Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-02-18

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settlers
The last Wheaton Gazette Reporter carries
the advertisements of five auctions, each sale
taking page ad in the paper. A farmer who
has enterprise enough to order page ad IN
newspaper will be big loss to his community,
and Wheaton has five of them.
A few dollars spent in advertising an auc
tion sale properly will yield several hundred
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Using of any other worthy goods.
I ST
IA It is going to be hard matter for the Re-
publicans to pick a candidate for governor who
will receive the O. K. of Joel Heatwole and
Bob Dunn.-Osakis Review.
What's the use of worrying about some
thing that will suit Dunn or Heatwole? History
shows that the only o. K. candidate of either
party needs is the one that can be bestowed by
Bill Hamm, Ed Smith and Oar Resse.-Paynes-
vile Press.
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The payment of the Seabury claim by Gov.
Justice of the claim is repeatedly urged by
some and denied by others. Mr.. Seabury and
the other com missioners performed a most
valuable service in the building of the capitol.
It was an honorable service, and the disagree
ment arises in trying to translate this honor
service into pecuniary terms. It would have
been much more creditable to Mr.. Seabury to
have dropped the claim when he found there
was the least objection to it, a1tho he felt that
he had honestly earned it.
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The ridicule and abuse which is being
heaped upon Lynn Haines for his book on the
last Minnesota legislature is credit neither to
the authors of the ridicule to those who en-
Joy it so hugely. Naturally enough we all differ
on que stions of public policy and not all of us
can exactly agree with Mr.. Haines in all the
measures which he would like to see enacted
but no one can successfully controvert the pro-
minence of the allied interests in Minnesota
politics and espe cially in the Legislature, which
Mr.. Haines points out That the most import
ant and most active factor in Minnesota politics
today is the offensive and defensive alliance
between the allied interests, not even the
Senator Smith said when in his cups at the
Merchants Hotel in 1906. "They say that we
represent the interests-and we do"
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Andrew D. White ex-president of Cornell
and former am bassador to Germany in a re-
cent interview made the rather startling pre-
diction that not less than 5000 persons will be
m ordered during the next twelve months. He
considers the wave of crime which is passing
over this country in the present generation as
the gravest problem with which we have to
deal, and characterizes the condition of criminal
justice in this country as frightful. DR.. White
h las made study of this subject for the past
eight years and has reached the conclusion that
we are altogether too lenient in the punish
ment of criminals. He quotes statistics show
i ing that homicides in this country are far more
II numerous than in any other civilized country
in the world. They number forty three times
those of Canada and eight times those of
Belgium, which is known to have the highest
homicidal rate in Europe. DIR. White points
out that Belgium has death penalty, while
in Canada, which boasts the lowest rate, seven
elghths of the men tried for murder are punish
ed with death. In this country he says that
one murderer in seventy-fo gets the death
penalty, and that the average life sentence is
reduced to seven years. After criticising
our courts, DR.. White appeals to the people to-