Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 25, 1910, Page 4

GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1910. Poa cs RRS STE ET TEN a aa Brand Rapids Herata>'Review 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. Every delegate elected to repre- ‘sent Itasca county at the Develop- ment meeting should do his duty and spend the finst three days of June at Crookston. soe ee ees Get up some enthusiasm and howl for the Development meeting at Crookston. Itasca county should be among the prominent and attractive live wires at the big convention of boosters. Let our song be—On to Crookston. ——.6.—— Wouldn’t it be just as well to vote a pension to that old fossil, Gen. C. C. Andrews, and retire, him as state fire warden? He has passed the hour ff usefulness, if he ever was useful, and his ideas are not up to modern necessities and fire-fighting methods. a me Farm, Stock and Home sensibly gays: “The action of the state fair board in abolishing all passes ip most timely and commendable. The only reason apparent for the custom as ‘that it helps to! swell the atten- dance, while its drawbacks are many and obvious.” —_—_——s————— Congressman Hammond of the secon district, and the only Democrat in con- gress from Minnesota, says he does not care. to be govenor of this state; that he would raifher: represent the state in Washington, Winfield Scott seems to think he can be a three? time jwinner in the Second district. — The Catholic Colonization society fs doing much toward settling up Minnesota lands, and the immigrants which it is bringing here are of B very desirable class—people who are fairly well to do and experienced till- ers of the soil. They will majke ex- cellent citizens and will no doubt be- come, Americanized in short order. The colonization society is entitled to credit for its good work.—Princeton Union. ——_s—_—_—_— And now comes a sporting writer in the Duluth News Tribune and says that J6ffries is a has-been and no good; that he can’t even train; has lost his vitality through the rav- ages of an*incurable disease, and will be knocked out by the big black gor- illa when the colored cuss gets ready to land the final punch. All of which is distaseful reading to the white trash. 22 ee The Itasca County Independent tells ud there is reason to believe that Judge Jaques, Democratic Candidate for congress against Miller, ““‘will cut some ice”. First thing we know the Independent will be out and out Democratic and Socialistic, It seems to have been discredited by the Re- publican party of Itasca county—so what else can it do, or where else can, it gq. It must play body’s back yards. a The Hibbing Tribune announces that it hais just put in a complete stereotyping outfit. That’s good. It also announces that it has the only outfit of the kind in this part of the ‘state, outside of Duluth. That’s bad— because {t isn’t true. The Herald-Re- view has had a stereotyping outfit.for ‘the past year and a hajlf. And, by the way, it is one of the best on the market. The Herald-Review is strict- ly up-to-date in every way. Dig@ you ever notice that if a news- paper publishes an editorial that ex- actly meets with the approval of a certain faction it is received as a matter of course—in strict silence? If one appears that hurts their mental corns the same men will put on their tennis shoes, if they haven’t an auto- mobile, and race’ ito the office to tell ‘the editor what a rum-dum he is and ‘try! to discover what it! costs the other fellow to buy the paper’s editor- ial opinion.—Crookston Times. in some- County ’Pendent, scolds the Duluth News Tribune for its failure to sup- ply a political writer that meets with the ’Pendent’s| approval. Our con- tempt’ is hell on politics and Charley Michell, the New Tribune’s editor- fal man, best bestir himself to make good with.the Itasca county critic else the (Duluth paper will be cut-off the critic’s exchange list. By the way, that’s great political dope we find on the fourth page of the ‘Pendent. Things therin are fearfully and won- derfully told. oo While we th®nk of it lets call a special meeting of the Commercial Club and talk about city parks an hour or two; appoint a committee to confer with the villgae council; re- port back to the club some time in the future and then drop the matter for a year or two. There’s no use gainsaying the fact, we’re the most progressiva bunch anywhere to be found—in the matter of parks. G. G. Hartley of Duluth offered to give us a park or two but we’ve been too busy to accept the generous offer. ———— Just to show what kind of stuff he is made of P. H. McGarry has invited Congressman Lindbergh to attend the meeting of the north central editors at his summer resort near Walker early in June. Some fellow put up a howl that McGarry had put upa job on the sitting member, when the fact is that {the editorial meting was ar- ranged many months before the Walker statesman made up his mind to contest for the congressional nom- ination. If congress adjourns in time. McGarry and Lindbergh will both be in attendance—but there will be no politics mixed im the gath- ering.—Brainerd Tribune. The state of Minnesota handles its lands in the same manner that Elder Stewart of Minneapolis handled his real estate holdings—lets them lie idle and unimproved waiting for others to come along and increase their value by improving the’ sur- roundings. It is a niggardly way to d business at best. The istat@ ought to do something itself towards im- proving the value of its holdings, or give them to somebody willing to do so. In the case of Elder Stewart, he had to pay taxes in proportion to the increased values. The state makes those who do all the improvements and creates all the values pay all the taxes besides. Which is not only nig- gardly but rankly unjust—Red Wing Free Press. sale Se This bit of poetical junk is going the rounds of the press, and it is worth printing: A dog sat in the midnight chill and howled at the beaming moon; his knowledge of music was strictly nil and his voice was out of tune. And as he howled and howled as the hours went by, as he dodged the bricks we threw till the moon was low in the western sky and his voice was split in two And there wasn’t a thing over which to howl, which a pup should weep; and thd course of the dog was wrong and foul for people were wild to sleep. There are plenty of men like that blame fool hound, who yell when there is nothing wrong, disturbing the country with senseless sound— the pessimist’s doleful song, ence The mayor of Toledo, Ohio, who is a newspaper man; a writer of country-wide Fame; a sociologist; a close student of political economy; a man who stands high among the leading reformers and public educa- tors of the United States, recently wrote an article on modern evils and the causes thereof. Speaking of the saigon he said: “The saloon, it is true, stands upon somewhat different grounds, yet, where the resort to it cannot be explained on the ground of real and fancied social necessity, it being the only public place where men may meet freely as equals and enjoy each other’s society, it is found to be due to the mecessity of stimu- lation decreed by this same insatiable machine, which, by exhausting men’s bodies in the mad greed for profits, drives them to stimulants in an im- pulsive effort to restore their wasted forces and exhausted bodies. And be- yond all this, deeper, sadder, more pathetic far than all this, is the fact that thousands by society’s grim ma- over Our *steemed contempt,” the Itasca'chine are driven to drink by poverty, quite as often aq they are drvien to poverty by drink. Indeed, I think that, Tom. L. Johnson spoke the truth when he said that ‘there are more people who drink because they are miserable than there are people who are miserable because they drink.” oo A PREVARICATING PUBLISHER Did you ever notice, observing read- er, when the Independent publisher has anything tb say anent his circu- lation it has always increased, within khe past few days, to the extent of about sixty new names, all paid in advance? The Herald-Review has taken note of this remarkable report ‘about ’steen ‘steen times. If saying so would keep the Independent apace with the Herald-Review in circula- tion and otherwise it would never lag very far in the rear. But, unfor- tunately, saysos cannot always be re- lied upon. When the Herald-Review stated ‘last week that the Indepen- dent’s circulation is about 900 the HeraldjReview {knew whereof it spoke; In fadt id is a little short of being 900, If Tony tells the truth about there being no “dead ones” on the Independent subscription list and that names are dropped whenever an intimation comes from a subscrib- er that the rag is no longer wanted, we are here to answer that ‘there is the Jargegt lot of liars in and about Grand Rapids that ever assembled in one community.Innumerable instances publican majority of 14,000 into a something more than complaints of “a little coterie of malcontents?” Was it “a little coterie of malcon- tents” that increased the democratic majority in the Sixth Missouri dis- trict, electing) Mr. Dickinson as Mr. DeArmond’s ‘successor by a majority approximately 1,500 more at a special election than the popular DeArmond had received at a presidental election Was it “a little coterie of malcon- tents” ‘that elected Eugene N. Foss in Massachusetts, transforming a re- democratic majority of 5,000. Was it “a little coterie of malcon- tents” that transformed a republican plurality of ten thousand into a dem- ocratic plurality of five thousand in the Rochester, N. Y. district?—Com- moner. ————_———_—_ STATE AND FEDERAL LAND. The Federal government has thrown open to settlement 233,295 acres of land in Minnesota, and there is great excitement among hom- seekers about it. Already landseekers are camping at land office doors to await! the opening \day. The proba- abilities are that the greater portion of this land will be taken up at once, and that most of those locating upon it will actually settle and cultivate it. This isf & big thihg for Northern Minnesota, but it affords a puzzling parallel. The state owns ten times as much land as there’ is involved {Jn the government opening, and every have been related to us wherein dis- gusted subscribers of the Indepen- deht have had to resort to threats of personal violence on the carcass of the Independent man in order to get their subscription discontinued after paying up all arrearages. The preponderance of evidence appeans to be in favor of.the case of.the afore- mentioned disgusted quitters. Tony the timid one, ts simply up against it with his “patent” newspaper in- testines, printed in St. Paul. (Qhe Herald-Review publishes more local news in one issue than is to be found in the Independent in three issues. The Herald/Review is all printed in Grand Rapids. The Indepen- dent comes out one day later than fhe Herald-Review and what it’ does contain is only rehash of what has already been reported to the’ reading public. Second hand news always loses interest, and hence the Independent is only an echo of the Herald-Review. That’s one this paper is forging so far ahead of its weak little contemporary. Tony, however, is just pin-headed enough to think that a falshood will serve his purpose better than the truth, and ‘he refuses to deal in facts when he imagines a falsehood will the bet- ter serve his ends. The public in gen- eral looks gullible to to poor little Tony. His dissertation on circulation inf [the last Independent causes the rhymster of this great family neces- sity to touch the strings of hiis lyre: reason The snake liar and the fish liar, Both bent in their grim old age Came wandering back from their journeys wide. From their earth wide pilgrimage. They came for the prize, and they both look- ed wise, As they thought of tbe glory and the premi- um’s size. They reported their conquests to Old An- anias— “That our stories transcend, no man can deny us.” They both spake as one, and awaited with glee, As they held out their hands to receive the Tich fee. - - * ig o But the father of liars looked tenderly down cn his most accomplished son— ‘Twas the newspaper circulation liar whose work was far better done. a ees “STAND BY THE PRESIDENT” The Philadelphia Public Ledger, a stalwart republican paper, says: At- torney General Wickersham struck the right note in his speech Satur- day night. It was a vigorous, aggres- sive, able exposition of the record of the Taft administration. There has been by far tod much temporizing with a little coterte of malcontents in the republican ranks,” “A little coterie of malcontents is good” when applied to the great mass bf republicans wha are protesting against the brazen alliance between the republican party and the special interests} Is it possible that a man with suf- Meient brains to edit a) great news: paper like the Public Ledger can not see in the protest against the tariff law and other republican legislation acre is open to settlement—when the authorities get around to sell it. Yet there is no excitement about the state’s holdings, and settlement is slow and difficult. What makes the difference? For one thing, the government throws open its land in large, solid blocks, every part of which may be settled upon. Settlers can form aeighborhoods large enough to pro vide schools and roads, and to meet the need for social improvement. But the state sells a small tract here and a small tract there, expecting the nurchaser to go where he is sur- wounded by silent, idle acres that produce nothing and pay no share of the expense of bullding schools and making roads] It refuses to do any- thing for the settler, either [by pay- ing the share due from its lands for the cost of local improvement, or by opening up for settlement large blocks of contiguous tracts. Some day, it may be, the state will adopt a wise and business-like land policy; and when it doe Northern Minnesota will spring into teeming life in a twinkling. Its idle acres will be peopled, its stumps will disappear, its soil will yield riches out of its vast fertifity, and what) was lately a wilderness will become one of the world’s garden spots.—Duluth Herald. JE ee EXPRESSES PUBLIC SENTIMENT The Mesaba Ore, published at Hib- ‘ping by 'C. {M. Atkinson, is one ‘of the most outspoken and fearless pa- pers in Minnesota. The editor has Johnson has mo warrant of law—he just uses his own judgment, which, to say the least, is rotten (begging pardon for the expression, but there is none other that just exactly fits). This over-officious agent is cloth- ed with absolute authority from the government, and the authority is used to deprive peaceful and useful citizens of their means of gaining a livelihood and their rights of pro- perty. Pussy-foot will appear in a town, size up the saloons, pick out the ones that don’t picture good to his seeth- ing mind and forthwith make a sei- zure of all liquors found on the prem- ises. The liquor is destroyed and the owner is not reimbursed—the loss is total one to him, and the action bars him from.re-engaging inthe busi- ness in that locality. This high-handed proceeding is car- ried on for the alleged purpose of “proteeting”’ the noble red man of the forest from the Demon Rum—no con- sideration is given the white man who is itrying to make a living for himself and family. ‘We might naturally think this re- publican admistration is making a heavy play for the prohibition vote. It is mothing short of a rank out- rage, and the republican administra- tion is showing a wickedness that savors of the absolute monarchy as practiced ity the long ago. Every man’s property should be given protection, and if it is found necessary to put a saloon man, or any other, out of business, it would be only the commonest kind of justice to make good for the proper- ty destroyed or confiscated. But the administration is not doing that, and don’t intend to. If the treaty provisions were literal- ly enforced it would put all of the saloons in the northern part of the state out of business. The Johnson crusade is not an ele- vating or edifying occupation for a free government of the people, by the peqple and for the people to lbe en- gaged ih. And that’s a fact. EGE eae AN EXPERT ENDORSEMENT. The Prison Mirror asks why there has never been an editor sent to glad- fleB the halls of the state peniten- tiary since it saw the light of day, and lighten the unaccustomed labors of those who pubilsh the prison paper It says there has been ‘enough min- isters to feed an African chief for a year,” there have been doctors, law yers, bankers, but no editors. Well, one reason is that editors have no time for vacations and can’t afford luxuries. Again they are too busy sending other people to prison to get there themselves, and never see enough money in a bunch to tempt them to embezzlement. Once more, they deal in the news of crime to an extent that its faci- mations) pall on them, and the de- linquent subscribers so occupies their attention that they turn their old clothes rather than themselves join tl army of delinquents. the courage of his convictions and a way of expressing himself that can- not be misunderstood. In his last is- sue he discussed the Ballinger-John- son way of partially enforcing one feature of the old treaty with Min- nesota Indians on the subject.of liquor dealing. The Ore is not alone by any means im agreeing with the po- sition taken by the Herald-Review. Endorsement of the sentiments ex- pressed in these columns last week comes from all directions. The Ore says: One of the.best things we have read in a dog’s age, or longer, is an edi- torial by Old Man Kiley, in the last issue of his Grand Rapids Herald-Re- view. Mr. Kiley, stands the United States department of the intesior up $traight and then pours some hot- dhot of the Kiley brand inte it. It had it coming, too. Editor Kiley’s storm of righteous wrath Was brought about by the un- lawful and nefarious game the depart ment is playing in the so-called ‘“In- dian treaty” sections of Minnesota. The department has an agent, nam- dd Jdhnson, who is acting, it ap- pears, upon his own volition, and he ie pussy-footing about the northern part-of the state and closing saloons here and there—putting them com- pletely out of business. Really, we do not suppose that edi- tors are) born any more honest than other people, but they are preach- ers of honesty, not theology, and become so versed in the ways of in- tegrity that they abhor all others. What schism and iheterodoxy is to the theologia, that is dishonesty to the editor. He walks in the path of recitude as naturally, as sincerely and as simple as ‘water runs down hill. It comes to be not second nature, but first nature to him. He accepts any- thing offered in payment of debt due, and lives on what he gets. If there are other reasons for edi- torial honesty, they are not worring the editorial mind. In fact, but for the Mirror’s inquiry, not one of them would have thought of any reason for it, taking it as a matter of cours just as all men should, but as some unhappily do not. The high moral standing of the profession, or craft, they are not particular which it is called, is well known to all newspaper men. They know that the fraternity’s conscience is like the unprinted sheet and are as patient under accusation and mis- representation as the innocent always aré. , ( Yet they will be grateful to the Mirror for the conclusive proof it offers, that they have that high standard of rectitude, and stand on that high panel of morals, .. which never slides a man into jail or tips him into the arms of the sheriff. We all Rnow we are good, and it is nice to have expert evidence of the fact blazoned to the world.—Duluth News Tribune. ore eae ne Notice of Sealed Bids Sealed bids will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Itasca County, Minnesota, up until ten o’clock a.m.,on Saturday the 4th day of June, 1910, at the office of County Auditor, in the Village of Grand Rapids, for the improvement of that certain highway known as the Grand Rapids-Trout Lake Road. The said road to be improv- ed in accordance with specifications prepared by the County Surveyor and on file in the fofice of the Coun- ty Auditor. The Board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. By order of the Board of County Commissioners, Itasca County, Minne- sota, M. A. SPANG. County Auditor, Itasca County, Minne Herald-Review, May 18-25-June 1. WANTS and FOR SALE Five Cents Per Line WANTED! Two Furnished Rooms for light housekeeping. Apply to MR. BARTOSH, Care toGem Theatre Farm for Sale—Near Deer Lake; substantial improvements and clear- ing. Severt Gaard. FOR an up-to-date sanitary shave go to Dodson’s barbershop. (Succes sor to Jos. O’Day.) Clean airy bath- rooms, shoe shining parlors in con- nection. L. E. Peckham, manager. For Sale—A confectionery store with a small line of groceries. best location in town. Good reasons for selling.— Mrs. Jackewitz, Bovey, Minnesota. Percheron stallion, Burton, No. 46,- 725, at Grand Rapids during season of 1910. Terms $15 cash for season. Island Farm, J. H. Black, superin- tendent. 32tt. Small house for rent.—H. E. Graf- fam. Two Furnished rooms for rent— Inquire at Geo. F. Kremer’s furniture store. tt. I am prepared to do calsomining, painting and papering. M. A. Yan- cey. For Sale—Thorsughbred Yorkshire boars, brouc sows and pigs, also sorie Grade Guernsey bulls of various ages, at attractive prices. Island farm J. superintendent, Island Minn. 45tf For Sale—Twenty-two foot launch, with double opposing engine and com- plete equipment of tools. Boat is in first class condition. If interested, inquire at this office. 46tf. MUST BE SOLD 120 acres of land. 10 acres cleared. 10 acres meadow. 20 acres fine white birch, balance hardwood. 6 miles from Ry. station, less than one mile to schaol. $10.00 per acre takes it if sold at once. Apply to H. E. Graf- fam. HOTEL FOR SALE—NASHWAUK, MINNESOTA. Two-story building; 14 bed rooms on second floor; six rooms on first floor; bath and toilet; electric light, water. Rents for $50.00 per month; doing big business. Must be sold at once. Goes at a bargain; for cash or on terms. MRS. ANNA GUITAR, Grand Rapids, Minn. A New Modern House, 5-Rooms, for rent June 1st—Mrs. George Ars- cott. Found—bunch of keys opposite George Martin residence. Owner may have same by calling a this office, proving property and paying for notice. 49-2 Flour and Feed—F. O. Johnson has just received a car load of flour and a car load of feed at his marekt. He desires to dispose of these shipments at) once; and in order to do so, will make prices that should find ready purchasers. See Johnson, the meat man, at once, if you are wanting flour or feed in any quanity. The»