Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-08

far as the psychology of the matter
is likely to be carried during the
heated term.
An English steamer that recently
ran Oh the rocks detached herself
from her forward third and, with
her own machinery, proceeded to
port with the remainder. The CON-
partment system Of construction may
be called success.
Many great enterprises that call
for laborers are under way, and it
will take years to complete them.
The prospect is that labor will be in
demand at good wages for long
time, and this is the chief element of
continued prosperity.
Secretary Root will be entertained
by President Diaz in Chapultepec
Castle, where Gen. Winfield Scott
was visitor September -, lS47.
But how both Mexico and the United
States have grown as hourishing
republics since that occasion!
Say whatsoever you will about the
colored race, one thing is true. That
is, the fact that not one of their
number has put a bullet through the
negro hating, abusive heart of Sena-
tor Tillman speaks volumes for their
quiet and law adding disposition.
Gov. Hughes has approved an
appropriation of S5,O0O,OO0 for road
improvement which, with 100000
unexpended balance, makes a suffi-
cient fund to keep the work moving
New York will maintain its rank
among the states as road builder
also.
The jingoes must really excuse
this country from getting excited
over the Newfoundland fisheries dis
pute even in the dog days. Ameri-
cans are ready to laugh at a good
fish story, which is as far as they
have penetrated the merits of the
controversy.
| Italy is introducing in its waters
an Australian fish that devours mos
quito germs. Fish with this appe-
tite exist in America, but the mos
quito keeps many laps ahead. One
of the best ways to get rid of mos
quitoes, and at the same time benefit
agriculture, is to drain the wet
places.
The energetic game warden of
Wisconsin is going after the pot
hunters in dead earnest and all real
sport lovers will back him up. Laws
against killing game out of season
are made for the protection of good
citizens, and their enforcement is but
another step in the general move
ment to guarantee equal rights to
all with special privileges to none.
President Woodrow Wilson in his
Fourth of July address advocated
the punishment of corporation
offenses by sending their responsible
officers to Jail instead of mulcting
the corporation treasury. And it
was not long since that Harper's
Weekly was advocating presiden-
tial boom for President Wilson on
the ground that he is conservative.
Pretty much all of the comment,
and apparently all the worry about
the new primary law is being
INDUCED in by the insurgents in the
state. Mr.. Crawford favored the
primary for an issue, but now that
we have it, he does not seem to be
SO enthusiastic. He is beginning to
realize that he can not defeat Sena-
tor Kittredge in a primary, and that
was exactly the reason that the
primary was so urgently wanted.
The business men of Lincoln have
made up their minds that Bryan will
be the democratic nominee next year,
and they are planning to make the
most of the big crowds which are
expected to journey to that city to
greet the peerless leader. 1t is
given out that every person who
"amounts to anything" will be
rightly entertained; so if you should
go to Lincoln, and come off disap-
pointed, you will know tina, it is
because you do not amount to any,
thing"
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