Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 31, 1911, Page 4

e —————— I —————————————— THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERROON EICEPT SUNBAY BY THE BEMIDJ! PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. €. H. DENU, Q. E. GARSON. Eotorsd In the Peataftice at Bomid]l, Misnsssta, as sscond class mattor. ——— tem will be all that can be desired. SUASCRIPTION---35.00 PER YFAR ' DVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In 1900, 1500; in 1910 5099. Summer Resort---Hundreds of outsid- ers make their summer home on Lake Fishing boating and bath- ing accommodations are second to none Bemidji. in the United States. Area—Ten Square miles incorporated. AMitude—1400 ‘eet above sea level Water Power—2200 develgped horse- | forest fire horror will never again power, Mississipoi river. ‘Water—Absolutely pure. sian wells. Water Mains—About ten miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—b5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Rainfal!—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About five miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drive—Ten miles. Parks—Two. ‘Water Frontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1800 residences. Taxpayers—1200 Churches—38. 8chool Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—3$800,000. Manufacturers—iiardwood handles, lumber, lath, shingles and various other industries. @Great Distributing Point—Lumber products, groceries. flour, feed and hay. Postal Recelpts—$20,375 for 1910, 10th place in the wtate outside of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth. Postal Savings Bank—Only one in Minnesota. Railroads—Great Northern, Minne- sota & International, M, R. L. & M, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Railroad nopo:l—'l‘hre(’a. Passenger Tralns—Fourteen daily. Hospitals—One \ Distances—To St Paul, 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. " Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Tour. Handle Factories—One. Boat Factories—One. ‘Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. Several unsigned letters, of late, have been received at this office, in regard to an article which appeared in the St. Paul Dispatch a few days ago, concerning the so called Indian “lid” case. The Pioneer would be pleased to use all communications, but will not do so if they are written by persons who are either afraid or ashamed to use their name. THE FORESTRY BILL. The fact that not a vote was cast in opposition to the bil} revising the Minnesota system of dissenting forest protedtion when it came up for a vote in the House of Represen- tatives goes to show that the state is at last alert to the necessity of protecting one of,God’s most gener- ous gifts—our expansive woodland tracts. It is true that the action of the representatives in cutting down the salaries to be.paid officers of the new commission may lay them open to a charge of parsimony, but the! fact remains that, with these excep—‘ tions, the bill quickly passed the low- branch of the legislature and this! probably means that before the spring suns have dried the forests to the danger point, a rigid system | of protection will have been auth- orized by law. | The strong points of the measure are that an experienced forester will be employed and he will be author- ized to maintain patrols and see that all precautionary provisions are en- forced and will be held responsible by a competent board of nine men. Since the Hinckley fire—there was | none before—Minnesota has strug- gled along with anything but ade- quate forest protection and although the venerable forestry commissioner, General Andrews, has repeatedly uttered the warning that proper ap- propriation for protection should be made, the state ignored his warning, giving him a niggardly $22,000 to do the work requiring more than double that amount to make any sort of a satisfactory showing, and it was not until hundreds of acres of valuable trees were turned into a roaring inferno and many lives lost that the public and lawmakers awakened to the fact that something must be done. Other states have freely commen& Two arte- | (shock the citizens of this state. WOMAN SUFFRAGE POSTPONED. The women of Minnesota came within one vote of having a consti- extending to them the right of franchise put up to the people. To Senator F. L. Glotzbach of Faribault belongs the distinction of having thwarted the women in their latest efforts to bring about a more equitable adjustment of human rights. Had Senator Glotzbach voted for.the measure it would have passed the senate and it has been taken for granted that if the senate acted favorably the house would do likewise. General Wilson, the senator from Minneapolis, made a striking point when he said that-it is only fair to put the question up to the people i for a final verdict. “I do not say,” said the general, “that I am in favor of permitting women to vote, but I do say that for forty years women have been be- seeching Minmnesota legislatures to let the people vote on the question, ‘and they are going to keep on until { the question is submitted. It is not an issue that will down. If we turn them down now they will be back in two years. Why not put it to a vote and be rid of it, for a time, at least.” But the wise old general’s plea was not headed, and the bill went down to defeat, only to bob up again two years from now, and when in al} likelihood it will pass. Senator Ole Sageng, author of the measure, made a notable speech in favor of its adoption. He placed emphasis on his wonder that so much tutional amendment pressure should be brought to bear against such a bill; he cited such men as Lincoln, late Senator Hoar, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Roose- velt as champions for woman rights and emphatically denounced the as- sertion that to give women the bal- lot would be to hand a powerful weapon to females of the lower classes, declaring this assertion to be a.slander on American mother- hood and American womanhood. Woman suffrage, like the temper- ance crusade, often lacks diplomatic leaders—they can’t all be Mary Mc Faddens—and as a result the final triumph, which is as sure as that we shall some day elect United States senators by a direct vote, is delayed. FIRE AND GRAFT. It cost the taxpayers of New York $32,000,000 to erect and equip a state capitol farinferior in archi- tectural beauty, less massive and far less enduring than the $3,500,000 palace which adorns Capitol Hill in St. Paul and to which citizens of this state point with just pride. A tiny tongue of flame-was all that was necessary to start.a fire that swept through the . tinseled, graft- ridden monument of New York boss- ism, eating its way through flimsy walls and “oak” finishings of papier mache, reveling in a fantastic re- buke to those responsible for the flimsy building. The New York capitol had been heralded as -fire proof, but within three hours flames billowed through the structure doing more than $5,- 000,000 worth of damage. Such a thing could not happen in the Minnesota building for the simple reason that, while it is not claimed to be entirely fire proof, its walls are granite, its floors marble, and no tawdy ornaments or false ed on the laxness of Minnesota in protecting her timber and this state has been pointed to by the federal forestry bureau as one in which materials are to be found anywhere in its comstruction. Except that damage by explosion from munitions of war stored in the prompt legislation along this line was needed, and the piyll now upto the senaté is strictly in keeping with the spirit of progreéslve protection. It is not likely that the new sys- It may be found that the kind of a man wanted as forester—one who not only can protect the treés‘ no/w standing but who is skilled .at re- forestation—can not be: secured. for gr'andeu\r. $3,000 and that a larger salary will | have to be paid. Other inhovations|on earth equal the North Star state- provided by the bill will have to be|house in artistic beauty and ‘that tried out and perhaps altered but |possibly {the first big step has been taken; a |despite the comparatively cheap erec- start has been made, and it is not|tion, made possible by strict _honésty too much to hope, and expect, that|on the part of the men intrusted to sub-basement by ‘the . National guard ‘might take place, is incongelvable that the 'mng-nl.fl- cqnt Minnesota building to be ser- fously injured by fire, Take out U~ powder and shells=—as™ should he done—and you could start a boulirve in any one of its hundreds of 'rodll.;s and it would die away, leaving ‘he building safe in its present massive It has been said that few Buildings none excel and this-too, its construction. It is safe to say that no state in the Union has ever had a capitol put with such scrupu- lous attention to.the quality of the material used ‘and the efficiency of the builders as has been the case in this state—a direct contrast to:the manner in which the Pennsylvania and New York capitols were erected. (’)@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@‘ ¢ WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY ¢ PPP00000090000000® Are Using Green Glasses. The people who live in that sec- tion of Minnesota where the pqpula- tion s are - looking through green glasses at Northern Minnesota and the evidences of pros- perity through the opening up of mines and the influx of settlers to the agricultural sections.—Brainerd Dispatch. decreasing Governed By Senatfors. Minnesota has a- government of senators, ‘by senators and for sena- tors, if one is to judge by the action of a majority of the members of the upper house of our state legislature. —Wahkon Enterprise. ; Outplayed at Their Own Game. The house passed a reapportion- ment bill; the senate killed it. Now the Democrats are filled with an un- holy joy over the neat way in.which they put the Republicans in a hole. Can’t blame the Dems, though, the Republicans, have been so agitated lest the Democrats get some little prestige for seeuring a piece or two of good legislation, that they got careless and were outplayed at their own game.—Sauk Center Herald. Stood By His Guns. Senator J. D. Sullivan was one of the men who stood by his guns and his pre-election promises when he voted for reapportionment the other day. More than that he raised his !voice in a demand for justice for northern Minnesota and, according to the Twin City papers, made one of the most effective speeches during the debate. He was one of the five Democrats who voted right on the proposition. Senator Sullivan is proving to be a real heavyweight in the councils of the state. One-of the most commendable about him is his desire to be right even though in so doing he is upholding the hands of a Republican administration and not playing polities with some of his fellow Democrats.—Sauk Rapids Sen- tinel. Political Death Warrants. Some of the senatofs'are tryihg to bluff Eberhart out, by saying that by calling an extra session he would be digging his political. grave. 'In effect, they hold that it would ‘be suicidal for him to do what he can to put an end to the injustice that is being and for many years has been done to northern Minnesota in the matter of ‘represent.ation in the two houses of the state legislature, and that his political future depends up- on his acquiesenece in the continu- ance of this wrong for which they are primarily responsible. Has it come to such a pass that the people prefer in seats of honor and author- ity men who stand for the Wrong:to those who uphold the right? Those senators who are threatening Eber- hart are hereby signing their own political death warrants, if their constituenfi; are, as they should be, honorable and' fair minded people.— ‘Warren Register. L e}/@d@'@@@@@@@@@@’@@@ ~Fri§xidly rl‘\‘ralryv may_be civilized jealousy. TUTt s as easy to be poor as it is to be dishonest. ; It sometimes happens that succéss. begets insolence. Better a self-made man than a ma- chine made politician. % S'ome men would almost as soon be good as t(\be caught being bad. A man admires his wife’s rela- tives—if they are rich and distin- guished. It’s funny how much fun there isn’t in doing things we have to .do. Cynics are people who are happy only when' there are saying some- thing mean. He? is an unusual man who doesn’t try to get even with some one sooner or later, When a woman borrows trouble she insists on paying it back three or four times. A woman’s happiness is complete unless she knows of some lother woman who envies her. never It isn’t difficult for a woman to break into the martyr class; all she has to do is to get married. Second sight may be a good thing, but it is usually the man with the first sight that knocks down the persimmon.—Chicago News. Taken at His Word. Creditor—Suppose I'll have to walit #ll the day of judgment for what you swe. Debtor—Yes: call late in the day, though.—Fliegende Blatter. R. G. M. 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