r^ 3545M W®* "1 1 .J 'J"'*' ,' "-O.^ -S V""' J?T$ & N INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR fc? December and subsequent months, or let him come out and say, THE INT ERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS of war. And the signs are not wanting even in Germany today, of ../ "We couldn't get away with the swag, so" we had to come down the mutterings of just such a revolution. Couragious leaders in the to $100 per month. AND BORDER BUDGET German Reichtag, within the last few days, have declared for the $ It would be very interesting to get a photograph of Mr. McIntyre's peopte against the militarist autocratic Kaiser and his gang. With Publishers of the Official County Proceedings present monthly check so that we could really tell how much the Hohenzollern family and its adherents deposed from power a INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY the taxpayers of this county had beenf trimmed for. fiee Germanic people would be among the greatest and most peaceful GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager in the world. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Matter Ihese are momentous days for all living now. More history is :n the making than in the life of any former generation. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. THINGS UNITED STATES STANDS FOR. LETTERS OF A CORRESPONDENT SCHOOL DETECTIVE Thos. Tronson for mayor, and a decent city to live in. TO HIS MOTHER. The president* in his inaugural address, declares that these Great Britain has captured and sunk enough submarines to are the things the United States stands for, whether in war As a Detective, Pinkerton Burns Finds Little to Detect in International supply the navies of the world. or in peace: j§ Falls. As a Stranger, He Finds Much Filth That all nations are equally interested in the peace of gj In the City of Destiny. Every man who wants a reasonably decent city to live in the world and in* the political stability of free peoples, and should get into the harness and work, talk and vote for a new administration. equally responsible for their maintenance Dear Ma: j| That the essential principle of peace is the actual equality jf Thefe hasn't been many towns that I seen besides South Saint of nations in all matters of right and privilege fi Paul and Anoka but this has got them beat forty ways. There's Says I, "If you don't keep the drunks off the street I wont run That peace cannot securely or justly rest upon an armed 1 lots of big mills and A1 stores and all has got money to blow for a for another term." Says he, "Oh, say, Mr, Mayor, you aint getting balance of power jl good time. They got electric light on the streets and cement sidewalks cold feet, are you? Well, I'll pass the word around to the boys to That governments derive all their just powers from the 1 and automobiles. You would like this place as well as me, let up." consent of the governed and that no other powers should be j§ Ma, if you could see it. Dandy schools and pretty houses but say, supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the 1 how they can stand it being so rotten with booze and things get^ One who was there reports that the doings of the "pig" at my number. family of nations 3 Crystal Beach on Sunday night of the 11th had the worst of the That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use 1 One or two fellows who have blind pigs here wanted to run moving picture films of western bar room scenes backed right off of all peoples, under rules^set up by common agreement and 3 gambling rooms to but the "boss" he says "No, cause we want to the map. consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be access- 1 keep that for ourselves, you sell the boose and we run the cards." ible to all upon equal terms 1 I'll bet that made those too guys sore. There was about twenty The phenominal gain of the Allies on the Belgian and French That national armaments should be limited to the neces- 1 of them staing with the sherif for 30 days and while they was fronts of over one thousand square miles of territory gives the impression sities of national order and domestic safety j§ resting up some other fellows had to do the bartending. They that the German military forces have reached the becinninsr That the community of interest and of power, upon which 1 got out the other day (the ones in jail) and one of them had enough of their end. peace must henceforth depend, imposes upon each nation the dough to buy a nice ice cream and soft drink parlor (that's what they call the blind pigs). duty of seeing to it that all influences proceeding from its own What's the matter with "A Parent" who objects to the Press citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states That w7as a funny, letter you wrote me last time about the fellow telling how rotten things are getting under, the present city administration should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented. from here getting pinched in Minneapolis. I didn't here about Is he afraid that we may soon begin to mention it until you told me. You send me the paper you seen it in and names and doesn't want his daughter to see his name in such •ill!! I'll ask the Mayor about it. He was down there at the same time filthy surroundings? and would know all about it. FIGHTING TUBERCULOSA IN KOOCHICHING COUNTY Next month they will have the election here for mayor and A virtual state of war exists between this country and Germany. others and the same one thats mayor now is going to be it again. Active co-operation with the navies of Great Britain and France By G. F. SWINNERTON, County Health Officer.. Why I know is because he wins easy. All the trains bring in voters are arranged for, war edict expected at any time. Hoist your flag, There are two ways of fighting an enemy. You may wait till the every day and they find places to eat and sleep and get a drink stand by the President and your country and cease useless discussion enemy comes to you, or you may) go out after the enemy. In the for nothing and then they know how to vote. The town is full of of past details. United we stand. modern fight against the Great White Plague, health workers are them now but everyone has got so use to it they don't care. Vice going out after the enemy in every direction. and awfulness is what they like best cause it is easy money. What this city needs is a mayor who will not only close all the In this county the people are fortunate in having a sanitorium I'm glad you said what you did about me drinking and I aint illegal and immoral joints but one who will gather up all the bar for the care of cases of this disease. The physician who has care of going to drink again here, if I can help it but the other night I fixtures and gambling pharaphanalia and utterly destroy it, \s the patients at Lake Julia Sanitorium is making visits to various was in a place up stairs over a store near the hotel where I room illicit whisky stills and counterfeiting outfits are destroyed. The parts of the county searching for cases. at and there was some fellows and girls all drinking and singing vrv possession of these things are prima facie evidence that This physician will be at International Falls at intervals of so I soaked up a few beers to. You got to remember in my business lav/less of them is deliberately intended. the use a few weeks, to meet and examine free, all who may be afraid you got to be a good fellow once in a while if you want to that they are infected with tuberculosis. get the dope. There is something radically wrong when men who are in a During his visit here last week, Dr. Levy, the sanitorium physician., Of course I"m waisting my time here because what I detec reputable business get sore at the movement to abolish the gambling not only examined the few cases gathered 1)}' the doctors of everyone in town knows and they got such a easy way of picking* joints, pigs and prostitution from our city. The movement is the city, but with the local .school physician, examined all the six juries here that aH" the evidence in the world wont land nothing doing more to help them build up their business and make bigmoney hundred school children for tuberculous glands of the neck'. if the guy you want has a stand in with the right ones. They had than anything else. Dollars spent in the above named This examination showed about fifty cases out of the entire one clown who didn't do as they told him and they put him over joints don't buy food and clothes, either for the spender or his school with glands showing that at some time they-had been diseased the road for thirty days and when he got back some one had his family. with tuberculosis. Some were almost recovered, many on auto. Now he goes along as he should. the way to recovery, and only a few showing active signs of the After election I am coming home from here but I am going to disease at work. Overheard at the depot: To thug, getting off train— "Hello, now stay and vote anyway. It is g'oing to be a hot time but the hotter what are you doing here?" Thug: "I don't know. Who are you?" When we remember that about eighty-five per-cent of all the the better. The names on the back of litis letter is the names people at some time have had a more or less severe attack of tuberculosis, "I want to know if you are going to kick in with your bit or if you the fellows who are running blind pigs and gambling houses and and that many of them entirely overcame it, it promises are one of then* smart guys who wants to run his own business." other kinds of joints. You show it to Uncle Fred who works up at much for the recovery of a certain percent of cases discovred Thug: "Oh, I'm alright." "Where are you from?" Thug: "I'm the Capital. I'll betyhe knows them all from the time he was here. and brought under proper care. from East Grand Forks." "Oh.. Why didn't you say so? Come 'round' Good bye Ma from your son thing about a mild attack in the glands of the neck or One and see me and everything be alright." sonic Aviil Pinkerton Burns Carter. other that has been overcome, is that it leaves an antitoxin area P. S. You show'the list of names and addresses to Fred but against 'iibrculosis in the system which is always after a protection The Press does not see any reason for ccrtain legislators makings if he is still working for the Attorney General you tell him not to against further attacks. an effort to abolish" the state immigration board. No department say anything cause I don't want no trouble. I'll give all the evidence .has of state go^ .-•-nment is more necessary, neither any-done to them when I get ready and I'll bet some of them will move THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. better work and justified as completely the purpose of its existence. into Canada quick. fr-'. The money expended through this department has been returned Russia is ee. The most autocratic and despotic :m:enr many times over in taxes paid by the settlers who have next to that of Germany, is ended. purchased and developed state lands. There-are millions of acres, Monts ago the Czar abolished the liquor traffic. Then he yet to be sold and developed and it would be vefy poor business started the beginning of the end.1 of his regime. All Russia with its policy on the part of the state to put a brake for one hour on the mind cleared of the fumes of alcohol, has been doing some clear good work that Immigration Commissioner Fred Sherman is constantly hard thinking. Subscribe for the Press doim\ The itussian mind has seen the treacherous hand of German emissaries., controlling the affairs of the nation. The court of Russia A year ago last August the leaders of the saloon, gambling and was luke warm and dilatory in the prosecution of the. war immoral fraternity of this city told everybody that would listen to against Germany. T- them that if they voted to turn down the offer of $13,000 for the Rasputin, a mendicant religionist, had fastened his hand upon privilege of operating licensed saloons with all their attendant The Paper with the Punch the royal family and party of Russia, thus also hindering the efforts evils, they Avould fill this city with "pigs" and make conditions so of the nation in the war. disgusting and revolting that the people would be. glad to vote the At last the national mind, freed of the stupifying effect of ••Vr.'- saloon back again. They have done as they said they would by alcohol, saw the strangling effect of Teutonic emissaries upon their having a mayor who hasn't had nerve enough to do his duty as a national government. In three days or so, in a mighty uprising beginning man and an officer, and now have added insult to injur)' by putting in the Duma, or legislature of the nation, this yoke of him up again for another term of office and another two years' German-controlled absolutism has been thrown off. reign of lawlessness. It is up to the voters of this city to say This revolution in Russia is the greatest in all history, not whether they are going to stand any longer for this open defiance excepting that recently effected in China. The Czar has retired THE STUBEE .,..of the law. from the throne. The entire line of succession to the throne has been deposed from power. The government is temporarily in the An examination into the details of expense and inefficiency hands of twelve members of the Duma, staunch and true to the connected with the county investigation is startling, to say the people of Russia. Sash and Door Factory least. For instance, take the case of the so-called, expert accountant, Most remarkable of all, this Russian revolution has been effected formerly the village clerk of Eveletli and now the bookkeeper with the minimum of bloodshed. The people are quietly for Saari Bros, of Eveleth, St. Louis county. IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS returning to the affairs of daily life. The entire nation, all over its W hy did Wilson and Arnold not employ one of the village vast extent, are sending word to Petrograd" of their approval of the clerks of this county—from Northome, Mizpah, Big Falls, Littlefork, change. We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of Ranier, or even of this city? All these were good men. The Duma promises to become as truly representative of the NILLWORK •i But no, that would not work in with the plans they had in mind. people as the Congres of the United States. Indeed in all probability These were all taxpayers in this county and it would not do to pay and you will make no mistake by getting Rusiia will become a republic. -:Vs $10.00 a taxpayer per day and expenses so that his salary for the their prices before ordering elsewhere The people are promised by the leaders an entire wiping out f// lL^ month of October, 1916, would reach the princely sum of $325.65, of all the crushing disabilities under which for centuries they have and when some of the taxpayers had the manhoon to protect their lived.-They are assured universal suffrage and the secret ballot. Building and Contracting a1 Specialty interests by appealing from this extravagant and unnecessary, bill They are to have a government by the people and for the people. All Work Guaranteed the Hon. L. W. Wilsoij, also from St. Louis county, appointed him With the treacherous hand of the Teuton thrown off the absolutism a deputy auditor so that Mclntyre could draw his warrant direct -V of decadent aristocracy abolished, the establishment of LARS STUBEE, Prop. from the county pie counter for the sum of $325.65. -. truly representative government, and an united nation, Russia has & special county attorney tell the taxpayers why Mr. 'S'.'.Z's Let the ••I great future before her. hm.sl 2nd Ave. and 6th St. Phone 50 of worth Mclntyre Eveleth, St. Louis county, was $325.65 to this With this high-handed autocracy of Russia gone, Europe needs county during the month of October,, but only $100 per month for but alike revolution in Germany to put' an end to all future sources ii .k w. ..A,"*- -'-.v DEFECTIVE PAGE