The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-20
What the Editors Say

The Standard Oil company has de-
clared 10 per cent dividend for three
months on s100,000,060 capital. This
represents profit of sixty millions a
year, made out of a natural product
or the earth for which the company
imposes an unreasonable price on the
public. They are enabled to do this
because by means of robbing the rail-
roads they have built up a monopoly.
what the Standard extorted from the
railroads the latter were forced to re-
cover from the public on other trans
portation. We believe there is enough
of the innate spirit of justice that can
be awakened in the American people
to correct such outrageous abuses
without resort to either violence or
socialism.-Le Roy Independent.
The board of control is a very large
thorn in the side of the state univer-
sity. Last week President Northrop
was before a committee of the state
legislature, and said that if the board
continued its present line of manage
ment, 1T would not be long before that
institution would fall for the first
rank, where ii now stands, to the third
rank. Something besides close BUSH
ness management and niggardly finan-
clal aid is required to build up a great
educational institution, and if the uni
VerSlty and normal schools are to be
managed in the future as they have
peen IN the past, they will descend
from the high positions they now oc-
cupy in the educational world, and to
replace them there will be almost an
impossibility. owing to the COMPETE
ton made by educational development
In other states. And President North
rop is right.-Rochester Post and Rec
ord.
1t seems John d. Rockefeller and
his son-in-law. Cyrus Mccormick. when
tney organized the harvester trust, got
mold OF lot of old harvesters which
tney shipped in to headquarters. Many
were old and out of date and some
practically worthless. But foxy John
d. has had the machines overhauIed.
repainted and stamped 1905, and it is
alleged is shipping them out in western
states TO be sold to the farmers as new
machines. 1t is lucky that the pious
old. fraud has not a monopoly upon
heaven If he had he would fire old
st. Peter and station one of the har-
Vester trust general agents at the door
and make all who seek to enter the
pearly gates pay tribute.-Winnebago
City Press News
A resolution introduced by Sherman
Smith in the house of representatives
the other day, providing a committee
of i've to Investigate the ACCESSIBILITY
of purchasing an executive mansion
Tor the governor of Minnesota, was
unanimously adopted. This, il would
seem, would be the proper thing to do.
Every county in the state provides a
residence for its sheriff. Why should
not the state furnish a suitable home
Tor its governor ?-Glenwood Herald.
Farmers, whatever you do. take no
chances with you seed wheat For
that matter. take no chances with any
seed stock you plant. The best is none
too good. Never jeopardize any of your
crops by planting poor seed. The Gre
ator can do much for you. but he will
never prosper farmer who will
throw a lot of poor seed into the
ground and then expect nature to
square the deal.-Princeton Union.
Few politicians are making any DO
lftical capital out of this session of the
eSlslature-unless ii is earning I'M
popularity, a commodity that seems
very easy to secure, but the man who
will stand for what he knows must be
right will be loved for the enemies he
will make, and hated by those whom
the masses Of the people look upon
with suspicion.-Albert Lea Tribune
Some people object that w. L No
Ian is a humorist. Well, what of it?
AS matter of fact, we do not know
or any place where a humorist should
feel more at home than in the legis-
lature. Surely he will find as many
things to laugh at there as he could
in any show in Gods green world
Mortified News.