The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-16


election New Hampshire failed T."
elect governor, Charles M. Floyd,
the repu clican nominee railing ten
votes short OF the needed majority
over all other candidates, as required
by the state law.
AGAIN the atJent,.n OF the publlc
Is calico TO the need OF authorized
supervision OF the construction OF all
buildings upon whose stability or
weakness rests the measure OF che
public safety. The collapse OF the
Long Beach (CaiD hotel, while in
process of constructions, with It's at.
tendauL loss OF from ten To twenty
lives, Is only another lnstauce or The
inferior kind OF architecture which,
In many instances, is palmed OF on
the people as secu'e and reliable.
The collapse ut this stage of the
work may have averted greater dis
aster later on, mad the building been
COMPLETED as begun.
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ON another page OF tls issue Will
be found LabuIaled statement Of
the result of the election in Ru 'erts
county, taken from The otliclal count.
AS the canvassing board only COM
pleted It's labors yesterday noon, we
feel that the STANDARD is entltled
to credit for getting this complicated
statement In type and before its
readers thus early--a whole week
ahead of any other paper In the
county. Il., As another evidence
that the STANDARD always leads and
never follows. Ii you want the news
ancient history, subscribe for the
STANDARD.
The Honorable Edwin c. Madden,
during his whole term of office,
has seemed to think that his mission
on earth was to poster the weekly
newspapers with constantly changing
and yeXatious rules and regulations
which threaten them With extinction.
endeavoring to abolish existing laws
governing the papers, seemingly
laboring under the deluslon that the
influence OF the weekly paper clrcula-
ton upon the postal revenue is pelni-
cious; in fact his rulings have been
little less tnan despotic; there has
been No appeal from his decisions.
He VINO would curtail the libe;tY OF
at the vitais of the Republic, ia
direct opposition To the first of the
ten amendments to the constitution
Of the United States. We quite
agree with Wilmar Atkinson when
he says:
'The theory that any citizen
of this Republic may not print
newspaper that Is not business
circular, that is not fraudulent,
that IS not reasonable, and
which IS decent, and circulate it
through the mails at the postage
rate established by Congress,
subject to regulations that will
facilitate circulation, not prevent
1T. fix his own price upon its
value, sell it for cash or credit.
offer AZ eclal Inducements to get
people to take it, place in it all
the Advertisements which he can
get, establishing his own price
for the same. and continue to do
q SO as long as he wishes, without
pesterlag interference of the gov
eminent, Is a wretched and mis-
chievous fallacy, that should no
longer Il d Judgment 10 the
minds Of intelligent and well-in-
formed persong. 1t is writ in the
constitution Of the United
States that Congress shall make
no law abridging the Freedom Of
the Press. 1t IS high time it
was writ that no executive off1c-
er of the government shall make
any rules and regulations abridg-
ing the freedom of the press
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