The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
What the Editors Say

The Standard Oil company has raised
the price of kerosene 1 cent per gallon,
thus increasing the yearly income of
the concern about s10,000,000. A like
sum was added by the increase in the
price of paraffin candles 1 cent per
pound. While this 1 cent increase rep
resents but a small additional outlay
for each individual using these prod
ucts, nevertheless the act shows the in
satiable greed of the oil trust, and it is
this greed which the people are going
to very effectively resent some day
Morris Sun (Rep.).
This greed is being resented by the
people today, but as long as the Re
publican party is in power no relief
will come. Instead of carrying out our
antitrust laws, the Republicans are
fostering trusts by giving them high
tariff protection and catering to the
demands of the Rockefellers in every
possible Way-Litchfield Independent.
Twenty-Five miles each day, rain or
shine, blizzard Or sleet, soon becomes
monotonous to both man and beast.
Fifty dollars per month is small pay
for the rural mail carrier. No man in
the country could think of hiring an
other to furnish team, wagon, harness
and board himself and team at that
figure. The work is disagreeable more
than half the time, and at times is dan
gerous. To be sure, it is steady JOB
and sure pay, but our great government
is able to pay reasonable wages. The
private soldier can save more money
from his pay than can rural mail
carrier, and no reSponSibility.-Blue
Earth Post.
He is not talking, in fact he is keep
ing still on his future plans, but it is
well known that he covets a third term
on the showing he attempted to make
against the merger. He does not merit
another reelection on that or any
other thing he has done, and the peo-
pie will say so when they have chance
next fall. A man posing for governor
simply because he signed proceedings
drawn up by the attorney general to
put out of business a security COM
pany! The people are not so easily
fooled.-Graite Falls Tribune.
He who attempts to smother the
sentiment in Minnesota in favor of
tariff revision will have difficult task
to perform. We trust that in our next
state convention there will be free
expression of the opinion of a majority
of the Republican voters, through their
delegates, on this very important ques-
ton 1t is a question in which our state
is vitality interested and their right to
be heard must not be abridged, or their
voice silenced by any Eastern stand
patter. Alexandra Post
Bob" Dunn has not yet announced
himself a candidate for governor, but
everybody in this state knows that MI.
Dunn, while in the state auditors office.
was the "watchword of the treasury"
and made an excellent record in the
interests Of the people. If he should
become governor of the state he would
make good one and no mistake, as he
has the ability and the integrity
MankatO Journal
If State Auditor Iverson sells state
lands in Roseau county this fall it will
mean loss to the state. The demand
for state land at the present time is
scarcely up to that of one year ago,
and it is wanted only by spectators.
Better wait a year or two until we get
a railroad and then the actual settlers
will come in and purchase the land
Badger Herald-Rustler.
Some Of the papers are saying that
M. j. Dowlan will try to wrest the NOM
district from VolSted next year. We
hope Mike will know better. He is a
pretty smart fellow but has the faculty
of looking out for No. so abnormally
developed that the people are getting
rather tired of it's exhibition.-Fair-
mont News.
-luD9U0s -
The result in Ohio has again demon
strated what can be done in politics
with money. The Republican campaign
fund for Ohio was the largest ever
used in a state campaign. It did the
work. Perhaps the Republicans will
desire the leadership of man who can
command the campaign fund that
Mark Hanna can.-Grand Forks Plain
dealer.
A new republic is born and it's name
is Panama. Take off your sombrero to
the healthy infant, for good Uncle Sam
is it's godfather. AS Colombia would
neither fish, cut bait nor go ashore on
the canal project, little Panama decid-
ed to set up business for herself And
here is a new nation.-Hudson (Wis.)
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