Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 4

By E. C. KILEY. WO DOLLARS A YEAR JN ADVANCE in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, atored in the as Second-Class Matter Democratic Ticket. For President— ALTON B, PARKER. or Vice-President— HENRY G. DAVIS. For Governor— JOHN A, JOHNSON. For Lieutenant-Governor— FENDALL G. WINSTON. Yor Congressman, 8th Dist— MARTIN HUGHES. a very Democrat in the Fifty-second legislative district should vote for John Lefevre, the Public Ownership candi- date for the legislature. Just bear this in mind when marking your ballot on November 8. A CoRTOON 1n yesterday’s News Tri- une was wery appropriate. It repre- sented the public records of the two gubernatorial candidates, Jobnson and Dunn, as wrighed in the scales. The Duan record brought his side of, the scales down to the ground. The illustration was correct and apt. It is Dunn’s record that is weighing him down. +o+——— WE ARE pleased to announce that our old friend Kuropatkin has been appointed to the supreme command of all the Russian armies in the Orient, by the Czar. Now, if those pesky Japs will not interfere Kuro may hold his job, but if they continue to pursue him and his armies as they have in the past we wouldn’t blame hima bitif he should get mad and hand the commission back to Nic. me ei Testa ‘THE REPORTED DESERTION of one Democrat in St. Paul from the Johr. son ranks js a text sufficient for Dunn papers to devote columns of space about Democratic defection. After Novemb er 8th that poor fellow in St. Paul will have a hard time to find a political fcompanion. The Republicans will dispise him because there wasn’t enough of him, and the Democrats wil) luok down on him from the heights of the state capi al with peteous contempt. A JOINT DEBATE between Congress- man John Lind and James A. Peter- son of Minneapolis will be held tonight in that city, The subject to be discussed will be strictly confined to the record of Dunn as state auditor, particularly with regard to timber deals and the Duluth & Iron Range railroad land grant. Lind has the re- } cords of the office to back his position while Peterson will rely upon bold assertion with no proof. a agg oes VILE PERSONAL VILLIFICATION, When John A. Johnson was nomin- ated for Goyernor, R. C. Dunn said at a meeting in Minneapolis: ‘Jobu A. Johnson is a clean, upright man, and, ifelected. would make an excellent Governor”. A few weeks have pass- ed; the indicatioas seem to be that he wil! be elected and will ‘make an excellent governor”. Mr. Duon has taken fright, and has resorted to per- sonal villification and abuse. Here isafew samp'es from this week’s Princeton Union: “In his talk to the voters of Nore thern Minnesota he is meek and hum- ble and so willing to aid the people ip securing drainage. Here he wears the garb of a saint, and in Southern Min- nesota he puts on the horns of the devil and tries robbing Peter to pay Paul. * * * He stops to do the silly stunts of the demagogue, and when he meets a party of school children his great double-barrelled Democratic heart goes out to them, and he plays on the sympathy of hearers by «trying to make them think the school fund of the State is being frittered away”’. This is the language of Bob Dunn. In all his speeches Mr. Johnson bas not uttered an unkind word of Mr, Dunn personally—and there is much that he might have said. BSE Ue LET US ENQUIRE, Before our legislative candidates ar purdened with more questions than they are able to answer, let us ask me: If called upon to adopt by defin- | ‘te legislative enactment a commons Jense construction of mooted sections “f our tax laws whereby ties, poles and yher manufacturea timber shall be gade taxable in the county in which they are located, just as ordinary per- ynal property.§ whatewould they do bout it? Because it is to their ad {intage to do so owners of this class | f property are permitted, gecision by State Auditor Iverson, under a) n all wrong andall sae 8 jeeuitr artic- Jes onan ineorrect statement of the prices bid, it would: be more than strange that Mr.\Dunn should have logs and other timber intended for manufacture ina county other than that in which it is cut, and its not intended to apply to such as ties, poles sguare timbers of other timber, the manufacture of which is completed in the coun‘y in which it is cut. Under this erroneous interpretation of the law Cook and other Northern Miune- sota counties similary situated have been and will continue to be deprived of taxes to which they are entitled, which at present are being paid most'y to St. Louis county—when paid at all. It is up to the legislature to correct this injust condition of affairs, and every county affected should demand that the matter ke altended to. In fact, all but selfish interests are well satisfied that it is rank injustice to wake ap exceptiou even in the case of sawlogs aud that such property should also be taxable in the county where it is cut, or where iv may be located when it becomes asses-able. —Covok County Herald. re LEST YOU FORGET. Every body wants the + per cent gross earnings bili, Ubat is ny one has anything tu say against it. That is one reasen. why the measure is in danger of being defeated. Its only opponent is “General Apathy”, buv he is an insidious and potent foe. According to the constitution, the gross earnings bill itis a bill and not a constitutional amendment—must receive a majority of all Lhe votes cast at the general election, Nov 8 The ian who fails to mark this bill really yotes against it. If 300,000 are cast for the uational and state tickets, the gross earnings bill must receive 150,- 000 affirmative votes, no matter how Many uegative votes are cast. If it received 149,000 votes, with only 10,- 000 vates against 1t, ib would still be defeated. In fact, the gross earnings bill of two years ayo met just such a fate. The bill received 130,522 votes in 1902, with only 15,033 negative yotes, but it failed because the affir- mative vote was less than half of the total vote cast at the election, which was 276,071, That failure delayed the increase in railroad taxes just two years. It may be just as well in the long run, as the biil now before the veople is preferable. However, we do not want another two year Celay for it means $700,000 a year in taxes. This amount when the bill becomes a law, will be taken from the burden that now falls on real estate and personal property. aud paid by the railroad companies, which ure not paying their share of the Laxes. Surely the voters of the state should take enough interest in this proposi- tion to remember it for one minute when in the pollingbooth, The biil will be on a separate ballot from that containing the candidate’s names. On this small ballot will be the gro earnings bill and the two constitu- tional amendments. Don’t forget to yote ‘yes’? on the gross earnings bill.-Minneapolis Jour- nal. —__»—__—_. EXPLANATION REQUESTED. Some explanation is certainly due from Mr. Dunn or his friends of the remarkable figures presented in a news article relative to sales of state timber during his term as auditor. The sale conducted Oct. 21, 1897, is memorabie because of the impression conveyed that the prices obtained were unexpectedly high and that the state was making a good thing. Al- most every paper in the two cities took up the subject in a strain of comment congratulatory to the state. All those papers also published the the figures supposed to have been given by the purchasers. ures, indeed, were the whole basis of the comment, The prices as published in at least three newspapers were uniform. It is presumed that they obtained them from a competent authority. Lt is practically inconceivable that, if they made errors in the figures, they she id all have made exactly the same mis- takes. the auditor’s office show a list of prices altogetber different. According to them, the prices so munch vaunted were not obtained. In the six impor- tant entries published the price was reduced; the reduction varying from ten cents to a dollar per thousand. The discrepancy. to the disadvantage of the state, foots up in these caces over $5,000. An explanation of this singular oc- currence, which it is not impossible inay have been repeated at some other | time, is due to the public. The lum- ber compary that made the purchases was the gainer by the difference. The ' public was the loser. Was it an acci- | dent? And if so, how did it happen? It does not seem likely that reports of the transaction next morning in all the leading newspapers could have These tig- ! 4 4 outside of Cohasset, desire representa- Yet the books and records of | | square j ed irom the the property is. Toontea 4 some other county, ‘This decision is based upoa a provision of the tax laws that was clearly intended. to apply ouly to saw- permitted the blunder to stand un- challenged and uncorrected. The story is told in our pews col- lums, and the reader must draw his own inferences. No explanation is obtaipable from the auditor's office now. It is said simply that the ent- ries iu the books and the accounts in the newspapers of the time do not agree, and po one Can account for the difference. But the public will require something more than this. A state- ment from Mr. Dunn or some one au thorized to speak for him is certainly necessary to throw light on this mys- terious accurrence.—St. Paul Globe. SELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS If it were possible to inspire the vot- ers to act without the prejudice of personal or local coasideranon in the selection of men to serve as county commissioners the result would be far different in many instances. Itis not to be wondered at that there 1s much dissatisfaction in the out'ying districts of the county if tor no other reason than may be found in the tacit that tnree—a_ midilurity—of the comimis- sioners reside within a radius of about seven miles. Moore at Cohasset, Passard avd Fras:r at Grand Rapids. ‘Lhis county contains 3:763,123 acres of land. it has an area ot 5,789 miles. Its extreme length, north and south, is over 108 miles; its width, east and west, is over sixty- three miles, A majority of the pres- sent board has a whole empire to leg- slate for and their interesis are con- centrated in one neighborhood. ‘The people of the Splithand district; the peuple of Biackberry, Feeley and Swan kKiver; the people of Bovey, Diamond, Arcturus and on to Nashwauk have telt the baneful influence ot hav- Ing a set of commissioners who reside in one locality. ‘They are a majority and can do precisely as they see fit, ‘Phe bringing out of Morris O’Brien as an independeut candidate after the defeat of John Skelly at the primaries, isa deliberate attempt to perpetuate ths monopoly ot the county board. Vhe Herald-Review wishes to en- quue, of the people of Splithand, Blackherry. Feeley and Swan River. Are you satisfied with the consid- eration that has been given you in the matter of road improvements in the past? If you are, thea vote to keep all the commissioners resident in one neighborhood. ‘The Heraid-Keview wishes to ask the people of Bovey, Diamond, Arc- turus and Nashwauk: Are you satisfied with the consider- ation that has been given you in the matter of road improvements in the past? If you are, then vote to keep ail the commissioners resident 1n one neighbothood—keep them right here in Grand Rapids. it may he asked, what assurance have the people of these localities that they will receive better treat- ment by the clection of a man trom some other section of the distnct ? When the commissioners are select- different sections of the county, the different sections of the county will be represented. In the matter of appropriauons the com- missioners must show a reciprocal spint, If the man from the north de- sires appropriations for his district he will, of necessity concede that the men representing the south, the east and the west are equally urged tor road improvements and he will vote to give the other sections an equal sbare, In this way only can the en- ure county secure a just proportion of the public funds, As it now stands the Grand Rapids commissioners need concede nothing to the east, the west, the north or the south, un- less they see fit to do so. By the election of Archie Mc- Wilhams of Nashwauk the majority of the board will not reside within a radius of seven miles. Ifthe people of the Third district, tion on the board they will vote for McWillianis. An Unmolested Trust. The interstate commerce commis-| sion is proceeding as slowly as circum- stances will allow in hearings relative | to the ¢ brought by William R. Heatst against the coal carrying rail- roads. An independent mine owner and operator testified on Tuesday that as a result of discriminations against him in freight tariffs his com- pany suffered a loss of over $800,000 in Jess than eight years. This meant in- solvency to him, and his company is now in the hands of trustees. He said that he bad complained repeatedly to the management of one railroad com- pany and received only the-proposition that be turn bis property over to the railroad. This is but one item in the long list of iniquities chargeable to the coal barons and coal roads of the East. It has required the energy and recources of private individuals to force the slightest attention to them on the part of the public authorities. This administration bas had much to say DEFECTIVE PAGE bione against abHG ig interest and in restrait of trade. Its legal power | has been freely exercised in cases where capital was doing no injury and the public suffering no injustice. It made a great hyllabaloo at the time of the coal strike about protecting the people and the workiygman, and tc this day campaign orators all over the; country are calling attention to Pr ident Roosevelt’s action in that case as againsi the ojerators and as one of | his strougest Claims 10 popular sup port. Yet what are the plain facts? This is the mest outrageous, lawless and oppressive combination in the United States. Lt operates against state laws and against federal law. It laughs at the statutes of Fenusyl- vania prohibiting a consolidation of coal properties and railroad proper: tics, and snaps its fingers at tbe Sher- man antitrust act probibiting combi- nations jn restraint of trade. ‘The anthracite coal wines and the rail- roads by which alone that coal can be taken to market wre the property of the same people. They can drive any outsider out of business and out of their territory, and they do. When } hey are charged with the uigh price of coal they point to heavy freight rates, which they themselves have made. and declare they are unable to Jower coal prices While they have to pay such transportation charges. The- whole thing is a most outra- geous and insulting farce. ‘The com- bination would tumble to pieces were the federal government but to point a finger at it. Yet ail the machivery of the law, so re:dy for operation and so secure of successful issue bas re- raained absolutely inoperative while these iniquitles were going on. Unless Mr. Hearst bad brought bis suit the coal trust, would not even hava been called to an accounting today. This is the familiar record and cannot be disputed. What do the voters think of the attitude of Presideat Roosevelt and his advisers? What do the people who are just now paying coal bills think of it? State Timber Sale, The annual sale of state timber was] held Thursday, by State Auditor S. G. Iverson, and there was an atten- dance of one bundred buy who represented the leading EMBER con- cemns throughont The favored tracts at this sale were those situated in what is known as the Du- juth district, scomprising St. Louis, Lake and Govk counties, while the timber offered in Beltrami county was not sought after so streuously, the lumbermen considering the apprais- ment in the latter county too high. The bidding is reported to have been sharp. The highest bid is that by the Shevlin-Carpenicr) Lumber company. which was fora tract in town fifty- nine, range twenty. The bid was nine dollars per thousaud feet. 4 lowest bid was four dollars per thousand feet for the pide ona tract in town fifty- seven, range seventeen, amounting to two bundred and ninety thousand feet. Among the heavy purchasers was the Cloguet Lumber compans, This is the aunual sale of the tim- ber by the state on school and univer- sity land, which the state timber board deems necessary to dispose of in order to save it from damage by fire or other cause. rom the geueral appearance of the proceediugs the average price received by the state this year will he slightly below that of last year, which was seven dollars and twenty-five cents per thousand feet. ‘The timber must be removed withim two years. Increasing Efficiency of Minnesota Teachers, The state superintendent of public instruction reports a gain in pe Tg ogic efiiciency. Not so very long ago we were told that the percentage of applicants fer positions as teachers whose qualifl tions were below the Minnesota stand: ard were so larged& to be noteworthy, but the supply of ‘those who could pass seems to bave b the schools are runng zteachers doing good wf Fs Superintendeut Cisen say: that-two- j thirds of the teachers employed in A. B. CLAIR, Register of Deeds of Itasca County Mineral Pine ana Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bouyht. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRAND RAPIDS. ae BIG FORK ie: oad J, NEVEUX, Prop. Situaced on.the Big York river, opposite Big Fork Postoffice. Is reached via Itasca Logging rail- road. fishing secuon in Northern Min- The most famous hunting and ii Ww Nesola, where wild game in| pes F. PRICE LAWYER (Office in the First National Bank building MINN,| GRAND RS PIDS, ae le fish abound. i : Guides, Guns, Fishing Tackle i and Boats are ‘supplied. fates ey are 1 onable, and a successful ways assured, " 1 Oe Corresponderce Sol'ci BIC FORK i » POSTOFFICE (1 NEVE NEVE Louisiana Purchase eter ernie Renee oF aoe a pee SP AORN Te Sm Ra aN Ra En an JSUTION. St. Louis, May ist to Dec. ist, 1904. Lhe L. Largest and Grandest Lx position ever held, The Great Northern Railway Will sell rates, with sui information see C.L. FRYE, Agen excursion tickets at, rora bl For further ble limits. t Great Northern Ry. Grand Rapids. You will find a strictly piano in the H: for Io years, Call and let us We can save mission. Geo, F, flirst-cl: amilton, guarant show them to you, you Agents Com- Krepemep Furniture and Undertaking 1 SAY, PA, WHY DON’T YOU WEAR THE MENOMINEE SEAMLESS? He made We make shoes which put the corn- that, a bull’s eye when he spoke. Sensibie boy. cure dealers on theranxious seat. We cure corns by fitting the feet scientifically. The Ww scorns is to prevent best y to cure their growth in the first place. The Menominee Seamless the state during the last school ye were graduates of high schools, uor mal schools or colleg Speaking | more accurately, 68 per ceut were of this class, while in 1902the precentage | of teachers thus qualified was 61 and in 1903, 63. It has been said that the teacher, jike the poet, is “born, not made”. that a log with a young man sitting | % atone end ane Pr. Hopkio other constituted a university, be-| cause Dr. Hopkins, in addition to| profound talent, bad the “gift” of Leaching; but talents being equal, the teacher who has enjoyed the advant- ages of a normal school training, a} high school course or four years at college will be more efficient than the one whose professional trainiug has been ofa less systematic sort. “It speaks well for the Minnesota schools that the percentage of speci— ally trained teachers is steadily in- creasing despite the fact that the average salary dpes not show a corre- sponding gain. Union Made Shoe 1s easy-to- wear, e1sy-to-buy, easy-to-sell, For Sale Ry f 1.8, KURTZHAN, The Shoe Man Grand Rapids - Minnesota. SISBSLSISLICSS SPOS SLVSLSPSBWTLSLVSOSVELSIS® ~" GBSVSLSEN ® & @ $ } g ’ ¢ if ’ 9 f, Te les GUARANTEED TO OUT-WEAR ANY SHOE ON THE MARKET. po gSee a 2SSSIS? SLSPSLEVSTSLTLSL lS? wee rcvessseser } TIME TABLE Grreat Worthecn Railway Company. 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