Mower County transcript., 1903-10-28

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farmer BEN'S COLUMN.
The Alaskan boundary business
came out just as every body expected it
would. There was no more ground for
5Canada's claim than for strange cat
to claim breakfast free at the Fox. It's
like as if { had piece of land that had
been IN my peaceable possession for
over a century and all the deeds and
maps and plats= showed that it was
mine and some day an outsider comes
along and lays claim to part of my
property and when 1 deny his absurd
and preposterous and absolutely base
less claim he proposes to let it out to
arbitration. I've fought this arbitra-s
tion over the Alaskan boundary be-
cause it was such a cheeky and prepos-
ferrous proposition. We got Alaska
from Russia in 1867 for 81 100000 and
| Of course we took all the hereditaments
which Russia had owned. In 1926 Rus
sia and Great Britain signed a treaty
1 ,definin' this boundary between Alaska
and British America and maps were
made and for nearly three. quarters of
a century everybody the world over ac-
cepted the fixed boundaries adopted
by England and Russia. After the
gold fever up in Dawson started, then
Canada wanted a strip of coast and
/ tried to put up a abunco game and
claim on territory that Russia turned
over to Uncle Sam right after the war.
4 Well, it's been arbitrated and the ma
/ jority has decided that what has been
for the past hundred years undisputed
has the right of way. hope this will
end this foolish nonsense over what is
as clear as sunshine.
o o o
l. see that bids are out for the new
furniture for the new state house Which
the taxpayers Of the state are buildin'
for the beautifyin'. of St. Paul. The
furnishings will be superb far. finer
than what any poor taxpayer will ever
expect or. hope to hay in his own hum
bic home. It will be gorgeous and
costly Of mahogany and gold and pur-
pie silk and such I spose. Nothin' else
ofscourse would match thefve million
dollar statehouse2 that the cowardly
legislaturs hav voted fundsSfor. This
amt the worst Of the steal in this new
state house deal. Now comes a push
for more m land round the buildin, and a
1lot Of t.-Panl henlers are centriYin;
to get the state to pay about five prices
for additional land instead of St, Paul
protectin' the state from more extortion
and robbery. Why shouldn't St. Paul
get the needful additional land and do
nate it to the state? That would be a
small return for all that St. Paul has
got out of this statehouse deal. The
new bulldin' has supported a regiment
OF st. Paul laborers for the past several
years and made millions for architects
and contractors and has been a regular
klondike for the greedy St. Paul gang
who worked this diabolical financial
extravaganza upon the state OF Mime
sofa and Minneapolis plantations. It
seems that the graft is still bein' work.
ed and the chaps that have got sand
bank adjoinin' the site of the new
statehouse can now sell out and retire
! Independent.
The president Of Michigan universi-
ty comes out fiat footed in favor of the
continuance of co-education in the uni
versities same as in the kindergartens
and high schools. That's where
Angell's head is level. I believe in
edducatin' the sexes together right
thro to the end Of the curriculum. One
or two of the big schools includin'
Robberfeller's Chicago freak trainin'
school hav kicked out on the arrange
ment just because the boy students
didn't like it so well. The girls stuck
to their books better and took too
many honors and the boys couldn't
loaf and pony so much and get along.
There amt any real good reason why
the boys and girls shouldn't go right
thro college together in the same classes
just like the lower schools. There's a
sort of rivalry that's healthy. Some of
| the CHICAGO male stllhents claim that