The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

elastic, and did not make provision
for the lower rates now permitted
where country stations are reached,
using the twin cities as the starting
point by circuitous route. Admit
ing the force of this, why should all
traffic be supposed to originate and
to end in st. Paul and Minneapolis.
This is one Of the things the eastman
bill is designed to obviate. He wants
rates that would give the country
towns a chance. He would have
country Touring mills get the grain to
mill in the country tributary to them.
1t is his idea that it should be posi-
BILE to establish jobbing houses in the
smaller. centers of the state. He
would have such rates as would make
it possible to establish factories in the
interior towns. What he objects to
is just the eternal and everlasting
discrimination in favor of the country
towns which makes it practically i'm
possible to conduct a thriving indus
try anywhere else except in the twin
cities. A distance tariff in Iowa has
resulted there in the distribution of
industries over wide territory and
in the building of factories in great
number of towns which were little
more than crossroads villages when
the tariff went into effect. Would it
not be to the advantage of Minnesota
as whole ifsuch policy were adopt
ed here?
st. Paul, for some obscure reasons,
seems to have completely abandoned
it's fight against the Armour plan t
near New Brighton. At all events
the Rowe bill has been abandoned as
method of preventing it. There is
some talk of giving the state board of
health authority to prevent its estab-
lishment if it regards it as menace
to public health. AS the board has
already ample authority to prevent a
nuisance which actually exists, and as
no greater power can be given it, this
is generally regarded as subterfuge,
and it is thought that some other
reasons must be looked for to account
for the sudden cessation of hostilities
by St. Paul interests.
DR.. Witherstine of Rochester is not
among those who have lost faith in
the tuberculin test. He has observed
how it worked out in Olmstead county
and he finds that there in every case
where cattle have been condemed as
result of the test they have been
found to be tuberculous. He was
convinced that in practically every
case where the tuberculin test failed
there was something at fault with
either the serum itself or the person
using it. Neither is he disciple of
DR.. Koch in his theory that bovine
tuberculosis is not transmissible to
human beings. In'that view he says
DR.. Koch stands practically alone.
DR.. Witherstine called to mind an in
stance in his own practice. 1t was in
a family of four. First one and then
another were stricken until at last
they had all been carried off by the
plague. There was no tuberculous
history in the family, and the doctor
was at loss to account for the effec-
tion until at last it occurred to him
to go to the stable and look over the
stock. He found there a COW which
was rotten with tuberculosis. The
milk from this COW had been for years
used by this family: they had eaten
the butter made from it, and there
was no question at all in his mind
that the decimation of the family
was due to tuberculous infection
from this diseased animal.