The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-16

it Is the more inarticulate among
the taxpayers who pay and pay.
while the rabble-rousing politicians
and many Of their dupes and hang
ers-on neglect to contribute their
share to the cost Of the various
governmental units which provide
them with a livelihood.
1t Is not pretty picture, but it
certainly demonstrates the insin-
certify of great many of our poll
ticians, not to say contempt for the
rank and file. And as long as we
let them get away with it, there
isn't going to he any change.-ex-
cept for the worse.-Duluth Free
Press.
Hjalmar Petersen Is reported as
having been offered deal by the
Mexican generals" OF the party
whereby Hjalmar Is to give Ben
son a clear field for denomination
in 1888 in return for support for
the governorship in 1910. at which
time the Mexican generals" ex-
pect to retire Shipstead and hand
his place in the senate to Benson.
There are several difficulties with
the plan: Hjalmar is not the sort
that makes deals with Mexican
generals" and Shipstead has indi-
Gated that he will be q candidate
again in 1910, in which case he
will be renominated and reelected
whether the Mexican generals
like it or not.-Morris Tribune.
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Benson Flying High!
Governor Benson is whooping up
his campaign for a second term;
he has never stopped minute
since his election last year. He Is
making county fairs now, by air
plane, to be as spectacular as pos.
sible. He is flying high!
Sunday he flew from Duluth to
Kingston, then back to Minneapo-
lis, and then across the state to
Appleton, for his third talk of the
day, venting his spleen on what he
calls the ''reactionary" Senate in
the late special session of the leg
islature.
The Senate, you will remember,
refused to be bully-ragged by his
excellency. and kept down the state
house tax program several millions.
We don't believe Lii Elmer is
fooling anybody but himself; he Is
losing votes regularly, as the voters
get a chance to figure out how
much Benson has cost the taxpay-
ers, in a Special Session which
wouldn't have been necessary at all
if he hadn't been so damphoolish
in the last Regular and in forcing
taxes to the highest point of almost
any State in the Union.
And he would have forced them
still higher if he could have!-
Leader.
Enforcement or Prohibition
We are not surprised that Liquor
Commissioner Mahoney is some
what disguised with the manner in
which liquor laws in Minnesota are
not enforced.
He circularized county, city and
village officials, calling attention
to the duty and responsibility they
should assume in enforcing liquor
laws which he and everybody else
knows are being flagrantly violat-
ed.
He asks that local officials do
their duty.
When the prohibition amend
ment was repealed the state liquor
laws became effective, it was pre-
sumed the illegal liquor traffic
would be wiped out, and that licen-
sed liquor leaders would be given
the protection they deserve.
But today there are hundreds,
yes thousands of illegal liquor deal
ers strung all over the state. rak-
ing in the shekels from the traffic.
There are 'mooners," the same as
before the amendment was repeal
ed. In fact there has been no con-
certed effort to clean up what was
left of the old prohibition illegal
traffic in Minnesota; it is going
full tilt on it's way to debauch a
state.
Now even the liquor commission
er sees the handwriting on the
wall. Public sentiment is becoming
exercised over the situation and is
to be heard.
If liquor laws are not enforced,
there is every reason to assume
that the next step will be state
Minnesota will not
stand for the present status.-New
Ulm Daily Journal.
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