Mower County transcript., 1907-03-20
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS,

| Breckenridge Gazette: They have
been weighing human souls down in
! Boston and find that the average
weight is something under one ounce.
Coal dealers and ice men were barred.
I St. Paul Review: SO many other
Legislatures have, passed the two cent
per mile rate law that we may expect
some sort of legislation along this same
line from the one noW'in session. 1t is
required, if only to be in fashion.
+, LeSueur Sentinel: It is said that but
few men take out of office the reputa-
tion they take into it. Yet there are
men who made reputation to be
proud of after becoming an office
holder. 1t depends somewhat Oh the
man. - ,-1
Window Reporter: The State Sen!
ate saw fit to kill the county option
bill for some reason probably best
known to themselves and the brewers.
This was one OF the bills the people
We're very much interested in and the
senators may hear more about it later.
Duluth News. Herald: 1t is praising,
Minnesota country newspapers but
mildly to say that they excel, as class,
those of any other state in the Union.
Any one who doubts this may compare
the News Tribune exchanges with state
newspapers received at the office of
any daily in the country. ~
Kenyon News: The mothers of this
town who are responsible for the girls
who CAD the streets should stop and
think what they are doing. These
girls are no longer children. They are
at the impressi0nable age. Where will
you have their impression come from
from the riff of the street or from
home? 1t is for the mothers of this
town to settle the question.
Candy News: There was never any
doubts as to the competency and avail.
ability of Mr.. Cortelyou as private
secretary, but as the postmaster general
he went the way of all the rest in po.
sition where he might have made i'm
mortal fame as man of affairs. That
he will be even less popular as the sec,
retary of the treasury is now being pre-
d'cted, but there is plenty of time for
amends and it is hoped he will make
good.
Stayton Gazette: Local option was
shot to pieces by the senate committee
on temperance last week. Only one
member of the committee voted for the
measure. An effort will no doubt be
made to bring it up in committee Of
the whole in the senate, but its chance
for passage at this session is slim.
With only one member of the temper
ance committee III its favor it looks rs
though that committee was chosen in
the interest of the brewers.
Pennington Tribune: The senti-
ment OF the state has been disregarded
in at least one important particular.
10 putting the county option bill to
bed for another bi annual sleep the
Senate gave a lesounding slap to a very
large and intelligent element in the
citizenship of MinnesOta. A goodly
number Of the people of practically
every portion of the state united in 8
demand for the referendum in the
local regulation of the liquor evil.
That there is and was general desire
for legislation along that line cannot
be denied. - ~
Minnesota Mascot: The many sided,
broad minded man recognizes that the
present prosperity and the future pros
spect OF every community depend upon
the shoulder to shoulder work of ali it's
citizens. Neither the farmer nor the
business man can point to his own
class and say: "We are the commun-
ity." Those who harbor that feeling,
to whichever class they belong, are not
the kind of citizens whom posterity
will hold in grateful remembrance nor
do they as a rule enjoy either the es-
TEEN or good will of their contempor-
aries.
st. Paul Farmer: Flax is the poor
mans crop, the homesteader's means
of getting quick, returns. He builds
shack in the Dakotas or in western
Canada, starts the breaker, sOws flax
and within six months is able to get
revenue Sometimes he gets more
than the price of the land from the FIRST
crop, but call is not gold that glitters,"
for it the flax seed happens to contain
a. few weed seeds to infest his new farm,
this revenue maker in the end becomes
a money loser, and source Of much
annoyance. In fact, more loss may fol-
low as result of these few weeds than
the entire value OF the flax crop. even
though it may be good one.
Hutchinson>Leade Scores of good
sized Minnesota towns whose citizens
have expended to the limit their money
and energy to establish industries and
upbuild the community they live il.
are languishing and the doors of shops
and factories are closed. Meantime the
large cities are enjoying an unprece-