At the meeting of. the County Commissioners FORTY YEARS IN NAVY •I"— I 25 YEARS AGO WHATS THE MATTER WITH AMERICA yesterday $1,500 was appropriated for the benefit of the cyclone sufferers at Lyle. HyWiUiam All«: White i" From the Austin Daily Register of &eo. A. Hormel's house on south even date, July 1897, we "learn that: St. Paul street is being moved a minority, its voices, chiefly through alchemy be purified and exalted. But maligned and long-suffering friend, Reprinted by permission from the W. H. Hodge and S. A. Smith returned block south. July issue of Collier's Weekly) the newspapers and in pulpits, sound the plasm of the lame brain keeps the candidate opposed by the truly Saturday form Fargo where Copyright 1922 by P. F. Collier &. a lot of different kinds of clarion right on producing lame brains, and good. they went with Clerk of Court O. J. Son Company. Tichy's band gave a free concert notes and warning tocsins about boss the plasm of the American stock of And this candidate always runs Simmons. Mr. Simmons went on to in th^ court house square last night fifty years ago keeps producing unhappy true to certain definite types. He rule. Then, after a few weeks, or at Go east, west, north or south and Lisbon to spend a day. and the usual crowd was present on the most a few months, the minority minorities. And these unhappy seems destined to be our future ruler, -enter the regional metropoUs pick the streets. The old French Hotel is being repaired calms down and becomes confident people keep on talking of~the Constir so we may pause to consider him. up the local newspaper and you will for the use of the Southern If he is recruited from politics, he that the next time conditions will be tution as a sacred document. They read accounts of banditry, thuggery, Frank Rayman has about completed Normal college and Austin School of generally exploits himself as a sort cling to the belief that there is virtue different. burglary, car stealing, murder and the work of moving into his new Commerce. of he-Cinderella, who has come up in law and order. They contend passionately But they will not be different. For violence, a. long train of dastardly building on Main street. It is a model from the ash can. something permanent and fundamental that the courts must be impartial and abominable crimes. building for a harness shop. The brick work on the new Lutheran Smiler and Handshaker. and beyond corrupting influences—the is happening in our cities, and Look on the inside pages of the church is beifig done by Beckel He is a smiler and a handshaker sooner or later it will get us all. We stern and implacable dispensers same papers and you will notice, under A Splendid Medicine for the Stomach Brothers and progressing nicely. sometimes an orator, and occasionally of equal and exact justice. may well pause in this glorious small headings, certain accounts and Liver. a lawyer who has graduated from the Fourth of July season to consider Ideals something like that mads of other crimes—similar crimes—for Chamberlain's Tablets for the Albert Hayes is visiting friends stomach and liver are splendid. I criminal courts into -a decent practice this the "land of the Pilgrim's pride," which offenders are grinding slowly these morons. in Minneapolis. never tire of telling my friends and among the more sh«dy of the through the courts, or for which offenders They are the political bacilli that and for some such shibboleths "our neighbors of their qualities," writes have been released through public-service corporations. He has are tearing down the tissue of our fathers died." The political notion Mrs. William Vollmer, Eastwood, N. Mrs. K. O. Wold went to Waseca mistrial or want of evidence, or have the confidence of those in high finance institutions". Here, according to the that government should be free from Y. When bilious, constipated or this morning to attend the Chautauqua troubled with indigestion, give them heen paroled or pardoned, or saved by in the city who know exactly enlistment figures in our late draft, special privilege seems to be commonly a trial. They will do you good. K. Assembly. bail sharks. what they want. are 45 million people with intelligences held among English-speaking Thomas Lynch, sixty years old, O. Wold and Pooler Drug. Co. Any place you look in the paper If he is not of that type, he is a which stopped developing at people everywhere it is held even Advertisement—Mon. July. known as the best master at arms in License to marry was granted by you will find festive items recounting partisan business man of the genus the green age of fourteen. Of the 45 among the Teutonic nations, and by the United States navy, has lost only the clerk of court today to John C. the tax waste and inefficiency of the thirty days in his entire forty years It Looked Like a Battlefield in Europe," dub. He knows nothing of politics millions probably 20 millions stopped the Scandinavian *aces generally. McKenna of this city and Mary Said Mr. C. Dunster. :of service, which is more actual service city government paving-contract can be depended upon to accept the growing up mentally at eleven, and But government without special Christ of Clayton. than that of any other chief petty "Was staying at a hotel in a small robbery, stuffed pay rolls, grafting dictum of the party leaders who control of the 55 millions left of our 100 privilege is by no means an axiomatic Pennsylvania town. Early one morning officer in the navy. public servants, department heads the machine that protects the millions probably 20 millions stopped principle of civilized men. Government I went to the stable to hire a rig The terms of F. E*Gleason and R. selling special privileges to cheat, and was shown a pile of dead rats underworld, and the boodlers, and he growing before they reached sixteen. without special privilege is a E. Shepherd on the school board expire killed with RAT-S&AP the night before. poison and swindle and blackmail the has illicit relations with the men who So we have a working majority of heritage of what must be loosely this year. Their friends believe Looked like a batlte-field in Radium'* Remarkable Power. citizens of the town. pay big money for franchises and the voters who have children's minds. grouped as the Anglo-Saxon, people, Europe." Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25, they should be elected as they mcade How radium, costing $120,000 a Generally in the newspapers you frills and fripperies of special privilege Add to the political children a considerable Sold and guaranteed by Pooler Drug the northern races. They settled Colonial thimbleful, can be used on cheap good officers and no one has said a also will find some account of the activities Co. in public corporations. minority, of the mentally America. They largely dominated clocks and watches is a puzzle to the word against them. Advertisement July. of various small, bands of intrepid These, two types, the political confidence adult who have a blind spot of party its political, thought, and their average man. Properly understood, It protesters struggling rather man or the political straw prejudice, who will follow any party is a demonstration of the remarkable institutions when transplanted in a futilely for their rights. For the power* of this, substance. The paint man, attract the voters of immature in any record of crime, and you have pioneer environment became the most part these protesters are upheld A RELIABLE used lis a combination of zinc sulphide minds. Their candidate does not try furnished the morons in any community America of the last century. And the by the editorial columns of the •with an infinitesimal quantity of radium. to make them think. He makes them a political crystal around whole trouble with the little group of Examihe a luminous dial paper. These columns are bitter in hate, makes them \laugh, and shows which to cluster. hangover Americana, that make the through a magnifying glass after the their complaints or may be merely tbem their own advantage in his candidacy. In New York it is the Democratic minority in our great cities is that) eyes have been in total darkness fora cynical and hopeless in their jibes at And when he gets into office party. In Pennsylvania and Illinois they think, when they have stated the few minutes, and tiny flashes of light the crime, inefficiency, and corruption he gives them the kind of government it is the Republican party in "each principle of government without special may be seen these are caused by the When you think in terms of all about them in municipal government. explosion of hundreds of millions of buying a new battery think of they desire. State the crystalline form of hidebound prviilege, arid have proved the radium atoms, and occur at the rate The child mind is satisfied with partisanship is different. But facts of its violation, that their case PHILADELPHIA Occasionally, as in Pennsylvania or of about 200,000 a second, the more childish things: parks, playgrounds, the results of the crystallization is DIAMOND GRID is made. in Illinois or Massachusets, where radium in the paint, the greater the parades, gambling, bootlegging, and always the same. The crooks and But it isn't. Far from it. Another It is "a proven thing of merit. number of flashes a second, and the the urban population outvotes the rural plug-hatted politicians in shiny motor the boodlers and thugs of Philadelphia Users of our battferies will tell civilization has invaded these shores, more durable the luminosity. Since population, where cities overcome you that they give consistently cars, who are also conspicuous heCinderellas are no better than those of New not one reared to hold ardent opinions every flash means a blow upon a crystal the farmers and the towns under good service under the most adverse exemplifying America as York or Boston or Kansas City. of zinc sulphide, the crystals gradually about the Anglo-Saxon political conditions. 50,000, the conditions of the regional the land of opportunity. The child's break under the strain the zinc We Assume All Men Are Equal taboos. metropolis are reflected in the State I E E A E O A N breaks down in about five years, but conception of the land of opportunity But granted the presence of the So the more these descendants of government. Then you will find a the one-millionth gram of radium on is satisfied with the opportunity morons in our country, what makes PHONE: 2610 an austere past uncover graft and 212 EAST BRIDGE ST. great political cancer slowly overcoming the average watch dial is practically to rise by graft, or by boodling, or by them worse than their fellow halfwits the institutions which the special privilege, the lpore -they disclose as energetic as ever.—Scientific American^ cunning black-mail. And as for the of Europe? What is our distinction? loose and unvirtuous conditions founders of the commonwealth ^established. crime wave, well, boys will be boys, What is "the matter with in the courts, the stronger the^gay and it's only the goo-goos who are America? Quarreling with the Majority. and festive sons of the world's sunny complaining, and who are they to Well, for on£ thing it is our peculiar climes gathered in our midst rally No form of democracy seems able kick? If they didn't get their share institutions. A nose counts too around the standards of the grafters to cope with the situation. For a bad it's* their fault. So the children citizens heavily^ under the American system, majority may be assembled, and usually and the hoodlers and an amiable judiciary. hoot at the "Christian gentleman" whether it is a dirty nose, or a clean They want what we abhor. is assembled at any election, PUBLIC AUCTION on the independent ticket and one, a pug, a Roman or a Greek, We We show them where it is, and then State or municipal. And the State stand by the man who brags that he fashioned this blooming land for men we marvel that they go to it. house is a replica of the city halls, supported his poor old mother when who are mental adults. The European with the little band of protesters reeruited Shadowy Ghosts of Our Past he was five years old by selling papers statesmen took account of the from the small towns and rural What's the matter with America? and always gave a penny to the weak-witted in making their institutions. district. The political cancer in Well, it's not a simple question nor OF orphan's home. We Americans assume all men States usually attacks the treasury an easy one to answer. Either we They are a simple people who are created equal. It was a good first, the control of public-servicc who believe in the old order must Electrical Goods enough assumption in Jefferson's make up this moron majority. "Sure, corporations next, then captures a teach these care-free children of sunnier there's a graft," they say. "What did day. But our blood is changing. senator and as many congressmen as skies and gayer lives than ours you suppose we were going into politics We are filling up our cities with can be assimilated, and forms a State that our ideals are better than theirs men and women who lack the mental for if not for special privilege? legislative combine which is sustained or their ideals will overcome ours. grasp of the colonists who fought our What's the use of getting ahead in by the same thugs who rob, bludgeon, For our darker-skinned neighbors Revolution, who established our land, TUESDAY, JULY 18,1922 this country if a man can't have a and terrorize honest men in the breed faster than we. friend in the courts? If the poor who wrote our Constitution and so cities. In another hundred years we shall man has the same chance of getting made America. The moron cannot The only difference "between the have an America for which our fathers take in -all this tall talk about the justice that the rich man has, why all States which have developed this cancer didn't die, by a long shot. We SALE TO BEGIN AT 2:00 P. M. AND 7:00 P. M. this talk of thrift? If I can't sell Constitution. and the States which have not developed may come back to the U. S. A. and stall in the market house to my Yet, in spite of the evidence that it is a matter of time. For find, not the land of the Pilgrim's friends, what's the use of having considerable masses of our population when the cities of the State grow pride, but Italy, Greece, or the Balkans, friends? You guys at the City Club do not comprehend our institutions, sufficiently large they will capture We are forced to raise or all three gloriously blended. get us poor devils all excited about a puzzled minority in every the State and impose upon it the In that day we may find that $3,000 and in order to do so, saving money, and getting on in the community still acts as though evils which beset them. The evils Washington, Lincoln, John Hancock, world but why? American institutions were functioning will sell at public auction our are only symptoms. Miles Standish, and Andy Jackson— "What's the use of rising in the perfectly. This puzzled minority What is the matter with America? entire stock of electrical the decent and circumspect Rover world if we are no better than anyone still believes that the "land of the One man's guess is as good as another's boys of our earlier politics—-are goods at whatever price they else, and have to submit to the free will become eventually "the in a free country, so let us shadowy ghosts without conjuring same laws as anyone 41se What's home of the brave," forgetting that venture a diagnosis and call the bring: on the block. power in our country. the good of getting money, if it won't the moron, majority sees nothing in trouble a moron majority. They may be regardied somewhat buy you anything?" our institutions to excite his enthusiasm. This is a fine opportunity The typical political situation in as the Huns and Vandals are esteqpied Voters with' Children's Minds any American city is about this: The for those in need of electrical in modern Rome, while the ruling So speak the masses in our cities, Land of the Pilgrim's Pride forces in the community that stand statesmen of the next century cavort goods of any kind, to buy. and all the newspapers, all the This puzzled minority that reads for what is obviously good government about from revolution to revolution, preachers, all the chambers of commerce, the editorials in the newspapers form in the old-fashioned sense line distributing largess to the electorate Everything from pocket and all the traditional Americans good-government clubs, "deplores" up behind a candidate, conspicuously in bread and circuses, and complicate unite against the mass majority "views with alarm," and "demands honest and cold-nosed, often highbrowed, flash-lights—light, fixtures—phonographs—to. player our politics with assasination. It is to make a brave but negligible minority. and sometimes even a that something be done," considers, pianos, (something for every home) and wfc will personally quite possible. Hylan and Thompson When the majority has rolled that America is the melting pot where "Christian, gentleman." are forecasting shadows. And every guarantee every article sold., over the uninimportant but eloquent the lower racial plasms may by gome Those Who Don't Care American city has men of the.same All the newspapers support him. type. Here area few articles that you may need—American Chauncey M. Depew at Hot Springs All the organizations devoted to orderly The type is no accident. It.is here processes of government get Beauty, Westinghouse, and Dear Maid electric flat to stay, unless the Puritan ideal can behind him. It becomes evident as the irons, Universal percolators, grills, electric cooking appliances, (Continued on Page Seven) campaign grows warm that around electric lighting fixtures of all kinds—table his opponents are gathered the evil Irony and Big Eyes. .. influences of the town: the grafters, lamps,,all lights, desk lamps, bedroom lights, forty Help was scarce, and the packers the underworld, the racial blocks, the and fifty watt light bulbs, woodwork and metal polish, had t6 be treated with great care to devotees of special privilege in political kefep them from walking out. The foreman flash,lights, electric washers, vibrating machines, heating grafting—the markethouse graft, of the big apple-packing house the paving graft, the printing graft, pads and a few small motors Universal, Westinghouse had suffered almost all he could stand. the public-works graft--and a score A lull came in the rush of work, and and Hot Point electric toasters, and many other of small activities wheie men may one of the sorters, a thin little girl pick up a few hundreds or a few with big eyes and an Irish name, began articles too numerous to mention. to try her hand at packing. "Here, thousands, and, if persistent and you!" cried the foreman, glad to relieve diligent, a few millions of dollars. his feelings on some one. "Cut TERMS:—Reasonable terms will be announced at date During the campaign disclosures of that out. Put that paper back!" The the activties of these grafters and girl's of sale. eyes grew larger as she meekly blackmailers and representatives of laid the paper on tire table but she petty larceny in city politics come kept them fixed on him, unabashed, "Put It on the shelf where it belongs," thick and fast. Auctioneer, COL. ALBERT HOPFE he so ordered. She did and with her They are convincing to the mind wide eyes on still fixed his riid C.W.STREETER, Clerk and heart of the old-fashioned Aimer gently, "You don't have tojspeak kind 3can, who is pained and surprised to The Austin Electric Co. Uke that to me. I ain't sick or nothing."—Youth's discover that thousands of his fellow Companion. citizens are not even cynical about Spiritual Horticulture. it. These care-free fellow citizens accept When there Is sunshine in the sou) the situation, desiring for their 121 Jtfain Street' 4 Austin, Minn. !here will fruit and in the be floorers soul's salvation only to feel that the Ife.—Boston Transcript. stories of graft are true accepting the principle of special privilege By No Means. Though eighty-eight years old, Chauncey M. Depew Todks hale and hearty, •with a sincerity which makes the overwhelming When the bride promises to obey as evidenced by his intent reading of the daily paper while taking a sun bath at Hot Springs, Va. she waives her rights -tout ft Isn't a proof of the graft only permanent waive.—Lincoln Star. a further reason to stand by their $ *7*1 i&fe '.W & 7-"' f&h *5* to