The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
What the Editors Say

Ray W. Jones and his Commonwealth
LUMBER company is charged with ap-
proprlat1ng-yes, that's the word. we
pelleVe-several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of government timber from
government land and the government
Is gracious enough to continue the suit
brought against him to suit his con-
ven1ence. In the end the case will
doubtless be compromised-that is.
Jones will get off easy, and the govern
ment Will stand the loss, as it generally
does when a prominent politician is
caught stealing-we beg pardon-ap-
propriating.-Mo Leader.
That Bob" Dunn will be a candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor is one of the sure things OF
the next state campaign. And a mighty
Strpng candidate he will make, too.
Ine eight years in which he presided
over the state auditors department
nave shown Minnesota citizens that he
is a fearless and honest public official
one in whom they can place the ut
most confidence without any danger
that such confidence is misplaced
Worthington Herald.
Dispatches from Washington say
that the pension list of the veterans OF
the Civil war will be reduced so per
cent during the next five years, owing
70 the rate at which the old soldiers
are dying off. The commissioner of
| pensions or his assistants needn't he
| AFRAID that their occupation will be
| gone. however, as large batch Of new
pensions Is being turned out annually
IN the feVer-laden swamps Of the Phil
| 1pptneS.-Perham Enterprise.
| From England comes the story that
| IN London church cigarettes are Of
Iered boys as an inducement for them
TO attend Sunday school. The cigar
cites are passed around during the
service very much as cards are used
| In the Sunday schools here. Working
on the theory usually accepted on this
side OF the water, it should prove an
eIectual way of manufacturing angels.
Morris Sun.
The state bank at Mapleton, Mimi,
was Systematically and Thoroughly
looted by its cashier, who fed a few
weeks ago. The bank, we presume,
nad peen regularly examined by Bank
Examiner johnson. who failed to dis
| cover anything wrong. Now, If it had
been Pope in office as state examiner,
we would have heard a good deal in g.
| o. p organs about his being to blame
| Litchfield Independent.
Not IN the history or this country has
| so much corruption been unearthed in
| the various federal offices as during the
| past year. 1t has, apparently, been a
! game of graft" all around, and the
| blame will be shouldered upon the
present administration, where 1t be-
longs. The people at large are learn
| ing few lessons which will be re-
membered.-Stbley County Independ-
| ent.
| 1t wouldn't be a good thing for the
| Republican party of Minnesota should
>. K. Van SAINT secure the nomination
| again. Not many voters care to see
! the governors Office monopoliZed by
| one man, and would not stand for a
| third termer. 1t would weaken the
! party at the polls, from governor to
county commissioner.-Battl Lake Re-
view.
The Long Prairie Leader states Re-
publican belief very frankly when it
| says that most of the things that JEFF
| 1erSon stood for are as dead as the
| Ptolemies of Egypt. Yet the doctrines
| of Thomas Jefferson will still influence
| the world when all the Republican
politicians of the present are buried in
eternal oblivion.-Little Falls Herald.
st. Peter holds the keys of the heav-
enly gates without opposition, but
| when 1t comes to holding the KEYS to
st. Peters postoffice, why it's lust a
! little Observation-Disclosures Herald
A good many men in the Repub-
l1can party in Minnesota have got all
that's coming to them-and more. too.
-Anoka Union.