IEEI OF COUWTHY
TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRATIC PRIN
CIPLES IS IMPERATIVE.
THE MAN AND THE HOUR.
With the Nomination of John A. John
son, Progressive Democrat of In
tegrity, Ability and Achieve
ment, Success Is Assured.
Wearied of 12 years of overwhelm
ing defeat in national elections, dur
ing which time the party has lost na
tional political control of every north
ern state and has witnessed devastat
ing inroads evert* on the southern
states, hundreds of thousands of Dem
ocratic voters have In the last few
months asked: “Who is the man who
can lead the party to victory?"
The best of armies, military or po
litical, require some measure of suc
cwb to maintain their spirit and ef
ficiency. Continuous and overwhelm
ing defeat, even in the worthiest of
causes, disheartens the strongest men.
Conditions are such in this year
I1SD8, that a united Democracy, sup
iporting a strong presidential nominee,
can win the presidential office and
open the way for a return of the Demo
cratic party to power. Not only do
(the best interests of the Democrat lq
[party call for a victory this year, but
so also do the best interests of the na
tion. Twelve years of almost unop
posed government of the republic by
one party, and for eight of those years
practically by one man, have brought
about conditions that are repugnant
to the efficient and satisfactory ad
ministration of a government sup
posedly of the people.
Principle with Victory.
Victory can lie achieved this year,
■without sacrificing one iota of the
stand for principle that has been made
with so much sacrifice by the Demo
cratic party of the United States for
the last dozen years. It is merely a
question of changing leadership. Three
times in succession our party has gone
to defeat, because its leadership has
not been able to inspire confidence in
the masses of the voters, patriotic,
progressive and sincere as that leader
ship has unquestionably been. The
party is greater than its individual
membership and greater than its lead
ers. The time has come when it
should name its leader in a presiden
tial campaign and no longer permit it
self to be defeated by a sentimental,
though heroic, devotion to a great
name that has dominated it for a
dozen years.
If In the ranks of the party there Is
a man whose principles, whose party
fealty, whose success in political bat
ties, whose actual achievements in
legislation and statesmanship—and a
man holding a commanding political
situation—are such that victory under
his leadership is Indicated, is it not
the duly of reasonable, thoughtful, de
voted Democrats, desiring the success
of their party, to turn to him?
Johnscn tho Man.
The friends of Gov. John A. Johnson
of Minnesota, who have watched his
remarkable career in recent years, as
well as impartial observers and jour
nalists throughout the country, believe
that he is the man of the hour, the
man in every way equipped to make a
successful campaign, and afterward
to be a chief executive of the highest
order. Let u* briefly review his career.
John A. Johnson was born in St.
Peter, f Nicollet county, Minnesota.
July 28, 1861, of Swe dish parents. His
childhood and youth were passed in
great poverty. At 13 years of age, he
was compelled to leave the public
schools of his native city, in order to
support himself and (he parental fam
ily. Though his formal education was
thus early cut short, his self-education
never stopped. A student at all times,
a wide reader and a thoughtful one, I
Mr. Johnson, after some years of ob- !
scure toil as a drug and grocery clerk
and railway time-keeper, became at
the age of 24 editor of tho St. Peter
Herald. He soon became known as
one of the ablest of Minnesota jour
nalists and was recognized as one of
the leaders of journalism in a state re
markable for the number, vigor and in
fluence of its periodical press. As a
country editor, he was gradually drawn
Into politics ar.d in 1898 was elected
a member of the senate of the Minne
sota legislature, and his first public po- I
litical work was as a member of that j
body. From the first, he was identi- I
fled with various reform measures,
which have since become law in Min
nesota.
Wherever Gov. Johnson has gone,
he has impressed men as beirtg a man
of the Lincoln type. He has the fac
ulty of making many friends and few
enemies.
Gov. Johnson's Legislative Results.
The governor recommended a per
manent tax commission. The legis
lature gave it to him and the ink was
hardly dry on the document before he
appointed a commission so strong in
its personnel that the Republican sen
ate resolved by a rising vote to con
firm the appointments without delay,
while the equally Republican house,
though without the power of confirma
tion, expressed by a rising vote its ap
preciation of the excellence of the gov
ernor’s appointments.
In northern Minnesota are the great
est iron ore fields in the world. The
state of Minnesota owns extensive
areas of these lands. By leases they
were largely in the hands of the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation and the
; state was receiving only an insignifl
i cant income from its royalties. The
governor advised the withdrawal of
, all such lands from mineral leases h.nd
I the legislature concurred.
Minnesota has enjoyed but scant in
come rrom tne wealth of the privately
owned iron mines. The governor
recommended a royalty tax on the out
put of these mines. He did not get it.
but the United States Steel Corpora
tion .ound itself as a substitute to
establish a $20,000,000 steel plant at
Duluth.
The newly created tax commission,
together with the state board of equal
ization. which preceded it (the mem
bers of which were appointed try
Governor Johnson), have in the four
years of Governor Johnson’s adminis
tration increased the assessed valua
tion of the steel corporation's iron ore
holdings in Minnesota from $22,000,000
to $190,000,000.
The sleeping-car companies of Min
nesota had never paid taxes in Min
nesota in proportion to their earnings.
The governor recommended a change
in the system ot taxing these compan
ies and a satisfactory law was enacted.
Similarly, a rational law as to mort
gage taxation was enacted.
Railway Regulation.
Taking up freight rates, Governor
Johnson in a powerful speech so ex
haustively and conclusively bared ex
isting unequal and exorbitant rates
that the railway companies voluntarily
made a reduction of ten per cent, on
grain rates on their lines in northern
Minnesota. My order of the railw-ay
commission, reinforced by subsequent
legislation, this voluntary reduction
was followed by a horizontal reduc
tion in maximum freight rates of about
12 per cent., and there was created
a new class of merchandise tariff in
•>*hich the rates were reduced about
20 per cent. The railways took these
reductions into the United States
courts, by enjoining the attorney gen
eral of Minnesota from enforcing the
law. This action has opened up some
of the most important litigation in
volving constitutional Interpretation
that has come befose the supreme
court in this generation.
i ne i wo-Lent Law.
The enactment of the two-cent pas
senger tariff law was an example of
Governor Johnson's celerity of action.
Invited to address the Minnesota Edi
torial association, instead of making
the usual platitudinous address on
such occasions, "he exploded the two
cent bomb" and urged that an end be
put to the giving of passes. He talked
on the same subject to a convention
of commercial travelers. Immediate
ly the state wffs aflame with this inno
vation in railway legislation. When
the legislature met. he asked for a law
embodying this idea and the legisla
ture quickly responded. Neighboring
states followed with reductions, and
now throughout the middle northwest
the two-cent rate prevails.
About the time Governor Johnson
came into office there was & wide
spread agitation for reciprocal demur
rage laws, which would compel rail
ways to allow shippers demurrage
charges ror faiiure to deliver cars on
time. Governor Johnson, ever abreast
of popular progress, recommended
such a law and got it.
Thanhs to his initiative, the orders
of the Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house commission are now immediate
ly effective, pending appeal.
In Defense of Labor.
Governor Johnson, in consonance
with his thorough democracy, and
believing in 4equa! rights, has not'been
neglectful of the interests of labor. He
desired a free state employment bu- ;
reau designed to eliminate the many
abuses that have marked private em
ployment bureaus in the great labor
centers of Minnesota. Such a bureau
was created and has been thoroughly
helpful and widely efficient.
Since time immemorial, that relic
of feudalism, the common law doc
trine of non-liability of employer to
employe for injuries occurring
through the negligence of a fellow
servant has prevailed in Minnesota, as
well as in many other states. “This
ancient rule of the common law,” said
Gov. Johnson, “coupled with the other
rule generally referred to as the doc
trine of the assumption of -fisk by
employes, has cast upon the Individ
ual laborer a risk and responsibility
out of proportion to the wages he re
ceives.”
During his term of office Gov. John
son has had to deal with one great
conflict between labor and capital,
namely, the strike of the miners on
the Minnesota iron ranges. By direct
personal intervention, by advice to the
employers on the ono hand and the
strikers on the other, the governor suc
ceeded, wifuout the use of state troops,
in preventing violence and bloodshed.
In the forests and prairies of north
ern Minnesota are great extents of
fertile land, which, owing to lack of
drainage, have not been available for
cultivation. Thanks to Gov. Johnson,
additional legislation on this subject
was secured, and hundreds of thou
sands of acres of fertile land will ba
added to the rolls of the state s
wealth.
Gov. Johnson believes in the muni
cipal ownership of public utilities, and,
following his suggestion, a modified
form of the Illinois Mueller law was
adopted by the Minnesota legislature.
Under its provisions a municipality
may bond its street railways or other
public utilities to pay the cost of the
purchase and operation of the same.
Minnesota, a leading agricultural
state, has long had to contend with
the cordage trust, which has a practi
cal monopoly of the binding twine
used in harvesting. For many years
the state has had a twine plant in
which prison labor was employed.
The trust erected a factory' in Minne
sota to compete with the state-made
twine and Gov. Johnson’s answer was,
with the consent of the legislature,
authorization for the state twine plant
to sell its product outside as well a3
within the state. The cordage trust
will now have to fight the cheap Min
nesota state-made twine in other
states as well as at home.
Did Away with Passes.
In one of his messages, Gov. John
son said: “If the public officers are
not adequately compensated now for
their services, fix the compensation to
such an extent as to make it reason
able compensation and do away with
the possibility of any officer becoming
a beneficiary of the favor of corpora
tions, and by reason of gratuities be
ing placed under some obligation to
the corporation which extends the
courtesy. . . And urge most
earnestly the early enactment of a law
which will forever abolish the system
in Minnesota." And it was done.
“The Blood is The Life”
Science has never Rone beyond the
above simple statement of scripture. But
It has illuminated that statement and
given it a meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
"When the blood is "bad” or impure it
is not alone the body which sutlers
through disease. The brain is also j
clouded, Nj^e mind and judgement are
cBected, andsf%;my an evil deed or impure
th°\giit\gj_^<^St4^ectiy traced to the
inpwayol the mNjfljt Foul, impure blood
•can be made pure hv tie- use of hr
Pierce’s Bolden Medical Discovery. _It
■ enriches and nun lie's' tlie~blood thereby
-curing, pimples, blotches, eruptions and
other cutaneous affections, as eczema, \
tetter, or salt-rheum, hives and other
.manifestations of impure blood.
® ® ® ® <D ®
In the cure of scrofulous swellings, en
larged glands, open eating ulcers, or old
cores, the "Golden Medical Discovery "has
performed the most marvelous cures. In
cases of old sores, or open eating ulcers,
It is well to apply to the open sores Dr.
Pierce’s All-Heating Salve, which pos
sesses wonderful healing potency when
used as an application to the sores in con
^ Junction with the use of "Golden Medical
Discovery ” as a blood cleansing consti
tutional treatment. If your druggist
don’t happen to have the "All-ITealing
Salve” in stock, you can easily procure it
by inclosing fifty-four cents in postage
stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, 663 Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., and it will come to you by
return post Most druggists keep tt as
well as the "Golden Medical Discovery.”
® ® ® ® ® ®
You can’t afford to accept any medicine
of unknown composition as a substitute
for "Golden Medical Discovery,” which is
a medicine ok known composition,
having a complete list of ingredients in
plain English on its bottle-wrapper, the
same being attested as correct under oath.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and Invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
'Dollar
spent at home reacts in its benefits
with unceasing general profit.
Sent out of town it’s life is ended.
Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous
benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keeping
this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising.
“SECONDS” OR “OFF” GOODS.
How They Are Disposed Of by Big
Manufacturing Concerns.
Manufacturers who put out their
goods under brands are watchful as to
keeping their output up to the stand
ard. Big concerns whose goods are
widely advertised and are known for
their excellency will not allow defec
tive articles to go from their factories.
Everything is inspected, and it must
be perfect before the brand is allowed
to be marked upon it.
In the large cutlery factories, the
silverware manufacturing plants, the
collar and shirt factories, and the like,
regardless of what care is exercised,
defects will be found in a certain per
centage of the work turned out. In
cutlery the temper of a blade may be
uneven; the handle may be marred,
the lining may be imperfect, and all
such defects cause the knife to be
discarded, that is, thrown out and not
marked with the brand, if the maker
has a reputation to maintain. In shirt
factories the defective shirts are
placed aside just the same, and so it
is with hundreds of manufactured
articles. All these articles are dead
loss to the manufacturer unless they
be remodeled, or disposed of at a cost
covering the expense of the raw mate
rial and the time of employers used
in their making. Thus manufacturers
welcome a means of “playing even,”
of disposing of this damaged stofck so
as to prevent loss.
In many cases the damaged goods
are sold to “job-lot’’ men who auction
them off to small jobbers. But the
majority of these _ goods are sold by
contract to large houses located in th*
big cities, and it may be said that
fully 50 per cent, of the goods that
these houses handle are either of the
damaged class known as "seconds” or
prison made or contract goods, cheap
ly turned out in sweat houses.
A number of concerns have con*
tracts with these houses for all the
“off” goods made. These goods are
wrapped up in such a way as to cover
their defects. The concern buys them
for about 30 to 40 per cent, below
prices at which perfect goods can be
had in the markets' Thus it can be
seen how some concerns can make low
prices on goods that look about as
well as regular dealers carry, but
which are far inferior.
No Marshal Needed.
One of the newspapers of Winters,
Cal., a temperance town, says in a re
cent issue: “In the event of the of
fice of the town marshal becoming
vacant by removal from town of the
present incumbent, the Express
voices the opinion of many tax payers
by saying no new marshal should be
appointed. If any officer is needed,
give us a night watchman. The town
is so orderly now t%at the presence
of the constable is sufficient to pre
serve the peace in daytime—in fact,
there is absolutely nothing to do for
either officer. The town may as well
save at least $50 of the salary now
paid.” It is now three years since
Winters adopted the no-license ordi
nance.
Remember that trusts and combina
tions are never builded up in the
small towns. They find their origin
and flourish in the large cities.
THE REV. IRL R. HICKS
Almanac and Magazine
Should be in
every home in
the land. His
weather predic
tions can behad
only in his own
publications.
No other publisher is permitted to
<<f)rintthem in any form, either with or
without credit. His 1908 Almanac ex
cels all former editions in beauty and
value, and sells for35cents, postpaid.
Elis monthly magazine, Word and
Works, contains his weather fore
casts for each month, together with a.
vast amount of the best family reading
and costs $1. a year, one almanac with,
each subscription. Every earthquake
and serious storm for 20 years has
been predicted by Prof. Hicks. * You
! cannot afford to be w ithout these pub
lications.9 Address all orders to
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