The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-26
What the Editors Say

II Is said tnat many rural mail car
I,ers nave been removed on account of
1helr partlsanship during the late cam
paign, 1T being high crime or nisde-
meanor for one SO engaged to meddle
with politics. And yet we have the
spectacle of senators and congressman,
caplnet officers and other high officials
racing up and down the country
stumping and barn storming to beat
the band in their efforts to hold their
JOBS by keeping the party in power.
70 pe consistent the president should
fire them all. We take it that a rIrai
mail carrier has as much right to have
an opinion andNto express it as has
secretary Hay or the president himself.
Leader
On entering the new capitol one is at
once impressed with it's grandeur. Its
massive pillars and marble faced walls.
It's wide halls, picturesque recesses and
magnificent StaircaSes make a feast
Tor the eyes of visitors, but back of
these walls the states servants have
peen tucked away in quarters in no
manner in keeping with first impress
sions.
Candidly. has not some one blunder-
ed have not the states millions been
invested in this marble structure more
win view Of outward show than of
good; practical service?-Brown's VAL
ley Tribune.
Inc light which certain Republican
senator's are making upon the confirma-
tlon OF John E. King as state librarian
- not the best of politics. Mr.. King
was candidate for secretary Of state
oii the democratic ticket and is editor
OF the Red Lake Falls Courier. During
lle "a campaign he criticised Lieut.. Gov.
poSed TO defeat his confirmation on this
sround. Gov. johnson has been elected
governor and it is good politics for the
Repup1lcans to give him free rein so
iaf as the executive branch is concern
eu.-Fergus Falls Journal.
!. One objection raised to the applica-
lion OF the primary election law to
state ofncers is that it would make i'm
possible the formulation of party plat.
forms and in consequence tend to dis
rupt party organizations. Last fall no
one paid any attention to the state
platform of either party, and it is
doubtful if a single voter in the state
voted for either Dunn or johnson be-
cause OF anything contained in either
Inc republican or the Democratic plat
form.-Warren Register.
The committee which was apnointed
several years ago to revise the laws of
minnesota has. at last completed its
work, and a copy Of the revised laws
was handed to each member of the
legislature last Monday. The legisla-
ture should get busy now, and before
adopting the new laws, thoroughly ex-
anime them with a view to correcting
the errors of the commission. It is a
great zeal easier to correct those err
fors now, than to do so by legislation.
Mora Enterprise.
One of the first things the legisla-
ture should consider is a distance tariff
railroad bill. Freight tariffs are san
plng the life's blood of the small cities
ana villages of the state to enrich the
large centers of population. Remem-
Der that Minnesota farmers and small
dealers pay 40 per cent more in freight
rates for the same tonnage than is paid
py the people of Iowa. Iowa has dis
tance tariff law.-Northfield News.
A newspaper may devote column In
the praise or recommendation of man
ana ne Will forget it in a couple of
weeks, but a two line item that is not
attogether pleasing, will be remember
ed by the average reader for two years.
Norman County Index.
Senator CIapp is a good natured mil
hona1re.-Detroit Journal That makes
1T pleasant all around but we are in
clined to think that Moses will insist
upon being shown about the millionaire
oposition.-Stillwate Gazette.
The statute revision committee an
nounced that it feared nothing but
grafters. Come to think about it, the
grafters are about the only people that
Dispatch.
Speaker Clague's committee appoint
ments make some of the members sore
but the sore fellows are not of the
highest caliber of Observation-Disclosures
Reyeille