Morris tribune., 1909-02-06

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The United States has again relnquished
Cuba to the Cubans and the latter now have
their own government administering the affairs
of the island. It is only natural that the Gu
bans should be slow in learning selfgovern-
rnent, and it may not be many years before they
again fail. If the United States again steps in,
there will be a strong demand for annexation,
but this country has enough problems of it's
own without taking in partner whose people
cannot manage it's affairs.
The charter commission of the city of Man
kato recently voted unanimously to adopt the
commission form of government, such as has
been in force in Galveston and Des Moines.
There are at present several legal barriers to
the commission plan in Minnesota, of
which is the present primary law, which pro-
vides for party nominations when the object of
the commission plan is to get away from polit-
ical government. The present legislature will
probably be asked to make provision whereby
a city can adopt the commission plan without
becoming entangled with the present laws
applying to city government.
N1nneSOtd Sdlueu Ill pOpuldtlOH W LlIo
extent of 1918 aliens during the past fiscal
year, according to the annual report of the
commissioner general of immigration North
Dakota gained 5, 1856 and South Dakota 1896. AS
has been the case in past years, northern
European countries made the largest individual
contributions to Minnesotas foreign born pop
ulation The records show that ,636 Scandina-
vians declared on their arrival that they were
bound for the North Star state and that 1924
Germans did likewise. Following them were
S16 Finnish immigrants, 728 English and 774
Hebrews, of which number large proportion
probably came from Russia and other northern
European countries.
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There seems to be somewhat of disagree
rnent between Governor Johnson and the men,
bers of the Legislature over an employers liabil-
ity bill, the governor recommending that the
whole matter be referred to commission to in
vestigate and report to the next Legislature,
while the leaders of the legislature deem it best
to pass law at the present time. 1t is going
to be difficult matter to frame satisfactory
law and nothing will be gained by the gov
ernor's plan of referring the question to a COM
mission, for Minnesota has not had satisfact-
ory experience with commissions i'll the past.
A commission at it's best can only make a re-
port and draw their salary while the whole
ground must be gone again by the legis-
lature when the report is submitted.
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Recently James J. Hill surprised audi
ence of Minnesota farmers by the statement
that the average yeild of this great wheat
growing state is but thirteen bushels to the
acre. while the average for the entire United
States is less than fourteen bushels to the acre.
Over against this we find average yeild in
England of thirty-two bushels to the acre,
thirty-eight in Denmark, thirty-four in Neither
lands and twenty-seven in Germany When we
consider that the cost of production in this
country is a great deal more than it is IN any
of the countries we have named, it becomes
clear that wheat growing in the United States
has been an expensive business, and that a
great Improvement is essential In no one OF
the countries we have enumerated are the soil
wheat growing than in the greater part of our
own land and it is therefore clear that our
nitiable average of less than fourteen bushels
to the acre is the result of careless and indiHer-
emf tillage-Whee1ock's Weekly.