Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-09-17

II you like the Saturday News, tell your %neighbors about it; if
President Wilson has appointed October 4 as a day for prayers
for the cessation Of hostilities in Europe.
What's news, anyway? Anything that a man has never heard
before, even though it may be two thousand years old. It's news
to him.
Sugar jumped in price more than fifty per cent. Has any one
heard of a corresponding increase to be paid the producers for
sugar beets?
The Gettysburg Courier-News is Of age--twenty-one. 1t is a
well edited, neatly printed journal, and is a factor in the upbuilding
of its community. go.
It's possible, although improbable, as we view it, that the Sat
urday News cartoon today may be based upon something other than
the mere imagination of the cartoonist.
Judging from the huctuation of the wheat and -four markets,
hanging upon every thread of the news from the seat of war, it
might not be s. very bad to close the wheat pit exchanges.
Election is only two months away and yet we haven't heard a
man express himself aloud Excepting Charley Day. against equal
suffrage. Have the brave men all lost their bravery?
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With the news that Germany may be in position to consider
terms of peace, wheat dropped seven cents a bushel Has anybody
heard of such a sudden drop in the price of flour? Don't all speak
at once!
There was scarcely a stir in the political field in South Dakota
indicates that some fears are entertained that he may make some
Roadway in his campaign.
The Vienna Standard has entered upon the second year of its
teens as a newspaper: 1t has always been clearly printed and
brightly edited and has invariably stood for the upbuilding of the
community and of the state.
"The Belgians are still living up to the fine reputation which
they enjoyed then, - declares the Argus-Leader, referring to the
quotation attributed to Julius Caesar to this effect: "Of all men
the bravest are the Belgians'
If the European war was started with any sort of an idea to
check the growth of socialism, as some people other than socialists
pie will have been killed off, especially socialists.
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Mr.. Sutherland says that he will permit the letters passed be-
tween himself and other members of the progressive executive COM
mttee to determine whether the committee endorsed Richards. We
have been harboring an idea that the resolution of the committee
and the vote thereon are better evidence.
The chief difference between a president and a monarch, after
all, is that at the end of four years the people have the privilege of
trying a new one if it's a president whereas rarely anything but death
latter case they don t even have a voice in saying who shall be the
successor.
There are some signs that the political managers have succeeded
in inducing the newspapers to mention politics once more. Incl
dentaly politics goes with the newspaper business, but the news
paper man who makes politics his chief aim is generally somewhat
discounted when it comes to business success and reliability in his
The planks in political platforms do not seem to have been nailed
down. President Wilson upon assuming office proceeded to over
turn the one with regard to the Panama canal tolls, and now Vice
President Marshall has announced that MI. Wilson will again be a
candidate for the presidency despite the platform which pronounces
for a single term.
Now somebody has jumped up to prove that Sherman never said
that war is hell A great many Of the pat and pithy sayings OF
great men may be traced to some smart newspaper reporter who
FELLOW said. Even some politicians in South Dakota never said
what they said they said.
Roger Sullivan was nominated for the United States senator.
ship by the democrats Of Illinois. Sullivan has never been accused
il would seem that Illinois, great as that state is, might have select
I'd just a trae better timber forh senatorial candidacy.
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The European war is said to have had a very depressing effect
We II seriously doubt whether It viii have d beneficial effect upon III,
rank and file Of this country IN any event, whether II long continues