the country. No interest suffers
by it more severely than agriculture, and °°VV
labor of all kinds wms to bnvphppn o.^e i, and the whole country
Tft
labor of all kinds seems to have been
singled out as its foremost victim.
But, doubtless, in compensation for this
added burden of upward of 150,000,000, and
because of it, they lowered the tariff on
tobacco and have extended the bonded
period for the warehousing of whisky and
giving to the distillers eight years in which
to pay the tax.
Anomalous Position on Internal Taxes.
I The present position and action of the
an
aclministrati°n
and
sutlers a a result. The administration and
congress are with -ut coinpa or rudder. Be
fore they have accomplished anything—while
ey are yet wr.in -ling about what they will
do—the people have ecome dis ,atisfied
as to burn with impati nee for an o^portu iity
to repu date tnem. A general election was
never b'jfo so much d.sired as now, and
ne\er so much needed. li altogether too
common :dea tnat there is in fact little differ
ence between the two parties, and that the
untry will prosper equally well whichever
iy be in p.iwer.lias been completely explod
by on year's trial of the Democratic party.
Unit difference has been shown to be so vast
as to fill the country with astonishment. It is
a greater question than who shall ho!d the
offices. In fa -t it has been demonstrated that
the success of one party or the other means
all the dilte enc* between nati nal happiness
ai«d prosperity and national disconte it and
distress.
Ktand ng before this vast assembly, I recall
the words of William £1. Seward, spoken to
ti.epeople at St. Paul onSept. 18, 1S6, when
he said
"The virtue which in to eave this nation
must reside in the northwest. On Loth sides
of tais stream are the people who hold in their
hinds t.ie destinies of tiie republic That
some great- tates' a:e to be built up in the
valley of the Mississippi, I know. You will
no Ion er hear hereafter ..f the 'Did Do i)inion'
state dominio passed away from Virginia
iong ago. P. misyivanania is no 1 nger the
Keystone of t-lie American Union, for the
Arch Has Been Extended
from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific ean,
and the center of the arch has moved west
ward A new -y. tone is to be built in th .t
arc.i. -ew York will cease to be the Empire
state, and anew Empire State will grow up in
a northern lattitude where the lands are rich
and where the people who cultivate tliem are
free and equal. That state which shall be
truest to the great fundamental principles of
the government, that state which shall be
most faithful and most vigorous in develop
ing and perfecting society on those principles
—will be at once' ihe Dominion state, the new
Keystone state, the new Empire state."
The question for which the great i\ew York
statesman spoke so eloquently has been set
tled, righteously settled, as "he plead an I
prayed it mi^lit be settled in consequence of
wh°m
ducts, from lumber and the manufactures Settled by Eternal Justice,
of iron and steel. And yet the Dem ...
cratic leaders in congress seriously pro- for
he spoke, the immortal Lincoln
re ora
ai^
pose to shut the door of this splendid op- 1™°X dtSSLflSI ^neath
4.1.5 a
the flag. Ihe differences existing then are no
longer present to impede the progress and
unity of the republic, or to stand between us in
the realization its liighvst interests. Now
all sections and all states bow at the shrine of
must ever be governed by the protective theUnio saved strong and bettsr than
principle, and within that principle rates ever. The virtue which is to advance the na
may be, should be and will be amended as t*9n now free to its highest destiny and glory,
time, new processes of manufacture and People
__ -..x.' west a one, but in tiie piople of every Dart of
S.
conditions^ require, °ur
"I8?1 Citizenship is no
freedoga. All have a lOJimm and glorious
citizenship, all a like interest in ihe perma
nency and progress of the Union. The liberty
for which Reward spoke has been secured and
I?ot
.of
common
but they must not fall below aerate which upon now and in the future, as in the
will adequately measure the difference b«- past, to contribute to tLe onward march of
tween the American scale of wages and the best government on the face of the earth
tho
TO THE PUBLIC
As times are dull we, with your
assistance, propose to enliven
them. This is how we will do
it: We will make to order
A Good
No. 1 Shoe,
good enough for anybody to
wear, for $2.50 also a good hand
sewed shoe for $5, which cannot
be beat in America for the price
and stock. Why buy Eastern
Shoes when you can buy just as
good, made to order, by hand,
by skilled workmen, right here
in our own city? We intend to
fit and give you solid comfort.
Here is Our Price List:
A Good American Grain
Shoe $2.50
A Good American Calf
A Good Calf, Kangaroo,
Cordovan or any other S rtO
kind of .stock
These prices are low, which any
man with Corns, Bunions, En
larged joints, Mis-Shaped or
Crippled Feet, will vouch for.
Hoping to secure your patronage
I remain as ever, a Shoemaker.
First Come, First Served.
J. COTA.
SLOCUM,
PRACTICAL
W
1
STUDIO:—Main Street. West of Court House.
ALL THE LATEST STYLES
PERTAINING
TO PHOTOGRAPHY,
with competent assistants. 1 am now pre
pared to do as fine work as any one in South
ern Minnesota.
MRS. SLOCUM will have charge ol the fin
ishing department hereafter. She bas bad
ten years ot practical experience.
No work will leave my studio but the finest
of finish.
EXTEKFOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS
MADE ON SHORT NOTICE,
1690.
The First National Bank
OF AUSTIN, MINN.
PAID IX CAPITAL,
$50,000.00.
SURPLUS A.ND UNDIVIDED PROFITS,
$50,000.00.
OFFICERS-
O. W. SHAW, President.
N. F. BANP1ELD, Cashier.
Interest bearing Certificates of Deposit issued.
Deeds, Insurance Policies and other valuable papers
cared for in oitr safety Deposit Boxes without charge.
General Banking Business in all its branches trans
acted.
CORRESPONDENTS-
CHEMICAL NAT. BANK, New York.
CENTENNIAL NAT. BANK, Philadelphia.
UNION NAT. BANK. ClticOQO.
FIRST NAT. BANK, Minneapolis.
FIRST NAT. BANK, Milwaukee Wis.
FIRST NAT. BANK, St. Paul, Minn.
SECURITY BANK OF MINN. Minneapolis.
MERCHANTS NAT. BANK. St. Paul.
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AUSTIN, NINN.
Incorporated as a State Bank February 1 1887. Reor
ganized as a National Bank October 1, 18S9.
PAID UP CAPITAL,
$50,000.00.
C. H. DAVIDSON, President.
G. SCHLEUDER. Vice President,
J. L.
MITCHELL, Cashier.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Interest allowed on time deposits.
THE AND
Stuitp-Piiller
Does the best work, with
he as a a
Quicker than any other
machine. It is the light
est,- handiest, strongest
and cheapest, and the
most durable machine
upon the market.
WEIGHT, 250 POUNDS."
POWER. 96 TONS. PRICE. $55.
N°fth"
country. The Northwest can be
GEO. DUFFY & CO.,
SOLBERG & VEBLEN,
Dealers in Lumber, Coal, Wood,
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Salt, Lime, Ce
ment, Wind-mills, Pumps, Tanks,
Etc. Give us a call before going else
where. 1
31 Blooming Prairie, Minn. 2