A LIVE DOG IS BETTER THAN A LOAFERS ON YOUR FARM THE- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Owatonna has not, and are shy several things DEAD LION AND BOBDEB BUDGET which Owatonna has. The question of how high taxes must be A loafer is not only a nuisance but he is Official Paper of Koochiching County, depends upon the way public money is spent, an expense to the community that supports By G. P. Swinnerton. M. County Health Officer Minnesota. or, in other words, upon thjs men elected to him. He does not produce anything, and yet office. When the average voter gets this fact somebody has to fed, cloth and shelter him. An old adage cays that, Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., impressed upon his consciousness, he will quit "Dead men teil no tales." Every stump on your farm is a loafer. Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. devoting his attention to will-o'-the-wisp tags It produces nothing, it occupies ground that If this were the only effect and ends of incidental, and accidental, city might be producing crops, it interferes with of a man's death, nothing Internationl Falls Press Publishing Company revenue, like license money, and will pay more much further could be said. the cultivation of the land ne^r it, and it is the George P. Watson, Editor and Manager attention to electing men of sense and sound cause of much broken machinery. The following A tale-bearer or goosip, is ideas to run his city government. It is the better dead. But all men extract from an article in "Northern Min­ No city council has a right to grant any judgment and economy with which public are l.ot gossips. In fact nesota" by F. W. .Wilson shows how much it privilege to any person contrary to law. It finances are adminstered that makes the difference some would have us believe _costs a .farmer to keep one of these stump is contrary to law to grant a saloon license between high and low taxes and any set that but few men living, answer loafers on his land. anywhere in this county after August 9th last of public officials that lacks the ability to spend that that description. "A West Virginia farmer has figured for a period of at least three years. Yet in the public moneys sensibly will make futile as Therefore it would be true of but few dead pro­ an average square foot of his land will the face of these facts such a license has been a tax abatement any bargain with saloon­ the ones. duce at least one cent's worth of crop that applied for in this city to begin on the 15th keepers to increase the revenue by an annual average stump takes up twenty-five square At best this is only a negative classification of this month. If the council does its duty, bribe to the city, for that kind of officials will costs feet. Therefore every stump actually of but few men who die. For one such, as we believe it will, and denies the license simply spend that much more money instead of a the farmer from twenty-five to fifty cents there are thousands of men die, who were of applied for, that will end the matter, for no applying it to relieve tile burden of the taxpayers. infinitely year. Not only that but the stumps are breeding greater value to society alive. In council can be compelled to grant, such a will places for vermin, and every stump fact an overwhelming majority of those who license. If the council grants the license as Generally speaking, the men who fall for have a lot of undesirable weeds growing die, were of far greater value alive. They some expect them to do, even though it is a civic bribe to put a few thousands into a city over around it, the seeds from which spread filled a niche, and performed a task in human .granted contrary to law, the tax payers of treasury at most any cost are the »ame men the adoining land and mix weeds with the life, of actual value. So that, when a man this city and county will be put to the expense who will vote ignorant, inexperienced and crops. dies it is a material lose to the state. of getting the license revoked. short-sighted men into the job of spending the "It is a pretty large stump that fifty cents' In the nature of things a man cannot live money—not always, but generally.—Owatonna Once worth of dynamite will not take out. The most successful shoppers in the world for ever. The Elixir of Life always was and Journal Chronicle. taken out, it is done with. It" thus figures out are inveterate readers of the advertisements always will be a chimera. There comes a time that the farmer simply trades the crop over in their local newspapers, and their successes "HYPHENATES" when our physical body gives out. But, three year the spot occupied by the stump for one are brought about mainly through the advance score and ten years is the approximate right of of for the dynamite necessary to rid himself information gleaned from the advertisements. every man to live. This being the case, there What is an "hyphenate"? A resident of the stump. If he plants that spot and gathers is something wrong, which causes men to die If a bargain is offered at a store that advertises he America, enjoying its advantages, the civic crops from it for twenty years, therefore, they see it and rush forth to buy before before their time. That something wrong, in in protection of his rights, he may even have gone gets back the amount of his investment most cases, is something that can be PRE­ it is gone and the price returns to normal by any through the form of being made a citizen, dynamite multiplied twenty Ask again. In this way they supply most of their VENTED. DO YOU GET THAT? SOMETHING but his heart is in some other country. He banker or financier if it is not a pretty good wants throughout the year, and often secure THAT CAN BE PREVENTED. first is attempting the. impossible ''to serve two investment that will return itself the more goods for less cost than their neighbors If a man dies of something preventable, masters." year and then reproduce itself twenty times in who are neglectful of the opportunities her­ some one in the State is responsible. Some a like number of years."—Grand Rapids Independent. What makes hypenates? Is a hyphenate alded in the local press. The habit of devouring men are murdered, cruelly in cold blood. made or born In our opinion, both. A man the ads is growing steadily upon the people, What does the STATE do, in such cases? who has not the elements of trueness, of and the wise merchant knows this and prepares Sleuths of most cunning mind trail the murderer. LABOR LEADERS ON LIQUOR genuine manhood, coming to this country, may to meet it. Courts sit for his trial. The noose or become a nominal American, but still a dan­ electric chair, gruesomely await him. The gerous intriguer with some foreign power 'The destruction of the poor is their poverty, The tragic death of George D. Cox of .Big State maintains police to guard the life of from which he has come. We have some in and the present licensing system is a^, "Falls, leaving a widow and three orphan children every man, all out of the public purse. chief cause of the present time poverty, de­ this country now. These should be packed to struggle along alone, as a direct result But all men who die before their time bag and baggage, back whence they came. basement and weakness of the poor,"—John of a three days drunk in a village supposed to are not murdered by some heartless villian. Burns, English Labor Leader. Some hyphenates are made, The ignor­ *'dry" brings up the serious question as to he The proportion of those murdered is small. ant, simple emigrant who comes with dreams who is responsible for this sad death? Some What then causes the death of all the balance ''The time has come when the saloon and of the great land of America, with all it promises, one sold deceased the liquor not only before of the young, and those in the prime of life, the labor movement must be divorced.—Samuel and then practically becomes an indus­ lut after he was in a drunken condition, had who die? ELEVEN THOUSAND, died last Gompers, President of the American Fed­ trial slave in mines, huges industries of most the village executives done their duty,* the year from PREVENTABLE diseases. Typhoid eration of Labor. laborious toil, handled like cattle, estimated, as liquor would not have been habitually sold to fever, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cattle, naturally looks back to the liome land this man during the three days preceeding his whooping cough, and other such, reaped their "If a brewery is closed down, in its place with some sentiment. This sentiment gives death. Most everybody living in the village cruel harvest of unneccessary deaths. If right springs up a factory. If saloon is closed, in the hyphenate element. America affords no loiew that liquor was being thus illegally sold, conditions, and proper control of disease were its place comes a store. It is simply, a process sentiment. Therefore he gets bread, rough ^Adid anybody make complaint of the lawlessness established, this, great procession of the pre­ well known to union men, the same as follows, and coarse here, a bunk to sleep in, but his v4o either the village or county authorities? mature dead, could be stopped, and dissipated. the introduction of machinery. It is a read-— heart is across the seas. This class of hyphenates AVe ask again, who should be held responsible? Al­ These diseases are more stealthy, and surer of justment, a changed condition of society. we make .here. We are responsible for their prey, now, than the cunningest criminal, most every disturbance in the ranks of organized them. If the reports from the northern section and murderer. They surely get the children, labor can be traced back to some connection of the state in the Indian belt are true, the The ciy of an united patriotism, intense the men and women. with the saloon."—John Mitchell, Vice- •counties which are voting dry will have some and fervent, with America ever first is the A. F. L. President, This is an appalling picture. ELEVEN job on their hands to keep out the blind pigs. only slogan that should be heard. When THOUSAND good Minnesotans, gruesomely There must be vigorous enforcement of the all who come are given a practical education marching to their graves, in one year, need­ "Speaking generally, there is strong preference law in these counties—or the condition under in what the best type of Americanism means, for temperance men. The theory that lessly. county option will be rivore intemperate than there will be but few hyphenates. This few the best mechanics are found among the in­ binder the licensed saloons. It will cost money should be dumped. America first, last and all WHY this dread procession? Public indifference temperate trades unionists is a weakness to to convict the bootleggers and the blind piggers, the time, in the hearts of all the people, will ignorance and carelessness of civic the unions. The temperate man stimulates but the taxpayers should put it up without give us a nation against which all storms officials legislative inertia and insufficient loyalty, inspires confidence, maintains dignity 3 a kick. Anything worth having costs a* funds to prosecute the public health work of from without will break fruitlessly. and exhausts the vitality of opposing forces." great deal, both in money and effort—but it the State. A thorough, up-to-date, scientific —James Simpson, Toronto, Former Vive-President, worth the price. Better spend a little money THANKSGIVING supervision of the public health all over this Trades and Labor Congress. in making your community better than to State, would in ONE YEAR, cut this death leave it all for somebody else to squander.— rate from preventable diseases in two, at least. President Wilson's call upon the nation to "The purpose of the trade union is to raise St. Cloud Journal Press. observe Thanksgiving Day, comes with more If the police of a city fail to get the the standard of living. What about the saloon than ordinary impressiveness this season. criminal in a very aggravated case of murder, Is there a man who will dare to say there is WHAT THE STATUTE SAYS RELATIVE Through another year, during which a vast, its citizens are stirred to a very fury of any influence from the saloon except to lower TO ACTION OF COUNCIL relentless war between the leading civilized anger at the police. But they hardly cast a this standard, and make man less manly and nations of the earth has been raging, we have passing glance at the funeral procession of woman less womanly I don't know a solitary "Section 3140 General Statutes 1913, come unscathed. In spite of innumerable some little child, dead of scarlet fever, wending principle for which the» labor movement VOTING FOR ILLEGAL LICENSE—PENALTY—Any snares which might have lured our nation into its sorrowful way to the cemetery. THIS stands but that the saloon is on the other side member of a county board or this witches caldron of blood and fire, guided, is the greater crime. And the public and their of the question."—John P. Lennon, Treasurer, municipal council who shall knowingly vote under Divine Providence, by its executive spokesmen of Minnesota are to blame. A. F. L. in favor of granting any illegal license for the head, and a preponderant wisdom of its people, sale of intoxicating liquors, or who, being pre­ we are still at peace with the world. At no "Labor has its special reasons for regarding Each week the names of those Townships sent, shall fail to vote against it and any officer time in its history has the wisdom and moral the drink traffic as one of its worst enemies. of the County which have reported to the knowingly signing or issuing any such consciousness of the nation been more splendidly To the extent to which the resources County Health Officer, their proper organization illegal license shall be guilty of a misdemenor." manifest. 1 of the laboring classes are wasted on liquor as Boards of Health, ready and willing to Section 12 of Chapter 23 Laws 1915. Referring Morever, in spite of these almost insuperable the problem of unemployment is aggravated, enforce the Laws and Regulations of the State to period after a county has voted dangers threating the nation, its heart and and any aggravation of unemploment injuriously Board of Health of Minnesota, will be published "dry" says: 'During the period of such prohibition head have wrought by day and night, gener­ affects wages and the standard of labor in the following roll of honor. Get after and suspension of the statutes and conditions. ously to assuage the sarrows, staunch the your township officials and see that they are municipal charters first mentioned in the last wounds, and meet the crying needs of the alive to their duty, as the lawful defenders of 'The strength of the bargaining power of preceeding section it shall be unlawful for crushed and broken of Europe. As ever, the your home and family from dangerous disease, labor depends mainly upon keeping down the any liecnsing board or council within said county quality of mercy is, that "it blesseth him who and unsanitary conditions. competition of the unemployed. The workman to grant any license for the sale of intoxicating gives and him who takes." The richest gain who spends his money on drinks is not G. F. Swinnerton, M. D., liquors therein. Every such license at­ has accured to us, who have been the helping to support useful employment. On County Health Officer. tempted to be granted in said county during messengers of mercy. Our hearts are purer the contrary, he is assisting to employ labor Roll of Honor—Townships of Koochiching such period of suspension or prohibition shall and more tender, and our consciences more in producing a commodity which is unnecessary, County, properly organized to care for Public be null and void." sensitive to suffering and distress. unproductive, waseful and injurious. Health. According to a high legal authority, Our internal prosperity, and material gains There never was a greater fallacy put forward 1. Township of Indus. "'knowingly" refers not to the charcter of the during the year, and everything that has contributed than to assert that if the drink traffic were license granted but .a knowlege of the fact 2. Township of Beaver. to our wants, and happiness, are just abolished wages would fall, because the cost that he was performing an action, such as cause for gratitude to an All-Wise and gracious of living had been reduced. voting. Providence. But that this Thanksgiving A farmer the other day spilled a little "The man who drinks has a lower standard finds us richer in the things'that are worth whiskey on the barn floor. A certain mouse, of living than the total abstainer. It is the MEN AND MONEY while, goodness, charity, real charcter, as a being thirsty, came out of his hole and took latter who keeps up wages by keeping up the nation, is our greatest cause for thankfulness a sip. In a few moments the mouse returned standard of working class life, by insisting upon Down in Rochester where they have more to our Eternal Father, and took a good drink. Shortly after returning better housing, better food, better cloth­ saloons, the tax rate is the same as Owa-o Let us then respond to this presidential and to his humble domicile, he again came ing, holidays, education, and other useful tonna's was last year and yet they have noth- -j, call, with joy, and cheerfulness, tempered by I out and jumping upon a soap box exclaimed,.% productive forms of. expenditure."—Philip ing in the way of public improvements that li Eng. a devotional attitude of soul. §4 ''Now bring on that d—m cat."Ex. pp Snowden, Labor Member for Blackburn, mm