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THE PRINCETON UNION
BY R. O. DUNN.
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Business Manager. Bdltor.
Friday, September 10, will be edi
tors' day at the state fai*\ We'uns
will be some pumpkins on that day.
It would suit some people to make
the tariff question the paramount
and only issue in the campaign nest
fall.
It is a' safe bet that several of the
congressional "insurgents" will not
attend the ratification meeting in St.
Paul next month.
Georgia proposes to tax soda water.
Even at that the vendors, if we take
into consideration the extra charge
for "winks," will realize a pretty
good profit.
When women go to congress,'' says
the Baltimore Sun, "there will be
less discussion of rates and more dis
cussion of rats." Maybe, but
thefor
extinction of the mouse will come in
for the greatest attention.
It has been suggested that, to avoid
the possibility of graft, the govern
ment, instead of ordering its warships
from individual concerns, construct
them itself. We fail to see in what
way this would afford a protection
against graft.
There is at least some comfort oc
casionally extracted from the imagi
nation. For instance, when the
mercury hovers around the hundred
point we place a picture of Green
land's icy mountains in front of us
and imagine we see our breath.
Montreal, the commercial capital of
Canada, has grafters, too. Testi
mony taken before an investigating
committee of the provincial govern
ment shows that the city has lost mil
lions of dollars in contract work, and
that profitable official positions have
been farmed out for years.
Every trust in the country is apof
parently satisfle'd with the new tariff
bill but, should there be some ob
scure octopus which is still dis
gruntled, Mr. Taft should be immedi
ately notified and a demand made that
another extra session of congress be
called to adjust the matter.
It must indeed be a trying moment
for the newly, married man to dis
cover, when he returns home at night,
that the assessor has called during
his absence and that his bride, in
pure ignorance of the world's ways,
has listed everything in the house at
double its actual value.
Dr. Corbett, bacteriologist for the
city of Minneapolis, was much dis
appointed when he discovered that
several of his sample bottles of Mille
Lacs water had been stolen. Ttis safe
to say that when the fellows who pur
loined them drew the corks there was
even a greater disappointment.
.-imong the many varieties of plants,
grasses, fruits, etc., which have been
brought into this country by the de
partment of agriculture from various
parts of the world is anew species of
clover. It was secured in the Hima
laya mountains and is valuable from
the fact that it will grow in the dryest
and hottest climate.
The Wisconsin college of agriculture
is engaged in giving a series of farm
institutes in the fields, directly among
the crops, where, experts are practical
ly demonstrating what can be done
and telling the farmers how to bring
about like results. This practical
demonstration of crop-growing is
something entirely new and there ap
pears no reason why it should not
prove highly beneficial to the farmers.
The fact that Francis J. Heney of
San Francisco secured the nomination
for district attorney merely by
"thesufficient
skin of his teeth" gives no great credit
to the city. Heney has followed the
grafters from pillar to post andrbeen
instrumental in landing many of them
in prison. But from the vote which
was cast for Heney it is clearly ap
parent that many influential grafters
have not yet been landed in the law's
net. More power to Heney.
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Had Mr. Harriman taken treatment
for his stomach ailment at some other
place than the springs of Bad Gastein
he would probably have stood abetter
chance of being cured.
It is not to be wondered at if that
Sauk Center judge pocketed some fees
that rightfully belonged to the city
when he was obliged to hear and deinsects.
termine a cause of action where a man
by the euphonious name of "Brotn
menschenkel" was a party to the suit.
It is worth five or ten dollars to pro
nounce that tongue-twister.
St. Cloud has held an indignation
meeting at which funds were raised
the purpose of making an effort
to reopen the Jernberg case and of
meting out ample punishment to the
beast who was given a mere reforma
tory sentence for brutally assaulting
a girl. The villain should be given
the full penalty of the law.
Wheat soaked in wood alcohol and
spread over the roof of the house will
effectually rid the place of birds.
Popular Mechanics.
Poison the birds, eh? Destroy the
little fellows which eat the crop
destroying insects merely because
they gather on your housetop and
"sing their praises unto God." Cer
tainly a beautiful doctrine to preach!
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
issued his annual report and it is a
document well worth reading, showing
as it does a remarkable development
of the country along farming lines.
"Farmers are already demonstrating"
says Mr. Wilson, "in the cases of
various crops and of various states,
that they can provide for a population
increasing faster than by the excess
births over deaths."
Chicago university is carrying out
the rule adopted by it last year of ex
pelling such students as do not secure
the requisite number of points. Hence
seventy-five loafersall society chap
piesof last year's freshmen class
have been fired from the institution.
It seems to us that this is a very good
course for any college to pursue, for
the drones cannot do other than exert
a bad influence over their classmates.
Merely because George Vanderbilt
loaned a negro locomotive fireman
$500 to save his little home from the
sheriff's hands he is characterized as
a philanthropist by an eastern paper.
Had the millionaire presented the
negro with the money the action would
have been worthy of note, but
thethe
word "philanthropist" applied in the
instance at issue is a misnomer.
Thanks to Hon. John Lind, J. W.
Olsen is no longer dean of the state
agricultural college. Owing to Mr.
Lind's justifiable opposition Mr.
Olsen was forced to resign, and hiscaptures
resignation was promptly and unani
mously accepted. The college will
not be the loser for no matter whom
the regents may select for its head he
will be an improvement upon Olsen.
An investigating committee of the
New York legislature that is visiting
the states which have adopted the
direct primary law does not, so far
as can be ascertained, favor the Min
nesota law of this kind. The more
states the commission visits the more,
in our opinion, will it become opposed
to the law. The report which the
commission will make to the New
York legislature promises to make
interesting reading.
Some fear has been entertained, in
view of the fact that the United States
treasury funds are at a low level, that
money would not be avail
able for moving the big crop this fall.
Such fear is, however, groundless, for
even though the treasury will be
ungress
able to make further deposits in na
tional banks, these banks have been
taking out additional circulation and
otherwise adding to the money on
hand. State banks are also in good
shape to meet the demand.
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11nstead of
taking more bad gas into his system
he should have made an effort to re
move that which was already there.
A Superior newspaper advises its
readers not to find fault with the
butcher if their meat bills are higher
this year than they were last. The
increase will be chargeable to the inshould
famous Payne tariff law. Lake Su
perior trout are not as plump and fat
as usual this year for which the Payne
law is also responsible.
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The International Pressmen's union
has purchased 1,100 acres of land and
a large hotel fifty miles east of Knox
ville, Tenn., afid it is the purpose of
the organization to establish a home
for aged, indigent and disabled mem
bers of the craft. The International
Typographical union has for many
years maintained an institution of
like nature at Colorado Springs, Col.,
which has proved of incalculable
benefit. Every union in the country
establish a home of this kind.
Two specialists in leprosy, Drs.
Hansen and Ehlers of Copenhagen,
say they have determined beyond a
doubt that the disease is neither hered
itary or contagious. The bacilli,
they say, are disseminated by bed
bugs, gnats and other blood-sucking
That leprosy in its first stages
is curable has also been demonstrated
by these specialists. Such men as
Hansen and Ehlers, who are devoting
their lives to the study of this disease,
are of immense value to the world at
large.
Will some good republican please
tell us what is to be gained by thetaxes.
pow-wow that is scheduled to be held
in St. Paul fair week to indorse the
action of ten of the Minnesota delega
tion in congress in voting against the
Payne bill? A large majority of the
people and press of the state have al
ready indorsed the "insurgents," so
called, and it does seem as if no
further indorsement was necessary.
From a republican standpoint we can
not see what is to be gained by the
ratification meeting.
Walter Wellman made an attempt to
reach the north pole in a balloon on
the 15th inst. He had proceeded but
a short distance from his ship when a
guide rope broke and he was forced
to return. The dispatch concludes by
stating that the damage to the balloon
was so great as to preclude any
further attempt to fly over the pole
this year. No, nor will he fly over
any other pole higher than a bean
pole any other ye*ar. Wellman's forte
is in writing trashy sensational polit
ical gossip for cheap yellow news
papers.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
is a radical free trader but he is per
fectly willing to impose a duty of -ten
cents per pound on tea in order to
protect the growers of 12,000 pounds
of poor tea in his own state. Accord
ing to Farm, Stock and Home, S. M.
Owen's paper, this country will im
port this year approximately 100,000,-
000 lbs. of tea. which now comes in
free of duty. Ten cents a pound
tariff tax would be $10,000,000 that
Senator Tillman would assess upon
the tea drinkers of the country in
order to make himself "solid" with
his little handful of trying-to-grow-tea
constituents. Yet Tillman is a ram
pant tariff reductionist, but like most
congressmen of that stripe he draws
line at his own constituency, it
must be protected, let the other fel
lows look out for themselvees tn
principle Tillman is not unlike the
most of his associates, of both parties,
but as an illustration of the absurdity
of the principle that gentleman
the bakery
By a decision of the United States
circuit court in Chicago, Tuesday,
the interstate commerce commission
is permanently enjoined from enforc
ing its Seaboard-Missouri river
through rates. Some time ago themillion
commission established a rate for
Missouri river towns from the east
practically the same as from the east
to the lake and Mississippi river towns.
Thus Kansas City would get the same
rate from Pittsburg as St. Louis. A
majority of the court (Judges Gross
cup and Kohlsaat) held that congress,
in creating the interstate commerce
act, had not intended to place a power
in the hands of a few men to build up
one community or ruin another.
Judge Baker dissented and argued
that, "if the railroads had this power
the commission likewise has it. If
this power is too dangerous, to be in
the hands of commissioners bound by
the sanctity of their oaths, did con
desire to leave it iq the hands
of unbridled corporations?" The
case will be appealed to the supreme
court of the United States. If the de
cision is sustained it virtually takes
away from the commission the power
to fix through rates.
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THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
Commenting on a recent good roads
meeting held at Alexandria in Doug
las county among other things the
Post-News says:
The first step to be taken is to
abolish the system of neighborhood
supervision and to adopt a saner and
more businesslike methods which re
cognize public rather than personal
interests. Piecemeal work, a con
stant change of "bosses" and ideas
and the haphazard methods of today
will never give lasting results.
The most essential step is to provide
a state road and bridge fund to assist
in the work of road-making. In many
of the sparsely settled counties, es
pecially in northern Minnesota where
so much land is owned by the state
and railroad corporations, it is im
possible for the- settlers to raise
enough money by taxation to proper
ly care for the highways, no matter
how economically and intelligently
the funds are expended. In these
days of automobiles, city people are
directly interested in the establish
ment of a system of decent roads in
the country and should be willing to
contribute their pro rata share of
A general state road tax of
one mill on the dollar would produce
a magnificent state road fund each
year, and together with the amount
that could be raised by local taxation,
all to be expended under the super
vision of practical men, would soon
give each county a splendid system of
ighways.
The tariff question, county option,
railroad rates, and all other issues
are of secondary importance. The
burning question of the hour, the
one that more vitally affects the well
being of the greatest number of
people, is the question of good roads.
Governor Johnson has it in his
power to help along the cause of good
roads by convening the legislature in
extraordinary session and in a terse
message point out to that body the
advisability of submitting an amend
ment to the constitution that will per
mit of the levying of a one mill gener
al road tax, then the proposition
could be voted on at the next general
election and, if adopted, the legisla
ture of 1911 could enact suitable legis
lation in connection therewith. If an
extra session is not held the cause of
good roads will be delayed for at
least two years. Good roads is the
paramount issue in this state today.
SCIENTIFIC TAX LEGTSL 4TION!
Under the state constitution as it
was the bushel grain tax law (Chap.
483 laws of 1909} would have been un
constitutional. Sec. 1, Art. 9 of the
constitutiona prior to 1907 provided
that, "all taxes to be raised this
state shall be as nearly equal as mayappointments.
be, and all property on which taxes
are to be levied shall have a cash
valuation and be equalized and uni
form throughout the state." That
was a wise proviso and never should
have been repealedit never was reNorton.
pealed by the voters of the state. The
wide-open amendment, which the su
preme court has decided was adopted
in 1906, provides that, "taxes shall be
uniform upon the same class of sub
jects." Thus it is at present that
grain in elevators or warehouses is
taxed at not to exceed one-fortieth of
what other property is taxed. One of
the large elevators at a terminal point
may have received 1,000,000 bushels
of wheat during the year immediately
preceding March 1st, and the total
taxes required to be paid on that one
bushels, worth $1,100,000,
would be $250. A farmer may have
3,000 bushels of wheat in his granary
but his wheat is taxed on an ad va
lorem basis he cannot escape by pay
ing a tax of one-fourth of a mill per
bushel (which would amount to 75
cents) his taxes on the 3,000 bushels,
valuing it at one-third of its value for
assessment purposes and taking the
average rate of taxation throughout
the state, would be about $10.00.
We were told by the great city
dailies that if the legislature was
given a free rein, if all constitutional
restrictions were removed, it would
then be possible to enact laws that
would provide for a scientific method
of taxation, and the bushel grain tax
law is a sample of the scientific tax
legislation we were promised.
The wide-open tax amendment was
conceived by tax-evading corpora
tions, and each recurring session of
the legislature will prove the truth of
this assertion.
"UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS J'
When the officers of the Western
Federation of Miners were on trial
for their lives at Boise, Idaho, the
main witness against them was a self
confessed murderer and perjurer,
Harry Orchard. Some people in high
places and the editors of corpora
tion-controlled sheets adjudged the
labor leaders guilty before they had
had a trial. But fearless and intelli
gent jurors thought otherwise and
each of the accused leaders of or
ganized labor was acquitted. The
following press dispatch indicates
that even a soulless corporation"
joins with the laboring men in dis
crediting the monumental liar and
murderer:
San Francisco, Aug. 20.After five
years of litigation the San Francisco
Gas & Electric company has accepted
the confession of Harry Orchard, now
serving a life sentence for the murder
of ex-Governor -Steunenberg, as a
perjured statement, and yesterday the
corporation paid the attorney, Walter
H. Linforth, $13,904 for damages in
flicted upon his property on Washing
ton street in November, 1904. During
his trial in Idaho, Orchard told of
having attempted to kill Fred W.
Bradley, an enemy of the Western
Federation of Miners, by blowing him
up with dynamite. At the time men
tioned by Orchard, Bradley was liv
ing in one of Linforth's flats. The
explosion, however, was attributed to
defective gas fixtures and Linforth
obtained judgment for $10,800.
Bro. Morrison of the Mankato
Journal must have been in a pessi
mistic mood when he penned these
scorching lines:
"The people of this country have
gone wild on wealth until it has bewake
come so that a man may be ever so
big a thiefif he controls millions, no
questions are asked and his wholesale
thieving will be condoned. Carnegie,
Harriman, Rockefeller, Schwab, and
the whole daring gang of industrial
cut-throats deserve no meed of praise
from the people of this country but,
rather words of the strongest con
demnation. They build in vain pub
lic libraries, endow colleges and semi
naries of learning, for naught, as
these great structures will not recall
the lives of those sacrificed that the
wealth of these plutocrats might in
crease, neither will they relieve the
pain, anguish, and woe that these
'captains of industry' have'caused in
the world in their mad ambitions to
become 'kings of finance.'
NEWSPAPERDOM
E. E. McCrea of the Alexandria
Post-News has been appointed super
visor of the Federal census for thethis
Sixth congressional district, and B.
L. Hollister of the Aitkin Age hascry
been appointed supervisor for thecome
Eighth district. Both are excellent
No better men could
have been selected.
After this week there is to be but
one newspaper at Onamia, the Breeze
Printing company having purchased
the Mille Lacs Pioneer from Mr. T. F.
The field at Onamia was
too limited for two papers, in fact
there is hardly a field for one. The
consolidation of the two papers was
a sensible move on the part of both
Mr. MacKenzie and Mr. Norton.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS I
A Good Definition
A political trimmer is one who isvotes
all things to all men before election,
and nothing to any man after election.
Floodwood Broadaxe.
Listen to tbc Incorrigible Bachelor.
Our constitution gives to every man
the right of free speech unless he
happens to be married.Anoka
Herald.
Are the Twin Cities Also Foreign?
Several foreign nations have joined
the knockers on our new tariff law.
Come to think of it it isn't such a bad
law after all. OrtonvilleHerald-Star.
Koen an Authority
"Newspaper reading is a habit,"
avers a Minneapolis paper. If only
paying for the paper would also be
come a general habit how prosperous
would be publishers!Biwabik Times.
Two Distinguished Citizens.
It has been suggested that Minne
sota furnish busts of two of her dis
tinguished citizens for the Hall of
Fame at Washington. We suggest
Frank A. Day and Ole Sageng for
the honor.Onamia Lake Breeze.
The Same Old Blatherskite
Former Governor S. R. Van Sant
was elected commander of the G. A. R.
at the national convention last week.
In his acceptance speech "Va n" said
he considered it the "greatest honor
in the world." We can, remember he
made a very similar statement when
he was elected speaker of the Minne
sota legislature, which merely goes
to show that these "greatest honors"
are merely relative.Elk River Star
News.
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A Pertinent Question.
Eberhart has a school record of 10fr
per cent in deportment and it is being
used in furthering his candidacy for
the republican nomination for the
governorship. Has he had his ap
pendix removed?Brainerd Dispatch.
Since He Pat Down the Rebellion
Former Governor Van Sant was
elected commander of the G. A. R.
at Salt Lake City. It is thought his
famous remark about not having
"been so mad since the civil war"
brought him the great honor.Orton
ville Herald-Star.
Enjoying Prohibition!
While there is a bluff put up by the
New Richmond people that they actu
ally enjoy prohibition we note that
the Republican keeps tab on all the
towns where such things as malto,
maltum, maltese, beerine and beerone
are disposed of.Stillwater Gazette.
When Joel Will Remonstrate
A Nebraska editor was hanged in
effigy the other day. As long as
people confine themselves to hanging
editors in effigy, we have nothing to
say. It is when they start in hanging
the editors in person that we will
enter our remonstrance.Northfield
News.
A Decided Difference.
Will some one kindly inform the
public how much better the Wilson
bill was then is the Payne bill. The
one big difference that we can see is
that prosperity is following in the
of the latter while hard times
and desolation came with the former.
Foley Independent.
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Enjoying a Political Picnic
Frank A. Day is having the picnic
of his life in a political way. Won
der if some of those republicans who
helped boost him out of the republi
can into the democratic party have
brains enough to see the blunder they
have made?-Madison Independent
Press.
Probably His AVind is Good
The types make funny breaks at
times. A serious editorial by Sam
Gordon in the Browns Valley Tribune
contains this: "Dr. Northrop is 75
years old and while well preserved
both in wind and body, his resigna
tion should be accepted without a pro
test of any kind. "Buffalo Journal.
Gives Bronson a Pain.
We would like to serve a notice on
some of the republican editors of the
state that W. H. Taft is president of
country and Teddy Roosevelt is
in Africa. This "Roosevelt in 1912"
gives us a pain. What will be
of this country when Roosevelt
is "gathered to his fathers?"Evans
ville Enterprise.
Brower Looks Good to Backman.
C. B. Buckman of Little Falls in
an interview at St. Cloud said he "is
out of politics, and is glad of it. He
is willing to pull off his coat to help
a friend, and wants to see the G. O.
P. line up for a man who can be elect
ed governor. Brower looked good to
him although he is willing to support
the man named."Brainerd Tribune.
Dad Hands Frank One
Frank Day has considerable to say
about the vote of the Minnesota
congressmen on the tariff bill and
intimates that those who voted against
the bill did so unly because their
were not needed for it. Mr. Day
is continually talking for the purpose
of hearing his head roar and this is
only one more instance.Belview
Independent.
Cheap Bit of Demagogy
Governor Johnson in his recent
speech at Seattle advised "the west to
shake off the shackles of the east."
This is a cheap bit of demagogy. It
sounds like one of the speeches of a
New England abolitionist or a south
ern seceder before the war of the
rebellion. It is such talk as John
son's that caused the great civil war.
Fairbault Pilot.
Political Buccaneers Want Inharmony.
The proposed reception to insurgent
congressmen who voted against the
tariff bill has stirred up a nasty fac
tional strife among Minnesota repub
licans, and no good to the party can
result from such a reception under
present conditions. The instigators
of the reception may have been sincere
in their desire to honor the insurgents
from principle, and then again they
may not. Anyway such a reception
that excludes one congressman is
bound to engender factional strife
and had better be abandoned if any
degree of harmony is expected in the
republican ranks next year. Mayhap
no harmony is desired, however.
Elk River Star-News.
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