Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 5, 1913, Page 5

By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. Ids, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County | The congressional probers have} solemnly declared there is a mon- ey trust. We always thought some | body was hanging on to it. | tao A, St. Paul newspaper states that | many of the state legislators are merely ornamental. We know sev- eral who are not even that. SiS Sa ee It is well enough not to be an} agitator. There were John Brown Wednell Philips and a few others, of course, but the breed seems to have degenerated sadly. “RL ee BC a The d of the present Min- nesota legislature, outside one or two hills, induces a charitable feel- ing for the old despots who used to chase the lawmakers home and} not let them get together again for a hundred years or so. aie th SENS Have you done anything toward getting better railroad service and a better railroad station for Grand Rapids? If you have not, how do; you expect the place will ever get! what it wants and ought to have* ea Ea It used to taken a thousand years} to form a state. About half of} the best state in the union can de made in three years by building good roads in the northern Min- nesota counties.Now go to it? | The Reapportionment Bill A few papers in the north coun- try, seemingly inspired, are sug- gesting that the reapportionment bill be allowed to go over two yeary or if necessary until after the state’ census of 1915 unless it goes through the senate as it passed the house. All of which is a sort of acquie-| scence in the injustice the northern} districts have been compelled to en-! dure through lack of proper re-| presentation, for years. The reapportionment bill should be passed this session, and will be} if those vitally affected take the interest iu the matter they should. If the people of this district would take hola of this subject as earnest< ly as they did the tonnage tax pro-| position a public sentiment would! be created throughout the — state that could not be ignored by the hostile senators. Why wai for two or three years? The same objetcions that are being| raised now. will be on tap then, | and will have augmented with the! passing of time. If we cannot get! reapy.crtionment now, there is 10 | reason to expect that we can get} it twc years hence. Certainly it is not laying the proper foundation | to submit tamely to the prejudice and selfishness of those opposing it. Let the people in the districts af- fected take vigorous and instant action to place their demands in unmistakable terms, before the senate. ‘hat done there will be no failure. If they do not they hardly deserve the justice that is their due. | And above all things that same public opinion should muzzle the papers that have suggested the waiting policy. Maybe they are not wholly on the square. Yhe northern legislators must! show euergy, industry, and real | puryoste in making reapportionment an accomplished fact, or stand con- deraned as unworthy the trust posed in them. Another Opinion of Duluth The Chishoim Tribune Herald: | Duluth is a very fine town, situ-| ated, geographically, in position to) become the leading city of the great North-west, but it is unfortunate} re- in being peopled with the most} shortsighted business men and manufacturers on the globe. It has manufacturing plants we think. It is hardly possible for a town so situated to be without its few mani, facturing and jobbing concerns but one might search the daily papers printed within its boundaries with) it will be a fine thing for the other | a powerful microscope and fail to} find anything worth while in the way of advertising drawing atien- tion of consumers to what is made} or handled in Duluth. In the Twin cities it is different. The daily newspapers of those towns are full} of business catching ads and the consequence is that much range trade goes to them. Search the range weeklies or adilies and not one business catching ad can be found from Duluth manufacturers or jobbers and yet Duluth business| men want the range trade. Last week the Duluth Commercial club essayed to draw altention to Du- luth and its manufacuring plants and distributed a prospectus among newspapers of the Northwest, but again ignored the ranges entirely, or, if not en- lirely, ran their ad in one or two obscure weeklies, overlooking the most important towns and news- papers. Until the short sighted business men and manufacturers of Duluth go to an optician and have their vision repaired it would be pretty good policy on the part of range merchants to hold their or- ders until twin city business repre- sentatives make their visits, visits by the way that are becoming more frequent every year. liberally signed A Chance for the Reformer The minimum wage bill now be- fore the legislature is a measure that should become a law. It is aimced to do away with the great GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1913 Cannot See The Joke The Englishmans lack of appre- ciation of a joke is an old story. ciation of a joke is an old ‘story It never was better illustrated than in the dealings of the govern- ment with Mrs. Pankhurst and her followers. Mrs. Pankhurst has been placed in jail again on some charge grow- ing out of her militant way of agi- tating the equal rights question— bounding rocks off the chancellor's head, or something. She is denied bail, and refuses to eat anything while in prison, And one can’t blame her, for the English prison fare is described as particularly unapetizing. She says she will go into court, make no defense, and let the judge sentence her while she is starving to death. To add to the tenseness of the agency for the propagation of white situation, the English mobs have slavery—the employment of girls in big department stores of the cities at less than a living wage. It is not to the credit of the people of the state of Minnesota that the battle to put it through has been left entirely to the labor unions and a few benevolent organ-| izations largely made up of wo- men. It should have received active and undivided support of the church people and churches, and of the right minded in every village, town and city in the state. That the churches have not rallied to its support is but another instance in which they have given their crit-| s cause for the claim that they jare not in sympathy with reforms} that make for real moral better- ment, or are too lazy to get out and fight for them. Organized labor has fought an unselfish battle for this bill, and is! still active on the firing line. The! the unions as the} reocrd stamps great champions of economic and moral reform in Minnesota. And it should be remembered that not one of those sought to be benefited is a member of any labor union. lf the were a minimum wage law would not be necessary. The wo- men’s organizations which have lent their aid are to be ranked in the same class. The bill is due to have a hard time in the senate. It may be killed. If so it will be a public misfortune and a moral crime. Op position is coming from the sel- fish interest in the business world which has no hesitancy about sacri« ficing a neighbor's daughter for a dollar, and the more debased class which hopes to profit directly by her extermity of poverty. If the minimum wage is not established the women of the state could put the idea into force by re- fusing to trade at stores which do not pay their help living wages. The Newest Hunch The newest idea in the world is a brand new one. Probably no one ever thought of it until the man who sprung it brought it forth fror. the inner recesses of his giant in- tellect. And maybe it isn’t a bad ide@ at that To make a long story short, it is a college to train men for the saloon keeping business. Judge Neelen of Milwaukee is the one who advocates it, and he thinks a good classical education, with a few yards of psychology thrown in, as well as a little higher mathe- matics, would be a great thing in handling the sale of three barrels of beer a day, besides whatever of the red pizen the necessities of the alcholic set might demand. The judge believes that the edu- cation would develop the moral side of the saloon man, and the trim- mings would make him a better judge of his customers, thus en- abling him to tell a boy from a man when it came to close decision on ages in the matter of dishing out the schnapps. It would take a presumptious fel- low to speak decidedly upon the proposal, for or against. Maybe a saloonkeeper’s college will yet ad- orn the bank of the Mississippi, ar 4 the degree of B.B. (Batchelor of Beer) will yet be bestowed upon in< tellectual youths, arrayed in cap and gown on commencement day. The farmers’ college was a far ery a quarter of a century ago, and the world is moving right along. When the college is established young men at the institution. Of course the saloon student will have to get some practice inside the ma- hogeny, and what more natural than that the other classes should be sent up at stated intervals to get} their grog. Let us hope the plan will not become co-educational. Be it remembered, that while few have learned the art of the mixol- ogist at college, many have obtain- ed the lessons during that period that have made the trade profit- able for those who wear the long white apron. A fair exchange now seems to be in order. Verily Judge Neelen is some judge, taken tostoning the suffragette meetings, and several of the lead- ers have stopped cobble stones in the last week or so. A serious situation, one might say. Yes, indeed. But the only thing that makes it so is the Eng- lishmen’s inability to recognize a joke when he sees it. In any other country in the world the militant suffragette would be laughed down and out in a month. Her fantastic methods would make her the butt jof national, urban and community |ridicule, which not even a militant jsuffragette propaganda could sur- | vive. John Bull cannot laugh, therefore he pays the penalty. John has taken himself seriously so long that he is hardly human, and so the suffragette wisely slams him with a brick, probably to see if he is alive. A Persistent Nuisance Harry K. Thaw is again in the \limelight. He has refused to tes- tify before a commission appointed |by the governor of New York to |investigate the alleged attempt to \free Thaw through the medium of bribery. His refusal was based {on the position that he would not |appear before the body unless the the stigma of insanity was removed from his record. ‘ Harry may be right in that par- ticular, as such a point gained would go far toward securing his liberation from the insane ‘asylum. The officials of New York are do- ing much to keep Thaw and his ,claims before the public. That they are perpetuating a nuisance {of which the American people are |\tired, goes without saying. Had Thaw received his deserts he would {have gone to the electric chair \like other murderers. That he has ‘escaped, largely because of the im-! |mense wealth of his family, is not a good reason for parading him | further. Thaw has been a degenerate all \his life. He is no more insane than \other people of his type. His mur- \der of Stanford White inflicted no ‘injury on the public, outside of the moral involved, for White, despite his great professional ability, was ;one of the worst citizens imagin- | able. | After the degenerate Thaw had (killed him and was sent to seclu- sion to keep, him from harming more worthy people, it should have jended his case. That it is reopened every few ;months on one pretext or another jis discreditable to those respon- ‘sible. Dont Like Nomination The nomination of C. L. Pratt Monday night at the Township cau- | cus, as candidate for justice of the jPeace, has not been received with approval by the public. | It is~ vealized that Mr. Pratt's | friendships and temperament are ;mot such as would make his court an ornament to the judiciary, and there is a demand that cannot well |be disregarded, for a man that can |do this important office jusitce. It is pointed out that Mr. Pratt's service as ocurt commissioner was not satisfactory, and no better ‘is expected if he should be elected justice. | It is probable that a meeting will |be called in a day or two to place ‘another candidate in the field. | PRESS OPINION Albert Lea Standard: If the legislature will give us distance tar iff, a public utilities law, a right initiative, referendum and recall statute, the short ballot, and a ;constitutional conveniton, much |may be forgiven. | Browns Valley Tribune: When the legislature adjournes from Fri- day over to Monday, many people seem to labor under the impression jthat the time is wasted, but as a rule this is not the case. Members require time to acquaint themselves with provisions of proposed laws, ‘there are some members in branches of the legislature who do very little work at any time. Walker Pilot: It looks as though a bill would be passed at this ses- sion, authorizing county boards to} appropriate a 5 cents per capita tax for the support of state devel- opment associations. The bill is a good one. There is many a nickel that goes toward the development of a schooner appetite, that might just as well go toward the develop- ment of the state instead. Elk River Star-News: A bill that reduces railway passenger ratcq to 2 cents per mile is before the legislature with a favorable recom- mendation. Should the legislature enact a law of this kind that will stick, the public will probably over look many ommissions the law- makers may make on other ques- tions. , VOLUME OF TRADE BEATS THE RECORD OF LAST YEAR Contributed by First State Bank The end of February brought more clearly into focus the line of demarkation between the immediata business situation and the future. There is still a very confident tone to commercial reports covering near-by trade, but confidence -be- comes imbued with increasing con- servatism as one extends his vis- ion further into the year. While) there is little cause for pessimism, there is undoubetedly some basis for the conservatism. The change in the political administration of, the country and the adoption of a} new economic policy offers good | reasons for caution in forward come mitments. Any feeling of depression which business may have developed of late, however, as caught from the financial and stock markets. Tak- ing the distinctively commercial tifade, as it exists today, there is no substantial cause for concern, | but there is, of course, a sufficient~ ly intimate relationship between tha financial and commercial markets for the one to effect the other even if it be only psychologically. | The volume of spring trade is greater than a year ago. In most of the jobbing centers it is report- ed in excess and at none is it stated to be below. Collections in the South and Southwest are said to be a| little slow but there is no cause for} worry. In the hard winter wheat area, farmers hold good reserves of grain yet to be marketed and throughout the South, planters are busy preparing the soil for the! new crops. Climate and soil condi-| tions are said to be more favorable than a year ago. New crop prospects will have much to do with. determining the} future business trend. At present the winter wheat is the centre of | interest. In parts of the Southwest, a moisture deficiency has occa-| sioned concern from time to time but chiefly among the speculators who have been anxious to start something in the pit. Recent storms | have relieved all immediate ap- prehension of drought, although the average precipitation is still below normal. As it is, the crop outlook is not unpromising but un- til the growing season arrives, no definate opinion can be formed. In viewing the business and fi- nancial situation broadly, the weak factor is the money and credit con- dition. There is a world wide strai | that, at bottom, accounts for the symptons of uneasiness in finan- cial circles. Peace in the Balkans, Py G 2 i eliminating the fear of a great Eu- a | ropean war, would bring the hoard-| | ed gold out of the stockings, but with the funding .of the war debts and the security issues laready pre- pared, as soon as the market can absorb them, there is little prospect) of any easement. in the general money market. LAW MAY SHUT OFF THE PRAIRIE GHICKEN HUNTER A bill has been introduced in the legislature by Senator Cook of Aus- tin, that is giving Grand Rapids hunters, as well as their brethren of the field hroughout the state, a good deal of concern. It prohibits the shooting of prairie chickens in Minnesota until Sept. 7, 1916. Just why such a law is called for at this time the sportsmen are unable to understand, as they} claim the birds have been increas-| ing in numbers for several years.) They are just as deeply interested | in preserving the prairie chicken from extinction as Senator Cook, | but believe that he does not under-| stand or appreciate the situation. The old law permitted the shoot- ing of prairie chickens after the middle of August, and while it was in effect the birds rapidly decreas- ed, to such an extent that the breed Ladies’ Cotton Union Suits, gauze, each Same quality with long neck heel and medium box toe. toe. toe. ford with low heel. sole. leather bow. the new, a pair. New Curtains and Nets edge to match, at per CURE FOR COLD good rubbers. 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After the bunch- was threatened with destruction. and the majority of members im-|As a remedy the season was put|ing, the season is over to all in- prove the opportunity during the|back to the first of September, and/ tents an dpurposes, with plenty of adjournments to post up. Of coursé later to Sept. 7, not only making Stopk birds left, Kelly Lake—The has a big crew of men at work be- Great Northern tween this place and Wawina, double tracking the Swan River line. ’ ar! | BOVEY-COLERAINE - GRAND RAPIDS STAGE Covered and Heated Daily Daily Except Sunday Phone 141, CO —