TIE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS quist, of Minnesota, and is now the law of the state. THE: STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. The enactment of the anti syndicalism law has a peculiar interest By Francis Scott Key -v v4r" -.•* •C AND BORDER BUDGET for Washington for the_reason that it recalls the indefensible O say, can yon' see, toy the dawn's early light, veto by Governor Lister of a measure exactly similar. About the What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming— Publishers of the Official County Proceedings Whose broad and bright stars, through the clouds of the fight, strlpeN time the Minnesota bill was introduced the governor of this state INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! vetoed a similar measure here. It will be generally believed that GEO. F. WATSON, Editor and Manager And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting In air. Minnesota and not Washington has taken a step forward. Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there itered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Matter O! say, does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave? Minnesota also has suffered from terrorists, but hardly more O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $! FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. than has this state. The difference between the two states so far as this matter is concerned lies in the fact that Minnesota is prepared On thut shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, The people of the United States are asked to donate one hundred to cope with the advocates of crime and violence for the What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, million dollars this week to. the American Red Cross work. purpose of bringing about real or fancied reforms. The doctrine As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Everyone should do his bit. that purposes to wreck industrial plants, to burn buildingv and to Now It catches the gleam of the morning's first beam In full glory reflected now shines on the stream use violence to accomplish political or social ends will receive scant 'T Is the Star-spangled Banner O- long may it wave The National guards and regular army will not be filled with consideration there. O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave drafted men. The draft regiments will be formed later if there Notwithstanding the statement of Governor Lister that existing And where Is that band who so vauntingly swore are not enough volunteers now. laws are adequate, this state has no legal machinery by which That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion the forces of terrorism may be combated. It is barely possible that A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood' has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. There probably won't be any more trouble here or in the had Minnesota set the example, Wahsington might .have followed. county with blind pigs, and wholesale immorality, when the visiting No refuge could save the hireling and slave That is a mere assumption, and in light of explanation offered by From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave safety commission gets through. Washington's chief executive it is too hopeful a view to take of And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph doth wave the case." O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. It is a compliment to the colleges' of our country that officers WHY AMERICA FIGHTS O! thus be It ever, when freedom shall stand are being sought for eviery department of the army, navy marine Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! and aviation corps who have had. a university training. Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the power that hath matfe and preserved us a nation., Then conquer we must, when our cauae it is just, Flour prices dropped from fifty cents to one dollar a barrel in And this be our motto—"In God is our trust Minneapolis Tuesday. If Food Commissioner Hoover continues Paid German spies filled our cities. Officials of her government, And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and of the home of the brave. his good work there will be no, cause to howl about the H. C. L. received as the guests of this nation, lived with us to bribe and in a few weeks. terrorize, defying our law and the law of nations. RUSSIA TO FIGHT WOMEN ENRALLED We are fighting Germaily because while we were yet her BY SIDE OF U. S. AS FOOD SAVERS The town council of Fort Fjrances has passed a bylaw making friend—the only great power that still held hands off—she sent (Continued from Page One), (Continued from Page One), it a criminal offense for stores: to be open before five o'clock in the Zimmerman note, calling, to her aid Mexico, our southern striving, aspiring democracy." manner in which they can best serve the morning or after seven o'clock in the evening, under penalty neighbor, into war against this nation of peace. "The mission for which I have the the national interests in food conservation. of a fifty dollar fine. proclaims the gospel that honor to speak is charged by the N government has no conscience. And this doctrine cannot live, or government and people of the United Principles of Instruction Food Commissioner HoOver tells Congress that the American States of America with the message else democracy must die! For the nations of the world must keep "We have six general principles of to the government and people of instruction. people are being mulched out of fifty million dollars monthly by faith. There can be no living for us in a world where the state Russia. The mission comes from a "First—To save the wheat. If we the food speculators and that during the past five months they has no conscience, no reverence for the things of the spirit, no respect democratic republic," he said.. eat as usual from our harvest this have taken two hundred million dollars in unnecessary profits. for international law, no mercy for those who fall before its Struggled 140 Years year we will have little more than force. What an unordered wprld! Anarchy! The anarchy of the "For one hundred forty years our enough for our own supply, but we people have been struggling with the Taken as a class the most ready response to the call to arms rival wolf packs! can divide with our Allies if each hard problems of self-government. individual makes some sacrifice by has been made by the students and teachers of the collegs and We are fighting Germany because in this war feudalism is making With many shortcomings, many mistakes, eating at least one wheatless meal universities throughout the country. This speaks well for the its last stand against oncoming democracy. We see it now. many imperfections, we still a day substituting cornbread or character of the training being given' to our young men in our This is a war against an old spirits an ancient, outworn spirit. It have maintained order and respect other cereals. institutions of learning. for law, individual freedom and national is a war against feudalism—the right- of the castle on the hill to "Second—We want to save the independence. meat for our cattle and hogs are decreasing rule the village below. It is a war for democracy—the right of all "Under the security of our own and we must send supplies Judging from the success of County Attorney Jevne in securing to be feudal if she will! But she must not spread her own masters. laws we have grown in strength and to our Allies, so we wish every indictments before the grand jury as compared with the failure of Let Germany be feudal if'she will But she must not spread prosperity. But we value our freedom householder to buy less, to serve the special attorneys it certainly seems like a useless waste of the her system over a world that has outgrown it. Feudalism plus more than wealth. smaller" portions and to allow no taxpayers money to be paying these special attorneys $50 each "We love liberty and we cherish science, thirteenth century plus twentieth—this is the religion of waste. above all our possessions the ideals per day. "Third—We wish to save the fats. the mistaken Germany that has linked itself with the turk—that for which our fathers fought and We consume three times the- fats has, too, adopted the method of Mahomet. "The state has no suffered and sacrificed that America that are needed for nutrition and we It didn't take the naval board of the Allied powers long to appreciate conscience," "the state can do no wrong." With the spirit of the might be free. need them now for war. We wish no the efficiency of our Vice Admiral Sims, and turn over spirit of the fanatic she believes fliis^ gospel and that it is her duty "The news of Russia's new found butter used in cooking. to him the charge of the Allied fleets in Irish waters. There is no freedom brought to America universal "Fourth—Any deficiencies in food to spread it by force. satisfaction and joy. Trom all supply by economy along the above question about his making good. This is the habit our fighting men With., poison-gas that makesr^l.iving a.hell,. with ..submarines the land sympathy and hope went lines can" be amply covered by increasing have gotten into. that sneak through the seas to harder slyly noneombajants, with out to the new in the circle of 'Sister the use of fish, potatoes, dirigibles that bombard men* and women while they sleep, with a democracies. And mission is the beans, peas, turnips, cabbages and Some of the recommendations of the Food Commission as to perfected system of terrorization that the modern world first heard sent to express that feeling. vegetables generally, corn, buckwheat, "The American democracy sends rye and rice. meatless days, and corn meal instead of flour and substitutes for of when German troops entered China—German feudalism is making to the democracy of Russia a greeting "Fifth—We want to save "transportation. lard are unnecessary in a great many homes in Koochiching county. war upon mankind. of sympathy, friendship, brotherhood, Our railways are unable to The strictest kind of rigid economy is the rule day after day on "Let this old spirit of evil ha^e its way, and no man will live Godspeed. As we have developed meet the war pressure for munitions, most of the homesteads as well as in many homes in this city in in America without paying toll to it in manhood and in money. our institutions to serve the men and coal so we wish every one order to make both ends meet. needs of our national character and to consume products of local origin' This spirit might demand Canade from a defeated, navyless England, life, so, we assume, you will develop so far as possible, to buy from the and then our dream of peace on the north would be at an end. your institutions to serve the needs local miller, the local packer, buy It is unfortunate that some of our neighboring and city papers We would live, as France has lived for 40 years, in haunting terror. of Russian character and life. and eat vegetables grown near home. persist in trying to give this city a black eyq by continuously publishing "America* speaks for the world in fighting Germany. Mark on "As we look across the sea we distinguish ^'Sixth—We preach and want every false reports about I. W. W. agitators in this city. There a map those countries which are Germany's allies and you wilt no party, no class. We see one to preach 'the gospel of the Russia as a whole, as one mighty, clean plate,' to buy less foodstuffs, has been no trouble here from that bad bunch since the warm reception mark but four, running from th£ Baltic through Austria and Bulgaria to serve smaller portions and to see striving, aspiring democracy. given them by the united protest to them by practically to Turkey. All the-other nations, the whole globe around, "You will recognize your own sentiments that nothing of value goes into the all the business men here when the I. W.. W.'s came from are in arms against her or are unable to move.^ There is deep garbage can." and purposes in the world of the range towns last winter. Since then they have steered shy of meaning in this. President Wilson to the American "Aside from eating an increased International Falls and will probably never be back with "blood proportion of these commodities in "We fight with the world for an honest world, in which nations Congress when on the 2nd of April last he advised declaration of order to save on the staples it is extremely a War in their eyes." keep their word for a world in which nations do not live by swagger important that any surplus against Germany. He said: or by^threat for a world in which men think of the ways in "'We are accepting this challenge of these commodities shall be preserved HOW THE RED CROSS WILL LOOK AFTER which they can conquer the common cruelities of nature instead or well stored for winter of hostile purpose because we know AMERICAN TROOPS AT HOME AND ABROAD of inventing more horrible cruelities to conflict upon the spirit and use." that in such a government (the German government) following such body of man for a world in which the ambition of the philosophy methods, we can never have a American troops, under General Pershing, will soon be on the of a few shall not make miserable all mankind for a world in friend, and that in the presence of its .firing line in France. They deserve ^America's best. which the man is held more precious than the machine, the system, wait to accomplish we. know not The Government will see that nothing is lacking, in equipment or the state." what purpose, there can be no assured and material, to make them efficient fighting men. security for the democratic HIM Federal Land Bank Appreciates Good governments of the world. We, shall, The American Red Cross must see that nothing is lacking to if necessary, spend the whole force keep them healthy, happy and efficient soldiers. of the nation to check and nullify its Work of Register of Deeds F.S. Lang For this the Red Cross must have: II pretensions and its power. 1. Hospital and medical equipment to supplement that of the: "And you will see the feeling Army Medical Department equal to any emergency. toward Russia with which America has entered the great war in another Equipment to care for 1,000,000 men ought to be provided No matter how much we may appreciate the efficiency of our clause of the same address. President at once. county officials to say the least it is very gratifying to have such Wilson further declared: 2. Recreation and rest facilities behind the firing line. an important authority as the Federal Land bank of St. Paul appreciate 'Does not every American feel Americans on leave, unlike the British and French, cannot the efficiency of our register of deeds to such an extent that assurance has been added to W return to their homes. Club rooms, sport supplies, books our hope for the future peace of the as to write to Prof. W. M. Abbott the secretary of the Federal world by the wonderful and heartening and other means of j.e,creation must be sent them from Farm Loan association of this district the following letter: things that have been happening America. Officers and Directors in the past few weeks in Russia? 3. Personal comfort kits and small articles not included in E. G. Quamme, President A. H. Turrittin, Treasurer Russia was known by those army regulations. Many thousands of articles, from tooth-, B. F. Faast, Vice-President F. W. McLean, Registrar who knew her best to have been always brushes to writing paper, pipes, etc., are needed to take the in ^act democratic at heart in H.,K. Jennings, Secretary W. S. Harris, Director all the vital habits of her thought, place of things that could not be brought along. THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF ST. PAUL The name— in all the intimate relationships of To safeguard the health, comfort and happiness alone, of St. Paul, June 6, 1917 her people that spoke their natural American troops abroad $100,000,000 is little enough. Mr. W. M. Abbott, instinct, their habitual attitude toward International Falls, Minn. life. .. 5 -J of DEALING WITH I. W. W.'S 'The autocracy that crowned the underwear- the Dear Sir: (-rr.oiis Siephensc- summit of her political structure was certificate attached tc cacii -We have yours of the second with the enclosed abstract of garment— the wide range not in fact Russian in orgin, character The following clipping from the Seattle Post Intelligence refers r:cs weights and weaves—nu-a-j usa-irfy —land. We have made an examination of this abstract or purpose, and now it has sf-.s risid requirements of cvs-. -..act, paiton are v."or res- assurance" r^a-iS to the great need usefulness and effectiveness of the bill introduced and are well pleased with the form. It is so much better than been shaken off and the great benerous cc iTrcrt cr.J cor and fathered in our state legislature by our own Senator the ordinary abstracts we are receiving from other, parts of-the Russian people have been added, in all their native majesty and might L. H. Nord and the law passed has been held valid by Judge district that we wish to compliment the register of deeds on the to the forces that are fighting for Hughes. It in no way reflects upon, nor hinders the usefulness completeness of this abstract. Similar abstracts conveying the freedom in the world, for justice and Priced Per Suit from $1.00 Up of labor unions, but is of greater benefit to them than any other same information will be satisfactory to this bank. r: for pea'ce. Here is a fit partner for bill passed by the recent legislature. -We -return the abstract, herewith and ask that you forward it 4 a League of Honor.'" You Can ^Always Do Better jl-.Z- "^n act defining the crime of syndicalism^rohibiting sabotage with the applications for loans and the incorporation papers. Sa? T. Is*® at Sloney to loan on northern Minnesota and other methods of terrorism and declaring it unlawful to assemble "ZFJxi-d- V- i^fVery truly yours, "IfcEs 0. M. CARR & CO. &*£&£& lands. for the purpose of advocating such means of accomplishing F. W. McLean,.*/ Jevne & Norto'nt Ag£fi¥s',f^ "The Store of Quality" industrial or political ends, has been approved by Governor Burn- Registrar and Attorney. tf.v .,International.Falls, Minn. S£s 3 w£ iv -r