Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 6, 1908, Page 2

ST ’-éfi\‘TlW ¥ — THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. ¥ntered in the postoffice at Bemidji. Minn. 28 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM —_— WELSH DELIVERED FINE ADDRESS. Elsewhere, in this issue of the Pioneer, we publish the address delivered by George Welsh,immigra- tion commissioner of the Minnesota State Board of Immigration, which was delivered at the national Farm- ers’ Congress, at Madison, Wis., last week. While Mr. Welsh had not been informed that he would be called upon for a speech until a few moments before he was led to the platform, the address, nevertheless, was a splexdid one, and was a credit to the North Star State; and it should be generally read. SHOULD KNOW THE GREAT “GROWLER.” The editorial boys who learned their trade in Bemidji in the early days of that town—from Dad Pal- mer, Doc Rutledge, A. M. Greeley, Kaiser, Chris Christainson and the versatility of the early days—are certainly ‘‘there with the goods,” both mechanically and from a literary(?) stand point. The way some of them sling slang surely did not originate in a back-in-Towa news- paper office.—Grand Ravids Inde- pendent. Evidently, Brother LaFreinere has never heard of the famous “Growler” Allen, who has been coininz words of his own, lately, in saying bad things about the Pioneer, even insinuating that we button our shirt behind—whatever that may mean. By all means make the acquaintance of the “Colonel,” he’s the only one of the kind that the good Lord ever allowed to get away. ' CAUSTIC COMMENT. [A. G. Rutledge.] If your right hand always knew what your left hand was going to do it might getin the way occasionly. The scientists will soon quit find- ing germs in soda water and dis- cover a new lot of microbes tn oysters. A politican is a man who always remembers your face and your name until the day after election; a states- man is one who can keep right on remembering you. We’ve several of each kind in Bemidji. Notwithstanding the gloomy out- look portrayed by a life insurance agent before he gets you to take a policy he never seems the least bit surprised when you live right on while the premiums fall due. Did we not know that all Mr. Roosevelt’s foes were busily engaged in electing Mr. Taft, we would think there was something suspicious in the story that there fell near the President’s house at Oyster Bay, “a meteorite that closely resembled a brickbat.” “Farman’s aeroplane looks like-a cross section torn out of a flimsy apartment-house floor, mounted on a bicycle and with a coal bin in tow. It’s not so pretty and much less sub- stantial in appearance than the sweet potato air ship.” So says our friend, Harry Calvert, who has been reading the magazines of late. “He Writ. ~ A well known dramatle eritic visiting Stratford on Shakespeare’s birthday and, hearing the clangor of the bells which, from their tower in the old church where the poet lies burled, awoke the little town to its devotions approached a wintry headed street sweeper in front of Irving’s inn and sald: “Who is the fellow they're mak- ing this fuss about? I see you have Bhakespeare hotels, Shakespeare gin- gerbread, and only the other day I saw & man driving to town some pigs called ‘Shakespeare’s best.” Who is he —the fellow who lived in that tumble- down shanty yonder?” The “oldest in- habitant” megaphoned his ear and, Wheezing, replied, “I think he writ” “Oh, he writ, did he? What did he write—books, confessions of a deer stealer;-magazine articles—what? “I think he writ for the Bible.” A Decorated Interior. Mrs. ‘Graham is an estimable lady whose hobby is house decoration. One day the lady was careless enough to drink a glass of red ink, belleving it to be claret. She was a good deal scared when she discovered her mis- take, but no harm came to her, The doctor. who was summoned, upon hearing what had happened, dry- ly remarked to her, “Mrs. Graham, there’s such a thing as pushing this rage for decorated interiors too far.”— Argonaut. | All of the blast furnaces in southern Mllinois have been reopened, doing eir share toward blasting Democrat- lc hopes of success in that state. +| districts of the state. 01 ago. If an option bill should ‘come to me when I wag governor, passed by the legislature, I ‘should certainly sign it. T will not deceive any one, even to secure votes. “L have always been a consistent ‘| supporter of all legistation that would tend to lessen the evil of intemper- ance, and my attitude on this question is too well known and is too clearly a matter of record to require extended comment. County option has become a_live question in all the legislative This is a mat- ter ‘that will come before the legisla- ture in some form or another, and it is distinctively a matter for legislative enactment. But my posmon on-this gubject is’just what it “has always ‘been. And I can assure the people of ‘the state most positively that™ if a county “option law should be passed by the next legislature and come be- fore me for signature as governor, in case of my election, I should promptly and unhesitatingly sign it. DRAINAGE. “I am heartily in favor of a continu- ation and extension of the drainage of -the wet lands in Northern Minne- sota, belonging to the state. I feel that the time has come when these noble streams should be made a part GEORGE_T. SIMPSON. CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL George C. Simpson Is Son oi: Sturdy Pioneers of Minne- sota’s Early Days. HE HAS AN ENVIABLE RECORD Has Been City and County Attorney; Is Now First Assistant Attorney General. George T. Simpson, Repub- | lican candidate for attorney gen- | eral, was born at Winona, Minn., in 1867, and is the eldest son of the late Thomas Simpson. Mar- garet Simpson was his mother. The older residents of the state— the men and women who came in= to this state between the late 50’s and the eariy go’s and were con- nected with public affairs—will have no difficulty in placing either of these pioneers. The one—the prominent lawyer, member and president of the state board for a quarter of a century, man of affairs, delegate to the Re- publican national convention that nominated Lincoln and the per- son who seconded his nomination on behalf of Minnesota, member of the national committee of the Republican party, and at all times a consistent member of that or- ganization from 1861 to the day of his death. He was of English descent. The other—the edu- cated woman, the soldiers’ or- phans’ friend, the organizer of a charity that during her life knew, and now knows, neither age, col- or nor faith. She was a descend- ant from one of the oldest Ger- man families in Pennsvlvania. With such antecedents it is not surprising that we find the son at forty the candidate of the Repub- lican party for attorney géneral, and that by unanimous vote. At- tending the normal school at Wi- | law department of the same uni: normal | nona trom infancy he graduated as president of his class in 1885; entered the collegiate department of the State University of Wis- consin and graduated therefrom with honor in 18go; was a stu- dent in the law office of his fath- er for three years; entered the versity ; became a student in the | law office of Hon. John C. Spoon- er of Madison, \Vis.; took the state bar examination, and was admitted to practice. in Minne- sota in 1805; married Elizabeth, daughter of the late John Lud- wig of Winona; was city attor- ney of the city of Winona from 1897 to 1899; was in private practice, and in 1900 was elected county attorney of Winona coun- ty, a Republican in a Democratic county; was prcxid(’nt of the | county attorney’s association of was instrumental in having enact- ed into law, among others now in the statutes, the county attor= neys’ contingent fund bill, provid- ing much needed means for the state in the preparation and trial of criminal cases; was re-clected county attorney of Winona coun- ty, carrying most of the precincts in the county by handsome - | jorities; became assistant attor- ney general under the present at- torney general, Hon. Edward T. Young, in 1905, and has been con- nected with all the important liti- gation and departmental matters arising in and transmitted to the attorney general’s office during the past four years, including the mous Young case before the su- preme court of the United States. Such in brief is the history of the man whom the Republican party offers to the electors of this state as their next attorney gen- eral. He is thoroughly equipped by education, training and experi- ence for the duties of the office. In the words of the editor of one of the leading Democratic papers of the state: “George T. Simp- son’s nomination for attorney general is a reward of merit, and so long as we are to have a Re- publican attorney general it is well to be assured of having one that is fair and square as well as able.” ¢ PITHY POINTS FROM | Republican Candidate for Governor Fearlessly Strikes From the Shoulder on All Issues. - — e THE RAILROADS. “There is no disposition on the part of the shipper or producer of this state to deal vnfairly with the rail- roads. The d rozue who clamors for a law that not justified by the fact is as hear despised by the peo- ple of the state ‘he uitra reaction- ary who recognizes no wrong to be remedied. A corrupt railroad lobby must be supjressed znd driven away from our h of legislation. And with that will, of his own weight, go the boodler and the leg-puller—neither of them will survive long with the ab- sence of the first. “The rzilroxds can as safely rely on reason, argument and a just cause for a fair decision as the people them- selves can. The mutual distrust en- gendered by a.continuation of the old method of dealing with the railroad question cannot but result in harm to both sides. “And I feel the time has come when the railvoads can safely take the peo- ple into their confidence and deal with them more openly and frankly, and they will find that the people, on their part, will meet them more than half way. “The officers of the state who have the enforcement of the laws in hand in the suit now pending should and must be sustained by the people of the state, by all the m..ns necessary to | carry these cases to a legitimate con- clusion. EDUCATION. “That state is best economically, socially, morally and intellectually which wisely spends most for the edu-: cation of its people. We have a splen- did school system. but I feel that some oI 1t can be mad> more practical than at present. “I plead for econumy, but not par simony in all matters of education. Spending money for a good school, a good book or the acquirement of a good habit, is economy. “Manual training, domestic science and aericulture furnish the field for our “highest efforts and our best thought. “The farmer boys and girls, because of their seattered settlements, recelve to-day the poorest chance for an edu- cation. Yet no other single calling in the state is of half the importance, and- if our present school system is found to e inzdegquate for their special training, to make them more intelll- gent, to make them better farmers than they are at present, this need should be speedily and adequately sup- plied. “Nothing suggests itself to me at present to be more practical and fea- sible than the establishment of county agricultural schools. They should be built and maintained, partly by the state and partly by the localities in which they are established. If they should become a gift of the state there would rest in as unholy and un- dicnified a scramble for them as the world has ever seen. FORESTRY. “We have yet in Worthern Minne- sota a small portion of our once great forests, some of it still cwned by the state. I feel the time has come when the state should adopt a new system, not only for their protection, but the state should set at léast some portion of them apart to be used as demon- strating what cad be done in the way of preserving them instead of what we are now doing, disposing of them to be cut clean in a single season, leaving the lands comparatively worthless: “Hand in hand with work of pre- serving our forests should go an effi- cient and scientific system of refores. tation on some suitable tracts judi- ousl- selected for this purpose. the state, and as such drew and’ so-called rate cases, and the fa=| of our national highway, and unless the state that is most interested takes the initiative, the national - govern- ment, on its own motion, will scarcely come to our aid. FINANCE. “The people are entitled to a good, clean, business administration of the state’s financial affairs, and every dol- lar collected for the-people for the support of the state government, our schools and all other state institu- ions, should be judiciously and eco- nomically expended. And every dol- lar spent should be rigidly accounted for. IMMIGRATION. “l am in favor of an immigration bureau of more practical benefit to the state. Minnesota has millions of acres of good lands that will in time support a very large population. We should not only seek to prevent our péople from leaving the state, but by disseminating knowledge of our own splerdid and unsettled domain in Northern Minnesota and all other por- tions of the state; we should by every lecitimate means attract immigration frem other fields. I know of no means where money judiciously expended will bring surer and quicker returns.” Question About “Interests.” Times-Enterprise—Referring to the charge of the Minnesota Bry- anites that Gov. Johnson as a can- didate for the presidency was the pliant tool of the interests. the Inter-Lake Tribune wants to know if, as candidate for the gov- ernorship it is not likely he is a tool of the same powers? They might explain. 2T The South Sea Whiskers Trada. “In the south seas whiskers is a rarl- ty,” said a sailor. “Most of them there Maoris has hairless faces, like a girl’s, ‘When a young Maori, at the age of six- teen or so, finds himself endowed with whiskers he blesses the day when he was born, for now, by tar, he knows his whiskers yill keep him from want in his old age. “Puzzlin’, ain’t it? I'll explain it out to you. #The Maori chiefs down Tahiti way wears a complicated headdress, and a | necessary part of this here headdress 1s a lot of stiff tufts of white whiskers. The headdress makers pays for white whiskers their weight tn gold. “So, you see, old fellers with snowy spinach is In demand in the south seas, Contractors keeps herds of these old fellers, the same as drovers keeps sheep, and reg’lar in June and Decem- ber the semiannual shearin’ comes off. “The curly white harvest is loaded on to pirogues, and the contractors puts out over the roarin’ coral reefs, and from island to island sells to the chiefs big handfuls of that there snowy fluff for its weight in French gold.”"—New Orleans Times-Democrat, The Bottle at Ship Launches. Down to Charles [L’s time It was customary to name and baptize a ship after she was launched, sometimes a week or two after. The old Tudor method used for men-of-war was still in use. Pepys’ “Diary” shows that. The ship was safely got afloat, after which some high personage went on board with a special sllver “standing cup” or “flaggon” of wine, out of which he drank, naming the ship, and poured a libation on the quarter deck. The cup was then generally given to the doclkyard master shipwright as a me- mento. When did the present usage of naming and baptizing a ship before she fs sent afloat come in? I trace the last explicit mention of the old method to 1664, when the Royal Katherine was launched (see Pepys). The first men- tlon of smashing a bottle of wine on the bows of a British man-of-war that I have found is in a contemporary newspaper cutting of May, 1780, de- scribing the christening of H. M. 8. Magnanime at Deptford, but nothing Is hinted that it was then a new custom. —London Notes and Queries. Almost at Rest. A kind hearted but somewhat close fisted man who was sorely afflicted with a consclence came to a friend, holding a visiting card in his hand. He looked deeply troubled. “I know,” said he, “this man wants to borrow money. I know he will drink it. What am I to do?” “It is perfectly simple,” saild the friend. “Send down word that you are out.” “I cannot,” he said. told a lie in my life.” “Then,” said his friend, “lend all your money to me, and you can-tell him you haven’t a penny in your pocket.” After some hesitation the kind heart- ed man complied and, having seen his caller, returned. “Well,” asked his friend, “are your conscience and mind at rest?” “Not quite, man,” he replied, “but they will be as soon as you have given me my money back.”—Bellman. “I have never To Borrow. Grimsey—What is the psychological moment? Cholley—It is when you get a tip on a dead sure thing and do not happen to have the money to back n up.—New Orleans World. Modesty 18 only another name for #elf knowledge.—Hare. The Voice of Fame. An American author’of some note was passing a summer in New Hamp- shire. One day he received word that a distinguished Englishman was visit- ing In the country town and would like to call upon the author, of whom, he added in his note requesting an audi- ence, he had heard. Somewhat flattered, the author won- dered to himself who had spoken to the distinguished Englishman about him. A “‘Some Oxford dignitary doubtless,” he. reflected pleasantly, ‘“‘or possibly some London publisher or ecritic,” and he awaited the stranger’s arrival with interest. < “So you -had. heard of me,” he ven- tured after the usual greetings had been spoken. “Well, that is odd. Might 1 ask who”— But his visitor interrupted bim. “Oh, yes!” he said.” “I heard all about you before I got here. The por- ter on the Pullman told me that you were the very man to come to to ask about the best route to Niagara and what hotel I'd better stay at” Paying Visits In Australia. In Australia a month’s- visit to a country house would be nothing. Two months—three months—six months—as long as you like would not be consider- ed too long, other things being equal. Nobody thinks of dates. To write and invite you from the 15th to the 30th would be rude. You are asked to stay as long as you like. Or else you ask yourself to stay as long as you like. Or even—to face all the contingencies— you neither ask nor are asked. Yon simply go. And, having arrived, you remain, for the one unfailing commodi- ty of an Australian country house is welcome. Everything else may give out. If you stay long enough there is sure to be a time when there are no servants, no milk, no vegetables, no meat but mutton, or even no water, but the thoughts of guests going away will never enter the minds of the host and hostess. Good nature, gayety, in- formality—these are the leading notes of life In every Australian country house.—London Globe. The Old Trade. “H’'m!” ejaculated the governor as he perused the card of the newly arrived prisoner. “I see you are a commercial traveler?” The man assented. “That presents something of a diffi- culty. You know, my man, everybody here has got to work. Now, what trade will you take up? You can be a mat- maker, a tailor or a shoemaker. Per- haps yowd like to make brushes or baskets”— “Excuse me, sir,” interrupted the prisoner, “but I think I'd much rather stick to my old trade.” “Well,” said the grave and reverend seignior, “we always like prisoners to work at their own trades when possi- ble. But"— “Oh, that's simple!” Interrupted the prisoner eagerly. “I should like the chance of going round selling on com- mission the things the other fellows make.”—London Scraps. It is the fondest Democratic hope that Bryan will interpret his third de- feat in November as an ultimatum. 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