his occasion by Lloyd George. With special efforts to impress Usually if a voter wanted to vote against the saloon he voted audience, he said, in substance: "The liquor traffic in this count "No." It's different this time. This time the question is so worded «v is a most serious danger to all its interests and a greater obstacle that if a voter wants to vote against the saloons and in favor of THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS it V# the to her success in the war now waging than is to'be found in all county option he should vote MYe#.w The wording on the balltft is: Is he AND BORDER BUDGET submarines that Germany can employ against her." And then that went on to say by way of illustration of the tendency of Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. YES and traffic to weaken and destroy the means for national defence Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at Shall the sale of liquor be prohibited? of offence, that at the recent conference of the finance ministers International Falls, Minn., Under Act -of Congress of March 3, 1879. V# that the allied powers, the representatives of Russia had declared NO INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. so beneficial had been the result of prohibition in Russia, in adding $ §f George P. Watson, Editor and Manager per cent to the efficiency of her producers that any attempt 50 to revert to permitted liquor traffic would result in a revolution. The brewers and the saloon keepers have dug their own taken Lloyd George also called attention to the steps recently graves. Had they been content to do business in the same hours Don't worry about the "blind pigs." Jevne and White will look her by in France to throw off some of the burdens imposed upon that other busiruess men do, they could continue much longer. after them. Great the liquor traffic. And he added that the- government- of- The liquor men assumed to dominate the administration of cities necessary Britain for which he spoke, might feel compelled as a and villages and were insolent in the matter. All tltis it purely the Every county in the seventh congressional district has voted All war measure, to take some action against that greatest evil. material side of the question and is one that attracts attention of dry except Grant county, and that votes next Monday. be regarded in all, what Lloyd George said about the liquor traffic may less thoughtful people. But the moral side of the liquor traffic is dealt as the heaviest of the many heavy blows recently the one that really counts. From this standpoint there is no reason As the score now stands, counties have voted dry and only 38 that pernicious trade. why a saloon should exist this side of* hell.—Slayton Gazette. wet out of voting. Four more .will vote dry next Monday. 5 43 of Lloyd In the light the conclusion reached by such a man as —o George after the consideration he must have given the subject, a When we asked prominent down-river homesteader last Beltrami Count will vote on county option in August or Sep what may properly be said of those who, for any reason, continue Saturday what he thought about the county option movement he tember. The only wet towns in that couny are Baudette and to throw their influence in any way in favor of a traffic which is said, "It's strictly all right.We have to pay our share of the costs Spooner. warY demonstrably an element of weakness and danger in case of of criminal cases caused by booze and it's about time we were given and not less in its retarding effects upon prosperity and progress a chance to say whether there should be any saloons to incur these No institution has been so active in keeping good laws off the in peace.—Portland Express. heavy costs. You fellows in this city can allow your city to be run statute books, or in putting bad laws on, as the saloon and brewery by the saloon bunch if you want-to, but we don't propose to have organizations. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS them tell us what to do if we can help it, and I think this county option election will give us achance to see what we can do, Governor W. S. Hammond would unite the entire state in a but some of you city fellows have got to help us, you get our business development congress to be held in St. Paul this summer. "No and you ought to help us get rid of the saloon evil." North, No South, Just Minnesota," is his good motto. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Speaking of the test case on the "roadhouse" law, the Le There is one thing about a "blind pig" that is commendable, Sueur News says: •and that is: It attends strictly to its own business and does not IMPROVED SERVICE The action of the district count of Ramsey county is not try to control every thing and everybody. a surprise. The court of that county is not looked upon as a CHICAGO DULUTH strong one. What wifl the supreme court do? Make another guess Any person who failed to hear Attorney McPartlin's plea last TO of course, but how? The people by an overwhelming majority SUPERIOR Friday in the illegal voting case missed the best plea ever made MILWAUKEE want the roadhouse law effective. Only the breweries, liquor for good government in Koochiching County. houses, and a few "roughnecks'' want the road houses. The public Effective Sunday June 20th 1915 at large recognize these joints as a menace and believe that the After the disgusting revelation of the manner in which the first TRAIN Lv. CHICAGO 6:00 F». M. law in question was the best police measure regulating the sale of ward elections have been conducted in this city, is is pretty near liquor enacted in the session. It will help many a county option Lv. MILWAUKEE 8:20 P. M. up to the city council to appoint a new set of judges and clerks. NO. IT election, as well as prohibition, to have the will of the people set An. SUPERIOR 8.QO A. M. Mr. Wm. Bishop, wholesale liquor dealer of Fort Frances, is aside, if it is, by what was nothing more or less than a raw trick, An. 8 3Q A, M. in the Minnesota house. authority for the statement that Fort Frances and the entire SAFETY & COURTESY ALWAYS Rainy River district will vote dry at their election to be held in —Ticket Offices— September. THE BAR ROOM IS A BANK. DULUTH SUPERIOR CXr. Superior St. E. 6th Ave. W. 823 Tower Ave. The county option law is absolutely fair. It gives the poorest You deposit: Spalding Hotel Block Cor. Winter St E. Ogden Ave. as well as the^ richest an opportunity to express at the polls, his Your money—and lose it. F. R. SMALLEY, District Passenger Agent. wishes as to whether the licensed saloon, with all its attendant Your time—and lose it. evils, shall be continued. Your character—and lose it. Your manly independence—and lose it. U. S. REGULARS IN Your home comfort—and lose it. Visit Thos. Taggart, democratic national committeeman, Mayor BIG FEATURE Your self control—and lose it. Bell, and Chief of Police Perrott of Indianapolis, and other 125 California's politicians have at last been indicted for election illegalities, Your children's happiness—and lose it. Mackenzie Uses Cavalry in Stirring which means that it is only a question of time when a law abiding, Your own soul—and lose it. Scenes. Expositions J. B. GOUGH. liberty loving grand jury is appointed and the mightiest have to Donald Mackenzie, the Pathe producer, eive an account. has just finished making a The WHAT IF IT WILL? North Pacific four-reel feature called "The Fortunes of Peter," which has all If the Fourth of July committees-can prevail upon the mayor a the earmarks of notable success. Coast It is said that the voting out of the saloons in Stevens county to close the saloons on the day of celebration the city will be saved Mr. Mackenzie had a cast of wellknown will cost every person in the city of Morris an additional $3-°° a the expense of special policemen, and the women and children players, most of whom have and stop over enroute at already achieved fame on the screen. year in taxes. Yellowstone won't be afraid to come down town lest they should be annoyed George Probert, who won golden Suppose it will (which it will not, but suppose it will.) by drunks and be compelled to listen to a lot of immoral and disgusting opinions as Oskar Von Guggen in National Park If you are a merchant, how many book accounts did you lose language. "Innocent" and the Cadet in "Tha Lure," has the lead and this picture last year, because the person whom you trusted spent more than marks his debut before the camera. Von can make one trip and include he should in ^the. saloons More than all—two great expositions, $3. The unsportsmanlike character of the average saloon keeper Mr. Probert confesses that his first the wonderful North If you are a customer, how much more did you have to pay (two days of picture acting were little lias never been better proven than in the trial of Joe Jeffries, Pacific Coast country and Yellowstone less than torture to him. The National Park, besides for goods because the merchant had those bad accounts to carry? when the very bunch that were glad to have him vote illegally many other scenes— sight of the lens staring at him all More than individual features in themselves for their benefit, not only did not appear to defend him, but one $3. the time was infinitely-more dreadful and worthy of note. If you have other men working for you, how many times did than the batteries of critical eyes •of their number testified against him. You can travel either by water on a big "opening night." or Shasta rail route from Portland a workman spoil a piece of work when he was intoxicated, and how to San Francisco or via Paul Panzer, after weeks of successful much did it cost you to do it over again? More than the new coast-wise steamship $3. vaudeville touring, returns to Kittson county, which has been dry for several years, has not line. If you are charitably inclined (as all should be whatever the the screen again in this picture. Mr. had a grand jury session for the past three years, and at the last Great Northern Panzer, it will be remembered, made cause of the need) how many times did you contribute $1 or more term of district court there was only one civil case, and that was himself the best-hated villain in the to help out a family where a wage earner was spending too much country through his work as "Owen" Pacific settled out of court. Thus the tax payers of that county were saved in the saloon? You're a "tightwad" if you didn't dig up more than In "The Perils of Pauline." the big expense of grand and petit juries, and all because the peo- Other members of the cast are Steamship Co. $3- Miss Alma Martin, a popular favorite id sense enough to vote drv. pit These questions might be continued almost indefinitely. in the "legitimate," Sanv Ryan, who from Astoria, Oregon to San Francisco. Meals and berth has been in many Pathe pictures, Not all the taxes that we pay are paid to the county treasurer. included. Write, call or phone "The best soil in the state is conceded to be in Rock county," and Charles Bunnell, who was with Every one of us, merchant, customer, farmer, foreman, laborer, for detailed rates, information, the Pathe St. Augustine Company in etc. said State Auditor Preus. State Senator Nelson of Rock county is are paying a tax to and directly caused by the liquor interests, and the winter of 1913-14. considered to be one of the best soil experts in the state, and The picture required hundreds oi Low Fare Daily to Nov. 30 that tax is many, many times per capita.—Morris Tribune. $3 arrangements after examining the soils on the Riverdale farm near this city, he supers and Mr. Mackenzie made for a troop of cavalry, .said, "Ihis looks to me to be better soil than much we have in PREPARING FOR WAR. regulars of the United States Army, -Rock county, and it is as good as the best we have." a to appear in number of stirring scenes. That was a remarkable speech made a few days ago by England's Brackett Seitz- wrote the George The southern Minnesota legislators who made their first scenario. greatest minister, Lloyd George, while addressing his visit to the northern part of Northern Minnesota last week, returned home constituency in Wales. He was speaking with solemn SPLENDID STUDIO SITE with a very much better appreciation of the needs and earnestness in the hope of serving his country in the greatest value of this section of the state than when they came. They were crisis of its history. He was striving to impress upon his countrymen Secures Extensive Property at Ithaca, a fine bunch of men and all they needed was an opportunity to what they must and must not do if their country was to be N. Y., for Filming of see this agricultural paradise in order to realize its possibilities. saved, and in doing so undertook to point out the chief obstacles Dramas. Minnesota & International Ry. in which Great Britain is engaged. The Pathe producers, Wharton, The homesteaders are beings told by the saloon bunch that Inc., have leased with option of purchase, Speaking with full knowledge, that every word he might C. G. WHITNEY, Local Agent Renwiclt Park, a well-known they have no right to interfere in the coming county option election utter would attract world wide attention, he must have carefully International Falls, Minn. lakeside resort at Ithaca, N. Y. Tha bcause they live outside the corporate limits of International considered what he .had to say. What he said, therefore, may be property has been used as an amusement Falls, and they want to know by what authority that expensive resort for some years and comprises regarded as the result of careful study and mature thought upon 45 acres of land situated at bunch has begun to dictate to the taxpayers of the rest of the his part and as worthy of consideration by all those who are interested the head of beautiful Cayuga Lake county as to what they shall do upon any question which affects in those conditions and influences which serve to make and lying between the lake and the 'TVew otel county taxation. city. A city trolley line runs into or break natioal well being and power. service. the park and furnishes excellent At the time he was speaking, England was standing aghast at 15 19 IE FIFTH ST. Owatonna voted dry eighteen months ago, and last week an the danger threatening her in the then recently announced submarine number of large buildings such A ST PAUL INN. as auditoriums, pavilions, etc., on OPPOSITE CITY HALL editorial appeared in that city's Journal-Chronicle as follows: purposes and policy of Germany. And there were many 'the place needed only a little remodelling MODERN EUROPEAN '\N T'L "The old and time honored arguments of the friends Englishmen who feared, as many of England's foes hoped, that to make them very well LOCATEDIN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT inevitably adapted to picture work. There ar« of the saloon, to the effect that the no-license policy this new departure in naval warfare would overcome Great Britain's RATESiRoomi with detached bath and shower bath— frontier settlement streets, leg cabins, a has been means pest of "blind pigs," effectually superiority on the seas and place her at' the mercy of her relentless Qae person and par 76c, *1.00 11.80 day. —all the locations necessary to western person* in same room. Mc estra. Two with that other mossgrown disproved in Owatonna, along enemy. work, as well as a splendid 400 ROOMS frith private hatha and toilets— Chs parson oar the will not trade in a town ll.SOand (9.00 day argument that farmer It was that fate, as much or more than any other consideration foot pier extending into the lake. in room. 31-OD Two parsons as mar extra. beautifnl locations would Equally which does not derive a revenue from the business of trying that made part of his speech to which attention is here especially Mtd phM tfiti ft colotti bltUttt. be difficult to Had amywkore la WE AIM TO PLEASE to get him drunk." called, the most remarkable of the words uttered on that Bast. Kn ff&t s&Si