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isnt THE PRINCETON UNION BY R. O. DUNN. PmbliaHod Cvmy Thursday. r*M8-S1.o PER YEAR IN ADVANOE. I.XSlF NOT PAID IN ADVANOE. *PIOBl FIRST 8 EAST OF 4. I. STAPLEST BatlneM Manager. TH05-OOURTHOUSB. H. PROWSB Editor. Tammany gained bub little by the election of Gaynor. The wise man keepeth away from cloves when he goeth out between acts at the theaterhe useth peanuts for a breath destroyer. Minneapolis has begun a crusade against smoke. With a clearer atmos phere probably less criminals will get away from the police. The action of the National Geogra phic society in giving Peary a medal for reaching the north pole is no proof that he accomplished the feat. At the present time Joe Cannon is getting more free advertising than the mail order houses, but whether he is thankful therefor is another question. When a husky-voice fellow tells you that he at one time sang first tenor in a church you can depend upon it that he either drowned that voice or is a prevaricator. The government department of agri culture has proved itself an institu tion of great value to the country, but its crop estimates scarcely ever approach within a long distance of accuracy. "Aeronauts are passing over Ten nessee," reads the headlines of a newspaper article. They were prob ably aware that Tennessee is "dry and therefore forged ahead to a more congenial clime. Conserving 'the natural resources of the state for the benefit of future generations is commendable, but the speedy development of the natural re sources of the state would prove more beneficial to the present generation. There are thousands of merchants in the country who snap their fingers at catalogue-house competitionthey are the merchants who run a con tinuous line of advertising and quote prices. Catalogue-house competition does not affect them one iota. Our neighboring town of Foley may have a candidate for state treasurer on the republican ticket in the person of Mr. George E. Hanscom, cashier of the State bank at that place. Mr. Hanscom is highly spoken of by those who have the pleasure of his acquain tance. Richard K. Campbell, chief of the United States naturalization bureau, contends that Syrians are not eligible under the law to become citizens of the United States. There is one thing certainwe can get along very nicely without people of this nationality in our midst. They arp classed among the undesirables. Anohert instance of the defiance of the laws prohibiting the formation of combinations for the purpose of re straining trade is that of the big rub ber merger, wherein the Interconti nental and Continental companies have consolidated with a capital of $40,000,000. The Sherman anti-trust law has no terrors for the great com mercial intereststhey violate it with frequency and impunity. New York dispatches say that Charley Murphy, Tammany's big boss, will probably resign the leader ship. The reason for such a step is obvious. With the loss of the board of estimate Tammany will have no say in the disposition of the enor mous finances of New York's munic ipal treasury and consequently Mr. Murphy's opportunities for feeding at the trough will be cut off. Till, the notorious quack, has re turned from Europe to his seat of operation in Wisconsin. If people are fools enough to believe that by the application of a plaster made of kerosene, capsicum or other ingredi ents they, can be cured of every disease to which flesh is heir they de serve to be humbugged. At the same time it is a,pity that individuals of the Till stripe should be permitted to ply their calling. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says that some day the steady in crease of population in the United States is bound to overtax the ability of the farmer to provide* for its sus tenance but that the day is very re mote. Not so remote as Mr. Wilson anticipates unless a more intensive system of farming is resorted to.' Mr. Wilson should read the prediction of James J. Hill, who is an authority on this subject. He would doubtless profit thereby. The articles appearing in the daily papers chronicling the doings of President Taft as he goes about the country are becoming exceedingly tiresome, many of them approaching the nauseating point. In one paper we read that "Mr. Taft saw a jack rabbit near the golf links but didn't have his gun," and in another that he "is using menthol for a cold in the head." Some of these days the country will probably be startled by the announcement, under a scare head, that Mr. Taft saw a snake. Another movement to purify Chica go is on foot. A lady reformer of that sinful city has called for ten thousand volunteers to visit the objec tionable section and turn things up side down. This method is altogether wrongit will bring forth no good results. Were a number of christian women to engage in missionary work among the inmates of the disreputable houses a percentage might possibly be reformed. But it is questionable whether Chicago could be purified by any other means than the application of fire. Auditor Chance of the postoffice de partment announces a deficiency of $17,479,770, an increase of $569,491 over last year. A large percentage of this deficiency will of course be at tributed to the maintenance of the free rural delivery service, but the enor mous sum paid to the railroad com panies for the transportation of mail is also another reason for this big shortage. In this last respect the government permits itself to be im posed uponit pays the railroad companies three times more than the service is worth. Two suffragettes were committed in London for trial at the Old Bailey assizes for throwing corrosive acid in polling places and causing grievous bodily harm to election officers. The offense is a serious one and the punishment, it is safe to say, will be adequate, for the English courts show no sympathy even where the prisoners are of the gentler-^-heaven save the mark in this instancesex. It is doubtful, however, whether the penalty imposed will effect any good purpose, as the British suffragettes are viragoes of the most radical class, impregnated with venom. Iu case State Treasurer Dinehart should conclude to seek the republican nomination for congress in the Second district there will be several candi dates for the republican nomination for state treasurer. Among those suggested are Hon. G. H. Mattson of Roseau, George E. Hanscom of Foley, Henry Hanke of Minneapolis, and Hon. Peter J. Schwarg of Dodge county. They are all good men. But the Eberhart managers are taking good care to suppress all mention of Mr. Mattson's name. That gentle man, however, is liable to have a fol lowing in the state convention that will surprise the slate-makers. The big telephone companies of the country have organized with a capi talization of $50,000,000 for the pur pose of installing a telegraph system in conjunction with their other busi ness. The system will extend through out the United States and, v^hen com pleted, a person will be able to either telephone or telegraph from any office of the company. This will supply a convenience which has for a long time been neededit will obviate the neces sity in small towns of journeying to the railway station, which is usually a considerable distance from the busi ness section, in order to send a tele gram. Then again, telegrams may be sent at night, which cannot now be done in townsand they are numerous where the railroads employ only day operators. The new system will be welcomed. oyernor Defies Threat, Introduc ing Miss Booth" is the catch line of a "scare head" in Monday evening's Minneapolis Tribune.' Miss Booth is the commander or the Salvation Army, and Governor Eberhart intro duced her to a Minneapolis audience Sunday evening. The governor al leged that some one had written hfm a letter warning him nob to introduce Miss Booth under penalty of losing votes in that city, but our gallant chief executive disregarded the brutum fulmen and introduced the lady to the audience. Our governor is a brave man and is entitled to a Carnegie medal. In closing a debate on the finance bill in the English house of commons Premier Asquith said it was incum bent upon those who objected to* thegrants government's taxes to provide some alternative scheme for meeting the nation's necessities. Here's an al ternative scheme that would meet the requirements: Instead of granting every brat that isJborn to royalty a big incomewhich is now done even unto the fourteenth generationmake their parents provide for them until they are old enough to earn their'own living, and then compel them to earn it. Millions of dollars are extorted from the taxpayers of England every year for the maintenance of the scions of so-called royalty. J. A. O. Presus of Ada, one of Senator Knute Nelson's proteges, has been appointed chief executive clerk to succeed Corporal Harvey Grimmer. Mr. George F. Authier, the political writer for the Minneapolis Tribune, who is very close to Senator Ed. Smith, the premier of the present Kitchen Cabinet, knew what he was talking about when he said a few days before: "In the meantime the followers of Senator Knute Nelson are being placated and the appoint ment of executive clerk in the office of the new governor will probably go to a Norwegian-American." The ap pointment of Mr. Presus was one of Ed. Smith's political master strokes. Knute Nelson's friends are placated and the Norwegian vote is corralled! There is no valid reason why state lands should not be taxed the same as other lands. In many counties in northern Minnesota where the state owns immense quantities of land the entire burden of opening roads and maintaining schools falls upon the struggling, scattered settlers who are attempting to make homes for themselves and families. Every mile of 'oa opened and every school house built adds to the value of the state's holdings, and why should not the state contribute its proportionate share towards those public improve ments that add to the value of its lands? The question of taxing state lands should be presented to the next legislature in such a forceful and con vincing manner as to secure favor able action on the proposition. II ILL IT BE GOOD The Sentinel has no disposition to meddle in republican politics but we would suggest in the interests of party harmony that the right and logical thing to do is to give Gov. Adolph E. Eberhart a nomination by acclamation.Fairmont Sentinel, Mr. Frank Day's organ. If the republicans do nominate Mr.1 Eberhart we hope Mr. Day will sum marily squelch that absurd story with reference to an alleged conversation between the late Gov. Johnson and Mr. Eberhart on a Northwestern train a few days prior to election last fall. The too frequent repetition of that silly story might lead some of Mr. J. F. Jacobson's friends to credit it, and that would spell trouble for Mr. Eber hart. "Old Put" Boasts a Galoot. The galoot who runs the Appleton Press must have a swollen head, and sane ideas evacuated it long ago.* He arrives at conclusions very readi-t ly, but he alone understands the im port of them, or the way they would work out if adopted by the peopled He seems to be a democrat but that is not certain for he rambles off when he attempts to elucidate what would happen if the tariff was reduced on specific articles, and assumes that his inferences are above discussion. We have never seen tfie boy but are told he is harmless and sways about as much influence as a pig-sticker at a wake. His opinion of'others is so in finitely small that the naked eye fails to discern the entity.Granite Falls Tribune. -A. WELT. CASED JFOJJ OW THE WHOLE. "What might have been," had the state of Minnesota refrained from dis posing of any of the lands it received from the United States save by leasing the same is the caption of an interest ing article in the Duluth News Tribune. If our foresight was equally as good as our hindsight how few mistakes we would make. Compared with other states Minnesota's lands have been admirably cared for and utilized as is evidenced by our large school, university and state insti tutions permanent funds. The big* gest mistake the state made was in giving to railroads millions of acres of swamp lands that ought to have been devoted to internal im provements as contemplated in the granting act. That swamp land may have expedited the build ing of railroads in some instances is probably true, but sooner or later those railroads would have been built in any event. We are not aware that the state has lost any mineral lands, save the valuable Mountain Iron prop erty. The royalty that the state exacted prior to 1907, 25 cents per ton, may have been too low, but at the time the law" was enacted and until quite recently the royalty was considered high enough. When a new mineral lease law is enacted a much higher graduated royalty, based on the value of the ore, should and un doubtedly will be provided for. Any attempt to fix a higher mini mum value on state agricultural lands than five dollars per acre should not be favorably regarded. The best agricultural lands, in the southern and central parts of the state and in the Red River valley, have already been disposed of, and it would be grossly unfair to northern Minnesota, where the great bulk of the undisposed state lands are located, to increase the minimum price of the same or place any undue restrictions on their sale. While mistakes have been made, on the whole the state of Minnesota has put to good use the lands granted it by the United States for school, uni versity and other purposes. MORE REPREHENSIBLE. As a general thing, republicans (and we believe there is still a respectable number of them here abouts)will not be slow in sizing up the real calibre and the true mo tives of those newspaper editors who, while themselves pretending to be re publicans are exerting every possible means to bring the present republican administration into disrepute and obloquy. When the columns of an alleged republican newspaper are daily devoted to the reproduction of articles clipped from notoriously rank and radical democratic sheets published for the avowed purpose of misrepresenting President Taft and bringing all his efforts into ridicule, then we believe it is time to challenge the right of such men to either call themselves republicans or to label their slanderous sheets with the name of the grand old party.Albert Lea Times-Enterprise. How about the demagogic members of congress, of whom we have several in this state, who devote the major share of their time to denouncing Taft and the republican majority in con gress? Is not the conduct of these hired office-brokers more repre hensible, from a party standpoint, than that of the cuckoo editors so justly and so scathingly denounced by the Times-Enterprise? MAKE A.XT EFFECTIVE PROTEST. If President Taft and the republican majority in congress have violated solemn pledges given in the national platform and deceived the country, as several of our state congressional delegation would have us believe, then the proper and the logical thing for the voters of Minnesota to do next year is to send an unbroken demo cratic congressional delegation, in cluding a United States senator, to" Washington. A handful of noisy, mugwump insurgents can accom plish little or nothing in congress. Anyhow, if, as asserted by members of our own virtuous and patriotic delegation, the republican majority in congress is owned and controlled by the trusts and corporations it is high time that there was a change. A solid democratic delegation from this state would be an effective protest against the policies of the republican party. If we are going to be insur gents let us be real downright, dead in-earnest insurgents. OPINIONS OF EDITORS!I That's What Has. The man with a northern Minnesota farm free from debt has a valuable asset.Brainerd Tribune. J. A. $ Bat Their Support Will Be Expected. Now that Frank Day has quit the capitol the country newspaper boys will not stand much of a show in that marble palace.Roseau Region. Collared and Collarless. Belden, of the Austin Transcript, talks about a postoffice collar. The only trouble with Belden is that he is mad because he isn't wearing one himself.Janesville Argus. $- i* Government Lotteries Unprofitable In most instances the money spent in drawing a government farm could be more profitably invested in a few acres of desirable land in northern Minnesota, where values are real and crops sure.Brainerd Tribune. 5* .$- .j. Show Signs of Restlessness Some so-called big state politicians on the republican side of the fence, who are supposed to be standing up with Governor Eberhart, are begin ning to shift from one foot to another and yawning horribly of late. Walker Pilot. $- .$- Frank the Sacrificial Lamb Frank A. Day is the logical can didate for governor on the democratic ticket next year. This is rendered more apparent on account of the fact that both Hammond and Lind have turned down the proffered honor. Janesville Argus. -j. Ed. Smith's Brand of Harmony The harmony so vociferously promulgated by the state senatorial combine has symptoms of being harmony with a string attached to it. Harmony is good if your candidate wins, but if the other fellow wins, to the deuce with harmony.Elk River Star-News. Mlnnesotans Refuse to Swallow His Gush The gentleman who came to Min nesota from the sunny south, Chas. Grasty, to teach the Gopher state how to run daily newspapers, has tired of his job in a few short months. Like a good many other lesser lights Mr. Grasty's long suit was gush, and it didn't go down with Minnesotans., Winnebago City Press News. Public Confidence Better Thau Boodle. We trust that Bro. Geo. Thompson, now that he has the St. Paul Dispatch and the Pioneer Press under his con trol, will take the active management into his own hands, and give us two good newspapers free from corpora tion dictation. The confidence of the public is a better asset than the boodle of the big interests.Journal Press. Billy Still Controls It The Fairmont Sentinel says that Minnesota voters have abolished party lines, and will hereafter vote for men who vote for the interests of the people. Won't the Sentinel please state when the democrats of the state abolished party lines? The republi cans voted for Johnson drawn by his personality, but Billy Hamm and the interests control that party just the same as they have in the past. Albert Lea Times-Enterprise, j. .$. .3. Scott Might Disarrange the Mate. Hugh Scott, auditor of Hennepin county for ten consecutive years, is being urged by his friends to go after the republican nomination for state auditor next year. We can see where so popular a man as Mr. Scott would put a crimp into the designs of the Hennepin senatorial combine, as he would be quite apt to control the delegation from the big county to the state convention, and that is hardly in line with the slate mapped out. Elk River Star-News. &- *J* $- Minnesota's Greatest Need Minnesota needs good roads more than mangificent capitol approaches, and impracticable waterways which will be frozen up at least six months in the year. We agree with the Princeton Union when it says that the question of good roads is the para mount issue in Minnesota today, and the riext legislature should submit to the voters of this state an amend ment to the constitution that would make a one mill tax levy for the road and bridge fund constitutional.* Foley Independent. 0 4 Parents and the Schools. Schools cost a great deal of money and their efficiency for the purpose of educating our youth can be enhanced greatly if the parents will take an in telligent interest in school work. They should keep close tab on the school work of their children, confer with the teachers about them, see that the children are always punctual and that they come home promptly after the close of school each day. Instead of finding fault with the teacher who reports delinquencies, and side in with the children against the teacher, they should be very careful to get the facts in the case.Litchfield Inde dendent. NEWSPAPERDOM '1rttrrt{TM O. W. Swanson, who at one time published the Royalton Banner, has started a paper at Centro, California. Mr. Swanson is a good newspaperman and should be successful in his latest venture. Two new papersthe Grasston Ad vance by J. W. Wilcox arid the Pil lager Herald by Frank Petersonput in an appearance at this office during the week. The first named is a seven column folio and the other a six column folio. Both start with a good advertising patronage. The last number of the Wahkon En terprise which reached us was printed on paper of a rich emerald green hue and Editor Sloan explains the reason thus: "No, this isn't a belated St. Patrick's day edition, nor are we en vious of our neighbors. Our new sup ply of white paper failed to arrive in time for this issue." Great Man is Frank "The Blockhead" of the Le Sueur Newt, has just discovered that Hon. Frank A. Day is a great dicsoverer and an eminent christian statesman but a no-account poker player. But we will let "The Blockhead," in his own words, express his apprecia tion of Frank: "When I was down to hear Dr. Cook lecture on the discovery of the north pole another discoverer was pointed out to me. Frank Day, he who discovered, John A. Johnson, was the man. Just now Frank is engaged in revising and editing his notes on 'What I Know About Politicians,' and it is said a lot of Minnesota citizens are trembling. Frank is a success and a yard wide. He was lieutenant governor as a republican, a candidate for congress in the second district as a populist and private secretary to Govs. Johnson and Eberhart as & democrat. Frank says he never changed his coat, nor wore a patch on it. Frank is a man of large political parts, kind of cosmopolitan like, but his bump of religion is his largest part and if Winfield Scott Hammond favors Sunday baseball Frank will not leave a visiting card at his door. Frank says the devil has no place in Minnesota and for that reason he thinks the state safely democratic. He don't like poker either. Cribbage is good enough for him. Frank may discover a regular successor to the late John A. Johnson, and if he does Fairmont will know him no more forever." Good Road Work. The best road work that has come under the observation of the writer this fall has been done in the north end of Princeton township under the superintendency of Mr. J. A. Wetter. The roads in that vicinity have been graded up and rounded off in fine shape and to a width of at least 16 feet. Another piece of good work has been done on the road south of the West Branch creamery by Mr. Charles Olson, we believe. Considerable good work has also been done on the Germany roads. But there are num erous sandy stretches in the vicinity of the village where a coating of straw or slough grass would prove beneficial. There is a decided im provement for the better in the condi tion of the roads in the vicinity of Princeton. Let the good work con tinue. School Report, District 3 For the school month ending No vember 5 the pupils perfect in attend ance at the Bogus Brook school dis trict No. 3 were Hattie Miller, Hattie Emme, Florence Wige, Julius Wige, Olga Chalstrom, Clara Bonkowske. Ida May Schmidt, Teacher. School Report, District 37 Number enrolled, 24 average at tendance, 22. Names of those neither tardy or absent for the month ending November 5: Mary Ellenbaum, Her bert Jaenicke, Ella Jaenicke, Mary Peterson, Robert Trabant, Elsie Trabant, Allen Hurley, Frank Hurley, Lawrence Hurley, Cecil Hurley, August Eggert, Gertrude Eggert. Eva T. Colburn, Teacher. School Report School report of district 16, town ship of Spring Vale, Isanti county^ for the month ending November 5: Enrollment, 51 number of days taught, 20 average daily attendance, 22. Those perfect in attendance dur ing the month were Delia Backman, Christine Leaf, Arthur Moline, Ber tha Reineccius and Alice Johnson. Those who attended 19 days during the month were Albin Findell, John Leaf, Eric Lindquist and Dorothy Westblad. Alice Hiller, Teacher. Fine Portraits When you want a genuine portrait taken come to Shaker's studio and be perfectly satisfied. My studio is now fixed up in good shape and I can, as I always did, guarantee you the very best photographs. G. G. Shaker. A basket social will be given in the Methodist church parlors on Friday evening, November 19, for the benefit of the Wide Awake club. Girls should go with well filled baskets and boys should go prepared to buy them. A good time is in store for all and everyone is invited. i I i i fft