Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-01
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The bookmaker contends that his
business is not gambling. Right. As
a rule it is robbery.-New York Her
aid.
Chicago has been rebuilt twice since
Its fire in 1871. Cannot San Francisco
build rightly = firsts-New York
American.
The conscientious school teacher
gives daily to pupil and State far
more than is paid for by the taxpay-
ers.-New York Sun.
Maybe the Supreme Court handed
down that divorce opinion just so the
Gorkys wouldn't feel lonesome.-Phil-
adelphia North American.
The New Yorker who was arirsted
for kicking an American flag must
have imagined he was in England
Louisville Evening Post.
The fact that 4 number of rich men
have committed suicide lately does not
especially change the aspect of power
ty.-Philadelphia Ledger.
A tidal wave wa, predicted to follow
the San Francisco earthquake 1t did
Ia tidal wave of American dollars
Philadelphia North American.
Now the question will be up for grad
ual settlement whether the autocracy
Jules the pouma or the Doufna b au-
tocracy.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
It might be just rs well to wait q
few days longer before hailing Mr.. Car
field as the conqueror of the Standard
Oil octopus.-Washington Post.
Sentiment in this country does not
favor Gorky, but. 1t would be far from
favoring a scheme Of surrendering him
to Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The insurance company which fights
its losses ut San Francisco may ex-
pect a still harder fight to. gain new
business. .h%iiiaiieiipihii Inquirer.
The President has appointed a num-
Der Of Consuls Eat large Apparent
is, the country has had a few unfit to
be at large.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Apparently the only thing left for
Dowie to do is to have his beard trim.
med French fashion and make an
tirely new start in life.-Chicago Trib
une.
The Coal Trust might at least taks
that 10 cents off the dollar that hal
been added to the price or coal IN tn
last year.-Philadelphia North Ameri.
can.
.The Man With the Hoe,s,4san Fran
cisco's prize painting. was Y from
the flames. So was .sThe man with thu
hope" 1t would seem.-Phiiadeiphfs
Press.
The spirit Of 40 lives, and the de
~scendants of the Argonauts Will build Z
greater San Francisco, to rise phoenix
like from the ashes of the old.-New
York Herald.
The ending Of the coal mining trou
bles pleases everybody but b calam'
ity politicians, who had expected t.
make use of a strike In their business
Philadelphia Press.
We refuse to credit the tale that
Wall street is behind a scheme to FUR
nish New York City with water. Wall
street can use I'LL the water It can get
hold of.-Chicago Journal.
Senatorial courtesy has caused thu
country a good deal of trouble, but the
country can cheer up. Senatorial dis
courtesy is gradually getting the upper
hand Of it,--New York Mail. !
A Baltimore chauffeur who was of-
fered So by a passenger who wanted
to catch a train exceeded the speed
limit and was fined $25. That wal
So for his fare and $2a for BIZ
Washington Post:
The San lose scale refuses to yield
to the efforts of the Department OF Ag-
rlculture, Other insects persist in In
Testing the department. There's the
free-seed humbug, for instance.-Phfla-
delphia North American.
The Bureau Of Labor ut Washington
issues a bulletin to explain that the
cost of living is the highest in sixteen
years. Any housewife could have told
them that after doing her daily shop
ping.-New York World.
The cornfield seismologist will be
glad to learn, on the authority OF Prof.
AESelO f1eilpTlu, ludt tHe HiuH VI
science is hardly in q position to be
more authoritative regarding the San
Francisco earthquake than is the lay
man.p-New York Sun.
violence has no place among US. N
will not be tolerated" says Governor
pennypacker. That is a principle back
of which stands not only the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania. but the sentt-
ment and purpose of the American peo-
ple.-New York Tribune.
If the Russian government tries I o
have Gorky extradited for a political
crime. 1t may win him more sympa-
thizers In the United States than he
could ever lose by his domestic ar
rsngements.-New York World.
Secretary Taft thinks three members
enough for the Canal Commission.
However, nothing less than reduction
to d single individual would Danish
friction and estop ths annoyance occa-
stoned by a Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
One insurance company with $1,000,
600 In San Francisco risks has a sur
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