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

TO elOIulS anu lHiploNO
ments which will make it a model
community. O'Connor came to this
country twelve years ago and ha~
prospered abundantly. He intends
TO share his luck with the three hun
dred people of Leitrim. This money
is going to lose its faint quite
rapidly.
Ex- Senator Pettigrew has been in
Washington several days in close
conference with Senator Gamble, but
the subject Of these conferences can
not be obtained. OF course a good
Roosevelt" republican like Gamble
would not talk politics with a man
like Pettigrew who bolted the con
vention which nominated William
Mckinley for president. No, sir,
not even in the interest of the Petit
grew Crawford Gamble machine in
South Dakota.
The square deal has made a deep
dent on this country. If the haber-
dasher is to be taken as authority, it
has even penetrated the realm of
mems clothing. The popular pat
tern of mems shirts this year will be
a white ground full of square, rhom-
boids and oblongs made by deep
colored cross lines. Mems clothes
will also be light, heavily tinctured
with squares. When chappy walks
out for an airing he will be an adver-
tisement of the presidents policy.
These clothes will be very little
affected in the senate.
Senator Gamble has introduced a
bill in the senate. The occasion is
so unusual that it is worthy of men
ton. The bill is without doubt a
worthy one. 1t is a bill to increase
the pension of arthur Linn, late of
Company II. Tenth Regiment, New
York Volunteer Infantry" to $50
per month. OF course the bill to
increase the pension of Colonel Linn
introduced by Senator Gamble so
soon after the dramatic denunciation
of the machine by Linn in his Can
ton Leader is but a coincidence,
nothing more, but if the gallent col
onel had deserted Gamble for Kit
redge and the latter had Immediately
introduced a bill to increase his pen
sion, what a noise the insurgent
papers would have made.
Some years ago, before Europe
took that interest in American doings
that it does now, about the only
American news that got into the
European papers, even those in Lon
don, was criminal news. 1t was
only about ten years ago that a very
intelligent young Englishman on his
first visit to this country informed a
group in a Pullman smoking room
that he had had an idea, until he
mingled with Americans, that almost
all of them were quite capable of
numbering their father or mother for
money. To some extent this impress
sion may still prevail, for American
criminal news still occupies a dis
proportionately prominent place in
European journals. However, the
improvement in our own European
press service is bringing revenge.
We may be the only people who
indulge in lynchings, but we are not
the only ones who a offer a fine
line of murders. For startling and
unique crimes of this sort, France.
Germany, Austria, Great Britain and
others have us downed. We can
read with intelligence general Euro
pean news and our newsgathers do
not bother with ordinary crime, but
there is hardly a week that there are
not several crimes SO startling in
their atrocity or SO unique in their
circumstances that they are deemed
worth cabling. That other nations
indulge in such amusements is no
excuse for our doing SO, but it is al
least satisfactory to know that we
are not the worst people on earth.
kittredge Denies.
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