Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 29, 1898, Page 1

ee a ———s Vou VI.—No. 22. Granp Raprps, Irasca County, MI + SATURDAY, JANUARY ‘29. , 1898. SOCIETY. Herald Rebiedv. ° Two Do.iars a YEAR = Don’t You Know? We have just what you want. AE SEE EE ae RE ee ae a eae a ae a Are You Sick? Lotions, Spongés, etc. A eI REE ea eh ae ae a ae ate ae ate ae a a at 506 8 ee eae ee ee Ea a aa ea hat the Itasca Mercantile Company is the largest concern outside the large cities, and it is the place to do your trading for we carry everything handled by general dealers. Pe Ee Ae ne ae ae ae ae Re EN Esge e ag ee tae te ete ea ea ea ea ae ae ae ae ea EE Ne EEE aE ed at once to our Drug Department and get the doctor’s prescription filled. We also carry a complete line of Patent Medicines, Druggist’s Sundries, Toilet Articles, Soaps, Ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae aE aE AE {ee ee ae ae ae a ee ae ae ae te a a a ae ae ea a eae ea ae a ae ae ‘REE ee eae a se ap ae a a ee ae ae ate ee eae sea ae a at ‘Rea TEE A ee ee a ea tee a ee ee ae eae ae a a ae ME Grand Rapids, ERE EEE AA a aE ee eae a a ae a ae ae Re a ee COMPANY, - Minn. Me ae aes ae ae ae ae ate ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae a ae ae te ae ae ae EE ee ae ee i eee a a ese eae ee ae ae a ee ae a eee a ae eee ae ae ee ea ee E Are You Hu complete line of Canned Goods, Dried Fruits, Teas,"Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Pick- els—in fact everything one would expect to find in’a first-class Grocery House. 2 8 a a a a MERCANTILE REUSE RT SSR ESNES EAST S ERE AE Ee ae a ae se ee ae ea ae ae ea ea ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae aE Are You Cold? UST visit our Dry Goods and Clothing De- partment where you will find all kinds of Dress Goods and Wraps for thejladies, and all kinds of Clothing and Furnishings for the gen- tlemen., a a eae ee ea Re ae ste ae oh ae ae ese aes ae a ee ee a ae a ee ea ae ee ae ae a ae ae ae ae a ae a: ngry? E carry, in our Grocery Department, a Also boots and shoes. BA Ee ae ae ae a ae a ae ae a ea ae ae a aE ee id & & * ” = = = = * & * * & a * % %& = * = & % % & % % ae —___- 988028 e Cheapness When you buya_ mik water pail, wash basin, boiler, or anything else made of tin, if you are not careful, you wul lose money, no matter how small the price. This is so, because there isa lot of tm being made to L CHEAP regardless of pan, Difference i Between such tinware and the kind we sell, is, that while we are willing, and do sell tinware awtulcheap, | we will not sell to our patrons the poor miserable, | trashy stuff, whose only merit is its cheapness. The ware we sell is good, solid, TRIPPLE-TINNED plate and will last ten times as long as the “cheap” stuff. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. hd e SS aisra es See To Reduce our Stock of | Overeca We offer our line of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for Also a number of S Good Warm Heavy Coats trom $4.00 to $8.00. BARGAIN In all lines of winter goods. C. H. MARR. a= ONE G. J. MAN ONLY, A Coward Growls and Leaves the Town. SHOWS A SPIRIT OF MALICE.) The Majority of the Present” Grand Jury Will Not Be Deceiyed By the Frantic and Indecent Antics of the Magnet. “There are times when language seems made, as Talleyrand would say, | to conceal thought ; times when in no known tongue can one body forth his indignation or express a tithe of his» contempt—he gropes in vain for in- vectives that can bear upon their sul- phurous wings an adumbration of his anger. One must sometimes stand speechless before a subject, else burn his lips with blasphemy or befoul them with billingsgate.” The foregoing peroration is from Brann, that marvel- ous editor of the Iconoclast, and I re- gret that the weakling who asks con- sideration at my hand is not even wortiy of an indignant reply or to challenge contemplation of any sort. He does not call forth such a storm of wrath—because of his insignificance. A mental, moral and political mendi- cant has appeared, who assays to ven- ture a caiticism in a personal spirit of what the Herald-Review had to sgy concerning public affairs of Itagca ccunty ; a paltroon whose advent to Grand Rapids a few weeks ago was superinduced by the fortunate ab:lity ot his wife’s relatives to feed him—and who have lost no time to ship him away to Klondyke—a mean and! measley mongrel, whose brain runs | largely to whiskers; one whose modi- cum of business ability has long since resolved itself into blackmail methods and the basest ingratitude ; a contemp- tible cur who is as clay in the hands of his master; a newspaper strumpet who publicly boasts of his own dis- grace and whose illigitimate com- merce is offered at a lower figure than even that notdrious old he-harlot, the! Moose, ever placed himself upon the | market. He signs himself “ Edward J. Luther, editor, and member of the grand jury,” and he might have added “ prospective valet of a Klondyke ex-j pedition.” Of all the disagreable features that ;needs must enter into country journal- jism at times, I most despise and apomi- nate newspaper personalities between editors of rival publications. They have the inevitable final — effect of dragging down the profession in public estthation and destroy the business of the publishers. They are degrading to the community and serve to retard the social and com- mercial progress of the village or city whose interests the publications should ever advance. Long years of ex- contact with many an unclean scul- lion that fickle fate has thoughtlessly thrown ito a newspaper office and who have dared aspire to public notice by typing my name associated with their own. Manus all the ele- ments of manhood and laying claim to no brand of integrity, with nothing to gain except additional infamy, this class of characters only hope to deceive a few into the beliet that they epresent an element of political im- tance and in the convolutions of possible liability of fraudulent profit. Though disagreeable the task, there is but one way to handle, these whelps; they must be caught and skinned and the skeleton exhibited as a horrable example. This fellow Luther—Ed- ward J.— is perhaps the least worthy of any that have yet appeared. He did not presume upon his arrival and establishment in Grand Rapids to enter into legitimate competition with the Herald-Review. — Instinc- tively he realized that he was clearly outclassed and his only possible avenue of profitable escape was through the forming of an unholy alliance with ene whose pub- lic pilfering made it possible for him to receive a consideration for betray ing the interest and sacrificing the business of his partner in the publica- tion of the Magnet. I have yet to find the first of this brand of dogs who have not been brought to their knees in supplicating mercy at my hands, and since this mental mend- icant has been,mduced to show his teeth Vil jerk his fangs, and drive them down into his putrid heart. By what mode of machination did this fellow Luther become a member of the grand jury? The juries are drawn from the poll list, according to custom and law. . This precious puri- tan never voted in Itasca county, nor does he even expect to vote here for at least two years, ifever. He never paid a dollars worth of taxes here or elsewhere in the state of Minnesota. | He had resided in the county but a a few weeks. Why should he have been selected—a transient—who had announced his intention to leave the country? The facts here implied am- ply answer the questions asked. A man who came into the county be- cause he had no other place to go, and after a few weeks sojourn he is to escape by misrepresenting him- self as a mineralogist, presumes to voice the sum and crown of all that is political virtue and emasculate prob- ity in the conduct o! public affairs. And in making his grand stand play he is «thoroughly and alisolutely dis- honest. He perverts the language of the Herald Review to create the im- pression that I “roasted” the grand jury, when in truth I could have paid that body no higher compliment than was contained in the comments which appeared herein on Saturday last. A majority of the present grand jury could not-be framed up that would do an injustice to any man or party of men. As was stated a week ago the grand jury can neither convict or acquit. They are bound by oath to act on the evidence that may be presented for their consider- perience, however, has brought me in ation. If a damnable conspiracy ‘has been conjured and if months of conspiring has enabled interest- ed criminals to shield their own crimes, and by crying “stop thief” may center public attention to a gnat when an elephant is in the road it is no fault of ‘the jury. If “ Edward J. Luther, editor, and mem- ber of the grand jury.” had been a resident of Itasca county during the past five years, as Ihave been, he would know that I have’ frequently called attention to the flagrant abuses that have existed ever since the organization of the county in the matter of taxation. Millions of dollars worth of property has gone un- taxed, and even the necessary expen- ses of the county have not been col- lected. ‘This 1s not an indictable of- fense, and yet in involves a great {many thousand dollars every year in actual receipts, For this the grand jury 1s in no manner responsible nor is it m within their province to correct the evil. Yet it 1s within the province of a newspaper to discuss these matters and so long as the Herald-Review is under my management, no jury or judge nor code nor creed will deter me from expressing my opinions on matters in which the public mav be interested. ‘Ihere will be no time, so long as I am editor of this paper ‘that public expression will not be made. As a grand juryman the bombastic blatherskite of the Magnet proceeds to announce that the in- dictments thus far found are worthy of verdicts of guilty. How does he know? Has he talked with the witnesses that may be. called for the defense? Has he taken the part of informer for the prosecution? Is his judgment as to what constitutes tech- nicalities to be final in this matter, or may the court and a petit jury finally pass upon the law and the facts? = It 1s perhaps without a parallel in the history of this great state for a mem- ber of a grand jury still in session to announce over his own signature in a virulent and vicious manner that_par- ties indicted are guilty of the offenses charged. The Herald-Review will not presume to pass judgment either upon the men indicted, nor upon the grand jury. Ifa thousand men were iudicted and found guilty we would still maintain that the wrong has not be righted. We would still maintain that the present board “of county commissioners has alresdy inaugurat- ed the only true solution of the vexed problem. They have under- taken during the past year to increase the assessed valuation of the county from two million dollars to at least six millions. “Compare his record with the meanest man on the grand jury,” says Luther, referring to myself. Who said there was a “‘meanest” man on the grand jury? Until Luther developed hin.self as a consort of! conspirators I was not aware that the grand jury contained any “meanest” men. It has one, | know row, and he is worthy of watchmg. He has taken a part that invites suspicion. | Luther concludes his newspaper work as “grand juryman,” with a dirty lie that is only worthy of a dirty dog of his stamp and mental calibre. He expresses a regret of his departure j and the necessity of “arraigning Mr. Kiley.” You lie, you cowardly whelp! You would no more invite a newspaper controversy with me than you would put your worthless neck under a buzz saw running ata speed of a million revolutions a minute. Itis because you are going that you dare appear in a bragdoccio bluft. If you are not quite ready to leave for Klondyke, stick a while. I'll guarantee to get rid of you ina year. In conclusion, sir, you have been honored beyond. your merits: by so much space in this paper, but I will pledge’ you my word of honor that if you remain or ever return I will continue to consider your case until there is nothing left but the benediction. E. C. Kiey, Editor, And Member of the Human Family. HOW THEY WORK IT. Lumbermen Keep Help by Sliding Seale of Wages. “T notice,” said a prominint lum- berman,‘‘that the Evening Herald is booming the labor market. It stated aday or two ago that just now the demand for men exceeded the supply. As a matter of fact there are plenty of men to be found such as they are, but good lumber jacks are a scarce article. Teamsters and loaders who understand their business are not to be picked up every day and before we let one get alway we will not stop over the matter of a few dollars a month in wages. Labor has noth- ing to complain of in the lumber woods this winter. Wages are much better than they were a year ago and inour camps from $18 to $26, and even $30 a month is being paid. “Tn order to keep men we havea sliding scale. When a lumber jack is engaged we have an understanding with him that if he quits or is dis charged for cause before the end of the first month he receive the mini- mum wages paid. If he remains afull month he will get $2 or $3 more, and if he remains through the season, he will be paid the highest price. We make this arrangement as a precaution to ‘prevent men from leaving when they are most needed and find that our forceis no longer crippled at the busiest period of the season. Sometimes it is necessary to change men from one kind of work to another for a few days. Occasion- ally they object to this aud they would often quit entirely if we did not have some check on them. The certainty of losing a few dollors a month cn their wages as provided in the sliding scale contract: usually de- ters them from becoming indignant and throwing up the job. - So you see it isa great disciplinarian and holds the force together. The majority of the men who 2re pow offering their services are inexperienced workmen and are not desirable at any price. Good men can find. employment ak the highest wages,” > ’ ae ee —4+—