INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS There is a vcancy in the supreme court of the state, and Judge 228 FOREST FIRES IN 1914. GOVERNMENT TELLS TIE INTERNATItNAL PALLS PRESS Stanton of Bemidji is big enough to fill it. He would bring both ABOUT FARM LOANS ability and dignity to the position.—-Baudette Region. Fifty Thousand AcresWere AND BORDER BUDGET fJ Burned Over in Minnesota Last Elements of Safety Pointed Oat Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at thte Post Year. •.. •.. A Duluth fish firm, having much greater supply than they could In Circular to National RwAf, Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress sell in the local market, used a few of the Minnesota papers to By John M. Osldson. advertise their product. The advertisements, after a few weeks, of March 3, 1879. During 1914 there wfere 228 Were called off, for the good reason that the firm received so many forest fires in Minnesota which A recent circular from the INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. outside orders that its supply was soon exhausted, and now the burned over an area of 50,000 comptroller of the currency to George P. Watson, Editor and Manager demand exceeds the supply. There is one habit advertising does— acres. Nearly one-half of these the banks in the Federal reserve it brings business, and the merchant, manufacturer or dealer who is Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota fires occurred in May. According system makes quite clear the not prepared to take care of the business, should be careful and not to the state forestry departmnet, £oriditioite^uii3§r which the 1 advertise.—St. Cloud Journal-Press. a direct loss of nearly $62,000 "country" banks may. lend money birthday next Local Attorneys Urge TTiat Bemidji Washington's resulted. In fighting these on real etsate that is, make farr J*, Jurist Be Appointed to FIGHTING. Monday. fires rangers and patrolmen built lo&hs"it -is -a-^new line of bus' Fill Vacancy Left by Mr. Brown Montevideo does not need saloons our people are better off without 139 miles of new trail and cut out ness for the national banks andp! them. We did a noble and righteous thing last year when we portages aggregating 21 miles. of course, the regulations look to Moorhead elected a "dry" mayor voted them out. Now let us keep them out. But to do this we must Signed by every member of the The department now has 142 the safety of the loans. do something more than to talk. We must see that no election Bemidji bar, a petition favoring by a majority of 6, but lost miles of telephone lines in# the Ordinary buyers of farm mort- 1 tricks are sprung at the last moment, that no unlawful votes are and urging the appointment of the village to the "wets" by 44— forestry district. StateFofester gages| ought to know these requirements cast and that eveiry honest voter has the opportunity to cast such a Judge C. W. Stanton, of this district, Cox, in his annual report, takes 270 more votes were cast than and follow them as vote as his conscience dictates. If that is done we shall not fear the to the vacancy on the state rsult.—Montevideo Leader. the position that the state forester closely as they can. Of the seven ever before. supreme court caused by the should do the work of estimating restrictions on bank farm loans, death of Justice P. E. Brown, will and scaling state timber. five are of interest to you and A FRIEND. be presented to Governor Hammond. The brewery bunch cannot help This job is as a rule given over me: state-wide prohibition better Wanted—A friend who will recognize me when I am compelled to to, private persons. He says it 1. The farm land on which The petition is as follows: wear patched pants who will take my hand when I am sliding down than by putting money and would mean a big saving to the loans are made must be improved. "We, members of the bar of hill, instead of giving me a kick to hasten my descent who will lend state. threats enough into their fight Beltrami county, recognizing the me a dollar without two dollars security who will come to me when There must be no prior lu\P^ 2. against county option in the judicial ability, learning and integrity I am sick who will pull off his coat with the odds two to one against The Elwell Law Should Stand. 3. Property must be locate house to defeat the measure. mte who will talk of me behind my back as he does before my face. of the Honorable C. W. If a law is to be judged by its in the district of the bank making Such a man is wanted by tens of thousands of human beings throughout Stanton, District Judge of this fruits, the Elwell road law is the loan. the world.—Springfield Advance Fifteenth Judicial District, do about the best piece of road legislation 4- The amount of the loan By vote of the city council as hereby respectfully request and in the history of the state must not exceed per cent of 50 a result of an 'awakened public THE COUNTY OPTION VOTE urge that the Honorable C. W. It has already produced many the actual value of the property conscience' occasioned by recent Stanton be appointed an Associate At last the State Senate has voted in favor of a county option bill miles of good roads, and if let upon which it is secured. meeting held by Billy Sunday, Justice of the Supreme Court of and the members who voted against the measure are already trying alone it will produce many more. The loan must not be for I more than eighty saloons in Des 5. the state of Minnesota, to fill the to explain to their constituents why they were afraid to trust the Yet a proposal has actually been a period longer than five years. I Moines, IoW,a. were put out of vacancy occasioned by the death people themselves to pass upon this important question. Despite made in the Legislature to repeal The third requirement—that business this week. these Faithful Fidoes of the Senate, it looks as if county option would of the Honorable P- E. Brown, it. This is of a piece with the for localizing the loans—will not become a law. The roll call on county option and the proposal late honored and respected Associate other proposal to repeal the Dunn be or general interest to private to submit women suffrage' to a vote of the people, furnish Justice. The Immigration Department. law, and to put Minnesota in the "tags," pretty enough to frame and keep hanging in the parlor.— investors. Owjners of money who "This petition is prepared, circulated Talk of abolishing the state immigration category of hopelessly backwoods Bemidji Sentinel. live in cities will not be able to and subscribed wholly at states. department on the satisfy themselves with farm the instignation of the bar of The opposition to the Elwell mortgages on land which they it it is of benefit to 1 groin Beltrami county, and without the It seems to be a well settled rule of nations that in times of war, a law comes largely from counties can inspect. They will have to 1. and real estate men solicitation or knowledge of the ship in danger of being captured is justified in flying the flag of that have made no use of it- For depend upon mortgage dealers Honorable C. W. Stanton. (another country to aid its escape. It is said that the United States o. not sink very deep. the law is an optional one. No who can satisfy them that the "John F. Gibbons, John L. ships did this during the war with Spain, and that the German Emden existance the department During its county need invoke its aid, if it other tests have been met. Brown, Montreville J. Brown, T. rec?ntly the flag of Japan, to get away from the British made use of has advertised Minnesota in dosn't want to. It adds nothing C. Bailey, E. E. McDonald A A Pmsers- England is occasionally using the stars and stripes to get Another regulation dealis^^ many tates and by its efforts to state taxes, and it raises local with the banks that make f^rit... Andrews imnnQ* shlPs wa" GernTan submarines. There is some Hiram A lts out of the of the hundreds of settlers have been taxes only in 7 those counties that 1 Grihim Tnrrpnr'p C• w'! sat.lsfaction that it is not sufficient cause to declare war. The thing loans suggests for the wise investor brought to Minnesota, many of make use of it. TamnKpll A TJ It0 that the governments that shoot at an American ship 11 lnslst on is a measure of safety which Campbell, A. M. Dwell H. J.'will trouble-and that will be sufficient for the present.-St whom are now substantial farmers In Northern Minnesota the get in he will find profitable to study. Loud, M. H. Spooner, Carl L. Cloud Journal-Press. here. Elwell law has made possible the It is that the bank may not invest Heffron, W. N. Weber, Charles! Does the purchase of land in immediate building of good roads, in farm mortgages more W. Scrutchin, P. J. Russell, Henry DRY STATE IN FOUR YEARS. the state and the locating of farmers without which vast areas remain than one-fourth of its capital and Funkley, O. M. Skinvik, Hallan L- Thirty days more for the saloons of Hibbing and Chisholm and here bring benefit to land men inaccessible and useless. Cass surplus. Huffman. A petition four years for all saloons in the state is the time allotted by a whisky similar only? How can those who oppose county alone has built, or has Diversification of investment is was also signed by all the mem- salesman, whose name wte are not at liberty to state. the immigration board answer under cnotsruction, nearly three required of the banks either under bers of the Koochiching county "The 'lid' will go on in Hibbing in the next few weeks," he stated." this question. Every community hundred miles of new road under national or state control. Experience bar and sent to Governor Ham- "There is hardly a chance that with the treaty already upheld by the is benefited by the influx its provisions. has shown its necessity mond.—Bemidji Pioneer. supreme court and already enforced at other points that the places in of settlers and its merchants and The law is so devised that every if the banks are to remain solvent Hibbing and Chisholm will be unmolested. The liquor dealers realize business men in general are the safeguard is thrown. about the and prosper. I believe the. People Now Pay the Bill. that their business isdoomed and are expecting a closing order art any gainers, not merely the land men. work. Owners of benefited property average active man who makes St tPaul Feb T7 Senntnr t*me' *n position to know that no more whisky is being pur- am a Charles T. Kelly, of Menahga, in the last report may appeal money and invests apart of whe^56, Leonard NorH r»f TntPrnatmnal chased, the license holders are cleaning their stock down to the botiordo{lntfplan, president of the Northern Minnesota to a jury, if they think State or rnatl?n^ ties on their bars so they will not be so hard hit when the order he makes is under the same nec-%. alls, is working on a which comes." Development association, is county authorities are acting unjustly. essity. spending much time at St. Paul vVill soon take the form of a bill, When Hibbing and Chisholm saloons are closed," he continued Within ninety days after Follow the government's practices to relieve the drain upon the pub- "those two cities will become strong workers for state prohibition and is doing all in his power to a project is broached, everyone in the regulation of bank lie caused by the occasional need and four years from this date will find Minnesota a dry state. The oppose the abolishing of the department. interested may be heard, plans investments and you will achieve of discounting county warrants movement is gaining strength every year. Many of the towns that I In speaking of the and estimates may be scanned and the first and most vital end—that issued to pay ditch contractors 'made' when first on the road I now see only thru the car windows as matter, Mr. Kelly said: checked, and actual work begun. of keeping your money safe. And, I pass thru. There is no more market for my goods."—Hubbard for work before bonds are floated. "I do not believe there is one Yet the burden of paying for a next, you will not be caught with County Journal. valid reason why this department quarter of the cost, which rests all your eggs in one basket if you When contracts are let before should not. be supported loyally, on the directly benefited property, have to raise money. THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE bonds are sold, as is often the and instead of cutting off its ap is spread over ten years in such a propriation for advertising, I am I the only way to pay con- Some members want to abolish the office of state immigration, case way that on each forty-acre tract Out of a Job. confident that the state" would'tractors by county warrants. 1 and the main reason they have advanced so far is that it makes too is it amounts, with a highway costing be many times the gainer should These warrants are perfectly much money for real estate dealers. If that is the only reason, then two thousand dollars a mile, Some of the defenders of the good, and draw 6 per cent inter- the office should not be done away with. Nothing indicates the prosest, the appropriation be doubled for to less than a dollar a year. liquor traffic grow hysteric at the but they are not bankable Perity community relative to increased settlement, better than a .this purpose. Southern Minnesota, or some mention of prohibition which will paper, as Senator Nord has dis- the amount of ligitimate business being done by the real estate men, 'During the past four years the parts of it, may not need the Elwell "put so many out of a job." Well, 1 a'- tu t' 1 covered after a +Tir,rono-Vi they makng money, the county abolishment.rejoice. should The im- and are advertising which has been done covered after a thorough investi- law, but Northern Minnesota migration office needs fixing but nQt We believe the well. Who will be put out of a in the interest of Minnesota by nation in the twin cities, because Minnesota should be particularly advertised as "the needs and wants it. Why should day is past when job? The men behind the bar. this department and other there is no stated time 1 for the p00r man's paradise" from the standpoint of farming. What North­ counties that have never used the agen- But what about the men in front the immigra- Payment of interest. ies has increased ern Minnesota wants is not more poor men to improve and cultivate law, ask for its repeal, when it of the bar who are out of jobs previous1 Therefore it /is necessary to its lands, but men of means who are able to live while clearing their tion four fond over the cannot hurt them or cost them now because the saloon has made During discount these warrants, and and farms and making a home for themselves. Here again is a chance for four-year period. 1914 anything to have other counties them unfit to hold one? There cars containing the discount has been as heavy the revolving fund to make good. It would enable the state to sell there were more use it? are a great many more men out to cent. partially cleared lands to settlers on easy payments who could start immigrant movables consigned as 20 Per If the Elwell law needs amendment, of work on account of the liquor Minnesota.points than to Canada While apparently this loss falls *n rjfht away making a living from the soil, instead of having to oil let us amend it. But let us traffic than there are employed on the contractors it is said that their traps and shoulder guns in order to prevent a Mother Hubbard and all the western state combined. not destroy so useful and beneficial in the traffic. Even if it were so customary has this pr^essbe- conditi°» °f the family cupboard.-St. Cloud Journal-Press. apiece of legal machinery.— true that prohibition would put "Are those who are opposing the come that contractors, in bidding crvwiMr* tup unwn Minneapolis Journal. the employes of the traffic out of for ditch Work, reckon upon it SOWING THE WIND. continuance of this department work, there would be more of the and increase their bids according- The liquor forces rallied in the house on Wednesday and won an aware that there are several million Home Building. present day patrons of the saloon acres of virgin soil in Minnesota ly, so that in the end the people outpost engagement. They swatted a bill that would lessen the put back in condition to worl^ pay the bill. ,'number of saloons in thelstate all of one. This one is located in a so- An exchange very appropriately waiting the homeseeker, But the only effect prohibition Senator Nord's plan is to pro-' Ga^e(i "village" which has a population of less than and less than 50 remarks that every laboring and more millions of acres of would have on the bartender and partly improved farms where pose a law which will authorize voters. man should buy himself a town 10 banks which receive public de- is located a mile and a half from the prosperous city of Sandstone, the saloonkeeper, the brewer and lot, get that paid for, and then rural telephone lines, good roads, which is dry. It takes no unusual vision to see the result. distiller, is that they would have schools and markets are now work to add the necessary improvements. jf 4^ iL W111V.11 10 Ul J. xt LdlVCo 11U UllUdUdi V1MU11 IU aCC LI1C ICoUll. nAc 11CA oco the author of the bill said the village should have retain- 1, mi wonder tu to go into other lines work. At available to the settler?"—Bemidji A little here and a I. I ue WlU.be iessSinal "Hell's Gate the present situation must make ed its ori name Pioneer. the present time, the liquor traffic enabled to draw the 6 per cent in-, it little there will in due timie procure no than this robs many a drinker of his you a home of your own, and terest provided in these warrants That the liquor forces should make a test vote on such a bill ability to work, but it also robs place you outside of the landlord's and at the same time they will be shows their folly. It is a victory that will help spell defeat. Any Internal Revenue Collector Julius him of his money with which he rental bill. Remember that provided with a convenient secur- one at all familiar with rural conditions in this state knows that the Smietanka has begun an investigation could have purchased food, clothing, ity for the public deposits they, strongest inducement for the formation of small communities into a fifty dollars a year saved in rent into "cutting of a fuel, furniture, etc. Thu«L„J receive. village government is to get he saloon license money. wall in a few* years pay for your $20,000,000 melon" in Sears-Roebuck Each saloon means $500 to spend for village support. The more it reduces the sales of all the?»f. Senator Nord figures that this own home, and the money it costs stock. Anticipating the saloons, the more money for sidewalks, a village hall, fire protection commodities and puts the butch# of plan will provide an amfple market to move and shi^t about will, orders announced to have been and what not. That each saloon costs the community and the farming the tailor, the miner, the furnituisit for all valid county warrants without any loss of furniture and issued to his department by district several times $500 does not enter into the calculations. at par, and as there are maker out of wjork as well as «cls time, pay the interest of a five Washington officials, the local Regardless of the immediate object of this bill to get rid of one usually several hundreds of drinker, for with abetter marU^a hundred dollar mortgage against collector prepared to levy taxes on ealoon, it is right. The only rational objection to it is that it places thousands of these warrants for foodt clothing, fuel, etc., there your property until you can the stockholders that received the the population limit of a village too low. Instead of 50 it should be afloat, the saving will be considerable. gradually reduce it to nothing. would be work for more butchers, new wealth. On the basis of 78,850 at least 200 for the best interests of such communities and the state. You can all buy in that w!ay why tailors, and other workers. Nix But in the theory and practice of the liquor men not one saloon shares held by Julius Rosenwald To showt that the public pays do can be sacrificed for any cause not matter how meritorious. The you not risk it If you fail, on that "putting outof work" rstuff he will get stock valued at the bill, Senator Nord relates one whole state must be open territory and no part denied the: right to you are no Worse off if you succeed, as- a booze argument. It's $7,385,000 in addition to his previous instance came to his notice where drunkenness and lawlessness. as any careful man is sure booze that puts men out of work. ~4 holdings. The estimate is the successful contractor, in bidding is such tactics that are strengthening county option and prohibition to do, you have made a home and Prohibition makes for mor^ a par value of $100 a share. It each year. Of course, if the liquor men concede that at best on a ditch job amounting to established a credit which will more money in legitimate mai^$ As the stock is worth $140 a they have but a few more years of harvest and must make the most 375,000 added 20,000 to his bid to "start you in business, or give you ket for all kinds of produce. In share, Mr. Rosenwald's "slice of of it while it lasts, such opposition to any limitations may be warranted offset the loss anticipated in discounting other advantages when needed or short, prohibition spells, proted^jl| the melon'1 will amount to about from this point of vew. But why, then, wait?—Duluth News county Warrants. desired. tion and prosperity. $10,500,000. Tribune.