INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ROAD BOSS LIABLE. FUNCTION OF NEW LIQUOR RULING NEWSPAPERS. CALLED SIGNIFICANT. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS The Supreme Court has decided that a road boss who leav-.s Paramount One to Act as Comfort and Distress Contained a load in condition such that it is dangerous to travel is personably AND BORDER BUDGET & Keeper of Public Conscience. in Opinion, for Dealers in Intoxicants. liable in case of accident. A man named Tholkes, a Farmer living Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. 3 near Ghent, Lyon county, ran into an open culvert with his auto Percy Andreae, of Chicago, vice Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at S2 and wrecked the car. The accident took place at night. Workmen International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 18^9. S3 president of the American Association »v Both comfort and distress for had been fixing the culvert during the day and had left the road in of Foreign Language the manufacturers and distributors INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. 8 impassable condition when they left. Tholkes brought suit against & Newspapers, addressing the International of the cup that cheers is $ George P. Watson, Editor and Manager the overseer of the district, and also against the man who was directly Press congress in round in an opinion handed down in charge of the road work. The Supreme Court held that San Francisco, asserted his belief by the supreme court July •W#*WmWWWWWWWW**W#«W«»V»W+»»»#*W#*«»V 9th, the man directly in charge of the work was liable and assessed that the paramount function covering a phase of the liquor damages against him of A man working on a country road of the press in America was to If the Press has no influence over its readers what is Bro. $250. question hretofore untouchd. By has no more right to leave the road in an impassable or dangerous act as keeper of the public conscience. Bergstrom worrying about? some the opinion is taken as foreshadowing condition than has a street commissioner in a village.—Long coming events in a "This is no mere metaphor," Prairie Leader. test of the new county option What is that little bunch of prosperous looking Germans doing he continued. "There never was "sticking'' around here, so near the Canadian border? It don't law. a time when men as well as women At a late election the town of THE PERSONAL LIBERTY GAG. look good this country is supposed to be neutral. were so fiercely intent upon Jameson and the village of Littlefork, —o appealing to the public conscience, Koochichig, voted on the The saloon clement has taken a new road to reach its goal. "Probably working men in Massachusetts lose their 50,000 and assuming to speak in question of dry and wet. The There was a time when that element handled politics as it handled positions each year as a direct or indirect result of intoxicating its name. And who is to distinguish, village, which voted wet, is within its patrons. It got them drunk and their money and their vote. liquors," declared ex-Congressman Fredrick S. Deitrick of Massachusetts, amid this babel of tongues, the town of Jameson, which It is the kind of politics that quite a few men in Indiana have been in a recent address. "It also causes great privation to wagging in the name of the public voted dry. L. J. Lalonde, a saloon "sent over the road" for, and if our last grand jury had been composed conscience, which voice is their families. This is twice the number employed in the liquor keeper in the village, continued truly the voice of the people, and of men with investigating proclivities, some of our own business. to operate his place, and was so whch is not? election judges and clerks would have faced charges of election authorized by the village authorities. "It is the incessant conflict irregularities, to say the least. If the visiting representatives of the big city breweries cared between the contrary winds of The town officials ordered his anything about the interests of the people of this city and county That form of electioneering over, the saloon element became alleged public opinion that does arrest and LaLonde sued a writ patriotic(?) and commenced to guard(?) the liberties of the people. why didn't they, many years ago, insist that the. saloons,, which more lasting damage in our day of habeas corpus which the lower have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars out of this county and The latest cry of the worshipers of John Barleycorn is personal than even those collosal clashing court denied. The supreme turned it into their treasuries, run their places with, at least, a liberty, and there lately appeared on the platform men of national interests of race and race. Not court, in its opinion today, holds slight appearance of regard for law, order and decency. reputation todefend the saloon on the ground that the saloon because the conflict of human that the town did not control keepers are being deprived of their personal liberty. opinions is in itself injurious, and that the village is voting wet How does Kansas City, Kansas, feel about prohibition? This The claim of these men is that no one has any right to dictate for we know that it is not, but and licensing the sale of liquor is what the Kansas City Star says about it: Kansas City, Kans., to one what to drink, what to eat, what to smoke, where to because, when opinions, however was within its rights. never was so prosperous as it is now taxes never were lower live, and so on, and anyone attempting to curb these rights are honest, masquerade in a false While a victory for the wets, guise, they are misleading, and business never better vacant rooms and houses never so scarce tampering with the rights of personal liberty and consequently grief, however, for the liquor perplex and bewilder the public vendors as a whole, is found in the population never so great. Once a majority of the business unamerican. conscience instead of clarifying the following, taken from the men of Kansas City, Kansas, believed that the saloons were necessary Why the saloon, as an institution, should choose to champion and strengthening it. supreme court's opinion: to 'hold the business.' Now ninety-nine out of every one the cause of personal liberty is difficult to understand—the institution "Who, then, is better qualified "Originally the sale of liquor hundred business men in the city insist upon law enforcement to that violated every standard of morality, fair play and good than the trained and experienced was lawful everywhere and its keep the saloon out." business conduct. Is it because the awakened American spirit refuses newspaper editor, to point sale is still lawful except as prohibited to be lulled into stupidity any longer? Because the profits of the distinction between the mere or restricted by statute: REVENUE DECREASE IN DISTILLING DISTRICT. a few men are being threatened? That may be the reason and it passing of winds that bend and but the law making power may is for that reason that the educated sons of the brewers are attempting twist the public mind for a fleeting restrict or prohibit the sale The internal revenue for the Peoria (111.) district has fallen to educate the American people to the true conceptions moment and the real storm thereof to any extent it shall wind that originates in the public off during the past year Collections were $26,493,57° of personal liberty. deem proper for the promotion $7,041,816. mind itself, searching it to the past year against for the preceeding year. The ex­ Personal liberty, if you please, is the liberty of one man to of the public welfare." $33,535,386 its uttermost depths, and giving planation given is the usual one—decrease in consumption of The statute covering local option, so act, that his own person will be safe, that his immediate family it a new and lasting shape?" the court says, unequivocally whisky due to spread of dry territory will be taken care of, that his neighbor will not be injured, The distinction between the granted to villages the power that the future generations will not suffer for the mistakes that foreign language press in America to settle the license question for their predecessors may have made, and that the individual should THE DECREASING PRODUCTION OF BEER. and the American press, Mr. themselves regardless of the action be ready to give up personal gain, when this gain will injure the Andreae thought, lay in the of any other municipality. It community at large. This is personal liberty, as understood by "During the first eight months of the fiscal year the efforts of the former to make a 1914-1915 necessarily follows, the court the true American, and that liberty is the kind our fathers fought good American of the immigrant production of beer in the United States has decreased more than adds, that the fact that a village, for, not the liberty to take advantage of the kindness of the and the duty of the latter to three million barrels. The cause of this enormous decrease, where though still part of a town, does keep him a good American. In mother, the love of the father, the trust of the neighbor and under normal conditions an increase would have been only natural, not clothe the town with power this connection he said: friend. is assigned by some to the increase of prohibition territory and to nullify any action taken by "I am not at all sure which of The personal liberty for which the saloon stands, is the liberty the village in the matter of the this is true to some extent."—The Brewers' Journal for June. the two tasks is the more difficult. sale of liquor. to cut his family's throat, destroy his child's future and put The foreigner, whfen he Notice is taken by the court a brand on his name never to be obliterated. That is the personal GOVERNOR CAPPER SETTLED IT. reaches these shores, comes in on the county option law passed liberty of the highway man, the robber, and the man of the wilds. many cases, with that one-sided by the last legislature, but for The liberty to be left to do as he pleases irrespective of what conception of American liberty On the last night before a no-license election in Moorhead, 1 fear that its findings in the Koochiching that will mean for himself, his family, or his neighbors. which renders him blind to the which recently went dry, a speaker from Kansas City, Mo., was county case may be Civilization has made laws and every law is a restriction on fact that the exercise of his liberty advertised to tell the voters about the failure of prohibition in Kansas. taken as having to do with the personal liberty. The law to send children to school, the payment is conditioned upon his due particular law, it says explicitly In reply to a telegraphic communication to the chief executive of taxes, the policing of cities, the protection of public health are regard for the liberty of others. that its ruling has no bearing of Kansas, Govrnor Capper wired the following message, which all limitations on personal liberty. No one will object to that, not In his first exaltation upon being whatever upon that law.—News Was printed and circulated: delivered from the shackles of even the meanest saloon keeper, we venture to guess. ribune. "Prohibition the greatest blessing that ever came to Kansas. his old life he is apt to suppose The federal government has recently enacted a law governing Makes more happy homes, fewer heart-broken wives, less crime, that, since the order of things the sale of morphine, cocaine and other habit-forming drugs, A NICE FAREWELL PARTY an unqualified success. Our people are enthusiastic for prohibition, he has left behind him meant the and provided heavy punishments for their violations, yet no one and would not think for one moment of going back to the saloon therefore the state of freedom opposes the federal government or questions its right to do so, Last Monday evening a farewell and its attendant vices, whatever may be said to the contrary by into which he enters here implies dance and card party was but the moment the people, which are the state, tries to stop the hired spokesmen for liquor interests. Arthur Capper, Governor. correspondingly an absence of given in the City Hall by Dr. saloon element from poisoning the minds, the hearts, and the bodies all necessity to submit to the exigencies Elizabeth Monahan, Mrs. J. J. of the people, the cry goes up, I am deprived of my personal liberty. of social order. He has WHY NOT SALOON KEEPERS' LIABILITY? Ross, Dr. Mary Ghostly and Miss No saloon keeper ever questioned the right of the federal to learn, in other words, that, Nellie McDonald in honor of government to tax him with a twenty-five dollars per year liquor while order may exist without Cashier and Mrs. John E. Cowan The "Times-Review" of North Chicago, 111., has the story in tax, not even the blind pigger or the house of ill fame questioned liberty, there is no liberty conceivable and family, who are leaving to a nutshell: "Anthony Morun, who lived near here and who had without order. It is the that. He never complained, not until the people refuse to bear the take up their abode at Northome. beaten his wife at their home outside the city limits of North Chicago task of the foreign-language saloon keepers burden, then he hollers about personal liberty. The hall was tastily decorated on Twenty-second Street, on a Friday night in February, newspaper to bring this fact The institution that must corrupt the public mind in order to and about fifty representative was arrested, indicted by he grand jury, tried, and convicted with forcibly home to him, and I am live, is hardly he proper champion of personal liberty. The business couples attended and enjoyed a intent to kill, although he sticks to the statement that he "did not making no idle boast when I say that must cajole, browbeat and slug in order to maintain very delightful time together. that it has succeeded in accomplishing know what he was doing." He was sentenced to the penitentiary Music was furnished by Wood's itself is not the proper personal liberty advocate. Such an institution this self imposed task for fourteen years. orchestra, and the selections has no place in modern civilization and the sooner it is done in a remarkable degree. I have The month before, Mrs. Moran had written a pathetic letter played were unusually fine. a Way with, the sooner shall we be able to redeem the very saloon characterized that task as to her husbands employer.. Anthony was spending his money on Mr. and Mrs. Cowan have resided keepers from themselves, their own worst enemy, and make them one of making a true American here for several years, being drink when the family had to have coal and food. The company useful members of our state. of the foreign born immigrant financially interested in the tried to get the saloons to stop his liquor, and, failing, held his Whether, after becoming merged International State Bank, of wages for her. Then the husband beat her up. Why isn't the saloon in the general citizenship of the more votes than at any previous EQUAL HONORS IN which Mr. Cowan was the cashier liable for this? Here's a woman half killed, a family broken up, a country, he remains a true citizen until about two months ago, MONDAY'S ELECTIONS. election in her history, more man in jail for fourteen years, and all for a little money in the or not, depends, as it depends when he resigned to take care of than votes being cast, 1,956 till, another remittance to the distiller. How must the rest of us 7,000 in the case of every one of us, be their larger interests in the banking Freeborn and Anoka Vote of which were in Red Wing, pay the damages for this dirty business?—Collier's Weekly. he foreign born or native, upon and real estate line at Northome. Dry While Goodhue and Sherburne our press than that of keeping which went wet by while 386, Retain the Saloons. the dry lead in the rest of the the mind of every citizen of this THE WANE OF DRINKING. During their years of residence country unqjterably fixed upon county was only Illegal vot­ 143. here they have endeared themselves Freeborn and Anoka counties ing is charged against the wets. those fundamental principals of As a sign of the times the fact that local saloon keepers to many friends, all of 14 In Freeborn county the drys government laid down by our immortal voted dry in county option elections who had been granted a renwal of ther licenses failed to pay the whom are sorry to see them depart. forefathers." are rejoicing with a majority of Monday, putting saloons 15 The gathering of Monday required fee, thus allowing the privelege to lapse, is both intresting In conclusion, Mr. Andreae votes. The wets had claimed 857 out of business, while Goodhue evening was a fine token of the and significant. It shows how, without any violent wrench, the said: Albfert Lea by votes, but 600 regard in which they are held. liquor business is adapting itself to changed conditions, such as and Sherburne counties were won "It is fit and proper that the carried it by only 194. by the wets, making an even the competition of the moving picture theatres, the pressure of The wet victory in Sherburne press should bow to the public, Pens, inks and pencils at the hard times and that sentiment in favor of greater absinence which break for the day. The score now county was an unpleasant surprise because the public is sovereign, Press office. is turning so many states to local option or prohibition, while in stands: Dry, wet, for the drys, as they were But when we so bow, let us first 43 8. Seven counties are dry by so confident they made no extensive be sure it is the sovereign public Europe a complete ban has been enforced in some countries because local option or the Indian "lid," campaign. The unofficial we are bowing to and not a of war conditions. It is the testimony of all the liquor dealers prcme responsibility toward making dry counties out of returns give the wets to the mere bogy, ingeniously dressed 50 that sovereign, upon the faithful 41 who failed to pay their license fees that the business had become 86 in the state. County option, so good, the vote standing, dry,884, up to resemble it. And above all, fulfillment of which he relies, unremunerative, and the same statement is made by many far, has put saloons out of even in bowing let us remember wet, and for the neglect of which he 421 925. wiho did pay and hold on in hope of an increase in the popular business. There will be but one Unofficial returns from Anoka that, though right or wrong, the is ever ready to exact a stern thirst. It may well be doubted, however, whether this will ever be more election this month, Steele county concede a dry victory by public ever remains the supreme accounting: its responsibility as seen again. The whole tendency is toward a reduction in the consumption county voting next Monday. a fair majority, the returns so sovereign, the press, too, can the keeper of the public consci-s of liquor..—Philadelphia Record. Goodhue county cast 1,500 far giving the drys wets never divest itself of its own su- ence." 572, 430.