INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS WHAT STRONG DRINK and half free." We can't have a nation half wet and half dry. It Henry Ward Beecher once THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS is impossible to enforce prohibition in a state surrounded by said "I am never afraid of breaking state and liquor has been carried in tanks from Massachusetts down the day I walk five WILUM FOR YOU AND BORDER BUDGET miles." to Maine. That is, the five mile walk Entertd as Second Class Matter June at the Post 1 belieye natferial prohibition is in the interests of public 23, 1909, built him up, stimulated him, Office at International Falls,'Minn., Under Act of Congress health. In my three years as governor of Massachusetts I saw It Gets you "in bad" all around oxxygenized his btood, gave him or more people locked up in this state and a of March 20,000 $5,000,000 -—Makes you lose your job—Say 3, 1879. strength, so that he could stand year appropriated for their support. They were there on account the wrong things. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. that night before an audience of liquor, mainly. It is ridiculous to stand in the way of this movement. and speak for two hours with George P. Watson, Editor and Manager |j The large cities get a cOmparitively small fund from licenses. OFTEN LEADS TO effectiveness, and a degree of. $ Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota Aside from every other consideration, economically, we hare COMMISSION OF CRIME reserve strength that carried to in America must come to national prohibition. every- auditor the feeling of By Elbert Hubbard—in the Let us learn this lesson from the European war. Russia's power. Philistine. It is numerously reported that the saloons are going to cut the efficiency has been improved per cent as a result of the prohi­ For at the last we win by the 30 price of beer to five cents per glass. Wonder why? No one claims that a man is-a guns we never fire. bition of vodka, according to a report of Winston Churchill. If better man because he drinks, we want to be as efficient as other nations we must have it I Reserve for an orator, actor or that he is a worse man if he singer, is a very necessary element It is very necessary for the public official who wants the have come to this conclusion purely from an economic consideration. does not. of success. confidence of the public, to select bondsmen who are above sus Drink at best is no advantage And reserve strength never picion. ^#r- T' at its worst it is a terrible handicap. comes through stimulants. The strongest temptation which comes to a man in public Think it over! Billy Sunday says: "If every newspaper in the country was life is not the temptation to yield to grossly improper influences. The use of strong drink has suppressed crime would increase per cent in hours and There is many a man who can spurn a money bribe who cannot 100 24 BY-PRODUCT AS no survival value. Sometimes ^all hell would hold a jubilee." stand up against the pressure of ill-advised clamor. The supreme there is a penalty attached. SOURCE OF PROFIT test comes in the hour when a man must decide what is rig1it The habit of using alcoholic The anti-roadhouse bill became a law when Gov. W. S. Hammond and what is popular. That hour decides a man's measure—it finds .Skim-Milk Makes Good Feed stimulants in moderate quantities signed it last Friday. As fast as their licenses run out the him a man or a demagogue. It is willingness to suffer the cross and Manure Maintains the Fertility. tend to grow. ^county saloons" are put out of business by this good law. Already of criticism and disapproval that proves the greatness of a soul It may fasten itself on the individual, the liquor men are talking of testing its legality. He who would rather be right than in a majority is in select get the betfer of his company.—Dawson Sentinel. will, paralyze his good intentions, By A. J. M'Guire, Extension "Every man .who lives in a civilized community has his By their determined efforts to defeat the roadhouse bill, the destroy his ambition, throttle Division, Minnesota College of ^personal liberty' curtailed every time he walks down street. The liquor people disclose the conscienceless attitude which they hold Agriculture. his animation so that efficiency legislature passes laws at each session, curtailing personal toward public morality. By there efforts to modify the abatement is reduced, and he becomes of When COWL, that give from 400 liberty." Says Senator Peterson in Fergus Falls Journal: "but the little worth to the world. five to seven thousand pounds of law, they prove their unholy alliance with prostitution and milk a year are milked, there only time we ever hear the personal liberty argument advanced is bootlegging. If the liquor people were wise they would at le-ist He may lose his job, and men are from four and a half to six when we attack the liquor interests. It is all nonsense." out of. a job are shunned by other intermittently put on the cloak of respectability. But no one who and a half thousand pounds of men. They who have nothing the has watched the political tactics of the liquor people during the skim- milk left on the farm for world wants cannot do anything past few years would care to admit having discerned even a Not only do the forty-eight stars in our national emblem feed. Skim-milk, when properly very often that the world wants represent the states, but each particular star represents a particular modicum of sagacity in those in charge of the brewery program. fed to calves, pigs and chickens done—this is the assurpption. state. Its number is according to the order in which it was —Dawson Sentinel. is worth from to cents a 15 30 We seek the people who can admitted to the Union. Hence Minnesota's star is the. thirtysecond, hundred pounds. The greatest benefit us. or the last one to the right in the fourth row from the whose subscriptions had expired value is realized from skim-milk A WISE MERCHANT When you bestow a benefit 011 top in the field on the new flag which is composed of six rows of when it is fed in small quantities, would subject him to the wrath victim of strong drink he has 1 eight stars. either to calves or pigs. For of a small army of neighbors Northfield has a wise merchant. no power to pay back the debt. example, twenty pounds of skimmilk every week, and he would never He is not only wise, but he He becomes physically repulsive, be able to get away from the a day fed to two calves will It is very gratifying to the law abiding element in this city careless in his speach. He has the frankness that inspires give greater result in gain than reputation of being close fisted, to know that the new mayor, Mr. Frank H. Keyes, has determined forgets to use a tooth brush, to confidence. This is the way he if the twenty pounds were fed miserly, unaccommodating and to have a clean, law abiding administration and city. He has shave, to comb his hair, to brush starts off an advertisement, offering to one calf. Skim-milk fed in suspicious of the financial standing made a good start by appointing the right kind of-a man as chief his clothes. small quantities can be divided some good bargains, and if of his fellow^citizens. Hence of police, and by giving him all the latitude and promise of support He says the wrong thing and between calves, pigs, colts and there is any merchant in International it is that no country editor makes things grievously ic our gnat any man in such a position could desire. It is now up to the chickens and much better results Falls that does not advertise, it a practise to discontinue papers loss,. people who want this city run decently to stand by the administration secured from it than if all fed to he will profit by the suggestions at the expiration of the subscription. 'He may commit crimes that and make it as easy as possible for them to do their duty. the calves. More calves are killed herein contained. This put himself- and his family in a by indigestion caused by the This policy is a great convenience is what the wise merchant has pitiable position. The brewers and saloon keepers have dug their own graves. over feeding of skim-milk than as well as an accommodation found out by experience: Every young- person would do in any other way. A calf may be Had they been content to do business in the same hours that to the subscribers for few, "Do you know that we well to decide for himself, as to raised on skim-milk when the other business men do they could continue much longer. The if any of them, want to be bothered figure it does not cost ,us the wisdom of indulging in strong skim-milk is fed and properly with the necessity of being liquor men assumed to dominate the administration of villages anything for advertising? drink. supplemented with grain and hay "right on the dot with a matter and cities and were insolent in the matter. All this is purely the Do you know that it paid ii The safe way seems to be to that will make. as. great growth so small as a subscription payment. for by the customers iwhc?. material side of the question, and is one that attracts attention adopt the habit of total abstinence, during its first year as if it had There are a few who take of less thoughtful-people. But the moral side of the liquor traffic do not advertise to build up health to a been fed on whole milk. Skimmilk advantage of this accommodating "Perhaps you don't see is the one that really counts. From this standpoint there1 is no point where stimulants are neither is rich in muscle in and bone policy and use it to beat the editor, how this can be, so we will needed or desired, and a reason why a saloon should exist this side of hell.—Slayton forming material, and thus a but it is safe to say that the explain. When you buy an point where good digestion waits Gazette. valuable feed for young animals. policy is highly satisfactory to article from a retailer you on appetite and health on both. The manure of a cow for a the average subscriber. A postal pay for three things: (.1) Get your pleasure through a year, that has been well fed, contains The legislature adjournes next week, and that's about all card notice will stop a paper provided What the dealer paid for :f. change of work. from to worth of there is to say about it. You, will receive the session laws in supplement the subscription is paid, $15 $25 What it cost him tb do Exercise in open air often relieves (2) fertility. It Is worth this much form a few days later, but of course that doesn't interest but continuing to take it from business. his profit. the individual from the (3) in cash if properly saved and the post office or the rural mail you, as you rarely read them anyway, and in a very short space "So you see the greater temptation of indulging in drink. applied to the fields. Big crops box obliges the party to pay for of time the noisiest and perhaps most unmanagable legislature a merchant's expense in relation Also, eat apples, whether you on land that has been farmed for it.—Long Prairie Leader. in a decade will be forgotten by all except those who might wish to the amount of have an appetite for liquor^or any length of time are almost to refer to it for political capital in days to come. .goods sold, the more hemust whether you haven't. always the result of manure. charge you for -what If your blood is not properly Standpat politicians will be inclined to hold it up to ridicule AMERICAN WAR SONG The successful farmer manures you buy. We all know that oxygenized you will be depressed because they couldn't control it. No one could control it. The his land. In dairy farming more the advertised store, does dull, heavy and tired. (Tone—"T^ppe^a^y.,,,,) democratic administration finally gave it up as a useless job manure is available than in any the largest business. Hence To relieve this fatigued Up the street one morning came cott- the republicans abandoned the attempt long ago, while lobbyjsts other branch of farming. Unfortunately their expenses are lower drtion, indulgence in stimulants a man with tangled feet, came to the conclusion that a non-partisan, leaderless legislature the manure is often in proportion to the amount is very natural. Staggering to his cottage door was about the worst thing ever.—Walker Pilot. reft in piles in the barnyard till of goods sold and they can A walk out in the open, the his waiting wife to greet half its fertility is washed away make their prices lower than playing of baseball, tramping When she saw his sorry plight, by the rain. Manure should be TIME TO PAINT UP. the store that does not advertise. through the fields and over the "Oh Molly dear," said hey hauled: to the field and spread Our constant advertising hills—these things in themselves "Its just the whiskey that is bad,, As I've often said before, you should toddle to the store, if every day. is bringing us new stimulate, and with them there is don't lay the blame on me." your standoff's not too faint, and invest in yellow paint then embellish The farmers' co-operative customers while our big a survival value in sound sleep, house and barn till the neighbors say, "By darn! What a creamery, more than any other values and one price to'allhold good digestion, even pulse, sane Chorras: Jovely, gorgeous hue. We must get to painting too!" That's the, way one' factor has made dairying our old ones. It will conclusions. It's a long lane that has no turning the profitable industry it is in sgreat movements start some wise gent with hero heart sets the pay you to trade here." .Strong drink increases the Minnesota. Wherever there are jxvee, and then the guys follow where his pathway lies. If with —Northfield News. heart's action, flushes the. face, And the dram shop must go. a sufficient number of cows to glad and joyous whoop you should paint your chicken coop, red carries the blood to the brain' Vote it out on election morning,. support a local creamery and or yellow, pink or gray, you will see neighbor jay to the nearest AN ACCOMMODATION and the man may think very It's the quickest way I know. where the farmers will agree to tlrug store rush, there to buy some paint, a brush and the next rapidly and perhaps clearly for Good-bye, dilly-dallyr work in co-operation, a co-operative clay you'll see him hump, putting green stripes on his pump, and a. short time. Then he becomes There is an impression among Face the question square. creamery should be built.' weary, and more stimulants are he'll give a coat of blue to the fence and clothesline, too. In the some people that they do not We will win the battle with our The co-operative creamery is needed to carry him along. have to pay for a newspaper if spring, Dame Nature tries to astonish human eyes, spreading on dry votes, the safeguard of the dairyman's In speaking in public the effectie the paper is continued to their And my vote's right there! the colors thick everything is span and spick fields of green industry. speakers, who have their address after the subscription and skies of blue everywhere a pleasing hue. And her sunlight subjects thoroughly in hand, and period has expired. This impression To our little city came a whiskey often falls our gray and dingy walls, and it makes her _k 011 who are able not only to make a is wfong. If a man takes a man so free To Renew Prohibition Fight. and faint* that we don't indulge in paint. Buy a gallon can right good beginning but a strong paper from the post office, he Representative John A. Larimore. "Take this license money and now! Paint the sidewalk and the cow, p$int the house and paint one of the authors of the prohibition ending, are total abstainers. must pay for it. Very few country go, pave your streets," said he constitutional amendment whiohcaus* the shed, paint things yellow, paint them red!—Walt Mason. Brilliant speeches may sometimes papers make it a rule to stop "Pave the marts with human e# such excitement in the house Marc!) be made with stimulants papers on date of expiration. hearts and all around the square." 2, said that as soon as the bill 9 EX-GOVERNOR FOSS GOES DRY. The relations between the as basis, but he who appears brought back to the house this week But the people got excited and he will attempt to have it passed undet country editor and his subscribers regularly before the public and they shouted to him there: suspension of the rules, or as a special Address at Boston. are different than the relations Chorus: stimulates artificially is taking order. Either proceeding requires two grave risks. between the editor and the thirds of the house, or 87 votes. I have been thinking that it is about time for me to quit voting subscribers of most any other His mental processes may run The brewers wrote a letter and* for the licensed saloon. So long as I make it a rule to have publication. This difference lies they penned this little lie: UP against a stone wall at any Gsrman/Baltle Fleet Out Off. my superintendents and foremen discharge men who are addicted moment, and he may make a in* the matter 'of personal acquaintance. "We always sell more liquor in to liquor, how inconsistent it is for me to support an open There is an acquaintance the cities that are dry." scene before the audience which London, April 7.—The German Bak saloon near my manufacturing establishment, where my men have tic fleet has been cut off from its bast is not on the bill. He is apt to either personal of by intimate Tell me why they fight the dry by its own mine field, which brok to go back and forth two or three times a day. reputation between the subscribers with all their might and main say too much or too little. adrift in a storm, according to Cop This question of prohibition is a very large one. It' may be We surely must have made them The professional speaker of a country paper and ot enhagen dispatch to the Mail A largt the most important social, political a»d moral question of tod&y. crazy—hope they'll stay the the editor that does not exist actor cannot afford to stimulate number of ntides bay* floated to neu tral waters. The German fleet return* Certainly it is an economic question. From an# economic viewpoint, same. between the subscribers and the save on bounteous draughts of ing from a Russian expedition fount editor of any other publication. Chorus: God's great out-of-doors, cold why shouldn't we have national prohibition? I believe that the mines dangerously thick and da For a country editor to cut off water and good food in moderation, in January next, or states will stand for prohibition. cided to retire between the Islands 4 17 18 Ruby E. Hines' his subscription, list promptly with eight hours sleep out Gothland and Oeland until the sweep Abraham Lincoln said: "You can't have a nation half siave ill 009 clear tht passagf. Pontiac, 111 of the twenty-four. the names of "all subscribers 4v :r,: