Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-02-13

A joint equal suffrage resolution,
proposing an amendment to the state
constitution, was introduced in the
| New Mexico Legislature.
W. C. Gemmill of Lincoln county,
formerly state senator, is reported as
candidate for position on the board
of charities and corrections.
1t is now rumored that the hedge
hog never has gone into winter quar-
tiers this season so that we really
don't know what tile weather will be
for the nextsix weeks.
Tits quite probable that the present
legislative investigation of the state
prison will result in doing away with
the shirt making contracts. And no
one would he sorry if such was the
case.
| Lobbists are growing thicker as the
end of the legislative session ap
proaches at Pierre. Several have ar
rived in the interests of optometry,
the new school of medicine.
| A few American dreadnaughts in
Mexican waters will be an effective
safeguard to American citizens on the
| asA ~ hn hor -
American business that has strayed
too far from home.
Coastwiss trade in the United Stat
es amounts to something immense
1t has preserved the skill of Ameri-
cans as shipbuilders, and these are
but two Of the advantages of the ma
tional coastwise policy.
The unalloted land on the Standing
Rock Indian reservation will probab-
ly be thrown open to settlement in
the spring of 1914 as the result of a
favorable conference report in the
house of congress-.
The Kansas house of representa-
tives has passed a constitutional
amendment providing for the recall
of all public officials, including all
judges. A petition of rs per cent
can force recall election.
There have been other open winters
in this fair land of the Dakotas
Thirty five years ago on the 9Th inst,
according to the Yankton Press and
Dakotan, snake was killed at Mar
tella, in Hutchinson county, and the
mercury on that day mounted to SO
degrees above zero.
Governor Wilson's inspiring words
are doing the work whereunto they
we're sent. Men who have been count
ed as reactionary are now saying that
that the country expects progress and
that the pledges of the party must be
carried out. This is true in the vari-
Gus states also. The harvest is ripe
and the reapers are numerous.
| When President-elect Wilson wants
any information regarding the work
ings of any branch of the government
machinery, he gets it by viewing the
situation himself. Recently he visited
Ellis island and with a scrutenizing
eye watched the immigrants from
every country in the world being ad.
mitted or rejected to the republic.
II Butterflies, humble bees and Mead.
ow larks have been reported as ap.
pearing In various parts of the state
and there is one we'll authenticated
case of hay fever. All of which testi
6es to the mildness of South Dakota &
climate, and affords good grounds fol
the hope that we may one day walker
to find ourselves basking in the sun
light and warmth of the banan 8
belt.
| 1t is evident that Mr.. Wilson il
giving his time principally to his
position of Governor of New Jersey,
since the Democratic party leaders
complain that he does not tell them
what to do, or let them into his plans.
| Yet these same critics in some cases
/ feel terribly certain" that Mr.. Will.
son as President will shoulder most
of the responsibility in connection
with the big questions affecting the
party and the country.
/ 1t transpires that the progressivee
of the United States senate who are
opposed to the progressive demand
for single presidential term, most
Of them, assumed that the proposed
Legislation was aimed at Colonel
Roosevelt. Principles, not men, was
once the progressive war cry. The
color that comes out in the wash il
not the progressive war cry. The
color that comes ont in the wash i.