The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-03
What the Editors Say.

IL looks now as IL there would be a
general movement along line that
minnesota struck out for itself long
ago The feeling against the trusts Is
rising higher every day. The desire
that the authority of the state should
be used to break a power that Ii has
been unable to control is strong and
growing. Especially since the Stand
ard OH company set out to bring the
people or Kansas to their knees has
the disposition to turn the industrial
forces OF the community loose upon
the trusts been on the increase As
Tar as prison labor can do II. the trusts
VIII presently have competitors.
In Minnesota the farmers have been
freed from the clutches OF the binding
Irvine trust by the work done at Still
water There are great many other
prisons In the country having q very
large effective labor force. There are
host OF other trusts that deserve to
be hit. Before many years We expect
| 10 see every convict in the United
States engaged I'm making articles now
controlled by trusts.-Red Wing Re-
publican.
Now that the end OF the session is
in sight. legislative matters have
taken on renewed activity. Bills are
being pushed forward and there is a
| feyerish anxiety on the part of MEM
struggle. Many will die by the way
| side or be consigned to that legislative
| graveyard, indefinite postponement,
] and 1t is better so, for if all the bills
introduced each session were enacted
into laws We should have a much
| greater mass Of contradictory and in
congruous statutes than than now in
| cunber our books.-Appleton Press.
| Gov. Johnson used his veto power
Tor the first time on Monday. He re-
| FUSED to sign the Horton bill which
takes the control of the capitol out OF
the hands OF the governor. The bill
| looks like slur on the present gov
4 ernor. and Gov. Johnson was justified
in refusing to sign 1t. Gov. Johnson is
Just as capable to attend to matters
| pertaining to the capitol as his prede-
| cessor was and we see no reason why
the power should be taken from him
| because he Is a Demecrat-Chatfield
4 News-Democrat.
As the Minnesota legislature draws
to close bills have been introduced
by the wholesale. From their number
| and kind one Is almost led to think
that legislators are Of the opinion that
common sense in people had taken to
the woods and that law must prescribe
our turning around or how We shall
|
the man who had a bill and didn't
produce it.-Cottonwood County Citi-
zen.
The st. Paul Globe says Of the
| capitol commission: Its business
should be to complete the capitol at
the earliest possible date: 1t should be
the business of the executive to care
| Tor IT." TT e G. o b e Is right and ex-
| presses the situation in a nutshell. We
hope the governors veto will be sus-
tained.-Wykoff Messenger.
Gov. Johnson showed that he was
made OF the right kind of stuff when
he exercised his veto power on the
| Horton bill. This thing in spending
| the valuable time of the legislature to
create job for a worn out politician
Is a dtsgraceful act and the Legislators
| who voted for It are deserving of the
severest criticism.-wabasha Herald.
| There is Just one increase of salary
that We favor and that Is the bill
which provides for an increase In the
compensation paid members of the
legislature. A legislator whose serv-
ices are not worth $1,000 to the state
4 for the term for which he Is elected to
serve has no place In the legislature
| Princeton Union.
Representative J. A. Gates Of Ken
yon would have the members of the
| state board Of control elective He
has introduced a bill providing for this
| A proper measure. Make the board of
control answerable to the people for its
acts.-Mankato Free Press.
Speaking of the refusal of a Rookie
Teller gift, IL all the "unclean" money
In the country was retired from circu-
lation there would be signs OF currency
| stringency here and there.-Duluth
NeWs-Tribune