Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-22

President Wilson has drawn up
close and dares the money power to
kick.
The governor of Iowa has signed
the "blue sky" law, which prohibits
the sale of worthless stocks and bonds
in that state.
j. j. Hill, railroad magnate, asserts
that he sees no plausible reason why
the proper regulation of the tariff
should affect trade.
Governor Sulzer has called q
special session of the New York
in the hope of persuading
the passage of a state primary law.
The Huron Herald says that those
printers who took state work for less
than the cost of the paper stock,
"picked their own pockets" They
certainly did.
Washington Star: There will be a
slight inclination to claim that reports
of prosperity are exag gerated when
various gentlemen are called upon for
their income tax figures.
1t is probable new treaty will be
formulated between the United States
and Japan regarding the alien land
owner proposition. The administra-
tion finds itself in delicate position.
This is the time Of the year when
the old hen never fails to get into
your neighDor's garden. One good
scratching hen can in five minutes
scratch up all the friendship that has
been growing for many years between
Plans are under way for the build
ing of another highway to the Black
Hills, this one to run from Omaha
through the Rosebud reservation and
Bad Lands to Rapid City, where it
will be united with the other two
AS far as the promised effect is
concerned. the proposed tariff law
might as we'll have been in force DUR
ing the past year. Farm products
have been at q free trade level as a
matter of economic adjustment with
out any change in tariff legislation.
In Canada, the executive board Of
the National Council of Women, at
its recent meeting in Hamilton, pass
ed resolution asking Parliament to
extend full suffrage to women. In
Canada, single women and widows
already have the municipal vote.
Until the South Dakota democrats
settle their squabblo in this state the
president seems to be charry in max
ing appointments, allowing republi.
can incumbents of the principal fed
eral offices to hold their jobs and draw
the pay. Internal scraps never did
any good to any party, and both the
South Dakota republicans and demo-
Gratis are finding such to be the case.
1t begins to look as though the wise
democrats of congress and the white
house were going ahead with cur
rency bill for the consideration of
congress without giving any atten-
tion to the labors of the Aldrich COM
mission. The Aldrich commission
went over to Europe to find out how
to finance country, and allof its ex-
perience is to be wasted.
Chairman Simmons of the senate
delivered the goods on the first test on
the tariff quite as easily as did Chair
man Underwood in the house. The re-
publican proposal for public hearings
was taken by the democratic leaders
as intended simply for delay. and the
proposition was defeated Al to 36-
the democrats losing two democrats
and gaining one republican.
Aberdeen has to cut the number of
saloons down to eighteen, and one
man proposes that all the present sa-
loon keepers meet at the M. & st. L.
depot and run . foot race to the
Milwaukee depot, little over half q
mile, the first eighteen to arrive to
get the licenses. That would probab-
II put the business into the hands of
the men of the best habits, - far as
the use liquor ID concerned.