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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

March 12, 1914 · Page 2 of 8

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,vJ"*/-,* I" .* *w^p* VH' fKy". 1 •*, 1 4 1 %. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. WHAT CONSTITUTES them and for the guilty editors, should be free and not the slave favor must appear the high court A GOOD NEWSPAPER nhose small editorial, reference of some fool, fanatical or financial of last resort where are registered to art, music, literature, religion, :»acker free to give a square deal, the decrees of, public opinion toreigi and political news is but whose judgment is final and from not blacklist and boycott and (By G. L. Morrill) juried under a blanket sheet of whose erdict there is no appeal." never let "I dare not" wait upon AT THE If I were to become an idolater assault, adultery, fiction, fashion, "I would." I would not bow down to any A change has come over the GRARD OPERA HOUSE spirit of this high ideal pressdream gossip, lies, murders, raids, sensatibns, This Twentieth Century is the idols of Buddha or Kali, I have and some editors have become sportying and theatrical age of humanity, not theoretically seen in Japan and India, but news, worldly want ads and vicous so much of Moses in Genesis as would place a Bible and newspaper mean, mercenary, mendacious and muzzled. advertisements. Ghrist was practically of men and women in Our local city band, which has before me and kneel and that have stuck with the band Smooth things is the demand crowded out of the Inn at Bethlehem their every day life. It is the reputation worth envying for burn incense. through thick and thin for a few of the hour. The editor must not and He came to the big cities mission of the press to touch life discoursing good music, will again The printing of clay tablets' at years now, although one or tw startle or shame his readers but Sunday morning He wouldn't at every point, ring out the false give one of their popular free Babylon, Nile papyrus and skin have left the city on account, no get much space in their papers manuscripts has given way to the put them to sleep with lullaby and ring in the true help re­ concerts in the Grand Opera doubt, of receiving better remun» *0 news and. soporific articles. The unless He paid 75 cents a line for form drunkenness, slum settlement house, Sunday afternoon at 3 Hoe press which takes a roll of eration for their labors elsewhere* place for editorial low brows, it and even then they would and social evils give labor white paper, a bucket of ink and o'clock. The concert last Sundav Encomiums are due the band charge him an extra six-bits for makes millions sit up and take Weak wills, small lungs, shrivelled its due right the wrongs of childhood notice. souls and cowardice is not the word "advertisement" accordin and make this world a better the "sanctum" but the cemetery. gto the frameup of some politician place to live in where the The press and pulpit haVe been called twin evangels in informing William Marion Reedy, the beautiful picture hung by the angel and publisher. prominent newspaper man declares on the sky of John's beautific and reforming the race. The "WANTED: A NEWSPAP- the average newspaper is vision is realized. The aim, am" progress of the centuries has R" would make a good full page often been indicated by the milestones the supreme corruptor of the age bition and attainment of an ideal ad and I would be willing to pay in which we live that money is press will never be called "yellow," of the press. From the for it if I could get one with primary and truth and right secondary, so long as the people know iron, brass and silver age we have that in their anxiety to their editors have culture backed reached the golden one of newspaperdom, even one or two of the five5 following the grandest temporal get the biggest circulation editors by courage and consecration fcr characteristics: and managers appeal to the the American ideas of religion, gift of Providence. NEWSY: Everybody's doing ignorance, whim, prejudice and education, liberty and patriotism. It was not so very long ago mething all the time and it is passion of the reader." Masonic Observer. that the press was feared. At the the business of the newspaper to opening of the eighteenth cen~ To those Mr. A. Maurice Low, report it even though its rival tury Addison said he could not one of America's leading journalists, SALOONS COST CITY may have got a "scoop" and its see that newspapers were capable says' "The modern newspaper OF DULUTH $4,000,000 editor doesn't like the religion 01* of becoming great instruments of is a purely commercial institution the race or the politics, the private good that the people were made like a drygoods store or State and Duluth Ripe fcr Prohibition, or public life of the one who politicians by the publication of hotel, it is no longer a free agent. says Judge W ndom iid it. The world wants and has state matters and concluded, It cannot print matter that might 1 right to news which represent "One cannot but be sorry that offend or injure large advertisers everything and body clerical, historical, such a pernicious machine is Its hands are tied. While posing That Duluth's 179 saloons put political, scientific, literary erected among them." into the city treasury $179,000 as a missioner it grows rich on marked the opening of the season boys in that their concei'tsdo not and sporting. annually and cost the cit}r more the profits of the merchant. The and the general public are reminded When Sir Wiliam Berkley was conflict with the church services, TRUTHFUL: It's a Proverb, than $4,000,000 in maintenance advertiser must be treated with that these concerts are governor of the colony of Virginia so that the public have a chance "If you see it in a newspaper it and profits is an estimate made the same deference that an ex" being held for their special entertainment. in 1671 he thanked God that to spend the Sunday as they isn't 'so." Lies, white, gray and pectant nephew shows his rich by Judge W. L. Windom, who they had neither school nor printing We herewith reproduce should—take in the bard concert black are as easy as in Hamlet's spoke recently before the Wednesday Uncle." press and hoped they might a picture of the band Loys, then go to church in the evening time lies of ads an deditorials Night Study club at the not have them for a hundred Many people regard the Sunday which is precisely the same bunch and hear a good sermon. and politics and religion dictated Y. M. C. A. Most of this $4,000, years to come.He might as well paper as the Devil's Bible by a gold pen or pencil. We no 000, he said, came out ot the have commanded the sun not to where Sin is printed in great longer read novels for fiction but pockets of the poor as the weal shine or the tides to flow. The primer and virtue in nonpareil go to the daily papers. thy had liquors in their club necessity of public life demanded where colored supplement car The "Yellow Peril" is not the rooms and homes. the newspaper as a method of LIST YOUR BEST BARGAINS toons are not only comic but Far East but the far West of the education. "With this amount," said Judge coarse, confusing and caricaturing Galifornia press whose saffron, Windom, "the city could pay all One of the mightiest forces in art and nature in the minds of the sophistical editorials, filled with its bills for constructing public children who pour over its pages, our modern civilization is our false fanatic statements against buildings, street and water front daily press which has often directly and where "news fitting to the Have furnished me every month by Central our Japanese friends at home and improving, and taxes and come night,, black, fearful, comfortless and indirectly been the abroad, threaten the peace and out a milionaireat the end of ten Real Estate Dealers' Association lists of Best and horriblej," creeps and crawls pulpit's best ally. It has gone prosperity of our country. years." through its columns. forth a Jason to slay the threatening Bargains in Real Estate in Every State in the CLEAN: As in the time of State and national prohibition dragons and bring back the To the Sunday newspaper has Henry IV, "there's villainous were given as the only remedy to Union, including Minnesota and Koochiching nation's golden fleece. It has been been applied the Scripture, "They news abroad" of gossip, slander, properly solve the problem. a fist to strike illegal trusts, insurance could not see Jesus because of the County. If you have Anything to Sell List it co-respondents, skeletons in home "The state is ripe for the pas press," by those who felt it was dishonestly, corporation closets, confessions of salacious sage of a state-wide prohibition with me. It will be sent to Five Thousand steals, rate discriminations and unnecessary, unlawful, disrcputliianaged scoundrels in public, life. These law," said the speaker. "All dis' Samaritan hand to clasp the countries. A paper cities of the United States and Canada. are served with our meals in th sension in the ranks of temper panic stricken poor and disheartened able, a thief of needed rest, "Morning Stink-Pot," the "Even" —CALL AND SEE ME— ance workers of the state has of our own and other lands. breaker up of the family altar, an ing Sewer" and the "Sunday been wiped out. Sometimes it has realized Senator enfeebler of conscience, and an P. S. PENDERGAST Cesspool." "Afte a thirty-day campaign Ingalls splendid eulogy, "The unfitter for the sanctuary. Per What a home picture for a Cloquet wiped out its seventeen newspaper has become a tribunal sonally I read its headlines to modern Hogarth to paint of father REAL ESTATE AGENT saloons. Carlton with its six saloonsis where all cases are tried the know what specially to pray for and mother, with their children now the cuspidor of Cloquet. forum where all policies are acquitted and as I think of the big sea of International Falls, Minnesota gathered round, praying Angels This will cease to be after or condemned the stage printer's ink in which the readers and ministers of grace defend us the election of next Tuesday. where all contestants for public are to be drowned I pray for from the ghoulish garbage of the Other towns and cities will follow press." and Duluth will eevntually FEARLESS: Napoleon said, SIR-CAN YOU 5PARE\ take the same course." ME A LITTLE OF THE "Four hostile newspapers are ORS ES REAL TOBACCO CHEW more to be feared than a thousand ILL-TIMED HOWL bayonets." Under a Republican form of government as no where The fare at a certain boarding else editors are not to show th( house was ery poor. A boarder white feather not to echo public who had been there for some •f sentiment but to mold and make time, because he could not get AT public opinion not to supply away, was standing in the hall AUCTION demand from beneath but to demand when the landlord rang the dinner-bell. a supply from above to be Whereupon an old dog in the fore-front of reform to that was lying outside on a rug commend the good, censure the commenced to howl mournfully. bad, tell us what to fight against, The boarded watched him a little OVER 200 HEAD or accept and. make fellowship while and then said: with as friends. "What on earth are you howling Time was when the government for? You don't have to eat THE LARGEST SALE OF HORSES censored the press, now the it!—Tit-Bits. tables are turned and we have EVER HELD IN MINNESOTA censorship of the government by An Irishman, brought before a the press for the people. Let the —BE ON HAND— justice of the peace on a charge press fearlessly declare for all of vagrancy was thus questioned: creeds, conditions and classes THE GOOD JUDGE AND THE GENERAL Friday, March 20th, at 10 A. M. "What trade are you?" flash danger signals to warn "SWre, now, yer honor, an' I'm ^AKE a small chew of RightCut"—and youth against sins of body and a sailor." soul which surround them in see for yourself that a —AT—' "You a seafaring man? I question country homes and lie in wait to 4 whether you were ever at nibble of real tobacco is better than a destroy them in the city u- enquire BARRETT & ZIMMERMAN STABLES sea in your life." whether all the people are wad of the old kind. big "Shure, now an' does yer honor to have a square deal or the ma DULUTH, MINNESOTA Pure, sappy, mellow tobacco—seasoned and think I came from Ireland in a jority to be put in a corner olr sweetened just enough. "Finest flavor ever," wagon?" (Across from Duluth Post Office) graft and special privilege by the old-time tobacco users say. Different from the minority whether this government 10 CENT "CASCARETS" old kind. Richer, more satisfying. is to be of, by and for the The Offering will' Include Draft Horses, IF BILIOUS OB COSTIVE people or for, by and of a set And a ready chew• The fine flavor comes full Harness Horses, and a Large Number of clerico-politicians who disgrace along easy and without grinding. You naturally vi For Sick Headache* Sour 8tom*eh, the position they occupy giving take less than a quarter your old size chew—and Choice Brood Mares, some in foal. I Sluggish Liver and Bowel#—They credence to Dr. Johnson's statement lasts you longer. it /, work while you sleep. that "Patriotism is the last & IF YOU NEED HORSES FOR ANY PUR­ refuge of a scoundrel" or Walpole's Tiie Real Tobacco Chew HQc" Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, Indigestion, "Every man has his price ®v Sal low-Skin and Miserable Headaches POSE DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY RIGHTCVTI 10 Cents a Pouch come from a torpid liver and FREE: Freie press and free clogged bowels, which cause your A your dealer today. speech is America's motto. Her SK stomach to become filled with undigested WAIT FOR THIS SALE IF CHEWING "If he doesn't sell "RightCut," Cacour's idea of free speech aric food, which sours ^nd ferments ana send us 10 cents in like garbage in a swill barrel. That's TOBACCO free state are to be realized. YOU WANT HORSES |, the first step to untold misery—Indigestion, stamps, ^e'll send you a press must be free to." speak foul gases, bad breath, yellow pouch. S WCYMAN-BRUTON CO. cording to the dictates of its own skin,' mental fears, everything that is BARRETT & ZIMMERMAN CHtCfrOO. Ht. horrible and nauseating. A Cascaret .piouis and patriotic conscience anc Wm guarantee to to-night will give your constipatied bfg pur? chawing not be bull-dozed or bought up. WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY bowels a thorough cleansing and tobacco and Wttar DULUTH ^MINNESOTA harassed or embarrassed as it is straighten you out by morning. Thpy than thi old kink "t» IMaa S«un, Hnr T«k •. i, work w|iile you sleep—a IChcent tysc j-if. :.r ••.••• a -v -ow. 1 I in Russia and monarchially mis I from yotir druggist will keep you feeling 'Mi {managed countries.- paper 1004 for mcpths.