The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-12-20

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Freedom County Times: The presi-
dent is for continuance of Chinese
exclusion and so is almost everyone
else except few corporations who are
looking for cheap ignorant labor, and
eastern sentimentalists who at several
thousand miles distant see in every
Chinese, Filipino and Iudain a highly
civilized and much wronged creature.
The Duluth News Tribune aptly re-
marks that the anti -merger cause
draws no strength from vindictive at
tacks of a personal nature on James j.
Hill.
The Fairmont News notes that while
the cost of living is greater than for
many years, it is noticeable that fewer
people are going hungry than when
living was cheaper. This would seem
to prove that cheap living is not a
criterion of prosperity.
As we near the threshold of the new
year, is it not good plan for the Re-
publican editors of Minnesota, asks the
Blue Earth Post, to resolve to leave to
our friends. the enemy, the privilege
and exclusive right to. find fault with
the Republican state and county Off
cials2 Anti-Van SAINT statements
should appear where they belong-in
the columns of the Democratic press Of
the state. If some out of our party
leaders are against Van SAINT and hob
nobbing with Jim Hill, let them alone.
Don't magnify his work. Let every
loyal Republican stand by our chosen
chief magistrate, not only in manly
and determine effort to prevent the
consolidation of the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern railroads and
leave the fault-fnding to those who
have made it life study-the Demo
cratic editors 1t is far the wiser plan
to settle all differences as to men and
measures in caucus and convention
and at all times show solid and unit
ed front to the opposition.
The Duluth News Tribune approves
of the course pursued by Gov. Van
SAINT and Attorney General Douglas
and then adds: The man connected
with gigantic railroad combination
who is best known to the people of
Minnesota is James j. Hill. He. has
been identified with the growth of the
northwest for more than a quarter of
a century, and no man living has con-
tributed so much tosthat growth. That
fact does not warrant the people in ac-
cepting his business operations as legal
and proper when their own Judgment
assures them to the contrary, and all
honorable efforts should be put forth
to defeat the one in question, but is it
necessary to attack and pursue Mr..
Hill with Misrepresentation and bitter
personal rancor? 1t is clear that some
men, under the guise of a deep inter
est in the public welfare, are merely
this occasion to feed fat the
longtime hatred they have for James
J. Hill, while at the same time they
are furthering the interest of a stock
jobbers' clique. Such men dishonor
the cause of the people by associating
it with vindictive malice and the SER
vice of sordid private interests Can
not the great railroad merger be pro-
perly fought without personally hound
ing James j. Hill?
Minneapolis Times: Congressman
McCleary of the second district of
Minnesota will introduce bill materi
ally increasing the salaries of rural
mail carriers. The bill is a worthy
one These carriers have expenses not
incident to the deliverers of mail in
cities. In winter especially they will
suffer exposure and hardship and if
any laborer is worthy of full hire it is
he whose daily coming means so much
to scores of homes.
Congressman McCleary's bill to
raise the pay of rural mail carriers to
$500 the first year, with progressive
advance for a longer term of service,
says the Minneapolis Tribune, is
move in the right direction. The rural
mail carrier should be man of intel
ligence and capacity, and to keep such
men in the service fair living wage
must be paid.
The New Ulm Review, fusion, says:
1t is but natural that people of oppo-
site political faith of Gov. Van SAINT
should look upon his present move as
a shrewd vote-getting by-play. This
is narrow partisan way of looking at
it and is as unjust as it is partisan. A
bluff like that could not be success
fully sustained until time for re-elec-
tion and if it falls through will be the
mill stone about the neck of Van SAINT
that will sink him into political OBJ
livion. We believe the'governor is right
in this and is as much in earnest as he
is in the right. Let us be broad to see
virtue in others beside those-of our
own political family.
The Redwood Gazette has the follow
ing regarding tine state authorship:
Bob Dunn's retirement from the
state auditors Office on January list,
1908, is extremely doubtful, as there
seems to be pretty general sentiment
for his denomination by the Republi-
can party next year. If Bob, decides
to heed this sentiment, and become