The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-04-15

would not last fifteen minutes. They
know it is unjust, but they can not
help casting their vote in it's favor.
Anything else would be political
death, and while I am here I might
say that while popular opinion makes
the point that every member repre-
sents the entire state rather than his
district, yet it is the latter that elects
him to Office. To it he is alone
answerable and it's views, whether
they be right or wrong, come pretty
near being the one thing that inau-
ences his vote. What the Iron Range
must do if it is victorious this time is
to educate the people of the state as
to the business of it's cause. This
whole question will be revived two
years hence and the business men of
the iron country must be ready.
Senator Thorpe's bill for the crea-
ton of a new department of banking
is now up to Gov. Johnson for his
signature, and it is needless to say
that it will receive the required con-
firmation. This bill means the crea-
ton of about a dozen new jobs with
one of them, the head of the depart
ment, carrying a salary of $4,000.
The others range from $4,000 to $4,000
each. Rumor here picks A. L. Roth,
teller of the St.. Paul First National
bank, as the head of the new depart
ment, but the selection will not likely
find favor with the state banks over
whom the department will have super
vision. When the new department was
arranged for it is said the state
bankers we're assured that one of
their own would be made it's head
and they are demanding that the adj
ministration keeps faith.
Tuesday the house put the finish to
long standing controversy when it
passed the Spooner anti-cigarette bill,
and the act is now up to Gov. John
son for his approval. That it will re-
ceive his signature there is no doubt,
as Frank A. Day is known to have
labored zealously in an effort to Sc
cure democratic votes for the bill.
Days efforts in behalf of the bill are
credited to a desire to bring to his
chief something that would appease
the radical element in the state and
show his interest in their behalf. By
many the bill is looked upon as not
worth the paper it is written upon.
Anti-cigarette laws are in force in
half a dozen states, but their enforce
ment is said to be farcical. Had the
legislature passed a bill making it a
felony to sell cigarettes to minors it
would have served the state better.
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Talking of Frank Days activity it
is said the Paramount man has direct
ed his energies at putting out of bust
ness what is known as the Nimmocks
club bill, and the measure by Frank
Gartside of Winona allowing the
playing of baseball on Sunday. The
former is an act designed to permit
legitimate clubs to dispense liquor to
their members without the .formality
of a license. Day looks upon the two
as liable to make trouble for Gov.
johnson and he wants the senate, in
whose possession they now are, to kill
them without delay. It was Day, too,
who assisted in the passage of the
tonnage tax bill in the house, but
under pressure from Iron Range
democrats he has refrained from any
activity in the senate. Day was told
that his activity would be remembered
and he wisely refrained.
Not little comment is being in
dulged in regarding the activity of
former Attorney General Young,
whose sole desire seems to be to even
up old scores growing out of his de-
feat for the republican nomination for
governor last summer when he de-
elared that the reputation of his
candidacy was due to the opposition
of the interests, so called. It was Mr..
Young who drafted the Bjorge ton
mage tax bill, also the johnson rail
road bond bill, and half dozen other
anti-corporation measures. How the
house looks upon the former attorney
generals desire for revenge was