Morris tribune., 1909-09-11
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1909.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1909.
What is said to be the oldest document in
American history is being exhibited at the
state fair this week-the famous Kensington
stone inscribed in runic characters telling of a
Morse expedition to this neighborhood in the
year 1862. Heretofore this state has been very
careless with this valuable record.
There are lots of men who can be reformers
before they get into office, but it takes sand and
backbone to be real reformer afterwards. But
the latter kind are the ones the voters are look
ing for-Browns Valley Tribune
Does Sam Gordon mean this for a knock at
his own boom for lieutenant Governor?
Another Joker has been discovered in the
tariff bill The Philippines were supposed to
have practical free trade with this country, but
it is now discovered that the favorable tariffs
are limited to goods carried in direct shipments
crude way of substituting particular steam
ship line. This whole tariff business is getting
to be so full Of graft and corruption that direct
federal taxes would be blessing.
lively scientific controversy has been pre-
cipitated by Robert E. Peary. Not only does he
claim to have discovered the North Pole, but he
says that DR.. Cooks claims should not be taken
too seriously, and that the Eskimos say that
Cook out of sight of land The two
men will have to submit their claims to the
scientists of the world, but already the scientific
world is divided into two factions, and the
questions may never be settled. The log of a
journey to the pole could be forged with COM
paratve ease, but it is hard to think that any
scientific man would deliberately do So
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The statue of NJ. S. Quay, once the abso-
lutte boss of Pennsylvania and power is ma
tonal politics. lies in the freight depot at Harris
burg No one cares to assume the responsible
ity of having it set up in public place. After
Ouays death, his corruptionist friends in
troll of the state legislature conceived of this
method of honorng his memory, but before the
statue was completed, the reform forces had
gained ground, and now it is doubtful if the
sculptor will even be paid the $4,000 still due
Quay's short-lived glory contains a note of
warning to the public man of his stamp
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Last week one life exacted and another
placed in jeopardy as the result of the foolish
revolver-carrying habit. The story of the
shooting of Mr.. Somerville, at Sleepy Eye, in
dicates that it was nothing more than com
bination of hasty temper and handy revolver
If the revolver had hot been handy, Hayner in
his anger might have struck Somerville, but
that would probably have been all. AS it was,
he inflicted two serious wounds, and then took
his life thinking that he faced certain
death the gallows. Both the possible victim
and the who carried the revolver need the
protection which more stringent prohibition of
the concealed weapon would give
The proposed demonstration to ratify the
action of the Minnesota congressman who vot-
ed against the tariff bill has fzzled out The
Crasty newspapers of St. Paul went the limit
on tainted news in booming it, but the thing
never stood chance of being worked out
Many factors contributed to it's failure, but the
st. Paul papers overlooked the fundamental
cause. The brutal truth is that the most of the
Minnesota congressman were only near-insur-
gents. Most of them thought of stand
ing in with Cannon than of real tariff revision
and their voting against the bill at the finish
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