:.^v 'st: sfe- r«, .-•* INTERNAit&ki^FALLSPRESS show them No wohder the riailrbl^&^^^^^mp|aining because of light we are the kind that can be fooled all the tim£. Let us THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS can't their||p$ri£y^ travel, people spend |Eor ,lpozeand afford to their mistake on election day by voting the town dry. take a vacation. & ?. AND BORDER BUDGET It is reported that the saloon gang is going kc get $ Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post 11 The saloon keepers and brelvlbrs ^would riot let us have a last hour poster—"If you don't like International FaJJs ^hv tn Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress election last year, and now- they have straight the brass to ask us —don't you go to Russia?" That's easy! So mjjch money of March 3, 1879. the wet ticket. to vote goes out of this town to the breweries that there is no£ INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. left to buy tickets with. Brir--- on your posters, Hinky 5* .SQ George P. Watson, Editor and. Manager in. No wonder half the chairs^ the barber shops are empty, a Official Paper of lnternational Falls and Ranier, Minnesota It would make horse laugh to hear the barteikd«r£ jtjfemt men don't care about their personal appearance when they are a oi drinking and gambling. how much money they spend in this town. It is -mane* A "4- thtir h:.rs" common knowledge that most of them stick behind YOUR VOTE- PLEASE. just long enough to get a little stake and then go 0m If the-hoboes that are coming in every day and sticking In a few days you will be called upon, to decide as a voter, springs and return flashing a new brilliant and telj jyh tf 3 around to a chance to vote ^va^t to spend the summer in jail get whether this city should retain the saloons or let them go. of a time they had. Sfev- their chances are good. 'im This question was raised and the majority of the a year ago legal voters said "no," but the run the saloons brought men- who Last year the saloons v/ere full of. colonists before It is certainly costing the city a pile of money to keep that in a great number of fallen who outvoted the decent people men, kept here by the brewers and-saloon keepers, to vote the wet bunch of overdressed, underbred individuals, who pay no taxes and the saloons remained The question comes for nothr Year. .icket- The whiskey sots felt cheap when the saloons closed at but act as if they owned the eilrth. up again this year ami we expect the voters of International that clock for a few leven nights after election to get rid of then?( Falls will so vote this join the ranks of sober in­ that city v. sore t® ill ?.nd they were ordered out of town. Would you not feel What a swell public library and a fine city park anjl armory dustry. 5 use of this way by the saloon made keepers and then kicked building that $500,000.00 that is now going over the bars and We have saloons, they occupy the very best in this city 13 nit of town? gambling tables of this city would build. corners and as their business (if it can be called a locations, and business) is and as a consequence pay high rents, very profitable The following is a sample of the silly stuff the gang is having that brings up the of the legitimate business, and as a result The reputable merchant iswilling to "live and let live" they rent printed: don't insist on having "the whole cheese" and cuss the man who the merchants are forced to charge a little more for their goods Vote this city dry and men does not spend all his irioney at their particular store. in order to make ends meet, and the consumer, even if he does not who are seldom away from patronize saloons-, has to contribute some of his earnings to that home at night will be absent demon. for days at a time. Wives should Why is it that bawdy houses cannot be run without booze, not overlook this fact. No organization of business men have ever attempted to rule even at a dollar a bottle for beer? Is it not because liquor takes Such silly stuff is an insult to the women of this town, ft the city as the saloon keepers are doing. No man can be away a person's sense as to what is right and decent? would be a God-send to some of the women and children if fhg elected to office in the first and second ward unless he has the kind of men the gang makes by their lawlessness, would stay away sanction of the saloon interests. No man can be elected to the To cure the mail order h&bit.—Get that half million dollars from home awhile it is all any woman ought to be required school board, unh ss the saloon keepers say so. We mention the?*1 to buying clothes and grocrie|- The merchants bills will be col do, to support herself and children, without having to supp3££ 3. facts in order to show you how this city is run by a gang whose iectable and his rent lower, anil he can give us better prices. drunken, beastly husband. sole interest is personal gain rather than public good. No set of business men ever colonized, got a lot men together Where is my wandering boy tonight, the boy of my tenderest The saloons would soon go out of business if they cogSd men who are drifters and willing to sell themselves for a drink care? He will not be in thefsaloon or gambling house when the get my boy, your boy, and the other fellows boys to take or a meal, who have no interest in this city and never will, in order town goes dry. Save your boyf by getting rid of the saloons. first drink. Did you ever realize that booze fighters .and to defeat the legitimate voter. No^Susiness men but the saloon en bunis were some father's,— some mother's boys? ym keepers do it. They did it last year and will do it again this year Of course you can't vote 4 mkn dry, any more than you can want your boys to become drunkards? If you do then v$j£ fhe if you will let them- These men meet and raise a vslush fund, make a horse drink, but you c|tri'vote to keep the boys dry, and if town wet. But vote the town dry if you think more of y@&r hoy taxing every white slaver and white slave, and in that way raise the old topers still insist in hiving their booze, let them hunt than you do of saloons, and want to remove temptation ficC^ their money to pay newspapers tQ-publish statements that are not for it. They are men who threaten with, boycot all who dare to oppose SO. The press agent for the gang says: them in their mad desire, to run or ruin this city. All gambling When the railroads get 4ri|etjand encourage the shipping of It is infinitely more sane to and prostitution is controlled by them, and any man who votes whole tram loads of provision^ ajnd clothing instead of single support a plan that gives a city with them is a partner to their crimes. car loads of booze' they will] malce more money and quit their -power to control the liquor The saloon gang has made a statement that the thirteen complaint. traffic than to support a proposition saloons employ seventy five men, mostly married people, who "44i which permits lawless make a decent living here and spend their money with ,the local Tills city has the best gradl Jind high school building in the liquor to control the city. merchants. We question the truth of this statement. We do know state, but practically no public? i»chool spirit, or any other kiiid The guy who, /wrote this is evidently one'of the that several bar tenders are married men, but tliat the majority of a public spirit and it never i|i|j ,hav^ as long as Hinky- Dink's they are going to vote, to over-ride th« wMl qf the citizens *if4 *2% [-v of them are not so is a fact, and that some of them are closely a on a is it payers, or. he- would-{know ,enough to know that this Wife vtff'' related with the white slave traffic is common knowledge .r--r system that, this ,city„has been supposed to, be running jggujfgr !0 Even if it were true that the saloons employ seventy five men, The- chief cause for the existence of the bar tender's union these years- The law gives the administration the right a»d power is it not also true that ten times that many are ruined by the is that they may get the othei| tjriions to pull their rotten chestnuts to control the liquor traffic but it is so thoroughly hypnotized saloon annually All of our jails are filled with men who have out of the fire for themp*he reputable unions have better by Hinky and his gang that it dar'n't enforce the law and give been patrons of the saloons. One of our district judges made a sense than to be used this way. the city the law enforcement regime it is paying, for. statement that sixty eight per cent of all the cases that come up before him are the direct result of the saloon business.. That The people of this city aire throwing half a million dollars The brewers ship beer to International Falls where it selfe does not include the cases of the municipal court, and the Lord ov&r the bars and gambling tables of this city, in order to get for ten cents a glass. They alsoship the same beer to Ericsbufg^ knows they are plenty. $13,000.00-license money. No wonder the city is going broke, such Ray, and away off to Baudette and Spooner, where it sells for only Another argument has been injected intp the present fight' rotten management will break any town. five cents. The saloon keepers must take us for a lot of isys^. the question of union labor. Forty men will lose their jobs if Perhaps they are right, but we will be green indeed, if we vote the the saloons will close. Too bad. These noble, high minded union This city is through sending sixty per cent of the money town wet, and keep on being bamboozled. The brewers are Wd men who protect the weak brother will lose their jobs. The union that has be^n going over its bars, to build nice houses and buy enough, but the distillers still worse. How long will we pm men who can be taken in on such weak arguments are indeed to diamonds for the brewers anil distillers in the big cities. We are with this bunko game? be pitied. If the gamblers were organized, they too would raise going to vote to keep.this money at home. the same cry you are taking away the bread from a union man. Aitkin is one of the prosperous northern-cities that lias bttts Perhaps the prostitutes might raise the same protest when the Did you ever figure up how many of the bartenders have a on the water wagon for four years, and,they like it. Men whtf sheriff tells them to get out of here. Truly the bar keepers may right to vote Some of them! and some of their followers are so few years thought it would hurt business to vote out the salooos^ raise-the cry of "I am my brothers keeper," but they must add rotten in life and character that they can't even be admitted to have changed their opinions, after a thorough trial, finding that that they are the keepers of their brothers money, body and soul. citizenship. They are a sweet bunch to run this city! better money spent in the regular channels of business is much Mr- Voter, vote for the saloons and let the bartenders union, for the spenders and the general community, than is buying which is the saloon keepers paw, run your city and keep you in Help the other fellow by voting the town dry, and removing booze, that decreases the efficiency of the men and robs the slavery a little longer. temptation from him. He may not be able to pass the saloon women and children of many of the comforts of life. door without leaving his dollar inside, while his wife and children The most prosperous hotels in this city are the hotels without at home need bread and shoeis-and money to pay the rent. aft You will have an opportunity next Tuesday, if you bars. legal voter in International Falls- to say if you want the city The dray business in town will be better when train loads of have saloons with their usual accompaniments, such as gasnbHsi^ The traveling men are through stopping at hotels where provisions and clothing come to town instead of booze for the prostitution, and degredation of young men and women, possibly they have to "set 'em up." breweries to haul and deliver with their own teams. Those have of your own sons and daughters. You will also the fellows dont let anybody share their prosperity if they can help it. opportunity to vote the saloon out of existence, which will me&ff Diamonds are more disgusting than brilliant when they hecsme that you do not want your boys or your friends' boys to are purchased with ill gotten gains. If a grocer asked ten cents for a two cent egg we would drunkards. Think this matter over, speak to your wife on the think him crazy. Yet the saloon keeper sells one cent beer and je'ct, pray about it. Then go to the voting place and vote as y^ar Business will pick up in the ice cream parlors when the one cent whiskey and we stand for the imposition. Furthermore conscience tells you. booze parlors are put out of commission. he asks us to vote the town wet to let the bunko game go on What gall! A LETTER FROM AITKIN It is recruits the saloons are looking for, without our boys A letter-direct from Aitkin, Minn, this week from a mw§* and girls even the blind pigs will automatically cease. Hinky Dink and his disreputable gang are so blind to common paper correspondent there, says: decency that they expect thej people of this city to stand for an Aitkin voted dry for the fourth time this spring by 40 m&j&T* Who needs your dollar most— the saloon keeper with his outrageous system of lawlessness without*.-complaint, and so unappreciative ity. There was no excitement whatever, in fact there was automobile and gasoline launch, or your wife and children. that they double-cross their- most faithful servants question about there being any other result. Many business W£tf and their best friends. who a few years ago doubted the wisdom of putting out the Illegal voters, beware! You fooled us last year. Try it consider saloons, have changed their opinions entirely and did not 2 KS: again this year, you may have some bitter medicine to take. the Would not every mother jwork hard for a dry International the wet proposition. There is just a settled conviction 011 to are Falls, if they only realized the }enefits be derived frem downing part of the people that they don't want the saloons. There fg This town would go broke in two days if it had to depend king alcohol? Well, it is coming to a saloonless city, a saloon-'no blind pigs. The deposits at the banks have doubled and on what trading the bar tenders and spittoon cleaners did in it. less county, a saloonless stated and a saloonless nation and you great third bank was started in Aitkin last summer which is a should be on the winning sid|. success. Every merchant in town will tell yoit that his collections The moving picture shows and pool rooms will do a better are better than ever before. In ten years with a dozen saloons business when there are no bars for men to slop, over all evening. How long would the salopiis be allowed to exist if the Aitkin only gained 300 population. There has been a stearJy women were allowed to vote? You know how they feel on the growth the last few years and the population is now 2,000- subject of saloon^. Will you gd against their wishes and your own Who gets the "rake off" from beer sold at a When the saloons went out there was the cry of vacant dollar a bottle, good by voting to keep the saloons just to please the brewers, the price charged in the houses of ill fame in our neighborhood business blocks. Today all the old srlcon buildings are occupied saloon keepers, bartenders and bawdy house keepers? ru.ms publkbef' by gOQd snbstai1tial A local paper here when the town went dry in 1910," says, "And the next day A dry town means a clean town,— one that you would not be It has been said. "You can fool all of the people some of the the nine men who ran the thirst parlors, closed up, and by ashamed of,— one in which it would be safe to raise a family time, and some of the people all the time, but you: cannot fool peculiar coincidence the retf lights west of town went out 6f boys and girls. all the people all the time/' The saloonkeepers seem to think that next night." They have never burned again. V* ft |/V' iKilisSsli DEFECTIVE PAGE