The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-29
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
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match to it and 1000 stepped on
it."-Hanley Falls Press.
Jim Reed, former United States
Senator from Missouri, good
democrat from the ground up, says
if the republicans nominate a good
man land they WILLY for president,
they will elect him. Senator Reed
says Roosevelt has dissipated his
last and only chance-LeSueur
News-Herald.
President Jefferson in 1903 was
mercillessly ridiculed for negotiat-
ing the louisiana Purchase. Per-
haps his detractors had a prophet
ic vision Of Huey Long, who was to
appear on the scene later.-Mahno-
men Pioneer.
How times do change. A few
years ago we were cheering the
wheat yield and wishing for better
prices. Now we are cheering the
prices and wishing for a better
yield.-Park Rapids Enterprise.
VIII Rogers-Newspaper's Friend
Perhaps Will Rogers had as large
a circle of friends as any man of
this generation. His was a nature
that made and retained friends.
The Citizen News editor once
CHANGED to pass through Rogers
home town, Claremore, Okla, and
having met and become acquainted
with the editor of the Claremore
paper, while travelling together on
a National Editorial excursion,
stopped to renew the acquaintance.
The editorial office had a life-size
portrait of the well known come
dian hanging on the wall, and the
editor was enthusiastic in his
praise of Claremore's best known
citizen, counting him one of his
warmest friends.
Will Rogers was always a sup
porter and booster for the old
home town paper The following
article, written by Rogers, express
ed his feelings in his characteristic
way, along these lines:
Take my ham away, take my
eggs, even my chilli, but leave me
my newspaper. Even if it just has
such purely local news as Jim
Jones came home last night un-
expectedly and bloodshed ensued,'
or "Jesse Bushelhead, our local
M. d., is having one Of the best
years Of his career, practically
speaking-but they just won't pay
him when they get WELL The
county seat was packed yesterday
with prominent visitors from out
of town attempting to renew their
notes. and Election amt far off
and everybody is up for office that
can sign an application blank
Now all that don't seem much
news to you. But it is news to you,
especially when you know the peo-
pie and they are your own folks.
So no matter how punk you might
think your local paper is getting,
why just take it away from you
and see how you feel. The old
newspaper, I think Is just about
our biggest blessing.
$50 let's all read and be merry
for tomorrow the paper may not
have enough ads in it to come
out" -Alexandria Citizen-News.
The curbing Of large industrial
concerns and monopolies is the
most desired thing to be brought
about in the United States. To
have the government own and con-
duct industry Is not practical,
however, as it has sitting effect
If carried out on a general scale.
Big industry must be regulated by
law, and made to realize that 1t
cannot run for the sole purposes
of exploiting the nation and It's
people and amassing huge for
tunes for a small group Of people.
It must be reminded, and forcibly,
that the huge population OF ordin-
ary people must be taken into con-
sideration in industrial as well as
other development. Otherwise we
are building a nation on a rotten
foundation instead OF a country
with a loyal and satisfied people.
A populace and country cannot be
bled white in exploitation and sat
isfactorily survive.-Eveleth Car
ion.
Wants To Come Home
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft
evader Of World War days, who
for eighteen years has been living
in Germany because he dared not
come back to America without the
certainty of going to prison, is
now begging American authorities
to return and is even willing to
face trial by court to do so.
What a pity is it that others
who ran up and down the country
preaching the beatitudes OF Nail
ism, Communism, and Fascism can
not be forced to live in the coun-
tries under those forms Of govern
ments for few years. Maybe they,
too, would beg to get back to Am
erica and would appreciate the lib
critics they have enjoyed here.-St
Cloud Sentinel.
Regardless Of what the United
States supreme court decides about
the processing taxes, we believe
that in time they will be abolished
and the benefits will be paid to the
farmers out Of taxes levied on
those best able to pay. At the pre-
sent time these benefits are paid
by the consumers. rich and poor