Mower County transcript., 1903-01-21

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OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS
Spring Valley Sun: 1t is not the
largest paper that gives the news in the
community in which it isprinted. Patent
insides after standing in the express
office for three or four weeks, do not
and never will fill long-felt want.
Slayton Gazette: The village council
granted Bart Olson a saloon license
Monday night and the village treasury
is richer by $1,000 and there are in
creased facilities for working up head
aches, delirium tremens, family rows,
poverty and general cussedness.
Elysian Enterprise: Start the first
of the year to file away your home
paper each week. No volume will
afford you more interest in after years,
or more good lasting profit for the in.
vestment. 1t gives you dates of local
events which you cannot produce else
where; marriages, obituaries, etc. In
fact your home paper is a history of
that portion of the world which you
and your friends occupy.
Leroy Independent: The most
hoary-headed old humbug in the world
is the assessment of property for taxa
tion; the whole system is rotten with
fraud, deception and perjury. There
isn't hardly a principle practiced in
connection with it that good business
man wouldn't throw out of the back
door. But then we needn't be dis
are just emerging'from the baboon age.
Chicago lnterocean: Let US all yawn
more than has been our wont, and let
us yawn hereafter without fear of be-
ing impolite toward those who are
telling us of their troubles or their joys.
We have a good excuse. Professor
Tomlins has given it to US. When we
yawn hereafter it will be because we
are aspiring to the higher life. Nobody
can blame us for doing that, not even
the man who is telling us his favorite
funny story.
Owatonna Journal: The exact date
of the OWatonna- Austin debate has
not yet been determined upon. We
are Informed however that the Austin
team prefers Friday, Feb. 6, as the date
of the contest. We earnestly hope an
earlier date may be selected as the
enthusiasm of both contestants and
schools is now at high pitch and will
certainly grow weaker if long delay is
made necessary. The longer the time
given Austin to prepare the smaller the
0. H. s. teams chances for victory-at
least it looks that WAY to US: ...>
Iitchfeld Review: Everybody is
now practicingS economy in:sfuel, and
the. results are marvellous. Notwithl
standing the cold December, many
get through the winter with less ex-
pense than usual, for they ARE being
taught that one bucket Of coal, if wise:
|: ly used, will prove as :serviceable as
two formerly. Besides many house
holders are ecomonizing in the number
Of stoves they run. Economy Is the
watchword where fuel is concerned,
with rich and poor alike.
Pennington Tribune: The railroads
of the northwest are beginning to feel
fuel famine in earnest. The Milwaukee
Company have taken off four freights
and are contemplating the stoppage of
two passenger trains on the I. and M.
division-the one that goes north at 10
a. m. and south at SIG p. M. The
scarcity Of coal probably caused the
taking of the passenger train from the
Hastings 4 Dakota branch and the
running of train only every other day
on the Pennington & Mankato rail
road.
Appleton Tribune: The legislature
! can do no better service to the State
than to curtail the publication of the
useless reports of State officials which
are poured annually from the State
printing press. While some of these
| reports are necessary there is no reason
why they should be issued in such
, prodigal profusion. Tons of old official
reports moulder in the basement of the
! Capitol and the accumulation is rapidly
increasing. We have a State expert
printer, now let us have State expert
editor to blue pencil reports, and al
least bring them down to moderate
proportions.
Chicago Record: The truth is thai
it this session of congress. goes by anC
the proposed treaties are still ignored
the republican party will be fully con
ylcted OF using reciprocity as a fraudu
lent campaign cry. It is now some
twelve years since it was employed with
dramatic effect by Mr.. Blaine during
the debate on the Mckinley bill, ane
he forced reciprocity into that bill anc
before its repeal beginning was made
IN the negotiation of treaties and thei1
adoption which was full of promise
Since then the part has converted tha
promise into political capital many
times over and that is all. :
Preston Times: It would seem tina
a business which has brought the in
surance companies in the little village
of Preston alone the snug sum Of $40,
897.75 premiums in excess of losses dur
ing six years, should have satisfie,
them. But, no, they must have raise,
their rates another twenty-five cen
during the past year. which with sam
amount of insurance in force durin,
! 1902 will swell the premiums to $5,781
tor the year just closing. It is no won