INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, APRIL 10 1919 PAflg FgMt THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS read the printed language of the country, but one who is willing restaurant will be the installation of a table, a sandwich arid a dish to follow' its instructions as given in the city charter and the state of mustard, and the saloon thus masquerading as a restaurant will laws, when advising thie council. Considerable expense can thus be be relieved of paying the five hundred dollars or cuje thousand dollars AND BORDER BUDGET saved the taxpayers of this city. license now exacted. They will be established in all territories GEO. P. WATSON, Editor throughout the state. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Matter Just as we go to press the good news com'es that the Prohibition The very statement of this situation is sufficient to condemn it, bill has passed the state senate by a vote of 55 tfo 11 without the but the people of Minnesota must be aroused, they must know the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR two per cent alcoholic amendment, which the brewery interests facts and communicate their sentiments to the representatives in the legislature at the very earliest possible moment. Tell them to wanted. It now goes to Governor Burnquist for signature and after vote against this amendmnet. its signature one half of one per cent alcoholic content is tbe limit to, be allowed in all beverages after July 1st. K. O. FOSSE, MAYOR-ELECT TREATY BY EASTER SAYS "THANK YOU" PARIS PREDICTION It's pretty nervy for some of these guys who have never been known to do an honest days work around here to parade around I hereby express my heartfelt gratitude (Continued from page one.) wearing a "No Beer No Work" button. If they were working at to those who voted and worked rumors which are peddled far and some reputable occupation they might be entitled to drink of beer, for my election as mayor of this city quickly. iast Tuesday, and I shall take great but a man that won't thus work is not entitled to anything. "The day does not pass but-what pleasure in not only making good my some false news takes its flight. Nevertheless, ELECTION NOTES no day passes but that we feel approaching nearer the great aim and experience for each other Joe Lloyd of the Koochiching County Abstract company, did more esteem, confidence and affection. exceptionally good work for the new era of prosperity candidates. He put up a clean, broad gauged fight and helped put over the most "Let public opinion wait a few important candidate. days. It will then be able to pronounce on facts, not rumors." The statement of Premier Lloyd There would have been no question about the election of John George that the peace treaty will oe H. Brown for municipal judge if Fred Nelson had not been persuaded concluded by Saster is supported by to get into the fight to split the solid vote of the progressive element. predictions made by less prominent members of the peace conference and dispelled much of the hopelessness and uncertainty in which many Gust Swendson set a good example to the business men of this important problems of the conference pre-election promises, but also in city by coming out fearlessly by signs in his store windaws for seem to have been enushrouded. doing everything else I can for the what and whom he stood in the election. best interests of this city and all Saturday the council of four reached its citizens. an agreement on the principles Robert Caple, Fred Kruger and other progressive union men are of the indemnities and reparations to Respectfully yours, be paid by Germany and examination K. O. Fosse. entitled to credit for the vigorous manner in which they got into of the details will begin immediately, the fight for the better order of things. the newspapers say. It is not FRANK S. LANG "COMES BACK' believed there will be any disagreement There is a vast difference between showing up the weakness of as to details, and it is indicated I wish to express my thankfulness an administration or candidate and slinging "mud at those who the next of the financial terms to all the voters in thj^third ward are not candidates for office through lack of anything good to sa\r will be finished this week. who used their vote and influence of ones favorite candidates. It was the "mud slinging" that helped Payments Over Thirty Years toward my election as alderman of The Echo de Paris says copmromises devest Frank H. Keyes the candidate of the Daily Journal. that ward. I can assure all the citi Please excuse the smile. were effected on all debatable points regarding the sum to be paid WHAT THE HOME PAPER IS at once by Germany and the payments No one will blame the editor of this paper for fueling justly in the future. Against the proud of th'e people of this city for the magnificent manner in which opposition of the French government Our state is dotted with villages, in each of which one or more they have at last risen to a point where, by their vote, they have it was agreed, the paper says, newspapers are published. They do not claim to be a review of the proven that they really favor a clean and law abiding- administration to distribute the future payments world. These country newspapers appear faithfully week after week, of civic affairs, even though in a few instances they btelieved over a term of thirty years. The payments recording the happenings of the neighborhood, lending assistance to for the next few years were it might go against their personal financial interests, temporarily. to the unfortunate, extending sympathy and consolation to the bereaved fixed. For six long years the Press has fought hard and continuously The Journal says there are indications chronicling with pardonable pride any improvements in the for the abolition from public office of the mien and the conditions that the rights of France and community and bringing to the fireside a record of happenings that that have stood for general lawlessness, and it is very gratifying Belgium to prior consideration in the are of more importance to the readers than the crowning of to realize that t^is fight has not been made in vain. payments by Germany have been George as emperor of India. We have always fought in the open and put up a clean fight recognized. The first German payment, The country newspaper is '6f'inestimable value in maintaining it says, will be 25,000,000,000 and have opposed every man whcJm we have believed was against th'e the moral and financial standards of the community. It is something francs, of which five billions will go best interests of this city and county without regard to our private to pay for raw materials to insure in which the entire neighborhood can feel a common interest. opinion of him as an individual, or th«e great financial loss, we were the resumption of German economic It is deserving of the steady support, not only of the home folks, warned and expected would come and did come continually to us life. France will get ten billion but also of those who look back with cherished memories to their francs and Belgium five billion of year after year because of our persistence in this fight. life in the country town—Fairdealer, Ottawa, 111. the first payment. The rest of the zens that it will be my pleasure to This has not only been a fight against the baser elements, but indemnity, the paper says, will cover do my utmost at all times as a councilman it has also been one of education to the general public who have a period of thirty-five years. as well as a citizen for the MINNESOTA DOESNT WANT AN UNLICENSED SALOON learned'their lesson well. Plans for continued occupation of best interests of this city. The fight is fought, th'e victory is won, in spite of the fact that the left bank of the Rhine have been Yours truly, The Minnesota Senate Committee on Temperance has recommended there may be still a few small skirmishes with the few who will abandoned and the Allies will depend Frank S. Lang. an amendment to the bill for the enforcement of the Prohibition upon an economic blockade asthe never be big enough to cheerfully accept the inevitable, but the means of pressure on Germany. Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The proposed WALTER A. ENGSTROM honor and the congratulations belong to the average every day man Final agreement on the time and amendment is as follows: APPRECIATES THE HONOR who has always wanted things decent and will now get them so Sarre valley questions will be reached "The term intoxicating liquor or liquors shall not be construed far as this city government is concerned. before the end of the week, it isadded. I wish to thus express my gratitude Very gratefully yours, to include fermented or malt liquors containing not to exceed two for the magnificient vote given me Geo. P. Watson. Increased optimism in diplomatic per cent of alcohol by weight at sixty degrees Fahrenheit. which as alderman of the second ward last circles is noted by the press, while said liquors, containing not to exceed two per cent of alcohol by Tuesday, and to asure the citizens satisfaction over the progress mads To the victor belong the responsibility. weight, shall not be sold however except in the following manner that I shall be glad to serve them to on the question of reparation and indemnity. the best of my ability at all times. By the manufacturer or wholesale dealer in quantities of not less The election of K. O. Fosse for mayor means better streets Yours truly, than two gallons in closed containers or packages, not to be consumed The favorable solution of the Danzig Walter A. Engstrom. and more public conveniences. on the premises where the sale is made, nor shall the same question is commented upon in complimentary terms. be sold anywhere at retail, except in dining1 rooms of bona fide J. A. McDONALD GRATEFUL All appointments by the new city council and mayor should be President Wilson Sunday received hotels and restaurants licensed-as such." FOR HIS ELECTION Secretary of State Lansing, General made in the spirit of the New Peace and Prosperity era expressed This amendment is the most vicious piece of legislation which Bliss, Henry White and Colonel by the majority vote of all the people. It is with many thanks that I hereby House in the President's bedroom. has been proposed in Minnesota for years for the following reasons: express my thankfulness to the The five men discussed the work The various beers which have been brewed and sold in Minnesota voters of the third war for the confidence All the new officials should remember that they are required to done since illness eliminated President during the past two years vary in alcoholic content. The state expressed in me by mySlec.tion observe and 'enforce the state laws, rather than to obey suggestions Wilson from the conference chemist has examined twenty samples of as many different varieties as their alderman by the highest Thursday night a'nd planned the program made by those who profit by wrong doing. majority and I can assure them that of beer the highest alcoholic content by volume in any beer for the present week. it shall be my greatest endeavor to he has examined is three and sixty-four one-hundredths per cent General Bliss explained what he Aft^r twenty years of lawlessness and ineffeciency the people serve as best I can at all times. regarded as a satisfactory adjustment (3.64 per cent), the lawest is two and seventy one-hundredths per Gratefully yours, who have stood for a clean and law abiding administration have at of the Danzig question and assurances cent (2.70 per cent). We are creditably informed that the beer J. A. McDonald. were given by all the other last succeeded in electing a mayor who came out flat-footed for recently brewed in St. Paul contained two and seventy-five oneliundredths delegates that progress had been such an administration. per cent (2.75 per cent) of alcohol by volume. EX-KAISER TURNS "SOCIALIST' made by' the different commissions Two per cent of alcohol by wfeight in beier is equivalent to two with the possible exception of the This is a good time to not only require the lawbreaking fraternity The kaiser has turned Socialist, according reparation commission. Mr. White and fifty-four one-hundredths per cent (2.54 per cent) by volume to The Hague corrspondent but also the alien element of this city who work hand-inglove expressed the belief that material, according to a written statement in our possession made aiid signed of the Daily Mail. advancement had been recorded on with the worstt element, to the detriment of the country's this day by Julius Hortvefc Chief Chemist in the Chemical Laboratory The former emperor, the correspondent territorial questions. best interests, to go back to the old country. of the State Dairy and Food Department of Saint Paul. In writes, often suddenly jumps It is understood that President other words, the alcoholic content of the beer proposed in this up from the dinner table, declaring Wilson impressed on the delegates Coming events cast their shadows before them. At seven "these are the days of Socialism," the extraordinary importance of an mendment is only twenty-one one-hundredths (.21) of one per cent o'clock on the morning after election the old "blind pig" shack of and adding that he is only an ordinary early agreement. His conviction is (1 pier cent) less than alcoholic content of beer now sold. The difference man now and must help the said to be that a long step must be Jerry Plat's was hauled away from the sidie of 3rd av^enue where is negligible. cause. taken this week toward the preparation it has been both an eyesore and a menace for many yiears. Under existing laws no beer can be sold in, the State of Minne Thereupon he throws his napkin of the peace treaty. sota in the sixty-four dry counties, or in certain dry territories in over his shoulder and insists on helping The premiers held no formal meetings K. O. Fossie was elected largely by the workingmen of this wait on the table. the cities, nor can it be sold after eleven oclock at night nor before Sunday, but there were several Wilhelm, the correspondent adds, city because they were tired of thle blindpigging, gambling and ^fdrmal conferences. Colonel House five.oclock in the morning, nor anywhere in the state on Sundays, often dresses in a general's uniform received Premier Orlando, Lord prostitution that has characterized past administration, and it is nor election days, nor can it be sold at any tinve anywhere On and struts into the dining room after Robert Cecil and Baron Makino, and up to F/Ossje to lose no time Sn carrying out the wishes of the voters. to minors. pompously demanding of the butler conferred with them on the location If the amendment which the Senate Temperance Committee to announce him in full regal style. of the seat of the league of nations. The blind-pig committee tauntingly asked if the p)eople were But after he gets past the soup The first subcommittee of the proposes be passed and incorporated into the laws of the State of and not satisfied with th'e city officers why did they not te-call them. fish he becomes democratic and by finance commission of the Supreme Minnesota, every restraint on our statute books against the sale dessert time has generally turned into council, according to an official state This may be the time to take up the challenge and re-call such, of intoxicating liquors will be abrogated so far as beer with an a full fledged Socialist. ment issued Sunday held eleven meet members of the council as have used thelir office illegally, for private alcoholic content of two per cent by weight or two and fifty-four He talks and talks from morning ings between March 15 and April 3. gain. one-hundredths per cent (2.54 per cent) by volume is concerned. to night to everyone on everything. It considered eighteen articles for The former empress, however, spends insertion in the peace treaty, the This beer can be1 sold in restaurants licensed as such anywhere in most of her time prayer. majority being adopted unanimously. When the city council g»£t around to elect a city attorney it is the state at all times to any person who has the price to pay for it. These articles will be presented to greatly to be hoped^ that they will appoint^a man that can not only All that will be necessary to transform an existing saloon into a SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRSS3 the full commission for approval. ... _. *\jV £k Jllr- vv