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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Enough is as good as feast, and
the public have had about enough
palaver at the railroad rate hearing
by Attorney James Manahan and all
the other attorneys. The hearing
might be continued for the next six
months and the members of the rail-
way commission would be no wiser
than they are now as far as railroad
rates are concerned. The chief aim
of the railroad people seems to be to
tell as little as possible and to mislead
and mystify the commissioners. The
sole purpose of the attorneys for the
shipper as we'll as those for the state
is apparently to manufacture large
reserve stock of political capital.
There is nothing to be gained by pro-
longing the hearing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

JAS. j. Hill has given Farmer Olson
OF sDunnen, Martin county, permits
sion to make, an examinationsof the
Great Northern railroads books and
has placed at-his service all the &C
cOuntants he needs in such proceed
ing. Farmer Olson is anxious to learn
how railroads are conducted. He
also wants to find out whether the
farmer is getting a square deal ornot.
When he concludes his Investigations
he will in: all probability tell the
farmers that they are neither being
robbed or disseminated against by
the: Great Northern Rai1road com
pany.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

John Shaefer of St. Cloud is can
didate for sergeant-at-ar arms of the
house and he ought to get the place.
Mr.. Shaefer is a brave old veteran of
the war of the rebellion. He served
his country we'll and faithfully in her
hour of need. He is competent to per-
form the duties of the position. A few
years hence there will be no old SOL
der applicants for places at the hands
of Minnesota legislature. Stand
aside, you lusty young fellows, and
make way for the man who has earned
the right to step to the front. Your
time will come later. We sincerely
hope the patriotic members of the legis-
lature irrespective of party affiliations
or geographical lines will unite in
honoring as brave a man as ever wore
the loyal blue John Shaefer.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

An anonymous attack is being made
upon representative Hugo of Duluth
in his campaign for the speakership
on the ground that he is the candi-
date of the steel trust. Some people,
you know. think that the steel trust
owns everything, including men, IN
northeastern Minnesota. AS a matter
of fact it does not own a half of the
iron mines of that region.-Cro0kston
Times. ....1. IL
Mr.. Hugo is the tool of no trust or
corporation, but a man who will care
for the interests of his constituents
fairly and squarely whether he obtains
the speakership or not. j.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

The politicians persist in crediting
the two members of the house from
Elk River to the Eighth congressional
district, when as a matter of fact
Sherburne county is in the Sixth dis
trict.-Elk River Star-News.
The politicians are not far astray in
crediting the two members of the house
from Sherburne county to the Eighth
congressional district. The forty-fifth
legislative district is comprised of the
counties of Anoka, Isanti, Mile Laos
and Sherburne. The three former
counties are in the Eighth congress
sional district and Sherburne is the
tail end of the Sixth congressional
district. The two members from Sher-
burne are supposed to represent in
part the 18th legislative district, and
in the organization of the house they
ought to act with the members from
the Eighth congressional district.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
Unless their demands are cOncede

Unless their demands are conceded
the Pullman palace car porters
threaten to go out on strike the first
of January. The dusky autocrats
of the sleeper insist upon being paid
living wages-they are tired of begging
their way through the world and of
imposing upon the travelling public.
These porters have secretly organ
lied a strong union and say that they
are fully prepared to fight the issue.
The reform sought is one much. needed.
The Pullman trust has been robbing
the people long enough by compelling
them to pay both accommodation
charges and the salaries of it's porters.
No one will appreciate this movement
of the porters' union mvre than the
people, for the solicitation of tips has
reached a point where it becomes a
public nuisance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Evidently the mild-mannered editor
of the Faribault Pilot dipped his pen
in vitriol last week when he wrote of
Political Vultures' and said of them
"They are now hungry. They have
been laboring overtime the past year
to create hostility and opposition to
the reelection of Senator Nelson.
Their hopes are that some wealthy and
ambitious republican will become a
candidate against Senator Nelson and
that he will contribute a large corrup-
ton fund to purchase members of the
state legislature.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
Tired of awaiting the curbing of tn

I Tired of awaiting the curbing of the
tobacco trust by the government, the
tobacco growers of Princeton, KY,
last week applied the torch to several
large warehouses and destroyed $17O,
900 worth of property. The growers
contend that they are being robbed by
the tobacco combine and that their in
tention is to put the concern out OF
business. To effect this end by means
Of the firebrand, while possessing a
peculiar novelty, is of course impossi-
bic of accomplishment but at the same
time it goes to demonstrate the ex-
tremes to which people will resort
when worked into state of frenzy by
a monopoly that is robbing them Of
their daily bread. It should also be
a warning to the government. to use
more drastic and speedy measures in
it's 'trust-busting'' campaign instead
of imposing small fines, dilly-dallying
along year after year and accomplish
ing virtually nothing towards the dis.
solution of the combines.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

In a disdainful tone one of our ex-
changes refers to our senior senator
as 'Farmer" Nelson. You cannot
arouse Mr.. Nelson IS ire by calling him
a farmer. He is a farmer and he knows
how to cultivate the soil. Besides this
he takes great pleasure in following
the profession. When upon his farm
at Alexandria he gets up at O'Clock
in the morning, tramps over his do
main, splits few knotty propositions
in maple or milks COW or two for ex-
ercise, and eats his breakfast an hour
or two before most of his colleagues
in the senate are out of bed. And
often, clad in a farmers garb and a
prosperous farmers smile, he works
throughout the day like a hired man
in the fields or the barns-because he
likes the occupation. Oh, no; you
cannot make Mr.. Nelson angry by
abiding to him as farmer.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
accrue to his advantage.

Hon. Haldor E. Boon, the incorrig-
ible editor of the Fergus Falls Globe,
has little love for his famous fellow
untryman-Knute Nelson. Boen
Opines that Gov. johnson will become
a candidate for senator and that the
legislature will be affected with John.
sonphobia. Then he adds, as gov
ernor Mr.. johnson has been satisfac-
tory to the corporations, and the
little Norwegian" will have to give
place to the ''diplomatic Swede.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Down in Kentucky last week an old
negro woman was declared by her
fellow villagers to be a witch, and had
it not been for the timely arrival of a
colored preacher, who least out thir-
teen devils''' from the aged nanny,
she would have been torn to piecessby
an Infatuated mob. And with such
conditions prevailing at home we are
sending forth the majority of our mis-
sionaries to enlighten the heathen1 in
foreign lands!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Senators Flint and Wheeler of Cali
fornia have advised President Roose-
welt that should an attempt be made
to compel the San Francisco schools
to receive Japanese pupils riot would
be precipitated. If Roosevelt is de-
sirous of retaining the good will of
California he had better let it settle
this Jap school matter as it sees fit.
There are plenty of other pies that he
might stick his finger into which would
accrue to his advantage.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Football under the amended rules
has not proven nearly so disastrous
this season as it did last when played
according to the Q Id regulations. This
years record is II killed and l04 in
jured, while last years fatalities num-
bered Is and injuries 159. It is esti-
mated that had the same number of
men as engaged in the play travelled
upon railroad trains for the same
length of time as that consumed on the
gridiron greater percentage would
have been killed and injured.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

The railroad commission of Wis
consin has ordered reduction of IL
per cent on pulpwood shipped from
northern Wisconsin to the Neenah and
Menasha paper mills. This will prove
of considerable benefit to manufac-
turers and should also benefit con-
sumers. But consumers will likely
find that no reduction in the price of
paper follows.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Professor d. Arsonval of Paris has
succeeded in manufacturing seed which
produce vegetation resembling sea-
weed and other marine plants. The
seed is made in pill form from one
part sulphate of copper and two parts
glucose. This is deposited in a
bouillon made of gelatine, to which is
added three per cent of ferro cyanide
of potassium and little sea salt. The
German scientist who made a hens
egg and Matched fea5herless chicken
will have to look to his laurels.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

President Roosevelt's "simplifed' -
spelling order is likely to result in a
clash at arms between congress and
himself A large majority of the con-
gressmen are averse to the introduc-
ton of the Carnegie-Roosevelt fad
and will doubtless refuse emphatically
to indorse the so-called reform. They
take the stand that should congress
ratify the innovation it will not only
necessitate reprinting numerous public
documents but all dictionaries and
school books in: use throughout the
country. This would involve the
squandering of an enormous amount
Of the public money for the benefit only
of the great book trust--1which should
have long ago been dissolved and
the dictionary publishers, while the
change would Inconvenience rather
than be helpful to the people at large.
If he so insists, it is believed that the
president can force the adoption of his
hobby upon congress, but it is hoped
that the lawmakers will oppose the
proposition 50 strenuously that Mr.:
Roosevelt will abandon his purpose.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

And now M. Gourko, one of the
Russian cabinet officers, is charged
with stealing funds contributed for the
relief of starving Russians in the pro-
''man's inhumanity to man." Yet,
withal, we are ever ready to condemn
he who seeks to summarily remove
such human monsters from the face of
the earth. There is no punishment too
severe for those who steal from the
starving
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Gov. johnson would be a base in.
CRATE if he did not reappoint Hon.
Samuel F. Fullerton on the game and
fish commission: Mr.. Fullerton and
his deputies have labored assiduously
for Mr.. Johnson in two campaigns.
The governor should be impeached
and removed from Office if he fails to
reappOint Samuel.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Judge Dick of Beaver Dam, Wis,
holds that trades unions as bodies
might strike without such action being
q conspiracy, and that the strikers
might use persuasion in an endeavor
to prevent others from taking their
places of employment. Unfortunately
for the unions, all courts do not thus
ru]a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
The Duluth News Tribune

The Duluth News Tribune on
Thanksgiving day contained 1O4 pages
and $4,000 pounds, or 1890 miles Of
paper were consumed in printing its
edition of 47,000 copies. The issue
was devoted to an illustrated write-uk
of the resources and commercial in
terests of Duluth and the country con
tiguous, and was a masterpiece of the
printers art.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
'r.-s.' 80 81. s.
We're the steel trust to erect smeltin

We're the steel trust to erect smelling
works in Duluth for the reduction OF
iron ore such acquisition would prove
highly beneficial to the Zenith city and
the lake region generally. In view. OF
the fact that the trust is now compelled
to ship it's crude material to distant
points for reduction, it is surprising
that such works as above named are
not constructed at Duluth.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
A bill will be introduced in CONGRESS

A bill will be introduced in congress
by Senator Flint of California provid-
ing that the government appropriate
annually for eleven years $4,000, OOC
for the drainage of Indian and public
lands, that such drainage shall be
conducted by the government, and
that the parties benefited shall REIN.
burse Uncle Sam. The measure should
become a law. %El ----' =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
$1,000 Is NOT roo MICH.

If the passes of the legislators are
to be cut off at the next session of the
legislature the argument will be ad-
vanced that the members salary
should be raised. In every legisl AZURE
there are men who are worth a thous-
and dollars a year to the state. and
in the same Legislatures are members
who are positive detriment to the
people and whose services ought not
to bring over twenty five cents a day
in the highest markets of the world
Battle Lake Review.
There is considerable truth in the
above. Men are elected to the legis-
lature to assist in enacting laws whose
services would be dear at any price.
But it is the fault of the people who
elect them. One thousand dollars per
session is not exorbitant compensation
for a member of the legislature who
faithfully performs the duties he was
elected to perform. Five dollars per
diem-less than $500 for session
ridiculously low pay for member Of
the legislature it is barely enough to
cover the actual expenses of the aver
age member during a session. The
compensation paid members of the
legislature should be increased one
hundred per cent. The Uni n would
heartily favor such a proposition.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Seventy-four killed and seventy in
jured is the hunting -season casualty
list for the United States. The greater
number of these casualties resulted
from the accidental discharge of fire.
arms and not, as might be supposed,
from mistaking hunters for deer, bear,
rabbits, etc.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

While President Roosevelt has that
"simplifed" streak running through
his brain it would not surprise us were
he to appoint a commission to pro-
duce simplified bible.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

People in the Yakima valley, says a
press dispatch, are suffering from a
coal famine and it's consequent effects
cold. Cold! In Washington? We
have been told a thousand times that
winter is unknown there.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

In all five hundred American women
of wealth have purchased titled Eu-
ropean snobs and now most of them
highly regret the Investment. They
have discovered that their purchases
consisted largely of besotted liber-
tines, paupers and apostates.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
not news.

Heavens! The twin city dailies tell
of plot on the part of some dagoes
to assassinate our worthy governor.
That fellow Frank O'Day is a shrewd
press agent.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Guilty of murder in the first degree
was the righteous verdict of the jury
in the Gillette murder trial at Her
kimer, N. Y. Gillette ruined Miss
Grace Brown, and then to get rid of
her cruelty murdered her while boat
ing on lake in the Adirondacks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

We're it not for his large wealth
Hearst would have few followers
among the 'unterriied democracy" OF
Minnesota or elsewhere. The think
ing, Intelligent democrats of the coun-
try are decidedly anti-Hearst.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Northern pine lumber has again
been advanced in price, the increase
ranging from fifty cents to dollar
per thousand. The lumber trust
gives no reason for making this ad-
vance, but then--the lumber trust does
not have to.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
Another trust-the rubber trust O

Another trust-the rubber trust oil
Canada-has been organized. II
would now be in order for this octopus
to stretch it's tentacles across the
border and enter into business rela-
tions with it's thieving brother, the
American rubber trust.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

The democratic state central COM
mittee on Saturday refused to accept
Chairman O'Day's resignation! What,
discord again in the harmony" camp
of the unterrifed?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
BY r. G. DUNN.

1t is solemnly announced in the daily
newspapers that Thomas Daniel
O'Brien will accept a reappointment
as insurance commissioner. That is
not news.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
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The Haicyon Days of Yore.

Twenty-Five years ago Gen. r. W.
johnson was the democratic candidate
for governor of Minnesota and was
numerically showed under by Gen. L.
F. Hubbard. Those were indeed the
golden days when a man by the name
of Hubbard could lick a party by the
name of johnson, politically Orion
vile Herald-Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
Degeneracy ExempIified.

Caruso, a fellow with rattan skin
and sweet voice, the idol of the ma
tinee woman, looks in at the monkeys
in their cage and thinks: Chow won
derfully have developed since l was
a monkey" while the monkeys look
out upon Caruso and his antics and
say "Gee whiz! How our race has
degenerated. ''-Irish Standard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
The Lord and the Devil.

A man who sold beer at Fergus
Falls church fair for the benefit of the
Lord has been fined for not taking out
a license. Doubtless the twenty or
thirty men who are running saloons
there for the benefit of the devil break
the law every day with impunity.-
Duluth News Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
Stirring Up Strife.

Some political writer says that in
1908 sit will have to be Jacobson or a
democrat again. The fellow who
makes that assertion is paving the way
for trouble, evidently not having had
his fill. The people don't relish being
told they must vote for certain man
no matter who he is.-Brainerd Dis
patch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

RefOrmers, Every One of Them!
Nearly every member of the next
Minnesota legislature was elected as
a reformer. Now when these cham
plons of the people meet in council
OF war next month in the state capitol
woe betide all sinners against the
rights of the dear people.-Faribaul
Pilot.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Got What Was Coming to Him.
Victor Rushaway, Minneapolis
commercial drummer, attempted to
open, Irritation with Miss Eugenia
Sigford last evening near the Lowell
block, corner. First avenue east and
Superior street. He had gotten past
the point of telling her who he was
and what he thought of her when
Stanislaus Mccarthy, who was to
escort the young lady to her home,
came along. Mccarthy took offense
at Rushaway's presence and after Sc
curing an explanation from the young
lady promptly proceeded to punch the
masher's head. Rushaway was not
seriously injured, but the physical
chastisement which he was forced to
take will probably teach him a lesson.
Few people were on the street and the
fight was of brief duration, because
MCCARTHY had everything his own,
way.-Duluth News Tribune. 8
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06
A Pertinent Question.

The Window Reporter, having as
sisted in the defeat of the party's can
didate for governor, now announces in
all seriousness that it is republican
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Yes, sir; it assisted in defeating Mr..
Cole, and its editor voted as the paper
assisted. Two years ago the Free
Press "assisted in the election'' of
Dunn, but did it's editors, managers
and bosses vote for Dunn or ] Johnson?
-Win6Om RenOrtor
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

Democrats Entitled to the Plums.
Here's hoping that our distinguished
friend, Gov. Johnson, will turn out
into the cold January air every re-
publican hog that has his feet in the
patronage trough and let the plums
fall into the hands of consistent demo-
crats.-Battle Lake Review.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-06

1t might be good idea to change
Thanksgiving day to the last day of
the big game season. Those of us
who are left alive have then the great
est cause for thanksgiving. Crook
stOn Times.