Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-21
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CURRENT EVENTS.


The banks should be careful not
to hoard any of the $50, 100000 gold
that is pouring in from Europe.
Mayor Tom Johnson will now be
discussed as presidential possibility
an platform of Scent politics,
Owing to their experience with
the lariat the Oklahoma senators
will soon get on to the ropes in
Washington.
The fact that dividends have not
been interfered with shows that some
master hand is at the financial throt-
tie somewhere.
Perhaps few months hence the
bank customers will be saying:
Cant you give us a check instead
of all this coin ?"
A country that raises crops worth
81 600, 100000 year can draw on
the rest of the world for consider
able gold when needed.
Two states in the recent election
gave republican majorities in six
figures, a fashion that dates from
the introduction of Organism.
Circus managers report scarcity
of clowns. SCENE if our higher
institutions of learning might do a
little something for the circus.
1t is an i'll wind that blows no
good. The pawn brokers in New
York report thriving business since
the hard times struck the east.
The Kentucky democrats engaged
MIR, Bryan for a whirlwind tour, and
now are planning how to rebuild
their fences and reshingle their barn.
There is talk Of improving the
White House during the coming
year. Putting Roosevelt out and
Bryan in would not be an improve
ment.
Mr. Bryan will not seek the nom-
nation, but when the convention
meets he will arrange to be at home
and within call of the long distance
phone.
Owing to the overcrowded condi-
tions of our columns, number of
births and deaths have been unavoid-
ably postponed this week.-Ex-
change.
Some folks are always tickled to
learn of a person having been killed
by exercise. Unfortunately there
are no statistics as to those who are
killed by the lack of it.
The old fashioned democrat in
Col. Watterson's state expresses the
maximum of bewildered astonish-
ment in SIX words: Kentucky has
gone dry and republican"
If you have no faith in a benefic-
ent power above you, but see only an
adamantine fate coiling it's folds
about nature and man, then reflect
that the best use of fate is to teach
us courage.
The republicans of Missouri were
rather surprised when they carried
the state in 1904, but the rate of
growth of the party for many years
ought to put it on top as a natural
result in 1908.
The reported existence of letters
from General Grant, General H.
Thomas and Admiral Farragut, solic-
ting commissions to fight for the
confederacy, will be doubted until
indubitable proof is offered.
The only portion of the pure food
law which is now being enforced is
that section which raises the salary
of the commissioner to 81 800 a year
The commissioner sees to it that this
portion Of the law is obeyed.
Henry E. Phipps, the wealthy
steel manufacturer, is arranging with
Thomas f. Edison for partnership
in the construction of Edison's new
two-family concrete houses which
can be built in ten or twelve hours
at cost OF ST. 900
Despite the spread of prohibition
the American people consumed in
the year ending last June 80, 1884,
1904 gallons of whisky, which is
II ,409, 253 gallons more than they
imbibe the year before. Possibly