Willmar tribune., 1900-12-19
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There will be one comfort to the pa
irons Of the new iceS rink: il the ice
should break there would be no serious
consequence ..'.sss !
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Some Of the local political wise
caps have ridiculed Gov. Lind for
rendering the senatorship to a repub-
lican should now turn their attention
to Tams Bixby, who asked the popu-
cratic governor to appoint him to the
place. ~ ~, .5,>..-1
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Now, seriously, don't you believe
that this full dinner pail argument
was overdone?
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Would this really have been called
prosperity had Bryan been elected?
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The vaccine industry must be pros
porous. .:
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WHAT'S IN A NAME?
What is there in q. name?"
The young man sighed aloud.
'To me it's all the same;
I'd own it in a crowd
Now summed by ali his friends
He's sitting in the stocks
The board of health pretends
That "rashness" is small pOx.
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The state of Mississippi has it's seri-
Gus drawbacks, but it has less indebt-
edness, public and private, than any
other state in the union. It is we'll
governed. It has a county option
law which has resulted in prohibition
in all but four counties of the state.
And yet the people of states which are
apparently hopeless sly dominated by
the money power and the liquor power
meyer tire of throwing stones at the
likes of her.
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Lest you forget, this is "unparal-
lelled prosperity, unprecedented in
the history of the country"
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Representative-elect Gandrud is re-
ported as taking an active interest in
the disposition of the state capitol
lands. This is matter in which Sen
ator Grue has spent considerable time
and attention. It is the Senator 3
idea that some state institution should
be secured for the courty, inasmuch
as the state capital has been perma-
nently located at St. Paul. The TR1B-
UNE has not had an opportunity to
learn what Mr.. Gandrud ideas are,
but it hopes the two may work together
as far as practicable to secure some
thing substantial for the county. To
this we are fairly entitled.
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About year ago the Benson Times
made vicious attack on this paper,
charging it with being a party to rob
bing the peoples money because it in
sisted that a gang Of blind-piggers
should be dealt with according to law.
| It further stated thai it did not believe
that the maintenance of public NOR
ais" justified an y town to vote out the
saloons and thus squander the public
funds, etc. The net cost to the tax.
payers of Kandiyohi county to deal
with those piggers was less than a
thousand dollars. Outside of those
cases no other crimes of any conse'
quence have disgraced our county.
But take look at Swift county, the
Times own county. The last grand
jury brought in seventy-seven indict.
ments, four of them being for murder,
The greater share of these crimes may
be traced to the liquor evil. One mur.
der case alone, caused by drunken
man in saloon, will very likely cost
Swift county more than all the blind
pig cases Kandiyohi county has eve,
had and all it will have for years tc
come. The saloons in all the villages
| of Swift county are certainly not re-
ducing the taxes, of the Swift county
farmers, even if some of the munich
palities in the county feel that the
money received from them is indis
pensable. The saloon drains the sub
stance of many farmers and increases
the taxes for. all farms, the Benson
Times to the contrary Notwithstanding
1t is certainly not more than righ1
| that the farmers should have voice
in the matter. of blishing saloons
in county.
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Saturday papers tell of heart-brok
en- father, John P. Skinner, of Plants
vile, Conn.,, II years old, who has
left his home to make visit to Wash
tngton to plead with President McKin
ley for his sons life. His son is sen
fenced to be shot on Christmas day il
the Philippines, for going to sleep OF
the picket line. Where is the mar
who didn't want to sacrifice the happi
ness of single American home fol
all the wealth of the Orient? Let u.
hope that the president will make thu
old man the greatest Christmas pres
ent he ever received.
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