Mower County transcript., 1908-09-23

Browns Y alley IrlO0n0: Inc vOterS
of this country have great confidence
in the Judgment and honesty Of Theo.
dore Roosevelt. Mr.. Roosevelt says
that Taft is the right man to continue
and carry out the Roosevelt policy of
reform and it is a foregone conclusion
that the great majority OF voters are
going to rely on Mr.. Ro0sevelt's judg
ment in this matter not because the
voters will not do their own thinking
but because they will and thro their
own thinking they reason that the
president has teen right in the past
and he is right now.
Duluth Herald: The voters of the
Eighth congressional district have been
rather nervously awaiting their turn to
heave brick at the petrjfied figure of
Speaker Cannon, and Tuesday they
got their chance. They did it. They
did it in manner that LETT no doubt
whatever about their feelings in the
matter. The result was the overwhelm
ing victory of Clarence b. Miller of
Duluth over Congressman j. Adam
Bede of Pine City.
St. Paul Dispatch: An inheritance Q
and daughters when it comes to dissi-
pating swollen fortunes. The Thaws
and tie worse half of the Goulds have
proved it. Probably if Anna Gould
had been anything but foolish count
erpart to Harry Thaw, the Gould in
terests might still be intact against the
Hartman depredatlons. If Ameri-
cans will only acquire the long view
| they will cease to worry over colossal
fortunes or the power of money to pur-
chase immunity for criminals.
St. Ansgar Enterprise: Farmer Ben
| discusses water transportation in last
weeks Austin Transcript and says:
Give US right facilities on the Mis-.
; pin down the Cedar from Austin
wharves.
That is not unreasonable to expect
strange as 1t may seem to some: In
other countries streams no larger than
the Cedar are used for this purpose. In
order to do this dams and locks would
have to be built at short intervals but
as every dam would develop power it
could not help but Prove q profitable
Investment.
Bricelyn Sentinel: One great rail,
road man says tn at the railroads Of the
country are losing 81 1@OOO a day.
Right on the heels of this comes the re-
port of a threatened car shortage thi.
fall. just think Of it! Losing 81 900,
600 day and not enough cars to haul
the freight. Their loss reminds US OF
Reeder of Blue Earth. who said last
fall that he had lost over 81 600 in the
last six months. When questioned re-
garding it he said that it was because
he did not have hogs enough to eat the
acorns that were going to waste be
tween Blue Earth and Winnebago
The railroads are losing because they
have not enough cars to accommodate
the immense freight traffic.
| N. W. Agriculturist: We have faith
In tho canning factory In the North.
west when 1t is conducted as business
proposition and not as get-rich quick
scheme. The creamery does not pay
and will receive very slim support in
q community where large farmers and
the growing of small grains is the rule
( rather than the exception. The can.
ming factory is quite sure to be closed
after one or Two years improbable
business under like circumstances
They are profitable where the farms
are small and the families well supplied
with children, who will do large part
Of the work in connection with the
growing Of the crops, gathering the
same and assisting the "processors" in
preparing the truck for the cans.