Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1911, Page 2

THE BEMIDUI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISAED EVERY AFTEANGON EXSEPT SOBAY B THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHINS CO. E. H. DENU. Q. E: CARSON:" Entored In tho Postofticont.Bomidil Misnooshev-am: soenud | class mather. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR 1N tablished an the legislature: copies of bills, when introduced, by whom, votes: on_measures, ‘status. .of 8 legislation.or anythingin connec- tion with the proceedings of the lawmakers will be ¢ eer!ullK furnished without cost, information will be confidential if desired. ~ Address, Bemidji Pioneer Bureall, State - Capitol, St. Paul, Minn, THELIFTING OF THE LID. ‘With the reopening of the saloons, northern Minnesota towns face the old questions of liquor regulations. As one of the largest towns af- fected by Mr. “Pussyfoot’s” now fa- mous invasion, Bemidji might do weH to take the lead. During the .mo- ments of anxiety when those who believed in saloons as the town’s salvation, held their breath for fear of offending the government, all sorts of ideas were propounded ‘as to how the saloons could most properly be conducted. The lifting of the lid shouldn’t mean that there is to be a reckless selling of liquor It is still a crime to sell liquor to & person of Indian blood and it is punished by a peniten- iary sentence. It is also' just as| much of a crime to run a “joint” as it was when the Indian treaty big stick dangled over the heads of the saloonkeepers. The withdrawal of federal interference is apt to cause exuberance on the part of theliquor dealers with undesirable results. In Bemidji there are many who, favor a tightening of the liquor reg- ulations. It has often been suggest- ed that too many saloons have been doing business here, to the detri- ment to the legitimate saloonkeeper and the town in general. An increase in the license fee un- doubtedly would have the effect of cutting down the number and it would seem that this is the physicio- logical moment for the council to take such action. Some of the lead- ing business men have suggested a fee of $1,000—double the present amount—and that probably would mean an improvement in the liguor business here. Incidently, it may be well for the friends of the liquor traffic to remems ber that County Option is a live and growing issue and that this part of the state is wrought up, for reasons good and plenty, over the general question as to whether saloons should exist, and to aggravate the public at this time may send them to the dreamland where there are no judges to break the spell. BREAKERS AHEAD. All sorts of complications begin to loom in the fight for state reappor- tionment in Minnesota. When the committees were announced in the Senate and House, with strong reap- portionment men as chairman of each, it looked as if added represent- ation to which this part of the state is justly entitled would be granted by a legislature having a majority of fair and impartial minds. At the present moment. this pro- posed legislation which began its journey on smooth waters has already encountered various eddies while a slight swerving from the direct route may send it into alarming dangerous whirlpools or it may even be swept on into the rapids, which will carry it down to a disasterous determina- tion. It is easy enough to absorb the fire and zeal and enthusiasm of the vigor- ous North that persons not mingling. ‘with men of the other parts of Minn- esota are prone to believe that the fight is won. They point to such famous gatherings as the Brainerd convention to the governor of the state who has declared without equivocation that a just bill must be passed or that a special sesion will be convened to the glaring. defects of present system of representation which shows an unjust prepender-~ ance in favor of the shrinking South and the conclusions are that the leg- islature will lose no time in reeling], off the right kind of a measure. But in St. Paul, rubbing. elbows] with the senators. from. the South who love their state, but “Oh. you district!”, and members.of the lower house whg hage,, .smmge, wild wierd 1deas of “@tat reapportionment, means, tha. plBsant day when. Bel-. trami and;4hé other northern coun- ties wil haye more direct reprel;fih- tion becomes a nightmare. i1 Strange as it may seem, one of the danger points on the voyage of the reapportionment bill is the widely diftering-opinions - of members::from: the-North as to:just-what will con= stitute preper redistricting. As the bill, sanctioned- by leaders of the Brainerd convention, now stlnd,s' Bel- trami is to be joined with Hubbard, the county adjoining on the south, and- this newly created legislative district would have: a ‘senator. and two representatives, Beltrami, of course, getting-one of the representa- tives. Mahnomen county would be ‘and=Clearwater. «change the representation unsatis- added to the district now represented the Manufacturer. With you can purchase N.Y. by D. P. O'Nell of Thiet River Falls, Beltrami being taken from this dis- trict but Mahnomen would be added, leaving the district four counties, Mahnomen, Red Lake, Pennington No'shenge isgro- posed for th northwmst countrgy— Kittson, Marshall amd Roseau, mow being represented ‘by ‘Senator Sund- berg. and Representatives Robertson.| and Mattson. Not.to add to -this growing part of the state or to factory to: the northweat menshers is:| likely to cause trouble within-our own ranks: The Beltrami-Hubbard and: the: Red: Lake-Mshnomen ar- rangement probably would be satis- WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU Every time you purchase a package of COCOA, CHOCOLATE, COFFEE and other PRODUCTS, you will find packed with it-an-I. 0. U. NOTE, which is reallyZa:check signed by these 1. 0. U. NOTES' WHATEVER YOU DESIRE FROM YOUR-STORE-KEEPER (In Your- Own Town) Your STOREKEEPER will be glad tolget these 1. 0. U. NOTES, as he-makes an EXTRA PRO- FIT on every sale made in this way. 1. 0. U. COMPANY 3 West 20th Street NEW YORK 2 Providing the northern members do come to & harmonious understand- ing insofar as the state at large is aware, the North is & unit in its de- mands, theme remaina thmtest of real petriotismmon the part of:ithe senators who womld108e their seats by the right kind of redistricting. The senator. who._represents: Waseca with dts -bare- 12,000—a -camplete sena~ torial district while Beltrami with mearly 20,000 is but a fraction of a district—might the sarely tempted: to hang on despite the raw injustice of such a condition of “affairs. This principle appliea’in many cases. . It is generally pretty hard work to get |liquor interéats, inasmuch, says Dame AL into the senate b\lt when they zet there most men do not want to leave. “Tain’'t human”, comments Uncle Ben, But, granting that all these im- padiments are oversome, ‘we emmmge fu to an omimous atmosphere bimok with thev clauds ‘of dimtrust lnd!] plerced by the lightening strokes of deception, fore runners-of a tesmpest- which is:to-batterour fratl craft that will need all the buoyancy it can| command to keep it from sinking. This dark: outlook is: caused by ap- parent enemies of reapportionment spreading the:gossip that.to:reappor- tion means legislation-infavor of the Rumor, as the new districts wil be carved 8o as to make county option strongholds just the opposite. The poison is getting in its work and some of the fnembers from the Seuth who are ceimty optionists ad- it that they would vote for a reap- portionment:-bill-“if it were on the square”, say they will not do it if it is-to-be-a brewers' bill. Supplying a Want. Shabby-Individual (to painter-up lad- dery=Hi. you're: dropping - your paint all over me. Painter—Well, you're badly in need of “a coat of some-sort.—London Tit- Bita-: . FROM E STANDARD MANUFACTURERS TO )Defects . QuioxLY 5 .OIEO’I‘!D Surzery Imh!:te all wrongs with th or {emm” without kni(e or Corner Sixth.and:Hesnepin: @ MINNEAPOL'S, MINN. who have decided to spelid*thelr advertising money with-you, by packing 1. 0. U. NOTES with all their packages. ALL Watch for the I. 0. U. ARROW -