The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19
What the Editors Say

For eight years the Republicans have
nad absolute control of all branches
OF government. The Republicans da
nounce trusts. VIII any Republican
say mat any trust has been demolished
VI tnat the masses Of the people
tst nave received any benefit from any
thihs the Republicans have done TO fha
trusts! And Is 1t not a fact that the
LuHloer trust Is benefited ~ a Thousand
lot every thousand feet of lumber IL
sells ana Tor which our readers con-
trlDute! We are not SO very sorry for
cur farmer friends who pay 50 a thou
selu I more Tor the lumber they buy,
Courier Democrat.
II the Republicans want to hold the
Old soldier vote they should insist an
having Cannon the vice presidential
candidate; II they want to appeal TO
tne baseball enthusiast they should
name Hit; Beveridge would be the
man to win the liquor vote; FRYE
would draw the support Of the cooks
union, but might be unpleasantIy sug-
gestive Of ''fat-frying" to the wan
street crowd; Lodge would be the one
TO draw the secret society boys while
Spooner would suit the lovesfck chap
pies. PDbably the worst man to NOM
mate, Woud be the congressman from
Maryland, whose name is Mudd.-Le
Sueur News
Republican managers have decided
that 1t is not safe to meddle with the
tariff. AS long as this referred only to
action by congress before the cam
palgn, it was wise. No one heard any
criticism that counts of this position.
But In their Indifference to existing
conditions and their unWillingness to
raise disturbing issue, they decided to
stretch 1t so that it would bar. tariff
discussion from the campaign and
leave the party free from pledges for
the future. That is a total and a dam
gerous mistake.-Red Wing Daily Re-
publican.
Judge Brooks, of Minneapolis is turn
ing down at the rate of four or five a
day, foreigners who want to become
full-hedged citizens without learning
to read or speak English or knowing
the things voter should know before
he IS crowned with citizenship. Had
this test been the law Of the country
from the start, the United States
would today be much less a govern
ment. Of the people, by the people and
for the people.-Martin County Senti-
mel.
This paper doesn't believe in per-
petuation in Office whether the holders
or public trusts be Republicans or
democrats, or even though they
have demonstrated marked ability and
efficiency. There are Just as capable
men out OF Office as in, and it seems
to us that much unfair discrimination
is resorted to when the same men are
nominated year after year for the
same office and elected. Give some of
the other men a. chance.-Cbaska Re-
view.
The Index editor says that Con-
gressman Steenerson is wise in Sc
curing profitable births for his rela-
tIves. The g. O. p. is indeed great
when 1t controls the birth OF it's mem
bers-but this looks bad for the dear
girls-or else they must insist on wom-
an suffrage-as, according to the Steen-
erson idea. all babies born hereafter
will be voters.-Norman County Her
aid.
Some men will put In one-half their
time abusing the existing trusts and
the other half they devote to trying
to study some means Of organizing
a trust in which they can occupy q
place on the ground floor. IF q trust
is wrong. 1t is wrong, and organizing
another will not make 1t right. But
then, that is human nature, you know.
Mortified News.
Uncle Russell Sage thinks no~rnar
ought to pay more than fifty cents for
a straw hat. Well, Uncle Rus" has
not advertised this quite thoroughly
enough, for here in Faribault We find
$12.50 Panamas on 50-eent heads, and
they do look a trif1e out Of place.-FarI-
bault Journal