Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22
The legal cohorts of the octopus

The legal cohorts of the octopus
are soon to meet phalanx of trust.
busting attorney generals in a 6nal
roundup of injunctions and techni.
calities. 1t promises to be both a
tug of war and test of endurance.
The police judge at Emporia,
Kan, has declared the bar main.
tanned by the lodge of Ea giles pub.
lie nuisance, and has ordered the
confiscation of the stock in trade.
The Emporia Eagles will have to fly
little lower.
A Texas paper says that a Dallas
man just returned from job on the
Panama canal and asserts
that the canal will never be
completed. A hope will still be
entertained that the 10000 workers
left behind will be able to accom-
plish something.
What an all-absorbing thing is
love! In Philadelphia a goet
chewed off the tails of policeman's
coat while the officer was watching a
couple spoon. That is to say, the
couple were so absorbed in love-
making that they did not notice the
policeman; the policeman was so
absorbed in watching them that he
did not see the goat so the goat
absorbed the policeman's coat tails.
In defending the vigorous action
of the suffragists of England, Mrs.
Pethick Laurance says, politics is a
great game, and the rules are to
make as much trouble and noise as
possible till you get what you want"
Illustrating in a womanly way, she
says "If the twins wake up at night
and one sucks her thumb and the
other screams, which gets attention
first?"
The negro was the tissue" in the
senatorial contest in Mississippi.
John Sharp Williams took the posi-
ton that the negro should be
deprived of his rights and nothing
be said about it. Governor Varda-
man on the other hand contended
most vehemently that the negro
should be deprived of his rights and
that great deal should be said
about it. 1t was indeed clearly
defined issue.
The declaration of Professor Jaffa
of California that dimes worth of
peanuts is more nutritious. than a
porterhouse steak, offers the first
cheer to the victims of the conditions
that have advanced porterhouse to
prohibitive price. But what assur-
ance is offered that the peanut trust
may not get busy and take the sub
stitute away from us, just as the
beef trust has robbed us of our
porterhouse.
People who are afraid of dogs can
get new courage from a pamphlet
issued by the Woman's Christian
Temperance union which gives some
reassuring statistics. The records
of the London hospitals few years
ago showed 1868 persons bitten by
angry dogs. None of them devel-
oped hydrophobia. St. Georges
hospital, London, records 1000 of
patients bitten by dogs supposed to
have been mad, with no cases of
hydrophobia.
Somehow the enthusiasm about
the raise in the railroad assessment
in South Dakota is tempered a bit
by the information that farm and
other real estate and personal prop
erty were boosted by about thirty
millions-or five millions more than
the total assessed valuation of all of
the railroad property in the state
and by the further fact that despite
the increase in assessment the rate
of taxation this year will be higher
than ever before in the states his
tory. These things make it hard to
get enthusiastic.
Attorney General Bonaparte is at
last upon the right line. There is
but one way to break up evil trust
methods and that is by treating the
instigators as criminals which they
are. Let few Harrimans, Rookie
fellers and Rogerses soak in jail for
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