Mower County transcript., 1906-12-26
JTHER EDITORS OPINIUNS

Sank Centre Herald: All admirer
of ours has promised to present us
with an automobile when Sam Langum
c .ases to be candidate for secretary
OF the state senate, and we haven't
even started to look for cap yet.
Blue Earth Post: A farmer who
wheeled into town with a Dig load OF
hogs Saturday, remarked that there
was some advantage in rough roads
he never met an automobile.
Bemidji Pioneer: When one stops
to think of it, the objections to our
present systems of doling out tat post
Office jobs as rewards for political activ-
| ity in behalf of "our congressman" are
| not insuperable.
Duluth News tribune: A Lincoln
(Neb.) woman prayed valjantly for the
gift of tongues. That her prayer wss
not answered may have been due to the
even more strenuous efforts of her hu>-
band He did not seem to think she
needed it.
jackson Eepublic: The extorticn ate
price Of lumber is already holding up
millions of dollars worth of improve
ments in smaller towns. When a man
with limited means figures on building
small dwelling to live in, the lumber
bill scareS him off the track, and he hss s
to abandon it.
Mankato Free Press: "Lumber has
gone up another so cents thousand
all around. After while dealers
will charge us tor simply looking at it,
is the alarming cry Of the Litchfield
Review. Sure thing, if we keep on
voting to retain standpat congressman.
A revision OF the lumber scht DUE
downward might have a tendency to
cause the hearts Of the barons to melt.
Wykoff Messenger: Those deep lines
on the editors forehead were not plac-
ed there by the hind foot OF an unruly
Langshan rooster. No, 10, dear read
ers, they are the result of worry and un
rest, looking for the wherewithal to
satisfy the office help and meet other
minor expenses. If you owe him any
thing on subscription, advertising or
job work, come IN aud square up.
instance of controversy with Pres-
dent Roosevelt the party of the first
part has lost rather than gained by
present occupant of the White House
is an artist, whether welding the big
stick, a pair OF Indian clubs or foun-
tain pen.
Waseca Herald: If the men who de-
sire the success OF their principles
would pay one half as much for their
local newspapers to be sent out regular
ly to the voters as they pay for cigars
and "booZe" at election time, their sue
cess would be much greater and their
expenses less. Not only thaC, but the
moral uplft would be of the greatest
value to the people at large.
Minneapolis Journal: The presi-
dents and Secretary Hitchcock's fight
against land thieves in the far west is
making some of the most strident poll
ticlans of that region fercely heated
against "executive interference" The
history OF this campaign for law and
order, when it is written, will prove to
be one of the most instructive expos.
ures of crooked politics the world has
ever known.
Anoka Union: It's no fun to pub
) lish paper at a pecuniary loss, and
know of many publishers right in the
state of Minnesota who are doing thai
very same thing. Already a number
have announced an increase to dollar
| and half per pear, claiming that the
I increased cost of everything which
goes towards making up a newspaper
has compelled them to take this step
I Unless change for the better occur
q right soon, other newspaper men mus
8 follow in the same way.
Wells Forum Advocate: The rui,
and murder of Grace (Blle) Brown b.
y Chester Gillette in New York, like hun
l. dreds of other stories with the sam
g plot, grew out of the fact that the girl
mother allowed her to run around witt
the boys in the evening and that sh
IS did not know with whom her daughte
It was associating. If a young mans al
ls tentions to young lady are honorabl
it will not be necessary for her to sneal
10 out of the house, ostensibly to visit
IS girl friend in order to roam the stree
j. with him at night.
"a St. Paul Dispatch: Four years az
st Mr.. TaWney, seeking denomination a
el the primaries and opposed by tari
as revision republican, stated-before tn
~ primaries that, if nominated an
y elected, he would work for revisio,
and he pledged the Fifty-eighth col
gress to make q revision. He was,
is member of the ways and means con
n mittee, q position enabling him t
a make good his pledge. We have wait