,*•- 'y- r-y I a I a INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, AUGUST 28 191V PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS of their roads improved, the average school attendance of enrolled erty of press. That's right, so do all of us. But the Socialists o* pupils is but fifty-nin'e per cent while in five states with thirty-five Russia have liberty—for themselves only. Under the sovist socialist per cent of their roads improved, the average attendance is seventyseven rule there is a con^tetfc%ufrraJfon of liberty of speech and press AND BORDER BUDGET for everyone outside the frolshefyiki gang. If Victor Berger lived per cent of the enrollment. In five states which have less GEO. F. WATSON, Editor than twelve per cent of their roads improved, illiteracy averages in Russia and made as many speeches and wrote as many articles against the boss-ridden organization of Trotsky and Lenine, as he twenty-thre'e per cent while in five states in which forty-five per Eitercd at the Peat Office at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-elaaa Matte* cent of the roads are improved, the average illiteracy is but five has made against the government of this nation. Berger would SUBSCRIPTION RATES U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR be in jail or in his grave, yet Berger says that what he wants is per cent. Good roads are also good for land values. Never yet has a the kind of liberty they have in Russia. In other words Berger It looks as though it is going to take longer to make peace wants a class' rule, with all other classes but his suppressed, and hard surface road, faile'ed to add to the markeet value of the farm than it did to fight the fight. land accessible to it. From ten to twenty-five dollars per acrse is this is exactly the kind of "liberty" that Socialism would hand to us. no uncommon advance in farm value near bettered roads. Postmaster General Burleson says that he expects some anarchist We used to say, "Well, we'll have one more little- drink and These facts are worth remembering at the next good road bond to mail him a bomb. If it is a time bomb Burleson will then go home." Now we say "Wiell I guess I'll go home and have election in this state—Minneapolis Journal. be safe, for under the* blight of his socialistic regime, the bomb a little drink." would have time to explode a dozen times before it ever got as far THE NEW IMMIGRATION BILL as Washington, A fellow can't very well recommend or mete out a very severe The Labor Party of Tasmania don't want much. All they want penalty on week days when he is partaken in the same kind of The immigration bill just introduced in the House by Albert is the socialization of saw mills, flour mills, state butcheries and lawlessness on Sunday. Johnson, of Washington, probably presents the ideas of the majority state fisheries, the socialization of the liquor trade and hospitals, A*-*- of the Immigration Committee, of which he is Chairman. And no :.te exports for all over-sea trade, state-owned shipping. As the The returned soldiers boys say that in case £f waf with Mexico less probably is it satisfactory to the Pacific Coast, where the problem state a'reuciy owns the railways and a number of other things, there they will stay and "keep the home fires burning" while those who of Japanese immigration becomes daily mpre pressing. won't be much for private ownership if they have their way. it last time go to "fight for their country and thee love." did The bill would shut off all immigration for two years. This is too The American Federation of Labor after declaring for the jshort a priod to afford much relief to the Nation from its present forty-four hour week, resolved in favor of a six hour day as the When is this city going to celebrate its Peace day in honor of ills arising from failure to digest and absorb the great mass of foreigners. ultimate goal for labor in this nation. Once the A. F. of L. said its soldier boys. Many other cities have had th'eirs and this city Those who have studied the matter most deeply declare eight hours was the ideal and the thing that they would struggle for cannot afford to neglect this duty it owes to those who went from that a ten-year closed season would be none too long. However, and, when they got it that would end the struggle so far as the here to fight in the world's the bill may be amended in this respect, or if the present Congress war. shorter work day was concerned. Now it is six hours and soon hesitates, its successor might extend the period. it will be a demand for the 30 hour week. Labor leaders don't Even Monday's St. Paul Dispatch says in its editorial columns The bill is notable or its introduction of a new distinction in seem to know that that the less wealth we produce the less there after referring to lawless conditions in the capital city. "The business classifying immigrants into those who come intending to stay, and will be to divide. There is no fear of unemployment unless labor of police is to enforce the law, all laws. It hardly s'eems like those whose sojourn is to be temporary. itself creates it by its insane demands.-. When we make the cost The first sort are to declare their intention on arrival, and are going too far to suggest that they do it." of producing things so high that everyone will be doing their best to attain full citizenship in eight years or suffer deporation. They to go without the costly things, and when on top of this our products are to be encouraged in acquiring the elements of good citizenshipmastery No action ever taken by our city council has been the cause of cost so much that we cannot export them into the markets of English, understanding of our history and institutions, as much favorable comment as that of last Monday night when cf the world, then the machinery will begin to stop, and labor will sympathy with our national aims and policies. they let the contract for fifteen blocks of reinforced concrete pavement, begin to loaf. Just now labor is doing its best to kill the goose Restrictions on those who come for a temporary stay are to be four blocks of which are to be completed this fall. Good for that lays the golden egg. In spite of the calamity howlers labor rigorous. The present exempted classes of merchants, student? the city fathers. today can buy more of the necessities and the luxuries of life than and the like are to be limited in their stay to a period of six months,. ever before with its day's pay, and most of them know it. During This is chiefly aimed at the Japanese who evade the "gentlemen's Conditions are pretty rotten saying nothing about disloyal the past eighteen months the coal miners have bought more automobiles, agreement" by coming here as exempts of these clasess, and then when a manufacturer will sell a pair of shoes at $6.50 to the American than they had previously bought since the gas wagon was staying as farmers and laborers. They soon send for "picture merchant but let the same kind of shoes go to the shipper for invented. A majority of the workers spend their money like a brides" and raise families- Their economic competition is deadly export at $3.50. No wonder H.C.L. has become a, new term in the drunken sailor, and when dull times come, as they are sure to come, to the whites with their higher living standards. Their children, American vocabulary. then these kind of workers will want Uncle Sam, or some one else born here, are American by birth. to take care of them. There is work for all with an eight hour But though the restriction is aimed at the Japanese, it would Did the U. S. government encourage the cold storage people day and the world, is suffering for this work, but the selfish labor apply to all foreigners, so that Japan could raise no issue of discrimination. to get a big surplus of all necessities on hand so as to be in shape rgitator knows nothing^of economics nor does he care for justice, We should be treating all comers alike without regard to to supply its demands both during th»e war and since or didn't it? all he wants is to hog all he can for one class in society and he is their racial origins. This would seem to offer a workable solution If it did then it has no just cause for complaint. Jf it didn't doing his best to accomplish all this and more. of the Japanese immigration- problem. then those guilty of holding these large surplus stocks should be When the government took over the railroads thiere was much One clause of the bill will meet with hearty approval among punished to the full extent of the law. boasting that there would be ari end to large salaries, and it is patriotic Americans. It directs the deporation of all aliens who in true that the big men with the "big salaries were mostly "fired." order to escape the draft withdrew their first papers in which they It is generally conceded that the special session of the legislature Now comes the news that there are five men who draw $50,000 had declared their intention of becoming citizens. Along with aliens which meets on September 8th will be .a long one, if this is so (*i ch, two at $40,000 each, three at $35,000 each and a lot more at who left the country to escape military service, they are to be forever it will give our Legislators abundant time to get the bill passed $10,000 to $18,000. Thiere are. 72. mien.. with an average salary excluded from the United States. requiring county officers to spend a reasonable number of hours of $19,418, and we have the statement of Senator King of Utah that This, of course, is retributive justice. These shirkers were per day in their offices attending to the work of the office, this will there "are 41,000 more men employed now, doing the same work," glad to take advantage of our hospitality and our privileges in order not only save the taxpayers considerable money now paid out for that was performed under private ownership and operation. "They to do well for themselves, but refused to fight when the oppor extra help, but it will also bring back the self respect which every they realize that they are working far the government, and do not care tunity came to make some return for all they had enjoyed. They man loses when he accepts his ]pay check with a consciousness that whether the work is done or not." are not fit stuff for citizenship. We shall be better off without them. not having don'e the work he is not entitled to the pay. This county Of course they are "loafing on the job" everybody outside the —Minneapolis Journal. cannot afford to have its officials lose their self respect. post office, mostly loafs on the job. Government jobs are created to loaf on. There is not a single department in Washington, outside MAKING, GOOD ROADS PAY That "laws alone won't avail" is very evident from the continired of the post office, but what has double the employees that are lawlessness in this city, Ranier and some other parts of the needed. Socializing any kind of an industry will simply double county. It rests not only with one but with all the officials. There Cerro Cordo county, IoWa is awake to the value of good roads. the cost of operation and this added cost will be a burden that will is little use making arrests unless warrants which specify the crime The traveler along the Jefferson highway, which bisects the fall upon all. Labor, in its blind selfishness don't seem to realize committed are issued rather than some lesser crime which carries county, is informed by means of signs at frequent intervals that this fact, and so it is howling for the socialization of industry. But with it practically no penalty. Then too the courts should be the people recently voted 3 to 1 in favor of a bond issue for paving labo^, along with all the rest will have to bear the cost, a cost so vigorous in their determination to impose such sentences as will roads. There are other signs which tell you of the advantages great that labor will be forced to have less and less. have a strong tendency to compel the culprit toi quit his lawlessness. Cerro Gordo county affords. At frequent intervals the traveler Nothing but a harmonious co-operation on the part of all the officials will find a sign like thi's. will do the business, but with such co-operation the p'eculiar "This farm of 170 acres sold for $275 an acre." DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON kind of lawlessness that characterizes this county will soon cease It is good advertising which the county is doing. It is getting But nothing will ever be accomplished by "passing the buck." full value out of the Jefferson highway. Improvement of that AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND road has boosted land prices along it, while, the publicity which is E. SOL VANG WHEN YOU WANT TO—^ LET THEM GO given land prices along that highway cannot but help to establish FIX THAT FENCE Successor to G. Holmqufst high land values for the remainder of the county. The impression LAY THAT FLOOR I Cabinet Maker, Furniture SEE I Minneapolis postoffice employees got the state labor convention of prosperity which the visitor gains is bound to result in attracting HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, to indorse the Bolshevilci "soviet government. Maybe these nuts BUILD THAT SMALL to that county substantial and progressive farmers and to its cities, [General Carpenter, Contracttor BUILDING OR COTTAGE] and Builder. would rather work for some other government than for Uncle business men and manufacturers of -the same caliber. 502 THIRD STREET or any Big Carpenter job- Sam. They should be given a chance right off-—Fairmont Sentinel. Good roads having been found to be productive of higher land values and greater prosperity for everybody in the county, Cerro THE GOOD OF GOOD ROADS Gordo county people have voted for still better roads. From the point of view of good business, the farmers, no doubt, have found NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO From many tests of the weights a two horse: team can draw in them necessary. With a $40,000 investment in a 160-acre farm, the ?. farm wagon over various road surfaces, the following figures farmer cannot afford the expense of getting his products to mark-it have been deduced: On a smooth, dry earth road, two to four over bad roads. HONTFELIER, VERMONT thousand pounds on a good macadam, eight to ten thousand pounds. To make money on a farm with so much capital involved, such Chartered 1848 The cost of hauling a ton a mile on German roads is ten cents expenses have got to be cut to the minimum. on English roads about the same while in Prance, the home of is a strikingly attitude from that displayed recently It different Accptc good roads, the cost is but four cents. In America the cost is twenty Insurance in Force in our own Minnesota county of Clay, and sponsored by the Nonpartisan $75,000,000.00 thuee cents. The annual cost of hauling from farm to market in $254,000,000.00 league, Clay county farmers, their prejudices inflamed by this country, accorrding to the Depardtment of Agriculture, is more the adroit propaganda of the league, voted down the proposed bond than the freight on the same produce from Ne'w York to Liverpool. issues for road paving. There would be the same increase in land Issues the best forms of Life, Terms, According to the* Interstate Commerce Commission the railways values for Clay county farmers with better roads as Cerro Cordo of the United States in one year hauled more than nine hundred county has experienced, not to mention the greater profit from Ipwer Endowment and Trusteeship Insurance V'llion tons of freight, of which two hundred and seventy-five million marketing expenses. tons consisted of farm produce. When the cost of hauling that Perhaps it is not the aim of thje shrewd bosses of the Nonpartisan and Life Annuities. freight to the railroad has been reduced from twenty-three cents league to have its become too prosperous. It is hard members to teiL cents, thirty-five million dollars will be add'ed to the profits to inflame the passions of a man who is making money against of the farmers every year. A request for further particulars will not involve somebody else who is also making money. Unless that'is their aim, Roads that are good for freight traffic, are also good for developing the league leaders are pursuing a very shortsighted policy, as Cerro any obligation. a country. The department of Agriculture finds that in Cordo county farmers will tell them—Pioneer Press. twenty-five counties, selected at random, in which less than two per cent of the roads arte improved, the population decreased an averarge BERGER WANTS LIBERTY- FOR SOCIALISTS JOHN D. KIBBEY, General Agent of three thousand to the county in the decade 1900-1901 whiile in twenty-five counties similarly selected, where forty per DOES HE WANT THE BOLSHEVIK! KIND? cent of the roads are improved, the average increase of population International Falls, Minn. per county was thirty-one thousand. BY JOSIAH FENTO^ Liberal Dividends Net Cost Low Good roads are- also found to be good for the "educational uplift of a country.. In five states, which have less than three per cent Victor Berger, socialist: leader wants liberty of speech and lib­