;?t -^ V?J- %•' X r*^ &ww — **=?•• circulation of 1,800 copies each week. monarch^? „ Our president now carries Clausen as chief inspector, there was WHAT IMPERIALISM IS t*' v Many people may not think this a on war, he censors the press, a con­ MINNESOTA a shrinkage of $102,032.44 in the fund large circulation, but they should re­ gress meets and adjourns without i JL? standing to the credit of the depart­ member that outside of the weekly edi­ making any provisions for the proper WHEAT ment, under an inspection and weighing TOLO BY A REPUBLICAN tions of three of Nebraska's metropoli­ government of 10,000,000 alien people, fee of 15c per car, making an increase tan newspapers there are-not ten week­ and nobody finds any fault with it, INSPECTION. in the fee imperative in order to save «.^* ly papers in Nebraska with a circula­ save some of Mr. Bryan's admirers. the department from bankruptcy and tion of 1,800. We certainly find no fault with the (CONTINUED FROM SECOND PAGE/ from being a charge upon the tax­ Editor of the Des Moines Globe Says Policy But while Mr. Chavannes freely con­ conditions as they exist. The settle­ payer. The fee accordingly was raised ment of the great Philippine question fesses his political views, a lot of his should start out in any other way with to 25c. Even with a 20c fee there was is rightly left in the hands of the presi­ ^ of the McKinley Administration is the fellow republicans are afraid to speak the pressure that is brought to bear on a loss of $37,042.42 in 1894 and with a dent. He and his cabinet alone know out so openly, and they fear that Cha­ us we should get the grades down so 25c fee there was a loss of $4,917.22 Best Definition of the Term. the true condition of affairs over vannes impetuosity may be disastrous low they would be below the standard, under republican administration in 1895; there and consequently they alone can to the g. o. p. For this reason repub­ and if we once get below we cannot so that 25c was judged to be none too make the proper and intelligent ar­ lican managers are seeking to either tighten up, we can never get back. high to place the department upon a rangements for their government. This For this Reason His Newspaper Supports McKinley and close Chavannes' mouth or make it ap­ There was never known such a thing self-supporting business basis. The view of the matter a great majority of pear irresponsible. Following this as tightening up a grade. additional burden of $15,000 to $20,000 „ Advocates a Constitutional Monarchy—Some line of policy the Des Moines Capital our people take, I believe. What placed by the last legislation upon the "Q. In other words, the rule never of Friday. August 24, contained a very different conditions would you have department to support the new State ft. worked both ways? Mighty Interesting Reading. bitter attack on Mr. Chavannes. In under a monarchy? Board of Appeals necessitated an in­ "A. No. sir. the Capital article it was sought to de­ Upon what theory except imperialism crease m the fee, even had republican Mr. G. A. Tunnell, then Chief De­ monstrate that Chavannes is not a re­ do republicans justify the possession precedent not disclosed the $100,000 puty Inspector at Minneapolis, was Special Dispatch to the Omaha World-Herald a free, liberal republic to the end of all publican, does not edit a republican of the Philippine Islands? For politi. shortage in the two and one-half years placed on the stand. Des Moines, la., Aug 29.—Solomon, time. But I clearly see that such a newspaper and is not, responsible for cal buncombe, we may say: "We prior to Chief Inspector Reishus' ap­ "Q. You have testified that early or some other one of the wise men, re­ thing is now an impossibility. Others his actions or utterances. In order to owed it to other nations to keep them." pointment. in the season you have to inspect marked once upon a time: "Behold see it, too, but they are afraid to come show the latter the Capital refers to an But if that be so, why then buy them? closer? Efficiency in the Weighing Department. what a great matter a little fire kind- out openly and say so. I am not. But unfortunate incident in Mr. Chavannes' The other nations should at least have "A.Yes, at the very start." leth." The truth of the old assertion what man can study history and then life when he was through what will ap­ paid for them if we kept them for their An example of the increased strict­ ness and general efficiency achieved is proved by the remarkable leap into analyze the present and not be con­ pear to all fair-minded men to be a benefit. How Will this nation justify The committee in closing its findings under m^Lpresent administration is prominence of the Des Moines Weekly vinced that our tendency is that way? mistake, confined for a few weeks in the great killing of these people, and from the evidence produced before it, shown by the statistics of the weighing Globe. A few short weeks ago the "Government, my dear lbs, Moines Weekly Globe, is a republi­ under such a system the individual is On this point Mr. Young says: grades down, press them down," who 18% 36 ' the country" properly directed could 30 ' can, is the republican committeeman given better opportunities to enlarge I come now, my dear sir, to a p.r- got the benefit? Apparently, the in­ 1897 17 " create a strong sentiment in ts favor 18Q8 20 " of his precinct, and his paper is the his business interests." sonal matter, concerning a part of spection out of dealers' hands for ex­ in a few weeks if it was thought desir. 1899 (List republican year) 17 official organ of the Polk county your article—one that you have forced port was not ' 'pressed down, pressed 1900 (Lmd administration) Supports McKinley. able for the welfare of the country." me to notice and refer to. I refer to down," because eastern buyers some­ In other words, the loss in weight board of supervisors, a body so over­ "Do you advocate the election of the charge you make of my insanity times found a state of affairs widely during the republican administration whelmingly republican that a demo­ McKinley and Roosevelt.-"' These are the sentiments of a McKin- some years back. I suppose that you different. The Buffalo (N. Y.) News, of the Duluth department ranged from crat who happens to be elected thereto "I do, earnestly and honestly." leyite who knows what McKinleyism ' is in danger of dying of nostalgia. felt it your solemn duty to the great of Feb. 17, last, contained an inter­ 17 to 36 lbs. per 1,000 bushels as "Do you advocate their election be­ means and is not afraid to admit the Mr. Chavannes is today striving to party to which you and I belong, to view on the sub]ect of Minnesota against the bagatelle of 8 lbs. under cause j ou believe that their success is truth. WILL M. MAUPIN. destroy what little influence or reputa­ grades of the preceding season from Governor Lind's new regime. The catch up with a correspondence that a step in the direction of achieving D tion I might have in the town in which Chief Inspector J. D. Shanahan of the average loss in six years of republi­ has piled in on him in the most sur­ what you believe to be the proper I live. If I ever was insane it was a Buffalo port, in which the latter was can administration was 25 lbs., which O prising manner. A glance at his desk thing in government?" would lead one to believe that he is misfortune that every right-thinking Professor quoted as saying: is three times that of the first year of "I do. Why should republicans be either a candidate for some high of­ man^-a man with a heart in him— "When I was in the Northwest last the new control. This shows that the afraid to admit it? They may deceive fice or pie distributor for a new ad­ would try to help me forget, and help spring (spring of '99), I endeavored to new broom sweeps clean in weighing themsehes but they deceive one else McLaughlin as in inspection, while being a less L ministration. And each and every one me as far as possible to repair this tell the people of Minnesota through when they pooh-pooh at imperialism. heavy burden upon the tax-payer, and of those stacks of letters asks con­ untoward circumstance. If I felt and the press that they could not sell No. I am a republican, and while the a source of far greater justice to the < cerning some remarkable editorials believed that you were a man with a 2 Northern or No. 3 Northern to Globe is a republican newspaper, it is on eastern or foreign buyers by covering producer and general business public. that have recently appeared in the speck of real manhood in you, if I not a party organ. That is to say, Globe and been copied therefrom into believed that you were capable of the it with No. 1 Northern certificates, and Comparative statement showing the J the Globe, while advocating repub­ certain democratic organs. finer feelings that are found in refined it looks to me as though they had expenses of the inspection and weigh, lican policies, is not a party organ in Imperialism. come to realize the fact." Stacks of Letters. and right-minded people, I should cer­ ing departments for the crop years the sense that it is controlled by party J tainly feel much grieved and hurt at The condition here complained of ending August 31st, 1899 and August Mr. Chavannes had just returned bosses. But while the Globe does not Prof. J. Lawrence McLaughlin, of the insult—financially and socially— took place prior to the spring of 1899, 3lst, 1900, and the expenses of the from a visit to Devil's Lake when the carry the republican ticket at the head the Chicago University, who was the that you have tried to bring upon my­ under republican inspection, as ap­ Board of Appeals for the year ending World - Herald correspondant intro­ of its editorial column, it is a repub­ foremost and ablest exponent of the self and family in order to help, as you pears from the face of it. And yet the August 31st, 1900. duced himself. Mr. Chavannes had lican paper and I am a republican. I gold standard in the last presidential thought, our party. St. Paul Dispatch of Feb. 20, produces 1899-1900 1898-1899 not, therefore, had time to go through am advocating what I believe—in fact campaign of 1896, writes a terrific ar­ it as a condemnation of the Reishus' Board Inspection Inspection his mail. But as soon as the World- am certain—to be republican policies. raignment of McKinley's Philippine 1899 of and and Mr. Chavannes then refers to the inspection, which did not begin until Appeals Weurhing Weighing Herald was mentioned to him he I only go far enough to openly admit fact that without solicitation on his policy and predicts that if continued Sept $21 114 59 81 168 46 $19 946 13 $19,290 79 the August following Mr. Shanahan's Oct 22,3bl 55 shoved back a pile of letters, swung what the leaders certainly concede on present lines it will wreck the Re­ 116(5 89 21,19166 20 2

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