Mower County transcript., 1907-03-13
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS

Goodhue County News: Congress
men TaWney and McCleary are for the
ship subsidy graft. McCleary is q dead
one in the Second district, and Tawney
will be in the same condition soon if
he isn't careful.
Jackson Republic: Senator Moses
E. Clapp led the hosts against the op.
position to the improved alcohol bill in
the senate and won out by vote OF
four to one This is a black eye for
the Standard Oil Co.
Slayton Gazette: The Minnesota
Shippers Association was investigated
last week. The association consists
mainly of one man, but the legislators
caught tartar in this individual. MIR.
Lotus has been a smooth guy since
POpulist days, when he worked the
farmers. OF late years he has been
working the shippers. -
Hokah Chief: The Houston county
gentleman who couldn't keep the sweet
fruit of his matrimonial advertising,
should be ,cOngratulating himself
rather than sitting ID sackclOth and
asht S. His love was not reciprocated,
or the lady coming all the wav from
New York would not have given him
the mitten jnst because OF little
physical debility.
Dodge Centre Star: Who says the
editors of Minnesota cut no figure in
the political arena of the United States?
At their meeting in Minneapolis last
ro0,,fh tho olitor.o
favoring the dismissal of the third
assistant postmaster general Madden
from his office and now comes word
from Washington that that same in
dividual has been dismissed from office
and that Edward Lawshe, of Ohio, has
been named to succeed him.
LEROY independent: If there is one
man who has surely received his full
share of criticism during the past few
months, it is Congressman: Tawney,
who has been scatching it" from ali
sides and sections OF the nation. Cr!ti-
cism won't move him though and as
long as he will not be reelected we
might as we'll let him continue in his
course of neglect for his constituents,
giving thanks that the tine is not far
distant when we may cast our vote for
d man of different qualities.
Rochester Post and Record: The
plundering ship subsidy bill which
passed the house failed because not
enough members of congress think
there is only one more congress of
billion-dollar appropriations, salary
raises, tariff looting and subsidy jobs
for the republican party, and that it be.
hOOves them to make the most of it
Members that voted for it might as
we'll fill their pockets with bribes and
be hanged for full grown sheep as5to
stay at home hereafter as shorn lambs
Duluth News Herald What Mime:
sofa spends for advertising will not be
invested in St. Paul real estate for st
Paul's sole benefit, nor in st. Pau
bonds without interest. When the
state has from $40 600 to $4,000 a yeal
to spend in advertising it can use it tc
bring in new population to buy farm
lands and settle the state, not sight,
seers to stop at st. Paul hotels, visit The
capitol and view the boulevards.
Blue Earth Register: The RAILROADS
over the county are complaining about
the 2-cent passenger rate that has been
enacted by the legislatures of some 81
our states. In the said complaint,
they seem to lose sight Of tha fact thai
the government in an early day made
them 9 present of every alternate sec
tion Of land through which they passed
thus enrichlng them very largely at the
expense of the individual who might
have pre.empted the fertile soil ira
versed BY the many roads Of the state
and nation. .957 &
Minneapolis Journal: The JUNIORS
ling Of Senator Aldrich while in the ex
ercise of his ancient function Of boss
Of the senate is an encouraging sign 81
the sign Of the times. The finance
committee, which is in the instrumen1
for recording a Aldrich IS will, had amend
ed the free alcohol bill III such IS 4 Way
as to prevent the farmer from erectina
his own still and Utilizing his own croT
refuse in competit tition with the distilierys
trust and the STANDARD Oil company
EScaFcely darine ta kill this bill outriaht
ldrtch hadE sanpte the old and time
tried plani of lnending Ii eath
/ But Tor oace tli6 seuat tes showed d spiril
Of fslndep0ndGncet aud Y0beii0(l II NM