Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

tCNcl liifu L liz
law in kansas.-kansas City Star.
Edwin Markham begins his newest
poem, Thou art the wind II | the
Tyre" Oh, we'll, it's the poets privilege
to lie. DOM feel bad about it, Ed
New York Evening Mail.
Uncle Joe Cannon says he has 10
Presidential bee in his bonnet In cor
roboration Of this assertion it may be
pointed out that he is dropping 20
honeyed words on the subject.-Chi-
cage Tribune.
The Car may extract a grain of
comfort from the reflection hat this
trouble was bound to come anyhow,
and it is better to have it come now
than at the end Of another year Of war.
Chicago Tribune.
A Baltimore city official has pro
tested against having his salary in
creased. Deputaions of ~Of1ceholders
from other cities are on their way to
the Monumental City to have q look
at this Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The story of the steel company
which violently seized the homestead
of a brave old and ruzed 1t TO
the ground while she vas vainly seek
ing the protection Of the law is as old
as Nahoth's Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Things in the United States Senate
and House Of Representatives are COM
ing to such a pass hat members not
yet proven guilty of graft stand as OBJ
jects of wonder to their fellow states
men and the country at large.-Sent-
tie Times.
Norway is about as democratic a
kingdom as n could find upon the
map. First it chose its form of gov
eminent by ballot and now it chooses
its ruler in the same way. Monarchy
by election is pretty near democracy.
Columbia Is. c. State.
Count White is doubtless free to ad-
NIT that several millions moujiks
whose notion of the blessings Of liberty
is mainly unrestrained Jew ~butchering
and unlimited vodka form a more both
ersome problem than the Portsmouth
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
4 witness testified that a %janitor in
the employ of the Equitable Life AS
surance Association receives i salary
Of $4,000 Il year, all of which goes to
prove that you can't judge a man by
his clothes until you look in his pock-
ets.-Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
The atrocities committed upon Amer
lean women missionaries in China call
for prompt action on the part Of our
government. Regardless of the ques-
ton whether these missionaries invite
trouble, they are American citizens,
and as such must be protected
Springfield Union.
Next year, when the South produces
100000 bales Of cotton, as is not
improbable, we wish our farmers to
get not less than 10 cents per pound.
The Cotton Association and its Off
GERS should have next year in view
when suggesting prices for this years
crop.-Columbia Is. c. State.
Now let those 2,VUu,vUV wunleu rho
are going to ask the senate to unseat
Reed Smoot select one of their num-
Der who is able to state a legally sur
fcient reason why he should be I'M
seated and leave the presentation Of
the case to her, and then something
may be Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
President Ripley Of the Santa Fe
Railroad system says that the meat
packers combine makes the transport
tation rates on its products. 1t has not
been so many months since Commits
sioner Garfield officially reported that
he was unable to find any evidence of
combination in the meat business
Pittsburg Times.
King Alfonso tells the Spanish Cor
Just why does not appear. Spain has
no more colonial possessions to cause
her trouble, and has work enough at
home in quieting popular discomfort
and promoting prosperity to keep her
busy and to provide use for her spare
change.-Troy Times.
Simply because a lot Of safe-blow-
ers successfully attacked the safe in a
life insurance Office in Mississippi last
Wednesday night, it is not to be taken
that Mississippi is retrograding. Mere.
Iy showing a return to the ancient
methods Of looting instead of the po-
liter ways Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Commercial Tribune.
A contemporary has found that a
miracle has been performed. The gro.
GERS Of the United States have sold
100000 pounds Of pure Mocha and
Java coffee, though the customs sta
tistics show that there were only 49,
600 pounds imported. It may be a
miracle, but to the skeptical it looks
liks a ~fraud.-Milwaukee News.
Mr.. Rockefeller, having received
something more than $15, OOO,O 900 in the
shape of oil dividends during the cur
rent year., more than ever feels the
danger of riches and more than ever
feels that his advice to the youth of
the country to go to work and be con-
tent with moderate incomes was Just
the very thing.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. r+r -sr @
As far as Federal supervision Of in
france companies goes, that has GER
tainly been knocked into pie for the
present. There has not been for years
anything that has tended to make the
people more skittish of Federal super
vision than the disclosures going to