PGggfW' \fv\ sea INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS sSOTl What la "Show Corn?" OUR PUBLIC FORUM Northern Minnesota Hospital a At corn show one often hears the expression. "I have plenty of good seed corn, but I haven't any show corn.": Muneapolu Dollar-Hotel The best seed corn and the best show, *00 MODERN ROOMS Ralph Peters la Heart of Dktriel BUMIMM corn should be the same, and the ob-, 8 I N JLTSS RATI $1.££ ject of the judge at acorn contest, and Railway Mail On Pay •V MO PLAN NATK FOR TWO PIRSONS 91. EO of a farmer selecting his seed to plant,1 MMVATK BATM AND TOILKT CXTRA A controversy has been raging in the columns of the should be the same. In each case COMPLETE SAFETY press between the railroads and the Federal Post Office ear d9j the most profitable is the oae AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS Department over the question of proper compensation sired. AMO FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION for handling the United States mails. Mr. Ralph Peters, 0—ORAHCT RECORDS SHOW NO LIVES A Five ten twenty years Chairman of the Railway Mail Committee, when asked ML LOST IN A SPRINKLBO BUILDING.) wnmt to state the railroad side of the controversy to the ROOM HAS NOT AND COLO RUNNING from today the files of LESLIE'S •LJRNIR. STEAM HEAT, OAS ANO CIKOTRIC American farmer, said in part: AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. "The railway mail pay question will be settled—and will be priceless. For LESLIE'S SEVEN STORY ANNEX IN CONNECTION. settled permanently and with justice to all concerned— as soon as the American people realize that the whole is the one great national illustrated subject, while seemingly complicated and technical, boils weekly newpaper of today. down to a few simple points of fair business dealing which no one need be a rate expert to tmderstand. "The first is that, the Post Offic% Department weighs the mails, and readjusts Special war correspondents the pay the railroads, only once in four years. This compels the of. BIRTHDAY AND WEDDING and photographers by the score railroads to carry the increase in the mail tonnage during the intervening PRESENTS years without pay—manifestly an injustice in the case of a rapidly growing LESLIE'S "cover the war" for business. One consequence has been that last year the railroads carried fully Wc have an endless assortment half the parcel post for nothing. —in Germany, in Austria, in "A second point is this: In addition to carrying the mails, the railroads of appropriate gifts, France, in Russia, in Britain, are required to operate many traveling post offices for sorting and representing the newest and R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. distributing the mails while in transit. But the Post Office Department pays in Belgium, in Turkey, in finest products of the Jewelers' for such post offices only where they occupy whole cars, and pays nothing Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. Art. in the many cases in which it merely requires the use of post office apartments Egypt, in the Far East, on in combination cars, although such apartments differ from the full Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Mist Wedding rings, beautiful the high seas. railway post office cars only in size. More than 4,200 apartments of this diamonds, Sparkling jewels, character have been fitted up, and are maintained for the exclusive use of Watches, Unique silverware, the Post Office Department. Failure to pay for tlxem has been an especial LESLIE'S The news and pictorial Sterling Novelties, Rich cut hardship to the smaller roads on which the Department does not find it 6 service "covers" not only the war, Glass, Clocks, Etc. necessary to utilize whole cars. Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery Ce. "One last point: In thousands of instances (though not in all) the Post but the world, for the benefit of its 8 Office Department requires the railroads to carry the mails back and forth N E S O N S or, 350,000 subscribers. At home between railroad stations and post offices, but pays them nothing for this Jewelry Store extra service beyond the rates covering the rail transportation. The railroads abroad—wherever news is happening E. A. Yernberg, Manager International Falls, Minn. have no choice but to perform this additional service gratis, or refuse —there the unparalleled service to carry the mails at all. of this great weekly newspaper is "Now for the remedies the railroads ask: They do not ask to have the Wholesale and Retail Meats, mails weighed daily, or to have each shipment weighed and paid for separately, recording it and picturing it for the Groceries, Fruits and Feed as is done in the case of private shippers. They merely ask to people of the United States. have the mails weighed, and the pay of the railroads adjusted, at least once Get The a year, instead of once in four years. They also ask that apartment post FALLS DECORATING CO. LESLIE'S For sixty years has office cars be paid for, at reasonable rates, according fo size. Lastly, they Home-Made Sausage and To do your Painting, Papering ask that the Post Office Department cease to require of them free messenger brought to the American people Hamburger service between stations and post offices, and either relieve them of this and Decorating. Wc sell week by week the most important service or pay fairly for it. These are the reforms the railroads ask of Congress. $ WALL-PAPER and PAINTS They eljadly lay these reforms before the public, confident that they news of our own and every other will appeal to the common sense and fairness of American voters." Marvin Building Give us a Trial and You Will country, not in words alone, but 4th Street and 5th Ave. Stay With Us also in pictures—that universal Hon. Elihu Root Phone 182 language which tells more at a On Woman's Sphere Our Prices are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh $ glance than pages of words could before The question of Woman Suffrage is an issue describe. the American people. Twelve states have adopted it, Second Ave. and Fifth Street International Falls, Minn. A PROFESSIONAL CARDS four more states vote upon it this fall and it is strongly $ No wide-awake American can li urged that it become a platform demand of the national political parties. It is therefore the privilege and the duty afford not to have Leslie's in his S O- of every voter to study carefully this subject. Hon. Elihu home every week. Every member JOHN H. BROWN Root, in discussing this question before the constitutional convention of New York, recently said in part: of the family will profit by it. It I International Palls Abstract Co, Attorney at Law "I am opposed to the granting of suffrage to women, is not too "old" for the youngest because I believe that it would be a loss to women, to all Office in the litis Block women and to every woman and because I believe it child, while every page teems with BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. would be an injury to the state, and to every man and International Falls, Minn. interest for every man and woman every woman in the state. It would be useless to argue a Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance this if the right of suffrage were natural right. If it were a natural right, in the family. then women should have it though the heavens fall. But if there be any one a thing settled in the long discussion of this subject, it is that suffrage is not DR. H. H. IHRIG Get the current issue at any newsstand— 4 Collections, Conveying and Loans natural right, but is simply a means of government, and the sole question to 10 cents. be discussed is whether government by the suffrage of men and women will DENTIST J. E. BURDICK, Manager j| be better government than by the suffrage of men alone. Better subscribe by the year ($5) and Office over Holler's Confectionery "Into my judgment, sir, there enters no element of the inferiority of A International Falls Minnesota be sure of receiving every issue promptly Iaternational woman. It is not that woman is inferior to man, but it is that woman is Falls, Minn. on Thursday. diffe' ent from man that in the distribution of powers, of capacities, of qualities, our Maker has created man adapted to the performance of certain functions in the economy of nature and society, and woman adapted to the F. J. McPARTLIN performance of other functions. "Woman rules today by the sweet and noble influences of her character. LAWYER Put woman into the arena of conflict and she abandons these great weapons •which control the world, and she takes into her hands, feeble and nerveless Office over International BURN-ALL" for strife, weapons with which she is unfamiliar and which she is unable to State Bank wield. Woman in strife becomes hard, harsh, unlovable, repulsive as far removed from that gentle creature to whom we all owe allegiance and to 66 International Falls, Minn. whom we confess submission, as the heaven is removed from the earth. "The whole science of government is the science of protecting life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the divine distribution of powers, DR. H. S. ROSENHOLTZ the duty and the right of protection rests with the male. It is so throughout nature. It is so with men, and I, for one, will never consent to part with DENTIST INCINERATOR the divine right of protecting my wife, my daughter, the women whom I love, Office over litis Drug Store and the women whom I respect, exercising the birthright of man, and place that high duty in the weak and nerveless hands of those designed by God Office Phone: 245 to be protected rather than to engage in the stern warfare of government. In Res. Phone: 274 my judgment, this whole movement arises from a false conception of the THE NEW INVENTION FOR DESTROYING International Falls* Minn. duty and of the right of both men and women. "The time will never come when the line of demarcation between the functions of the two sexes will be broken down. I believe it to be false philosophy ALL KINDS OF CITY GARBAGE. I believe that it is an attempt to turn backward upon the line of G. F. SWINNERTON social development, and that if the step ever be taken, we go centuries backward M. D., C. M. on the march towards a higher, nobler and purer civilization, which must in PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON be found not in the confusion, but the higher differentiation of the sexes." Eyes examined and glasses fitted Feter Kadford Offiice over Empress Theatre On Too Many Lawyers. International Falls* Minn. When the sheriff cries out "Oh! yes, Oh! yes, the court is now in session," the farmer should tighten the Dr. JENNER PERRY CHANCE belt around his belly for it is he who pays the cost. When the lawyer says "May it please the court," the PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON farmer has to shorten the shirts of his children for they must foot the bill and when the legislature announces Office over litis Drug Store REASONABLE JUST "Be it enacted," unborn babes may well kick against Phone 11 their prison walls for they may live to pay the penalty. We have too many laws, too many lawyers and too much 1: IN Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching THE government. No man darfs to run a business without lawyers to the right of him and lawyers to the left of him. DR. J. F. PETERSON Expensive litigation and excessive legislation are clogging PRICE THING the wheels of progress. To meet this situation the railroads are ofttimes compelled to take off a train and put on a lawyer the manufacturer is ofttimes DENTIST compelled to close down a furnace and put on a lawyer the farmer is FOR EFFICIENT Office oyer International ofttimes compelled to sell a steer to pay the lawyers, for the man who digs in the ground usually pays the freight and every article which he buys State Bank carries on the price tag court costs and lawyers' fees. VILLAGES IN SERVICE f/"* International Falls, Minn. There are in the United States 115,000 lawyers and about twenty thousand courts of various jurisdiction which cost the people of this nation approximately $1,500,000,000 per annum. It costs more to run the legal affairs in this AND ECONOMICAL FHINNEY ft CAMPBELL nation than it does to clothe all the people. It costs more to settle legal disputes than it does to run our educational and religious institutions and care LAWYERS for the health of all the people combined. Less than three per cent of our CITIES OF IN Over International State Bank population are able to employ lawyers to interpret the mass of legal lore that burdens our statute books. The remaining ninety-seven per cent have International Falls, Minn. to take the raw stuff right out ol the mill. ALL OPERATION We are a government by lawyers and for lawyers. It is they who are responsible for the legislative cure-alls, espionage, unrest and business disturbance W. E. LAWRENCE SIZES that infest our statute books, for at the source of most every law GUARANTEED a is lawyer. They have in no case lowered the price of the commodity or THE REXALL STORE benefited the people but they have burdened industry and restrained commerce and have built up their profession until it dominates government, tyrannizes International Falls, Minn. business and terrorizes progress. a There is no more valuable citizen in our land than patriotic, able, conscientious lawyer, seeking to direct the ship of state through the tortuous H. STCBEE channels of 20th century civilization piloting a business through the legislative billows that dash with maddened fury across its pathway and ARCHITECT whose genius can calm the fear and command the confidence of the people in the integrity of Republican institutions, but there is no greater peril to and a society than political lawyer who seeks to prostitute government, stain Superintendent of Construction business with suspicion and arouse distrust in the minds of the people. a Unfortunately the latter class are strong factor in the profession, ofttimes Office over litis Drug Store in high places, and unless the better class unite in driving the quacks from PLANS AND PRICES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TO International Falls, Minn. their midst an outraged public opinion will administer a rebuke that will and smash d£ and Mumble the pride, crush the hope the power the profession G. A. OVESON reduce its nossibilities to ashes. DR. 6E0R6E HOEY jicers got control of the men. One U. S. Soldiers in Riot. VETERINARY SURGEON American is reported to have been Nogales, Ariz., —Scores of Patentee and ?lain in Nogales, Mex., just across the American soldiers were participants in Contractor and Builder DENTIST border from here by infuriated Mexicans. riot in Nogales as a result, it is said, soldiers in The that engaged Phone 41 of INTERNATIONAL FALLS, a rumor that Mexicans had threat•ned MINNESOTA were meffljers the ie rioting of to take their guns away. Ten International Falls, Minn. elfth infantry. of- 1 AAI Aii A* 1 Ai 1 Ai 1 An A Mexicans were attacked before the uiuiuiuii smam ^Wifi