The Princeton union., 1911-01-05

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Returning Past Favors
Some of the democratic politicians
have given dinner to Frank A. Day.
This was probably in return for the
pie he has dealt out in the past to
them.-Albert Lea Times-Enterprise
Be Careful, You New Solons
The man with the spotless reputa.
tion. who goes into the game of poll
tics is quite likely to come out with
one that is spotted worse than the
chap with a we'll developed case o1
smallpox.-Stillwater Gazette.
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A Good Proposition
We notice that the state fair aggre.
cation is going to ask the coming
Legislature for a million dollar
appropriation for the Improvement
and maintenance" of the state fair.
With the elimination of graft and
fancy salaries, that institution ought
to be able to take care of itself by this
time. Better turn those million dol.
lars, if the state has too many OF
them, over to the good roads fund.-
Western Guard.
Tuttle's Views OH Reapportionment.
It a reapportionment bill is moi
passed the coming winter there
will be some new faces in the legis.
lature as soon as it is possible to put
them there. The present injustice to
the northern part of the state ought
not to be longer tolerated. If some
OF the older counties have gone to
seed and lost in population that is no
valid reason for depriving the grow.
ing sections of the state of just
representation. AS for legislating
some of the senators out of Office there
are some of whom it can be said with
truth that the people and state would
be lot better off if they had never
been elected, and the sooner they are
sent to the political scrap heap the
DECENTRALIZATION Independent.
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Two Sides to the Question
There are two sides to this conser.
vation business. With 300, 900, ,OOC
acres of excellent land in the United
States withdrawn from entry Or dis,
posal under the various withdrawal
orders, the check it affords to the
growth and development of the
western states is apparent. Idaho
has fully one half of her area with
held from entry, and other western
states suffer, but not in the same pro-
portion. Forest reserves are all right
but they should be judiciously placed.
Much of this conservation talk is all
bosh and tommyrot. Just fad OF
some of the eastern people who see
possible profit for themselves and
care not a whit for the effect it has on
the western states.-Pine County
Pioneer.
City Editors Not the Whole Cheese
Some little two-by-four youngster
down in Kansas has written an article
saying that the country weekly should
abolish it's editorial page, since the
daily paper furnishes sufficient amount
of that feature, and in short the
country editor, according to this
writer, doesn't know much anyway.
The latter statement may be more or
less true, but we will be hanged if We
will Go away with our editorial page
as long as We run a newspaper. We
may not get brilliant idea very
often, but if among the heap of stuff
we write a gem should occasionally
appear we will feel that our efforts
have not been in vain. The editors o]
the big dailies are only human beings,
and we don It see that they are so all.
fred brilliant that they outshine and
dim what we country scribes have to
say. A country weekly without an
editorial, page would be 'weakly'
indeed.-Greeenbush Times.
The Commission Form of Governm ent.
Newspapers generally are support.
ing the proposed commission form ol
government, which is another name
fortgovernment by the moneyed aris:
tocracy. The more centralized the
government, whether il be national
state or city, the easier it is con.
troHed by money. That accounts 70,
the big daily papers supporting the
plan, but is not the reason for: sc
many country papers speaking of il
kindly. They are simply misled into
the belief that any change made can
not but be for the better. We dis
agree with them in this, it having