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FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN
The state eddicational ring hay de
cided to come out in the open and their
commission advises the consolidation
of all our school interests so that,the
ring shall hav absolute control. The
local deestrick boards are ail to be
abolished, there is to be a central coun
ty eddicational ring of five to hav whole
control of school propertie?, hirin
teachers, etc. and all this will be under
the direct bossin' of the gang at St.
Paul. If they say shut up all the school
houses in the county and build a few
central new ones and run a consolidated
system with all its expense and dis
advantages, that must be. The ®ounty
superintender will be appointed by the
county central bunch and her powers
will be clipped so she will be practic
ally a figgerhead. Then we shall hav a
machine worth while. The state sup
erintender may crack his whip over
every teacher and local interest in the
state and we shall hav worse times
eddicationally than New York ever had
politically under Boss Tweed.
4\
All the Official N^
XLVII—No,
This centralization business is gettin'
to the extreme already. Farmer Ben
was raiped under the old town meetin'
system when once a year all the voters
of a deestrick got together in one place
at one time and had open meetin' and
discussion of all public matters. We
decided what improvements were to be
made, what roads built, what public
expense of every kind involved and,milk
rite where it originates and belongs
with the whole people. .Nowdays ev
erything is goin' the other way. We
hav our commissions and our centrali
zation of powers until the individual
tax payer has not a thing to say any
more. The majority doesn't count in
street pavin' or in most other things.
The result is we're gettiB' so fur away
from the democratic handlin' of school
and other public matters that we lay
rite down and allow ourselves to be
walked over and outraged by the awful
extravagance and dictatorin' of boes
rule.
The investigations of the New Haven
road matters show the worst kind of
mismanagement. There was a leetle
ring of high financers from Wall street
who seem to hav taken control and run
the thing to smash. One of the direc
tors was merely a "rubber stamp" di
rector. He didn't know what was
goin' on but waB a sort of figgerhead
but the Wall street sharpers seem to
hav manipulated until one of the best
and solidest properties in the U. S.
went almost bump. Stocks almost
worthless was unloaded on 'em at face
value, rival roads was bought in at low
price and then turned over with double
profit to the manipulators. It looked
like the desire to get the monopoly of
all creation in connection with the
workin' of the road by the high, financ
ers for millions of illegitimate profits
was the main thing and directors and
officials sat back and allowed such
things to go on not knowin' the real
inside of the schemes but just takin'
the word of these in the saddle and
drivin' that they were on the high road
to prosperity insted of really on the
road to financial ruination.
Well, next Tuesday is primary elec
tion and I do hope that there will be a
big turnout of the country vote at the
polls. The St. Paul gang is countin' on
victory because so few farmers are
goin' to get out to vote but they know
if the full country vote gets out it's
death to the gang rule. There's no use
of scatteration either but there should
be concentration, all unite on Lee and
Burnquist and Rines and Bosenwald
and Levang. Let's try out tor anew
deal. We've had a long try at the
present outfit and we've ben gettin'
worser all the time, It would pay any
farmer to take part of a day off on
primary election day and go and vole
for economy and honesty and the peo
pie's interests and reduction of taxes.
No farmer can make twenty dollars
easier than in goin' to vote for the new
deal and cut off the present extrav.
Our state taxes ought not to more than
double the past two or three years
under the present misfit and we've just
got to knock it down and out.
So president Wilson after refusin' to
speak to the old union soldiers at Ar
lington cemetery on Memorial day
heard such a storm of indignation from
all over that he repented at the thir
teenth hour and made the speech. I
wonder how mnch the fact that Champ
Clark was asked and accepted after
Wilson refused had to dtfwfth it.~*Wi]
l*T
*?D
ower County
son ain't much sympathy for the Union
soldiers. If public business was too
pressin' to speak on Memorial Day then
it would be for him to speak on June 4
when he accepted the invite to speak at
the unveil in' of the monument erected
there to the Confederate dead and said
he was proud to participate on such an
occasion. I'm glad that they gave
Champ Clark «o much bigger ovation
on Memorial Day under the circum
stances. If Wilson goes to such ex
treme to court favor with the south let
him hav all that's comin' but the G. A.
R. boys all over were terribly roiled and
I don't believe wili get over it in a day.
They know how to figger on the politM
cal sit of such refusal and don't need
to be told.
One of the Chicago papers has made
the discovery that kickin' the cow is
bad for milkers. Just think of that.
Just as if any farmer ain't alwus
known that and governed hisself ac
cordingly. I tell you the cow is a mity
sensitiv beast. She knows the tone of
voice every time von sit to pail her.
Tou speak sharp and cross and she
holds up her milk supply and when It
comes to fence stakes and pitchforks
and singletrees and boot toes and milk
in' Btools and such as cow persuaders
they don't work successfully. Every
cow I ever had was a sort of Christian
that understood profane languidge and
resented it too. There ain't any beast
that responds to gentle treatment
quicker and there aiu't one unless it's a
colt that can be spoiltd so easy by
poundin' and abuse. Farmer Ben alwus
sings soft and sweet when he's milkin'
and you just ought to see the flow of
k«eP UP
to
then the officials put the matters thru cleaner and kinder you can be round a
as agreed. The authority was kept
overflow of pail.
The
cleaner and kinder you can
cow the more profit to you.
FARMER BEN.
Truth and Beauty.*
No picture can be good which de
ceives by its imitation for the very
reason that nothing can be beautiful
which is not true.—Ruskin.
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
All announcements in this column
are paid for at the uniform price of ten
cents a liue|each insertion.
To the
Voters of
County.
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flower
Havi ig m-eivt-d Mifh a larg*- vote for
county in flu* .primaries of
two year6 aj I have deeded to file for
the eanoe office in the pr.-s*rtt primaries
The time is no*' s» short that it will be
impofcsibl* f«-r to a'l njy fri^^ds
personally but I shall snr*v o^rfciate
ri and suppoi at the Primariss
June 16. LEW LEWIS,
adv
GEORGE GILBERTSON,
AUSTIN, MINN,
Candidate for State Senator
for the Mower-Dodge District.
To stand for the people and
the people's rights. Good roads,
better service, lower taxes. Have
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Primary Tickets
STATE.
Republican.
Governor—W. E. Lee, Long Prairie
A. O. Eberhart, Mankato E. L. Raab,
Duluth.
Lieut. Governor—J. A. A. Burnquist,
St. Paul Elias Steenereon, Crookston.
Auditor—Henry Kines, Mora J. H.
Block, Duluth Jacob A. O. Preui,
Minneapolis.
Treasurer—Walter J. Smith, Eveleth
R. L. Johnson. Austin.
Attorney General—Lyndon A. Smith,
Montevideo James A. Manahan, St.
Paul.
Clerk of Supreme Court—Irving A.
Caswell, G. D. McCubrey.
Railroad and Warehouse Commis
sioner—J. F. Rosenwald, Madjeon O.
P. B. Jacobson, Fergus Falls J. S.
Arneson, St Paul J. C. White, Chat
field.
Democratic.
Governor—D. W. Mwler, St. Paul.
W. 8. Hammond, St. James.
Progressive.
Governor—H. T. Halbert, St. Paul
E. N. Westerlund, Mound.
Non-Partisan.
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court—George L. Bunn, Charies B.
Elliott, Alva R. Hunt, Albert Johnson,
P. W.Morrison, William Watts.
Congressional.
First District—Republican, Sydney
Anderson, Lanesbcro O. M. Levang,
Lanesboro.
Complete List for County Offices
The time for filing for candidates for
county office expired Wednesday, May
27, and there is no way of any other
names getting on the general ticket at
November election by petition or other
wise. In the primary there will be no
contests where there are only two appli
cants for the same office. Therefore at
the county primaries June 16 the only
contests will be on county treasurer,
representative to the legislature and
member of the County Board from the
Fourth district. The contest on senator
for. the two counties Dodge and Mower
will also come into the primary as
there are more than two candidates.
The complete list of filings is as fol
lows:
For Senator:
R. E. Crane of Grand Meadow.
Geo. Gi)bartson of Austin.
Alex S. Campbell of Austin.
For Representative:
Gilbert Sorflaten, Austin.
Hubbard Carey, Adams.
Frank H. Reed, Racine.
For County Clerk:
George Burnham, Austin.
George M. Shortt, Brownsdale.
For County Auditor:
Geo. Robertson, Austin.
F. C. J. Christie, AustiD.
For County Treasurer:
S. A. Smith, Austin.
Lew Lewis, Austin.
J. G. Handke, Austin.
For Sheriff:
Nick Nicholsen, Austin.
Art A. Anderson, Austin.
For Judge of Probate:
Henry Weber Jr., Austin.
For Register of Deeds:
Eugene Wood.
For County Supt. of Schools:
Eunice L. Rice, Austin.
For County Attorney:
Otto Baudler, Austin.
For Commissioner Second District:
W. H. Goodsell, Grand Meadow.
For Commissioner Fourth District:
Sylvester D. Thompson, Windom.
Peter Lausen, Nevada.
Peter Heffner, Rose Creek.
May Be No Joke For Sydney,
The Leader has tried to keep out of
the congressional fight this time, being
that both candidates are Lanesboro
men. However, we have been suffici
ently interested to keep our ears and
eyeE
open. We must admit that the
nearer it gets to the primary election
on June 16th, the more it gets to appear
that Mr. Levang has got the best of the
argument. We have heard of several
voting precincts in the district which
Mr. Anderson carried almost unani
mously four and two years ago that
this, jponth will swing unanimous for
Mr. Levang., And we have our infor
mation from men who are thoroughly
famjliar with the political situation in
their respective towns. So it certainly
does not appear that Levang'6 candi
dacy will be "only a joke" to the pres
ent congressman .—Lanesboro Leader.
What a Dane Boy Did.
Jacob Riis of New York is dead
Forty-four years ago he left his home
in Denmark, and landed in New York
City, one of ^those who knock at our
gates," just an immigrant boy of twen
ty one. He bought a big navy pistol to
fight Indians with in the new world,
but he found that New York City, did
not need pistols so much as it needed
him and his nevertiring work in be
half of the poor.
He found a terrible condition in the
police station lodging houses, wi en he
was driven there by necessity after his
scanty hoard of money had given out,
and resolved theq» that he would give
his life to the work of bettering the
conditions of the underdog. And he
stuck, to his resolve, facing bitter de
feats and discouragements «at first, but
gaining and gaining and accomplishing
and accomplishing until he became, a*
Theodore Roosevelt, who was police
commissioner of New York at the be*
ginning of Bits fight and who became
one of Die beet meads, rightly cklled
t'5h'
Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, Wednesday, June 10, 1914. Terms—$1.50 Per Annum, in Advance
He secured a position as police re
porter on the New York Tribune and
late* on the New brk Sun, and in this
capacity had opportunity to fight bad
.conditions in the slams, where he
worked day and tiigbt fOr their better
ment.
He abolished rear 'tenements, drove
bakeshops out of basements, fought
for
laws abolishing child labor and did
many, many other things that will
make his name one' never to be for
gotten in the tenement districte,
After twenty years as a reporter, he
reeigned to continue his fight by writ
ing and lecturing. Without the shadow
of 4 doubt he has left deep and lasting
"footprints on the sands of time."
Ana this man was once only an im
migtant boy from Denmark. How can
we draw the line? What care may we
take that we may not make some legal
battier shutting out 'another Jacob
RiisV ...
HOW
the New Wilson Tariff
Knocks the Farmer.
An analysis of the foreign trade dur
ing the first six months under the new
tariff has been made by the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, De
partment of Commerce". From this it
is showfi that imports of foodstuffs in
their natural condition, including food
animals, increased from 8117,194,237 in
the half year ended with March,1913, to
8143,421,536 in a like period ended with
March, 1914, and that imports of food
staffs partly or wholly.prepared for use
in the same period named amounted to
over 830.000,000, or an average of
85,000,000 per mc nth.
On the export side the figures are
even more striking. Of crude foodstuffs
the sales to foreign countries fell off1
more than 50 per cent, while prepared
foodstuffs also declined, though in!
smaller proportion. Exports of the first-!
named group fell from 8115,850,453 in
the six months period of last year to
855,483,787 in the half year which ended
with March of the current year, and
manufactured food products from $180,
007,422 to 8162,022,620.
The articles of food showing the
largest increase in importations during
th« six months under review are fresh
beef, cattle, corn, wheat, rice, macaroni,
fruits, molasses and edible oils. We
imported during the six months which
ended with March last 666,000 pounds
of beef and veal, or over double the
number imported in the corresponding
period a year earlier 83,000,000 pounds
of beef and veal, or over fifty times aB
much, as a year ago, nearly 9,000,000
-boBhela,of corn,or thirty times as much,
ais in the corresponding six months of
last year 140,000,000 pounds of rice and
ricp flour, or nearly 50,000,000 pounds
more than a year ago and 66,000,000
pounds of macaroni, vermicelli, and
other similar pieparations, as against
53,000,000 pounds in the corresponding
six months of the preceding year
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS
Owatonna Journal-Chronicle: After
all, what of conspicuous effort and,
noteworthy achievement for the ad-1
vancement of the welfare of the people
of Minnesota can be found in the ca
reer of Adolph O. Eberhart which'
would warrant his re-election for a
fourth term?
Mantorville Express: It would an-'
pear that Sydney Anderson made the!
most costly mistake of his ofiice hold-'
ing days when he (and not alone either)
voted not to uphold president Wilson
in the Ve^a Cruz dispute and then the
next day turning exactly about face
and voting for the president's policy,
Caledonia Journal: The person who
passes by the reputable home business
man and sends bis money away to some
distant city for goods advertised in an
attractive and expensive catalogue,pro
fusely illustrated to catch the unwary
eye, is ofttimes coming dangerously
near to throwing money to the birds.
Albert Lea Enterprise: That may be
all right, and the governor may feel
that way, but the real governor of the
state, the hand at the head of the or
ganization that guides things, iB said
to be busy picking out the men for the
next legislature that makes the laws.
They will be worth more to the ma
chine than songs,
Duluth Herald: The "cut-out" is an
invention of the devil which gives the
automobile a capacity to irritate that
passes endurance. When the cut-out
is used, and a machine goes spluttering
and exploding along the street, in nine
ty-nine cases -out of a hundred, the
noise thus interprets the mind of the
driver:" "Here I come! Look at mel
I own an automobile! Though I am
young and foolish and empty-headed,!
they let me run it! Here come! Look
at me!"
Albert Lea.Tribune: J. N. Nichol-I
son, the prominent attorney of Austin
delivered the address here on Memorial
Day and it was indeed one that will be
long remembered by all who were for-1
tunate enough to bear him. With Mr.
Nicholson were Mrs. F. P. McJBride,1
Mrs. Henry Birkett and V. M. Gul
brandson. At the closing of the exerV'
ciees they made a drive around the city,
and Lake Drive in the former's auto
mobile and enjoyed the afternoon with
pleasure.
Owatonnaa bun Insurance
Commissioner J. A. O. Preus is mak
ing speeches before city, commercial
bodies all over the state on 'Insurance.'
The real purpose behind this action is,1
however, to maker himself strong.
Thinking citizens will doubtless fall1
to be footed by this ruse into voting
against a man, who has at every oppor
tunity thrust himself intq the forefront
of the fray ais the champion of the
common people of Minnesota. PieaB
has been in all instancesca.f^thfnl cog
of the Eberhart-Smith machine*
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Paid for
Due to the advancing
price of hard coal arid
the convenience and
economy of gas fuel the
majority of people are
discontinuing the use of
coal in the kitchen. Why
not change and gain
com
fort, convenience and clean
liness?
MINNESO fi
HISTORICAL
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
A. Smith, Austin, Minn., at the rate of $1.25 each insertion
Treasurer of Mower County.
There are only two county offices
in Mower county, Representative and
County Treasurer, on which there
will be a contest in the June Prim
aries. _As the work in the Treasur
er's office during the next two weeks
is very heavy it will be impossible
for him to call and give his respects.
If you feel that his work in the office
has been satisfactory he would like
your indorsement at the Primaries,
June i6th, 1914.
AUSTIN GAS CO.
Be More Than a Depositor.
It is all right to be a depositor and have your
name on a little card at the bank, but you ought
to go farther than that. Make up your mind to
use. as far as possible, the facilities which a bank
provides you.
You will find the Austin National Bank handy
in your various transactions and necessities*, all
the way from the use of checks in making your
your Vrtca
amounts of
payments to the matter of arranging
tions without having to carry
money with you,
Capital 50.000.00
C. H.
P. BEAULIHU. Cash.
Minneso
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Campaign Committee.
What Is The All Gas Kitchen?
It is a kitchen equipped with MODERN appliances
using gas exclusively. By installing a
Cabinet Gas Range, a Gas Water Healer
and heating your kitchen with the furnace you will
have an
All Gas Kitchen
A
large
The Austin National Bank
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.
Surplus $10,000.00 Resources $685,000.00
Pres. J. L. MITCHELL, Vice-Pres.
C. F.ROSS, ^tce-Pres
Tile )r Unproductive Land
Now is the time to tile the unproductive land.
We^w^l sell you all the tile you want and give one or
two years to pay for it. Why not build an Austin
brick silo on the same terms?
Call at our office on East Brownsdale Avenue,imtfm
and let us figure your requirements?
SfSir? S'II*' i' -r 5
F. C. WILfeOUR, Asst. Cash
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AUSTIN, MINN.