Morris tribune., 1909-01-02
SATURDAY. JANUARY 2, 1909.

SATURDAY, JANUARY T. 1909.
i Have things gone wrong with you this past
year? Now don't get discouraged and imagine
you are going to wind up at the poorhouse
The new year is here, good things may be com
ing around the corner your way. Brace up;
have nerve. Never forget that many great
undertaking has been brought into success
after promise of failures.-Farm Journal
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One of the greatest calamities of all time
visited southern Italy Monday morning
great obstruction to life and property being
wrecked by earthquake, tital wave and fire
sThe ancient city of Messna, in Sicily, and small
Ter places on the island and also on the main
land were completely destroyed and the loss
of life runs into the hundreds of thousand
The whole world has been moved to sympathy
for the sufferers, and assistance is being prof
fered from every quarter of the globe.
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There have been rumors for time
that grave engineering problems were being
/, encountered at Panama, which might neces-
state revision of the plans. 1t is now Off
cially admitted that this is the case and that
the difficulty has arisen in connection with the
Gatum dam, which is the most important en-
cheering feature of the canal. The questions
will be referred to special board of engineers
which will accompany President-elect Taft to
the isthmus. The Panama canal is monster
project and many difficulties will have to be
overcome before it is completed.
Since it asdscovered by Columbus, Hayti
a has been one of the worlds caudrons Of trouble.
The Spaniards cruelty conquered the aborigines
Then the buccaneers more cruelty robbed and
decimated the Spaniards. Then the i'm
portation of human cattle from Africa with two
centuries of anarchy and degeneracy The
island has sometimes been empire, so called,
or re bile in name, but at the present time,
it is impossible to indicate it's political classified
Y ton. Matters could not be if the idle and
criminal colored population of the United
States were shipped bodily to the Island.
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Young should shy at making politics
a profession. J. J. Loman, who was assistant
secretary of state for twelve years. and who
was candidate for secretary of state twice, is
now in critical condition from illness on a
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in hard financial circumstances. purse was
= made up the past week among the employees at
the state capitol to assist Mr.. Loman in his fin
ancial circumstances. This is only in
stance of thousands of men who make politics
a profession. 1t is all right for young meu to
take an active part in politics. but when it
to being chronic office seeker, 1T is a
mighty poor MISREPRESENTATION Star.
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A. T. Rockne of Zumbrota, speaker of the
next Minnesota House of Representatives. has
adopted new plan of dealing with the ap-
pointive positions for the session. Instead of
of giving them to his friends, he will give so
> many Jobs to each congressional district and
then let each district have a caucus and divide
the plmnls among themselves. As to the com
mittee appointments for the members he is
finding out what each member wants and en-
deavoring to give it to him unless his demands
are unreasonable. Speaker Rockne and Lieut..
Gov Eberhart will have their appointments
ready the first or second day of the session.
During the closing days of E. I. Young s
term as Acknowledgement, another victory has
been won by him in the matter of the applica-
ton of the four cent gross earnings law to the
railroads with territorial charters providing
for only two or three per cent. Notwithstand-