Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 15, 1911, Page 4

PAGE FOUR, - Brant Repts Terese Revien 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. Official Paper of Itasca County | | Down in Michigan the iron com-/ panies are going up against worse | than a tonnage tax. James R. Fin- a New York expert engaged by state tax commission under au- lay, the thority of the legislature to appraise the Michigan mines, has rendered a report in which he recommends a raise in valuations from $25,000,000. $119,485,000.00, a raise of near- ly 400 per cent. And while the iron companies will fight the adoption of the report, quite naturally, it is ex- tremely doubtful if they.would ac- times the amount recom- mended by Mr. Finlay for warranty to cept ten deeds to the various properties. ———————__—_ SOCIALISM AND {TS FIGHT. Under whatever party name it may in the past and up present hour, the spirit of Socialism the world over has been liberty, You may frown upon it, damn it, mis-| resent it, but the truth remains best we have of laws, what- appeared » the beacon light of human hat the progress has been made, what- enlightenment has come » peoples of the world, was born Socialistic spirit of mankind. From the earliest dawn down through) the dim, long vista of fugitive years, the men and women who blazed the trail through a wilderness of ignor- ance and selfish brutality to this better day, were inspired and actu- ated by a love and loyalty that only martyrs could feel and know and see. They were Socialists. The Declaration of Independence is ot of the heroic the greatest Socialist’e pronounceme! 6) Its opening sentence contains the whole sum and sub- Socialism. The constitu- on of the United States is Socialis- tie. Under the that document the people of this country a desire po- —if they will but vote for it. Monumental abuses have grown to be a part of the very government it- is true, but all the time the people have had the power to pre- ever written, ince of provisions of anything they self, it vent and prohibit these conditions. They have today the only weapon re- quired to make effective the Socialis-; plan that was expounded and founded tablished they when this republic was es- among the nations of the the ballot. You may call yourself a Republican or a earth: have Democrat, or allign yourself under any other banner, but if you’re a loyal citizen of the United States youre a Socialist, whether you know it or not. The word “Socialism” is defined by Webster as “a theory of society which adyocates a more precise, or- derly and harmonious arrangement of the social relations of mankind than that which has hitherto prevailed.” Certainly no man or set of men could be engaged in more commend- able effort than to better establish that which Socialism literally means. In the last analysis governments are instituted among men and laws are enacted for the sole and only purpose of harmonizing and making better th social relations of mankind. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, ‘NOV. 15, 1911. ic conditions than have thus far been realized. As a result of social in- equality, brought about by prevailing economic policies, long endured, a spirit of unrest and discontent has asserted itself in this and in Europ- ean countries, and even in the long dead Orient, that promises to bring about radical reforms for the better- ment of every people on the planet. What the people demand they’ shall have. There is the Golden Gates except the people. Just as the ruling powers of China are abdicating today in obedience to the demands of awakening so will all governments yield justice when the people know their rights “and knowing dare demand.” In this country and in European countries long strides have been taken dur- ing the past quarter, of a century to- ward the betterment of the condition of the masses. After all, we must recognize that the old parties as well as new are composed of human be- ings, and in the end all are striving for the same results. In the United States, whether it be under a Republican, Democratic, Socialistic or some party name yet unused, political, and social reforms no power this side slaves, are as sure to come as it is that men will continue to think. No political party ever planned has been perfect, and if all that is best in all the parties could be adopted and put into operation, yet we would not There would still be reforms to bring about and still be reformers. As a political organization the So- cialistic party in this country is no better and no worse than other par- ties. Much that it advocates is much to be desired, and will be crystalized imto law, if not under a Socialistic regime, then under the direction of some other party. Much, too, that it advocates is unwise, undesirable, impracticable, and if adopted the very*forces of nature would repudi- sure have reached the millenium. ate and discard it. In the meantime and in its own way it is doing a work of education, in common with all parties, that will aid in no small measure to evolve a| higher and holier and happier life for the people of this republic. What its local leaders most should fear and fight and shun is the en- emy within, not without. It is easy enough to meet and combat the open opponent. But the Judas who sits at your festal board only to belie and betray to crucifix- ion the party and its apostles is a danger more deadly than all the proud plutocrats, ignorant bigots, self} seeking politicians and corruption funds with which Socialism will have to contend. It is an easy task for the surgeon to remove a surface tumor, but a care cer at the heart is death. From its insidious start the whole system be- comes corrupted and dies in pollu- honest, tion. Beware of the man who secretly blasphemes the Diety, denounces state and church alike, and openly proclaims his sacred regard and high reverence for the church. Beware of the self-seeker who will publicly perjure himself into a po-| litical party for a brief season hop- ing thereby to gain office. who could thus debase himself is ir- redeemably rotten, Beware of the man who shelters be- neath your political roof only to bar- ter and betray for coin your most sacred birth right. teaches atheism, The man The Herald-Review has no quarrel with Socialism, but on the contrary it is a part of our unalterable platform. True Socialism has always been and will always be. Sometimes, and for the most part, it has had a bitter bats tle, because the majority, longing and striving for equality, knew not how best to attain it, Ignorance and poverty was the cause of this. His- tory has repeated the experience of the masses through all the centuries af time. The struggle goes on today —only in different forms and under different disguises. Our modern Socialistic party, or- ganized on lines of political warfare, patterned from methods employed by the dominant parties of today, is Beware of the man who would use you and your party as trading stock with which to exact tribute from po- litical opponents. Beware of the Judas kiss. EEE cased DO WE NOT NEED IT? Mr. Business Man of Grand Rap- ids, just take a glance over the pages of your favorite daily paper and note the columns that are de- voted to reports of what commercial clubs and similar bodies are doing in that city. Take up another, and another, and another, daily paper and note the same conspicuous news features. What do you find? You find the live business men of the live cities of the west actually doing striving nevertheless for better econon¢ things—doing big things—and accom-|with the extra session, but plishing results, Experience has demonstrated beyond per adventure that villages and cities do not deyel- op and thrive without care and cul- tivation any more than does the vegetable garden grow and produce profitably without care and cultiva- tion. Neglect the garden and soon the blossoms and sprouts from the planted seeds will be smothered out by the thriving weeds. So with the town that is planted and then ne- Blected by its citizens. It cannot lift itself by its own boot-straps into prominence and prosperity. The care takers of the town must furnish nourishment to stimulate its life blood. Wherever growth is noticeable the people are alive and doing. You will notice, Mr. Business Man of Grand Rapids, the papers referred to are not filled with editorials in the strain this is written. They are telling of the things being done and the results being reaped. In this morning’s Duluth Herald t'e lic affairs committee of that city will raise $60,000 to be used to help make a greater Duluth. Minneapolis and St. Paul are telling similar stories of the enterprising citizens are doing to make their cities greater. These public enterprises are inaugurated and carried on because papers what not the men behind such movements are looking for a chance to spend their money. They have learned and re- cognize the business necessity of such work. It is an investment that brings incalculable benefits. If great cities, more widely known and advertised than the state itself, already possessed of greatness in size and wealth, backed by a prodi- gality of nature’s richesti g,fts still require the constant and best efforts of their most enterprising business men, how much more necessary is it for a community such as Grand Rapids to leave nothing undone that can be done to get a share of what nature planned should be hers? Neglected opportunities will regult to the community just as neglected opportunities leave the individual far to the rear of h's more progressive neighbor. Is it not time for the men of Grand Rapids to bestir them- selves? business os News and Comment in the Duluth News Tribune has a great faculty for facts tersely told. Here’s “There is one thing about owning a north country farm, After you have pulled out a bumper crop of vege- tables, some one is just as likely as | one: not to find iron on the place.” a. | Executive Agent Rider estimates there are 16,000 hunters already at! large in the woods of Northern Min- nesota. It is estimated by another! famous mathematician that an nocent man in the woods these days has one chance in 16,000 of getting out alive. At that h’s chances are as good as that of the innocent deer. in-| poe SE SE ES The Duluth Herald may not be able to force Governor Eberhart to call an extra session, but if it can in- duce his excellency to read the | editorials it is producing on the sub- ject, the Herald will have the sat- isfaction of knowing it is keeping him interested. It calls to mind the story of the “booze fighter” who Was taken to the great distilling center and shown the many immense institutions engaged in producing the ardent. While taking a stroll one evening through the distillery sec- tion of the city, a friend of the “booze fighter” pointed out the many places where whisky wes be- ing made and mentioned the thou- sands of barrels turned out an- nually. “You see,” said the friend, “it is useless for you to undertake to drink up all the whisky being made. You might as well give it up.” “Well,” argued the b. f., “1 may not be able drink it all, but I’ve got ‘em working overtime, you'll notice.” So it is with the pugna- cious Herald. It may not be able to make the governor come across announcement is made that the pub-/ ; What shall we do about it? jtose state? its" keeping him awful busy. News and Comment: “The Grand Rapids Herald-Review has a column of prescriptions calculated to cure the worst case of grouch or blues. Any time that newspaper isn’t one of the most luminous of the bright newspapers of Minnesota, it’s a sign Editor Kiley refuses to work.”’ That’s all right, mademoiselle, about the prescription departmert and our lum- inous qualities, but do you aim to intimate that we’re lazy? In the above quoted compliment there are two questionable bouquets. First, the presiding genius of this great family favorite does not compound the prescriptions referred to. They are put up red-handed by a red- headed rounder who radiates in this sanctum and answers to the euphon- ious name of “Guy’—when he ans- wers at all. Second, “a sign Editor Kiley refuses to work’!!! Speaking of slams—well, yes, that listens like it. —————2sc— A TOWN GOING TO SEED The Mesaba Ore has an editorial this week that the Herald-Review is tempted to steal bodily, changing only the name Hibbing where it oc- curs and substituting Grand Rapids, |! The Warming Close’s Of a Range HE Warmirg Closets on all Majestic Ranges have malleable iron doors and frames. The doors can be dropped down without fear of breakage, form- ing a perfect shelf, and holding the weight of an ordinary size man. At aglance you would think the roll back door o1 other warming ‘closets would better suit your purpose. Let us usea little reasoning: First, with the roll back dopr closet you have no shelf to set things on before you slide them into the closet, while on the drop door you have. in closet, the roll door taking up not careful you will break the di hitting it. break them. W. J. @ H. and run it without credit. It fits our case so exactly that any other changes made would detract from the force of what is said on the subject by Editor Atkinson. It treats on the lethargic condition of the Hibbing Commercial club, which it says is “gradually shriveling up and it looks as though death will soon overtake it, and it will, too, un- less some strong and effective medi- cine is administered.’” What could be said more fitting of the condition of the Grand Rapids Commercial club? Continuing the Ore says: “Hib- bing has as keen and active and en- terprising a set of business men as can be found anywhere. They are all members of the Commercial club, and you’d naturally think that with such a membership the club would be a mighty force and in a most | thriving condition all the time. But it is not. It is seldom that enough can be gathered together to hold a meeting. The members are all in- terested, are. prime town boosters and are in for anything that will be of benefit to the people, but they will not attend the club meetings. Unless something is done pretty soon Hibbing will be without a com- mercial club, and many of the good things that belong to us will pass by on the other side to the alive and always reaching out for things.” Doesn’t this sound admir- ably adaptable to Grand Rapids? town Shall we give up and acknowledge that for lack of a little applied en- ergy Grand Rapids’ opportunities must continue to remain in a come- In behalf of every community, there are certain semi-public mat- ters that should be attended to through the aid and efforts of its voluntarily organized for that purpose. If a community would grow, prosper and be progressive such organization is no less neces- sary than are our county, municipal and state organizations. This duty neglected simply means the town’s and county’s best inter- ests neglected. citizens ———————— Second, with the roll back door you have very little room most of it. ish in closet by back of roll door The Majestic has good strong drop doors—you can’t Third, if you are | D. Powers ; fighting the goodly fight, | Will find no foemen to grapple and never a wrong to right. A mood of perfect contentment the heart of the world will lull And each of us will be happy—and Lord! but it will be dull. When Earth’s last evil is righted—I hope I shall not be there— I should long for the old-time con- flict, for the work and worry and care; There’s fun in the bitter fighting, there’s joy in the mighty game Of battling against the forces of evil and woe and shame, You may long for the perfect era, bu I’m for the clash and jar, The shouts and the cheers and the tumult in the world of Things as they Are! —Berton Braley in Puck. He Did Not Understand. “Say, here’s a good one, and it must be all right, as I clipped it from the Ladies Home Journal,” said George Booth, as he fumbled in his vest pocket and produced the fol- lowing: ‘Pat had been seized with violent pains and was hurried to a hospital. The physician in charge, after diag- nosis, informed him that he had ap- pendicitis, and that an operation was necessary as his appendix must be removed immediately. Pat had not the least idea of what an appendix was, and so informed the physician, who laughingly told him that after the operation he would leave the appendix in the window so he could see it when he was able to sit up. Some days after the operation Pat's curiosity got the better of him, and | he raised up in bed to take a look at his appendix. To hig amazement @ monkey was sitting on the windowsill and when he saw Pat he began to make faces and chatter at a great rate. The astonished Irishman gave the monkey a long, hard look, and then exclaimed: “Don’t do that, me boy, don’t do that. Can’t you see your mother is a very sick man?” PINT OF HORSE POWER AT A SINGLE DOSE Oliver Wendell Holmes once ask- ed a scientific friend how soon it would be possible for him to “‘buy a pint of horse power at the corner grocery.” This conceit of the genial Philosopher does not seem such a mirage when we reflect upon the new revelation in physical science —Radium—the enormous energy and nearly everlasting potentiality that are stored in so small a space. If the energy that Radium is calculated to exert in 100,000 years could be concentrated in a few days, an ounce of Radium would drive a 30 horse power motor car around the world at thirty miles per hour; or, a gramme(less than 1-30th of an ounce) would raise 500 tons a mile high. Charles Allen Munn, editor of the Scientific American, says, “Radium is destined to disturb the equipoise of our readers of science and shake our whole system of chem- ical physics to its very foundation.” Prof. Patty brings apparatus and several tubes of this remarkable mineral to show our people Wednes- day evening, Nov. 29, at the high school auditorium and will provide an evening of experimentation long to be remembered; he will also demon- strate the wonders of Liquid Air and Wireless Telegraphy the same evening. TH | BARGAIN REAL REDUCTIONS AT E PIONEER STORE on Sale, at per suit Grand Rapids has the machinery and the raw material. Shall we allow the machinery to rust and the raw material to go to seed? aera THE MILLENIUM. When Earth’s last evil is righted, and Earth’s last sinner reformed, When all of the graft is ended, when sins’ last fortress is stormed, We shall rest for an age or longer, and gaze with a happy smile On the work that we have accom- plished—a world that is void of guile. But when the resting is over, and we start on the job anew, What will be left for the doing, and what in the world will we do? There will be no sorrows to lighten, no poverty, crime, or pain, No greedy robbers to battle, no octo- pus to be slain; And those who were ever foremost in The Famo Children’s Union Suits Underwear of good quality---Standard make, 19¢ us Oneita Underwear for Ladies, snenreiosite ede $1.25 $2.50, reduced to.......... Tam O’Sha Caps for Girls, 50c, 60c and your choice for.. nter Wool 75¢c, The Pioneer Store Carries Everything in General Merchandise © JOHN BECKFELT, Proprietor