ELWELL LAW IN DANGER. THE INTERNATIONAL FAILS PRESS There is some danger ,of sufficient strength being mustered by the southern members to annul the so called Elwell road law, though AND BORDER BUDGET it is not admitted at this writing that the enemies of good roads will* carry the day when the roll is called. To prevent the repeal of Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909* a* the Post the law, reasonable amendments will be offered which will have a! Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress tendency to strengthen the law and also to make road building under The coins ache for freedom. They exert the state highwjay commission a more popular thing than it is in of March 3, 1879. .. some counties today. At present, six petitioners can apply for, the INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS' PUBLISHING CO. influence over you to he put into circulation. No construction of an Elwell road. The number of petitioners will be George P. Watson, Editor and Manager increased.to at least twenty or more, thus giving an opportunity for temptation to spend needlessly when the mon^y is hi more settlers along the proposed highway to advocate the construction Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota of a road for which they will later be called upon to bear onefourth the bank on interest. Start an account now with of the expense. All northern Minnesota members are unanimously in favor of retaining this law, and its real opposition comes The Agricultural Department whatever surplus you have—even a dollar will open WASHINGTON NOTES from! counties which have never gven the law a trial. Both the has just completed a census of Elwjell and the Dunn road laws should be given a fair chance to prove birds in the United States, and an account. Don't allow your money to work you their worth before being relegated to the "has-beens."Walker Pilot. finds the robin the most numerous The Struggle of Neutrality. 1 bird, with the sparrow a close make it work for you-this is the way others get ahead. TRY NUMBER THREE AGAIN. The most perplexing problems second. One constitutional amendment which failed to pass last November are brought before !the nation should be submitted again. That is Number Three, the "revolving FIRST NATIONAL BANK day by day by as a result of the fund" amendment, which would authorize the use of $250,000 in The annual county financial European wjar, and if the men in clearing State land for sale to settlers. The measure provides that statement appears in this issue International Falls, Minn. charge of the government were the cost of clearing is to be added- to( the price of the land, and turned Study it carefully, then file it back into the fund as the land is sold. as ready to resent insults, real away. You may need it many Experience with the small reclamation fund created in 1911 has and imaginary, as are most of the times during the year when discussing proved that the State gets big returns on such an investment. public, the United States undoubtedly Northern Minnesota W^nts the bill, because it will aid settlement, tax matters to prove how have been at war with but the whole State would benefit through the increased price of your tax money was spent. most every nation in Europe before State lands and the increment to the State's trust funds. thsi. The moral is: Kep Northern Minnesota Hospital There is no valid argument against the measure. It failed ^ast cool—and this applies with equal fall only through lack of proper publicity, but it received 162,951 Senator Nord is making good. force to every class of people. votes to 49,906 cast against it. Only two amendments received a He is considered one of the live larger vote, and it came Within aboift 15,000 of a majoriy of all the wires in the upper house and is State Immigration Laws. votes cast at the election. working early and late for the California has brought herself This amendment ought to go through easily another time, and is interests of the district. The •ir\*1'",v surely entitled to one more chance.—Minneapolis Journal. into prominence in consequence «£. voters made no mistake in sending of anti-alien laws, but the manner him there.—Baudette Region. THE BREWERS AND THE RANGERS. in which Arizona has tackled The brewing interests who have so long exercised a considerable griv *v the question is unique. A bill influence in the Minnesota legislature, an influence more considerable, which has recently passed the Ft 5 fx Another evidence of Bemidji's by the way, than many people have been willing to believe, are i-r -i&jrl Lva1 lower House of the state forbids 5? release from the domination of -W in a frenzy of anger over the passage last week by the state senate any persons to engage in hazardous 1 the liquor traffic is found in the of the county option bill. Thy are plainly showing their teeth with occupations unless able to fact that she is beginning to open and undisguised threats of retaliation through the introduction read and write. This law is described realize her possibilities and has of a tonnage tax measure. as "water-tight against Threats of the tonnage tax receive small consideration in this started as slogan "Bemidji 25,000 protest by Japan." Most any section of the state. As a bugaboo and an effective bogey, it has population by 1925." Will International kind of occupation can be discovred outlived its day of usefulness." It intimidates no one in the iron Falls be next? ranges country at this time. to have a hazard if the There is another fact that the brewers may as well face. That is completion of cheapness ^of labor that, resentment at their political activity is steadily growing here. becomes too pressing. An editor The German reply to the United .4* There is more resentment against the brewers today on the iron States note has not tended to of one of the leading newspapers* R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. ranges than there ever was. The brewers', as usual, are of the country comments that "if clear the situation in any marked Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. short-sighted. They appear to be ignorant of the fact that if license dgree and everyone is anxiously the legislature passes the ingenious or no license w)ere made an issue in the iron ranges country tomorrow, Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Min evasion of the spirit which awaiting the result of the establishment half the communities between Grand Rapids and Tower of the blockade and annulled its previous effort." wbuld go "dry." hoping that no United States ship The people here are tired of brewery controlled saloons. They Where Will Taxation End? wlli meet with disaster. are tired of brewery-fostered blindpigs. They are tired of paying BUT THEY SWIPED My SUPPLY OF THE REAL TOBACCO the expenses of district court sessions that give easily a third of HOLD ON! VOU ARE TOO In view of the fact that the CHEW. AND THE OLD KIND WONT outcome OLD TO JUMP DOWN THERE. their time to the consideration of cases that are the of the federal government has been DOANy MORE. li.censed and unlicensed liquor traffic. They are tired of building addition The Electric Steel Company, of turning short corners to escape to county jails to hold the victims, directly and indirectly, of Pittsburg, refused to bid on an deficits that run into many millions, the brewers' system. They are fully cognizant also of their careful order for 1000,000 drop forge the warning of Leader plan of organization at this time to stave off the inevitable through shells, valued at $4,000,000, and Underwood, of the House of control of politics by various subterfuges. which would have netted the Representatives, is of moment. The people hold in their hands an effective weapon to control the company $450,000. The president Mr. Underwood says that there brewers. They may use it at any time, and certainly they do not! of the company stated that must be some systematic method require such urgent invitations as are now being extended them' they thought that warring nations of "control" devised for appropriations, by threats inspired by the brewery interests in the legislature.—: should not be encouraged. otherwise w'll be impossible Virginia Enterprise. to predict "where the burden of taxation of the American UNITED STATES WILL William Ruf- a gun pointer on The people of the United States people Will end." PROTEST TO JAPAN the U. S. battleship Texas, set a View with grave concern and as Ex-President Taft is devoting new worlds record for marksmanship an unfriendly act and aggressive! most of his energies to this same with big guns during the move on the part of a foreign! (Continued from Page i.J problem, and perhaps the determined recent target practice of the fleet. government against the integrity effort being made upon He was credited W,ith eight arid sovereignty of China." test yto Japan against the de-' the part of some of our great straight hits with a 14-inch gun, China has instructed her min-! mands made by that government public men may result in.•greaterefficiency shooting at a moving target 12 .THE OOOO ouoer CAUTIONS THE ANftRy DEACON."*) isters in the United States, Great upon China. The character ofi and economy, and a miles away. Britain, France and Russia to deliver the American protest Will be determined definite policy in fixing the extent to these powers a memorandum at the cablet meeting of appropriations by Congress. Under the present law, only of the demands originally today. Probably it will be based ing comfort ot the the people of incorporated villages Railroads Regaining Courage. made by Japan for concessions upon the ground that the Japanese Tobacco Chew themselves, your have any vbice in the saloon and privileges in return for the The railroad people have eyi demands are not in consonance How can a legislator license question. restoration of territory of Kiao dently regained courage, as they With the following provisions Right-Gut" users let no grass grow representing an agricultural Chow to China. have ceased hanging about the of the notes exchanged by district vote against a county under their feet while they are passing doors of Washington, and whether the two governments in 1908. Kai Fu Shah, the Chinese minister option law which simply gives the increase in rates is re "The policy of both governments, here, has presnted the mem- the good word along to all their friencls. to the farmers of the countv a sponsible or not, their reports to uninfluenced by any ag- orandum to the state department.! A little chew of pure, rich, mellow tobacco—cut fine, voice in the matter also?—Long the Interstate Commerce Com-! in gressive tendencies, is directed This, in comparison with the! short shred—seasoned and sweetened just enough, cuts Prairie Leader. mission show a more healthful memoranduih which the Japanese to the maintenance of the existing out sb much of the grinding and spitting. and encouraging condition. Since foreign office Feb. 9, gave to the, status quo in the region above the first of the year $30,000,00 in diplomatic representatives of The mentioned (the Pacific ocean), ship purchase bill, over Take a very small chew—less than one-quarter the orders for locomotives, cars and old size. It will be more satisfying-than a mouthful Great Britain, Russia, France and! which and to the defense of the principal a hot fight was waged in of ordinary tobacco. Just nibble on it until you find equipment have been placed. the United States contains seven the Senate, is now back in committee^ of equal opportunity for the strength chew that suits you. Tuck it away. or eight other demands. Then let it rest. See how easily and evenly the real for a couple weeks where commerce and industry in China. CUMMINS DECLARES tobacco'taste coines, how it satisfies without grinding, how it will probably be changed to "They are also determined to Officials of the American government much less you have to spit, how few chews you take to SALOON MUST GO some-form agreeable to all parties. had under consideration be tobacco satisfied. That's why it is The Real Tobacco preserve the common interest of Chew. That's why it co^ts less in the end. It is practically certain now, the direction of an informal inquiry I all powers in China supporting It is a ready chew,'Cut fine and short shred so that yoa won't have Washington, Feb. 20.—Senator that, whether the bill passes or "to the American ambassador by all pacific means at their disposal to grind on.it with 'your teeth. Grinding on ordinary candied tobacc* Albert B. Cummins of Iowa has makes yoa spit too much. not' the President will not call an the independence and integrity at Tokio and the.mininster and The taste of pure, rich tobacco'does not need to be covered up with molaasea come out squarely for the obolition licorice. Notice how the salt brings out-the rich tobacco taste in "Right-Cut." extra session. The leaders feel at Peking to learn which of the of China and the principle of the saloon in the United small chew takes the place of two big that the calling of an extra session One two versions was the present of equal opportunty for com..j States, being the first of those chews of the old kind. this year Would kill the democratic basis of negotiation. But this rrierce and industry of all nations considered possible candidatesfor weyman-bruton company party. plan, it is believed, would not be in that empire 60 t)ni6n Square, New York the presidency who has de carrid out because of the expectation "Should any even 'occur threatening clared for prohibition. His statement that, with the publicity already North Country Men Active. the status quo as above described (BUY FROM DEALER OR SEND IQ^STAMPS TO US^ today falls in wjith the announced given to the Japanese demands, or the principle of equal purpose of prohibition a voluntary explanation opportunity as above defined, it Northern Minnesota has a leaders at a recent conference to of the differnces in the two versions remains for the twio governments stronger representation in the pledge as many candidates of all probably would be forthcoming. Senat.e and House than any other to communicate with each other parties as possible to prohibition, in order to arrive at an understanding section of the state, and as' a thergby- making that question a High officials here wtere disinclined result a large number qf measures as to what masure they national issue in 1916. ,: to discuss the various demands, may consider it useful to take.'' which are calculated to aid "The saloon must go," said Secretary Bryan announcing in the development of this vast Senator Cummins today. "Sobriety It is confidently expected that that, wftiile the state department north country, are likely to be must be the rule of conduet Japan will deem, it advisable. tp ^d&ttediisTr deftiSttel Frtfiiied "under give had the maitter en serious consideration at in China's for the future" .. acquiesce rejection of fc. consideration," no opinion this session. Such men as Sen-* Unless congress submits the the demands. Congressman Hob-i could be givri at this time. He ators McGarry, Griggs, Nord prohibition constitutional amend-! son introduced, a resolution in denied published reports that a Buckler, Hegnes, Blomgren, merit to the states before .. thej •the house committee. on.. foreign note had been sent! to-Japan. Healy and Gardner -sire proving election ne^ct year, the "drys'' wilj affairs, where it will be buried, as ',1* thenfselves as leaders, wjiile in jseek tomake liquor .an issue in •ipllpwg: '.,.r the House, Representatives Scott, the presidential cap^paign. Tjiey ^pv^Tiie-j.p^opfe of .the United A gpod supply of Denmson's are confident that they can determine Murphy,. Bessette,r A. ^[. Peterson, States will lpok with disfavor upon fast Color doilies/napkins, dMner TICKET Miner, Korizen and Dare are the nomination of Candidates any Vffort to" Change the sets, Crepe paper and dinner bviiira OFFICES and that they can elect a making their influence felt.—St. status quo in China Which so favors at the Press Stationery .& president. Paul Pioneer Press. parties are pledged to maintain. Store. 1 fli iv