INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS abandon to the United States.' STANTON FOR SENATOR W When a loan is sought, whether public or private, the first question THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS is, what is the security, This is a question the Commissioners The mention of Judge Charles W. Stanton's name in connection are here to answer. They will doubtless, in addition to England's $ with the Democratic nomination for United States senator has met AND BORDER BUDGET «r« honor and boundless resources, offer to furnish as definite callateral with a good deal of favor on the part of Democrats throughout the IS Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. to deposit of large quantities of American securities now held abroad. state. The judge was a newspaper man and praticing lawyer before 6 'I The use of these must be obtained from their individual owners by Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at he donned the woolsack. Also he was a very active Democratic Is International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 1S7». i. their government under some system of guaranteed replacement, politician. They will furnish the best security imaginable to American lenders, CO. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING He served his party as a member of the state central committee who know what American securities are worth. George P. Watson, Editor and Manager and in several other capacities. Wherever there was work to be A little reflection will show the vast importance to the United done he cheerfully did his share. There was no reward in sight :»8»»8BSK8aK888«8e88S8K«888»S States and all its citizens of this loan. We have crops and goods either, for in those days the prospects for the election of a Democrat GOD GIVE US MEN to sell, and almost no one to buy them but the Allies, because England to any state office was generally reckoned as nil. If we has shut off a large part of our trade with Germany. Stanton was a good speaker as well as a clever writer. He was God give us men. The time demands refuse credit, we shall be unable to sell a large share of these. genial, just as he is now with a hand shake that will always be remembered, Strong mihds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands The most important items in the crop list are wheat and cotton. and he has since proved to be a great vote-getter. The Men whom the lust of office does not kill no England will take much of our cotton anyway, because there is Democrats might go farther and fare worse in their search for a Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy alternative. nominee.—Pioneer Press. Men who posses opinions and a will But how about the wheat? Probably we shall have a surplus Men who have honor men who will not lie ifrom three hundred to three hundred and fifty million bushels. But REAL GREATNESS Men who can stand before a demagogue there is other wheat that England can buy from her own Colonies And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking and Allies—that of Canada with a hundred and fifty million bushels Christ has given us a measure of greatness which eliminates Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog available, that of Australia to be harvested next winter, that of conflicts. When his disciples disputed among themselves as to which In public duty and in private thinking. Russia if the Dardanelles should be forced, that of Argentina next should be greatest in the kingdom of heaven,he rebuked them and —J. G. Holland. spring. Obviously, it is good business from the wheat standpoint said, "Let him who would be chiefest among you be the servant of for us to give England a full line of credit, so that she may take all." Service is the measure of greatness it always has been true, One of the differences, says a successful business man of Bemidji our wheat along with our other products. it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who between a "dry" town and "wet" town is that in a dry town vcu Thus the proposed loan becomes a necessity for the Northwest does most of good. And yet, what a revolution it will work in this ilo just as good a business as in a "wet" town and get paid for it. farmer.—Minneapolis Journal. old world when this standard becomes the standard of every life, Nearly all our controversies and combats arise from the fact that Those fellers who claim to stand for good government but are W. C. T. U. COLUMN many an older person will pray, we are trying to get something from each other. Our enmities ard too lazy or stingy to get out and vote ought to sit up and take "May I be here to see it.'' animosities arise from our efforts to get as much as possible out of notice as they read the small majnities by which some counties are A short, but interesting meeting A traveling man, some years the world—there will be peace when our endeavor is to put as much declared to have voted "dry". Seven of these kind of fellers in of the W. C. T. U. was held ago, asked a white ribbon lady as possible into th world. Society will have taken an immeasurable Koochiching county would have been an awful barrier to the movement at the home of the Pres. Mrs. E. what was the meaning of the step toward peace when it estimates a citizen by his output for lower taxes and better conditions. Heermance, Tuesday Sept. 21, letters "W. C. T. U." When she rather then by his income and gives the crown of its approval to the from 3 to 4130. Eight of the had explained, he said: "I one who makes the largest contribution to the welfare of all.—Extract twenty-four members were present. The best evidence that the "wets" of Minneapolis are loosing thought it meant 'We claim the from W. J. Bryan's lecture, "The Prince of Peace." universe.' She laughingly accepted ground is found in the fact that "hoodlums" are being sent for to The Pres. Mrs. Heermance had the interpretation. The break up the "dry" meeting by hrowing rotten eggs at the speakers. Endeavorers apparently wish to charge of the devotionals. This proceedure will make more ''dry" votes than anything else the NO TIME TO PICK FLAWS make the claim good. There were reports from the "wets" can do. For both sides have a right to a respectful hearing Let us have, if possible, a Sec'y, Mrs. Carrier and the and the side which will not grant it, invariablly looses. If there is any one thing that will insure the passage of county saloonless, and a warless planet. Treas., Mrs. Lowe. prohibition in Hennepin it will be the attempts now in progress to When this comes to pass shall, Those who have not paid their What if it does cost from thirty five to fifty dollars per acre to find flaws in the county option laws. the Woman's Christian Temperance dues are requested to hand them clear land in this county, the first year's crop will pay for it. Wm. Everybody in the state knows what the intent and purpose of Union and their Chirstian to the treasurer Mrs. Lowe as Watrous raised ninety-six bushels of No. hard wheat on less than the law is, and everybody knows that it was passed because the Endeavor allies attack the other soon as possible. two acres and his oats went 85 bushels to the acre and McLoman's planets? Yes, we will begin on Legislature realized that the public sentiment of the State demanded As there was 110 regular program, the red planet Mars, our nearest wheat is threshing' out between forty and forty five bushels to the it. there was a general discussion neighbor, and make him no longer acre. How does this compare with crops being taken of land selling Public opinion will resent any effort to quibble and split hairs of plans for future development the plant of bloody war, but the from seventy five to one hundred and fifty dollars per acre where over minor phases of a law which, whatever its defects, expresses etc., etc. symbol of universal good-will. they consider an eighteen to twenty bushel yield of wheat per arce very nearly what the people of Minnsota wanted. The sixteen absent members —Lewiston (111.) Democrat. a bumper croo. It offers a very fair opportunity to test the sentiment in the are requested to be present at counties on the saloon question, and its opponents will do well to the next meeting of the Union, PAPER TO BE MADE Representative Harold C. Kissinger of the Illinios general which will be held the first Tuesday accept that decision, whatever it may be. FRAM STRAW AT WINONA in Oct. at the home Mrs. ^assembly is the champion of the country newspaper editor. In The county option law, aside from providing the means of expressing Heermance. ii recent debate in the legislature, he had this to say. that sentiment, has little to do with the case. Let us all realize that we are A paper manufacturnng plant to "There is no one nearer the people in the rural communities of If the people want the saloons to stay. If they don't want the responsible for the success of this make paper from straw under 3^, our state and in our smaller cities and towns than the country saloons, any atempt to keep them by picking holes in the county something for each one to do. patent held by J. E. Lappen is to editors. They protect the interests of their citizens. They boost option law will only result in more drastic action.—Minneapolis be established at Winona by a Let us be "Boosters" for our the town they live in. They contribute time and energy and money Journal. company to be known as the home town. We can help to to the upbuilding of their home communities. This nation needs our Winona Plup & Paper company make it one of the most beautiful small towns and cities. They are the foundation of our prosperity for which it is said good financial THE SALOON INFLUENCE and morally clean cities in the and our civilization. They are what the few great cities we have backing has been secured. J. A. northwest. live off of. They are the strong fundamental structure upon which Porter, of St. Cloud, formerly Without entering into any discussion of the liquor habit, it is It is glorious to man a life boat we must build our business prosperity and staple government. connected with the Watab Paper but better to build a light house. quite possible and reasonable to approach "the saloon question' as Milling company's interests will We are for "Purity in the home, an independent and well defined problem of social economy, community DRY WESTERN CANADA locate in Winona and be actively and God in Government." morals and good government. The influence of the saloon connected with the new enterprise. To that end let us work. in politics has always been well defined, active and of great moment The fighting morale of the liquor traffic has been W. C. T. U. Correspondent in municipal campaigns. Politicians in conducting their campaigns Property to the west of th broken throughout western Canada. The battle do not consider the grocery store influence, or the dry goods element the present plant of the Union DID YOU KNOW against it has been fought and won, and practically all nor yet the pawnbrokers' clientele. But the saloon element is always Fiber company has been secured That 2,298,020 square miles of that remains to be done is to clear the ground. as a location. A warehouse, power I an important consideration. the United States are under nolicense Within a year there won't be a bar in the three great provinces plant and break room will be For reasons that are well know, saloon proprietors, brewers of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, with combined area of 758,817 erected this fall in order that the and other factors in the liquor business have never failed to participate That in 1916 a total of 18 states square miles and a population of a million and a half. crude material may be secured will be under prohibition actively and practically as a unit in our municipal politics. Saskatchewan has already banished its bars. Figuratively it with the least possible delay. That 1756 counties of the United They have always wanted their say-so as to candidates, as to campaigns, took them by the scruff of the neck and threw them out without Between ten and twelve thousand States are under prohibition as to platforms and even as to laws and ordinances. Thus ceremony. tons of this crop of straw will now it has come to pass that, while the saloon is a shop where liquor is be bought, according to the the As a war measure, in its own words. That 14,000 incorporated cities sold, it is an institution which, unlike any other retail business, has plan outlined. A small percentage To conserve the wealth and power of the nation and and villages are under prohibition persistently invaded and pervaded the field of community politics. of flax also will be secured. stop all unnecessary drains upon the economic strength This pernicious activity has had its influence in prejudicing the The latter will be used as a binder That 16 state capitals are now and resisting power of the country. in the new process pulp. The public mind against the saloon as an institution. Even those who under prohibition the province closed every bar and stopped its annual income of erection of the main building will are most liberal in their views about the use of liquor, are likely And that today more than onehalf $250,000 from this source.—Winnipeg Free Press. not be started until later. of the people in the United to be keenly hostile to the political activities of liquor dealers and The officers of the new company States are living under no- to resent the recurrent intrusion of the saloon influence controls WANTS SHERMAN RETAINED will be chosen when incorporation license? whole wards, districts and sections. takes place.—Winona' Thousands of broad minded American citizens resent this condition. Herald. Minnesota never had a more energetic immigration commissioner Maine Virginia They know why saloon owners meddle with politics and they than Fred D. Sherman. He is constantly at work setting Kansas West Virginia object to the motive and the method. The saloon has no rightful forth Minnesota's many advantages to the homeseeker. For the Oklahoma Washington place in politics, but it is in politics ''with both feet" and, if the North Dakota Oregon good of the state we hope to see him retained in his present position—Brown's truth could be made articulate and plain, it might be found that the North Carolina Colorado Valley Tribune. REAL ESTATE SNAP. deepest and most posiive hostility to the liquor traffic is this reasonable Georgia Arizona The above editorial from the columns of the Brown's Valley, Mississippi and well-justified antogonism to the saloon as an institution Iowa Big Stone County, Tribune, voices the sentiment of this paper and 120 acres good cut over Tennessee Arkansas which persists in Obtruding itself into municipal affairs.—Minneapolis land with lots of cordwood 'believe voices the sentiment of an overwhelming majority of people' Alabama Idaho Journal. pulpwood and a three room from Northern Minnesota, particularly those, who are interested in house on it. Only mile devolping Northern Minnesota and securing more settlers for A SALOONLESS PLANET from Margie. 6 acres of THE PROPOSED FOREIGN LOAN her vacant lands. Northern Minnesota wants settlers. Enterprising We have become accustomed to meadow on it. A' business men are spending their monev to help boost this coutry the fighting motto: ''A saloonless England and her Allies are buying heavily in the United States, -and are naturally depending upon our State Immigration Department nation by 1920." The Christian 40 acres and limber for assistance. Never since the organization of that department buying all sorts of products, agricultural and industrial. Either Endeavorers, in their great joining the townsite of these must be paid for in gold dollars, or we must give the buyers has it been doing such effective worn as it has the past two Chicago convention, have raised Margie—also 40 business another and more far-reaching and residence lots and years and we believe that it should not be disturbed at this time. a line of credit. battle cry: "A saloonless world other out lots in village Fred D. Sherman, the present Commissioner, has been in the The loan project is essentially a proposition that we extend to .by 1930." It is a heroic and forward-looking of Margie. Owner is going department since it was organized. He has had the experience and the Allies credit for a billion dollars with which to buy our crops ambition that has west. For particulars knows how to go about it to get results. He has been a freind and our manufacturs. If we take their promises to pay in the shape taken possession of them. If apply to to the Booster and the Settler of Northren Minnesota and is doing of interest-bearing bonds, they will continue to buy our goods and in their hopes are fulfilled many of Geo. P. Watson, everything in his power to bring us more settlers and why make increasing quantities. If we do not give them this line of credit, them will be still on the sunny Press Office, & a change? The office of State Immigration Commissioner is not they will of necessity go elsewhere to supply their large needs, and side of middle life with the prospect International Falls, "k- a political plum and should not be regarded as such and when we will continue to pay gold for what they buy here. of many years under the Minnesota. have a man in that office who is delivering the goods, it is folly to In short, the role, England has so long played, that of creditor happy rule of universal prohibition. make a change. to all th£ world, she is now forced by the exigencies of war to If it is to come so soon :4i, •. s. r\' ,r •etLsg ttli •nnMMMMiiilMiiigM^ iMM. n- ji&I ff 1