The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28


MIRROR, comes to us in an enlarged
form and geographically improved
if possible. 1t is one of the neatest
and ablest edited papers in Minnesota,
if it is cotton up in our state prison by
an inmate. We wish every tax payer i'm
the state could have this paper for two.
reasons, viz: 1t is highly entertaining
sheet and worth twice the subscription
price 90 per year-and the reader
will know exactly the state of affairs
at one of our leading state institutions.
The surplus receipts of THE MIRROR
Office is used in increasing the prison
library. Try it year and our word for
lit, you will say your money was we'll
invested.-Blue Earth City Post.
therein with full power to bite, cut, suck,
and otherwise eat the same, or give the
same away, as fully and effectually as
the said A B am entitled to bite, cut,
suck, or otherwise eat the same orange,
or give the same away. without its rind,
skin, juice, pulp, and pips anything
hereinbefOre or hereinafter, or in any
other deed Or deeds. instrument or in
struments, of what nature or kind sOever
to the contrary Notwithstanding
AlamOsa Journal.
Carnegie and Prick have long been a
stencil in the nOstrils of the decent peO-
pie of the country. The revelations
made by the armOr plate investigating
committee merely add to the disagree
able OdOr. 1t seems about time that an
example should be made of some of
these rich criminals who fatten on fraud
and who heap up vast fortunes 10y meth
DDS which would land poor man in
Jail within twenty-four hours. Sioux
City Tribune.
Isn't this mean? The mayor Of Des
Moines, Iowa, signs an ordinance to
license the traffic in rum and ruin;
then orders the police to arrest all
drunken men. How can these fellows
pay license and make living with
out patronage, and how can anyone
patronize them without getting drunk?
Drunkenness is question Of degrees.
Ii six drinks would make man drunk,
then one drink would make him one
sixth drunk, "dOn't it ?'-Minn. Good
Templar.
1t is to be noted that the crime Of
the dynamitard is political. 1t grows
out of dissatisfaction with the exist
ing political and social conditions. By
a slovenly use of language it's per-
petratOrS have come to be generally
known as anarchists, though in the
great majority of cases there is no
Identification of the criminal with
that propaganda. By still more un-
juStifiable inference crime of this
nature awakens immediate hostility
to all who seek reformation of the
existing social organization. Thus the
dispatch announcing the crime in the
Chamber of Deputies asserts that it
will weaken the socialists in the leg
islature. In times of panic men are
not discriminating. 1t is idle to argue
with men of the class who employ
dynamite in doing murder. 1t is use
less to point to the record and declare
that the effect of every crime of this
sort has been to strengthen the gov
eminent they hate. BrOOding over
their actual WretchedneSS and their
fanciful wrongs breeds in them the
savagery of fanatics. They are no
brutes, for they have the art of men to
supplement- the ferocity Of brutes.
There should be for them short shrift
and speedy extinction.-Ft. Wayne,
Qnd.,) Saturday Dispatch.
About once a month some high
cOllared Individual, who diffuses in his
vicinity an aroma of sanctity and high
priced handkerchief extract, arises to
remark that this country is going to the
devil because the educated classes" are
not recogn!zed in politics. One of these
gentlemen-an editor who makes spe-
cialty of directing the conduct of every
body and everything from the Almighty
down to the street cleaning department
Of New Y Ork-returnS to his subject in
the free-for all magazines. "There is
nothing" he says, ''from which the pub
lie service of the country suffers more
than the silence of the educated Glass;
This of course is too bad, but who is to
blame? Must the 'educated class" be
dragged out of it's hole by the tail and
slung bodily into the high places Of the
nation? Is anyone preventing the ''ed-
ucated class from taking off it's coat
and rolling up it's sleeves, and going into
politics like ordinary people? Why