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IN *^i THE PRINCETON UNION BY R. O. DUNN. Published Evry Thursday* TERMS$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. $1.25 IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. OPPICEL FIRST ST.. EAST OP COURT HOUSE. Q. I. STAPLES, Business Manager. THOS. H. PROWSE, Editor. The Northern Minnesota Develop ment association has indorsed woman suffrage. Was Mary McFadden there? It is liable to go pretty hard with violators of the liquor law who are tried beiore one of those Kansas lady juries. The Minneapolis Journal has dis covered that there are 15,000 sun worshipers in the United States. This is at least better than worship ing the filthy dollar. If Mr. S. H. Ward, secretary of the Minnesota Live Stock Sanitary board, knows no more about live stock than he does of dogs his ser vices might be dispensed with with out loss to the state. The notorious muckraker is ex pected to be again in evidence at the coming session of the state legisla ture to write puffs for those who pay his price and to vilify those who re fuse to "come across." When a little place like New Jersey is able to furnish a man big enough to be president it looks as if the great state of Minnesota is permit ting her opportunities to slide past without grabbing them. We note that some of the weeklies are again drawing on their stock of Lydia Pinkham and Peruna cuts to give their readers the 'very latest poitraits" of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Thos. R. Marshall. Among other things, the governors who met in Richmond last week would like to reform the banking laws of the country so that the farmers may be benefitted. Precious little these governors care about the farmers. At the conference of governors at Richmond, Va., Governor Blease of South Carolina declared himself in favor of lynch law and exclaimed, "To hell with the constitution 'Tis no wonder that lynchings are so fiequent in South Carolina. Attorney General Wickersham tells us that the Sherman anti-trust law is proving its adequacy as a civil statute. If its adequacy consists in its inability or failure to dissolve, in actuality, the trusts, then Mr. Wickersham's statement is correct An exchange sajs that giaft is im possible under a commission form of go\ernment The exchange is in error. No foim ol government has ever been devised where graft is im possible, although some forms may present moie opportunities than others. A page of the Union could be filled with complimentary allusions bj the state press to the publisher of this papei in refeience to the adoption of the one-mill road tax amendment at the recent election. The larger share of the credit for the gratifying re sult is due to the press. Impel lal Chancellor von Beth mann-Hollweg has issued an order to the effect that any member of the German diplomatic corps who here after marries a ioreigner will be fired Horn the service. As most of these diplomats are so-called "nobles," the ukase will prove a dis appointment to many an heiress who is anxious to purchase a title and take the human appendage which goes with it for better or for worse. The revision of the tariff down ward by the democrats at the extra session to be called by Mr. Wilson for that purpose next April will not be accomplished so easily as many of the faithful anticipate. Democratic congressmen are split up into several factions on the tariff problemsome want the revenue removed from cer tain articles altogether, others will only stand for a partial reduction, while there are those who doubt the wisdom of reducing it at all. So we may expect a merry war. *&&&, In the state campaign the prohibi tion party went in the "hole" to the tune of over $3,000the contri butions to the slush fund were in sufficient to meet the obligations. I is an impertinent question, per haps but who will pay the outstand ing indebtedness now that election is over? Among the resolutions passed by the Northern Minnesota Develop ment association, which held its annual convention at Crookston last week, was one declaring in favor of woman suffrage. In what way wo man suffrage is allied with the work of developing northern Minnesota's resources is not exactly clpar to us. So, after all, it took quite a neat little sum to secure for Woodrow Wilson the presidency. The dem ocratic national committee paid out $1,159,446 and probably has a few dollars left in the treasury. Let us hope that Mr. Wilson will prove that he is worth the amount paid for him by his admirers who contributed this fund. F. Hopkinson Smith, an authority on the south in antebellum days, says that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the most harmful book ever written that it gave to the world an er roneous impression of the negro's life and condition before the war. There is no question as to some of the in cidents in the book being overdrawn and it doubtless stirred up a bad feeling, but as to its being the most harmful work ever written is another matter. It is to be deplored that the great powers did not permit the Balkan allies to proceed with the war against Turkey until it had captured Con stantinople and driven eveij Moslem across the Bosphorus. That the allies could have effected this had the poweis entered no objection is apparent, but the great European nations were jealous and feared that the Balkan combination would be come too powerful and prove a menace to them. So the grumpy editor of the Pine County Courier is of the opinion that Bob Dunn "is trying to down Rines." The Sandstone wiseacre has another think coming. Bob Dunn has said that he is, has been and will continue to be opposed to hole-in-the-wall caucuses. He is not and will not be pledged to anj man for speaker. If a caucus, to which all the republican members of the house are invited, is held, he will endeavor to participate in the same and he will abide by the action of such a caucus. Bob Dunn has no favors to ask of any candidate for speaker and would just as soon ride in a coal-wagon as in a band-wagon. At the same time he is not and has not been unfriendly to Mr. Rines, and he who asserts to the contrary has small regard for the tiuth Mary McFadden, who until recently was a member of the editorial staff of the Duluth News Tribune, is now editing the Courant, a magazine published in the interest of woman's suffrage and woman's clubs. _, It scintillates with sparkling gems of thought and contains articles which should make those grouchy, cantank erous old country editors who oppose equal suffrage sit up and take notice. When female suffragists secured the services of Mary McFadden they did They may be progressive in Oregon but evidently they are not strong on Democratic leaders in the senate, good roads or higher education, says a Washington dispatch, have The referendum is in vogue out gathered added strength for their there and at the recent election movement to prevent the confirma- several road measures and the bills tion of the majority of President providing for the maintenance of the Taft's appointments, and it is un state university and the state agri cultural college were defeated: the income tax bill also lacked 246 votes of cariying. well, for she can be depended upon couple of decades ago? During the to fight bravely for the rights of her past 10 years the cost of choosing men to carry on the public business over one hundred a per cent. Have the results obtained justified the increased cost? We an swer most emphatically, no. Compare the men who represented Minnesota in the United States con gress twenty, thirty or forty years ago with those who represent the state in congress today, and the former will not suffer by comparison countrywomen. If it is possible to obtain woman suffrage Mary is the has increased one who can bring the issue to successful culmination. Her aim, though, will be brought about by the exercise of diplomacy and not by the hurling of brickbats, a course which the militant suffragettes of London are resorting to. The Union wishes Mary success and feels con fident that she will "make good." eted" by senators from the inter ested districts wherever they may be Dr. S. S. Wise, rabbi of the Free synagogue of New York, a sociolo gist and philanthropist, delivered several addresses in Minneapolis on "Civic Duty" in which he took oc casion to drive a number of barbed shafts into corrupt municipal officials which probably penetrated some of his hearers. Among other thrusts he made were these: "The most deadly enemy of the republic, who must be met and overcome, is the city grafterthe municipal cor ruptionist "Civic righteousness is not to be achieved by spasms cover ing a fortnight before election, or by paroxysms oi civic wrath which sub side immediately after election day." "Politics does not ruin character. It is the want of character that rums politics."' Here are some truths which cannot be refuted truths that some men should "lead, mark, learn and inwardly digest." Speaker Clark of the national house of representatives has served notice on Prof. Barbour of the Ypsilanti, Mich., Normal school that he must retract charges of drunkenness made against him, Mr. Clark, or take the consequences. It appears that the contemptible peda gogue, in a public speech, accused Speaker Clark of being so drunk at Ann Arbor that fraternity brothers had to put him to bed. Mr. Clark characterizes the statement as a malicious falsehood, that he never took a drink of intoxicating liquor at Ann Arbor in his life, that he never did drink to excess, and that since 1904 he has not tasted intoxi cating liquor "in any shape, form or fashion." There is probably as much foundation for the charge of drunkenness against Speaker Clark as there was for similar charges made against the republican candi date for governor in this state in 1904 by a gang of hireling, men dacious liars, any one of whom would barter his mother's honor for a paltry financial consideration. TOO MUCH &AD LEGISTS TIOST. Aie the affairs of the state or nation more ably or more wisely administered now than they were a THE PRINCETON UNION: TftUBSDAT, DECEMBER 12, 1912. A measure designed to prevent the sale of stock in wildcat mining com panies, fake oil wells, get-rich-quick land companies, and in legitimate enterprises which are over-capital ized will be introduced in. the Wis consin legislature this winter. Whether the bill, if enacted into law. will have the effect intended is a question. Suckers will continue to bite and, if they are unable to secure the kind of bait they are looking for in Wisconsin, they will go outside the state for it. A bill has been passed by the house which provides for the pen sioning of widows and minor children of veterans of the Spanish-American war or of the Philippine insurrection. If the measure passes the senate and becomes a law it will mean a pension of twelve dollars a month for each widow affected by its provisions and two dollars per month for every minor child. The measure would require an appropriation of $1,000,- 000, but it is only right that the government should care for these de pendents. comparison between the members of .ho rtnM the Minnesota legislature then and out the cost of an election in his township or precinct, and the ex penses of each election must be is the loss of time and the continu- ous political turmoil which is any- wna Pr with the latter. Make the same! An Echo of the CrusadM. The Balkan war is one more chapter The alpha and omega of alleged other words, to make government more costly. By and by we will have elections every month in the 4-v, In the war between an ttat an an thing but conducive to the happiness, which this legislating for politicians and the parasites of politicians. Practical ^"'Wi-u people is what is needed,' fewer laws enacted the better. In this connection'the following nal is timely: A -u i-v. i. """"u for ~.M uiuiuoisoul luipuoBiuipetty cuviruuiuenis.intrigue derstood that piactically all the post- a progressive Shoulddthere, Whatever th small brooenvironment- of biogra office appointments will be "pock- not be some public intimation of phers may say,Itheneeds I" a speaker of the Minnesota house is to be electeprogram?" g i ress i Ilike tion on March 4. This looks a particularly mean trick, but United State senators are noted for their trickery. affected by a change of administra- ZTLT ^n*"'* 'f^ ty chara^ No BIIUUI ml fa wouJ( cons i office on personal platforms which was the rule this year. Probably reform of the latter kind cannot be expected of the coming legislature. The frenzy for direct government has not yet spent its force. Representative institutions are still on the defensivelargely, it should be ^aid, because men elected to representative mos ''LET TBE PEOPLE RULE." Judge Bunn of Bamsey county, appointed by the governor on the supreme court bench, was a candi date for re-election, and was de feated. The people in emphatic hands? teims said that they did not want him. They exercised the right of recall.Fairmont Independent. How emphatic were the people in their condemnation of Justice Bunn? At the election on the 5th of last November Oscar Hallam received 108,203 votes, and George L. Bunn re ceived 101,204, It does seem as if a few of the people favored the reten tion of Justice Bunn on the supreme bench. A relentless fight was waged against Justice Bunn. Class prej- fact that he was a member of the an Mohammedanismn^positioe ChristJanity I now. Yes, and include your town- echo of the crusades, but the ship, village, city and county offlci- work of thes crusades. als, also the judiciary. In thirse som ofinishes onl a sel legislation the interest of all the have warredf against him. caus ages,uu who will 'stan for and an ananimouas a las connection ft is gratifying the progressives of the present day is to T 5 ard Coeur de Lion, leader of the third devise more devious and costly meth- crusade. Richard's reputatioinyhaws suf- ods of selecting public officers. In feredalatbecausea neredt Uve nl wWc mor year if the present craze continues, himself. Any intelligent man -can easily figure Most of the er the handds oif his biographersflawa of some minor character." for which the age in responsible than was the man abroad tim biographershRichard are English, they cannot forgive be muc kin view only the cost of holding an election sences ictn would havte been that affects the tax-payeisand the carry on thhe crusad& at all. it cost is no inconsiderable itembut it S of Englan taxed the a spen caus an teal i This is a typically British provincial borne by the tax-payers. It is not Without tLe anodle ab als 0 ar ge tha i emper htaxerseimpossiblte bu 0 an and prosperity of the people. gaged. Irte charged likewise*** that he It is high time to call a halt on I vlKjXaiia' was violen- vint times we only a man of force could have carrie throug Js to lionrovocn hearted kinX was en ation T& char ais war raedd al"-- against his father. True, but SUC Wa Hea% I respecting son would 'and the. believed antdh apparentlyl with good tb alienate i-i. own wife, editorial from the Minneapolis Jour- nil) a great amid almose a progressive program is giou feeling. a and recall. In the minds of others it equal to the task. Richard was a poet i modifying well a warrior. He the primary lawastherthan so there might' and forgiving in the be some party responsibility, instead great wrongs. He forgave his brother of the higgledy-piggledy chase for John for trying to steal his throne and next. ,^in 7 $3,000, and still the dog died. A doctor udicec were appealed to and the \t minority political party was not store his self respect, overlooked by his unscrupulous oppo nents, and yet a change of 3,500 votes would have elected him. Governor Eberhart listened to "the voice of the people" when he reappointed Justice Bunn to the supreme court bench. LOSTA painter's canvas floorcloth youth?" probably left at some private residence. Please return to Dan C. Mirick for reward. Richardr unnatura fathe had that iSections of Richard's Richard I. was one of the bravest an a greatest warriors of the middle impossible the minds of some,' interpret the rough nobility and beau showed deep Carlylereli-- to wasface mag-o with his dying breath forgave his as sassin. In this day of the near fulfill ment of the crusader's dream it is time to do justice to the greatest figure that appeared in the wars for the cross The Tennessee society of New York recently announced a "speechless din- ner." This should make a great hit positions often with everybody except those who were prove by their antics that representa-' expecting to speak, tive bodies are not much to be de pended upon for good sense. Boston horses are to wear overshoes. The experience with constitutional They will be fitted out with spectacles amendments in the recent election, however, does not indicate that rep resentative institutions can be dis pensed with immediately. The alternathe is to make the legislature truly representative. If such a legislature should meet today it would not only concern itself with the improvement of our "Blue Sky" Laws. The Investment Bankers' Association of America, recently in session at New York, approved a modified form of the "blue sky" law of Kansas, and its members will urge such legislation political other states in the near future The laws, but turn its attention earnestly subject is one of vast importance to to the solution of some of the vital the general public, that has been so and piessing material problems of' often the state. It would take steps to get-rich-quick concerns. see that Minnesota's land laws are I In a general way the Kansas "blue reformed and immigration encour-' sky" law provides that before securi- aged. It would seek to settle on a ties can be listed for sale in the state fail basis the pressing problem of they must be approved by the state industrial accidents. It would in- banking commissioner, who must find stitute business methods in the state that they will yield a fair return on departments. the money invested. There are so many things a legis-1 Some of the bankers objected to this lature can do to show that repre- as paternalistic, but most of them ap- sentative instil utions are not played proved the principle. There is no rea- out, that one would suppose the men son why investors should not have elected to the coming legislature some measure of protection from all would apply themselves to this proof sorts of swindlers When a man de- rather than ride personal hobby posits his money in a bank he has horses for three months, and adjourn some assurance that the government finally with the morale of represen- is trying to protect him But when he tative government greatly lowered, buys stocks or bonds he has no assur- Let the next legislature be sober in ance except such as is furnished by every sense of the word. i his own unaided investigations. There ought to be a competent authority in each state to inform the public as to the nature of securities offered for sale. We have pure food laws and regulate other kinds of commerce Why not commerce in stocks and victimized by fly-by-night and An archaelogist who has been ex ploring in Crete has discovered that women wore hobble skirts 5,000 years ago. It is a sad reflection that wo man's dress has made no advance ment in fifty centuries. The department of agriculture claims to have found a beetle which eats up the germs causing the chestnut tree blight. Here is one agricultural de partment bug that will be wildly wel comed. A s's doctor Mil was Cincinnat i A 4.., called on to attend a dog is entitle, to bi fees He needs something to re- A physician is seeking divorce on the ground that he loses flesh when bis wife scolds. Carry the glad news to the fat men's clubs. A Brooklyn man of eighty-two mar ried in one week after being left a widower. Who called it the "ardor of Mr. Carnegie will be offering to pay Up the president's salary yet C. H. NELSON'S Store News Bring the children in to see our dolls. We have them in nearly every size: 22 inch, long curls, moving eyes, kid body, $1.00 22 inch jointed kid body, moving eyes with real lashes, $1.50 and $2.00 31 inch, jointed bisque body, moving eyes, real hair and lashes, dressed in pink silk, $6.50 31 inch, kid body, cork stuffed, dressed with light blue silk, $5.50. You will find our line of dolls very satisfactory in both price and quality. Ladies' fancy embroidered handkerchiefs, put up in Christmas boxes, one in a box, 50c. Shamrock lawn handker chiefs, lace edged, 6 in a box, $1.00. Ladies' flaxon handker chiefs, lace trimmed and em broidered corners, a very good value for 10c each. Plain, all linen handker chief, centers for fancy work, small hem, 10c, 15c, 20c, 25c. Plain linen handkerchiefs, good size, special at 5c each. Initial, shamrock lawn, lace handkerchiefs, 6 in a box, price $1.00. Initial, linen handkerchiefs, an exceptionally good value at 10c each. We have everything in china that anyone could wish for on display. Hand-painted plates, three sizes, in a rose pattern, 25c, 40c and 50c. Hand-painted chocolate sets, pitcher and 6 cups, $6.25. Cake plates, salad bowls, berry sets, sugars and cream ers, a good quality of china and very reasonable in price. Cut glass celery dishes in Christmas boxes, $3. Pickle dishes, cheap at $2.00. Large size berry bowls, very pretty, $4.00. Hammered brass jardi nieres and vases, several styles to choose from. We have a nice line of sta tionery and, Christmas boxes, good quality paper, at right prices. See our display of leather and felt pillows when you visit our store. Burned In dian heads, flowers and ani mals, very beautiful designs. Pillows make acceptable presents for young men. We have some very nice manicure and toilet sets, brush and comb sets, shaving sets, and a good assortment of single mirrors and hair and clothes brushes. See all these things before making your final Christmas selec tions. Let us help you do your shopping and make it less nerve-racking. Our clerks are able to give you many suggestions and may have ideas which you have not thought of. You are very welcome to come in and ask them to help you, and you will find them at your ser vice. *f i Si* v\