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-w^s* -Tj, ^i-. ^Ml THE PRINCETONOJNION BY R. C. DUNN. Published Every Tbursclay. TERMSSi.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. SI.25 I NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. OFFICE: FIRST ST., EAST OF COURT HOUSE. 0. I. STAPLES, Business Manager. THOS. H. PROWSE, Editor. Harry Thaw has commenced the study of law. Where he expects to practice report sayeth not. Minnesota has several boys in con gress, and why not send a sedate East-man along to keep them in the straight and narrow path for a couple of years? The La Follette supporters in South Dakota are evidently not so strong as Mose would have us believe, and it is safe to wager that Taft will carry the state with ease. As the price of eggs advances the quality declinesthe oily kind, fit only for fertilizing purposes, is being palmed off upon the consumer as "strictly fresh." Two more big society sales have been negotiated. Miss Antoinette Hecksher and Miss Mildred Sherman have agreed to purchase the son of a viscount and a lord, respectively. May God have mercy on their souls. "Down with the packers," say theing people, and "down with the packers," says the government, but the packers say, "u with the prices," and up they go. Satan himself would find a hard task on his hands should he at tempt to down the packers. Brand Whitlock, who was elected mayor of Toledo, Ohio, recently, has filed with the board of elections a certified statement that he did not spend one cent for expenses during his campaign. This is either another proof that the corrupt practices act is a farce or that Whitlock has rich friends who "dug up" for him. Barnesville is enthused because a farmer living near there raised 250 bushels of potatoes to the acre. Not a bad crop, to be sure, but it pales into insignificance beside the yield on Bill Schmidt's land in the town of Princeton475 bushels to the acre. Many farmers in this township raised near unto 400 bushels to the acre. It is reported that La Follette's campaign fund is almost exhausted. Had Pompadourian Bob not broken faith with Uncle Ike Stephenson and proven himself an ingrate, the oldPresident man would, no doubt, open with willingness a few more barrels for the Wisconsin aspirant to the presidency who will be snowed under by Taft. In the old Pine Tree State they have tiled of rum as the main issue in state campaigns and the prospective demo cratic candidate for governor, John Clark Scates, proposes, if made the standard-bearer of his party, to vary the monotony by making good roads the principal plank in his platform. On that issue John should have easy seating Bro. Lawton, in his Isanti News, tells us that the fair Emmeline Pank hurst, chief gyasticutus of the British militant suffragettes, was a passenger on a train which stopped at his town last week. We are surprised, how ever, that instead of rushing on board the train and interviewing Emmeline, our brother remained in his sanctum and roasted her. The more we read of Emmeline Pankhurst's methods of enhancing woman's suffrage the more are we in clined to the belief that she is doing the cause more harm than good. Give us Colonel Neff as the standard bearer and Mary McPadden as the orator-in-chief, and, may be, we will fall in linefollow the colors and shout for woman franchise. A handful of buccaneers of high finance, inrluding J. Pierpont Morgan, Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator Crane and President Vail of the Western Union Telegraph company, held a conference recently at Lyndonville, Vt., to decide upon delegates to the national republican convention. Mr. Morgan was outspoken in his opposi tion to President Taft. People are beginning to love the president for the enemies he has made. 1 A remarkable thing" happened in of that place succeeded in capturing three men who had $2,500 worth of stolen property in their possession Minneapolis police on places of evil resort in that city the habitues of the raiders discover that the coops are empty, for the soiled doves have'flown. Wisconsin's superintendent of pub lic instruction in a letter to the teachers of that state charges that the state university is the spoiled child of that commonwealth, and comes pretty near being the whole works in Wis consin. There are some iconoclasts in Minnesota who believe the criticism of the Wisconsin superintendent will apply with equal force to our own big state U. Our special St. Paul correspondent, "Ralph," writes some hot stuff this week. "Ralph" has inside sources of information and ought to know where of he writes. Evidently Governor Eberhart's friends are beginning to realize that he is not going to have smooth sailing over the political sea next year. The indications are that, by-and-by, there will be "lovely fight along the whole line." In the Martin County Sentinel several farmers advertise auction sales of their live stock and farm ma chinery for the reason that they "have decided to move to Canada." What's the matter with Martin county, any way? Frank Day has gone to Mon tana, and now the farmers are emi grating to Canada, where unthreshed flax, oats and wheat lie buried under five feet of snow and more a'coming. "The County Chairman," in his let ter on another page, touches on the repeal of tbe law which required pur chasers of state lands to make certain improvements on the same within five years, and intimates that the present land laws inure to the advantage of speculators. Nothing to it. The fewer restrictions placed upon the sale of state lands the better. There is really no grounds for criticism of the meth ods now in vogue of disposing of state lands, nor of the manner in which the sales are conducted. Miniature revolutions are springing up fast in the republic of Mexico and general strikes are threatened, but Madero says he is de termined to crush them in their incipi encythat the time for temporizing is past. Much doubt exists, however, as to whether he will be able to cope with the situation. It is just as likely as not that a revolution surpassing in magnitude the one in which Madero was successful will spring up, andMr. that Uncle Sam will be eventually compelled to send another army down on the border to protect American in terests. In Washington official circles it is i believed Secretary off Argiculture Wilson has received the straight tip from President Taft that he will have to go, and that he is delaying the an nouncement of his forced resignation until another man can be secured to take the portfolio. For the good of the agricultural department and the public at large the honorary chairman Charles B. Cheney, the political writer of the Minneapolis Journal, takes the Houston Signal to task for reckless assertions made in an article in favor of the "seven senators" bill. The Signal writer pretends to believe that if the state is reapportioned on the present constitutional basis all sorts of dire things will happen to the rural districts. Mr. Cheney, with in controvertible facts and figures, fair ly riddles the sophistries advanced by the Signal writer. In the matter of benefits received from direct taxation for state purposes the three large counties of St. Louis, Hennepin and Ramsey get decidedly the worst of it, simply because the assessed valuation of these three counties is more than that .of the other 83 counties. Had he dischargedd Minneapolis last Fridaythe police speaker the ignominy resting upon .e- lat tb When a raid is contemplated by the Jan an injustice. In point of ability wn The Journal seems to have reliable inside information concerning the combine and is publishing the same The Journal's expose may result in Br mos i an man radica member hi of the brewers' associationWilson advantange. should have been lifted out of office long ago. A man who is in collusion with food poisoners is no fit person to be at the head of the government agri cultural department. THE PBPTCETON TJKIQK: ^THURSDAY, NOVEMBEB 23, 1911. of the state legislature and no one and when the stunt is pulled off the 9*nB his fairness. Seek other Minnesota equitable representation cause for the "ignominy" than the peaker. Minneapolis Journal has Th eartne i or an legislature woul never have- nor$h andXT southALL Minnesota. This is his duty 'a attached to thab body.Cambridge all wrong.LeSueur News. Independent-Press. The Independent-Press does Speaker r. we agree with our LeSueur contem Presidede the lower branc Dv "a. th P* any mah ee un-state another trust of gigantic pro tins with headquarters in Chica ramifications in Minneapolis creosote paving block combine tn everywhere in the Unite fche Rock easf state Mountainsdd Thi trusst controls the output an fixes rice ior Governor Mann of Virginia has very properly refused to interfere with the sentence of the court in the case of Henry Clay Beattie, jr., whonot brutally murdered his young wife, and the prisoner will consequently have to die in the electric chair. "That Beattie is guilty of the willful, de liberate and cruel murder of his wife I have not the slightest doubt," said the governor, "and I cannot, with proper regard for the public interests, interfere with the execution of the sen tence of the court by commuting it to life imprisonment. Nor do I question the wisdom, I might add, of the neces sity of capital punishment in cases where human life has been wickedly and deliberately taken." Not the scintilla of a doubt exists that this fiend deserves the death penalty. James Bryce, British ambassador at Washington, may be forced to re tire in consequence of the attacks made upon his character by members of parliament and the English press. The gravamen of their charges is that Bryce co-operated with President Taft in the reciprocity situation and failed to inform the British and Canadian governments that the im perial interests were jeopardized by the designs of Taft and others, also that he has acted as a politician rather than as an ambassador. Mr. yce hase proven himself tot be thte government decides to de Britain has ever sent to this country, tn *"s resignation merely because newspapers and muckraking Sectionalism is to be deplored, and porar fchat ifci a ed fo 8ecfcionalis fai the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cities east of the presuming there will be no extra Rockies. Dr. Wiley's department has dis covered large quantities of formalde hyde in butter. Were the Minnesota pure food inspectors to make even half an investigation they would find formaldehyde in butter which is being sold right under their noses. By thethe way, what has become of the state pure food commission? Is it dead or merely relying upon the word of food poisoners without subjecting their products to chemical analysis? The people, who are being gradually poisoned by formaldehyde impreg nated butter, ammoniated bread, etc., would like to see the state pure food commission bestir itself. ambassador tha Grea abl of parliament seek to defile 0 character it will do so to its dis- In attempting to score a point against Representative L. H. Rice of Park Rapids, who favors an extra session of the legislature for the pur pose of enacting legislation recom mende y Speaker Dunn, the Long Prairie Leader quotes the measures mentioned by Mr. Dunn and adds "All of this legislation was up'for consideration at the regular session and was beaten through the efforts of the corporation and brewery inter- ests." With one exception each of the measures mentioned by Mr. Dunn passed the house at the regular ses sion and were defeated, or were not acted upon, in the senate. The excep tion was the five per cent railroad gross earnings tax, and Mr. Rice voted for that bill. As far as Mr. Rice is concerned the Leader's pun gent criticism does not apply. We do not wish to be understood, however, as approving of some of the measures tbat Speaker Dunn recommends. -v" yi?i&^-&jp?%<f'? IJS WBO\G. We BiU lu ar rapidly growing into dUI)U i thi 8tf i simplegive to each and everya county northern, central and southern in the law-making bodies of the state. This is a right guaranteed by the constitutiona constitution made and adopted, largely, by southern Minnesota people. The Union stands for a fair deal for everyrepresentation section of the state not i onl in the legis- lature but in all other matters as well. Thereu no excuse or ries to reapportionjustification the state since 1897. It ought to have been re apportioned 1900. Th pitrepresen-s of it i grossin inequality in tn tna tation cannot be remedied before 1913, sessionand should the wrong be righted then ib will be 1915 before northern Minnesota will come into its own. No better illustration of the tyranny of majorities can be given than the denying to northern Minnesota the rep resentation it is justly entitled to in law-making bodies. Men who claim to be "progressives" and vothe ciferously clamor for the initiative, referendum and recall, and adopt as their slogan the catching phrase, "Let the People Rule," with brazen-faced effrontery say to the hardy settlers of northern Minnesota, "wait until we have partially disfranchised the toilers in the large cities and then we will give you the representation you are fairly entitled to and which we have so long unjustly denied you." These alleged "progressives" do practice what they preach. They are willing the people should rule, provided one vote in the First and Third congressional districts counts for two in St. Paul and Minneapolis and in northern Minnesota. If the constitution had imposed the duty upon the supreme court of re apportioning the legislative districts WWM Mr J"\ of the state on the basis of population every five or ten years, does any sane person doubt that that duty would have been impartially performed? There never has been a supreme court in this state that would have dis regarded the mandate of the constitu tion. When northern Minnesota, and every section of the state, is given equitable representation in the legis lature then, and not until then, will the talk of a north and south Minne sota" cease. WHITTIER VINDICATED. At last the long drawn-out Red Wing Reform school investigation has been brought to a close by the state board of control reporting unani mously that the charges of cruel and inhuman conduct preferred against Superintendent F. A. Whittier have not been sustained by the evidence. Mr. Whittier has tendered his resigna tion to the board and the same has been accepted to take effect as soon as a competent successor can beplead found. Knowing Mr. Whittier as we do and have known him for years we never for a moment believed that there was any real foundation for the charges preferred against him by refractory inmates and discharged employes of school and their maudlin sympa thizers. But no good purpose would be served by discussing the motives that prompted the bitter fight that was waged against Mr. Whittier. If con ditions were not altogether ideal at the Red Wing school the present and former boards of control, and theminor legislature, were largely to blame for not heeding the oft-repeated recom mendations of Superintendent Whit tier. We only hope that the board of con trol may be able to secure anew superintendent who will measure up with Mr. Whittier. It will be no easy matter to find such a man. BLEEDING KANSAS' DISGRACE. Kansas, the breeding place of more cranks and isms than any other spot on earth, is again achieving un- DISPLAY A enviable notoriety in tbe news columns of the daily papers. A trial is now in progress at Lincoln Center in that state where a gang of ten or twelve men (God save the mark) are accused of tarring Mary Chamberlain, a girl school teacher. The story is revolting. It seems that the poor girl incurred the jealous enmity of some old vinegary, hatchet-faced Jezebels where she taught school: the male relatives of the vixens were incited to tar and feather the girl a barber, a degenerate specimen of the Almighty's carelessness, was hired to inveigle the girl to accompany him to a dance in the neighborhood she re luctantly accepted his invitation and at a lonely place on the road he made indecent proposals which she indig nantly repulsed then a gang of things in the shape of men dragged her from the buggy, stripped her naked and applied a coat of tar. Several of the cowardly scoundrels, including the decoy barber and a business man worth half a million dollars, have guilty. But under the Kansas, statutes the severest penalty that can be inflicteda year's imprisonment is not commensurate with the crime. Judge Lynch should have meted out justice to the miscreants at the end of a strong hempen rope. NOT A MINOR MATTER. A carload of fancy barrel apples now jg on sale at our store.our We have stocked grocery depart- & ment with the finest of eatables. Fancy goods of all descriptions. "Ours"The Clean Store. Fancy Cranberries Fancy Currants We still have a complete stock of Ladies' and Children's Coats. The Palmer Garments Store Will Close at 11:30 Thanksgiving Day A. E. ALLEN & CO. The Store WitH the Big Stock 4 9 General Merchandise J& j& Princeton, Minn. ^mSi ^iMia, feijj .,-!uJJJ It is now being figured'out that the English, Scotch and Irish are de cendents of the Norsemen, and the story looks reasonable. Of course if we look back far enough we are all decendents of some parents and this matter of nationality is only a matter.Lieutenant Governor Gordon's Inter-Lake Tribune. Certainly, Brother Gordon, "we are all descendants of some parents." No one will dispute that fact. But, Mr. Gordon, if you should be a can didate for governor, notwithstanding Senator Canestorp's indorsement, you will realize, when the votes are counted, that the question of na tionality is a matter of some import in this great and glorious state of Min nesota. If, however, you can trace back your lineage and prove that your genealogical tree had Norseman roots it may help some. SPECIAL Display of Thanksgiving & Merchandise is now being shown at our store. Large purchases for cash enable us to sell goods at prices competi- 2? tors cannot meet J* I m7 7 rt- 6 Fancy Raisins |r