,i 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 if. ST4' *-. •*'«*$ "V. -tjS *v. S£ ,a ^Jt""*-'" ... +**& ^"'$%&- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS POLITICAL INGRATITUDE. shealth as spring wears along. Old cans and bottles with a few drops THB INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS of dirty water in them may be breeding places for flies and mosquitoes. Duluth more than sincerely regrets that Anton C. Weiss was not And they again become carriers of contamination. AND BORDER BUDGET one of the Big Four chosen to represent Minnesota's Democracy at Throwing of slops from the kitchen, anywhere on the ground of St. Louis. This regret is not confined to his own party that gave him Official of Koochiching County, Minnesota. Papery your own or your neighbors lot, is a nasty and unesthetic thing. It a handsome majority in this, his home city and county, where he is may be also unsanitary. In any case it should be avoided, and waste best known and appreciated. waters from the house poured if possible into a sewer connection. Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. It is shared by Republicans who fail to understand how his party |T° pour such stuff on a neighbor's lot is at once an insult and a nuisance, INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. could be so woefully ungrateful. If Minnesota Democrats are for and while trivial in the eyes of the perpetrator, should be GEO. P. WATSON, Eiditor and Manager. Woodrow Wilson, they should know that hi£ nomination at Baltimore ivisited with a corrective punishment. was due as much to Mr. Weiss' personal exertions as to any No man liveth to himself," an ancient writer said, and never was other one man. It was Mr. Weiss who held the Minnesota delegation's this truer than in our own civilization. Your unsanitariness may not The county jail is empty for the first time since it was built. vote solidly for Wilson ballot after ballot and Minnesota nominated jharm you, but it may your neighbor down the street. Your indolence him. and carelessness may cost him or his child their life. If you In one more week practically all the U. S. regulars will be in active Mr. Weiss controls and publishes the only unfailing Democratic falone could suffer for your unsanitariness, it would not be so bad. service either in Mexico and its borders, or in foreign countries. daily newspaper of state influence in Minnesota. The Herald is the jln some ways it would be good enough for you. But the innocent acknowledged state organ of Democracy. It is influential, astute in often suffer for the unsanitariness of others. Talk about your Talk-Abouts. When a blind Indian can come to its political propaganda, and the greatest single party force in this Spring is coming. Why not make this the highwater mark of this "dry" city and get so drunk that he is arrested and brought before state. your efforts to get your property clean and keep it clean? the Municipal court for disorderly conduct, it does seem as As a man he is popular wherever known. He has a very likeable though the Mayor, Chief of Police and Sheriff ought to be able to personality, staunch in his friendships and has most sparingly asked A GREAT EDITOR'S LOGIC find the ''blind pigs" and be willing to swear to complaints so that any recognition from his party. If any man in the United States the county attorney could successfully prosecute them. deserved the loyal support of Minnesota Democrats, if there was one Arthur Brisbane is the highest paid editorial writer in the world. man to be singled out as peculiarly fitted by his national acquaintance Why? Because he not only has brains and knows how to use After the wonderfully complimentary vote of over 46,000 given and influence, his party loyalty and political sagacity, to represent them, but he writes things that appeal to the hearts and conscience^ to former Governor Eberhart as delegate-at-large to the National of men. the party at St. Louis, it is Anton C. Weiss. The party has been Republican convention, there is little or no doubt left as to his election signally ungrateful, and, what is more, it has been stupidly unwise.— Brisbane takes the moral side of every question. He stands for to the U. S. Senate. His announcement, which appears on the Duluth News Tribune. the right he never wavers. William R. Hearst, smartest newspaper first page of this issue gives one a good idea of his preparation and man in Christendom, understands the value of such a man and fitness for the high office to which his friends, who are amongst' LAW ENFORCEMENT AT AUSTIN. pays him more money than the president of the United re­ the cleanest and best men of the state, wish to see him elected. Spates ceives. He is Hearst's biggest asset. Countless thousands of people Austin, Minnesota, has learned how to deal with "blind pigs." buy the Hearst papers for the Brisbane editorials. They ring true. The following section of the county option law in regard to whose The Mower county metropolis has set for the State an example of They hurl thundebolts at every injustice, social, moral, economic. duty it is fo enforce it has Dee.i called to our attention: what public officials can do in the way of law enforcement, if they And what is better still, the counting room of the newspaper has no "Duty of Officers—Every sheriff, constable, marshall and policeman are so minded. string to them. shall summarily arrest any person found violating any provision Formerly a wet city, Austin was made dry by the vote of Mower These remarks are prompted by a speech Arthur Brisbane made of this act, and the president and mayor of every municipality County under the County Option Law. The county and city authorities while on a recent visit to Des Moines to address the state editorial shall make complaint of every known violation thereof. And every then determined to prevent illegal liquor selling. Strict watch association. The great editor got to talking about woman suffrage county attorney shall prosecute all cases arising under this act within was set on railroad shipments. When a blind pigger evaded this net and in a few words, gave reasons why it should prevail that leave little his county."—Sec. 15, Chap. 23, Session Laws, 1915. by bringing in supplies in a load of hay, officers raided his house and to be said upon the question. We commend his appeals to the confiscated the shipment. bigbted and intolerant, the selfish and sordid, to all who are susceptible The coming election will be a friendly contest between the two to reason: Leading lawyers refused to represent the defendant unless he elements in is city. One, which has controlled in the past, and would plead guilty, which he agreed tcbdo. He also promised to quit 'The women will vote intelligently for justice and kindness. still has control, which says, by its actions, "to 1 with law the business, and was let off with a hundred dollar fine for violating Woman suffrage will give to the nation the intelligent and sympathetic and everybuuy who does not spend their money over the bars and voting weapon that the nation needs. the city ordinance. What hangs over the man if he breaks his pledge gambling tables." The other element says: "It is time this 'rough was explained in Court by County Attorney Otto Baudler, who said "Woman's spirit developed through the ages by her care of weak, stuff' was sluffed off and we were given a reasonable law enforcement to the prisoner: and helpless infants, sympathizes naturally with the weak wherever and business administration for the benefit of all the people." they may be. Votes for women will add to the executive If you are guilty under the city ordinance, you are also guilty of The contesting candidates for the vacancies on our city council are violation of the county option law. If you had been arrested under machinery of the nation the great influence of better and nobler half -all men of good character and, other things being equal, would make of the population. the county option law, the justice court would have no jurisdiction. fair councilmen, but each candidate represents either one or the You would be put under bonds or kept in jail until the grand jury The man, poor, dissatisfied, wondering what he could do to better other of these two elements. The question for the voters to ask is: his condition, could do no greater thing for himself than give the meets next June. If you were found guilty in the district court, you ""Which element does he represent" and ''which will he serve if could be fined several thousand dollars and sent to State's prison for vote to women, and compel those in power to ask themselves 'What •elected." three or more years. There's really no limit to the sentence the do the women want For the wonjen want what is just. Poverty is unjust, based on the brutal concentration of men's energy upon court could impose on you. Besides that, we would try you under SHORT CHANGE AND BLIND PIGS. the old statutes. selfish accumulation. Women would work for distribution. There It has long been a civic custom throughout the United States to is more than enough for all in the United States. "And you could be taken under the Federal law, which you have •extend to men of distinction and eminence, the Freedom of the City, "The intelligence and kindness of women would solve the problem broken, if you are guilty," added City Attorney Nicholsen. presenting as an emblem, an elaborate golden key. The Austin way of dealing with offenders has struck terror into of distribution, as the power and selfishness of men have solved Since the going in force of county option in this city, the freedom the problem of production and accumulation. the hearts of other law violators. It is commended to other Minnesota oi this city seems to have been given to a number of disreputable and communities.—Minneapolis Journal. Unfortunately, too many of the poorer and more unfortunate lawless individuals. These men, not satisfied with selling liquor unlawfully men stupidly and blindly oppose woman suffrage that would be their in secret, have boldly and insolently flaunted their contempt best friend—just as they opposed Arkwright when he offered them SANITARY DANGERS OF SPRING. for law and the law-abiding majority of the community. Their the spinning jenney which gave work to millions of them1, just as By G. F. Swinnerton. M. D.. County Health Officer products have been common upon the street by day and by night, in they opposed the sewing machine, the steam engine and a thousand^ the persons of drunken, and maudlin individuals, some even being Spring is coming. The sun is getting high in the heavens, and other devices destined to do for them in spite of their opposition the dragged by friends out these dumps absolutely paralyzed. oi after its rays have dissolved away the snow, they will begin to stir w°rk that they could not do for themselves. Woman suffrage, in The whole condition has been a disgusting saturnalia of law defiance, the dormant life of the earth to activity. spite of the opposition of poor and ignorant and conceited men, will and the apparent total paralysis of the machinery of the law, Every form of vegetable and animal life will do for them that which they cannot do for themselves."—Frank Day, through which this condition should never have existed. start from its slumber. Every living thing for the in Martin County Sentinel. At last, accident chance, a foreigner was shortchanged by a mere of food of man and beast as well as everything for twenty cents, in one of these notorious dumps, leading to the joy of man's eye, from the lowly violet to the search of the premises, and arrest of one of the owners of one of verdure decked forest landscape, will commence the STATE ATTEMPTS TO blind pigs. proximately fifty different lines its new growth. 4 VOID LOG CONTRACT. It remains to be seen, whether the evidence of a man drunk with and representing an investment of the law of compensation which runs But over $500,000,000 in gold. liquor in this place, and the sleigh loa'ds of booze taken from the premises, St. Paul, March 22.—Attorney through all nature, never fails to operate. Spring Mexico has in excess of 40,000 General Smith last Friday started will be sufficient evidence to effect the proper and adequate is no exception. With the things good for man, it miles of telegraph lines, which, punishment of this law breaker. .suit in the Ramsey county district starts the growth also of his enemies. The Poison P. Swinnerton, G. like the principal railroads, are court against the Grand part of the prosecution, befuddling the case in it uiev+vi 011 the IS. D. —o 7 Ivy grows beside the fragrant violet. The lowli- Forks Lumber company for dam-iUI1^er the control and ownership law, and the customary underground operations the 'channels of est plants of all, many of them mans worst enemies, grow rapidly, ages amounting to $30,335. Two!^ the federal government. has been impossible to convict criminals, operate whereby in the past, it and multiply incredibly, while the rest of nature blooms for his good. The total number of men in logging permits under which the the law breaker will go free. case, in this It makes but little difference, the location, whether on the distant Mexico available for military duty company operated are the basis of If, however, there is a determined and vigorous prosecution, and is estimated at a litlte more homestead in the heart of the virgin forest, or in the crowded centres the suit. the prevalence through all the channels of law, to visit just and prop-, than 3,000,000, though only about In the complaint filed, it is alleged of city life, these germs, enemies of man, now increase rapidly, and er punishment upon a deliberate and predetermined law breaker, the 85,000 of these have had any military that two logging permits is- lay in wait for their human prey. beginning of the end of the noisome and disgusting conditions of the training. The very melting of the snow is an added danger. It washes the :,sue(^ company in 1902 and to past few weeks will be in sight. Mexico has no navy worthy of accumulations of filth, germ-laden, into rivers, creeks and wells, from v°^ ^ecause *he auditor are It is not the sentiment of a few, but of the majority of our citizens, 1 1 u- 1 11 was not aware that the timber the name. Its naval forces consist wh.ch man draws hs drmkmg water. Through long months of sold was in excess of 100,000 feet. solely of two- third-class law-abiding, and decent, that this condition be cleaned up and winter these sources of filth have been increasing from the cast-off xverS0n made a cash sale cruisers of obsolete type and fovj that thoroughly. Because this body of our citizens has not been wastes of human life, and have accumulated upon the surface of the Qf the timber in question to the small gunboats with a personell shouting its head off has been no indication of the civic wrath which ground in the snow. Now the melting comes, and little rivulets run lumber company for $3,445. It is of about 1,000 officers and men. has boiled within them. off to contaminate the sources of drinking water.. alleged that the timber was great- Qeiective eye- On account of defective eye- W11 dcwuiu OI Moreover a 110 less distinguished jurist than Judge Stanton, of A more specific source of filth and danger is the out-door toilet, ly in excess of that figure and the sight General Vestusiano CarranEvery this district, has expressed himself in reference to such cases brought one of these should be cleaned NOW, before the thaw has be- state now seeks to recover the dif-ja, the titular head of the Mexican before him at Bemidji, in no uncertain tones. He has stated that all ference. come complete. If left, the seepage from these joins the streams •government, abandoned the study these blind piggers, whether admittedly such or no, are deliberate, going to rivers, creeks and wells, and very greatly increases the of law and became a rancher. determined law breakers, and should have meted to them the full ITEMS OF INTEREST danger to life and.health. For there are no greater sources of danger Brigadier General John J. Per- 1 -measure of the penalty of the law. ABOUT MEXICO. than the excreta of human beings. shing, one of the commanders The same spirit which marks the head of the judiciary of this The present warlike operations the pnnitive expedition into Mescico, Then there is the accumulated manure pile. In but a short few district should characterize every agent of the law down the line. If is one of the real fighting men days after snow is gone, the first flies seek out, after awakening from M.®xlco ™ake the follow- wlU the Judge is of this spirit, every county and civic officer, in whose of the United States army. Ten their winter sleep, these piles in which to breed. In but a few days g'temSf °f lnf°rmatlon. about 7 Mexico of more than passing m- 14 hands alone rests the execution of the law upon these scoundrels, years of his early career were a busy swarm is at work buzzing about for filth in which to wallow. terest: should be not less of the same spirit. spent in fighting the Apaches in Too often these manure piles are near some out-door toilet. There Francisco Villa is of pure 1nthe the shouthwest. He commanded The outcome of this case will be awaited with interest and with flies become dangerously contaminated and soon find me&ns of dian blood on his mother's side. a negro regiment in the Spanish the expectation that law and order will be firmly sustained. Our conveying that contamination into human homes, where the food and Mexico is one of the largest war and later took a leading part citizens will not much'longer tolerate the disgusting conditions other exposed articles, such as milk are soon poisoned by these filth silver-producing countries in the in subjugating the Moros in the which have prevailed here. The wrath of the people may be pent up carriers. Every manure pile should be cleaned out of town as soon world. Philippines. long, but the longer it is, when it breaks bounds the greater will be as it can be removed. I Thirty-eight percent of the pop- its fury upon the sleeper and dodger, and the misfeasant in office. ulation of Mexico are pure-blooded Suburban Home for Sale—Solid The spring clean-up is not wholly a matter of sanitation. It is Indians. Block of ground, 6-room house primarily a matter of common "decency and. order. Ashes, (waste Mining, smelting, agriculture with concrete basement, good paper, old boxes tin cans, and many other articles, are of no in^ediate poultry house, 24x76, barn 12x40, danger in themselves, but they are unsightly, may be afire ex- Mexican industries. 6 lots clear, close to city good 7 posure, and should be rtmoved as a matter of esthetics, and common Mexico has more than 15=000 place for the right party. Inquire decency. Yet even remotely, these things may become a danger to miles of railroad, comprising ap- at Press office. .'ft** 9 lyyiife