Morris tribune., 1905-12-16

ST Cloud is going TO put on the lid on the
SUNDAY saloon for the first time since the
founding of that city.
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When an editor receives two letters on the
ooyernorsI1;p and one dun for an overdue Dill OF
90 cents, and those three comprise all his hrst
class mail it's time to think some.
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IF YOU'RE common seaman, you get dis
GRACE and years Imprisonment if you refuse
to work more than twenty hours at time, but
if You're. mildly" you can kill man and get
off with reprimand.
Cortelyou has announced that politics are
going to cnt less figure i'll the selection of
postmasters, and intlmates that good man
will not be dropped simply at the request of
the congressman. The congressman have
objected to the new idea, and yet how much
better it would be tor really strong congress
man if he didn't have to bother with postofices.
The town has chosen very good plan for
getting rid of DRINKS, man who now gets
drunk goes to the scoop" until he sobers up
and if he has got money he gets "set back the
amount of fine and costs and if he hasn't got
the money he is Immediately introduced to
Mayor Oyitzs wood pile and saws wood at the
rate of ST. % cord until his fine is paid. One
or two treatments Of this kind usually gives
Tho average drunk to understand that it is not
profitable Observation-Disclosures Pilot
At Wadena, two strong and most ably
Lifted COUNTRY papers, the Pioneer Journal and
lie Tribune have consolidated The editors
IA their announcement set forth reason for
lse Consolidation that the field does not offer
sf3lcfent pecuniary reward to two papers.
9usoldatIon and other methods of bringing
z,au,r. Der of papers in field down to
,5.pfa basis seems to be the order of the day in
minnesota; and it is well that it is so. The
pecuniary return for the brains and energy put
into newspapers in certain fields is ridiculous,
and yet the newspaper men have themselves to
blame in being persuaded to enter crowded
field in the first place, and for later remaining
in it. We struck by the sensible attitude
of the Wadena editors, who said in effect they
recognized that they could hang with
1neagre returns indefinitely, but they preferred
that one should have the field and the other
would then be free to seek some better field
Frank Eddy's Christmas edition of the
Sank Centre Herald is out, and it is a hummer
His "Practical Predictions by Practiced
Prognosticator especially good, In dis
~cussing the governorship, he says of Jacobson
Cake" is a man of ordinary ability and
still more ordinary attanments but what he
lacks in these requirements he more than
makes up in honesty, zeal, activity and pug
nacity He made good in the legislature he
made good the board of control, and he
would make good governor. He would
make plumbers, and lots of them, but as all
ardent admirer of his said, cakes mis-
takes are better for the state than most officials
magnificent successes The masse who know
him have unbound confidence in him. He is a
Norwegian by birth but ever thinks of
his nationality his personality obscures that
Should he be nominated his would be pussy
footed, gum-shoe compaign. Issues would be i
discussed and redfire burn all along the line
Any making gubernatorial predictions and
.leaving Jake" out better go out of the pro-
phesying business.
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JACOBSON DID THINGS.
St. Cloud Journal Press: Frank NJ. Eddy'sl
paper observes that j. +. jacobson is receiving