Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-25

RRE. SOUTH DAKOTA.
The farmer who has strong gambl-
ing instincts will probably take a
/ flyer in wheat this spring.
A New York lawyer says legal hon
esty is impossible in America be-
/ cause of politics. Next thing we
know real estate men will be blam-
ing it on the administration.
The proposed increases in lake and
rail freight rates, both east and west
bound, were suspended by the inter-
state commerce commission for inves-
tigation of their reasonableness.
b. Finsand has purchased the Tor
onto Herald from Joe Shaver and will
take possession April l, MI Finsand
is not new in the business, and we
hope for him full measure of sue
cess.
The fact that one legged negro
voted eight times at one election goes
to confirm the suspicion that there
has been an Ethiopian in the wood
pile at Terre Haute.-Sioux City
journal.
Americas future police strength is
being threatened by the European
war. 1t is announced that already
there are 225 900 Irish at the battle
front and they are still enlisting by
the thousands.
The South Dakota state fair Off
clals have decided that only Dakota
cattle, hogs and sheep can be exhibit
ed at the state fair this year, because
of the prevalence of the, hoof and
mouth disease in some of the north
western states.
When reading that "the situation in
Mexico shows Improvement, let it
be understood that the comparison
does not go back very far, a week at
most. If the scope of a year is taken
in review, it can scarcely be said that
Mexico shows improvement.
Colonel Roosevelt is still proclaim
ing his belief that the ''surest wav to
avoid war is to be prepared for it,"
There are seven or eight nations in
Europe that the colonel will be com.
PEELED to pass over in selecting wit
nesses to support his claim.
The Pennsylvania, the new super
dreadnaueht, has been launched at a
cost of Sl3 3.00o.O 900 out in the short
space in which it has been in course
of construction, we have learned that
the same amount of money expended
in underwater craft would accom-
plish more.
For the first time in the history of
the United States the flow of immi-
grafton has been turned back toward
Europe by the war and there are
more aliens leaving the United States
than there are coming here to make
their homes according to the report
of Commissioner Caminetti.
John Redmond in a recent Man
chester speech said that 9S, 700 Irish
men from Ireland had enlisted in the
British army, and 115, 900 Irishmen
enlisted in other parts of the United
Kingdom. With the Canadian Irish
men at the trout the total is about
25O, 900
The final decision of the govern
ment fixing the date upon which the
opening of the new lands in the
Standing Rock reservation will take
place is good news to the people of
the Dakotas. 1t we'll means the ad :
dltion of several thousands of people
to the population of the twin states.
An English physician gives voice
to the opinion that small men make
better soldiers than large men, and
that it is folly to reject volunteers
because of their size. AS there are
more small men than large men in
the country, this tribute to their
potential bravery is likely to make it's
author more popular in England than
Lord Kitchener.
All the evidence has been taken in
tho q orhit