The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-02-06
CARL J. RICE WRITES


nut politicians from pound mas
ter up will get enough horse SEN
Sc to know that his chance to be
come governor is very slim, and
wonder when the so-calleCi
kept editor" will set enough
cobwebs pushed aside to see that
his chance Of being "half kept"
is very remote and that his
chance for becoming U. S. sena-
tor is nil.
1t is pitiful to see many of
these peanut politicians who
have through a long lifetime
been faithful to their superiors
in spreading false doctrines
fooling themselves and then
neighbors to stand in with the
so-called political bosses to the
end that they may eventually be
rewarded with some offfice--any-
thing from governor down to
cloakroon keeper. Yes, many a
man viii be glad at heart if he
can be rewarded, if ever so little
even though the reward may be
only the job Oh cuspidor renova-
ter At the State house. | know
many of these faithful ones
growing poor at the game and
and growing old and gray in the
service still on the waiting list
but more anxious than ever to
serve their masters (who kept
them poorly after alb realizing
that more speed must be obtain
ed il they shall be rewarded in
time to become famous before
their allotted time is up.
They feel in their befogged
one-sided kept" way that all
Will be we'll if only the radical
can be disposed of through tho
mob rule refrigerator route Of
the Ole Hanson route Changing
to the first convenient telephone
pole) and to their kept" way of
thinking anyone who differs
from their kept way of think
ing is q radical.
To their kept" way of think
ing it is all right for New York
to own it's docks and warehouses
(terrninals) but for North Dako
ia to own warehouses is the
rankest socialism, anarchism.
bolshevisln, |. w. w. ism
Their kept way of thinking (if
they know it) makes it good bus
mess for the State of Louisiana
to own a railroad with large
docks and cotton warehouses at
New Orleans but for the Dakotas
to own warehouses with no rail-
road becomes communism and
every other kind of ''ism. For
Seattle to run it's street cars is
0. K. But for Minneapolis to do
the same becomes radical I. w.
W'ism.
For North Dakota to mine coal
Cor freeze to dsath) is just it.
For Norway to run it's rail
ways, telephones, telegraphs and
water powers is alright for Nor
wegians over there but not for
the 1000 per cent Americans
over here.
These little kept fellows (but
poorly kept) you will notice are
always cham2ie MS of the side of
Big Business.
The recent fight and election
on the street railway franchise
of Minneapolis conclusively
proves this to be SO. If you read
the except press" Of the city you
noticed the advise to vote Eyes"
on the franchise on December 81
If you voted no you were a So
cialist, l. w. W., Communist,
Nonpartisan Lacquer, radical,
Townleyite, and an unsafe citi-
zen. The present mayor of Min
neapolis who Yves elected mayor
on an loyalty issue and supported
in order to beat the socialist Van
Lear was against the franchise
in this fight, and of course these
cobweb befoggcd kept" editors
whoe had championed his
election as mayor of Min
neapolis a few months ago,
true to their Keepers; about
faced and ralsed Mayor Meyers
over the Goals numerically for
opposing the Street Railway
Company, and he who above all
others a few months ago was
elected mayor as a loylist was
now classified as belonging with
the undesirable citizens, the /. w.
VS., etc.
This Minneapolis election shows
as plainly as anything that as
soon as you oppose Big Business
.