The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-02-17
CASS LAKERS BANKING ON
THEIR POLITICAL "PULL"
Openly Avow They Have Necessary ''Sta1dng to Give
Them Proposed Sixth Normal School, Despite Protests
of Others in Territory.

Inc LapOrte news, puOllSned IN
remote town in Hubbard county
seems to have been greatly exercised
because the house committee turned
down the general bill allowing the
board of control to locate the sixth
normal, and the Bemidji Pioneer has
the same complaint to make. We
do not claim to possess all the
knowledge of the modern seer, but
we do know that the five normal
schools of the state were established
and located by the act of the legis-
lature, and we believe that such a
course is the logical one to be pur-
sued. The fight is between Cass
Lake and Bemid jail other towns
named are out of the problem. If
the legislature shall determine to
locate the school in the best and
most healthful place, where enough
land can be had to allow the scholars
to turn around without coming in
contact with some disagreeable in
cumbrance, they will locate the
school at Cass Lake where twenty
or forty acres OF land can be had
where the water is good and where
there is no local cause for disease
Cass Lake Times.
The above is in keeping with
the campaign of misrepresentation
and untruthful insinuations which
the people of Cass Lake and her
supporters in the legislature have
been pursuing, and if the location
of the proposed sixth state normal
school is to be decided on such a
showing, Cass Lake is welcome to
it.
One of the things which the
people Of Cass Lake are doing and
which is strictly at variance with
their true feelings in the matter is
the temporary advocacy of the
national forest reserve which sur
rounds that town, and which those
people have been fighting for several
years, as the greatest detriment
to the development of the commun-
ity.
Of late, the Cass Lake gentlemen,
ably assisted by Senator Gum of
Grand Rapids and Representative
P. H. McGarry of Walker, have
been pouring "taAy" over the men,
bers of the State Federation of
Women's clubs, in an effort to
secure the cooperation of that body
of active ladies on the common
ground of demonstration.
The spectacle is indeed a pitiable
one. Less than two years ago, this
same Cass Lake Times and it's vet
eran editor were heaping Goals of
fire upon the devoted heads of Gift
ford Pinchot, chief of the forest
service, and the women of the FEEDER.
alton, because they were Ito use a
favorite phrase of Brother Ives)
creating a national playground to1
the rich men of the east to while
away their time, and erecting a
Chinese wall about the village and
shutting off from entry to needy
settlers who wanted homes thousands
of acres of agricultural lands
Things are different, now; anc
Brother Ives isn't saying much abou>
that Chinese WALL" although it doe:
20 against the grain for him to try
to make believe that he likes fores
reserve.
How ipsincere the people of Cas-
Lake are in their present attitude
favoring a forest reserve is vel
known by G.. E. Marshall, the heae
of the forest service at Cass Lake
who has often talked of the matte
to the writer hereof, and condemned
his neighbors for their efforts tt
wipe out the reserve.
The one aim of G. G.. Hartley O
Duluth (owner of the townsite o.
Cass Lake and the Cass Lake resi-
dents has been to break up thi
reserve of practically 100000 acres