The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-18
tralize their strength, and hence they
generally win.

s. &. :.
The M fountain Iron invests legation and
he Powers labor bureau investig CATION
promise to come to naug ht. Ex--Audi-8 s.
Tor Braden is dead, Lon Merritt has
gone to Mexico, probably to stay,
Rockefeller has com promised with the
only witnesses who might have proved
the States equity, and the door seems
to be closed in the face of all inquiry.
If anything is accomplished under the
circumstances it will be nothing short
of a miracle, for the matter has been
managed on the part Of the usurpers
with a cunning hand, and every
avenue seems to have been cut off. AS
for the Powers investig ation, the Of.
Tense was purely a political one, and
we can not well expect to see him pun
ished by the party which he was try
ing to serve. Personally [ feel con-
fdent that The Purchasing Power Of
Gold, e Farmer Hayseed" and the
other pamphlets issued by Mr.. Powers
on the time which should have been
consumed in the performance of his Of
fcal duties-if he had an might as
we'll have remained unWritten so far as
they affected the result. I do not be-
slieve that any one ever read one, of I
them clear through. # any one ever
did, and if his reason remained unim-
paired by the affection, he must have
voted the j. opulist ticket merely out OF.
revenge. However, as the front Of his
his offending was his
zeal in a good cause, Repu blicans will
be inclined to look with forgiving eyes
upon his offense, especially as they
were not compelled to read the books.
They will take the will for the deed,
accept the evident zeal as an evidence
LOT good faith and invite him to stay
where he*is and sin some more only
they may advise him to do it at his
own expense next time.
The prospects for the passage OF the.
bill making the railroad and warehouse
commission elective are very slim, and
several other measures which I had
hoped to see receive favorable consid
GRAFTON have fallen by the Wayside and
will rise no more. There were two
I arguments against the elective com-:
mission bill. In the second place it
was opposed by the politicians. The
broader mi CHIT look around among the
SIrailroad offices and see car aand..
in the first place @
i i. i. I.
4 One of the benefcent acts Of this ses-
sion is the slaughter of the proposed
local option and high license bill. I
4 have never seen two bills whose titles
.Iso completely obscured their purpose.
y Under the present law every town and
village may say whether or not it will
!: grant license at any sum above $500.
. Now if we are going to have license at
all that is surely the way to do it,
That is local option in spirit and in let
ter, and it is the application Of the
s. home rule theory which is as dear to
the American citizen as whiskey is to
a Kentucky colonel. The proposed
laws would have placed it in the power
. Of one town in any county to have dis
franchised another town in the same
county. Milaca might have wanted
license and Princeton no license, or
vice versa. If Princeton out-voted
Milaca, M ilaca would have had to sub
nit to have her affairs run by Prince
ton. Princeton might want license
and might want to fix the license at
$500, but she could not do it if Che
! Knatvold bill had passed. The pres
ent law is satisfactory to nine-tenths
of the people of the State, and the
other tenth wouldn't be satisfied in
!, Heaven.
d Another particularly vicious bill
which was killed in the house last
week was the so-called Scott vagrancy
bill Tt proposed that the police
!, light take up any stranger who APP
peared with no visible means Of sup
port and put him to work on the rock
pile. It was such a heinous assault
upon the American idea Of liberty that
it died without friend when it APP
& peared in the house, and was dignified
! |by a formal interment, Mr.. Donnelly
, Ireading the burial service in one Of his
J, happiest veins Of satire. Mr.. Scott
!, represents the silk stocking ward Of
! st. Paul The Seventh
1. 4. :. I.
understand Senator French will
fail to secure the passage Of his bill Ito
repeal that part Of the law which per.
mits q retraction to be plead in mitiga-
!. ton Of damages in al suit for libel.
The senator is said to have . few libel
suits Of his own, and wants to shape
the law to suit the circumstances.
Well, a newspaper which will retract