The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-14
What the Editors Say

The state board of equalizatio
which is still in session, appears to be
having more than usual difficulty in
satisfactorily discharging its duties.
Necessarily it is obliged to act without
accurate knowledge of whether what
it does will result in really equalizing
taxes. Few people will object, for in
stance, to its doubling the assessment
of jewelry in st. Paul, but everyone
knows that to be fair it ought to have
been quadrupled. The indications are
that the assessments of merchandise
generally throughout the state will be
raised. This action may be just; it is
nevertheless arbitrary and based mere
ly upon an assumption which does not
rest on substantial evidence of what
just valuation would really be. The
fact is that the whole system of taxa
tion needs to be reformed from the bot
tom up before the public can have any
assurance that each taxpayer contrib
uteS, as he should, the same percentage
of his income to the revenues of the
state. Probably if all along the line an
honest attempt were made to carry out
the exact provisions of the law, which
are now openly evaded, a long step
would be taken in setting wrong things
right.-Northfield News.
throughout the entire record of MI.
Dunn, both in office and in politics, one
great weakness appears which makes
him peculiarly unfit for public office
He holds the law in light regard and
seems to believe that the public Of
ficer is above the law and that he may
enforce or disregard the law of the
state at will and at his own discretion.
As auditor he placed his judgments or
his interests, whichever it may have
been, above the law and discharged
the duties of his responsible Office as
he pleased, not as the law directed
F'reeborn County Times.
The Third district Democrats were
not behind in the selection of a good
candidate for congress in the person
of Joseph w. Craven. Mr.. Craven is
every inch a Democrat, and being a
journalist, has voiced the sentiment
which he will carry out if elected.
Thoroughly honest in his convictions
and firm in his purpose he will carry
out to letter the convictions of the
Democratic faith and be a credit to the
district.-Le Sueur County Democrat.
Once upon time J. Adam Bede,
United States marshal for Minnesota
under Grover Cleveland, resigned his
office rather than forego the privilege
of taking part in political work. Times
have changed. One w. H. Grimshaw
United States marshal under Roose-
welt, violates the federal law continu-
ously by the most pestiferously often
sive partisan activity-and still holds
his job. Which president was the real
civil service reformer morris Times.
No Democrat can be elected to
state office in Minnesota unless he re-
ceives the support of many thousands
of Republican voters, and in that case
it would not be a partisan or Demo-
cratic victory, but victory of the peo-
pie in rebuke of corrupt politics and
forced nomination of unfit candidates
on the Republican ticket.-Buffalo
Lake News.
The Union fails to see the sense of
laying so much stress on who the legis-
latlVe candidates should support for
United States senator. There are more
serious interests to the people than
VINO shall represent them at Washing
ton, and these interests concern all.
And then very few United States SEN
ators have the good of the people un-
der consideration at any tine.-Anoka
Union.
1t is well to remember that the
charges made against r. c. Dunn are
not made by Democrats, but by a Re-
publican officeholder in the discharge
OF his sworn duty.-Sibley County In
dependent.