Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — THEY MEAN BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

THEY MEAN BUSINESS.

The Hennepin Canal Men at Work, and Confident of Success. The Hennepin canal men, says a Washington dispatch,, are organizing for an active* aggressive campaign, and propose now to do some hard work. The leading lights of the movement at a meeting last week divided up the field for missionary labor. The first step is a thorough canvass of the House of Representatives* to find out who are for, who are against, and who are indlflerent to the bill. When this canvass is complete, there will be an organized etlort to Interest the indifferent and concert the opposition. Each active and interested advocate in and out of Congress will be assigned to the duty of educating a given number of those who are Ignorant of the importance of the scheme, and persuading a given number of those who do not believe in its practicability or oppose it for other reasons. The entire House of Representatives will thus be subjected to individual and personal influence, and the bill can be passed this way if at all. Its friends are verv hopeful. .