The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-30
Divers Comments
From The Northwest

5 From The Northwest ;
The Austin Herald drops into philos-
ophizing on the inevitable result of po-
litical career, as follows:
Politics is the only game. avocation
or PROFESSION at which a man is sure to
fail if he keeps at it long enough mot
unWritten law, which, like the law Of
nature. is sure of fulfillment at last. 1t
is only question of time when those
who have been considered invulnerabIe
must fall and retire from a field where
they have long been considered masters.
Ahead of every political leader lies Wa
terloo unless he is wise and steps out Of
the race while his credit is good and his
chance of winning certain The days of
the politicians life no man can number,
but he who ventures his popularity too
often is sure to meet defeat at the polls.
According to the Granite Falls Journal,
Mike Downing has scored a point that
will place him in the Roosevelt class. He
has not killed mountain lion, but a
moose. Should Ella Wheeler Wilcox
hear of this, another story about the re-
doubtable Mike will appear The Journal
says:
Well, that man Eddy might just as well
throw UP the sponge and give the con-
gressional race to Mike Bowling without
any further trouble over the matter. for
Mike has accomplished something Eddy
never did nor ever can do. He has shot
and killed a moose. while Eddy has never
shot anything since he used to kill young
prairie chickens with his long whip while
driving breaking team of six oxen,
when a boy. Mike Is always doing some
thing to get the inside track.
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teacher. from the Pinestone Star, is time
ly at least. The incident throws some
light upon the lack of knowledge of COM
mon things which characterizes many
of the pilots of the rising generation:
A school teacher stopped for a night
in a hotel at Red Wing blew out the
gas and is dying as a result. There is
no possible explanation of the act ex-
cept that she knew no better. Wouldn't
it be a good idea to incorporate In the
training of the Minnesota teacher a little
practical knowledge? Is q teacher who
knows SO little of the world as to blow
out the gas hardly the person to under
take the training of children for life un-
der modern conditions?
We clip the following pointed para
graph from the Delano Eagle:
The decision of the supreme court in
the Philippine cases Is anxiousiy expect
ed. Contrary to popular belief, the Porto
Rican decisions of last spring really set
tied nothing and unsettled everything. It
gave the law to the Democrats and the
decision to the Republicans.
1t Is toss up between the colorless and
the yellow newspaper If we are to accept
the estimate Of the Minnesota Lake
Tribune:
There is a consensus of opinion now
that the yellow newspaper is bad. 1t
newspaper is not the best. If the de-
mand If our time is for men of convic-
ton, for men of purpose, for men of
courage, for men of understanding and
of wisdom, then it is broadly true that
We have need Of newspapers Of such
type.
The great office of the newspaper is in
politics.
And why should the word of newspa-
man?
The question as to the st. Paul G o g
being a Democratic newspaper is serious
ly doubted by the unwashed. It now as
serts that it is, and James Green, the
editor of the New Ulm News, an unadul-
terated Democrat, says: I'VE shall take
T h o b e on it's word, without any
probationary period"
Judge Lauder has had set-to with his
mics, and they have won fall before
the supreme court. This is what he is
reported to have said regarding the de-
cision, according to the Fargo Call.
Judge Lauder sums UP a reply to the
decision of the supreme court in the Nc
Cumber-Lauder case in the following lam
guage: This decision is wrong. 1t does
me great injustice and 1t will not
stand. There is a power in this state
against which even the supreme court
cannot stand and that Is the power of an
enlightened public opinion, and am just
as sure as | am that am alive that the
public opinion Of North Dakota will con-
denim this decision
The st. Cloud Journa1-Press says:
Attorney General Douglas has been
found, and will cooperate with Gov.
Van SAINT in heading off the railroad
merger. 1t is probable that the Sherman
law will be invoked.
This reminds us of the story of the old
negro, who was asked at revival If he
had found the Lord. and replied. "Fo'
mercy sake, boss, am de Lord lost?"
On the subject of irrigation the Sioux
Falls Press makes these pertinent OBJ
scryations:
partment. favors irrigation and reclama-
ton of arid lands in his annual report,
just submitted. He recommends storage
reservoirs in Arizona, Nevada, California
and Montana, as beginning of a scheme
of Western irrigation. He does not, how
ever, grasp the entire problem which In
wolves the construction of an empire of
preductiveness upon a vast Western area
row worthless from want of water. The
secretary does very well, however, In in
Producing the subject It is for the fu-
ture to develop a project now in its in
cipiency, the full Significance of which
has not yet dawned upon the nation.
The subject will command more general
attention after the existing fruitful pub
lie domain is exhausted.