Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 27, 1910, Page 1

THE B P10. L mmamnm SECIETY, VOLUME 8. NUMBER 255. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY NEW POLITIGAL PARTY & 1S_POSSIBILITY? Witty Correspondent Predicts Form-[ ation of “Strict Constructionists” | Party If Treaty Is Enforced. | WOULD REVIVE “BLUE LAWS" socialists.. | enforced, this may be done to take a slap at ly painful surprise, constant irrita- tion and deep disgust to all con- cerned. Students of political matters as- sert that this “dry order” is aimed at the socialist party, which is grow- ing rapidly and gaining strenuously in Brainerd and Bemidji. Bemidji furnished the socialist candidate for governor of Minnesota while Brain- erd elected a socialist mayor and two aldermen. It is believed that this treaty may have been enforced to as- [sist the prohibition party and thus furnish a new party to oppose the As it has been rumored that the treaty of 1861 may also be it follows, logically, that Might Maintain Lobby to Tell the|jyinueapolis which very nearly elect- Legislature of Eastern Interfer- ers What They Need. | jed VanLear, socialist candidate for | mayor. Socialists Will Dance. Socialists living in the vicinity of Brainerd, Minn., Dee. 27—There | Bemidji will hold a dance at the growing feeling jrainerd, \Walker and it the treaty of 1855 is a Bemidji that| torced it is about time to start a pol-|square as the “Strict| itical party known Constructionists.” apparent in |city hall Wednesday evening, December 28. The dance will be is to be en-|one of the old fashion kind, at which dances will be given a prominent placeon the program. Masten’s orchestra will provide the n | A If the government decides to fur-|music. ther enforce this treaty and the; courts hold the treaty legal then the| ict Constructionists” will gel‘ and dig up and revive every! dead and down. down and out, Rip | Van Winkle law on federal and state statute books. Walker has set the| ball rolling by putting the ban on slot machines, games of chance, duck | and turkey raffies, etc. easily be extended to include church | raffles, bridge parties, church card parties, Sunday funerals, Sunday mail | service, Sunday theatres, ete. 1 | There is such a thing as a statute of limitations in the state of Minne- sota, but a federal treaty, like Tenny-| son’s brook, appears to run on forever matter how much it may be damned. The principle of laches, or neglect to enforce ones rights,! applies to states and individuals but does not seem to effect our federal government which lets the Indian of 1855 slumber peacefully for | sars and then revives it when the Indians and whites it sought to protect are dead and gone. | In the old days the cry was “foriy-| The “Strict Construc: ~Give us '55 and ve| fight,” that is, enforce the treaty of 1855 and we shall get busy. All | sumptuary and blue laws, especially Sunday laws, will be dug up. A vote of thanks is to be given the Phil- adelphia lawyer of Arkansas who res- | urrected a law of the vintage of 1845 | states that the government no tre four or fight,” tionist” cry which postal department may handle ex- press business and by so doing canj| reduce the annual postal definit.i Senator-elect C. D. Johnson, of Brainerd, is to be instructed to dig up every old law he can find and at-| tempt to inject new life into it. Committees are to be appointed to see what New Hampshire and Geor- gia may lack in the way of law en-| forcement and remedial legislation. It is said the child labor laws of| jeorgia are not enforced and the “Strict Constructionists” will send| telegrams to the president notifying him that Georgia needs fixing. In New Hampshire there are certainly | things to be adjusted and in retalia- tion for the kind interest which New Hampshire people have taken in the 1855 Indian treaty territory of Min-| nesota the “Strict Constructionists’ | propose to have a lobby at New Hampshire telling their legislature what to do. The more the plan is studied the greater and more bound- less appear the possibilities and re- sults. It is further alleged that the treaty Peter Stuyvesant made with the In- dians several centuries ago, when he purchased the ground on which New Amsterdam and later New York City stood, is to be unearthed and declared illegal because the consideration for the transfer of this valuable property was two barrels of rum. Re-open- ing this celebrated case and the casks will draw New York City into the maelstrom of the dry territory. An- other treaty to be shovelled from its grave is the one William Penn made with the Indians. 1t is alleged that | William was a politician and that he got the best of the Indians. The bust of Quay stands on some of the gound involved and it may be neces- sary to move the late gentlemen. The expression, “Madder Than A Wet In- dian,” has been declared obsolete and should now read, “Madder Than A| Dry White.” If the federal court at St. Paul de- cides on January 9th that the In- dian treaty of 1855 is legal, then the “Strict Constructionists” party will issue its declaration of independence and start such a cry of reform and strict observance of every law, federal and state, ever issued now, before and hereafter as will attract the at- tention of every state in the union and every country in the world. Every editor in the dry strip will be enlisted in the cause. All possible means will be used to make this dry strip so law abiding, and the whole United States, too, for that matter, that it will be & question of positive- i 'WEALTHY MEN CONTROL WARS nis may | Opinion Expressed by David Starr Jordan. “SCARES” ARE CREATED Head of Leland Stanford University Says “Uncles” of the Kings Control the Destiny of the Nations—Declares There !s No Danger of War, but Says the World’s War Debt Is Like: ly to Be Doubled. Chicago. Dec. 27.—All Europe is in hock to its “uncles.” Therefore there will be no war for many years, be cause the money lenders will not per- mit anything which will impair the loans theyv have made. Briefly, these are the conclusions of David Starr Jordan, president of Le land Stanford university, as he de- livered them in a lecture on “The 0Old Peace With Velvet Sandaled Feet” at Abraham Lincoln center. “All civilized nations are owned or controlled,” Dr. Jordan said, “for they say there is a difference between own- ing and ccntrolling a railroad, though some of us cannot quite grasp the dis- tinction. “The men who make the war loans control all the civilized nations. The Spitzenberger is not controlled. Neither is the Figi. The ‘uncles’ of the kings control the others. Emperors and kings and parliaments may not de- clare war to satisfy a whim, defend their honor or even to right a wrong until they have secured the permis- sion of their ‘uncles.’ “There is no danger of war, but there is grave danger that the war debt will be doubled. Europe’s war debt is $26,000,000,000. One-third of all the money of the world is due on the war debt of Europe alone. The Rothschilds and other money lending families absolutely control the situa- tion, “Nine-tenths of the war scares’ in Europe and elsewhere are made by craftsmen and a yellow press to di- vert the attention of the people from reforms they are demanding. “When the powerful of earth find themselves hard pressed by the peo- ple they issue a call to the mob to go off somewhere to plunder and mur- der, for the mob always is ready to join in the man hunt. And they fight till the people forget what it was they wanted. “The spending of money for arma- ments, the borrowing of enormous sums and shouldering the debt upon future generations, to be taken in taxes from the peasants, is something more than a guestion of finance—it is a moral question. “The placing of a tyrannous burden upon the poor of future generations is only one of the indictments to be brought against war.” CHRISTMAS TREE ON TRAIN Soldiers Returning From Philippines Celebrate En Route. Denver, Dec. 27.—Two hundred of Uncle Sam’s vegulars, recently dis- charged from service in the Philip- pines ani en route from San Francis- co to Chicago, had a Christmas tree on board the train. The tree was pro- cured during a stop in the mountains and the soldier boys rummaged their kits for bright colored ribbons and ‘baubles for decorations. On the top branch there flamed a big five-pointed star, fashioned, it was whispered, out of a red flannel undershirt. Souverrs of the dtay in the islands were brought forth and “bunkies” swapped their cherished possessions. “It was the merriest Christmas I've had since we left home,” said one of the men when the traln reached Den- ver. BAUDETTE BUILDING RAPIDLY Will Have Theatre—500 Men and As Many Horses Needed at Once. Although Baudette has practically ,}as many store buildings as is had | before the fire, building operations are still going on. At the present rate it will only require a month or so to make the town a good deal bigger than it ever was. A very encouraging feature is that those who have put up per- | manet buildings have in every case jerected much more substantial structures than the ones destroyed. They are backing tire faith in the town with their money, which is the best test. Those who have built tem- porary quarters are also, every one of them,figuring on enlarged business blocks for the spring, and many of the contracts bave been awarded. | Among the new buildings com- | pleted during the past week are Dock’s Meat Market and Brovold’s Meat Market and provision store. Among those nearing completion are I. T. Walker’s splendid block, the fine new building of the First State Bank, Moorhead & McKim's big block, Pav: Sanderson’s two story cigar factory and the big building of the Baudette Boat Manufacturing o. Wm. McKim started the erection of a restaurant building on Main street this week, ‘and a gentleman from Port Arthur will start opera tions in a few days on a big boarding house, also on Main street. Many other deals are under way for lots| for business blocks, and we expect to be in a position to announce some of them next week. Residences are going up so rapidly that it is hard to keep trace of them. Herman Miller;. with his™qicture show, will again delight Baudette audiences this winter. Mr. Miller has an even better machine than his former one, which was the best ever| operated in Baudette, and his patrons are assured of a high tlass show. The Rainy River Region says that reports are being circulated in the prairie towns to the effect that the demand for men and teams in the woods of the fire swept area has been exhausted and that there is no need for any more. These reports are entirely erroneous. The demand for both men and horses has not nearly been supplied. At least 500 men and as many horses are badly needed yet, and we doubt if a thous and would meet the demand. All records are bemng broken for the quantity of timber being taken out, and there is practically an unlimited demand for men and horses. The highest wages are beirg paid. e It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking at the bright side of things.—Johnson. 'EVENING, Improve TellphfleSa;vue. To place its telephone poles in the allgys is the - object ‘of the North- western Telephone Fxchange . com- pany, which has had a Isrge crew of linemen working on new cables in the city during. the last few days. All party lines are to be abandoned and direct lines installed. Service to other towns and cities in the state has been greatly im- proved recently. Oné additional line has been opened to Crookston, two more lines have been erected to St. Paul, thus giving four to the Twin Cities, and two direct wires to Duluth have been opened for service, greatly reducing the charges to all points on the range. GITY HOGKEY TEAM WINS Given Hardware Company Defeated In Christmas Game at McLaugh- lin’s Rink. Bemidji's first hockey game of the season, which was played Christmas afternoon on McLaughlin’s rink, re- svilted in a 9 to 2 victory for “Big Bemidg” over the Given Haraware company’s team. Considerable in- terest was evinced Nin the game by the young sportsmen of the city and a fairly large sized crowd witnessed the contest. Several members of.the hardwaie company’s team failedjto appear at 3:30, the time scheduled for the game, and Captain Nat Given- was forced to draw players from the crowd. Olson, who acted as rover for the team playing uilder the name of “Big Bemidg,” was easily the star player of the game. The victors played a clean, swift game and worked together much better than their opponents. Following is the lineup of the teams: ; Given Hardware Company—goal, Stanton; point, Willjams; cover- point, Halvorson; center, Jackson; left wing,;Nelson; righif wing, Cap-| ‘tain Given; and rover, Dean. “Big Bemidg’—goal, point, Captain Ripple; Sprague; center, P. LaBounty; left wing, - M. LaBounty; right wing, Newton; and rover, Olson. Scarrot; coverpoint, Crookston Elks Remember Stanton. No Bemidji recipient of tokens of Christmas cheer and goodfellow- ship is more delighted than Judge C. W. Stanton. of this city, who was rembered by Crookston Lodge No. 343, B.P. O. E. and presented by its members with an elegant cut- glass cigar receptacle, a handsome merschaum pipe and an original package of Peerlees tobacco. The Judge is proud of this manifesta. tion of esteem and good-will by his brother Elks and, at least while the Peerless lasts, litigants will doubtless find him good natured and charitably inclined- There will be held at the Masonic Hall this evening at 8 o’clock, in- stallation of the officers of Bemidiji Chagter O. E. S., and the Bemidji Lodge, A. F. & A. M. MOVING PICTURES. i)ECEMBER 27, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. SALVATION ARMY FED SIXTY Twelve Baskets Were Sent to the Be- midji Poor Saturday Afternoon. Sixty people were fed by the Be- midji barracks of the Salvation Army Christmas day. Twelve baskets were sent out, tc as many poor families. The kettle which Captain Kirch- ner placed on the corner of Beltrami Avenue and Third Street netted the Army workers a total of $34.95. A Christmas tree and program was beld last evening for the members of the Salvation Army Sunday School. In regard to the way in which the residents of Bemidji aided her in her effort to make this Christmas a happy one for the poor, Captain Kirchner said: “We wish to extend thanks to all, those who so thoughtfully aided us in this undertaking. Because of the fact that I had both my arms broke a few weeks ago I have been unable to do all that I would have liked to have done. We wish to thank Mr. Mclver for the team he gave us Saturday afternoon, free of charge, to use in delivering our baskets. Each basket which was sent out contained one chicken, potatoes, bread, candy, apples, salt, pepper, cans of corn'and peas, milk, sugar, tea and coffee. Bids Received For New Fair Grounds. Bids were opened Saturday by the officers of the Beltrami County Agri- cultural Association for land suitable to be used for Fair Grounds, +Bids were submitted by: Carl L. Heffron, 2 Peter Larson. Fairview Reality Co. 3. James P. Omich. _AP. Ritchie, s . No selection was made at the time of the meeting, so:t0 enable the officers to look over the different tracts. Hornet. The Misses Lillian MacGregor and Rachel Rakerd closed their schools on Friday and left for Be- midji on Saturday to spend the holi- days. Andrew Shaw arrived Friday night to spend the winter at the home of his brother, Robert Shaw. Sarah Palmer has been ill the past week with tonsilitis. Nellie C. Shaw arrived Saturday night to spend the holidays with her parents, Eddie Brinkman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Briokman is spending his Christmas vacation with his parents in the city. He is attending the Oral School in Fairbault, Minnesota, There is nothing against which hu- man ingenuity will not be able to find something to say.—Jeffarsoa. THREE CLASSY ACTS | AT THE BRINKMAN The management of the Brink- man Family Theatre is deserving of just such packed and enthusiastic houses as filled it last evening, packed to the doors during both| performances. The class of vaudeville given to Bemidji theatre goers is far above the average and the house is en- titled to a well deserved patronage. Little Lord Robert, known the world over as the smallest vaudeville performor on the stage, is 22 years of age, weizhs 14 pounds and is 22 inches high. His work is. clever and the applause he received at last| evening’s performance is positive| proof that his work is highly appre-| ciated. | Careless Brisco, a comedy juggler, is one of those funny fellows that does not have to say a word to bring the laughs and his stage entrance and clean make up started the audi- ence into a laugh that did not die out while he was on the stage. He is not only able to get away with all the tricks of the top-notchers, but does the work in such a way that it would be a good sketch if he couldn’t do a trick. Redmond & Smith, 2 man and woman comedy team, presented their one-act comedy sketch entitled “The Messenger Boy and The Dancing Miss” to the satisfaction of all. ‘The comedy is good and is bandled by Redmond in a style of his own;. which takes exceedingly well. The lady is an accomplished fancy dancer and as ‘a team their DO OUR CONGRESSMEN FEAR LID QUESTION? Eastern Rumor Has It That Gopher Statesmen Want to Cast Respon- sibility on President, CONCERN TO TAFT'S FRIENDS Temperance People Aroused and Threaten Trouble For All Who Disagree With Them, The matter of the enforcement of the liquor provision contained in the Indian treaty of 1855, which now much discussed document comprises a large portion of northern Minne- sota, has become a question of na- tional importance and much concern. - It presents things to think about on the part of our national law mak- ers and other public men and there are those who are bold emough to say that the situation is causing some of our statesmen to try to dodge the issue. A recent Washington dispatch charges the Minnesota delegation in congress with attempting to shirk its duties and shoulder them upon the president. It is said the presi- dent and his friends feel this 18 the position of the Gopher statesmen, who are accused of trying to carry water on both shoulders. The dis- patch further states: The conflict is the occasion of grave concern to all of Mr. Taft’s friends, who feel very strongly that the Minnesota delegation in con- gress is seeking to shirk its respon- sibilities and to induce the president to make a decision which i fraught with danger. The president, as i8 his want, has refused to consider the possibility of political injury to - self, and is considering the subject wholly on its merits, but, in estima- tion of other members of the admin- istration, evex' these are be;énx bre- sented to him ¥ & Hore or less aiss torted fashion by these members of the Minnesota delegation who are anxious to retain the good will of both the liquor interests and the ad- vocates of prohibition. The president summoned to the White House the representatives of the liquor interests, the members of the Minnesota delegation and Gov- ernor Eberhart. No one appeared to represent the liquor interests, and the Governor, despite the fact that he had been a guest of the president at luncheon, failed to appear at the con- ference held at 4:30 p. m. At the conference the efforts of the mem- bers of congress who appeared were directed to trying to induce the pres- ident to decide the question for them. The situation is an ugly one, from whatever point it is viewed. First, the necessity for enforcing these laws has passed away. ‘With the excep- tion of a very small area there is no longer any “Indian country” in the State of Minnesota. Then, if it be decided that the laws should have been enforced until repealed, it is probable that the commissioner of in- ternal revenue will be found to be an accessory before the fact. Again, should the President decide that the laws must still be enforced, they will, as has been said, apply only to a portion of the state, and will therefore constitute a discrimination againust a considerable area. For in- stance, Minneapolis may be compelled to “go dry,” while St. Paul, which adjoins Minneapolis, but is without the boundries of the area affected, will remain “wet.” As the laws are no longer needed {for the protection of the Indians, it might seem that the simple way out of the delemma would be to decide to abrogate them, but the temperance organizations all over the country have been greatly aroused over the chance of compelling Minnesota to |“go dry,” regardless of the wishes of a majority of the people of the state; and the leaders, headed by Wilbur F. Crafts, threaten dire consequences to any one who opposes the temper- ance view. And finally the legal lights of the administration and of the state find grave objections to an effort of the federal government to exercise within the bounderies of the state a police power that was highly important when Minnesota was act- ually Indian country, but which is 1o longer needed for the protection of the wards ot the nation. It is re- garded as significant that neither of the Minnesota senators has commit- ted himself in any way on this ques- tion. Holiday Excursion Fares. To points in Michigan and East- ern Canada via The South Shore. »Plcuve apply to agents for particu- ; voices blend together well. NEEEATI\/E DANLC lars, [ RINNESATA 'RIZTORICAL