Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 8, 1913, Page 6

Ss A tb R \ TAX THE STATE LANDS. apids One of the pertinent resolutions Published Every Wedne: assed and promulgated by the nate Minnesota Development association at its last meeting at Crookston is as follows: “Whereas, many schools in part of the state By E. C. KILEY. the are Two DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE northern Srtered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap- 5 cl Matter. : ts, Minn., as Second Class lar’ the Coens Fee aT ey funds for their support, and Where= ounty | a "Oia Peper of Itasea-C y jas, the state holds 2,381,640 as of —— a {state lands, much of which lies in The Northome Record is twelve} tose districts and others taht ave gears old and Editor Kuechenmeis- | 5. e/ xed; and Whereas, the state ter celebrates the event by chané-|pears no share of its burden of ing his paper from the cumbersome taxation, and the state lands are blanket style to a neat six column) jot peing used for public purposes size. The Record is a booster for! put are held for speculation, Serthome and Koochiehing county) “Resolved, that the state tax com and its prosperous appearance | mission be and is hereby urged to would indicate that it is being ap- | place all state lands not used for preciated. districts in which eee } of the Bailey of Tex-) such lands taxing Our old friend Joe im a grouch. Joe is just as mad | property.” as he can be about this referend- | The Constitution of | our um and recall business, and he took | provides that all property be taxed ion the other day to tell us | equally, and that none except cer- Joe, but progress will) (air, properties used for public anc your retire-|quasi public purposes shall be ex- The state lands above re- state ac so. All right, go on notwithstanding ment. Your eloquent protest didn’t; empted. make a ripple on the political sea. | ferred to are not in the category o+ {exempted lands and have long been ‘held by the state for speculation The settler who owns conti- — C. M, King of Deer River, is; j only. prominently mentioned as a good | Demoerat to register of |S¥ous lands which he is improving te Cass Lake land office. The Her is the main factor in the problem sl Review is not advised whether | Of increasing values; King wants the job or not, put |#el only on his own holdings, but & wants his for the Part of the burden that the state e loys a] | Should willingly bear. If it bé the serve as he pays taxes, if he does it should be asking. There is no mor Democrat in Minnesota than he [poles of the commonwealth to hold} and as a land office register he | the lands until the people sur- them have caused their five to would make an ideal official. rounding |values to increase from y ; | twenty-five dollars per acre, The forthcoming ative ses- ¢ Ss per acre sion will no doubt be asked to con- | justice to those nomi- sider a proposition to place titled to and have some of the ne rees for county offices on a non- ; }inal benefits of civilization? Is it partisan ballot, as is now the case i ay ary jfair or honest. for the great state | with school officials and, judicial } 5 . to deprive the pioneer of the wild-! candidates, and such a measure] ‘ erness of the rights he was born should certainly become. a law.} i é o inherit, and turn his, the set- There is no more sense in electi secuting at tler’s rights and priveleges into hare a county auditor or pr to je | dollars to enrich the state? because he happens torney f a Republican than a Democrat or there would be for ajies ndmaster because he was a Bap- | not be t lit is only f If, as some of our contemporar- belie that public which theory we deny, selecting pC tist orja Finlander. air and equitable for the ae tlegislature to make an appropria- The International Falls Echo istion, large enough to cover the! ten years old. Editor Montgomery ; txes that should be assessed on fas accomplished much in-the way} every tract of land in every dis-| of building a newspaper during the | trict where state lands are located. past decade. When he launched the, Petitions to the legislature Eeho there were two very good pa-|!0W being signed in every county pers at the Falls, and they did not Suffering the above recounted ills} welcome the vewcomer. He had to; #d it is hoped that everybody will fight for what he got, but he kept | Sign them and that the legislature ally. al it and the suceess of Will see the imposition placed up- | is veniure is a satisfying triumph | °! the pioneer and devise some te-him.. Today he has one of the |™eans for his relief. Lake | Best plants. in Northern Minnesota, | limes. gels oul a good paper and is mak- PEE Sea tag ngmouey. The Herald-Review con-; WHO'S A PROGRESSIVE? geatwlates him. | Editor Verity, in his Wadena Pio | jeer Journal, discusses the incon- ae eer j ne sistencies of some alleged progres- While we are not disposed. to par-) gives, He sa ticularly question the necessity or “Politicians are notoriously incon- ai bility of the several sets of| sistent. Anything to win is the investizaling committees now clut-|Pule of the game, and the result : the truth of the old saying that tering up » business 2OMRTeSS x x! : ening en the busingss.of eanmtes »olities makes strange bed-fel- much doubt their practic we vers lows.” Just a few true test of a pre ago the value. At an outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars coi has |* that 1) the bath tub mak- that the money trust is a daugerous combi that worst of the lot. the system which perniits him to be the ezar of the house of repre-| sentatives? Much argument wa the discovery Standa wind made Oi! is a trust, constitute a bad trust, vstem strangled all hope of rule) the tobacco trust|by the people. The ipointed out at the time, jtake from the speaker the power ; ; to appoint committees and place in fev imformation that everybody out-| its stead a committee named by the members. No longer ago than two years the same contest was waged and the same line of argu- ment used in the Minnesota legis-! " a lature. At that time the socall- ather Bill the | og progressives were in the min- nia Enterprise has sold his) jority. The speaker elected was not per to a stock company and will|in accord with them. and they de- reatter share the labors and hon-|Manded a committee on commit- ;tees in order that the voice of the people should prevail. nation and isthe This seems ike an awful lol of money to pay side of congress has been in pos- ion of for the last: twenty-five Hannaford of ers of publishing the oldest paper | on the Iron Ranges with others. W to knew that Mr. Hannaford would not) Today the shoe seems to be on the fet go. the reins entirely, and he/jother foot and the progressives is to be president of the new com-/ (so-called) are in controll in the gany. During his twenty-five years 10710” Dresiaing officer, ‘Lieut. 253 publisher of the Enterprise, the Gov. Burnquist, is one*of them. It paper has steadily gained in pop- would seem, under such conditions, wiarity and influence and is today these men would adopt the re- wall toward the top among Min-|forms they so loudly called for but mesota weeklies. “Bill” has earned i two years ago. They should, if sin- fe right to case up a little and cere and consistent, have the com- _ |mittees named by a committee ga we undersiand that the consid-| delegated by themselves. The geation for the transfer was very setisfactory we congratulate him. power should be taken from both presiding officers. Not so, how- es maintained only three months out! lack of! |public purposes upon the tax lists | t fie in the same manner} as, leaves the United States senate|as is provided by law for omitted | is it} who have wrought | the change in price that he be en-| lands can-} remedy as | was to, “But times have changed all this. | ever. Mr. Rines will name the com- mittees in the house and Mr. Bnrn- jaquist, who was one of the strong- 'est supporters of the reform policy during the last legislative session, is fighting stubbornly against the attempt now being made in the sen- late to force the appointment of a !committee on committees. To- |day Mr. Burnquist says the people elected him to appoint those com- mittees and thus secure for the state affairs. But Mr. Burnquist ‘does not attempt to square his ar- gument of today with his argument of two years ago. “It is amusing, and not a matter |to be taken seriously, of course. {Any man has a right to his own opinions, but it does seem that a would-be-statesman ought to keep ‘one idea on straight for at least two consecutive sessions of the legisla- ture. These sudden shifts of base are confusing to us common peo- ple. { What of Toworrow? in the editorial which follows. It j will do anyone good to read it, and ponder how enobling it is in senti- emnt and hopefullness to the dire- ful disaster pictured by so many modern pessim The article is from Farm, Stock and Home: “This is an age of transition. In 1 | that the doors of opportunity are clossing and that the boys and girls jof today do not have the same chance in life that their fathers and mothers had. So the placer miners believed when the sands failed them. So men thought when the game disappeared. And as they thought then, so they think now, jand will think to the end of time. This dark view of the future jwarranted neither by present f: jnor by past experience. The trap- | per gave way to the cattle man, and {he to the skin-the-land farmer, jand each transfer of soil brought |new progress, more homes, larger {comforts and better living for all, The passing of the old system of farming and coming of the new | will prove no exception to the rule. | Heretofore the profits of farming jhave been largely immaginary. se in land values is about all the average man of sixty years of age has to show for | harvest field. is ;andnature refuses further to honor | our overdrafts. We have farmed ac cording to our lights, but the liglits of the past aré failing. From now }on we must farm each acre in a | way to make the jest on our investment and a fair }return for our labor, without les- sening the fertility of the soil. ° “This is what scientific farming means, And we older fellows, who | have about reached the end of our} iF journey, should remember that our. |way of doing things is passing, /hever to return. When we say that the boys and girls have no oppor- people the voice they demand in} There is life, and light and hope; every such age men say and believe! The| his labors in the | We have withdrawn } from the soil its surplus of fertility) soil -pay us inter- | tunity we mean only that they can- /not repeat our mistakes with our measure of success. jthat they will attempt to do open opportunity for. brains and | business talent on the farm. They | will till our fallow fields. They j will open up our idle acres to the j court and drew a prize of six days | sunshine and the bridge our rivers and build our highways. Their barns and their eattle will make sure of the lean years. They will work with and fer each other. They will have great schools for their echil- ‘dren, and social centers where théy.| will gather when the work of the is over to take comfort out of and thought for the future. ain. They will {in, and their homes will have the |comforts that ours have been de- \nied. They will work with hand an of our cities,aud their factory-farms, will be more profitable to them than the great mercantile houses |are to the financial giants of our |day.And only he who idles need suf jfer hunger; and only he who will {not train himself for the battle shall lack. And that Tomorrow be- | gins Toda | “Come, join in the only battle | Wherein no man may fail; Where whoso fadeth and dieth His deed shall yet prevail! Come! join the army of progress For this we surely know, | That the day and the dawn is coming, And forward the banners go.” pita Folios SSeS Notice. The executive committee of the \Itasca County Agricultural asso- ciation ‘are requested to meet at the office of the village rceorder, Grand Rapids, Minn., Saturday, De- cember, 14, at 2:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended | to all others interested in the as- sociation as matters of importance will be considered. —D. C. Anderson, | C, A. Buell, . President... Secretary. : Nor is it likely, 80.1 ir heir day is to be the day of wide- | the harvests|Raising Funds For Development. | A. G. Wedge of Bemidji, vice-| president of the First Naitonal 38 | They will think of this great West-| ‘Are you opposed to Cannon and/land of ours as a good place to live | i jused to show that the everlasting | br ain to feed the growing millions | { {southern district of Itasca county jare L. B. Arnold of Duluth and ,D. D. Fenny of Minneapolis. The committee has already secured WISCONSIN FARMERS BUY ITASCA LAND diss Ceres od. Ses eek Oe Ludke, of Walworth County, Will Move Here. Three more practical farmers were this week added to the’ list of those who will begin tilling the soil of Itasca for the first time lwith the coming of spring. James Burns, his son, Robert Burns, and Otto Ludke, all of Walworth coun-' ty, Wis., farmers were here last week to look things over and each |became the owner of a fine tract just north of Taconite before he left. Mr. Burns senior, said that land at his old home 1s worth up to $200 an acre, and hundreds of ifarmers are turning their eyes toward a section where it does not require the tying up o so uhfme ‘require the tying up of so much capital to own_a sizable farm. He jsays that there is considerable in- terest in this section among his neighbors, and believes that he iso nly the forerunner of a large number who will seek new fields | in these parts. Sunday School Meeting. The next meeting of the Union Sunday school association for the |will be hold next Saturday after- noon at Warba. There will be de- |votional exereises from 3:15 to 3:40, followed by talks on “Sunday School Music,” “Teaching Temper- ance,” “Organization ” and ‘“Busi-. ness.” The evening exercises will begin with devotional exercises led by Rey. L. R. Burrows of Grand Rapids, followed by a round table discussion on “Training,” with the following subjects: “Training Sen- s Into Responsiveness,” “Stimul- ating Church Attendance and Loy- ality,’ “raining for Missionary Giving,” and “How to . Promote; &!More Effective Teaching.” The meeting will close with. an address by Rey. A. A. Myers of Grand Rapids. In Justice Court. A controversy over the rightful ownership of twelve cords of wood between W. E.. Myers’ and John | Beaudry resulted in the arrest of | Beaudry. It seems that Joe Leisure owned the wood and both Meyer and. Beaudry claimed to have pur- chased it. A hearing was, to be had this morning, but the matter was} adjusted out of court. W. J. Bibbs, who keeps a stop- ping place on the Bigfork river above Cutfoot Sioux, was arrested by Gamewarden D. F. Carmichael jfor having in his possession, the carcas of a deer. An adjournment was taken from the 3rd inst. to the 10th, in Justice Bailey’s court. Andy Hill was taken from the Great Northern passenger train Tuesday in an intoxicated condi- tion. He pleaded guilty in Justice in the county jail. j bank of Grand Rapids was in Grand! 4 Rapids this week on business. Mr. Wedge is treasurer of the Nort ern Minnesota Development assoc tion, and is one of the most active members. He is one of a committee | appointed to solicit funds for the}! organization. The ether members | pledges from the counties of north- ern Minnesota which amounts— to over $8,000.00, The Civic and Com- merce associaion of Minneapolis} has practically pledged $4,000, andj St. Paul is expected to do equally well. These sums of money, to- gether with railway constibutions, Mr. Wedge says, will enable the as- sociation to carry on an extensive campaign of advertising northern Minnesota during 1913. Itasca’s share of the general contribution will be $350. FLORAL EMBLEMS AND FLOWERS Are sympathetic tokens in times Bains gage drawing a high rate of in- terest, send us a description of | Leave Bovey. BEY i155 00 a. m.|{ your property and state amount OF DRESS COODS FRIDAY and SATURDAY JANUARY l0th and {ith We venture the statement that these are the greatest dress goods values that have ever been offered in Grand Rapdis But we want you see for yourself. We want to see what you can save by taking advantage of sales at the ITASCA. BROADDLOTHS, SUITINGS, HERRINGBONE, WAIPCORD, WIDE WALES TWEEDS and FANCY suITINGs in wool and sflk-and-wool. A large lines of colors and black, plain and mixtures, checks and stripes. Goods that sell every in the year for $1.25, $1.39, $1.50, and $1,75 are offered in this sale at yard only. PANAMA, BATISTE, BROADCLOTH, BRILLIANTINE, WHIPCORD, VOILF , STORM SERGE, CRAVENETTE etc, in black, white, navy, brown, reds as welt asa good assortment of mixed colors and the plain light colored pink, blues, niles. etc. This lot takes in goods formerly sold at 75c, 90c, h1.00, $1.25, $1.50. Your choice of this lot for these two days with a limit of one dress length to each customer at yard only 69c. CASHMERE, SERGES, BATISTES, BRILLIANTINE. etc, in plain, checks and plaids, white and light colors that sold for SOc, 59c, 65< , and 75c, choice of the lot with a limit of one dress length to each customer at yard only 39c NEXT WEEK on Eriday and Saturday we shall make some exceptional offers in hosiery. You willfind the ad im next weeks papers. Itasca Dry Goods Co. 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Leave Grand Rapids-- Arriva Bovey-----..-------4: to pay part or all of mortgage - ‘ fter three years. Lowest rate of ’ a years. re) Latham’s Livery interest and prompt service. of bereavament. DULUTH FLORAL CO. THE HOME OF FLOWERS WRITE, WIRE OR ’PHONE SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTER OR THRU GEO. F, KREMER COLERAINE Phone 141. REISHUS-REMER LAND (0. GRAND RAPIDS ONE YEAR TWO DOLLAR FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW BR. C. KILEY, EDITOR AND PUB. Fora oe ot bavi the Herae-Raview say be GET iT NOW Bring your job work to the Her- ald-Review. Always prompt ser- vice and satisfaction. Special Sale )