Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

field are immune to hay fever?
Colonel Bryan proposes to furnish
the democratic party with platform
and candidate, and let the conven-
ton do the rest.
1t is now probable that President
Roosevelt will have to stop the hay
press long enough to settle the tel
egraphers' strike.
A Minneapolis prohibitionist got
drunk to prove that liquor intoxi-
Gates. The woods are full of these
martyrs to science.
Maybe the Standard Oil Company
will resist payment of the big fine
on the ground that the government
has no right to accept tainted money.
Uncle Sans internal revenue
receipts increased 20,56l, 24S.65
last year. This does not include
the $29,000,000 Standard Oil fines.
A Georgia man shot the post
master because his mail was late.
There is a simplicity and directness
about Georgia methods that are very
convincing.
Public opinion in Japan is said to
be against war with the United
States. The same is true of the
United States. 10 fact, public opin-
ions rarely differ.
The Morrocans think they will 60
straight to heaven if killed in battle.
Nevertheless, they struck out for the
suburbs when the French cruisers
opened on them at Casablanca.
One of these days the trusts will
discover that the constitution aud
laws of the country apply to hem
the same as to common people and
that they cannot override either.
Only forty six general laws have
been passed by the British parlia-
ment in the last FIVE years. 1t is
rare legislature in the United States
that cannot beat that by score in
single session.
The appointment of receiver for
motor car factory is attributed to
the fact that the company found
difficulty in floating its loans.
Some of its customers have found
the same difficulty.
The Standard Oil company of
Indiana has been fined thirty mil
lions, and a man in Indiana has had
to 60 to Jail for stealing an umbrella.
It's about time for those Indiana
folks to begin to get good.
Outside of the democratic party
the British free traders are the loud
/. est howlers against ship subsidies in
the United States. Yet no country
in the world subsidies its ocean
marine more freely than England.
John ID. Rockefeller says perhaps
p there was a time when he could have
converted his holdings into gold but
it never occurred to him to do it.
And, alas, now there is not sufficient
gold in the country to surround the
job.
More than three and one half
! millions of dollars have been spent
by the International Typographical
union in its fight for the eight-hour
day, according to the reports Of the
officers submitted to the recent con-
vention.
No appointment has yet been
made of scale inspector, which
office has been vacant since the first
of July, because three promises are
out, and the badly ratified governor
does not know which two promises
to break.
Senator Bailey still maintains that
what he does with his time outside
1 of his congressional duties is no
affair of the people. Rockefeller
evidently made a mistake in not
getting himself into the senate on
the Bailey platform.
The figures of the immigration
officials show that the number immi-
grants coming to this country dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1907,
was the largest in the history OF the
country, reaching 1,2S5,349. OF
these over million landed at the
port of New York.
A new canal seventy five miles
Iono is likely to be built between