Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 1, 1903, Page 4

Grand Rapids Perata-Review 1 Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE ‘Wntéred in the Postotiice at Grand Rapids \") — Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter He wo owns real estate or other property Itasca county owns that which will increase many fold in value in a very few years. This is a good county for people to hve in. pein BS Ir 1s better that the newspapers de- vete space and time telling poor homeless humanity where to get liomes under the free homestead act, than booming some bloated guy for an office for which he is unfit, truth- fully remarks the Little Fork Guardian. In skirmishing about for political possibilities the Magnetograph editor of the Magnet proposed a mighty good gubernatorial possibility when he pic- tured the honest face of State Senator H. J. Miller, editor of the Luverne Herald The presiding elder of this great moral representative North knew “Bert” Miller many years ago and has watched his newspaper and political career with much inter- est. He would make an ideal gov- ernor, barring his politics, He is one of Minnesota’s leading journalist and he stands 1n the forefront of our ablest statesmen. He’s an honest man. Too bad he’s a Kepublican. soe Ser ae Sh ae Tams Brxpy, chairman of the Dawes Indian commission, owns con- siderable timber and other lands on the Big Fork, and he is also interest- ed in the townsite of Northome. Last week Tams made a trip through the wilderness to look over his Itasca ‘county possessions. On his way through the woods he lost his pocket- book containing a considerable wad of money and some valuable papers, The gentleman who first found the purse was kind enough to leave the papers, and iriend Tams is not alto- gether disconsolate. But the interest- ing feature of the meident is the notable fact that this 1s the first case on record where money has been lost on Itasca county real estate. ee Two Girus were waked by an in- /truder near Montevideo Sunday. One was assaulted with an axe as she went to get him money. The other was positive that the man, seen in the gray dawn, was a negro. A negro was caught and sure enough proved to be the rightman. Infected with southern passion, the mob started to lynch him! of the}* but were stood off for a few hours and the law now takes its course. Itis noticeablé that the crime, though atrocious in the last degree, 1s not one for which lynching is usually reserved, and that nevertheless, the culprit being a negro, the first thought of the en- raged populace was to lynch him. —Goodhue County News. pees THE PLUTOCRATIC PRESS. The plutocratic Press—of which the Mississippi Lumberman js one of the boldest and most uncompromising— no longer hesitates to openly crisicise and belittle the constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Recent Republi- can successes have lured the pluto- crats beyond the point of discretion and in these opulent days of the few they lose no opportunity to slur those immortal documents penned by Thomas Jefferson and his compatriots. 'The Lumberman contains the follow- ing contemptiable and _ sarcastic modification of the Declaration of Independence in its lastissue. ‘True, it doesn’t say much, but the spirit displaved is significant of the real sentiment underlying the authority that directs the destiny of the Mis- sippi Valley Lumbermen and iv ilk: It has come to be a very common thing to discredit the Declaration of Independence in the statement that ‘all men are created equal.’ It isof no particular consequence that the Constitution instead of the Declaration is frequently credited with containing this statement. or that it is frequently twisted into, “‘all men are born free and equal.” It is probable that the author of the Declaration had no such fdea in his mind thet “all men are created equal,” from an unqualified point of view. The Declaration was a political document, its signers were speaking from a political standpoint, and even that view is subject to qualifications. pers RSE WHY NO7?, The Eveleth Star wants to know: Sam Iverson, the state auditor, has been doing a good deal of maneuvering over the Mesaba range the past few months. Wonder if Sam has an idea that St. Louis county should pay all the taxes of the state? St. Louis couaty now pays as much into the state treasury us Ramsey and Hennepin counties combined, or as much as some forty of the outside counties. That ought to be enough even if we ure great up here, To which Ransom Metcalfe makes reply as follows in his West Duluth Sun: Well, if nature has placed more natural wealthin St. Louis county than all the other counties combines, why shouldn’t it pay more taxes than all the others combined? If taxes were levied only on natural wealth, as they should be, the iron mines of St. Loyis county and other natural resources would bring enough revenue to entirely relieve the people of Minnesota of taxation. Therefore, whenever a resident of Minnesota who enjoys none of these special privilegés, pays any tax to city, county or state, he is unjustly taxed, and the state auditor would be justi- fled in making the burden more equal if he can do so under existing laws. The editor of the Eveleth paper need not fear that the iron mines of St. Louis county will. ever-pay too touch eaxes. ‘The chances are that they will be stripped of their wealth before the people fully awaken to the, fact that they have been robbed of their inheritance without receiving anything in return. THEY HAVE NO POLICY. “Uncle Joe” Cannon, who is to be the next speker of the house of rep- resentatives, graciously announces that he does not propose to. force his financial views upon the country. As he has. not yet made known what those views are, and the country still lingers under the impression that he haso’t any, the concession is not so great as 1b might appear. He says vaguely that he dues not approye of some of the financial measures sug- gested, but he does not locate any of them. He is about as crafty as they make them, and is not guing to get his fingers pinched in that door of financial legislation which the Re- publicans fear either to open or to close. The truth of it is that the Republi- cans of today have no policy;noneasto the tariff, as to the currency or any- thing else except the maintenance of a tight grip on the offices. ‘There is the widest divergence of views in the | party op the tariff. | It has no policy that can commend the assent of its following, or that can even be an- nounced in congress without creating bitterly opposing factions. Therefore it bas decided to “stand pat;” which is only putting off theevil day. The men who desire and whose constit- uents demand a reduction of duties have been persuaded that they stand a better promise of election next fall if the tariff question is not opened. Solely for that they have cousented to sit quiet for another year. After that, the deluge. The same paralysis of intellectual and moral effort affects the party with reference to currency questions. It has no policy and can agree upon none. All of its conferences have resulted in nothing; all of them have shown that there is not within it even that wholesome difference of opinion that exists with reference to a reform of the tariff, but onlya wondering in the chaos of utter bewilderment. There are those who say that the greenbacks ought to be retired, and those who fear it as the last extreme of political madness; those who advo- cate the establishment of an asset currency, and those: wlio Say that it would be to build up and fix forever the ascendancy of the money power; those who want state, municipal and railroad bonds accepted as a security for new currency issue, and those who see that this would pave the way toward an inflation of the currency in comparison with which the free coinage of silver would be a trifle; and, after the others, the ‘stand patters”’ here, alsu, who desire tohave the currency left exactly as it is, for OWE AL the reason, excellent to their minds , that any disturbance of existing con- ditions would bé sure to offend some- body and cost the party votes. The Republican party today is like an automobile whose battery has run down. It hadcertain definite policies, many years ago, on which for good or for evil, it could go before the people. 1t has exhausted them all. ‘There is not a definite item in its programme. There is no one thing that it can be depended upon to do: There is no commission that it askes from the people except the right to hold office in perpetuity. Let everything alone is its cry, while the trusts wax fat and the burdens of the people increase. Even on the questions where once it had definite views and a declared policy it possesses neither today. Why cumbereth it the ground? If it ever had a place to fill, there is none for it now. It represents noth- ing but the freedom for great wealth to multiply itself by means of favor- ing legislation. We bnowwhat must be the fate of a party that submits itself in such case to the sufferages of the American people.—St. Paul Globe. A Gay Old Guy. Love’s young dream had a session at the clerk of court’s office Wednes- day when Charles Kratteschinsky, aged 78 years, was granted a license to wed Mrs. Margaret Lovely, aged 65 years, says the Brainerd Arena. The groom was questioned somewhat con- cerning his later day ambitions to become a benedict and bvoyisbly ad- mitted it was a case of love at first sight. Said he was out peddling and on Tuesday had stopped at the lady’s house. They had grown confidential; he told her he was lonely and would be glad to havea home; she appar- ently was not to be outdone. and, although it was the first time they had met, she asked him to marry her. Nothing could have been more up- portune and without ostentatious display of affection or leave taking he hastened to Brainerd in quest of the license that would permit of their being joined together in the holy bonds of wedlock. The Knocker and His Mission. The “knocker” is worse than the pestiience, famine, tire or flood. He kills enthusiasm, obstructs enterprise, paralyzes efforts. and withers confi- dence. He isan excrescence on the body potitic, a foul, eating, cancerous tumor, which absorbs the vitality of the community and giyes nothing in return. His mission is to sit and sneer and discredit, and discourage; to croak and predict failure and dis- aster, to thwart endeavor and impugn the motives of men. Yet he is the of the works of others. He should be stung out of thehives of industry by the workers and given to under- stand that he isa cumberer on the face of the earth.—S". Peter Herald. Foster Rye is the name of the finest Whisky. first to jump in and enjoy the fruits | SSS Se S43 SS SSSsrS— [ ‘eS Sas (GEO. BOOTH, Manufacturerof + Fine Cigars GRAND RAPIDS, MINN “BOOTH’S CIGARS” feputstion ait over Novunern Minnesota. ‘They are made of the finest selected stock by experienced workmen in Mr. Booth’s own shops here, and under his personal supervision. 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