The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-18
What the Editors Say

In the great majority OF subjects
treated, Gov. Johnson has made excel
lent recommendations The message is
clear cut, able and incisiye. There is
lett no room for doubling just where
The governor stands. He again indi-
Gates his desire for the welfare of the
state at the expense perhaps of his own
party by recommending that the insur-
ance commissioner be placed on a SAL
ary and that the fees derived from the
insurance companies revert to the state
treasury. Heretofore these fees have
gene largely into the campaign fund
OF the party in power and as a result
tney nave been In the nature of a bribe
lor the insurance commissioner and
the legislature to make things as easy
as possible for the insurance com
pan1es.-Grand Rapids Herald-Reyiew.
The American hen and her brother
are now on exhibition at the old stand
OF the Golden Eagle. thus fulfilling
What hath been written - that the
eagles nest shall be the abiding place
of the dove. The great American hen
Of today ranks with the other captains
OF industry. Her product is on par
with steel rails. She has monopoly
of the business in which she Is like
unto the Standard Oil and she has no
Tom Lawson to throw stones at her,
though the consumer of her products
oft feels that there is 1.frenzied finance
about all her huster and cackling. With
the price of her product at present
figure, she has beaten to a frazzle the
goose that laid the golden egg.-Austin
Herald.
Editor Frank Eddy bestrides his two
Steeds, the Sauk Center Avalanche and
Herald with the same ease and aplomb
that ne showed when he first entered
the house of congress. He has consol-
idated the two papers and will make
one uncommonly live and active news
paper out of them. He has begun
series of personal sketches of famous
men whom he has met, which promises
to emulate in frankness his erstwhile
discussions of the tariff, which so
pleased his constituents and annoyed
the leaders of his party. Mr.. Eddy,s
abilities are Kaleidoscope but we think
he shines with a brighter luster in his
present field than in his former one of
tatesman.-Wheeloc Weekly.
Thee commentator of Gov Johnson
that law be enacted forbidding the
issuing and acceptance of railroad or
street railway passes, or telegraph or
telephone coupons by any state or 1nu-
form of bill introduced by Senator
Peterson, of Moorhead. The bill affixes
a penalty of Imprisonment or a heavy
line for violation of it's provisions. But,
mercy on usi What would a legislator
be without railroad pass?-Rocheste
Post and Record.
Hunt your holes, We slaves! Ye worse
than dogs! Get to cover and escape
the impending doom! Bombastes Fu-
rioso Sam Van SAINT is "madder than
he has been in forty years" In fact,
madder, than he has been since the
Civil war, when he was a clerk in the
commissary department. And the sky
was darkened and the people covered
in awful terror in face of the unknown
wrath to come. Rats! - Lakefield
Standard.
Mr.. Croker. who has been king him
self in his time, now realizes what it is
to be up against the real thing" He
bid against Edward VII. for certain
yeari1ngs and as punishment has
been denied the right of training his
horses at Newmarket. Mr.. Croker
will sell his place at Vantage, move to
Ireland and swear softly at the king
Duluth News Tribune.
An effort was made to reach out for
the balance of the appropriation in the
so-called merger suit the other day, but
the reiring attorney general put veto
en- the retiring governor and in eonse-
quence the state is richer by about
$4,000. Perhaps now, that is has serv-
ed its political purpose, this f1aseo may
be permitted to sleep in its little bed
Preston Times.
The Republican party is today the
political representative Of predatory
wealth. 1t helps the manufacturers to
tax the consumers through high tariff
and it shields the rich from taxation
by opposing an income tax. It allows
the trusts to extort hundreds of millions
from the people.-Waseca County Her
aid.
The Sentinel believes we have alto
gether too much protection, but as the
farmers are only protected in one thing
congress need not begin on them in
revising the tariff.-DaWson Sentinel
Several of our exchanges are run
ming that continued story entitled,
How the Other Fellow Beat Me Out
of the County g."-Norman
County Index.
Gov. Johnson's message justifies the
confidence of his friends in voting for
.him.-Preston Republican.