Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 3, 1912, Page 2

- think it over again, and 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 The Marquette (Mich.) Mining Journal foresees the possibility of | _ eerecy, that is, from its victim,|defects in ¢ivilization is to preach discontent, perhaps, and to set class | geig when he gave out that petu- But d'scontent with {tant and grossly egotistical interview foolishly still when the victim ap-|sidered. pears. Gossip is a thing of secrecy} To call attention to such glaring but érom no others. Analyze shrewdly the stories that|@sainst class. come to you touching on the good|such injustices is holy, not crimi- name of another. Never pass one nal; and when there is a class that Roosevelt's nomination for the presi- ae to somebody elee until you are|toils in order that a class which ex- dency, _ is not grieved therea' line ? it is true—and when you|Ploits the toilers may dive in luxury,|ernor and I requested E. E. Smith Mining Journal also suggests ‘find that it is true, why pass it on?|the work of arousing the submerged The Governor Osborn of Michigan for! second place on the ticket. The edi- ter of the Mining Journal, James Russell, is one of the shrewdest poli- | ticians im the game, and if he heads a move to make Osborn the Republi- «an nominee for vice president it qwould not be surprising to see the Wolverine governor a formidable can- didate in the national convention. —_—_—_—Se— THE IDLE WAGGING OF TONGUES. Under this caption the Duluth Her- ald published an excellent editorial which is given below. It might be well to read it over, ponder a while and then make another New Year pesolution, even though it is a day ®r two late. The article follows: Few people realize the wickedness ai idle reflections on the character ‘ft others, or on their financial credit, until they themselves become the Then their indignation fs mighty and furious. But it is just as bad for you to ®andle lightly and pass on to your meighbor a tale affecting the good mame or financial credit of an indi- vidual or a business concern as it ds for somebody else to biacken your geputation or to spread stories agf- fecting the credit of the business concern with which you are associ- ated. Just think that over, victims. and then thereafter, when you are tempted to repeat a whispered story about another, don’t do iit. Men and women have been ruined, and business houses have been wrecked, by the circulation of base- less stories affecting their virtue or integrity. As you wish your good name and your business reputation left un- spotted by ill repute, eave the gwod names and the business reputa- tions of your neighbors untouched by idle tales passed on by you merely | to fill a few moments’ conversation er to gratify the vicious retail scandal. The wretched thing about this sort wf business is its cowardice. The ‘victim has no possible chance to de- fend himself. If the rumors affect- ing his integrity comes to his ears, de must suffer makes a public statement of denial or explanation, all he is likely to ac- eomplish is to give wider circulation to the fact that people are talking about him, and it is an unhappy hu- man habit in such cases to presume that if wasn’t something wrong he would’nt have to explain. That wickedly untrue saying that “where there is smoke there must Be fire’ is responsible for this melancholy fact, When there is real smoke there must be fire, it is true; but that oes not apply to the noxious fumes ef gossip, which or‘ginate spontane- ously in the malcious and s‘nister mind of some evilly disposed person, aud pass from him—or her—to others and then to still others in an endless ehain that often entangles ita vic- tims in a coil from which there és mo escape. An evil report originates, perhaps, 4m the jaundiced mind of jealousy or So long as it remains there, only one person has it. But that one tells ten, the ten each tell ten more, and presently thousands are mouthing it. Worse, what was @ mere suspicion or covert insinua- tion in the beginning by that time bas developed into apparently solid statement of fact. What was merely there wevenge. hinted at in the beginning is now | “ck and bonds of the corporations |t, advocate his election to the acme | or integrity of am individual or the instinct to | Why not sorrow for the misfortune |Class and awakening in it a militant of your brother or sister and if you | Consciousness of its condition is work can't tell him e@bout it, keep it to/for the good of humanity.—Duluth yourself. Herald. Safer, then, pot to repeat at ail) tales that reflect on the good name _ oo A PROSPEROUS CHRISTMAS According to the New York Times colle «Ot peninees -tuatitaticn, Tig| oe Nae see wert mantener Se with others as you would have them 1g | Seems to be borne out by the genera with you. Think how you wou! - increase of the Christmas trade, the! \feel if you knew that subtle ru- mors affecting your virtue or your unusual postoffice business, the huge; sums sent home by foreign residents credit were skulking etealthily but with the speed of wild-fire about the and the, greater sian. ever: Tee community, and de silent about brance of the poor. Santa seems to have skipped no one. ur neighbor unless you can say Ee a hie But the Times refers especially to i industrial and fimancial conditions, Ss A NOBLE DISCONTENT. It says: “Never have the invest- Somehow The Herald is utterly|™ents of the country aggregated suc’ unable to appreciate the viewpoint |# distribution at this season, either of those who epend their energies in total distributed or in numbers re- im praising the things that are and | ceiving. in earnestly opposing any sort of “The facts assembled by the Jour- change, Not that it is particularly nal of Commerce show that inter- anxious to get that viewpoint, but|@st and dividends now due to be fihat it would be glad to know of|Paid aggregate $232,841,596, or al- any other reagon for it except the | Moat, $10,000,000 more than last year. obvious one of self-interest. And the larger sum will go to an Those who point out that the good unprecedented number of security things of life are not fairly distri-| 20lders. buted are charged with fostering dis- “The small number of 234 corpora- ;content and setting class against tions account for 980,399 security \class. Maybe these are crimes; holders, and the increase cf their but it seems to us that those who|?™mber is sccompanied by 2 corngs, employ themselves im fostering dis- ponding reduction in their individual content with wrongs and in making |*@dings; “In other words, the | itg|Dlessings of an improved invest. | a submerged class conscious of | ment situation are distributed more newspaper and is not given to manu- facturing spurious interviews. Surely Mr. Simpson was not him- in question. He is reported as virtually saying, in so many words: “I wanted to be a candidate for gov- chairman of the republican state com mittee, to ask Governor Eberhart not to be a candidate for re-election, that he, Eberhart, could not be re- opae Mr. Smith declined to ac- cede to my request, so I made up my mind then and there to retire {from public life.” ‘Mr. Simpson said a great many the material senee. This statement +10; things which he had better left unsaid. The interview throughout is decidedly childish and disgustingly egotistical. One thing Mr. Simpson omitted to state in his interview—the time and place when he and Mr. Smith had their confab. The Union could supply the omission. Another thing Mr. Simpson omitted to enlighten the public upon was the other promi- nent man in the business world— not a politician—with whom he con- svited after his talk with Mr. Smith 1, Minneapolis. Did not the last ‘consultation influence Mr. Simpson's ,action in resigning fully as much as Mr. Smith’s refusal to desert Governor Eberhart’s standard ?— Princeton Union. ———$—$—a———___ STUFF ABOUT ROOSEVELT This is the way the Minneapolis Tribune sizes up the situation, and the Trib. is just about right: “Certain correspondence relating to contributions from Mr. Harriman to Republican campaign funds has late- ly been published. The occasion for this lay in the death of Treasurer Bliss. But it is not so accepted | condition are working for humanity. {er joy than that. Merely as a justification of those | bPldings. who foster diacontent with exist-| “In seventeen conspicuous cases ing conditions and who seek to| Within six months there have been arouse class-consciousness among the class that is letting too large a dends. There cannot be much seri- share of the fruits of ite toil get|usly wrong with a business which into the band of those who do not|#® Yielding such returns on the earn them, a few figures from a| Whole. recent census report will be interest-| “Wage-earners as well as holders ing. of securities have reason for joy th's | Bear in mind, before reading them, ‘Chriatmas. Not since 1907 have | that this is a rich prosperous coun-| there been better times for the |try, and that vast fortunes and many| 200d workman. The change for of them have been created out of|the better has been most marked its mamufacturing industries. recently, and the outlook is for bet- According to a census report just | terment. published, there were 6,615,046 work-| “That the corner has been turned ers employed in the manufacturing is the belief of many in positions to | industries of the United States in|have a better judgment than those in silence. If he! i999 of less wide horizon. ¥ . bs The average wages paid these mil-| Never have conditions of employment lions of workers was $518 a year. | been better, regardless of the rate That’s $43.17 a month, or a little | of wages. less than $10 a week. “And in countless cases labor is And it is merely an average. In-|Teceiving opportunity to share the cluded in the total are many skilled| benefits of capital. In the case of and highly paid workers whose|the steel trust alone, workmen who waged amount to as much as $50 a have availed themselves of the week, as well as many ordinary|Profiteharing scheme have netted skilled workers who draw $17 to{# total profit of about four million $30 a week. If these laborers, who|@ollars, and almost thirty thousand really are in a class by themselves,|have been benefitted by the oppor- were taken out of the hist before the | tunity to take pot luck with their average wae struck, the result would | *mployers.” be stil more depressing. Not every one holds securities pay- Careful scientific investigation re-|ing dividends; not every one shares cently justified the conclusion that it|in steel and harvester and other cor- is possible for @ worker to support|POTation bonuses, profit divisions, his family in decent comfort on $900|224 stock sharing benefits, nor did a year. Less than thet means|every one find an increase of wage scrimping and deprivation. In $900|°T salary in his stocking; but those a year there ia little margin for eay-|Who do not share directly im these ing against sickness, accident and|S00d thinge do get a reflex benefit. old age. There ie little provision for} When everything is moving he is the higher things of life. There|® laggard, a ne’er-do-well or a sim- is shelter and plain clothing and|Ple soul contented in his own sim- plenty of food, of course; but there} Plicity, who docs not catch on some- cannot be much else besides. where to his personal betterment. And among the 6,615,046 employes abe aR SSA in the manufacturing industries of A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW Sap ee ee yearly wase| For Attorney General Simpson the is only a little more than half this Union has the highest regard as a minimum! Meanwhile, owners of watered| was one of the first, if not the first, And there is ao higher duty or great-|Senerally than ever before mite | a reduction in the number of largest; {; is there warped and bent into increases of dividends or initial divi-| in certain high newspaper places. @ covert announcement of a Roose- veltian candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1912. does and thinks—and the order of jevents is now and then just that— | this mewspaper has only patience. But the assumption that his acquies- cence in the publishing of these let- ters is a devise to get the name of Roosevelt again before the people and so advance his chances for the aomination in 1912 is childish. “A man whose name is on the tongue of all his neighbors every day of every week of the year is un- der no need to “get himself talked about.” A man who is contributing editor to a publication like The Out- look need not adopt indirect meth- ods of stating his position in any matter. “Neither directly nor indirectly will Theodore Roosevelt announce him- self a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1912. No more will he give support to Mr. La Follette. He expects, further, to give Mr. Taft his personal endorsement and help.” oA ee eel eR LE RESCUING FALLEN SISTERS Kansas City church women have invaded the district set apart for women dedicated to lives of shame because men think it necessary such conditions should exist, and they have offered homes and honest work to the inmates of the district places. A home to be conducted as a board- ing house, it’s address to be kept secret, has been secured by the church women, and conditions are to be so arranged that no stigma ma follow the reformed. In addition to this, the women are looking up abstracts and will ask the prosecut- ing attorney to fo his duty in the|! ACCOMMODATIONS BY DAY OR WEEK case of property owners who rent their properties for immoral pur- poses. Woman is beginning to take quite an dctive interest in her ing that the renting for such purposes her children, boys of such prop I. has always been our one and con- Stant aim to please our customers, but with the beginning of the New Year we made a resolution to please them more than ever, and if the best goods at the lowest prices and court2ous attention to your wants are things to be desired, we invite you to call. We will be delighted to serve you. John B eckfelt GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA and girls, no matter how well she may care for them, or for other children, in case hers are so fortu- nate and well guarded as to escape. And then she has a sister’s merci- ful love for the slave sister, whose degradation degrades the name of) womanhood. When even the sub- merged may hope, the world is get- ting better. ee THE AVERAGE PRINTER. The printer’s cost system will be “For much that Theodore Roosevelt) Made @ course of study in the Uni-| versity of Wisconsin the coming year, in co-operation with the Ben Franklin Club of Milwaukee, obser- ves the Virginia Mnterprise. Lec- tures and demonstrations will be given by instructors from the univer- sity in classes which will meet regu- larly and plams are being made to offer this printer's course later through the correspondence study department of the university exten- sion division. It will be a course which every country printer in the Jand should study, and which he can follow with profit to himself. The average country publisher has been | content to receive sufficient in ad- dition to actual cost to pay his gro- cery and booze bill, with the natural result that the country editor has in many instances come to be looked upon as an object of charity rather than a spoke in the wheel of pro gress in the community in which he resides and for the benefit of which he hes worked out his life as a| consistent booster. Whoops, My “Dear!” if there be any Herald-Review readers who look lightly on the |game violating act, and think there is no danger of detection, let them read the following news item, taken from last Friday’s Duluth News Tri- bune, and then remember that Jess Harry is still in “our midst.” “The rush at the municipal court which marked the opening days of the week fell off yesterday when but one important case was settled. George Blackwood, proprietor of the Blackwood cafe on Superior street, came into court and pleaded guilty of having in his possession 21 par- tridges and a quantity of venison when his place was raided by Depu- jty Game Warden Storey Saturday night. He was fined $10 each for |the patridges and $50 for the veni- json, making a total of $260, which he ‘paid.”’ TEKLA FARM WILL BE AT COLERAINE Telka Farm McKinnie, the noted prima donna, who has delighted the | People of the west end of the Mes |aba on several different occasions, lis billed for Greenway auditorium at Coleraine Thursday evening, Janu- lary 4. With her are Rose Heiden- | reich, contralto; Christian Mathisen, tenor; Burt P. McKinnie, baritone. | They will present scenes from noted grand operas in costume as well as selections from the best of the modern and popular operas. Seats ;for the concert can be reserved at Stock’s drug store at Coleraine. Order your job printing now. | A MODERN HOTEL THE RIVERSIDE J. F. 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