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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
Absolutely Pure
NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE

and shrewdest politicians of the
state are opposing him, are working
in the Gordon camp. They are men
born to success.
But even they can't fight the fates.
Gordon can retain the place he
has now just as easily as Governor
Eberhart triumphed last year. No
man in the state can take the second
place away from Gordon if he says
he wants it.
Thus far he has done nothing to
hurt his chances. He has not brok-
en- with the administration and even
if he did he could doubtless be nomi-
mated and elected.
What his situation will be two
years nence is a mystery. Ii he
puts through the session of the SEN
ate as successfully as he did last
winter he will be formidable can
didate for first honors. That looks
like his best game unless things
break decidedly against the govern
or during the next four months. If
Gordon is going after the place he
will have to declare himself early
in the year. And meanwhile Eber
hart is perfecting his organization
and carefully formulating the plans
of his campaign.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

Sydney Anderson, who defeated
Jim Tawney in the First last fall,
made speech in congress just be-
fore adjournment which was wierd
mixture of Bryan's great Chicago
speech and utterances by Webster
and Clay. The New York Sun
threw the shafts of it's sarcasm at
the speech and concluded with the
observation: Poor old Tawney
couldn't make speech like that to
s.ye his life" Which is perfectly
true.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES.

Wholesale criticism of public fiji
Gals with unstinted charges of cor
ruption should cease, said Champ
Clark in speech in Missouri the
other day.
The Speaker is right.
1t is not unusual to hear man
called a CRATER and the only visible
evidence of graft is his success in a
public office.
Was he not elected to succeed?
Think it over: Of all the charges
of corruption you have heard what
one could have been proved?
"Oh, for the rarity of human
charity!"
Are public servants not to receive
the same consideration extended to
private cltlZenS!
What right have you to speak
slightingly Of an official unless you
have the proof? Has he not been
raised to his high position by the
free vote of your peers? Is he not
responsible to the whole people and
not to you personally?
The effect of this criticism is ma
licious. 1t destroys confidence, it
breeds unrest, it initiates against
efficiency.
The Gazette is not claiming i'm
munity for public officials. 1t has
in the past and it shall in the future
bestow censure where it believes
censure is due. But it will never
charge an official or a private citi-
zen with dishonesty until it knows
the charge to be proved beyond the
possibility of a doubt.
1t will question motives and dis
agree with deeds and regret in
f1uences.
But it shall never attempt to de-
stroy public confidence or beget sus-
picion bv making unfounded charges
or groundless insinuations.
Mans inhumanity to man" has
made politics a by-word for cor
rustion.
Doubtless there are dishonest pol
iticians. Doubtless there are dis
honest ministers.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

Pointedly direct are the following
questions asked by the Duluth Her
aid, to which the People must find
an answer if there is to be a politi-
cal regeneration of this state:
why did the railroads pick out
Minnesota, alone among the states
that have reduced railroad rates,
for demonstration of their ability
to get away from state laws like the
2-cent fare law of 1907?
IF that question hasn't occurred
to you Mr.. Minnesota Citizens, it is
high time it did, and high time you
gave it good deal of earnest, care
full thought.
North Dakota reduced the rail-
road passenger rate by state law
fromi3 cents to 2a.cents.
Wisconsin reduced the railroad
passenger rate by state law from 3
cents to 2 cents.
Iowa reduced the railroad pas
senger rate by state law from 8 to
2 cents.
Minnesota reduced the railroad
passenger rate by state law from 8
cents to 2 cents.
But
"The railroads took the Minnesota
law into the Federal courts and got
it knocked out by the Sanborn de-
cision. On July / the passenger
rate was restored to 3 cents.
$50 that the passenger fare now
is 3 cents in Minnesota.
but it is still % cents in North
Dakota, 2 cents in Wisconsin and q
cents in Iowa.
why did the railroads single out
in this manner?
why is it that they have sue
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
BEHIND THE POLITICAL SCENES.

When it comes to discussing his
political future Senator Knute Mel
son has the Egyptian Sphinx talking
as eloquently as Demosthenes.
The voluble senator was a tran
silent in st. Paul the other day and
met in conference with certain wise
ones, or rather the three celebrated
politicians whom he met were in
conference. it being understood that
the senator lived up to his oyster
like garrulity.
United States Marshall Grimshaw.
erstwhile custodian w. w. Rich and
Major Fred Won Baumbach were
the mighty triumvirate that tried
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

Ex-state senator Stephens is boost
ed for lieutenant governor, to dis
place Mr.. Gordon, the present in
cumbent. 1t is possible that Mr..
Gordon may not be candidate for
reelection, but if he is the chances
for Mr.. Stephens nomination wi
not be very encouraging. Mr.. Go
don made An ideal presiding ofie
and II ne cares to retaA his
there is no use for any onA else
break inst. Peter Free Press
According to St. Paul poll
writer there is 10 be three COZ
ed congressional fight in this dis
and Congressman Volstead of c
lite Falls, l. C. Spooner of Mo 4
and Frank CIague of Redwood F Is
are named as the trio of candida es.
While all of these gentlemen ARE
pretty sure to get into the race. we
might name three more probable
candidates. With such a line urb it
would seem as though Congressman
Volstead will have little to fear.
Cottonwood Current.
The so called progressive" move
ment of the present day is not Vi
like similar movements in the past
that the front of the stage is occ
pied by many men who are almo
hysterical in proposing reform f,
the future, but whose past recon
fails to disclose any such burning
solicitude for the welfare of the
people when the power to do some
thing lay within easy reach. We
believe in giving the pick pockets a
chance to reform but they should be
required to begin at the bottom
Chisholm Trihune-Herald.
They say Jake Jacobson is think
Ing of taking shy at that congress
man-at-large job. Should the Sage
of Madison break into congress there
would be something doing. One
good thing about it is that Jake, if
he does run, will run on a progress
slve platform. When he walked for
governor he probably absorbed con-
siderable valuable information reia-
tive to the Minnesota republican,.
machine. -Sauk Center Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS.

Every newspaper of the state
should take up rate discrimination
and pound hard until the subject be-
comes an issue and reaches the ears
Of the railroads and commissions,
who are not needing the weak de-
mands made by few. There can
be but one result and that is to
build up populous centers at the ex-
pense of rural towns. Falls
Tribune.
Word comes down from Madison,
Lac qui Parle county, that one Jake
jacobson is inclined to allow his
name to be used as "a candidate-at-
large for congressman. Well, if
Jake really gets into the game there
will be something doing along politi-
cal lines, and it will be tough work
for the man who opposes him. We
do not pretend to know what set of
men may be responsible for his can
dldacy, but they sure have hit upon
a strong man. Jake is known from
one corner of the state to the other,
and his friends are legion. He is in
every way fitted for the position and
would be an honor to the state
Granite Falls Journal.
The cost of living is higher than
ever, but every time you persuade
a boy to quit the dry goods business
and go to farming, you do more to
remedy it than can be accomplished
by legislative investigation. In
terlake Tribune.
Reciprocity will not and cannot
b, an issue in the campaign next
year. 1t is nonpartisan. The prin-
ciple has been favored by both the
great parties for forty years. The
democratic party of course. will not
oppose it. The principle is an ex-
emplification Of the golden rule in
politics and among governments. 1t
does not mean disaster to any in
dustry. 1t does not strike at any
class. It does mean industrial pros
perity. 1t means also that every
class of American citizenship will be
sent out upon the high road to pros
perity. -Janesyille Argus.
We don't at all mind saying that
we do not favor MIR. jacobson as
congressman at large from Mime
sofa. He is by no means and for no
particular one reason necessity to
the progressive movement as cam
didate for that important post
Cannon Falls Beacon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

ceeded in getting back to the 8 cent
rate. the rate that has been in force
for generation without any change
except the brief one brought about
by the 2-cent rate law of 1907, in
Minnesota, while they have not even
attempted to override the state
laws which make the rate cents in
Iowa and Wisconsin and % cents in
North Dakota?
There must be some reason for
this. There is a reason for it. And
it is time that every citizen of Min
nesota set his wits to working to
find out that reason.
Gould it be that the railroads
singled out Minnesota for this unen-
viable distinction because they real
ize that they were perfectly safe
from any interference on the part of
the administration of this state?
eff that is the reason the present
condition fully justifes their conf
dence.
Though the railroads have re-
stored the old rates on both passen-
gers and freight in Minnesota, no
move of any kind has been made by
the state administration.
Though the railroads are taking
their pound of flesh without abating
a jot of their demands, and though
it has been shown again that rail-
road property isn't taxed half
enough in this state, the administra-
ton hasn't even made a move to-
ward bringing about fair taxation
of railroad property.
IF the railroads picked out Min
nesota, for attack because they were
assured that they would not be dis
turbed in any way by the state ad-
and that no move
would be made in behalf of the in
terests of the people, the present
of inactivity on the part of
the administration shows that the
railroads know what they were
about.
"And if that is the condition in
if the railroad interests
can override state law, defy public
sentiment, and laugh at the plight |
Of state denied the right to regu-
late rates, though every state around
it has that right, 'then.it is time the
people of Minnesota did something
very positive, very aggressive and
very revolutionary to change it.
"Shall Minnesota be governed by
special interests for special interests
or by the people for the people?
THAT is the present issue in this
state"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
BY GROVE e. WILSON
Repayment.

That part of me that from the earth hath come
Eet earth take back again when comes the hour
That marks of my achievement the full sum,
And sets the limit to my feeble power
l Crude no bit of 1.-THE loan of clay
That from her breast I've ia en- l shall return,
And have no slight reluctance to repay,
Nor ever think the debt incurred to spurn.
But that which of the spirit is in
Let no earth-creditor of me demand;
To earth give earth's to Immortality
The gifts divine from the Immortal Hand.
John Kendrick Bangs in Scribner's Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

There are certain people who bite
the hand that feeds them. That's
what the newspaper editor does who
opposes Joe Keefe, one of the best
friends the newspaper boys had in
the legislature last winter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

Its amusing to watch the antics of
the friends of the people" when
Jim Tawney is mentioned as the
right man for congressman-at-large.
But no amount of contortion will
hide the fact that Jim is the biggest
of them all.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

How the postmaster editors of the
district jump to it when Volstead
whistles! After all there was some
sense to Carlyle's observations about
the slavery of leash MENUS"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

If Redwood County does herself
justice tomorrow she will have the
state fair looking like an amateur
training for ski tournament.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
to worm out of the senator his in

the senator where he is. He has
proved useful to them, whatever
they may have proved to him. If q
new man were to slip into the place
now occupied by the Alexandria n
sage things might change.
| But selfish or not they are right t.
More than that they doubtless
know that the Senator will make
the race. 1t is reasonable to sup.
pose that he gave them assurances
that in case there is no decided op-
position, that is that Governor Eber-
hart does not mess things up by
sliding over into the senatorial field,
he will ask for reelection at the
hands of the people.
There is no reason to believe that
Senator Nelson fears the Keefe bill.
More than once in his political
career he has appealed to the voters
of the state and they have never
failed him.
They would not do so now.
And yet if he does not make the
race it will be because of the Keefe
bill, however paradoxical that may
sound.
The senator is m ghty close to the
three score and ten limit but byrea-
son of his good works that need not
alarm him. Still the fire and endur-
ance of youth have gone out of him,
the strain of active campaigning
cannot be contemplated by him with
out dread. The Keefe bill opened
the way for bitter and arduous
fight.
He can avoid it only by refusing
to make the race.
Should he have no contest at the
primaries in his own party, a con-
dition not at all likely, he would
have scrap with the Democrats
and there are some good, strong
men who might be kicked into the
game.
Whatever the situation he will be
obliged to make a statewide cam
paign. There are those who talk of
his hold on the people as sufficient
to win his election without an effort
on his part. Those who talk so are
showing the intelligence of nickle-
plated door knob.
In the end you should be safe in
betting that Uncle Knute will be in
the game. and will win.
c. R. Davis in the past has skill
fully lined up both the Republicans
and Democrats behind him in the
congressional contest. His district,
the Third, has a great many Demo
cratic voters.
These under the wise manipula-
tons of Frank A. Day stood for
Davis who was one of the most
worthless of three or four worthless
members Of the Minnesota delega-
ton. He has been credited with be-
ing the most unpopular man in con-
gress.
Well, if he fails to land the Demo
Gratis and A. J. Rockne comes out
against him a good live Democrat
should be able to win out. Davis
and Rockne would split the Repub-
Iican vote and leave an opening for
the candidate of the minority.
In clear field Rockne would have
a comparatively easy time behead-
ing Davis.
AS time passes it looks more and
more like Eberhart. Just what
Sam Y. Gordon of Browns Valley
is going to do no one knows. At
present he is consuming all of his
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19

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measure taken here-.and be
done with it. You needn't
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what beautiful tailoring can be
done at a low price.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
,53 PAYHAYS IN 1910;
Il DID You GET WISE?

How many paydays in a year,
supposing you get paid every Sat
urday?
Huh, that's an easy one. Fifty
two weeks in a year; 80 paydays
in a year
It's good guess, but you're
wrong this year.
For in the good little old year
of 1910 there were 81 Saturdays,
and consequently SO paydays.
That's correct, the calendar says
so. The very first day of the
year 1910 was Saturday, January
|, and the very last day was Sat
urday, December 81.
Incidentally, it has been 13
years since we had a year with SO
Saturdays, the last year being
thus abundantly blessed with pay
days being the year 1898, when
Saturday was both the first and
last day of the year.
Incidentally, also, it will be al
most 100 years before there is
another lapse of only 10 years be-
tween years which have So Satur-
days, for under the ordinary
course of events every 14th year
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

man who has been calling upon
me, but he has been paying atten-
ton to a girl friend of mine. /
asked him to explain and he said
he saw no reason why should OBJ
iect. Do you think he still cares
for me?-Jane L.
A: CD My dear, you know it
takes more than one to hold a con-
troversy. If your parents see fit
to reprove you, is it necessary to
dispute? If they are wrong, state
your side calmly and convincingly,
and let it end there so far as you
are concerned. Parents are usual
ly willing to be fair and square.
If YOU are wrong it is your duty
to listen to the advice of your par
ents, for they are far wiser than
you. 1t does not follow that just
because you disagree with them,
you must quarrel with them, does
it? Look within your own heart
and see If the fault is not yours to
q greater degree than you now
think. Try the soft answer
remedy. 1t ALWAYS works. CD
If he has not asked you to marry
him, he probably cares for you
only as a friend. If this is the
case he is right. You have no
right to object to his attentions to
other girls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
AL AROUND
THE HO1EI
BY Cynthio ORGY

Not more than two kinds of
vegetables should be served with
a course. Lamb finds its appro-
pirate accompaniment in pota-
toes, peas, spinach or asparagus.
Roast mutton calls for satisfy,
spinach, turnip, cauliflower or po-
tatoes. Roast goose demands
onions creamed, prune or chest
nut stuffing or souffles, Hubbard
squash and apple sauce, of
course. Roast beef affiliates
with carrots, cauliflower, onions,
squash or string-beans.
To clean peppers put them in
hot salt water for 5 minutes.
Take out and remove the outer
skin, then cut the top off and re-
move the seeds. Keep in cold wa
ter until ready to use.
Chloroform will remove oil
stains from fabrics when all
other remedies fail.
When one Is travelling it is a
good plan to carry a small can
die with which to seal the bottles
one must carry. Light candle,
turn it upside down, and let
tallow drip around cork.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Say, Girls! Did You Ever Silly-Gise?
Here's the Raw Material for Party

fore both mortal and
immortal.
To be two opposite things is
to be paradox.
Therefore, Taft is a para
dox.
While Mr.. Taft is a paradox to
good many people, it is doubtful
If this way of proving it would
pass criticism. The error was in
assuming that Taft and Taft's
SOUL are one and the same thing.
Here's another:
A rolling stone gathers no
moss.
The senior senator from Mis-
souri, is a Stone, but as he is a
standpatter he doesn't roll.
Therefore, Senator Stone is a
mossback.
Is there an error in that argu-
ment?
Sure, you're on!
Next time you give a party and
want to start some fun, make up
some of these syllogisms and cut
pictures out of newspapers and
magazines to represent one of the
premises or the conclusion. Supply
one of the missing premises, or the
conclusion, and let your guests
guess the rest of the argument.
Or start one syllogism, and
award prizes to those who can
string the argument out the long
est with other syllOgiSms. Also
If there are any errors in the argu-
ment, award prizes to those who
first find them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

Here is a brand new puzzle for
ingenious readers of the Times to
work out. 1t sounds "high-brow
but it's real fun.
You get up in the morning, and
you unconsciously reason to your
self, 1.-THE ground is wet. Rain
makes things wet. Therefore, it
has rained."
That's a syllogism of the sim
plest type. A whole book may be
nothing but one long syllogism.
But 1t always consists of these
three parts: A major premise,
which states the general rule; a
minor premise which classifies the
particular thing under considera-
ton; and a conclusion, drawn
from the premises.
If you can get an opponent in
an argument to admit your prem
ises he will have to admit your
conclusion. That's why you want
to be mighty particular before
you admit anything in an argu-
ment.
When you have reached one
conclusion through your syl-
logism, you can use that conclu-
sion as one of the premises of
another syllogism, and so on.
For instance:
1: All men are mortal.
- President Taft is a man.
Therefore, Taft is mortal.
2: Taft has a soul
Souls are immortal.
Therefore, Taft is immortal
8: Therefore, Taft is there
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

This is a picture of Miss Kath-
crime Abbott Sanborn, just as she
looks at Gavemty-one, and my
hair all my own" as she says her.
self Miss Sanborn earned her
first money by writing when she
was eleven Years old, and has new
er stopped. Since she was seven
teen she has earned her own Nv
ing as teacher, lecturer and writ
er. Her books, touched with
Ihumor and keen character obser-
vation, are widely known. Her
home is at Breezy Meadows, Met
calf, Mass.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

begins and ends on Saturday, but
the fact that the year 1900, not
being Invisible by 400, was not a
leap year. jumped the Saturday
years ahead one day.
So while 1910 has been a
mighty good year for people work
ing by the week and getting paid
Saturday-and a bad one for the
bosses who had to meet that ex-
ira payday, it will not be until
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

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