The Saint Paul globe., 1903-10-04
What the Editors Say


est because of the connection of the
notorious Addicks with the deal. II
VIII be remembered that Addicks. who
had used millions of dollars in several
campaigns to secure legislatures who
would elect him to the United States
senate, finally made a compromise by
which tool of his and a man Of the
other Republican faction were chosen
United States senator's, and they made
deal, so Postmaster General Payne
says, by which one was to control ap-
polntments of one-half the state and
the other one the other half, and Payne
says Roosevelt knew of the deal But
now the removal of the postmistress
is placed on Paynes shoulders by the
sycophants of Roosevelt, and yet they
know that Roosevelt got into hot wa
ter In Delaware only a year or
more ago because he appointed a
nenchman of the corrupt Addicks
united States district attorney, and
the senate refused to confirm the ap-
polntment.-New Ulm News.
The last squeeze to which the farm
ers of the state have been subjected
py the state board of equalization
should induce them to do a little think
ing Tor themselves. and if no way can
De found to reach for assessment tha
concealed and unlisted property of tha
present
Snould be abandoned without furthes
consideration and an income tax sub
stltuted As it is, the man with small
property interests is always overtaxed.
and often doubly taxed, while 70 per
cent OF the wealth of the state escapes
taxation entirely. If this is equality
beLore the law, we want none of it. and
II the party In power cannot or will
not remedy the evil, it is time to put
some other party in power.-McIntosh
Times.
This is rather unexpected, but If Il
must be so we will do the best we can,
"A chicago professor returned recently
from trip through Germany, and yes
terday made the statement that we
must nave war with Germany-not
tariff war-but the real thing, with
generals, colonels, majors, captains,
neutenants, sergeants, cOrporals. pri-
Yates, cannons, Krags and Spring
helds, etc. He declares there is a tre-
mendous undercurrent of belief in Ger
many that American prosperity means
the ruin of Germany, and he says they
want to lick us for it. 1t strikes us
that the stuff he drank while away
from home wasn't acclimated and has
gone to his head.-Stillwater Gazette.
The fact that the Republican party
OF Minnesota has faithlessly failed to
carry out its promises for tax reform
Is one over which the people of the
state are growing very impatient. We
nave been repeatedly assured that our
present inefficient system would give
way to better. Great preparations
were made for tax revision a commits
sion was appointed and worked many
months making a thorough overhauling
or the present system, the recommen-
nf fhO
oated by the state press and by two
sessions Of the legislature-and nothing
whatever came Of it all.-Crookston
Daily Times
1t is stated that Secretary Hitchcock
Will handsomely reward the man who
is capable of making a thorough and
honest investigation of the Indian land
affairs in Oklahoma and Indian Ter
r1tory. This is a difficult task but not so
hard to the professional whitewasher
who generally gets the job of making
| Investigations of frauds against the
government. AS a sample of the
Whitewash business just look at Mark
Hanna's friend, RathbOne and also
Neeley. who both stole the government
blind In Cuba. Both were protected
by the fellows who control the policy
of the Republican party.-Sleepy Eye
Herald.
Auditor Iverson's ''penalizing" argu-
ment Is not a strong one. The facts
are that the honest taxpayer is penal
lied by just such actions as the state
board has been indulging in. 1t means
penalty upon the man who has Civ
Ell in something to the assessor to
have that something increased, while
the dodger, who has given in nothing,
escapes entirely. The state board has
cln And 4
the criticism, as voiced through the
state press, in meek and lowly man
ner. Getting mad will not help their
case at all.-Preston Times.
No doubt there are grafters enough
among the Kansas lawmakers. Even
in the Minnesota legislature there ara
fellows who get into that body for the
express purpose of selling out their
stock of integrity to the highest bid
der. Bribe-taking is their vocation
and sometimes they have not even the
pretense of any other way of making a
living. But it takes something more
than newspaper attack, however
brilliant, to cause the legislative gang
any particular trouble.-Duluth News
Tribune
Several of the papers that are friend
1
combine are making a cry that any
one who does not support the combine
are factional distGrbers working di-
| rectly against the interests of the
party The fact is that the combine
opened up the fight through their off,
cial organ, the Dispatch, and they
themselves are the factional disturb
ers, if there are any.-NeW Prague
Times.
The Miller case in the government
printing office at Washington still con-
tinues to interest politicians and labor
unions Up to this hour the real in
side of the case has not been given to
the public, and we doubt very much II
President Roosevelt knows all he ought
to know about it. 1t is a bad mess, and
it is probably just as well that the mas
tiness is not exposed. That printing
Office needs revision even more than
the tariff.-Northfield News.
'The men whom we most delight to
honor in all the land are those who in
the iron years from 81 to '65 bore on
their shoulders the burden of saving
the Union" President Roosevelt at
Syracuse on Labor day; after saying
which, the president proceeds to pro-