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Show GOOD "STI'ST" POD HMTORI A NUMBER of our exchanges have been speculating on what would happen if the eovernment took over the newspapers. Well, one thing, the subscription price would be raised I about i per cent and th- sheriff would M kept busy chasing delinquents. The next step would be to raise the wages 2," per cent and editors who hadn't had a cent in six months they could call their own, would be placed on a snl-' my. The merchants who fail to get 'heir ad copy in until press diy would be hauled up before the council of defense de-fense and our linotype man who hired out for two weeks and quit his job in a week would be sent to Leavenworth Leav-enworth for about ten vears as a deserter. de-serter. It looks like a good proposition proposi-tion and we are for it. The Fair-bury, Fair-bury, t Neb ) News. |