Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-02-05

'o ~ heileNe tnat IL VIII De repealed IN toto.
With some notifications, with some elimin-
alton of cumbersome features, it is likely to prove
quite eective in curtaining the power of poit-
ical machines, despite the cry now raised against
Let those who would wipe it off the books be
ware of the wrath of the people.
We repeat that it is better to make two blades
of alfalfa grow where only one formerly -four
ishcd than to elect three men to Office where the
services Of only two are necessary.
False in one, false ia ali, is a maxim in law
and other things. 1t is passing strange that
when a public servant has once gone wrong, and
lacks the good sense to admit it and sue for for
giveness, there should be any longer manifested a
disposition to trust him. Mr.. Crawford went
down to Washington six years ago fresh from his
denunciation of Senator Aldrich and his senator
ial combination, and yet before he had been in
Washington many months we find him working
hand in glove with the Rhode Islander so to amend
the tariff law as to make it a political by-word
throughout the nation. What honest republican,,
aside from Mr.. Taft, at Winona, Mimi, has ever
had the nerve to face an American audience and
declare the Payne-Aldrich bill to have been in
line with such downward revision as the country
had reason to expect? And yet upon every ma
terial point, the South Dakota senator stood Shout
der to shoulder with Aldrich in framing the bill
in the senate. The record SO discloses and the
country at large, including the people of South
Dakota, knows it to be the case. Still, In the pend
ing campaign, Mr.. Crawford is again anathema-
q tizing AIdrich. $50 r~....
5- MI Noo4 a,no,, 20 Nolo,,I- l,.ro boo, +olJ
by the beet sugar manufacturers that they must
accept a less rate per ton for beets hereafter be-
cause the poor sugar trust cannot make both ends
meet under the existing tariff. We feel very sor-
ry for the sugar trust. Our heart goes out to it.
If we had a nickel left after paying for the last
dollars worth of sugar that we obught we would;
make it a donation.
IF anybody can make out how a campaign
manager is to gain anything by fabricating about
what the other man intends to do in face Of the
other mans proof to the contrary, he has a mind
for discernment not possessed by the average
mortal. The Shober dispatch about Burke's i'll
health and Burke IS intention to withdraw is a case
in point.
Some of the members Of the horticultural so
ciety seem to think chat Professor Hansen has be-
come arbitrary. Perhaps so. It's apt to be the
case where men have given lifelong attention to
certain things. But Hansen has accomplished
something worth while, nevertheless.
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Now, farmer readers, don't forget that you
better get IN your reports about your incomes
There is a fine anywhere from a few dollars up
to a few thousands for failure to make such re
ports to the internal revenue collector, who, in this
case, lives at Aberdeen. &c your net income ex
ceeds three Thousand dollars, better get a hustle
on yourself.
These newspapers which are SO free with theil
advice about the farmers making reports Of thei
incomes to the internal revenue collector shoul
not overlook their own cases. There are sevel
newspapers in Codington county, please bear u
mind.
The Public Opinion Of Monday gives a rattle
lengthy write-up telling the tax payers how TIL
new tax law has lowered their taxes. We be
lieve the tax payer will have to have more proc
than that given BY the Public Opinion to convinc
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