Morris tribune., 1908-04-25

Lodge resolutions, 90
Legal notices legal rates.
SATURDAY, APRIL as, 1908.
The first virtue is to restrain the tongue;
he attains true greatness who knows how to De
silent even when he is in the right-Cato. -
The hopeful, Misunderstanding, cigar-dlspens-
ing candidate will soon be with us again.
Politics is great school of optimism, hne
thing for the man who wins, and better for the
man who loses.
It is not by regretting what is irr7parable
that true work is to be DONE but by making the
hest Of what we are It is not by mplaning
that we have not the right tools, but by using
we'll the tools we have.-Rusk1n.
Congress will adjourn soon, possibly ABOUT
Nav 9th. The members are getting ANXIOUS 10
oct home and look after their fences, as is al
WAYS the case in a political year. There is
much important legislation that should have
heer disnosed of this session, which has been
neglected.
In England, liquor licenses have become
vested rights and regarded as property which
the state cannot take away without making
cor1opensation The new licensing bill now be-
fore parliament provides for retiring certain
number of licenses each year for fourteen years.
about 10000 in ALL but each one of these licenses
will have to be bought. 1t appears that 1t
was from England that the brewers got the
idea of the "nodel license law" which they are
now advocating.
What shall it profit farmer if he raises big
crop and gets it stuck in the mud on the wayto
market? Or how shall he prosper it the wear
and tear incident to bad roads, the killing OF
teams and breaking down of wagons, to say
nothing of lost time and temper. eat up the
margin of profit he should have on his products
Good roads are of much more importance to the
farmer than lower freight rates, for bad roads
exact much higher tribute than do the rail
road comDanies The road making time will
soou be here, and some good pieces OF road
should be built and than kept good with the
road drag
one OF the LWlu Guy udlllCS III SpCdhlAS Va
Sherm Smiths effort to rise in the world by
way of the city hall ell evator route refers to him
as political leader. We doubt if even Sherm
himself would plead guilty to having ever been
political leader. A political porter he certain
ly was, doing the rough and dirty work TOR such
men as Grimshaw, Lawrence Johnson, and the
Warmers, great and small Finally in his zeal
to turn a trick, the coarseness of his work land
ed him in quod which greatly distressed his
good friends already named. The republican
party in Minnesota is showing up some very
dark brown spots among its alleged leaders and
it would do we'll to shake them out and put in
something clean.-Cannon Falls beacon.
Senator Clague, of Lam berton, made good
SUGGESTION at the recent county convention in
his county. His idea was that at the county
convention, the delegates discuss the import
ant questions which apt to come up before
the next Legislature for action and then pass
resolutions directing the senator and repre-
sentative how to vote on these measures In
doing this the people would furnish the iniatia-
tive and their members would then know what
to do in these matters in order to properly re-
present the people. AS rule members of the