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

The spectacle of the Standard Oil
company, that great octopus, deliber-
ately wrecking the oil industry of a
great state like Kansas, and with that
state almost helpless to defend herself.
is one to make men and angels weep.
But there is day of,reckoning coming
and the greedy tyrant that shows no
pity or even Justice to others, will get
Justice without pity at last It is the
business or Kansas to destroy this
giant and Ii is the duty of every other
independent state and of the nation
itseH to go to the rescue of Kansas and
help strangle and destroy this greedy
octopus.-Montevid Leader.
representative Kelly has introduced
a bill in the legislature, providing for a
Tour year term for all county officers.
III the bill passes the new tenure of Of
nee VIII become effective on the first
OF January after the next general cleo
tlon: There Is great deal of merit in
the proposition, and if 1t could be made
10 cover the state officers as we'll, and
unit all Office holders to two executive
terms, IL would, we believe be still bet
ter. There is no good reason why the
entire state should be thrown into a
| turmoil. to the detriment of business
| and at great public expense every two
years.-Crookston Journal.
Gov Johnson has a new plan to
handle the timber trespass cases. He
| would have timber board independent
or the auditors office, consisting of the
governor, attorney general and state
treasurer. This would relieve the state
auditor from heavy responsibility. and
II the timber thieves had to do bust
| ness with an independent board they
would not attempt to settle case after
case Tor less than the amount paid at
pubic sale, and in direct violation of
the law. On short acquaintance the
governors theory looks good.-St
Cloud Journal-Press.
Judge Swayne, who was impeached
| before the United States senate. has
t-been acquitted. One of the charges
against him was that he used a rail-
| road pass. which is positively pro-
hibited by the interstate commerce
| law. Every senator has such a pass
1t would be pretty pass to convict a
man for using a pass when every juror
| is past master at il, so they passed
him up.-Rochester Post and Record.
The biennial bill against patent
medicines has made its appearance in
the Minnesota legislature, apparently
Tor no other purpose than to be voted
out. In country communities, particu-
| iarly, where physicians are not within
easy call, patent medicines are in steady
demand. They fill niche in the worlds
necessities and have come to stay no
matter whether the doctors like it OF
not.-Winona Independent
He must have had a great struggle
with his modesty in order to make the
| announcement. but Mayor Mcclellan
| has finally declared that he is ''the best
| mayor New York ever had" Presi-
| dent Roosevelt may be expected to wait
until after his term expires before MAX
| ing similar claim. His poor opinion
OF most Of the other presidents has al
| ready been given.-Duluth Herald.
And now the state fair officials are
| asking for $250.000-a quarter of a
million dollars of the peoples money
| for live stock amphitheater. They
may have pull enough to get 1t, but
that is big pile of money for the state
to invest in a structure to be used onf
| or two weeks in a year. Such an ex-
penditure would be rank extravag ance
l-Aitkin Age.
There is this difference between the
! oil producers fight against monopoly
in Pennsylvania thirty-five years ago,
and the fight in Kansas now, that the
whole United States is interested in
| the present struggle, and giving the
Kansas men moral support. Standard
OIL may find that this is an important
| Observation-Disclosures State Journal.
We will go DIR. Osler one better
There are men that should be chloro-
formed before they reach Conan
kato Free Press.