Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 13, 1910, Page 4

4 GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIE ‘W WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1910. Brand Hapits Treraias'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. Rudolph Lee, editor of the Leng Prairie Leader has been selected as the County Option candidate for the Jegislature in the Fifty-third district. Rudolph is a bright and aggressive young man from whom better thihgs might be expected. But perhaps he’ll come oud of it. ——————_——_ Our old-time friend Murry Talyor of the Itasca News at Deer River is just wild to have the Democrats nomi- nate John Lind for governor. The why therefor, Murry explains, is be- eavse Lind is the strongest man the Democrats cam name and Eberhart will have the satisfaction of beating the biggest man in Minnesota. That Sberhart will win Murry says there 3s no doubt. Now don’t all exclaim in chorus: ‘“Whatin’ell does Murry know about either Eberhart or Lind?” anes eee Dr. M. N. Triplett has disposed of his interest in the Floodwood Broad- axe to his partner, E. B, Robinson. Dr. Triplett is a forceful writer and a man of pronounced ideas that fre- tly found expressions in the col- of his paper. The Herald-Re- ¥ regrets his retirement from the journalistic field, as he was a credit to the profession, Mr. Robinson is a - man of no little experience in business, possessed of excellent ability and we doubt not that he will keep the Broadaxe up to the standard it has maintained in the ams —— THE PRICE OF PRINTING statement is made that in the three years the number of news- rs in the state of Minnesota has hundred or more. is still opportunity for an without work- ng injury to any and, that addition- rease will follow as surely as raise little apples down in Ohio unless the printers ‘and pub- s of the country come to an un- the cost of produc- and regulate their prices to meet same, A rate card of the Minne- s job printers shows an average one eased by decrease additional al dec standing of per cent higher for work than larged by the press, of the range, fu computation of the “{ setting the type for display to say naught of — the occupied, as made by the On- a ¢a advertising spac Press organization, shows such : to be 16 cents per inch—higher than is paid for the great ma- y of range advertising. The pub- who will take work and ad- ising for little or nothing with th grime object of “beating” a competi- aor out of such work is no good to dimself, no good to the trade, and wsuaily no good to the community. Chisholm Tribune Herald. price «e a ge eee RCOSEVELT’S RESPONSIBILITY. Benjamin Kitsen of New York pro- xkied food for thought whem he wrote to the Philadelphia North american this letter: “You are quite mistaken when you say ‘there is no middle ground on which men stand ziewing Theodore Roosevelt,’ and every citizen is fervently for him or erefanely against him.’ There are a like yourself, rampant tor Teddy. There are also the people af Wall Street profanely against him, but the majority (cool-headed people who admire Roosevelt for something %e did) far outnumber the others gamed. For may months you have been hammering Taft, the Aldrich- Payne tariff, Ballinger and others. Who was it gave the country these fine people and put them in power? Theodore Roosevelt. Who was it that refused to prosecute the sugar trust? Vheodore Roosevelt. Who was it that vefused to publish the contributions camaign funds until after election? Roosevelt. You probably gall this human weakness. Highway wopdery, fraud or bank wricking is also human weakness. Wherein did Koosevelt show foresight, tactfulness ex statesmanship in all this, in forc- ig the worst administration op the weople that this country has had @juce the time of Buchanan? The fruit "we are reaping today—Aldrich ,Payne great many Theodore Cannon, Ballingerism—is the direct result of Roosevelt’s seven years’ reign in the White House. You evi- dently desire a cotitnuation of the present conditions.” pee S Saab “SLE INQUISTORIAL OUTRAGES It is high time that the people trav- eling through the “Indian country” of this part of Minnesota and carry- ing baggage should also carry a gun. Without authority of law and con- trary to the constitutions of both state and nation the private baggage of men and women is being seized by men said to be in the secret service of the Interior department of the federal government, and searched for liquor. Here is one incident related by the Deer River News: “Ben Carlisle and wife of Eveleth were arrivals at the Mohr Thursday on their way to Bowstring lake wher they will spend about two mcnths at their summer home. Being up most of the night packing up, Mr. and Mrs Carlisle went to bed when they arriv- ed, and during the sleep their trunk was broken into at the Great North- ern depot by officers of Uncle Sam in search for whisky. A half gallon demijon and a _ sealed quart were found, which everybody knows is lit- tle enough for a man, having many visitors in two months, but it was seized and Ben had to go up orth “ary.” ‘He says he does not mind losing the booze, being a light drink- er, but he does resent the breaking of his trunk, and he will see what he can do about it.” Has it come to this in our boast- ed free America? Is the citizen to he subject to a police government no less arrogant, despotic and inquisi- torial than that of brutal Russia? Are American citizens to be subject to uch indignities) at the hands of some government hireling, whose on- ly authority is assumed? If so, it is high time that the real government— the people— go back to their con- stitutional rights and assert them with a renewed declaration of inde- pendence. The spy who seeks’ io seize and search the citizen’s private baggage should be regarded as a highway man and dealt with accord. ingly. dete he eee THE WAY IT’S DONE. Wadena Pioneer Journal: ‘Being in the ‘dry’ belt by order of the gov- enment, the people of Park Rapids who want beer apparently work all kinds of schemes to import the am- ber fluid into that town. “Recently a car containing some- thing like sixty cases of beer from a city brewery was consigned to Cass Lake. This beer went north on the Great Northern, Park Rapids is a freight division and when the train laid all night in that station the thirsty people got ‘busy and opened the car. Every single case of beer was removed and undoubtedly the beer found its way into many Park Rapids homes. “In the morning the train crew found the car seal broken and the beer missing. The agent was noti- fied. He took the matter up with the city officials, who in tun notified the brewery. “The brewery came back with the statement that the beer was paid for before being shipped. Until the parties to whom it was consigned at Cass Lake made a ‘holler’ the brew- ery would do nothing. Up to date the consignee has not been heard from. “It is plain that those to whom the beer was consigned met the car at Park Rapids and emptied it. Thus they got their goods and will not put in a claim against the brewery, The beer was simply removed in transit, but not exactly in the regular way.” Commenting on the foregoing the Cass Lake Voice says: The above clipping tells a story that may be repeated again and again so long as beer is considered contraband. The prohibitionists, county optionists, the U. ‘8. Indian commission of the Interior depart: ment,and every forcethat has been and ever will be organized to curtail and prevent the use of intoxicants may exheust all their ingenuity and fulminate all their explosives to frighten ‘the people and yet there will be both beer and whisky “{ntroduced into Indian territory.” Ever since the stringent orders of the Indinan commission forbidding the sale of intoxicants in certain localities has been in operation both Indians and whites have enjoyed their booze; if. prevented from se- curing it in an orderly lawful manner they have smuggled it into tthe pro- hibited territory im barrels, cases and bottles im enormous quantities. The Indian “specials” have forbidden the railway companies to carry or allow their servants to carry the stuff into the territory, but one has only to go into the “buffet” on any regular passenger train and _ step into a smoking room,wink and get all he wants, but at greatly improved prices. How we progress! ————..2-.—__ THE ULTERIOR MOTIVE It isn’t any wonder that a great many people do not place much re- liance in what a great many news- papers say when they discuss politics. Very many papers proclaim their in- sincerety every time they speak po- litically. Take, for example, an ed- itorial comment in the last issue of the Coleraine Optic on candidates for auditor of Itasca county. The Optic admits Mr. Spang’s competency, and says nobody questions his ability. “So far as the Optic is concerned, it hasn’t a word to say against Mr. Spang,” adds the Coleraine com- menter. “But whether he is good, bad or indifferent, doegn’t necessarily debar any other individual from mak- ing a try for the Republican nomima- tion for that office. * * * We like to see everybody given a fair shake, whether he hails from Grand Rapids or some ‘other section of the county.’ This fool suggestion means, if it means anything, that while Mr. Spang is entirely satisfactory as a public servant, and has proved by six years of faithful service that he merits the public confidence reposed in him reapedly by the electors, if oposition cen be brought out it will make the campaign more “liberal” in the exenpditure of money by the candidates. If this can be done fel- lows like the Optic publisher might “take off a piece of coin,” as the gambling fraternity puts it. They jwould! be placed in a position to do a little patriotic blackmailing among the aspirants for The reference to a Grand Rapids can- didate is equally sordid and dishonest. What difference does it make to the people of Grand Rapids whether a candidate for office is a resident of this town or hails from some other section of the county? If there is any advantage to gain one way or the other it would be for Grand Rapids to aid in bringing some good citizen from another section to become a resident hereof as a county official On the other hand the locality that loses a good citizen because of his election to office gets the worst of the deal. An honest analysis of the Optic’s argument reveals the utter absurdity of it. This locality talk is only a silly attempt to create sec- tional feeling for the purpose of get- ting more candidates in the game that there may be more more money in the game. So far as the tax payer is concerned he doesn’t care a con- timeptal whether the officeholder comes from Nashwauk, the Bigfork, Feeley, Ballclub,Quaduaw,Grand Rap- ids, or any other old postoffice, if he is honest and capable. That’s the question, and the only question to be decided.As to honesty and capability, however, there are those who give no consideration whatver to that es- sential. “What is there in it for me?” they ask, and are governed accord- ingly. Is it any wonder that honest people read the newspapers and then look for the facts. re SPEAKING OF LIND The Duluth News Tribune.is.Republi- can through and through. It is sup- portyng the Republican ticket from top to bottom. It is the most influen- tial and widely circulated Republi- can newspaper’ in Northern Minne- sota, Its opinion of John Lind, there- flore, cannot be said to be that of a partisan favorable to him in a politi- cal discussion of his probable nomina- tion as the Democratic candidate for governor. And this is what the News Tribune says: In spite of all denials, speculations, guesses, perhapses ,and mental reser- vations, the opinion is office. the Democratic nominee for governor. Nor can Mr. Lind complain that his word is not taken atitsface value. Theodore Roosevelt showed how not to be forced to become a candi- date, and just how to avoid a nemi- nation . The Democrats of Minnesota have shown the other side of the unwilling candidate picture. The people of this state have a lively recollecion of Governor John- son’s refusal to be renominated. They also remember that he was renomi- nated qnd accepted. Mr. Lind has not gone as far as did the governor, in ‘that he has not said he would not ac- cept the nomination if made. He has said he is legally disquali- fied. But other good lawyers ques- ‘tion this. Nor is there much doubt that, if nominated and elected, he jqduld jserve out his term. That he cared much himself to be governor is doubtful; that he cares very much to be United States senator, every one knows, and both offices will be directly involved if he is nominated for the former. 4 The people of Minnesota have great respect) for John Lind. Even those who will vote against him admire hin in many ways. He is known as a man of very decided opinions and of much stuborness of purpose. If, therefore, ‘he Would say, in so many words, that he would accept the nomination, and that, if nominated, [he woulq at once decline and per- emptorily refuse the.further use of his name in the (political shell game, as ed. f& man of ‘decision, who is not to (bd trifled) with! against his will, he can blame no one but himself for ‘the present very general belief, of both Democrats and Republicans, that he ‘has a complete understand bs with those few who so entirely dic- tate every move of his party, that primary nominations are a joke and state conventions more formalities. It is not necessary for him to be a candidate, or do anything else, to re- ceive the nomination, but his appar- ent unwillingness will make a very excellent (mattress to break the fall if he should be defeated. In the lan- guage of Mr. Jeffries, “the people made me fight, and now I fhope they are satisfied.” The News Tribune has much re- spect for Mr. Lind, and has neither censue yno criticism of his present position.In fact,we have that measure of faith in him that if he should say, with that vigor always characteristic of him, that he would not accept the nomination, we would accept this as final, beyond question or doubt, But until he does this, his know- ledge of Mr. Day “et al,” must as- sure him that he will be nomihated just as surely as the Democratic con- vention meets. BE SE MINNESOTA WANTS NO BOSS We don’t Wnow any special reason why the selection of a Chairman of the State Central Committee should be left to the candidate for Governor. Tt ought 41 some way td be left to the Republican party. The whole party is coming to have a distinct interest in the Chairman. For the past three campaigns the Republicans of Minnesota have been leaving it to the candidate for Governor, and when the campaign ended they could find neither their candidate nor their Chairman. Under the system of personal se- lection, the State Chairman too often is either a decorative dullard or a machine politician. Senator Edward E. Smith is not a decorative dullard. His ability is generally admitted. He has always succeeded in his own district and usually in the State Senate. Whether he will prove as efficient in the State Committee and by the same means remains to be seen. But as remarked before the whole party nowadays takes an interset in the election of a Chairman because the Chairman becomes, in a measure the moral spokesman of his or- ganization. The whole party has a right to know who that moral spokes- man is to be. This is a new idea in party organization, born of the revolt against bossism. Only in restricted communities can a purely commercial boss like Murphy of New York or Cox of Cincinnati maintain himself, and even there it becomes necessary for the successful candidate immediately after election to repudiate the manager who put him jn. The national boss of the Quay and Gorman type, the boss who juggled tariffs in order to repay his now being played, he would be believ-|1 mile from Dora lake; him. Even the State boss is dis- appearing. It would be poor politics for Minne- sota to set one up just as the other States are throwing them down. Sena- tor Smith is of the type of politician that develops into a boss. He works by the old method. He has mever allied himself with any excited for- ward movement. He is almost certain to have faith in patronage to move votes. He might even believe that it was his duty to guide the Legisla- ture. We do not say.these.things will hap- pen even if Eberhart is elected ,but they are possible and their possibil- ity warrants a wadning to both the Governor and his Chairman that such ideas are out of date. The boss is a thing of the past.—Minneapolis Journal. ITASCA COUNTY LANDS $150—30 acres heavy black loam soil with nice frontage on beautiful clear lake, only three miles from the Minneapolis & Rainy River railroad and ten miles from Deer River. In- cludes a large amount of posts, piles and ties. Mineral reserved. Terms: cash. Lot 2, Sec 3-57-26. $185—27 acres fine land on above mentioned lake. Includes posts, piles and ties. Mineral reserved. Terms: cash. Lot 2, Sec. 17-57-26. $1,000—80 acres sandy loam, with considerable standing timber; 3 miles to Coleraine, 4 miles to Grad Rap- ids. Watered by nice stream and will make good stock or general farm. Mineral reserved. Terms: $500 cash, balance as or before three years at 7 per cent. (W% of SE%4) 12-55-25. $1,800—151 acres beautiful lake frontage on Dora lake, and the termi- nus of the Minneapolis & Rainy Riv- er railroad. This includes a fine level tract. of clay loam soil with a mile frontage qn the lake. Estimates show a large amount of posts, piles and camps worth $500. Would make good townsite or stock farm. Terms: $500 eash, balance in three annual instal- al reserved. (NE% of SE%), 4, 5,6 & 9 Sec. 12-149-27, $900—120 acres heavy clay loam soil estimates Lots show 30 M tamarac, 10 M poplar, ed to deliver poles, posts and ties to the railroad terminus on Sec 12. Terms: $500 cash, balance in annual instalments at 7 per cent. (N% of NW%), SW% of NWi&K(, 11-149-27. One-half mineral reserved. $1,400—360 acres gently rolling land with black loam sailand clay subsoil Includes 20 M pine, 22 M oak, 155 M poplar, 1000 posts, 1,200 ties.and 1,200 cords of wood. Only 1 and one-half miles railroad terminus at Dora lake. Terms: $900 cash balance annual in- stalments three years at 6 per cent. One-half mineral reserved. E% NEY, SW% NE%, N% SEW, S% NW, W% SW; 24-149-27. $1,600—fine tract $21 acres sandy loam and muck soil, clay subsoil at the head of Bow String lake and in- tersected by the Bow String river. Five miels to Dora lake on main road to Bena. This property includes a large amount of natural meadow, with about sixty acres that can be eut during the present season. It in- cludes very nice river frontage and following timber: 20 M tamarac, 26 M poplar,’ 300 couptry poles, 1,500 posts, 2,250 ties and 600 cords of wood. This property would make ties. Includes a fine set of lumber an ideal stock or general farm. One- and Lots 1, 2,8, 5, 6,7, 8 and 9, half mineral reserved. N% NW Sec. 35-149-27. Terms: $800 cash ,bal- ments at 7 per cent. One-half minerr- ance three years at 6 per cent. Please send for my full list of land) in northern Minnesota. 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