The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-12-31

make up the committees in accordance
with his best judgment 1t is right
here where public interest is bound to
suffer. 1t is in the committee rooms
where most of the bills get their fin
ishing touches and if the committees
happen to be packed" the public can
rest assured that it will get the small
end of the bargain.-St. Peter Free
Press.
A Farmers Club has been organ
lied in Underwood township for the
purpose of discussing important. and
leading questions of farming and
other topics that concern farmers.
Prof. Schultz of the state university
lectured at their meeting place one
night last week. Up-to-date farmers
in that neck of the woods.-Lamber-
ton Star.
The governors recent appoint
ment of commission to suggest
changes in court procedure with a
view to facilitating the administra-
ton of justice is generally COM
mended. The commission selected is
headed by Chief Justice Elect Brown,
and is composed of some of the most
eminent judges and attorneys of the
state. The purpose is to make it inn
possible to delay proceedings by the
interposition Of technical and dilatory
motions. 1t is plain that reform in
this direction is urgently needed, and
no doubt the Legislature will gladly
cooperate with the governor in an at
tempt to bring it about. Olivia Times
After all corporation lawyers are
not without their uses to the general
public; occasionally they can be in
duced to tell how it is done by the cap
tains of industry: Attorney Veeder,
who is said to have been the brains of
the Beef trust, has been relating in
court how the trust was formed, how
the territory was apportioned, how at
weekly meetings prices were arranged
and how the market was sustained by
limiting the output. And this in the
land of the free, the Eureka of OPP
portunity, the haven of safety for the
poor man with children to feed, clothe
and educate. And the men who were
doing. these things-in the name of
personal iberty-were piling up mil
lions that they cannot spend even in
extravagant ways of living. A stiff
prison sentence would be an excellent
antidote for men thus poisoned by
greed and luxury-but they will not
receive it; why Cannon Falls Bea-
con.
Watch and see if Mr.. Hammond
votes for the bill compelling newspap-
ers to run at masthead the names of
the stockholders and part owners of
such papers. The passage of such a
law might cause the springing of a
small surprise in connection with the
ownership of certain Hammond re-
publican newspaper not more'n mil
lion miles away.-Butterfeld Advo-
cate.
Next July the semi-centennial an
niversary of the greatest battle of the
civil war will be celebrated at Gettys-
burg. The legislature will be asked
to make provision for sending every
present resident of Minnesota who
participated in the battle to Gettys-
burg, more especially the surviving
members of the old First Minnesota
Without doubt the legislature will
make most liberal appropriation,
one large enough to provide the gal
liant old veterans with every comfort
going and coming and during their
stay on the historic battle field
Princeton Union.
When the government steps in and
attempts to regulate the private bust
ness Of publishers, it has gone far be-
yond its bounds. If publishers com
ply with reasonable rulings made for
the passing of their publications
through the mails, rules which all pat
rons of the mail service must and
should comply with, and pay the post
age required, we believe that the gov
eminent has gone as far as constitu-
tional limits allow without infringing
upon not only the liberty of the press,
but the right of every man to con-
troll and manage his own business
Albert Lea Tribune.
Theodore Roosevelt, asked what he
thought of the Carnegie proposition
to pension ex-presidents, replied: "My