Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-07-14

The editors of various Democratic papers
are making noice like clipping editorials from
press bureau stuff.
Herman Review:-If the Spooner followers
III Traverse would come over into the western
Tier of townships, Dollymount, Clifton, Red
Path and Tintah, they would find the atmos-
phere fairly bubbling with Bicknell en-
4husiasn1.
A sensational murder which has had
short run was that of Mile Ellison, of Elroy
Ni@. by Nat NJ. Riggs, an Omaha railroad con-
ductor. Riggs murdered the woman in Mimi
eapolis Tuesday, was quickly tracked by the
police and arrested in Elroy Wednesday, where
the accusation that he was a murderer was
regarded foolishness, and on account OF the
loose watch kept over him able to commit
suicide Thursday morning. By the suicide
Hennepin county is saved expensive trial.
but by thus cheating the gallows, the dignity
of the law is not sustained, and the punishment
is not of the kind that acts as deterrent of
other criminals.
Senator LaFolette is coming to Minnesota
press dispatches. 1t seems that LaFollette's
reception in the senate was not cordial as it
might have been, and, in fact, considerable
number of the older republican senators quite
Iy took occasion to lay logs in the way of
Senator LaFoettes pet Legislative ideas. OF
course LaFollette found the odds too strong
against him, and the end of the session came
with many of his ideas hung up high and dry.
Senators Nelson, of Minnesota, Carter of Mon
$a1l3, and Hale Of Maine the ones that La
Toilette particularly intends to go after 1t he
does come into Minnesota to air his grievances
against Senator Nelson, he will find that he has
undertaken pretty big contract
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Farmer Ben in Mower County transcripts
I tell Won us farmers hav to fife for everything
we raise lust before the Fourth my potato
patch looked like a regular garden and ] was
aelHn wife how good it seemed to have EN- SO
4hrifty and I'll be jigged if in day or two the
~xvloIe patch want covered with bugs to beat
the band 1t looked like all the old he ones in
six counties had congregated and taken the job
Of downin' my patch at one sittin. It's so with
-soverythin we get. It's bugs for the cucumbers
ana squashes and potatoes, and worms tor the
e>urrants and goosberries and apple trees, and
4low a root worm is maxim my cabbage fall
r. own. It's rust for the oats and blight for the
aax<and grub worms for the timothy and flies
For the COWS and tick for the sheep and some
5hin' all round. You can't sit down in the shade
an hour but the weeds will get to work in our
onion patch and try to monopoize the ground.
~ beats all how we hav to watch and fight all
asrp,a45sne to get enuf for ourselves. But after
s.1l we manage to get plenty to liv on just the
same. | learned when boy that we had to |
II oht for what we got and I'm still learnin it. |
IFS a part of Natur's plan to keep us busy and
u,rt of mischief and appreciate what we hav
wazhen we sweat for it aud get intimately asso-
SEATED with it.
President Roosevelt's creed: "Distrust as
- demaaug the man who talks only OF the wrong
agone by the men of wealth. D1strust as
nfen1agogue the man who measures 1n1quity
m,y the purse. Measure inquity by the heart
whether mans purse be full or empty 1t the
m,,an is a decent man, whether we'll or not we'll
q1H stand by him; if he is not a decent man,
:stand against him, whether he be rich or poor
stand against him in spirit OF vengeance,
Nsst only with the resoute purpose to make him
esct as decent citizens must act if this republic
MS to be.