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

September 17, 1914 · Page 2 of 8

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THE HEROES OF MEXICO NKW PICTURE OF THE KAISER MODELMIISON OF ,, Undoubtedly the American Three THE WIDE WORLD Leaders 'John S. Pardee, Secretary, newspaper readers have greatly Whafever else .may be true of missed the accounts of what John Major R. W. McLaughry, fprmerly the bill to carry out the efficiency. Lind was doing- down in Vera warden of the Federal prison, -H commission's plan, it will surely Cruz, but apparently the sage of at Leavenworth, Kan., and one be leak-proof. Minnesota has dropped out of of best known "prison mien" in Whe,ri C. P. Craig, chairman of sight far beyond the horizon, GOLDEN GRAIN BELT BEERS the world, paid the Mirror office the commission, outlined the. plan Nelson O'Shaughnessy, who was a visit Monday on his tour of inspecton before the state bar association a crony of Huerta's, and who und-" of the dfferent departments HARPERS WHISKEY •4 he concluded with, the statement, er very trying circumstances did of our institution, accompanied "Our final report will not be a splendid work for his government, by Warden Wolfer. ROCK SPRING WATER long treatise on good govern- has been pressed into service as an As soon as we learned that it ment we propose to present it emergency clerk, and the chances was the well known "prison man" '0\ in the form of a bill—a concrete are that a little later on will be we went contrary to all rules and measure. sent back to Mexico City to represent beseeched to be allowed to interview his country. President "This is something," said H. V. him for a write-up for the UNDERWOOD & HA5SELBARTH, Local Agents Mercer, the retiring president, Wilson scolded a little because of Mirror. It was granted, and for some of the reported indiscresions International Falls, Minnesota "that we ought to support it is the second time in our life we faced something of a state-wide import- of O'Shaughnessy during the a warden of a penal institution without and factional bias," height of the Mexican trouble, but jance but we were not so nervous as "We ought to do more than when the charge de affairs came we w?ere the first time." When back and talked it over with his that," said the next man who we stated our mission to the major, chief it was all right, and metaphorically claimed the floor.. "We ought to who is suffering from a severe speaking Woodrow co-operate with this commission." cold, he informed us he would do Border Wholesale Meat* & Grocery Co. Wilson slapped O'Shaughnessy on And thereupon it was voted that what he could for us. the back and told him he had done a committee from the bar association After talking of his early days well. E. A. Yernberg, Manager should counsel the efficiency when he went through the Civil commission on the legal phases. War and came out with the rank The committee will include Mr. PERSONAL LIBERTY. of major, of which he is justly Wholesale and Retail Meats, Mercer, John G. Williams, who proud, he said: "You have today Groceries, Fruits and Feed preceded him as president of the Great is personal liberty! Sacred the model prison of the world, and state bar, E. M. Morgan of the is the right of every man "to eat, much credit is due your warden, drink and wear whatever he may university of law school-^-he edited Home-Made Sausage and your state and the board of conr please!" Thereon r§st all the liberties, the Duluth city charter which Hamburger trol, for it embodies the very latest for which our fathers fought and has been called a model in form— and best ideas as to sanitation, bled. a representative of the attorney light arid ventilation known, besides It is easy to think of exceptions to Give us a Trial and You Will general's office, and one other, being absolutely fireproof. all that, exceptions which all men Stay With Us not named when this is written. It is humanely managed and it is! recognize, but when it is the "booze." And- when those men say the self supporting, and I stand quoed that is .under consideration ive can This is a new photograph of the Our Prices are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh bill is correct in form, the rest of emperor as saying it is the model penological quote you authorities in the journalistic of Germany in full uniform. us can assume that is is as well and the political world—to say institution of the world, Second Ave. and Fifth Street International Falls, Minn. nothing about the brewing fraternity purselves. and you, together with the rest of Give Jewels to Red Cross. •—that are simply overwhelming— The commission, of .course, retains London.-—A St. Petersburg dispatch the inmates here, should congratulate When you allqw the ginmiller and his to Reuter'8 Telegram company says control of its contents, yourselves that as it was that defender to be the judges. in response to an appeal by the which follow the ouline presented so willed you sliould spend some dowager empress, who is playing a But what about the personal liberty in the preliminary report, and prominent part in the organization of i-of yovfr time in prison, that you of some other people? Is it alone the looks to it that the details are in ft relief fund to which she says any [were sentenced to the Minnesota man who wants to guzzle and the man Northern Minnesota Hospital accordance with that outline. In offering, great or small, will be equal [State Prison v°uldinsteadcheerfulness of several who wants to sell to the guzzler who nar\alsv,was the essential features, in fact, are to enjoy that priceless blessing? What about the personal liberty of there is no thought of departing Wedding and other rings, watchep, surprised to see the the poor woman who was shot dead bracelets, from the outline. gold and silver purses, or- that prevails, bo-.h in the yards in the streets of Franklin last night. del* A business organization, including of all kinds and silver utensils and the shops of the men confined. It might not be a very great departure business-like responsibility, WftM^Vi?iSi,nConstantine, yneVefy £°St*one 4. This general uplifting of atmos from correct thinking to assume that Grand Duke of the1 z. business methods of appropriations she had as much right to have a happy first subscribers, sent three rings, one P^iere *s b® &reat he a home, to have the love and care and accounting, and the to the men when they again go containing a relic of St. Barbara, the of her husband, to live out her life in patroness of warriors. merit system in civil service—that forth out in the wide world. peace and comfort—as much right at is the foundation for it all. W "In regard to your picture least to these things as any man has The lawyers will certify that as to drink or to have the opportunity to shows and Saturday afternoon ADMIRAL GREGOVITCH drink. But she lost her home and drafted the bill says exactly and in bail games, I heartily endorse, and happiness and at length life itself, all plainest language possible, the I lay much of this recreation to ecause the American people are the •WIPS* the contented looks *of the in-j what- the commission-inte-nds:^ ftotees" of "personal liberty" of 'the. mates." i.. say.' the "right" to brand, because The legislature will use its judgment tlrink, the "right" to sell are drink, "Yes," lie said, "I do advocat'e more sacred in our eyes than the right about accepting,altering or wages paid to prisoners for work of woman to her husband's love and a rejecting it. But whatever the performed, and it will come before care, than the right of to children disposition of the legislature, it home's joys and comforts, than even long. will not have to do anything on the right of life itself. "When the bread winner of a It is useless to attempt to argue an uncertainty. family is convicted in the courts that that is not a correct statement R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. Plan and bill together are being and sent to prison to pay the penalty, of the case—it is. We have had such Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. developed in daylight. long experience with the drink and his wife and children are its results that all of us, from the Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Min left helpless. Work should be legislators, who keep the license laws provided in the prison walls for BOOSTING THE PROHIBITION on the statute books and the judges all prisoners that they can who interpret them from year to year CAUSE. as commanding the granting of legal earn something. The earnings permission to sell alcoholic poison should be cared for by the government The Mesaba Ore- of Hibbing, in a because the demand of folly and viciousness SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS officials, and form a fund very ably written editorial uder the for it creates a "necessity," that should go toward the support heading, "Boosting the Prohibition up to the pious and respectable voters Cause," calls attention to three murders $1.50 PER YEAR iN ADVANCE of the families of the men. who stand behind and sustain the committed in St. Louis county whole system, ,all of us do know what Thus while the man was serving the previous week and that in each are the results. his time he would know that the instance the murderer was drunk. From every legislative seat, from fruits of .his toil were going to "About 90 per cent of the criminal every judge's bench where the license provide for his family, deprived by work of the courts of the county is system is sustained—yes, from fevery furnished directly or indirectly by the law of his help. voter's booth where a ballot is prepared liquor traffic, and yet," says the* Mesaba that supports the liquor system "The short time I have been Ore, "we find many of the leading by supporting the political parties International Falls Abstract Co citizens of the state adding their .here as a guest of Mr. Wolferj I that are committed to its perpetua strength and influence to that of the tion, that poor woman, dead on the have written several letters to brewer and distiller maintain the pavement of Liberty street, has been BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors people engaged in prison reform iiquo?*hold on the state." in full view, she and her sisters who telling tjiem to come to Stillwater The Mesaba Ore also shows up the Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance will follow in her sorry train, every and see for themselves what a daily press of the big cities that does day and hour down the years. not report news of Prohibition interest, model prison you have. I ani also Doubtless the law will take vengeance Collections, Conveying and Loans as for instance that 212 saloons on the poor wretch who fired Commander of the naval forces of glad that the National Prison were closed in Milwaukee the last Russia. the fatal shot and with what splendid J. E. BURDICK, Manager Congress convention which, is to week in July for violating the law. propriety and in how good grace! be held in St. Paul, October 3 to 8, The big. brewery advertisements in International Falls Minnesota Ever since the poor fellow was born is so near this prison for then.they the dailies is the reason why they do FEET TO BECOME OBSOLETE? law has surrounded him with the op not print such news, says the -editor *v»l portunily, the temptation and the incentive can see for themselves what a of the Mesaba Ore: to poison his body, his brain In monument you have here. View of Present Cheap Eleetrio '.'One of these advertisements states hi3 and soul wit-i alcohol. The shrine Conveyances There Seems to Be I am glad Warden Wolfer has that there is more liquor sold and of "personal liberty" has -towered Such a Possibility. decidedJ:o resign for he has been drank in Prohibition than in wide SSi* high by all the ways that the poor s4 a hard worker in this line for open states, and you can believe that fellow has walked, and almost the International Feed ?'ore As a result of the quick and cheap if you want," continues the article. whole American people he has seen nodes over forty years, and is the oldest of conveyance prevalent nowadays "We don't. And for the very good as worshippers thereat. With what people are not walking so much prison warden ki actual service in reason that if it were true you would fts splendid propriety now shall we shut a formerly, asserts a writer in London N the world, and before I resigned find the brewery interests working for him in our jail and hale him before Answers. v,' I was second. I have known him "Prohibition, because theyare after our court! -This man who has only There was a period when we were 1 business all the time." able for forty-two years, and have taken just a little higher degree than to move our ears at will, but disuse The article then takes up the claim we in the. mysteries of the cult of the watched him climb to the top and Of the organ did away with the Carries the Choicest Stock of Hay* made by the liquor interests that one worshippers of "personal liberty!" power. It is possible that our feet it gives me much pleasure to see Grain, Feed, and Flour. manufacturing town in West Virginia, Drop the figure of speech let us nay one day become obsolete. him today the warden of the which recently went statewide Prohibition, say it in plain English. That poor In the year 1912-13 3,219,857,293 greatest institution in the world. "lost" $60,000 that had for: was woman who died on Liberty street the Stupendous total of the number SH SALES, SMALL PROFITS. "In regard to his. successor if merly been distributed monthly last night was the victim of the 11 of passengers carried on the eleotrlc amongst the salpons. cense system of our state, was killed, tramways and light railways of I had looked the world over, and the a sacrifice to our popular Idol, in ac United Kingdom. "We are of the opinion," says the I am acquainted with most of the Mesaba Ore, "that the money is not cordance with the statute in such case In the steam period of 1898 the nnmber 'prison men I would have picked Potatoes in Car Loads, Dug Every lost, and that it will be found building made and provided by the people of Of passengers carried was 858,485,MI, the man your state decided on— up Instead of weakening and tearing this commonwealth and, little as .yon and in the day of the horse, 1879, Ten Days. I the down 4he state, and that there will be may like the truth,, her blood is upon figure reached 150,881,515, Mr. Charles S. Reed, whom I have •"Mv* the hands Of every citizen who In. the more little feet, better shod in .West Hay a Specialty in Car Load Lots. Tha public have certalnly galnedr in watched for years, and his progress Virginia than there were while the sovereign act of citizenship, voting, convenience, but not in health.. There ior has been well merited, hai supports the system which killed her. liquor interests held full sway." never been any dispute of the fact I don't know of another man who thai It Is editorials like this, written by -r-Venango Daily Herald, Aug. 14,1&14. Walking Is the most health-giving Burt Hill, Prop. I and natural will take up the work laid down by exercise possible.-.-And the editors of influential country papers fit does throughout the state, which will It not come within jthe dally Mr. Wolfer with less jar than this PhOM 223 Olson Cr. life. cause Minnesota to be placed on the curriculum of the average man' andl same man. I want to cvongratulate inak Kid Gloves for Cooks. 5th Ave. & 3rd St. WomaQ to exercise nature'* own equipment, list of Prohibition states. The country i^Parls.—To prevent'bacilli from getting the state on securing the services but bus or car Is hailed. press Is not subsidized, thank Into food, ProtrAndre Chant* of the former St. Cloud re messe urges that all cooks wear kid