The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
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Graft often goes about disguised as

Graft often goes ABOUT as
a business opportunity.
While "a man wants but little here
below, he never gets quite enough.
Every self-lDade mar thinks other
men ought to borrow his pattern.
1T isn't alawys the people VINO jolly
you most that are your best friends.
And people who stand uD for their
rights usually wan to sit on the
rights of others.
How we all hate a gutter! He
always stops lust before we get a
chance to bump hin.
Never Judge any mans worth by
his SIZE. a silver dollar is much
larger than a 3 Id piece.
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Gu of light breaks in upon
The gloom. The life OF the legls-
latrre Is limited by constitutional
provision to 60 days.
1T is reported from Pierre that
the governor speaks of the leglsla-
ture as 'smy legislatures" SO far
he has been quite justified in the
use of the possesslve pronoun. but
the lower house seems to be COM
ing t., just a blt.-Argus Leader.
THE Brooklngs papers a e having a
rather sharp debate over the proprl-
ETY. of the governor in accepting ii
special train from the Northwestern
company IN taking his wife to the
hospital at Rochester. The Press
holds that since the governor has
been waging warfare on the railroads
he should not have placed himself
under obligations to the railroad com
pany ior such special fayors-smacks
too much of the old-fashioned meth
DDS that the people have been con-
demning 50 sharply.-Wa5ertown
Public Opinion.
Great is reform, yea, verify, great
is it's prophet. There is no reform
like the insurgent brand, tits clear
aud Coe L. Is its prophet here.
4 q 4
Third Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al Madden seems to be another case
OF a small man with ga little brief
authority With true bureaucratic
in~solence, Mr.. Madden seeks to in
crease by four times the postage rates
Of newspapers, to impose new and
needless and memorable rullnge on
publishers. and to add especially 20
the hardshlps uf the country pub.
llshers. The publishers OF the met
ropoliuan dailies are already sending
their bundles by express, beng tired
OF the petty prosecutions of Madden.
The country publishers can not do
this because their bundles to small
towns are too small for eXpressage
and they have to use the mails.
President Roosevelt could not do
a more popular thing with the
newspapers OF the country, or a more
just one, than to give Madden his
walking papers.-Argus Leader.
The present legislature will go
down into history as the anti
everything legislature. They are
"ferninst" everything and every
body. For instance, there was the
antl-pass bill, the anti-free telephone
bill, the anti-treatory bill, until
our anxious constituents began to
feel that it Is time for the legislature
to make Its ssante" good IL they ex.
pevt to draw cards in the next game.
Now. If they really want to pass an
uanti" law that would be a benefit
to the people let them get busy and
pass an ANTITRUST law, and the
people. will forgive them many OF
their sins OF omission and con-
mission. The n we have on the
statute books at present, is damaged
goods aud badly frayed about the
edges; Section 20, Of Article II, q
our constitution declares that mon
opolies and trusts shall never be al.
la-od IN this state to AZ prices Of