The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-31
What the Editors Say

dppi1ca ton IOf the appointment OIL d
receiver for the Universal Tobacco com
| forceful shot his own opinion at
| counsel thus: Everybody ought to
know that stocks are inflated to unload
them on the public. l consider it a
fraud, and the people who buy are
fools" Inflated stocks are the rich ras-
! calls medium for transferring to his
own pockets the earnings of the fool.
/ After the watered stocks have been I'M
| loaded upon the fools compelling them
| to part with their preferred stocks at
i a loss, the fortified raScals reverse the
market and send prices up and the
| fools again bite at the naked hook put
out by panicmakers for their own profit.
/ 1t is the gentee1 way of stealing with
| out getting into the penitentiary.-
/ Litchfield News Letter.
| There is an old receipt in the state
| treasurer's Office at Bismarck, signed
! in 1864, at the time M. K. Armstrong
/ was territorial treasurer for North and
South Dakota-before they were divid-
| ed. The receipt was for the entire
| funds of the two territories, which
j states there were only So in the treas
| ury, with no furniture or stationery
| belonging to these tive future great
| states of Dakota. What a contrast to
| the present cash of the state. Mr..
| Armstrong was territorial treasurer
| from 1855 to 1868. He is still living at
| ST. James, Mimi, and rejoices with all
! old timers in the wonderful develop
ment of the Bismarck Tri-
bune.
The county commissioners of Ramsey
county recently had a spasm of re-
| form and by formal resolution ordered
| n notify
! sons in that county outside of St Paul
who are selling liquor Illegally to quit
at once or they would be prosecuted
| To this the county attorney laughs and
says that he does not know the men
| and when the evidence is furnished him
| he will issue warrants for their arrest.
Perhaps these commissioners will APP
ply this plan of notification to other
1 criminals. Why would it not be a good
! plan for the attorney to notify thieves
/ and murderers that they must quit or
| be arrested? If it is all right in one
| case it should be in the other.-Fair-
/ mont News.
How very anxious the powers are to
/ prevent war between Turkey and
| Bulgaria, but why? Not because the
/ powers are op0sed to war, for most
| of them are hard at it much of the
| time, but because "the unspeakable
Turk" and his country are considered
as necessary factors in the European
| combination. 1.-The balance of power"
| must be maintained and Turkey must
| remain a stencil in the nostrils of the
nations, for fear that in gobbling up
/ the gobbler, some one nation might get
too strong.-Montevideo Leader.
Why not keep pure bred stock in
| stead of the scrubs? 1t costs no more to
| feed and care for well-bred poultry,
hogs, cattle, sheep or horses than it
does the other kind, and the profits are
] much greater, aside from the pleasure
and pride to be derived from the bet
| ter stock, and did you ever stop to
/ think that in a very few years the
| amount the average farmer has in
vested In common stock would be pay
ing better dividends if invested now in
| pure-bred aninlals.-Hubbard County
/ Clipper.
! No national administration since the
days of the whisky ring has had such
| a mess of corruption as there Is being
revealed daily at Washington. No
| sooner does one department cease for a
moment to occupy the stage, than an
other claims attention. 1t is the old
story of abuse of power, and the only
/ thorough cure is change of administra-
1 ton. The war cry of Tilden's time
] turn the raSca1S out-waS a powerful
and effective one.-Little Falls Herald.
Unfortunately the bribe-t taking bluffs
of our emotional governor prove too
/ much. The claim is that the wicked
stalwarts are on the side of corpora
| tions, monopolists and caucus advo-
| Gates. That being the case, they do
| not need buying up. 1t would seem the
"reformers" must be the purchasable
/ quantities if there is any trafficking in
political seuls.-Hudson Star Times.
The Anoka Herald has reached No.
! 6 in its picture gallery of ''gubernator-
ial possibilities A there will be about
fifty issues of the Herald before con-
| vention time it has a good many bou-
| quets yet to throw.-Buffalo Journal.
I Scott county is to be well provided
] with street fairs this fall. Two of them,
| one at Belle Plaine and one at Shake
pee. Don't let the vaudeville crowd the
pumpkins off the stage, neighbours
Jordan Independent.
Matt Quay says that his state is for
| Roosevelt, but as Matt has the faculty
of saying what he does not mean, that
statement may be taken with some al
| lowance.-St. Peter Herald.
The college of cardinals was excep-
tionally fortunate. 1t convened, held
It's conclave and elected a pope without
| receiving any advice in the columns of
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