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——— J | | PEE SACETY Erand Rapid ra Vout VIL—No 11 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay November 5 1898 ‘ & Two Dotrars a YEAR SCL LA TAAL TALL ALAS SST SHLAA TTS HST CAAA CHAT ATOMS SHS HACC ORO LeeT RR RSeAKSAeKSMSA ASE LESTE KR AE EER eRER ETE tee a ate ae ae eae eae ee ae ae ae ae ae te ae ata ae ae Re Re a ITASCA MERGAN TLE COMPANY > Bry Goods The last of our large purchases have arrived and are ready to be shown to and inspected and admir- ed by the public. We are better equipped than ever before to fur- nish and please our most appreciat- ed patrons,and earnestly hope that the Ladies of Grand Rapids and tributary points will call and, at least. allow us to show them and convince them that we areina position to SELL RIGHT. We have no “Shoddy” sluff, but Good, Honest Goods. Our Dress Patterns and Silk Vaist Patterns must be seen to be appreciated, and those who have seen them have said they jare sim- ply suberb. Our Dress,Trimmings are in touch with the patterns.” Skirts Yhe Laagest Line of . Ladies’ Skirts ever exhibited at cne time. ave them ranging from $1.25 10. Come in and see them—the Up to date in to Skirts do the rest, Gloaks Now is the time—and thls is the place—for we have a large stock ‘and so come before the best are all picked out. Children’s Coats Especially are going very fast—only a few left. Ladies’ Coats, ranging from $3.5 to $15 in the Latest Styles. If you need a Coat, come now—if not in present need, make a small pay- ment and we will gladly lay the Coat aside for you. Winter ts Coming On And we havein stock BOES, MUFFS, and CHILDREN’S MUFFS SETS, Underwear and Hose. Ladies, Misses’ and Children’s. We have an immense stock and assortment which cannot fail. to satisfy the must fastidevus. Shees Here is Where we Shine—and shinning brighter every day as the sun rises. To this department we have given special attention and ad- ditional -rgéom. and are making extra efforts to handle nothing but. Good, Honest, Up-to-Date Goods. We are amply stocked with Gentlemen's, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s shoes. Driver's, Cruiser’s (high and low) and . More Shoes. We have a fine line—our Boys’ and Gents’ shues we cannot afford to let go by without a word of praise. which is the outcome of Good Leather and Long Wearing —qualities which the so-called Sehcol Shoe *‘Sold by Us” process. Try them, parents! buy no other. You will Clothing Just received and ready for sale the celebrated fart, Schafiron & Marx? Clothing, which bares a national reputation. +We are always pleas- ed to show these ,goods whether you want to buy ornot. If you are in need, come in and look at ourstock. Our line of Fall and Winter Overcoats and Ulsters are also of the 98 patterns and will please you. WILSON BROS.’ Neckwear— the finest in the Land. We have them. They come high, but we must have them—cannot do busi- ness without them. Furniture and CARPETS We are in a position to sell you most anythin, tn the line SP inilers: Brass and Iron Bedsteads, and an elegant line of Carpets to Pick from. Rugs, Mattings, Schmite & Sai: Curtains. Give us a call Give us a Call—a Pleasure to Show Goods. style. hash hchathcheshshishshssheitaihe Aside rheshaheshadhichcchidaoittidediidedasbsibsddadcededoocaoadackbovodeaasdodckoodedaeaaoduckoedecudacaaea | Prompt Delivery Laprairie Delivery--Tuesdays and Fridays. Ft A Bache shashuolashashashashaashsolashastahashactaahaclahacbaatashsecsahasRasha ahaha ahahaha shacha ha se cha chaste hails ches shasha hac shashe sha shasla a hashasiasdesdarhasbaskookoskssdood Lhd 4s LIND AND LEGISLATURE = = | sympathy with his aims. He cannot | erieesee | The Importance of Electing Reform: | ers to State Legislature. | THE NEED OF LABOR LAW, Some Matters That Should be Seri-| ered by Werkmen on | ction Concerning | ously Co! the Eve ¢ Thrir Own Best Interests. There is a feeling of confidence Democratic leaders that be speaks certain victory to the reform foyrces on ‘Tuesday, ‘That Eustis | will be defeated and John Lind elect- | ed governor of Minnesota by 15,000 to 20,000 majority is even conceeded by Republicans. Eustis’ managers are desperate in their. efforts to over- come the popular will, but the bad record of the head of the Repubhean tucket his election | absolutely impossible. Long-standing abuses .1n public affairs of this state will not longer be tolerated by an out- raged people. In. the northerr por- tion of the state, especially in tbe Sixth district,. Eustis will be buried out.of sight, in Itasca county where Eustis did-business for a num- ber of years and where today many workmen hold his outlawed and re- pudiated paper, Honest John Lind should receive seven out of every ten votes cast, and many-men who are in a position to know whereof they speak report that the Minneapolis crook will be almost unanimously _repudiat- ed by the woodsmen who are ac- quainted with his record as an em- ployer of labor. However, the feel- ing of certain victory for the reform forces that finds expression in every section of the state should in no de- gree lessen the efforts of Democrats and Populists from now until the polls close on Tuesday evening next. It must be borne in mind that the op- position is controlled by a gang that has grown opulent and insolent through the. strength of over thirty years’ spoilation. ‘fhe machine will not relinguish the great state of Min- nesota without a final herculean struggle to retain its grasp. ‘The ap- proaching defeat will make it more desperate than ever, and it is there- fore the more necessary for the sup- portersof Lind toredouble their energies in his behalf, The election of Lind alone is not amovg renders Here the reforms that he is pledge to ad- vance. Back of the governor must | be a senate and house that will be in| pass laws alone. When you put an! X opposite the ‘name of Lind, el it up witha voté for Skemp, Kearney | and. Kelly, the’ Democratic legislative | nominees. And remember tvo, that} pit is necessary to elect to the several } will co-oper- | in the great | The whole state offices such men as ate with the governor work that is before him. state ticket, including the judges of supreme court—Canty, Buck and Mitchell—all should receive the same splendid endorsement that will be accorded John Lind. FOR‘SENATE AND HOUSE The people of the Filty-Second legislative district+composed of the counties. of Itasca, Aitkin, Cass and Carlton—are vitally interested in the result of next ‘Tuesday’s The men employed in the woods, 10 mill or mine, 1m field or factory, by in- herent right should _be the dictators as to whom should make and entorce the laws of state. ‘Ihe greatest good tothe greatest number,” 1s the very foundation stone upon which this government rests. It follows that the producers. of aii wealth—the toiling masses of mankind—should be ever guarded and guided by: wise and just legislation. _ If there be one state in the union more than any other that needs a revision of its laws relative to the rights of wage earners, that state is Minnesota. Nature gave to this commonwealth riches of almost every kind with a lavish hand and in the advancement of the race, brave, pro- gressive and loyal men and women have appeared to «levelop the vast resources that only awaited’ the genius of enlightenment and productive in- dustry. It isan easy and pleasing task for [the glib-tongued orator to dwell upon the glories of our increas- ing territory and the vastness of our wealth—but what of the real producer thereof? What of the labor-laws that should have been enacted sometime during all these years of Republican misrule in Minnesota? It has been said—and said mght here in Grand Rapids by the present Republican candidate for the state senate—that our existing laws relative to labor are entirely adequate,,and_ in language {that fairly burned and bristled with emphasis, he denounced the following plank of the Demucratic legislative platform We denounce the-system which is much in vowue in this district where- by employers of labor issue to dis- charged employes what is commonly election . payment of wages due for labor! thetic appetite may dictate. When honestly performed, and which the holder is forced to discount at a liberal figure in order to receive some ation for his toil. We brand em as being infamous. Ibis to all sense of right and contr justi particular. We, therefore, pledgz x that our candidates will, if elected | use their best endeavors to hae placed upon the statute books of our state a law:whicn will compel the ew- ployer to pay his employes at leas# cucea month, orin full of account upou a discharge, and provide that such payment shall be made in lawful raoney of the United States, or by bank check or negotiable paper not ubject to discount for exchage. It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the voters of this legislative district are laboring men—men who work for wages. These voters know by actual and humiliating experience that the present statutory provisions for the enforcement of collection of wages earned are nothing more or less than a fraud and a delusion. The unwrit- ten law that “might makes right” would even be an improvement. A man works in the woods or elsewhere for a period of one to six.months and draws his time. He is given a ume check (an acknowledgement of debt, only), payable a month or perhaps six months hence. The workman pre- sents his time check to the cashier of the local bank, with about the fol lowing result as a rule: “Ah yes, it is all mght; but we have all of this paper just now that we care to carry,” says the gentlemanly change-maker, with a 20-per-c&at- discount smile. “But,” argues the workman, ‘the foreman told me I could get it cashed here. What am I to do?” “I’m sure I don’t know. Perhaps some store or saloon man might handle it.” The man with the check walks out. But ready cash is not plentiful these gold-standard days with the local merchant. He is forced to the bank pretty regularly with his cash receipts to prevent draft protests. The man with the long-time paper returns to the money-changer. He really un- derstands within himself what Shylock wants, and another appeal is made to turn his check into good and lawful currency,but the same old stereotyped response comes back. Now comes the beauty and value of the present law bearing upon a case such as here pictured: The holder of the time check may force the payment of the amount due after thirty days, by.em- ploying the services of an attorney at}, a figure, usually, three or four times in access of his real value, and take the case into court. In the mean- time the laborer may stand around on the street corner and live on snow- sufficient, py any means, to carry out f called a ‘Time Check” in pretended balls or _ ‘ground. apples,” as his as- and is undemocratic in every | the case comes up, if it ever does, the complainant may be taken from Itasca to Hennepin county for+trial. COME UNDER THE WIRE! that the Fusion candidate for congress is their ablest and. bravest champion. He has 1ong since proved his fidelity to their best interests, and they “love A laborer with a seventy-five or hun-| Campaign Runners on the Home|him for the ememies he has made.” dred dollar claim, under these cir- cumstances, would do well—nit. What does. he do? Why, he’s not a fool; he does the only thing left for him todo. He simply goes to the bank and discounts his wages at 10, || 15, 20 or 25 per cent, as the case may be, according to the amount due and time fixed for payment. This statute books of Minnesota in beh@lf of labor, placed there by Republicans and sanctioned by Republican gov- If you wish it to be perpet- uated, vote for men who are pledged in opposition to the plank above quoted from the Democratic legisla- tive platform. Ifyou would prefer a law whereby employers will be com- pelled to pay spot cash to employes when service is completed, or monthly if demanded, and also providing for expenses and attorney’s fees in case of suit, then vote for Wilham H. Skemp, for senator and Charles Kearney and C.C. Kelley for the legislature. They were nominated upon the plat- form quoted above and are pledged to use their best efforts for the enact- ment of such a law. When it is pass- ed, you may be sure that Honest John Lind will sign. it. ernors. A Card to Voters. To the voters and citizens of Itasca county: It has come to my ears that a story. is being circulated which alleges that Land my wife had made some remarks derrogatory to the Catholic church and her members. I brand such statements as lies of whole cloth. During my eight years’ residence in Grand Rapids my wife and Ihave had none but the most pleasant relations with the good people of the town, and those with whom wehave associated in the eloser bonds of friendship are mem- bers of all cree@# and denominations. Financially I have always aided all denominations to the extent of my ability when .solicited. True itis that I worship-God in a different creed ‘thun do the great majority, is but one illustration of the |) many beauties to be found nigel Stretch of ’Ninety-Eight Handicap. DEMOCRATS ’WAY IN THE LEAD From John Lind to the Last Name on | the Fusion Ticket Will be Elected by the People of Minnesota / on Tuesday Next, Reliable reports from all over the Sixth congressional district point to the certain election of Charles A. Towne to succeed Page Morris. This is not idle political talk, because the opinion is shared alike by the leaders of all parties who are in a position to keep m touch with the public pulse, | The one gréat element of strength that is with Towne this year and which bitterly opposed him in 1896 is the real business interest of the dis- trict. Business mene ngaged in every line of industry—baring the banker— realize today that a serious mistake was made two years ago when Towne was retired for an upstart of Page Morris’ capacity. Expertence has demonstrated that the immense indus- tries of this immense district require the congressional services of a man of great ability and the capacity to accomplish what he undertakes; a man whose eminent statesmanship jand unyielding fidelity to. principle will command the respect, admiration and co-operation of the members of the national house. During the single term that Mr. Towne served the peo- accomplished: more for huis district than all his predecessors and successor combined. He not only made him- celf famous as a statesman and orator throughout the English-speaking na- tions of the earth, but by wise and successful legislation he added millions of dollars to the commercial. and in- dustrial wealth, importance and fame of the northern half this state, Com- pare his matchless record and superb Two years ago Itasca” vy made a grand record in her oper ine. His. frends, came-. largely. frewPthe working classes. Every lumberman in the county had been driven by sheer force of circumstances to the support of Morris. ‘The money power had reached the men who buy logs and logger was told that the elec- tion of Bryan and Towne would mean the withdrawal of capital upon which the produces of pine depended to carry on his operations. The logger did not-know whether the story was true or false, but felt that he could not afford to takeany chances. The con- ditions are far different today. Many of the most influential operators in the pineries of Itasca county are sup- porting Towne this year with as much fervor as they opposed him two years ago. Notwithstanding the tremenduous forces at work and the corrupt use of money to carry the county for Morns in 1896 he only went out of Itasca with a bare majority of six votes. Conservative estimates do not place his majority in this county, when the polls close on November 8, at less than 20. Let Itasca be the banner coun- ty in her loyalty to Charles A; ‘Towne! Every man should do his duty on election day. If this is well and truly. done Page Morris’ majority of six will will be changed to the Towne column with an increase of four hundred. The County Concerning the county officers, it is safe to say that the entire Democratic ticket will be elected. Aside from E, J. FARRELL'S personal popularity he has an exceed- ingly weak man to run against in- the person of H. R. King. Mr. Farrell’s careful, conservative and trustworthy ple of Minnesota at Washington he|pusiness methods with all classes of citizens with whom he has had deal- ings during the past six years, coup! with his extensive acquaintance throughout the length and breadth of the county, would make. him a form- idable candidate for any man to run against. Since the opening of the campaign he has demonstrated his ability as a vote-getter. He’ has made athorough canvass of the county, and those who have inter- viewed the citizens’ in the usual man- ner of hustling for -votes do not hesit- but, like them, I’follow the dictation | apilities with that of the present men-|te to predict that he will surprise the ofmy conscience. In this enlighten- ed world men are judged by their worth and not by their religion, and Isincerely hope that you. will find me worthy of your support on Nov. 8. ? ‘PHIL. CASELBERG, Democrat and People’s Candidate for Sheriff. The Salt river boats wili be full. of Republicans this fall. Those of It- asca county will not be lonesome on vhe trip next. Tuesday. tal dwarf who misrepresents the dis- trict and rattles about in Towne’s}, natives with the size of hus majority. On the other hand, Mr. King has lost he strength that has, gone to him in former seat! His only distinction was | former years. The lumbermen of the accorded him when he first-appeared in Washington as the little nonentty with which Mark Hanna defeated county have finally had their eyes opened as to_his' methods of doing business. They have learned that Mr, King has taken advantage of his the brainy and brilliant Towne. That} official position and the means that other and larger class of voters who|he is enabled to employ to know will stand by Towne to a man—the more about government and state educated and inteiligent wage-earners of-the district—need no new assurance! {timber lands than the laws contem- pean es _ Continued on ‘Page Eight, ; i —~j—

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