The Virginia enterprise., 1910-10-14

Terms. 50 Per Year. IN Advance
+ VIRGINIA, twice scourged by fire
was quick in it's response to call for
help from the sufferers of the orth
VIRGINIA has the finest atores, the
best stocks, and the most courteous
class of merchants on the iron
ranges. And they have a trade com
mensurate with their personal quail
itlcations and their elegant stocks.
GROCERs down at St. Louis ask
tor the coinage of a two and one
halt cent piece. Don't know thei1
OBJECT, as we have failed to find any
th'ng even in grocery store which
can be bought for half nickel since
"the best tariff ever t.ecame opera
tive.
IHE COLERAINE Optic rises to in
qulre # it "doesn't sort of look as
though the liquor interests are but
TIM into county politics just little
Dit 100 strong, With candidate for
sheriff and two more for commits
s1oner~: TO say nothing of then
candidates for the state senate anC
tor the house, and for everything
else where vo'e is to be had O,
any matter affecting them.
1T is nOticeab ble fact that one Gu
usually sympathizvs with another
Again proven by the rapidity with
which peace" officers. some O.
whom have crimes of a similar ma
ture charged against them. ar,
rushing into print in defense of tn,
action of Sheriff Madden and hi
deputies in the attempted murde
of the children OF Dietz on the lone
ly road from their cabin home int,
Winter.
The open advocacy of county OF
ton by the democratic guberna
torial candidate is making hin
more votes, from day to day, tha,
amy other ism" to which he IS ad
dicted. Minnesota fast approache
the "dry" column, and in case of
vote one would be safe in wagerin,
his last nickel that old St. Loui
county would be found in line wit
the progressives on this point. An
after 1t is all over the liquor manu-
tacturer and the liquor dispense
may condone with each other OF
the theory that it was all their faul
purely because of the utter disre
gard of all laws under which l.
censes are issued.
WE note that candidate for leo
islative honors from the Gogebi
district in Michigan pledges the in
PRODUCTION, if elected, of bill com
pelling the payment of tax by tn
holder of the mineral right on an
lands in that state, ard further orc
viding that in case OF delinquenc
the owner of the surface right t
the same tract shall have the priv
lege of being the preferred pu1
chaser of such right at a tax sal,
The fact that such mineral reserve
tions pay naught toward the sus
tenance OF schools, roads or muni<
ipal government gives the propos
tion true ring, worthy of fur:he
study and action not only in Mich
igan but in all states where tn
"mineral right" reservation is mad
in practically every deed issued.
The state OF Minnesota was Del
haps the greatest loser from a finar
cial standpoint of any in the terr
tory devastated by fire, holding ur
told timber reserves in the affecte
district. And it would seem tha
a few more occurrences of like n:
ture might Undue the state author
ties with spirit of protection nc
only to its own property interest
but to the lives and property ofthos
settlers who have been able to fin
something the state did not ow
and the lumber companies did nc
want whereon to settle and max
their homes. In the Scandinavia
: peninsula, in Germany aud in othe
foreign countries the practical sid
of conservation of the natural r,
sources has got a big lead on tn
state of Minnesota, where the recu
renee of those forest fires are fro,
year to year robbing not only th
present but the future generatio
| OF their rightful heritage.