4or c. matters of taxation tLai t: let a town go dry and the brewer rushes liquor in and somebody INTERNAL bear it most who least complain" the t: in sells it or gives it away and the cry. goes up from these very men. and that tax dodging is resorteu 11 v.mi alternative was giv­ I his is worse than the saloon—and some people seem, to believe it. to most by the very people who AND SC of a .coo grant any for en are best able to pay. Much can We believe that the saloon as we know it is morally wrong, so do school that carries an agricultural be done to better these condition? most folks. Now, the supreme courts of our land have ruled that J.), l:• ii ifJ18"W Bntered as Second CJass Mai course with either manual assessors will perform their if Act I no man or set of men have any moral right to license that which ternational Falls, Minnl, under Jo training or home economics. At duties without fear or favor and is morally wrong. The "blind pigger" is an outlaw to be dealt with the last session this was increased ii. strict accordance with the law 8E0R6E P. WATSON, Editor and Manager as such. We agree with our friend that the "blind pig" hides away HITEMUTIMM. FALLS PRESS PUILISNIN8 CO. to $1,800. There is no longer any justificaton Since 1905 the state has been for a taxpayer failing to give in the cellar, wood-shed, garret and kitchen." Why? Because the of Official Paper Ranier Official Paper of International Falls. the assessor a full and fair re giving $750 a year to high schools Pigger is outlaw without protection or legal standing. So does an turn of all his personal property, that will help train teachers, increasing the murderer, the thief and other outlaws hide. The boy cannot including money and credits the allowance 1o $1,000 get liquor as easy as some would have us believe from the "Pigger." BUILD A HOSPITAL, OR The Hinckley Enterprise says: Every good citizen will do this at the last session. The lawbreaker gets caught too easy if he lets the boys into his voluntarily and the assessor if he "There is nothing wet in Hinckley KILL THE DOG—WHICH? These items reach the respect- does his duty will require ever) secret. Our friend quoted from the supreme court of Minnesota in but the streets." !able sum of $1,500,000 this year other citizen to do it. the case of the State against Stoffel, 89 Minn. 205. Why did he not jand 2,000,000 next year. There is The plan of licensing the It is said that seventy-one per quote from the National supreme court, which says: "The statistics perhaps no appropriation made by 1 COMMUNICATION whisky curse is such insanity that cent of the area of the United of every state show a greater amount of crime ahd misery attributable the state that is more widely approved. it appears an absurdity when it is States is already "dry" territory to the use of ardent liquors obtained at these liquor saloons than There is no other single applied to anything else in life. International Falls, Minn., March in which one-half of the people of to any other source. It is undoubtedly true that it is the right of item nearly as large, no other that Speaking of allowing it and then 31st, 1914. this country now reside. is growing so rapidly from the every citizen of the United States to pursue any lawful trade or business seeking to overcome its effects, The reading matter sent by the timid $20,000 a year in '8i, from some one uses this striking picture: under such restrictions as are imposed upon all persons of the brewers, which appeared in Mondays Stranger: "Have you a good "On the main street of a the reprecating $10,000 addition in night's Daily Journal, with same age, sex and condition. There is no inherent right in a citizen hair tonic you can recommend?" '95, to the present magnificent certain town, a citizen tied a mad its references to "your" town, thus to sell intoxicating liquors by retail. It ,is not the privilege of Druggist (in prohibition town) stream of state aid. Nobody has dog with a long tether. Many of was not labelled advertisement, a citizen of the state or a citizen of the United States."—Crowley "Here is something that is spoken the passersby were bitten some been heard to suggest that the so it is proper to answer it. No, vs. Christiensen, 137 U. S. 86. of very favorably by people who were dying. The citizens in consultation amount should be diminished. Mr. Brewer, the Anti-saloon Again. We cannot shut out of view the fact within the knowledge have drrunk it." The question before the house is said: "We must found League is not sending any of all that the public health, the public morals and the public a hospital, and fit it out with the rather—is there any way in which speakers here just before election safety may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks." Official announcement is made most approved apparatus for the the expenditure of this sum can they are not needed, --State of Kansas vs. Ziebold and Habelin, 123 U. S. Rep. 623-662. that the Duluth steel plant will be cure of hydrophobia." So the hospital be made more effective? have been conducted here is more ready for operation in the spring Our friend speaks of the "Traffic bearing a share of the burden was built and kept full. A effective than the most eloquent of 1915- This plant will employ man suggested, "Why build a of the taxpayer. He did not mention how many thousands of dollars temperance orator. If you had COUNTY ASSESSORS thousands of men and will help hospital? Better kill the dog. Kill it costs our county each year to board, prosecute and maintain any sense of hamor, you would create a market for products RECEIVE INSTRUCTION the dog, exclaimed a taxpayer, not talk in International Falls those who are pauperized and those who commit crime as the results grown in this country. don't you know, sir, that man pays about the success of license as a of the saloon. It would have spoiled that part of his argument. (Continued from Page 1) well to keep that dog there? scheme of regulation. It is hard He also compares Chisholm and Willmar in tax comparison. This Smith: "Why is a woman's "Yes sir, said the other, I know to see how things could be an) then ew law. Any intentional departure cannot be a true comparison, for Chisholm is a mining town and heart like a gold mine?" that he pays $150 a year into the more lawless than they have been from the law will probably comparisons cannot be equal to a farming community, and, if we Nieberle: "I don't know." city treasury, but that hospital the past year. result in a reassessment knew the facts we would find that other things and not the saloon Smith: "You can't tell its true costs the taxpayers exactly $3,000 against the offending assessor. You say it will hurt business to made the difference. The argument of going to other towns to trade value till you have prospected." year, just twenty times what a This is not said as a threat but vole our town dry. Let mc. tell is an old argument but a weak one. But locally, Fort Frances has Nieberle: "There's many a poor you get in license money You as indicating that the sole and the bus:ness n?- so-vct!«iiig they fellow gone broke prospecting." petitioned for the privilege of voting on this question and will go are an 'Oregon Home Rule' man only rule recognized or permitted ought to know. People here from in the assessment of property this surely. The liquor crimes, insanity, dfy this fall. Ranier needs some extra trade. Virginia to attend the funeral of year is the new law. A strict observance Over a hundred commissioned pauperism, and criminal executions Yours truly, the late Emil Olson, stated that of the law will result in cost the taxpayers twenty officers of the British army have C. H.Blake. there was much interest there in the most thorough and equitable times more than you city chaps resigned sooner than accompany reports that International Falls assessment the state has ever their regiments to fight against get in license money you want had. It is expected and believed was going to vote out the saloons To the International Falls Press. the farmers to bear your needless their fellow-citizens in the enforcement that every assessor in the state Several families contemplated expenses rather costly home Dear Mr. Editor: of Home Rule for Ireland. will see that the law is enforced. moving here and buying homes if rule another Brewers' Association King George says "if this Another law that was passed to From an immense mass of misrepresentation it is well to bring the city went dry. The reason scheme to deceive the taxpayers. continues there may be no king, relieve honest taxpayers is what before the mind of the public at large—and in a special manner too— they had not done so before was The Old Serpent has a is known as the "money and credit" nor army in six months." because they understood International that the issue which the 105 signers of the petition and their supporters new dress. Now, the dog is lquor, tax vlaw. Under this law the Falls was such a rough and sympathizers in the coming election have in view, is tax on money and credits is only and the town is American?'—Baraca In International Falls, beer has place. A dry town will attract the far much more than no-license. It aims directly at wiping out of three dollars on a $1,000. It is less Call. been selling at cents per glass. kind of people we want it has 10 than one-tenth of what other this locality, not the lumberjack (as they say) but the leecherous Now there is a strike on and unless done so everywhere else in the property bears. It is so low and so type that has made possible and passable such a heinous crime as the price is cut to 5 cents, state and it will do so here. manifestly fair that no honest LARGE SUMS TO was perpetrated on a poor girl last week, when coming to the City International Falls will be put on man and no good citizen will seek You say we need the $13,000 MAINTAIN SCHOOLS of Destiny to earn her daily bread coming alone in the middle of the dry list.—Managa Journal. to evade it. Unfortunately there license money. But to secure that the night to be maltreated at the so-called town of Ranier—Ranier are in every community men who we must pay the saloons probably (Continued from Page 1) by one dishonest, device or the murderer of Mr. Couture, and made it impossible the^brujg- half a miilion dollars, which Temperance will in due time, schools and the legislature was other evade every tax that they ig to justice of these infernal miscreants as has made it not a?one otherwise would go to the grocer, 3 invade every locality in this nation. can. It is this class of citizens who moved to allow $50 a year to possible but profitable for all connected with the administration of the furniture dealer, the clothing The strong gain which it has make the burden of taxation every country school doing a little ustic to gloat and laugh over the eternal and hart-rending misfortune merchant. You can't buy shoes harder than it should be for honest made in the past ten years is ample than it actually had to, to the and booze with the same dollaV. of those poor defenceless girls as has made it possible and taxpayers because every dollar proof that in another ten years amount of $35,000 a year in all. of taxes which by tricky arid Half a million dollars taken from iterative for many of our. masters of commerce and politics to have will none of the stuff there be At the same session the laws dishonest methods the tax dodgergets other lines of business, with the oor victims drugged in our grand cafes and rooms over saloons and manufactured.—Ex. state aid were the first for for out of paying must be. made loss of efficiency that goes in the thence dragged to destruction as has made it possible to have hacks, time codified—the schools were up by the less tavored and more wake of the saloon, the wrecked anctioned by the connivance of the city council for years, to convey 'omcone in Warren has a deli". classified, requirements were set honest taxpayers of the community. manhood, the unhappiness and he guilty and innocent to the un-mentionable brothels right under ous sense of humor. There was up which they must meet to qualify suffering, is too much- to pay to On July 4th, 1913, the bank loses of citizens now enjoying the comfots of home life from the a wet and dry election in that city for state aid, and the allowances secure that paltry $13,000. Business deposits of Morrison county St. Patrick's day, and the were increased to a maximum earnings of the brothel, whether directly or indirectly matters little men and taxpayers all over 011 amounted to $2,118,183.91, while school children were provided of $800 for high schools, as has made it possible for hundreds of those leeches to thrive pompously the state are finding out that the the assessment of money and with signs bearing the following: $200 for graded schools, $100 for wet town does not pay. in human ruin, to frequent your social gatherings, mingle credits was $650,510 or 29.8 per "Help St. Patrick drive the .-.naxes semi-graded schools and $75 for You say it will drive away and laugh with your sons and daughters in the public dance halls, to cent of the bank deposits. The out of Warren." Baudette Region. rural schools. Two years later the trade. Where will it drive it? To city of Little Kails had $1,525,- partake in the amenities of decent society, to catch the eye of your legislature thought they were not in bank deposits at that Fort Frances? The man who 391.15 school boys and school girls by their swinish wallowing in the fats, doing enough for the schools—the time, while the assessment of crosses the river to drink does not and finery of the trade, and the glory resplendent thereof as has Princeton, the first time, for money and credits in the city was high school award was increased do other trading. The early closing went dry at the annual election made it possible for the spread of so much Sodomic plague attendant only ^$372,541 or about 24.4 per to $1,000, the graded school to law in Canada and the strict on March R. C. Dunn, in his and consequent on the traffic with the resultant ruin and disruption cent of the bank deposits. 10. $400, the semi-graded to $200 and customs inspection cut off much newspaper urges all citizens to When one considers that "money of family life in our midst as has made it impossible to get justice the rural to $100. The total allowance use of the Fort Frances hotels by co-operate in a strict observance and credits" consist not only or Koochiching county, as intellect in a mule, so much so that people that year was $250,000 and our men. And if International bank deposits i.u]t of money in of the liquor laws, to the end that now regard a court trial as a colossal piece of filthy graft as has the state loudly applauded this Falls goes dry, the Fort Frances hand, book accounts, promissory the town be kept free from the magnificent liberality. district will undoubtedly go dry made it perilous for any self-respecting lady to travel alone after notes and all other evidences of illegal sale of liquor.—Littlefalls next December. night-fall in and around the precints of International Falls as has In 1903 it appeared to the legislature debt not secured by recorded real Transcript. We are no longer a frontier, estate mortgages in this state, it that $1,000 was not sufficient made it possible to poison men with dope and hurry their remains is painfully evident that the law lumberjack town. We are coming to encourage the high school the cemetery with perfect impunity, without the slightest attempt At International Falls a vote has been shamerully violated. The to be a manufacturing city, with a to do everything that public enthusiasm at investigation, as if they were pest-stricken animals instead of tax commission will aid assessors will be taken on the wet and dry high grade of labor, and a trading in behalf of education human beings the rotten leecherous dope cannot be alcohol, it is by every means in its power to question on Tuesday, April 7, and center for a developing farming would urge, and it was agreed the oozings of fiendish immoral brains as has made it tolerable for enforce this law and every other if the saloons are wiped out there country. With the change in the that a very good high school assessment law oi the state, and officers sworn to uphold the nation's laws to openly as well as will be a yell of joy go up from character of the town, we are going should have $1,500 a year. whenever a false statement by a tealthiiy defend and uphold all this. These are the men that have about ninety per cent of the residents to discafd the saloon, just as taxpayer is called to our attention Beginning at the next session of Northern Minnesota. drunk the blood and tears of many mothers in International Falls they have done in Cloquet and we will see that the matter is in 1905, a great movement swept Even men who occasionally take Blackduck. and thousands of miles therefrom. How the curses of these mothers, placed in the hands of the county a drink are sick and tired of the over the state for making the Very truly yours, attorney for prosecution. fathers, sisters, brothers, aye of children yet unborn will rend the high and mighty methods of the schools useful, as never before. It is the shame of our age in Edgar L. Heermance. heavens for retribution! And then to think of the seven or eight saloon keepers at the head of the The first grant of $20,000 for hundred innocent eyes of the hope of the future gazing daily on river. Not content with persisting SOME THINGS WE OUGHT TO KNOW. that picture and to think of any human being so base as not alone county schools of agriculture proposed in charging ten cents for beer, to tolerate but plead for its continuance, in press and prattle, a bold scheme which seems when the remainder of the state Under the heading of "Some Things You Ought to Know" the Fellow friends will, of course, pay no attention and less respect never to have been carried out. charges five many of them are Journal of last Monday evening gave a great editorial. That is it to such comparisons, and statistics as are pandered out for you mighty careless in the matter of The habit in Minnesota has been would be great if the great things he said were all true. For fear jdaily, smelling strongly of delirium-tremens and dipsomania. You handing change to customers. to develop the district school some one might think they were true we feel that it would be right who even under threat of boycott by the nether-world supporters Treating five or six friends is rather than to create county institutions. to say some other things we ought to know. The facts are that pretty sure to cost you a dollar and sympathizers registered your protest 105 strong (and .more if So in 1909 the legislature "Blind Pigs" are more numerous in saloon towns than in "Dry" if you don't happen to have the allowed that any school, needed) in petition demanding equal rights for good and bad, but right change to pass over to some towns. We have lived in both and speak from experience. Hibbing, either high school, or graded determinedly demanding a fair decision by popular vote, have more of the chaps who operate behind school, or consolidated school, on Virginia, Eleveth and Chisholm have "blind piggers" before their at stake than that a few lousy pence would go into the fatted stomach the bars in that city. The trouble the state list, which would set up courts every week and generally several times in a week. Our Own of the beer hog you have the moral welfare of the community with them is that they can't recognize agriculture, manual training and city must have plenty of them if the truth was known. If reports a part of which is your own flesh and blood to stand or fall by. the fact that time changes domestic economy, might be reimbursed are true some of our saloons do a great deal of "blind pigging." But I But am going, with a sense of shame and sorrow though it be, things. What was all right ten for two-thirds of its of course that is different. They pay a license to sell six days of to ask a question, for it should never be raised in a civilized land: years ago doesn't go any more, outlay up to $2,500 a year, ^t first the week and certain hours of each day, so they should have the jYou your honest voters have only your vote, which is as sacred as and the bunch at International only ten schools were to be admitted. right to make an extra dollar on the side (?). If we were a liquor heart. Will that, vote be smothered up in the mass of human wreckge are very apt to find it out next Twenty-five' thousand dollars seller we believe we would howl if we knew a "blind pigger" was upon it by the breweries and and month. dumped brothels for 30 days They have injured the reputation was sufficient for the first taking our profits, for if we paid a license for selling liquor we have Or I of of a mighty good town, more? may ask, will iinsult be added to injury by an act two years. Since then the arrangement &nd the residents are beginning a right to protection. But, of course, if we broke the law ourselves savethe has been created by common blackguardism perpetrated on the only final defence, to discover the fact.—Baudette we could not howl against another even though he had no license. which country districts might appeal to arms, that citizens possess? That is the question. Region. affiliate with a central school, and No one can deny the fact, that saloon towns have "blind pigs." But P. J. Killeen.