Mower County transcript., 1908-06-17

last.
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS
Window Citizen: Has anyone not
iced any appreciable increase in his IN
come since The motto was restored to J
the coin?
Hibbing Tribune: The people have !
picked out place for Uncle Joe's rep |
resentatives in congress and NOvem- !
ber snow bank is the name OF it.
Window Recorder: P. A. Ruhberg
is putting in considerable tiling at his
farm north of town. Mr.. Ruhberg will
soon have his farm IN shape that he
can laugh at the rains.
st. Paul Dispatch: J. A. Taw-
ney can hardly point with pride to
his record of Keeping down appro'
priations in this congress, or any
other.
Kansas City Star: For the benefit Of
congress the confession reads: "We
have done those things which we ought
| not to have done, and we have lett un-
done those things which We ought TO
| have done, and there is no health in us. "
Little Falls Transcript: Congress-
men Tawney and Bede seem to be
following in the footsteps OF McCleary,
who was defeated by Democrat
in the Second district OF Minnesota
in the campaign of 1906. They are
getting too strong with Joe Cannon.
Chicago Tribune: "We put that
motto back on the coins, anyhow
said the congressman.
eyes," answered the constituent,
"and in view of what you fellows have
accomplished during this session that
motto affords US our only consolation"
Duluth Herald: The speeding auto
omobile is being blamed tor deteriora-
ton of road surfaces, and it is but
natural, if the charge is proved, that its
owners should be called upon to pay
special taxes to repair the waste they
create.
Mortified News: Representative
Lobeck says that it cost the brewer S
combine $4,000 to defeat the county
option bill in the last legislature. In
view Of the combination they have
, made it may not prove SO expensive to
control the Republican convention.
LeSueur News: Another congress
ional session ended and another billion
: dollar congress gone home to repair
political fences. In the face of the ex
travagance exercised by congress il
Il appropriations, we need not look TO-
a reduction of tariff, because the re
ceipts would not go around. The re
t publican MAJ jority can no longer style
a themselves lhe swatch dogs Of the trea
!. sury' for they are not.
d Duluth News Tribune: "Uncle 10
u Cannon" has been in congress for owe
- 80 years and in all that time has neve
moved an inch that he has not beel
@, dragged or pushed. He is a uniqu
# aud interesting piece OF political statu
I. ary and just stands until knocked over
He wholly lacks initiative and is devoi
of imagination and constructiv
powers. TO re-elect him would be t.
|" give the lie to all party pretension!
n and it is the peoples part to make hi
a retirement all issue in every congress-
re ional district.
SO Watervile Advance: The big boy
f. are home from Congress and trying
~ lay their do nothingness all onto Speal
Y. er Cannon. The people must not b
ID hoodwinked by this sort Of an excuse
at There is only only one OF Uncle Jl
and almost 500 OF the other fellow
with a big republican majority. n
of excuse for their cowardice and indiffe
- ence to the wants, needs and deman{
7h OF their onstituency. 1t will be diff
to cult for many Of them to give ar
ic- good reasons why the people shou
,r longer entrust them. with the trust thu
- betrayed.
+n Minneapolis Journal: If Secreta
'S Taft is nominated for president it w
TO be on pledge to revise the tariff at
lly special session of the new congress
he This is what the Ohio platform. p1
sumabIy dictated by Secretary Ia
calls for. The country does not wa
Joe Cannon to name the ways al
M. means committee Of that. He is me
ri enough for an anti. Cannon campaj,
di among progressive republicans, to 8
nothing of his griev0us reactiona
~ tendencies in other directions.
- =. Providence Tribune: Of late, t
- paper manufacturers, taking advanta
'nc of their tariff protection and formil
he a price combination among themselv
will have been charging such high prices
- have seriously interfered with the pr
" perity of all American newspapers; al
though it now seems that the limit
possibility in this direction has be
ata reached and that q reaction must con
the failure of Congress to act in t
sol matter at the last session leaves it i
nal certain how soon the law Of supply 81
Dm demand will sufficiently reassert it's,
nal to force news-prlnt paper down aga
- to normal price 5s. s',1.
- 81. Peter Free Press: The .rece
rs killing of lr Camed eden, OF dinne