The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-12-17

nifty they "spot" the somebody's" and
by fattery obtain a good standing.
They seldom ascend very high because
they haven't the courage to voice their
honest opinion as Abraham Lincoln
when he said. "Iwould not go Oh record
as saying every democrat is horse
thief but would 60 on record as say
lug every horse thief is democrat"
Now, the college education of today
creates tendency to inspire men and
women with an idea that what they
say is SO, and that they know enough
to tell others what to do, but the school
OF experience, together with little
book larnin' gives the world its most
active, ard most prosperous men, and
this fact should be exploited.
Today we have representative class
which we term business men. An ac-
quaintance of mine had some business
dealings with one of this class which
is illustrative of the methods in vogue. !
He purchased suit of clothes for
thirty-fve dollars. He wore them but
once when he detected some unravel-
ing, and he took thu suit back, and was
told: 81 am very sorry, Mr.. Blank, but
l neglected to have the wholesale firm
warrant the suit. However, I'll tell
you what Ill do. l have here a
thirty dollar suit. Now I'll fix up the
suit 1 sold you free of charge and let
you have this thirty dollar suit for
eighteen dollars" My acquaintance
bought the other suit also aud in
very short time realized he had been
beat at first and soaked afterwards
to borrow his words.
There are honorable professions of
today and the prices charged for SER
vices are not on uniform basis.
Take the vocation of law for example,
!, The state allows all attorney certain
fee for defending prisoner at his
; trial. Perhaps, as l have known of
certain cases, All attorney will receive
. fifty dollars from the state for defend
ing prisoner while another attorney
may receive from $500 to $4,000 for
services in similar case. The idea in
, prOfe ssiOnal ranks of charging $5 for
: the services and $45 for the know
how" is an absurdity that present-day
r practices permit.
he freedom of the press and Liberty
of speech which the people of MiIton's
time clamore for being conceded priv
ileges today have wrought conditions
which are very inexcusable. The Wit
riollc reflections cast upon public men
thru the columns of periodicals are de-
. plorable instances of jealous degeI er-
:. acy. Were the simple facts cited
benefits might follow such disclosures
But think of bribing an office employees
to borrow letters to prove supposed
:. bribery OF corporate interests! The
: pless is a powerful age ICY and it's dis
: tortlon Of facts is 50 familiar as to cIe
ate no alarm, but, l think, far better
:. results could be accomplish e by pro
: blbiting yellow journalism. The clean
conservative publications are in &c ,er
= al reliable, whereas number of peri
Odicals are considered unfit for th'
minds of young people. What benefits
are derived from such publications
). Absolutely none, and therefore a re
, stricted press is advisable. With tn
Haunted vices of today. practices O.
= cheating the public, mismanagemen
;. of public affairs, the rake-otf systems
- ETC., the people of our civilized nation
have little excuse for considering thi
= age as the enlightened era. ERID.