The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-20
What the Editors Say

d ulSpldy OF OrdLOry tndL was some
what unusual. has settled down to
work, and has increased the valuation
OF cattle in Rice county 10 per cent
and of stations 20 per cent. After this
We may hope to see them increase the
valuation of the Twin City Rapid Tran
SIT company proportionately, but we
are quite freely to admit that we hardly
expect ft.-Faribault Journal
What? Increase the taxation on Tom
LoWrys street railway? Perish the
thought! Rather let them unearth
some scheme to worry Jim Hill or
some other outsider. Family quarrels
must be avoided.-Winona Morning In
dependent.
If Theodore Roosevelt is really and
truly the chosen one for the Repub-
lican nomination for president. Gen.
Wood will, of course, have to be con-
hrmed over the heads of ADLER and bet
Ter soldiers. He wore a rough riders
uniform, though he really acted as one
OF his majesty's" foot. A fight on
wood among the Republican senator's
would be significant in national poll
ties. Of course, if Democratic sena-
tors oppose him they viii be denounced
as heaplng abuse on the American SOL
d1ers. Still, 1t might be a good thing
for men of all parties to know Just
how much of a soldier Dr. Wood vas
st. Cloud Times.
Ten thousand letters are being sent
out from the national headquarters of
the w. c. T. U. to its local branches,
accompanied by petition blanks which
is the beginning of the warfare against
Senator Smoot, of Utah, suspected of
having more wives than the law allows
Inc petitions ask the senate to investi-
gate Mr.. Smoot and to eXpel him if he
is found to be a polygamist. This will
serve to keep the c.. T. q. busy for
awhile with hardly a chance for any
other result. Morals are easy in WASH
1ngton.-SiouX Falls Daily Press.
Far be it from us to criticise any
gents private correspondence, but the
public utterances of the president and
his secretary of war, as per their late
rather effusive. not to say diffusive,
correspondence, seems to be hardly
justified by all the circumstances Mr.
Root can hardly be said to have been
more than an ordinary officer, at least
not superlatfvely great or potentially
able. The country is not irreconciIable
to his tirement.-Ortonville Herald
Star.
The public road question will soon
be one of the leading issues of the day.
The time is not far distant when a
united demand viii be made for a road
that will resist any kind of weather.
Our country is developing fast; great
changes, broader views and new-fan-
gled ideas, coupled with the mighty
rush of the citizens of the greatest ma
ton the world ever knew, will eventu-
ally bring this question foremost
Maple Lake Messenger.
Ray Jones will have something to do
next month besides giving banquets to
the mutual admiration society and
looking after his boom for reelection
as lieutenant governor. He will be one
of the defendants in the suit which
comes up in the United States court at
Fergus Falls in September, wherein
the federal government sues to recover
$4,000 for timber which Rays COM
pany stole off the White Earth Indian
Waseca Pioneer journal.
Someone suggests that the several
candidates for governor enter a beauty
contest at the several county fairs of
the state, just as though some of them
had not been posing at every fair and
picnic or cooperative creamery asso-
citation meeting during the entire year.
Now, Gov. Van SAINT, for instance, Is
said to be away behind with his dates.
-Inter-Lake Tribune.
One Of these interesting days, and
every day is mighty interesting, a lot
OF Republican papers and politicians
will wake up, rub their eyes and dis
cover, year in advance of election,
that one, the only one, Bob Dunn, has a
cinch on their party nomination for
governor. Then see the scramble to
get on the band wagon. = Freeborn
County Standard.
Now get after the scalawags in Ok
lahoma and the Indian territory and
let the poor Indian for once in his life
have an honest administration of his
affairs. He has been bully-ragged and
robbed until he is reduced to a finan-
cfal skeleton, and if something. is not
done soon to protect him the sharks
will have his hones.-Waseca County
Journal
American women in the last twenty
five years have exchanged $500, 000, 900
in good dollars for about 30 cents
worth of musty European titles and
bankrupt estates. We need a higher
export duty on our millionariesses.-
Bismarck Tribune.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, has
just turned loose an admirable bunch
og bouquets for the newspapermen of
the country 1t must be borne in mind