Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 23, 1910, Page 4

By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second- Class Matter. Nasewa' Ometal Paper of §,Dusraror: ower in SIREN SONG OF CREDIT. James J. Hill called attention in his speech before the Minnesota con- servation convention Thursday to the in which this country and heedless way is running over heels into debt; the warnmg he uttered needed to be given and will needed to be given idften. The fact that he who borrows must pay is forgotten in the confronting knowledge that our credit is good. Nation, state, city, corporation, firm and individual—all through the fabri: of society, the discounting of future goes madly on. Does the federal gov- ernment fancy a plaything like ela- borate naval equipment? Get it and issue bonds; let tthe future pay. Does the state need something its ordinary revenue will not provide? Get it and issue bonds, let the future pay. Does the school district need a new high Get a good one, and issue bonds; let/ the future pay. it goes down the line. Credit is good everywhere. It is the easiest thing ir the world to go in debt, and bonds always are salable. It is in’ the air and neither government, industry or life is immune to the con- school? private tagion. Until very lately, nobody in nation- al, state of city governments talked about reducing taxation or cutting ex- penses, except In a brief frenzy cr. ed for_ purposes. Always the search is for new. methods of tax- mew ways of raising money to into debt. Bonds are issued, and sinking funds political ation, spend, new ways to go are provided. New bonds are issued on top of them, and when the old ones mature they are refunded. The load of debt piled upon debt is trund The day of reckoning is in the dim future. Whc led ahead into the future. needs to bother about it. In short this country is doing busi as though it were a race of Har- it is time that some- Hill did Thursday cap- old Skimpoles. body arose as Mr. to talk about “conservation of ital.’ “The increase of apparent resour- ces by an easy recourse to borrowing said Mr. Hill, “the mortgaging of a patrimony not our own to obtain ma- terial for present extravagance, the diversion of wealth from productive xo unproductive uses—all these have gone further than most people realize Individual and public economy; a just distinction between a high standard et comfort on one side and vulgar gstentation on the other; a check on debt these and the income wastings, creation credit inflation— are essentials of a new and better con- servation.” Extravagance is widespread and far reachign. The bane of easy credit rests upon government and people, from the money spent for public uses simply because it is easy to borrow bought with a It can not to the automobile mortgage on the house. be kept up any more than the spend- thrift can keep on drawing on his bank account without depositing.— Duluth Herald. SS SE eS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS BY CON- TRACT. It is creditable to both the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Firemen & En- ginemen and to the employing rail- roads that they have decided to arbi- trate their differences. It is a vic- also, for public opinion that tory, neither ventured to finally refuse arbitration. A railroad strike is no longer tolerable. Even so minor and numerically weak a body as the switchmen, by their strike involved the public in ex- treme hardship within twenty-four hours, and it is not all over yet. That 25,000 firemen and engineers should quit in a body would involve a oss and deprivation of actual rights and so| to the- people at large which could hardly be estimated. And this, too, regardless of which side would finally win in the con- test, as a month or even a week of such a struggle would so paralyze business and retard its operations as to halt progress. The public. is in no humor to endure this, and poth labor amd capital has learned that to re- fuse arbitration for whatever cause is to invite general condemnation. The time may come, also, when the rights pf the public will be retogniz- ed at law to continuous service by the railroads. Railway companies are public servants, and when for any cause they cannot or will not oper- ate their lines, giving adequate ser- vice, the people should take posses- sion of them as proposed by the Steenerson bill. When a railrond company asks for and assumes the responsibilities of a common carrier, the people, as the grantors, have the right to demand that (it carry out tts side of the con- tract. On their part, they adjust their business, make investments, establish industries and make other contracts, all based upon the terms of this agreement. The right to such service as the railroad can reasonably give, becomes vested, and for the company to re- fuse it, or by treating the property as private or personal, make it im- possible, is a breaking of the agree- ment and should act as a forfeiture. It should carry the same privilege as any other contract, where the party injured has the right to enter and carry on the work at the delinquent’s risk and charge. It is a whbolesome sign when both | labor and capital recognize that there is a third party with fixed rights, and that neither can trifle with those rights or occasion undue public hardship without being called to book SELLING Below Cost I have opened up my clothing store .on Second street to dispose of the balance of goods on hand. I am offering them at less than wholesale cost. If you don’t believe it, come in and I will show you the invoice bills. Driving gloves I still have a few pairs of those driving gloves. They are a bargain while they last Athletic Shoes A few pair of basketball shoes which I am selling at $1.00 per pair, and the base- ball shoes are going at 50c. } Sammer Underwear Still have a few suits of summer underwear on hand Also have a number of good leather belts which must go. Shoes The bargains I am offering in shoes and oxfords cannot be equaled elsewhere. They are all well-known makes and of the latest lasts. A nice line of Men's slippers, also a few pairs of overshoes left. They are selling way below the wholesale cost. Still have some of those neat natty caps, and also summer gloves. They are bargains at double the selling price. A. M. JOHNSON The Second Street CLOTHIER WOULD TAX BILLBOARDS. The proposal to tax billboards in New York will not solve the billboard nuisance, since the courts will re- existence. .The taxing power cannot be used for purpose of oppression, even when it oppresses a nuisante. Some of the other, ways are to at- tack them on esthetic grounds. But esthetic grounds are not very well fixed in the judicial mind. It has never een held that esthetic condi- tions alone will justify a radical re- striction of the right of an owner to make a profitable use of his property. St. Louis, which is in earnest against the ibillboard, has an) ordi-| nance that seeks to eliminate them by making more and less profitable. It provides that billboards shall not be above four- teen feet high, with no double deck- ers; that none shall be nearer the street or roadway than fifteen feet: that no board shall be ‘more than fifty feet long nor approach a build- ing nearer than six feet. ing nearer than ~*~ feet In Washington permits for bill- boards, are arbitrarily .refused. In England the esthetic argument has asserted itself in an Act of Parlia- ment giving local authorities power to regulate or even prevent “the exhibition of advertisements in such places and such manner as. to af- fect injuriously the amenities of a public park or pleasure promenade on to disfigure the natural beauty: of a landscape.” them expensive STATE GOSSIP POLITICAL Situation As Given By the Minnea- polis and St. Paul News- papers There is considerable speculation as to who will head the Republican and Democratic state ticket at the coming election and the Twin city press has the following in regard to the situa- tion and also other political gossip of interest to the state at large: The Minneapolis Tribune says: “Governor A. O. Eberhart will be state convention. If there was much doubt about it before the doubt seems to have been set at rest during the meeting of the conservation congress. 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AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE LINE OF GOODS, LACES AND EMBROIDERIES LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS SHOES The whole family can find the best right here Que siality | FORWOMEN Red Schoolhouse | FOR CHILDREN FOR MEN WASH SEPEEHEEELE ELE EAA ERA R ESA E EEE EEE EEERE THE PIONEER PEP eeeeg st ct tt 2.2.2.5. 5. hchacheclockohechechechedhockechochecheshecloclecheshesbechechechecheshochoskeclechechoshoshoskochoshestoctoctesto hochocfeshesto Rostostoctocbestechesks sloctechoctosbostediedhastectediodboaed JOHN STOR PEEP EEE EEE DEEL EEE EEE EES CEE hbebebeetbebedebdebebbebebbbebdebbbebebeob hee dejeeepeeeeioes BECKFELT, Grand Rapids ba ba bd > ing Hammond,“ said Senator Works, | “but the sentiment of the state seems} to favor Lind and I think he will be th@ mah: The Democrats propose putting up; complete ticket. They will endorse Thomas D. O’Brien for justice of the supreme court. For attorney general they will nominate Stan J. Donnelly of St. Paul, a son of the) late Igna- | tius Donnelly and a prominent young Jawyer. For, secretary of the state | they will nominate Fred W. Johnson, of New Ulm, brother of the late Gov- ernor John A. Johnson. State Senator | S. D. Works of Mankato is being men) tioned for the lieutenant governor- ship, but will probably prefer to run Nearly every candidate of note is on ment of the visitors is to the effect the favors John Lind, and he will be nominated unless he himself, stc the movement. The conservation con gress is a non-partisian movement| position of the governor. It has call- }ed attention to the fact that he has taken up this issue, and will stand upon it. ering, and their reports, interchanged are pro-Eberhart. While R. C. Dunn| is not saying anything, he appears to! have laid aside his gubernational am- bitions. time later. William E. Lee, who has never been more than casually con- sidered is im the south. With con- ditions prevailing Gevernor Eberhart will be nominated by Candidates for the minor offices are usually the surest barometer of senti- ment and judgment. acknowledge that Hberhart’s tion is inevitable. ‘On the Democratic side, there is) now. It is that of John Lind. Dem- ocrats coming in from the various) sections of the state, ‘bring the same} report. They say the sentiment of the state demands Lind and they see; in him the most profitable success for the Democratic party. Mr. Lind himself, is maintaining} silence. His most significant utter- ance has been that he “would cross. the bridge when he came to it.” Mr. Lind is acknowledged to be honest in his statement that he does not want to be a candidate for governor, even- if assured that he would be elected. But the senatorship is being held up and there is no doubt but Mr. Lind would like to be in the United States Senate. He may see in the guber- national situation a possible chance of attainig this distinction and may) pe disposed to take it. The leaders of the Democratic party seem dispose: to put it up to Mr. Lind. There is one man who can stop his ‘nomination tion and that man is John Lind. Will he do it? No one seems to know. An indication of the Democratic attitude may be obtained from the statement made by Senator S. W. Works of Mankato. “I have been urg the ground and everywhere the judg-} that Eberhart will be nominated. On, Democratic side, the sentiment) yet it has centered attention on the | Politicians have been gath-| Ripley Brower has left the! 1996, just after state and will not return until some-| acclamation. | They generally | trom patrons, and Mr. Eastman charg nomina-| oq the congressman with causing the only one name being mentioned just) | supreme court and candidate for the! |for the ‘senate. The Minneapolis Journal says: C. C. Hastman of the Wadena Pio- neer Journal attended the conserva- tion congress. He has just retired |as postmaster of Wadena after twelve} | years’ service and is not im a very | happy frame of mind toward Congres | man Lindbergh. He feels that the | congressman either threw him down) or was capable of helping him out The new appointee is William Dower, representative in the last two legis- ‘atures and it is claimed he had | the support of a very small minority of the citizens for the appointment |The trouble dates from November in} Mr. Lindberg’s elec- ‘tion and while C. B. Buckman was | still holding on as congressman. An} | inspector made a report reflecting on | Fastman’s administration of the Wa- dena office and the postmaster’s friends had quite a time preventing his dismissal. The charges were not serious and there was no complaint | report to be made. Irving A. Casswell, the clerk of \nomination, has been busy at the | conservation congress sounding up the country support and says he is | sure of winning unless a combination | is put up against him.. O. K. Dale of Caledonia, county at-} torney of Huston county, has defin-| itely declared himself for clerk of} the supreme court. This makes it a three cornered fight, the other ‘entry peing George Din of St. Paul. The first district now has quite a list af candidates. These arg Ss. G. Iverson and A. W. Thompson of Fillmore for state auditor, P. J. Scwarg of Dodge for treasurer, O. K. Dahle of Hus- ton for clerk and Attorney General George T. Simpson of Winona for re jnominatien. The St. Paul Dispatch says: When it comes to the republican lieutenant governorship the atmos- phere is by no means clarified. It is said that Dr. A. B. Cole of Fergus Falls is slated for the job. Whether true or not Cassius M. Sprague of Sauk Center and Sam Y. Gordon of} Brown’s Valley are still in the race. Sprague wants the place badly at | governorship. has wanted tit any time these past 8 years. It is understood that he has laid his case before Governor Eber- hart only to learn that the chief ex- ecutive will take no part in the scrap over the Republican ticket over the Andy Stephens is supposed to be back of Dr. Cole. |Gordon’s county option position made The, him a rather strong candidate. country press has been boosting Gor- don with considerable spite of the tangle, at looks like Cole, but {f any ually knows who it is to be he is {keeping it to himself. While the Republicans calculate the Democrats are figuring, John King secretary of the demo- cratic state central committee. Mr.|! King state librarian, has gone back 20 years and takken the vote at each ‘election as a basis for the statement that the average Republican plurality over the Democrats dufing that fifth of a century was 4,516. This little bunch of successful figures doesen’t discourage the democrats. During this twenty years Mr. King points out that the Democrats have made four successful campaigns and claim a fifth with a sixth lost by only a mat- ter of three thousand votes on the wrong side of the column so far as they were concerned. Lind defeated Eustis in 1898 and Johnson won from unanity. In present it | man act-} especially | Dunn in 1904, from Cole in 1906 and from Jacobson in 1908. In 1900 Van Sant defeated Lind, but the Demo- crats and a lot of other people be- lieve that it was the “Social Demo- crats” on the ticket that realy de- jfeated Lind, as they are sure that there were four or five thousand votes marked for Lind and the Social Democrats that were thrown out, giv- ing Van Sant the election by 2,300 votes. New Insurance Man. } On account of E. E. Deshaw receiv- ing a very lucrative position to take charge of a construction crew at ‘Deer River, the insurance firm of Winsor & Deshaw has been dissoly ed and George W. Meyers will take over the fire and accident insurance and the selling of bonds, while M E. Winsor will still continue to talk the merits of New York Life insur- ance. Mr. Meyers is a young man well known to nearly every one in the village and there is no doubt of his making a success of the_ busi- ne In addition to fire and acci- dent insurance he will also handle live stock insurance. The concerns which he represents are all “board” companies and there is .no reason why he cannot work up a large clientag@, A Dependable, always Satisfactory Plough The JOHN DEERE Plough It is made of the very best steel--it will turn the soil as no other plow will, it’s made to do it. Frame of thoroughly seasoned timber that will stand the test of good hard use. We unhesitatingly recommend this plow because we know from what it has than satisfactory service it done for others--the more has given others, that it will serve you well and satisfactorily. We ask you to give it a test. are under no obligations to W. J. & A test will readily convince--if it doesn’t you keep the plow. 0. POWERS eae