The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-05
What the Editors Say

closed goes down in history as the
most extrayagant the state has ever
had. The appropriations voted were
over two hundred thousand dollars
in excess of the revenues of the state,
and the governor was forced to veto
number of appropriation bills on this
account. The average legislator seemed
bent upon grabbing everything he
could and the interests OF the tax pay
ers were forgotten or ignored.-Devils
Lake On. d. Journal.
The legislature doesn't seem to be
able TO eliminate the grand jury hum
bug from the states encumbrances now
that 1t has chance. But it ought to.
was there ever a grand jury that
wasn't run by one, two or three men?
And couldn't these do the work just as
well without the needless expense of
all the rest? And, again. couldn't the
county attorney or district judge act
as intelligentfy, as efficiently or as
honestly as these?-Anoka Free Press.
The Twin Cities have their Mime
haha, why not the southern part of the
state her Minneopa? OF herself Min
nehaha is not much; it was the bril-
liancy of Longfellow's mind that made
Minnehaha famous. Longfellow was
prevented from immortalizing Mime
opa by the jealousy of the Twin City
people. and now the same crowd,
only il anything worse, is opposed to
making state park at Minneopa.-
Mankato Review.
The legislature can't lose him. Gov.
johnson not only refuses to attend the
launching of the Minnesota on April
3, but also declines to take a hand in
the Chicago mayoralty campaign,
where his assistance has been invoked
! in behalf of Judge Dunno, the Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor. It's an
! awful thing to have an unruly legisla-
| ture on your hands when there is so
| much fun in sight-Ortonville Herald
| Star.
Even the American board of foreign
| missions, supposed to be among Gods
| elect, can't withstand the temptation
| to accept the proffer of 100000 from
John ID. Rockefeller's i'll gotten hoard.
| 1t is in the same line of conduct as leg
islative bride taking and puts the
board of foreign missions on a level
with Mr.. Rockefeller. If it enjoys the
1 feeling, 1t is welcome to it.-Winona
Independent.
If President Roosevelt is handing out
any medals on the race suicide issue he
4 should certainly remember Eli Ruelle
| of Houghton, Mich. Mr.. Ruelle recent
| ly thought that he would like to be
| highway commissioner of his town and
| he won out, his seventeen sons helping
out their fathers aspirations by ped
ding ballots at the polls.-Blue Earth
County Enterprise.
The grand dukes of the beef, coal and
| iron trust argue that it is awfully
| wicked to interfere with their divine
| right TO regulate them, but like their
| class in Russia, If they know when they
| are we'll off they will yield before the
| people rise up and, figuratively speak
ing, sweep them off the earth.-Free-
born County Standard.
Partisanism seems to blind some
| legislators. A bill introduced in the
senate places the governors private
secretary on the salary list and re-
| quires the fees collected to be turned
into the state treasury. Better wait
until there is a change in the politi-
| cal complexion of the secretary.-Le
| Sueur News.
The house judiciary committee has
| reported that the Dorsey bill to prohi-
| bit contributions to campaign funds, is
| unconstitutional. The bill is therefore
| shelved and the suffering corporations
4 VIII be held up for contributions in the
| future as in the past.-Arlington En-
| terprise.
The house goes on record for the
whipping post for wife beaters. The
! man who beats his wife is a bar
barian, and the legislature believes
that the punishment should be. of the
barbaric kind. Timber up the LASH
st. Cloud Journal-Press.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was SEN
fenced by the judge to ten years in the
Ohio penitentiary. Now she is to write
| book telling how she did it. Give he1
another ten years.-Little Falls Tran
| script.
| The business affairs of the city of st
1 Cloud were never better managed thar
4 at present-under a Democratic mayor
and council. What reason is there fol
a change st. Cloud Times.
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