Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 29, 1899, Page 4

Grant Ties oeraeiteiew Published Every Saturday. By E C KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVAD Six Months........$1 00| Three Months. a, Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second-Class Muatter., Cee een WHAT OTHERS COULD DO. (?) ,lt is really citizen of the average county cannot be elected for just one term to act as commissioner. There are very few, according to each individual's esti- mate of his own value, who are not better equipped with good judgment and sound business training than anybody else to discharge the exact- ing duties required of county legis- Most every man on the out- able to build all the highways needed in his district and all demands of all And while doing these. things with lavish would keep expenses spot cash for every- of these same finan- not be able peanut themselves, but as public lators. side would be otherwise satisfy 2s under all circumstances. generosity he down and pay thing. Many ciers and statesmen may to stand for suceessfully manage a representatives each one would out- shine his neighbor with dazzling su- periority. Take, for example, Mur- ray Taylor, of the Itasca News. If given permission, he could, no doubt, pay off the national debt with the proceeds of the Deer River postottice in a few years. He talks of thous- ands with a recklessness that shows his contempt for paltry sums. Here’s what he has to say of Commissioner to’ advance road building in his district: The: Everton's efforts is some talk of Warren Everton now n effort to get an appropriation to expend on the Deer River county commissioner has done nothi y of approp ations for his district sful in this attempt his constituents will appreciate the favor now as much as ever, though the amount is small There is no question whatever of the urgent need of road repairing in Mr. Everton’s distmet, but the same is true of every portion of the county, It is equally true that the commi present ioners were elected with the express understanding that the strict- should be observed in the transaction of public business. It is well] known that the tax levy will not admit of large expenditures for public highways. If Mr. Everton is successful in securing an appropria- tion of $1,000, or half that amount, his constituents should feel that he has fully performed his duty to thein, cousidering the ¢ondition of the county exchequer. Mr. Everton is engaged in the mercantile business at Deer River, and he is as much in- the development of that section as any man residing therein. He will do all in power, and all that any man could do, but itis safe to say that itherefor he will receive scant thanks. est economy even terested in his Put in his place one of the kickers and see how much bet- ter the other fellow would do. TO SCALP AND SKIN, ne esteemed Grand Rapids, Minnesota, id-Review announces that ‘many a er is already sharpened for Morrris’ scalp.” After scalping him with a cleaver his enemies may conclude to skin him with a shovel.—Duluth News-Tribune. The Herald-Review had in‘'mind the remedy offered concerning a sick canine, viz: cut his tail off close up to the ears. A cleaver would bea very desirable instrument with which to perform such a job. By the way, what is there about Morris that suggests a shovel to the News-Trib- une when discussing him? The Detroit Journal says: *‘* In one of his ruling passions Col. Ingersoll was as strong in death as in life. This was his determination to worry and disappoint his opponents. That he did this in dying instantly, and without a harrowing death scene in which he should recant all bis irre- ligious utterane ud show consci- ousness of the nea! sof hell's fires, is probable. A tra that Thom- as Paine thus di Overs over bis memory, though ‘it is denied on ap- parently exe nt antbority; but that he suffered all the torments of a pity that every male | held up as an example of the fright? ful results of ‘atheism, and even of free thinking and agnosticism: Many | good people have dvubtless hoped that at the last moment Ingersoll would express at least a doubt that he had been doing work unworthy. of his powers in his assaults on creeds and religious forms, but he passed away quietly at. home, without op- portunity of, contrition. 1t is well that it was so. The contrary would have proved nothing, any more than the manner of his death proves that he was right or that his end is to be peace.” Ir 1s amusing and gratifying at the same time to read the roasting com- ments of our Republican exchanges administered 10 Governor Lind every time he appoints a Democrat or Pop- ulist to office. In this state of Min- nesota these Republican chaps have gormandized so long at the public trough that they have come to regard all fat offices as theirs by inherent right, and feel that the eternal fit- ness of things is sadly out of joint. But the change will remain perma- nent, boys, and you might just as well make other arrangements for a live- lihood. s par Ty PacE Mornis best be looking after the conduct of that fellow who runs the Hibbing News, a red-hot Republi- can paper. Just read what he has to say: ‘Since Jadam his sandy, there has been talk of who will be likely to succeed Mr. Morris in the event that gentleman is not chosén. C. C. McCarthy, of Grand Rapids, and Hon. O. D. Kinney, of Duluth, have been mentioned, and either would be run more acceptable to this end, of the district than the present incumbent.” Ir MAKES us tired to read the rot in certain papers anent Morris’ great ability as a congressman and what he has done for the di+trict, etc., etc., without once pointing to a single act or utterance by him that is worthy of passing notice. As a representative of the interests of this big district Morris is about as weak a proposition as could possibly be picked up, and the fellows who talk to the contrary know they are telling foolish lies. —3j— Tue death of no man in this gener- ation of Americans caused more gen- eral grief throughout the country than that of Robert G. Ingersoll. As an ideal citizen, profound scholar, matchless orator and great. lawyer, he was the peer of all his compeers. The world is better because Ingersoll lived. ais ts Waite Bede was dving service for the g. o. p., he was a masterful orator and statesman, according to his party organs. Now that he has declared his intention to become a cougress- man, such hide-bound partisans as. the Duluth News-Tribune, write bim down as a fool. Let the good work go on. ‘ —3— ‘ “Oris to stay!’ is the latest semi official announcement from Washing- ton. Of course he’ll stay, or be re- placed by some other equally inactive and incompetent commander. War against the Philiplnos must be pro- Jonged until after the next national election in order to keep fools filled with spurious patriotism. ee Exrau Roor, Mr. McKinley’s new secretary of war, is repu'ed to bea first-class politician, but beyond that he is said to possess no qualifications for the position that were worth cou- sidering by the administration. BES ved No, Mr. Cloquet Pine Knot, the Herald-Review is not leading Charles A. Towne ‘‘ two yearsago,” We have “the future, grand and great; the safe result of truth and time.” aN Ir is positively announced that the St. Paul & Duluth railroad has finally ihe damned on his death bed is still | been gobbled up by Hill. If the gov- ernment does’ut gobble up Hill pretty soon Hill will gobble the government. dccomesiane the talk of good times through the McHanna organs, street car and other strikes continue in constantly increasing numbers. ' “Atagn’s Rank . War Secretary” is the title of an editorial in an es- teemed contemporary. And he was, remarks the Duluth Herald, ; MORE EXPANSION TALK How It Strikes the Boys—Nelson and the Trusts. OTIS AND OUR SOLDIERS. How the Senator Weakened at a Criti- cal Time When the Great Ques- tion of Trust Tariff Was Be- fore the U. 8. Senate. Press Reform Bureau. The facts are coming slowly to the surface. In spite of censorship, in spite of concerted misrepresentation here at home, in spite of studied de- ceit on the part of those in authority, the truth as to the Philippine trouble and the wishes cf the volunteers is becoming known, The newspaper correspondents at Manilla shocked the expansioaists with their plain, blunt statements as to Otis and the future of his campaign. Now comes one prominent authority after an- other denouncing as false the state- ments so oft reiterated, by the presi- dent as well as by his followers, that the vulunteers were willing to remain in the Philippines and fight the lib- erty-loving natives as long as the government deemed their’ services necessary. Captain Auldid, of the North Dakota-regiment is especially emphatic. He says that when the president told Senator Pettigrew that the volunteers did not want to come home, the president was telling a fairy tale; that if the volunteers don’t want to come home he never saw anyone who did. Nicholas Hanson, one of our own boys—a wounded member of the hon- ored Thirteenth—is another witness. Writing to F. H. Russell of Eyota, under date of June 3, he thus de- scribes the wishes of the boys, and somewhat earnestly pays his respects to those who ridicule the efforts made to have the men brought home, “Thatdly need tell you that the entire volunteer army is cheering over the prospect of a speedy return. Some of the expansion papers have intimated that the volunteers might like to stay until the fighting should cease. How those felluws prate about fighting when they are at a distance of 10,000 miles from the scene of the conflict! Lsometimes:wisl-that, these intensely belligerent newspaper men would be organized into a brigadeand sent over here to do the fighting. They talk about ‘our soldiery honor’ as if they ever had any; about * quit- ting under fire; as if they ever had been under fire: about ‘shedding glory upon American Arms’—all of which big sounding phrases they are willing to support most zealously by the artillery of their own mouths, but not by one dropof theiz own blood. “The letter of Governor Lee of South Dakota to the president repre- sents the sentiments of the volun- teers pretty well. They feel that the purpose they enlisted for has been at- tained, and that if the United States decides. upon an aggressive policy regulars should be secured as soon as practicable to support that policy. If we were still fighting Spain noth- ing would be said. As itis now, I doubt if enough men to form a single battalion can be induced to re-enlist and remain here.” Now what will the expansionist press have to say to this. Heretofore the ‘‘copperheads”’ have been con- fined, apparently, to those at home, but now we have the Funstons, the Auldids and even the crack Thir- teenth marching: right into the col- umn of ‘imperialistic traitors.” * * ie During the extra session of the senate in from Minnesota, Mr. Nelson, offered an amendment to the tariff bill pro- viding that all articles, the manu- facture and sale of which should be- come subject to the control of a trust, be admitted ‘duty free.” Such a clause would unquestionably be the means of destroying the trusts, and when the sepator introduced it he was no doubt actuated by the same independence that led to his vote for the Mills bill when a member of the house some years before. But, alas, for the courage of would-be states- man! . At the critical moment, when strict and manly adherence to his own resolution would bave made him the idol of his constituents today, he weakened. Whipped into line by the: strong arm of the trusts and their pliant tools, the Republican leaders fo the senate, he not only withdrew his amendment, but actually voted against a similar one—the resolution of Senator Pettigrew of Dakota. He did more. He apologized for his un- due haste in tackling this giant evil, and even went so far as to delivera speech, denouncing as dangerous that which today is universally admitted, by leadiag Republican Journals.-as | 1898, the junior member ! well as by Democrats, as the people’ 's only protection for the growing power of combinations. The opportunity was his to show his loyalty to the peo- ple’s cause, but instead of availing himself of it he lined up on the other side; choose the side of the strong against the weak, of the wealthy few against the struggling many. Had he it to do over, it is save to say he would gladly recall his former action, now that the people are aroused, but the record is made up and by that he must be judged. * * * The Republican editors who are filling their papers week after week with groundless abuse of Governor Lind, would do will to take heed of the humilating experience of Senator Miller. he senator, before making his charges of dishonesty, undoubted- ly reasoned, 2s do all others who take so easily to blunder, tbat high pub- lic officials, as a rule, find neither the time nor the inclination to take notice of newspaper criticism, that the chief executive of astate could hardly afford to enter into a contro- versy with the editor of a little country newspaper, and that charges of corruption could therefore be made with little danger of having their character questioned or their author held to a strict acconnting for the falsity of his assertions. But for once the editorial-senator was mis- taken in his man. John Lind has behind him a record ‘for honesty in private and public life, capable of withstanding the closest investiga- tion, and it is notin the character of the man to have that record be- smirched at will by every narrow- minded politician who thinks he sees in abuse and vilification a chance for partisan advantage. Some men there are who hold their public acts as sacred as their private deeds, and to the people of the state it will bea source of great satisfaction to know that their present chief executive is one of them. * * * J. Adam Bede has declared himsel ¢ in the Sixth district. Bede is a very able man in some respects perfectly competent to hold down a seat in con- gress, but sore disappointment is in | store fur his ambitions. In the end he will find how doubly ungrateful are those with whom he so recently east. hif politicl lot. The Republi- cans have been willing to use him, | just as they were willing to use the | gold Democrats throughout the Union in order to accomplish the election of McKinley, but, they stand ready | to drop Bede and all the rest without | apangas soon as their party needs | are over. Scarcely anywhere in the country has one of this stripe of Dem- | ocrats been recognized or rewarded, and it is hardly to -be expected that Bede will prove an exception. Tue Little Falls Transcript says: | “It appears that Morris got what he weut ufter in his last trip to Wash- ington.” Indeed, and what was it he got? He went there to help out Cass Lake, but he accomplished nothing in that direction, Secretary Hitch. cock refusing to change his order. But when Senator Nelson went to Washington; it was different. He drew the secretary’s attention to the fact that Cass Lake is on ceded land to which the Indians have no title. Thereupon the secretary suspended the removal order. Judge Morris had entirely overlooked this important point. He probably meant well, but he didn’t know.—Dulutkh Herald. ONE correspondent describes the situation at Manila in the following graphic and emphatic style. There seems to be no end of the war in sight. The censorship is constantly becom- ing more troublesome General Otis re- cently established a rule that any matter relating to the navy ‘ust be be taken to the commander of the fleet for his approval and afterwards submitted to the military censor, thus adding to our difficulties. For sume reason which the censor would not explair, Gen. Otis refused to allow us to send the death of the Monadnock’s captain (Nichols) for two days after its occurrence. The gen- eral also refused to let us send news of the disappearance of Captain Rockefeller (April 28)on the ground that it would worry his family, or the killing of Captain Tilly of the signal corps. until the next day. The cor- respondents are all yery tired of this ar- rangement. which simply means that they shot, several times a week with no chance of making reputations, because their stories must always reflect Otis’ views. “It is im- possible to write the truth about the situa- tion. The resources und fighting qualities of the natives are quite misunderstood by the American papers, and we cannot write the facts without being accused of treason; nor can we tell of the practically unanimous opposition toand dislike of the war among the American troops. The volunteers, or at least a portion of them, were at one time on the verge of mutiny, unless Gen. tis had begun sending them homewards there would have ‘been sensational developments. We have been absolutely refused all hospital figures. John McDonald was over from Hibbing Wednesday. 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This was just after the Holiday trade was over, and before invoicing and closing up their books for the year. ‘That is the time to buy Pianos low. We now have the Pianos in our large WHOLESALE and RETAIL. STORE and propose to give you the benefit of the big discount. When we show you that we can take off one-third from the prices that other dealers ask you for the same grade of Pianos you will see what a bonanza we struck and we propose to share 4 it with you. ‘A greater stock to select from than ever offered be- fore at the head of the lakes. Beiathd Mari. - E. G. CHAPMAA, ge Cor. Lake Ave. aud Superioe St. Face