Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-09-03

istration Of justice.
Victor Powers is accused Of desiring
to be Minnesota s Hiram johnson. &c
do not particularly admire Hi, but he
broke the power Of the railroads in
California, so it might be possible to
accuse Victor Of worse.
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The state of Washington has an i'm
migration commissioner who is mar
vel. He states that this is poor time
to move west, that many men are out
of work The truth, like this, is bet
ter than fowerv untruths.
We are afraid that Editor Melon
of being convicted Of high treason. He
has questioned the value Of the SER
vice to the party Of the national COM
mitteeman. This is certainly awful.
If the executives of our big cities
were half as worried over the problems
involving safety, comfort and decent
living among their inhabitants, as they
are about national preparedness for
war, things would be doing worth
while.
Chas. T. Kelly is back in the editor
ial harness and has taken over the Wa
dena County Advertiser, in an en'leav
or to keep the sheet from the ode
funct' list. Hope you make success
Of it cold Man, as we done miss YOU
since you been gone.
Some of the republican papers are
knocking Senator Clapp because they
say he is not republican. Clapp's ex-
hibition Of independence now and then
is what preserves whatever standing
he may have. If he had done more Of
it he would be stronger next year than
he will be. .-
If this country is so terribly unpre-
pared now, what's become of the many
millions spent by the Roosevelt and
Taft administrations on the army and
navy. amounts exceeding those spent
by many Of the nations which are al
ways under arms. An explanation on
this is due the people.
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Governor Hammond gave some sane
advise on the matter of national pre-
paredness at the Boston meeting of
governors. He assumed that the hun
dre'ls of millions spent in recent years
on the army and navy had some re-
suits. No one is going to rush Mime
sofas governor off his feet on this or
any other question. ~ -
Some of the newspapers publish
"best' editorials from other papers.
If we were accustomed to publishing
the 'rottenest editorials from other
papers. We should unhesitatinglv Sc,
lect the Duluth Nevs-Tribune' editor
ial entitled "Thc Easy Wav,' discuss
ing Bryan and Germany,-as entitled
to that dis-stinktion.
The cost of one year of the Great
War has been conserva lively fixed at
twenty billion dollars. This is mate~:
al cost: and such incidentals as lives,
widows, orphans, the blind, MANNED,
etc, are not included. But the Ameri-
can terrorists don't mind small mat
tiers like that. It is all SO glorious,
wonderful and fine that we must have
a share.
The Minneapolis Tribune gives some
inner history about the formation of
the late unlamented efficiency commits
sion, from which it would appear that
C. A. Congdon, the mining magnate,
dominated the commission through his
friend Craig. This was suspected. Like
many magnates. Mr.. Congdon is strong
for reforms which do not affect his in.
terests.
Marv McFadden is going to Europe
We see where the crowned heads will
become suffragists. We would rather
Mary wouldn It go, since it will be i'm
possible to keep her awav from the
'front.'. and there are risks there, it is
mite apparent from the news reports
Minnesota needs. Mary more than Eu
rope does, and all the newspaper crowd
win be trustino that she changes. he1
mind. ..15 T..