Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 28, 1909, Page 4

— Bread Mapes BrerateReview Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second- Class Matter. THE HERALD-REVIEW ISTHE Official Paper of Irasca County. RRanD RaPips, COHASSET. KEeEwatin, | NASHWAUK, HOLMAN, Official Paper of Village of Official Paper of U. S. District Court in Bankruptcy Proceedings. BY THE WAY, under the constitu- tion, northern Minnesota should not pay any state taxes. Taxation with- out representation is unjust and unlawful. ANYTHING the Herald-Review may heretofore said relating to Governor Johnson that was not cal- culated as a compliment, is hereby vetoed and consigned without our approval to oblivion. have Iris now in order for northern Minnesota to organize reapportion- We should serve em- phatic on our southern friends, the enemy, that we know ment clubs. notice our rights, and knowing dare de- tend. — ACCORDING to reports from Keewatin that was one of the most enthusias- tic towns on either range in celebra- tion of the tonnage tax veto by Gov- ernor Jchnoson. Last Saturday night a big jubilee was held and everybody praised the governor and drank to his health. It was a jollification such as Keewautin never saw before, and Village Clerk P. J. MCEachin made a speech. pa es ‘THE Coleraine Optic fellow becomes quite garrulous anent Bovey’s lid, and even throws out ano implied threat as to the dire consequences of violations of the law relating to the cup that cheers and inebriates. Bro. Seeley should “cut it out” for a spell and the regulations would not effect him so seriously as to cause a hem- orrhage of his editorial pencil. ——> Over in Anoka county where sey- eral thousand dollars more are annu- ally paid back to the county treasury from the state than is paid into the state treasury by the county, the sen- timent is favorable to a tonnage tax on iron ore, according to the Free Press, published at Anoka. With such counties as Anoka it is a case of robbing their neighbors and not get- it. But Johnson ting jailed for stopped the game. aed “THERE'S just one way to meet the mail order house—adopt mail order house methods,” truthfully remarks the Aitkin Age. ‘et onto a cash basis and advertise. No credit busi- ness on earth can compete with a cash dealer,and you know it. Neither can a dealer run business on high tension without advertising—and ad- vertising prices at that. The story about your goods is only half told un- less you tell how much you want for them.” THE Rock County Herald, publish- ed at Luverne, in the southwestern corner of the state, by ex-State Sena- tor H. J. Miller, is very much disap- pointed and disgruntled over the veto of the tonnage tax bill. The Herald thinks the iron owners do not pay taxes enough. In the same issue in which the editorial protest against the veto appears is a news item telling of one farmer in Rock county who had sold his farm of 319 acres for $30,000. We'll wager all the money we can borrow on long time and easy terms that the $30,000-farmer never paid taxes on a_ five thousand dollar as- sessment in Rock county. And we'll wager some real money that the man who paid the $30,000 will not pay taxes on more than about one-sixth the value of the property he has just acquired. See “Ase A POINTED PARAGRAPH. In his message to the legislature vetoing the tonnage tax bill, Gov- ernor Johnson made no stronger argument in support of his action than is to be found in the following pointed paragraph. It should be clipped out and pasted in the hat of every citizen of northern Minnesota: “Northern Minnesota claims, with some show of reason, that had its counties a legislative representation based on a just population apport- ionment, this bill would never have passed. Fifty-nine counties of this state receive more money from the state treasury than they pay into it, and it scarcely seems possible that these Wistricts should attempt to impose upon another section of the state a system of taxation based up- on an inequality. Such attitude obviously threatens the state with a condition of secional hatred and prejudice which ie ominous to the state’s future peace, harmony and progress.”’ A SENSIBLE SETTLEMENT. Acting on the advice of County Attorney Price the board of county commissioners effected a settlement of the claims against the American Bonding company, the concern that was surety on the bond of County Treasurer Miller. The amount ac- cepted by the county was 5,000. In recommending to the board thata settlement be made, Mr. Price has the endorsement of every taxpayer in the county who understands the case. The bonding company unhesitatingly says that it does not look upon Miller asa criminal, and that he will not be prosecuted Ky the company. This statement is made by the American Bonding company’s representative after a thorough investigation of the case. Inthe interests of the taxpayers a settlement should have been made when Mr. Miller went out of office. That irregularities existed was kaown at that time and a shortage was ap- parent. Mr. Miller acknowledged this but was unable to account for it. Five thousand dollars isagreater sum than has been shown to be missing. The bonding company, however, can not afford to have a claim of this na- ture, no matter what the amount may be, remaining unsettled against it, and hence the liberal proposition to get the matter disposed of. Instead of acting in the interests of the county, and demanding restitution of the shortage by the bonding company and the individual bondsmen who were Miller’s sureties, Geo. H. Spear, who was couaty attorney at the time, preferred to gain what he considered glory for himself and prosecute crim- inally. He prosecuted Miller, bring- ing his strongest cases, and lost every one of them. He cost this county thousands of dollarsin a vain attempt to “glorify” himself by sending a man to prisos. The indictments then found still remain on the calendar, and to resume their prosecution would cost thousands of dollars more. Spears’ first duty to the people whom he misrepresented was to secure the amount from the bondsmen that was shown to be missing. He should have done as Mr. Price bas done. First protect the taxpayers. Instead, he proceeded to squander trible the amount that Miller was claimed to be short. He made himself far more guilty in fact than Miller was, even though every claim of the prosecution could have been proven. The Herald- Review is not advised as to County Attorney Prices’s intentions in re- gard to further prosecution of the Miller cases, but by the one act of putting five thousand dollars into the county treasury instead of drawing fifteen or, mere thousands out he has indicated very strongly that he pro- poses to transact public business along proper lines. pitarN aaa DO NOT BELIE THE FACT Our good friend at Bovey who, pre- sides over,the destinies of the Iron News brainery, appears to be delight- ed with the guvernor’s voto of the Cass Lake normal school bill. The Iron News says “the only influence that made Cass Lake a formidable candidate,” was “the owner of the Cass Lake townsite and a daily paper.” The references made are probably intended for G. G. Hartley and the Duluth News Tribune. The editor hereof is a daily reader of the Duluth News Tribune, and if that paper made any fight for or against Cass Lake’s interests we cer- tainly overlooked it. Mr. Hartley was the original owner of the Cass Lake townsite, and during the legis- lative session he was in Europe. Dur- ing the same time Tams Bixby and the St. Paul Pioneer Press were right in the interests of Bemidji. Continuing the News says: ‘The Cass Lake Normal bill has been poli- tics from its inception, and the meth- ods used have not enhanced the influence of this district, although Senator Gunn may be more firmly entrenched than he otherwise would have beeo.” . The Herald-Review is strongly inclined to the opinion that the News editor doesn’t know what he is talking about. The politics and disreputable methods were all on the other side. While this paper was not, and is not, particularly interested in the welfare of Cass Lake as to the location of the normal school, it likes to see asquare deal in all contests. Senator Gunn introduced a similar bill to that which passed two years ago, which was lost. Butour senator is not a quitter. He resurrected the measure again this session. His un- usually strong influence soon began to show and his bill looked like a live one, and that it would pass finally became a certainty. Then it was that Bemidji and a half dozen other towns woke up to the fact that something good was coming this way and they were notin it. It was Senator Guon’s personal strength in the senate that made it possible for this section of Minnesota to get recognition in so important amatter. He had advanced the bill single handed and alone against tremendvus odds. Senators and representatives from other north- ero districts tried by every means known to tricky politicians to rob him and his district of a splendid vic- tory. No other legislator from this section of the state had ever accomplished so much. He fought them to a finish and came out a victor with flying colors and an untarnished reputation in connection with the contest. Even his opponents honor and respect him forthe manly methods that charac- terized his campaign throughout. Aside from the tonnage tax bill it was the most hotly contested piece of legislation that was up for consid- eration during the sessiun just closed. As heretofore stated the Herald- Review was not interested in Cass Lake’s fate, but itis interested in the good name ofa guod citizen; it does object to the base insinuation that unfair and dishonorable methods were employed to advance the Cass Lake bill; especially does it object to such innuendo coming from so close a neighbor, and one who is io a posi- tion to koow the true worth of D, M. Gunu as a citizen and as a representative of this district in the law-making body of the state. The Herald-Review hopes that the Iron News did oot mean what it said and that Editor Lammon will ‘‘make amends honorable with the grace of a cheyvalier,’”? as becomes one of his profession and in keeping with his usual spirit of fairness. No matter whether we agree as to the proper and best location for the sixth nor- mal school, surely the senator from this district is entitled to full credit for loyalty to his coustituents, devo- tion to his duty as he saw it, and splendid generalship in honorably accomplishing what he undertook. sega CALL THE ROLL. Itis time to call the roll of every mother’s son of us in Northern Min- nesota and find just how many are enlisted in the common cause, that of the protection of our business, homes and opportunity for daily toil from the political despoiler, the blat- ant demagogue, the narrow-headed bigot, whoever he is and wherever he may live. There are a good many of this kind in the state legislature. How they get there or who wants them there no one knows. Once there they begin to see how much harm they can do. They commence to regulate everybody but themselves. What though the business of a great community may be paralyzed, it is nothing to these shallow pated chair warmers. What though the future be bright with hope for a great iron and steel industry to be established in this state the thimble-measured brain statesmen would cast these great prospects aside that they might have their present loot. The people of these iron ranges ask only the right to live and do business without fear and trembling. They want only hope in the skies. They want to have a little faith in the morrow. It seems on the grounds making a daily fight| to be a little difficult to get it through the armor plate enclosure of the braios of some people that everybody up io this country does not owna mine; they seem to believe that iron ore oozes from the earth without effort and without labor. Their men- tal processes move along a narrow track and if one little molecule of thought would happen to wander away from that well polished track it would be at once set upoi by the other little molecules, scolded and be made to stay at home. Given the opportunity of acquiring a little knowledge without cost either in com- promise or cash they refused only be- cause they were not big enough, broad enough, brainy enough to ac- cept. Don’t believe they are all of this calibre. No, there a are few, far too few, men of honest hearts, clear heads, broad view, who can see a few feet beyond their noses. All honor to them and may their number in- | crease.—Duluth News Tribune. Terrible, Terrible! Terrible! The Bovey Iron News calls our at- tention to an awful state of affairs ia this county relative to the transac- tion of public business. We had neyer before grasped it in the true light. But we see it all oow—clear as mud. The county printing has not been equitably distributed. The Herald-Review has been getting the | best of it. Un other words there dosen’t appear to be a satisfactory trust. The trouble with the News’ argument, however, is foundin its failure to carry the proposition through to its logical conclusion. When we contemplate the shameless inequalities that are tolerated in this county it fairly makes us shudder. It is not confined alone to printing. Itasca county has a population of probably fifteen thousand people and out of that number only one man is given the privilege of serving as coun ty auditor: one man as treasurer, one man as register of deeds, one man as clerk of court, one sheriff, one judge of probate. one county attorsey, etc. Just think of it! There are lots of others willing and anxious to hold these jobs, and yet they are entirely ignored, asis shown by the official reports of the several officers, to the county auditor, of emoluments for the year 1908. If anyone doubts our statement here are the figures in black and white: Three thousand Itasca county voters for the office of sheriff, not «4 bloomin’ flinker. ‘Wm. Hoolihan, fees, Three thousand Itasca county voter for the office of auditor, nota bloody: M.A, Spang, salary, etc., as audito: Three thousand, Itasca county voters, for the office of clerk of court, not a gol darn Cent... 00 LD. Bassmussen, fees, “ete. “clerk of court.. igeapsbas ee 2a he Three thousand ‘Ttasca county voters for the office of register of oe Bs nota picayun E, J. McGowan, fees. etc, reg’ Three thousand Itasca county voters iz for the office of county treasurer, not a plunkerino... oaprengibawa toes ° 00 A. A. Kremer, salary, ete., county treasurer - even cess SORE ML There are a couberss but this is suffi- cient to illustrate the devilish con- dition that exists in this law-govern- ed county. Why, we shriek, do such laws exist? Is there no way by which these salaries, fees and emoluments can be scattered about so that every- body can get a bite? These office- holders are not one whit worse than the Herald-Review, according to our Bovey belcher. The Herald-Review has been elected official paper of this county and hoggishly it has accepted the emoluments allowed by law for EO. F, KREMER, the work it has performed. Any- thing to which it has been legally entitled it has hoggishly taken unto its swinish self and it has not divided up with brother publishers. We now see, through the light of the Bovey balance-sheet, that this selfish- ness is unprecedented and not in keeping with prescribed professional ethics. The county officials named above, and others not named, are guilty of the same unpardonable offense. By the way, Lammon has the postoffice at Bovey and we hanker for a hunk ofit. There are some editors in this county who haven’t any postoffice at all. How corrupt the postoffice department must be! Almost as bad as the board of county commissioners. DR. JOHN DICKIE Veterinary Surgeon AND DENTIST WILL BE AT every Saturday. All work at- tended to on that day. Or call at office at WILSON’S LIVERY | COLERAINE ® Pokegama Hotel Livery barn A GREAT SPREAD OF ARPETS AND RUG ARE YOU INTERESTED? Then Don’t Miss Seeing Them never have had an assortment quite the equal of this season’s showing. Prices guaranteed to be lower than you can buy the same goods for in the cities. ieved a new lot of mouldings, in } the latest patterns and finish. Bring in your pic- } the and have them framed. Prices reasonable THE HOME FURNISHER OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE URABILITY and practically constructed Farm Wagons that we know can be depend- ed upon for good hard service—We know from actual experience that the Weber Wagon will give you bet- ter service than any other wagon — We have been selling the Weber al years—They have given our cus- tomers splendid, lasting service---we have yet to hear the first complaint. Actual test is the only absolutely sure proof of durability—Several of them are receiving this test right here in Grand Rapids; what better proof than this—and then Weber Wagons cost you no more than others ask for inferior makes. Then why not buy a sure thing, pay less, and be satisfied. By all means buy a Weber. 3 3 3 3 3 2 a = 2 = 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 = 3 3 2 Wagons in Grand Rapids for sever- 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 D The registered and licens- ed jet black PERCHEON STALLION, DEWEY, weight 1,600 pounds, will stand at the stable of Sol- berg & Co., in the rear of | the old Independent news- paper building, one block east of postoffice in Grand Rapids, for season of 1909. As a part of this adver- tisement we refer to ‘Certificate No. 347 issued by Professor Andrew Boss, of the State Stallion Registration Board, show- ing this Stallion to have been officially examined and found free from any taint or defect. SOLBERG @ CO., Owners. We also sell Hay and Feed and the ‘“‘SENSA- TION ” seed Oats.