The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-23

or bill to assess his personal pro
perty at 10 per cent while every
body else pays 25 per cent-if tn,
farmer wants these or any othel
things we are here to give them tt
him. Nothing is too big for us tt
rise to, nothing is too small for III
to stoop to-if only we are assured
that the farmer wants it.
Stealing Skaiem's Thunder.
Once upon a time there was {
statesman in a legislature far from
Minnesota who went home at the
end of the session and proudly asked
for reelection upon the ground that
he had voted "No" upon every
question that involved the expendit
ure of penny of the state:
money. Two years ago E. P. Skai
EN- came down from Becker county
and built up quite a reputation BY
voting mo" with monotonous regu
larity; so much so, in fact, that one
day when Mr.. Skaiem had bill OF
his own up for consideration the
house put up a job on him and
everybody, except the gentleman
from Becker, voted a laundering
NO. Just as the Speaker was
about to announce the vote every.
body changed to aye" and Mr.
Skaiem was sent home happy with
his bit of bacon unburned. This
year Mr.. Skaiem with his handsome
beard, his genial disposition and his
stubborn mo" is with us again
but somebody is stealing his thun.
der. Anderson, A, the gentleman
from Cottonwood, Anderson. S. P.
the gentleman from Clay and And.
erson, G. A. K, the gentleman from
Norman, all members of the house
find themselves right at the very
forefront of the roll call. One OF
the three manages to vote 'No" or
pretty nearly every roll call-car
all three of them have perfectly
good lungs. The gentleman from
Becker, Mr.. Skaiem, far down or
the roll call, is at great disad
vantage; the Anderson family beats
him to it every time.
Batting the University. 2
From the, time that the first state
university was established. down tc
this very day one of the favorite oc,
equations of every legislature i:
lauding the little red school house
and lambasting the, university. II
sounds good and it is perfectly safe
When Col. Wilkinson. whose minc
breeds suspicion of everything and
everybody from the days when il
haunted the halls of legislation az
a Lobbyist for the Great Northern
railroad, when the Colonel CAM
find anything else to point the &C.
cusing finger at he shakes it madly
at the state university IA sewer'
he roared the other day, "into which
we pour our money by the mil
lions" We failed to suggest to the
Colonel that the people seem to
think the university is temple of
learning into which they are pour.
ing their boys and girls by the
thousands-some ten thousand this
year we believe. But we didn't dare,
the Colonel might point his finger at
u.s.. he might skin us alive. The
socialists do not like the university
either. The board of regents took
one of their number who was
preaching sedition during the war by
the seat of the pants and cast him
out, whereat there is still among
the communists and socialists much
Walilng, and crashing of teeth.
Naturally they think that the uni
Versity teaching staff would be a
good place wherein to set up a
soviet, SO they proposed law to
take the hiring and the firing of
university professors and instruct
ors from the board of regents and
give it to the professors and the in
structors themselves, common horse