Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-03-13

SI.OO Per Annum.
A woman doctor in Chicago Ell
dorses large feet. Well bet she
has d pair OF that kind herself.
The st. Louis Times, a sort of in
dependent Republican paper has not
a political idea that is not rooted tC
the dollar mark.
Standard Oil stock sold The other
day for 1896 per share, the high rec
ord price And this is one OF the
trusts that has been busted
The Journal is no Hopper and
win holler for Teddy until the cows
come home. Ii he is defeated by
Taft or anyone else We will take it
that the kline are in the bvre
Mexico would now be a peaceful
happy and prosperous country if
the United States had anLeXcd it
at the close of the Mexican war.
Look at Texas, what We made of
her.
When it comes to booAing the
Swiss seem TO be the top notchers.
The mortuar, statistics OF that cOun-
try show that every tenth adult in
the towns surcumbs to the ravages
of chronis alcoholism.
The Colonel is too radical" Lin
day. In fact the Republican part!
was first organized by the radicals,
Now we are told its chief mi, sio}
is to be conservative.
Look for a big jump in the So
ciatiStic vote heXt November. In the
las. election held in St Louis the
Democrats ran behind the Socialist
party. There is more of the same
kind coming this year.
Secretary OF War Stimson, who
owes his position and political prom.
t~ Nv. Dnocn,,lt rp1g
ly nursing lis job when he turned
the Colonel down TO support Taft
There are lot OF StimsonS in
the political same.
If the Republican voters of this
county can't stand for the nomina-
tion of Roosevelt they can say so
at township meeting Just as well as
they could in a county mass conven-
'tion. At any rate, give them the
chance to vote directly as to their
choice,
In fifty years from now the peo-
pie will hold the great industries
Of the country under collective own
ership or the plutocracy will have sc
extended it's power that the work
ers will be held to their tasks AZ
the point of the bayonet. and will
.subsist in practical slavery. How
ever, the signs point tc the SUI
Dremacv OF the people.
If our Taftite friends can point t.
any election since 1905. with the cN-
ception Q: that held iE st. Louis in
1910, that encourages the belief that
Mr.. Taft can be reelected. We are
willing to take back lot We have
said about him. If it was not the
policy of the Taft administration that
brought about the Republican revcrs-
es since 1908 what was it?
A big strike in the coal mines in
this country is in fair way to be
prccipitated in the spring. for the
operators say it is 'impossible' to
accede to the demands OF the min
ers. Perhaps so, but we note that
it is never impossible for the oper-
ators to raise the price OF coal on
a very small or no proVocation. Who
gets this increase, the miners?
Not in a thousand years.
A Lees Summit. Mo, farmer
makes big money raising deer in q
twenty acre orchard. Washington
county offers many fine sites for
deer parks. The man above referred
to claims THAI he started in six years
ago and has sold over a thousand
dollars worth of stock animals and
yenison since, from an orisinat herd
of only six deer. There is no law
in Missouri that prevents man from
selling deer or venison from his pri-
vate preserves
Amundsen, who has just discOv-
erer the south pole, says his party
traversed smooth sea OF ice. that
sounded hollow to their footsteps
They named it the Devils Ball
Room" That shows how far even
scientific men let their thoughts &C
apace, what would the Devil want
with field of ice as ball room
when all tradition tells us that the