Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-22

little Of its smoothness. The phrase
Decline to answer ON the advice OF
COUNSEL" has degenerated into a
frank "None of your business. On
the whole, though, it is less irritat-
ing than the first when this was
accompanied by ''the smile that was
childlike and bland
After considering the matter for a
number of weeks, Germany has con
cluded that a tariff war with the
United States would not prove profit
able. and Uncle Sam will continue
on the same footing as other nations
in relation TO the German trade,
which will prove a good thing Tor
both Germany and the United
States.
The fortresses of Russia in which
are kept political prisoners, are
nearly depopulated, and some of
them have been abandoned as pris-
ons. This does not indicate that the
prisoners have been released. Rus.
sia has a way of disposing of her
political prisoners on a most eco
nomic basis, saving the expense of
both trial and maintenance.
w. A. Towes, Of Jersey City, \.
j., last Friday broke the record Of
the world for indoor shooting with a
% calibre rifle at twenty five yards,
at the tourney Of the National
Indoor Rife league. Towes' record
was 2,4Sl out Of a possible $500
points, which is thirteen points bet
ter than any record heretofore made.
Towes becomes the champion of the
United States.
If Mr.. Hall, Mr.. Cassel, Mr.. Craw-
ford, Mr.. Glass and other insurgent
candidates for state office want dem
ocratic votes in caucus they should
seek office on the democratic ticket.
No republican will object to demo-
cratic votes being cast for these men
in democratic caucus, but all fair
minded republicans will object to
democrats voting for them in the
republican caucus.
In an address at Macon, Ga, last
Thursday, before FIVE hundred dele
gates attending the convention of
negroes to discuss racial problems,
Bishop II. NJ. Turner declared the
American flag to be "a dirty and
contemplate rag" And yet it was
for the love of this flag that thous-
ands of men gave their lives and
bought the negroes their freedom.
Gratitude, your color is not black.
Paul Knapp, a half breed Indian
of Benton Harbor, Mich, whose
mother was a daughter of Chief
Peter Pokagon, of the Pottawatto-
mie Indian tribe, has received an
appointment to West Point. Knapp,
who is nineteen years old and was
formerly a student at Haskell insti-
tute, received his appointment on
being recommended to President
Roosevelt by Indian Commissioner
Leupp.
Two citizens of Kentucky got into
a heated argument the other day as
to the fitness of John ID. Rockefeller
to enter the kingdom of heaven.
The discussion Of this purely hypo-
thetical problem eliminated in a
quarrel, the quarrel eliminated in a
shooting, and the shooting culmina-
ted in the death of one of the dispu-
tants- Where he has gone to he
will no doubt have a chance ITO con
tinue his Investigations.
One of the strongest short speeches
in favor of the rate bill was that
delivered by Congressman Burke, a
member Of the committee in whose
charge the bill was. Yet notwith-
standing the fact that every recorded
act of the congressman-his speeches
in the house, his interviews in the
newspapers. his public speeches and
his vote-have been in favor of rate
regulation, the insurgent newspapers
insist that he is opposed to il.
Horace A. Taylor, assistant secre-
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