Mower County transcript., 1908-09-16

trusts, lies ID electing men q congress
pledged TO vote tor some one other
than Cannon or a.man ofshiss kind for
speaker. Anynax11 ,m moyement ,thatg
depends for its etc on Aldrich, Can
non, Dalzell, Paine or TaWneYEis Is de-
fusion and asnare and the truth is not
in It. .sss
Minneapolis Tribune: Unless wi
dows of civil war veterans return their
pensions vouchers, to the United States
officer at Milwaukee they will receive
no more pensions. The government
wants to give them $12 instead of $8
week, but this cannot be done until
the vouchers are returned In fact no
money can be paid until the old vouch-
ers are sent to the pension officer.
Duluth News, Tribune: The appeal
of Governor Hughes address is to all
thinking men, who, believing in the
momentum toward reform already Civ
en- by Theodore Roosevelt, prefer the
continuing Of that program under the
guidance of safe and sane admin
stratOr like Mr.. Taft, to embarking on
g new series of experiments with pi.
lot, who has heretofore shown remark
able ignorance of the reefs, bars and
shadows that lurk in the way of the
ship of state.
Sleepy Eye Herald: The Hubbard
County Enterprise is after timber
thieves up in Northern Minnesota and
through the charges of Editor Haradon
the courts have made some thieves dig
up over $4,000. Through the efforts
of that same paper number of big
lumber firms were made to pay more
taxes than they had returned. Bro.
daradon should be sent to the legis-
lature. - =.
Duluth News Tribune: When Gov.
ernOr johnson said he would not be q
candidate nor accept the nomination if
rendered him, and was opposed on
principle to third terms for executives.
we never questioned the 6nality of his
statement. But he was tempted and
fell from (grace). He has deliberately
placed himself in the position where
his word Is no longer good for it's face
value. Had he t'stood pat, he would
indeed have been great man, man of
national proportions.
Leroy Independent: The position
of the stand-patters in congress who
want to reform the tariff is similar to
that of the brewers who are banding
together to reform the saloons. Both
of these have STAYED off the inevitable
reckoning as long as possible and now,
when 1t can no longer be put off, they
turn face-ab0ut and want to do the re-
forming themselves. We would about
as soon trust Billy Hamm to wipe out
tho saloons as we would hope for Joe
Cannon to give the country much re-
liet ln reforming the tariff schedules
Breckenridge Gazette: There is Just
one phase of human activity that will
make a man forget his friends, forget
all they ever did for him, how they
warded off opposition when he was
scared to death, how they plugged for
him and made enemies for his sake,
and that's a political campaign. As
slst q man to get an Office, and then,
later on, become candidate yourself.
Does gratitude prompt the man you
assisted to turn and help you? Not to
any appreclable extent. z He is so al.
mighty busy taking care of himself
that he can't hear your appeal.
=. Chicago Inter- Ocean: The total of
appropriations at the last session of
congress was 81 ,o0O,O0O,O0O To keep
the total as low as possible Chairman !
Tawney of the committee on appropri-
ati0ns, made allowances for many pub
lie works only large enough to keep
them going until March / Of next year,
He did that because congress Will have
to pass the annual supply bills by that
time, so there was no real necessity for !
swelling the total for the session to |
81 ,O7g,000,000 which, it would have
been had the allowance been MADE on
the scale estimated by the executive |
branch of the government, or nearly |
$3.50, 100000 over the appropriations for
the preceding year.