N fWr! 1 ^-ft -w $«- P? INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS' gv. THERE'S NOTHING TO IT. The longer the start is delayed, the longer, of course, it will take to give Minnesota a modern and workable Constitution. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS That's the end of it, as far as he is concerned The time to begin crystalizing for a new Constitution that the There are lots like AND BORDER BUDGET him. Nothing seems to feaze this bunch. They are the cynics on next legislature will be forced to submit the question to the people, is Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. the matter of public health. jNOW.-*—Duluth Herald. The cynic says "You've got to eat so much I June 23. 1909, at Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office dirt before you die/' and declares the whole health WILL STAY DRY. International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 187». movement a fad. It's a graft for the doctors. INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. You never heard of such things when he was a Moorhead is dry. It was the largest city and the drunkenest to GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager. boy, anyhow, people are always going crazy about &° ^ry w*th its county under the new law. It was compulsion, some new stunt these days. Moorhead was Fargo's saloon as well as its own. It had a conseSo he pooh pOohs the whole matter of public (luen^ ar*"ay saloons far beyond its own population and a city The blind pig, like the licensed saloon, must go. revenue from this source in proportion. health, and the efforts of health authorities to help Wour Moorhead like to go back to the old ways and recover this Chief Kirkpatrick has been doing good work during the past ten him avoid disease. o. 8winn«rton, (revenue? Is it afraid of taxes Has it along line of vacant stores T. •days notifying the undesirables to "get out" and stay out, as soon as In many ways this cynic is a good sort. He is X. D. popular with the "boyshe is prominent in the depressed and parched What has happened there is as good he learned they had returned. lodge, and politics. He'll listen to your tale of bad luck quite sym- jan example be found of the result of county prohibition. If as can If the well dressed man as well as the lumberjack was arrested pathetically. But this public health "dope," why there's nothing to it. Moorhead can survive no county seat in the state need fear this law. We get it from the best authority that if the vote came tomora and put in jail when he gets orrie-eyed drunk and makes himself Well, one day he does not appear at. the office. He is home, with 1 high fever, bad headache, very severe pains in his back, and gener- jrow there would not be a handful in favor of returning to the old foolish and obnoxious it would help some. Why this partiality. ally over his body. He is no "quitter," but when he feels like vomit- jways voting in a single saloon. In the last five months there or ing, and just plain "ill," he gives up that he is sick. He stubbornly j^ave been 88 arrests for drunkenness in the corresponding months Bert Lakin of the Crookston Lumber company, told Governor refuses to have a doctor, but sends for a bottle of Dr. Buncumbe's Pr^or year there were nearly 3ooo. Burnquist that since Kelliher went dry, the lumberjacks in one camp The board of control has told the city it must build a new jail of of 150 men have deposited more than $3,500 with the company office, Cure All, from the corner.drug store. On the fourth or fifth morning, he wakes from the first little rest certain dimensions to extend the accommodations of its present jail, on which they draw 6 per cent interest. he has had, feels better, and praises Dr. B.'s C. A. to his wife. She's The city begged off until after the county option election and was While making application for citizenship at Fargo recently, the a shrewd little body, and as she looks at his forehead, and sees round ,onty required to invest in this way $5,000. Now its jail is too big. alien, when asked if he belonged to any organization or society that red pimples showing, she catches her breath, saying to herself, c^y ^ias normal school, one of the best educationally in a "Smallpox." the state, but it was not growing. Students from that immediate was dangerous to the welfare of the United States, replied: "Well, She knows he isn't vaccinated, and has always raved against it. section went to St. Cloud. Their parents did ot like the Moorhead I'm a Democrat, if that's what you mean." Secretly she calls a doctor. Her guess is right. It's the pest house, atmosphere for their children. Since the election the attendance has (something he has ridiculed, now the detention hospital) for him. lncreased 20 per cent it is still increasing. If all the villages and townships in our country which elect their All the old saloon buildings have been occupied by other kinds ©fficals next Tuesday will see to it that only such men are elected to Off he goes, willy nilly. Much chagrined, but a good* deal of the bluff knocked out of him. of business. Every merchant reports a gain in trade and cash receipts. office as believe in better government by the enforcement of law, and The banks show new accounts. The population is growing. have the courage of their convictions, it wHl help a good deal in the The cynic on this matter of public health is a bluffer at heart. A contagious disease always gets his goat, if it gets him1. Farmers are coming there to live others to send their children to general clean-up. school, others to enter business or make the city headquarters. The little hard-headed wife, who has been vaccinated, has secretly New dwelling are being built, more than for many years. Laboring The Senate and House have both voted to support President had the three boys vaccinated too, unknown to hubby. As the men who are now saving money are getting homes of their Wilson against warning Americans not to travel on armed merchantmen, days pass, they show no signs of the disease. So, while father own. This gives work and sells materials. The wage earner lives which was a proper thing for them to do, but, nevertheless, the languishes in detention, the family are safe. No thanks, however, better and still saves for a bank account, a home or investment. to him. 'travelling American should be careful not to take an armed vessel Would Moorhead go back? Moorhead says "No," and says it when he can go by an unarmed one just as well. As he absent-mindedly views the scenery around the pest house, with an emphasis that is almost indignation as well as expressing intense the news that the family are safe, and why, gives him relief. The satisfaction.—Duluth Tribune. The editor of "Our Side," the official liquor organ of the state, cynicism, the bluff, and general cantankerousness about this health says Earley Dare was present at the recent convention in Minneapolis, business, leaves him rapidly. To himself he says: "There's something to this health thing." when more than two hundred and forty editors were together W. C. T. U. NOTES. ably at Fort Snelling, so that we for three days without an intoxicated man in the bunch, and he was He now thanks his lucky stars for a wife with more sense than could have a large supply of officers The Union met at the M. E. so disgusted with the quiet dignity of the scribes that he unburdened he, or else, those boys- —, Ah? he thinks the world of those boys. on hand. church Tuesday p. m. Owing to himself to the extent of over a column of space in his booze organ, With the falling of the last crusts of disease, he sloughs off the "In addition, we want ample the prevailing storms, not as factories established by the government in telling what a bunch of four flushers the fellows were, when it last of his cynicism. If ever he boosts for anything it will be for many as usual were present. The for the manufacture of comes to the cup that cheers. vaccination. He climbs rightr on to the public health band wagon, meeting was short but interesting, all military and naval supplies, boosts its every activity, thanking heaven for such a sensible wife, many new plans were discussed, including all modern appliances." and three boys all well. but most of the business The first editorial in last week's edition of the International Falls was carried over until the next Echo was a poem entitled ''Nothing to Eat." We understand that Are you a cynic on this matter? Is it going to take a clean 1916 STATE ROAD meeting. Mesdames Doty and the Falls has voted dry, but never imagined that a drouth would knockout blow at the hand of sbme loathsome disease, which can be FUND TO BE LARGE. Tweedt gave readings, which -develop into a famine.—Walker Pilot. prevented, to bring you into camp? Have you got to have your were much appreciated. The Union According to J. A. O. Preus, "Echoes'' are sometimes deceiving, Earley the fact of the matter wings singed to bring you to knOw that diseases are preventable? signal song was sung, and the state auditor, the state road and is that there has never been a time in the history of this city? Cut the foolishness. Get ifluline with the greatest work of modern dry state drill given.- bridge fund this year wilji realize when the women and children have had so much both to eat and times, the Prevention of Disease, by public health methods. The invitation to meet with for the highways of Minnesota wear as they have had since it went "dry." Ask our merchants and ih Mrs.: Carrier Tuesday, March 21, $1,405,000. This estimate is made they will tell you how much more they are selling and getting paid MINNESOTA NEEDS A NEW CONSTITUTION. was accepted and the Union adjourned on the 1915 tax levy. Mr. Preus for than formerly. with the benediction. has certified to George W. Cooley, engineer of the state highway The proposal to call a constitutional convention has been before KNUTE NELSON'S VIEWS commission, a statement of the The greatest hinderance to the enforcement of the liquor laws he Minnesota legislature at every session for the last ten years. ON PREPAREDNESS. estimated receipts for 1916 that in this city seems to be a fear of "getting in bad" through inability A constitutional convention has been needed longer than that. will accrue to the state road and of our city officials to get a clear-cut decision from Attorney General United State Senator Knute ... Yet every time the proposal has come up it has been defeated. TL 1 u. bridge fund. The 1 mill tax levy Smith in regard to the storage of liquors for purpose of use or private Nelon has indicated his views on 1 4.- It requires a two-thirds vote of both houses, which is hard to get. in 1915 valuation Mr. Preus finds, purchase, and the status of the Moose club. If the Moose club, of preparedness in a letter to the It has had the opposition of interests fearing radical changes in the will bring him $1,405,000 interest Minneapolis Journal which will which we are a member, can be used as a resort for liquor drinking on internal improvement land Constitution, and that opposition is equally well organized and effective. meet with the approval of the ind other forms of conviviality which has always been characteristic fund $12,000 receipts from government In the year when it might have been submitted to the people— great majority of American people. of the licensed saloons, then there is no reason why the Owls, and land sales, $70,000 and Senator Nelson says: Eagles, Bartenders Union, Friends of Personal Liberty or any other !9'3~th? le^slatu(re ""rained from proposing it by the pro- was moneys from Babcock trust licenses "First of all I am in favor of a group of men and women should not form a club and have a saloon Progress who feared that the subm.ss.on of the adTOCates of $800. The estimate of the comprehensive enlargement of 1 1 4 1 1 at he ad a am of on it on a ha a oi their own with all the customary debauchery. Then, too, all ,. 1915 tax levy Mr. Preus says, is our navy in all directions so that 1 .. they were submitting at the election of 1914—all of which the people made smaller on account of the these ciubs could 1 unite and organize a Federation through which a it will rank next to that of Great I9I5 apportionments exceeding they could control the politics of this city and county, elect the of- tl i_ ^1 Britain. I favored this first, because the receipts from the 1914 tax ficers, frame up grand and petit juries, and prevent any kind of vice' 2" be™mC aWfrC 'ts/tate government .s un- it takes a long time to levy by $38,000. and lawlessness being interfered with. w.eldly. mefficent, extravagant and wasteful. Though new sources build, equip and put a navy in jof taxation have been found and the state's indirect evenues increased fighting order, and we ought to HOW FARMINGTON FARES ienormously, still the direct tax has grown stupendously and still no begin right away and second, PATRIOTISM. DRY. 'greater results have followed. The more the taxpayer paid, the less because we hope to extend our he got. commerce to all quarters of the For the benefit of those who A nation is made great not by its fruitful acres, but by the men Attempts to cure this condition by legislative enactment have so globe, and for the protection of might be anxious to know how who cultivate them not by its great forests, but by the men who use far failed completely, and seem doomed to further failure. that commerce, we will need a Farmington is faring under the large navy, and we need it, too, them not by its mines, but by the men who work in them not by The only hope of any far-reaching improvement in state governits no-saloon plan we will say we for the reason that we have assumed, have about recovered, from the lailways, but by the men who build and run them. America was ment in Minnesota lies in the summoning of a constitutional conven11 and rightly, a sort of effects of 45 years saloon domination. great land when Columbus discovered it Americans have made of tion to start at the bottom by building anew on a new foundationit guardianship over the republics The last bootlegger has a great Nation. (the foundation of a new, simpler and better co-ordinated constituional on the American continent. gone out of business, and the old In 1776 our fathers had a vision of a new Nation "conceived, in'system. "We want to te so strong on I soaks have settled down liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created If there is to be a constitutional convention, the legislature must the ocean that whenever we take to living pretty decent lives. Our equal." Without an army they fought the greatest of existing world take the initiative. This the legislature will not do unless it is made a stand and make a declaration on city "cop" hasn't seen a drunk for empires that they might realize this vision. A third of a century .evident that the people demand it. The time to make the fight for a any subject, it will be heeded and long, he is actually getting so later, without a navy they fought the greatest navy in the world that constitutional convention, then, is not when the next legislature is in complied with. lonesome. There is not a bootlegger they might win for their Nation the freedom of the seas. Half a session, but before the next legislature is elected. "I favor a moderate increase of who is willing to run the our army. I think we ought to risk of getting caught, and you century later they fought through an unparalleled Civil War that Even at the best, years must elapse before the convention can ... they might establish for all time on this continent the inalienable meet. have a standing armly of at least couldn't get a drink of old rye in from 150,000 to 200,000 men. In Farmington if you'd been swallowed right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A third of a 6en- The first step would be in 1917, when the legislature then meeting addition we ought to have a large by a boa constrictor. turv later they fought to emancipate an oppressed neighbor, and victory could submit to thfe people the question whether a convention to corps of qualified officers fit to Business is good and money is won, gave back Cuba to the Cubans, sent an army of schoolmasters revise the Constittuion should be called. take command in case of war plentiful and farm lands have advanced to educate for liberty the Filipinos, asked no war indemnity That question would have to be submitted to the people at the and our young men ought to receive from $25 to $50 per acre from their vanquished enemy, but paid him liberally for his property. general election in 1918. If the people voted to summon a convention, a moderate amount of since the town went dry first four Meanwhile they offered land freely to any farmer who would live the legislature of would provide by law for such a conven­ training, so that they would be years ago. We lost a few old 1919 upon and cultivate it, opened to foreign immigrants on equal terms tion. The convention would consist of as many members as the fit to enter the service immediately soaks who thought they couldn't the door of industrial opportunity, shared with them political equality, in case of an emergency. house of representatives, would be elected in like manner and would get along without their drinks, W W\ and provided by universal taxation for universal education. Whether this should be done but we have gained a lot of good meet within three months after its election. Unless a special election The cynic who can see in this history only a theme for his egotistical through a so-called continental farmers who have bought farms were called for this purpose, the members of the constitutional convention militia or army, I am not clear. satire is no true American, whatever his parentage, wherever near Farmington and moved here, would not be elected until 1920, and the convention could not 'Tn any event, we ought to lay just because they wanted to get his birthplace. He who looks with pride upon this history which his meet until January, 1921—five years hence. The proposed new Constitution the foundation for a large army their boys in a country where fathers have written by their herioc deeds, who accepts with gratitude would* be submitted either at a special election or at the Ulk reserve, available only in case of there were no saloons. Several the inheritance which they have bequeathed to him, and who general election of 1922, and so could hardly be made effective before war, but so trained it would be families have moved to. Farmingavailable highly resolves to preserve this inheritance unimpaired and to pass .4.. January, 1923. 1 immediately. ton and are living here now, and it on to his descendants enlarged and enriched, is a true American, Thus at the best, even if the movement for a constitutional Convention "The educational facilities giv- spending their money with our be his birthplace or his parentage what it may.—Lyman Abbott in begins now—and it will have to begin now if it is to succeed en to cadets at West Point ought merchants, just because we have TiwVv 1 the Outlook. it will take seven years to complete the process. be enlarged by establishing a no saloons.—Farmington (Minn.) y& iflli similar school in the west, prefer^Tribune. A-' si 1 1 .titii 3 SiNStss safe Lk