Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-02-13
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

the credit of securing the passage Of
the primary election law, and while
doing so he planned the illegal Nc
Pherson county deal to prevent the
people from having voice in the
selection of delegates to the state
convention. Nobody but the leader
of the reform" machine is capable
of explaining such inconsistency and
even he appears to be afraid to
attempt the task.
The United States supreme court,
in unanimous decision, holds a
boycott of manufacturers engaged in
interstate commerce to be illegal and
that those who engage in the boycott
are liable to damages. Thus the
highest court declares that trade
organizations that are responsible
for boycotts violate the law against
combinations formed in restraint of
trade. The decision was announced
by Chief Justice Fuller and there
was no dissenting opinion.
The National City Bank of New
York, commonly known as the Stan
dard Oil bank, has begun to demolish
the old custom house on Wall street,
which it purchased some years ago.
On this site it is planned to erect
the most imposing bank structure in
the world to be twenty-five stories
high and cost over S2,500,000. 1t
is said to be the desire of the bank
officials to erect building that will
remind people of the bank of Eng
land, while being far more magnifi-
cent and complete. 1t is current
report that James Stillman, the pre-
sent head of the institution is plan
ming to retire from the presidency,
and that he will be succeeded by
Frank A. Uuderlip, now vice presi-
cent.
If Governor Crawford can spare
the time from his strenuous speak
ing campaign too boost himself into
the United States senate we hope he
will tell us whether the primary law
ION the plea for which he rode into
office was interpreted correctly by
the twelve committeeman who
elected Mcpherson county's four
delegates to the April state conven-
ton. AS Governor Crawford did
little else for several years but talk
of the great good to the people that
would obtain by the enactment of
the state primary law it ought not
to take much of his time to tell us if
the action taken was all right. If
the election of those delegates was
fair, square and right we would like
to have it endorsed by the man
responsible for the Nlaw. What say
you, Governor Crawford?
Robert Lowery an old time engi-
neer on the Northwestern railroad,
who used to run into Gettysburg,
made this Office pleasant call on
Monday. We were surprised to
learn that Bob, an old time Craw-
ford man, who nearly worked his
head off for Crawford, at the last
election, is doing the same for Kilt
redge this year, and Bob says that
he is not the only one that is doing
it, but there are lots of them right
in Huron, Crawford's home, doing
the same thing. 1t looks queer to
see old time Crawford men like Bob
out openly for Kittredge. 1t looks a
little to us as if there would be
something doing "when the leaves
begin to tall" in this state, and the
insurgents will wake up to find
themselves buried in the dark and
fathomless abyss of political obliv-
ion.-Gettysburg News.
That the duty of sugar and
tobacco be removed is again recon-
mended in the report of Secretary of
War Taft on the Philippine Islands.
This course he says, is necessary in
order to have these industries attain
their former prosperous condition,
and>he believes that the removal of
the duty would not injure any
American interest nor effect the
prices of sugar aud tobacco in this
country. He also urges congress to
remove the present restrictions on
the acquisition of mining claims; to
authorize the insular government to
conduct an agricultural bank, and
that our coastwise laws be made
inapplicable TO trade between the