The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-19
RESOLUTIONS, WHICH DEMAND JUSTICE
FOR THIS SECTION, PASS WITH CHEERS
Those Who Attended Convention Are Pledged Not Support
Any Legislative Candidate, Who Is Not Pledged in
Advance to Reapportonment.
The Resolutions.

he Resolution:
and transformed into some of the richest
and most fertile farm lands in the State
of Minnesota, and, 80 r.
Whereas, there are two million acres
yet remaining unsettled for lack of drain
age and the same are susceptible of drain
age.
: Therefore, be it resolved that we are
heartily in accord with the drainage move
ment commenced by the different coun-
ties, the State Drainage Commission and
the United States Government, and we
recommend that all northern Minnesota
counties do all in their power to further
the cause of drainage; that the Federal
Government be urged to reclaim the
millions of acres held by them in trust
for: the Chippewa Indians, and further
that. theinext State Legislature submit a
constitutional amendment to the end that
appropriation of funds can be made
for the Strengthening and the deepening
of the rivers and channels which are the
natural outlets of our drainage projects
and to generally assist in this most
important work.
We urge that all matters pending in the
several departments at Washington relat-
ing to our Indian Reservations be immedi-
ately considered, thereby aiding us in our
work of development and improvement of
northern Minnesota. r.
Resolved that the Association hereby
heartily endorses the campaign of the
Minnesota Federation of Commercial Clubs
for State Appropriation of 500, 90
per year for state advertising under the
direction of its immigration department.
Resolved, that this Convention heartily
endorse the conservation. movement and
pledges the support of the thirty counties
here represented.
Resolved, that the Board of Management
of the Minnesota State Fair be requested
to allow no advertisement of lands except
Minnesota lands on the printed matter
issued by the State Fair. Management;
and that the space on the back of all tags
:or tickets attached to exhibits be offered
to to the State immigration Department,
free of charge. for the purpose of adver-
stising Minnesota's agricultural resources.
Believing that one of the important
factors of the agricultural development of
Of. our State is the proper education of our
farm boys and girls for farm life, and
believing also that the policy of the State
should be to offer as much elementary
education as possible to the farm boys
and girls in their home schools; that fully
approaching the magnificent urban,
graded and high schools which have been
built up in the State of Minnesota under
the direction and guidance of the High
School Board and by the liberal appropria-
tons granted by the State Legislature
and realizing that the proper education OF
our rural children is of as much import
ance to the welfare of the State as the
education of its urban children, and further
recognizing that the present system Of
rural schools offers to the rural children
educational advantages greatly inferior to
those now offered to our villages and
cities,
Be it resolved. that the State of Mime
sofa should, proceeding along similar lines
to those by which it has built up lis
excellent system of urban, graded and
high schools, build up a system of rural
township, graded and high schools which
shall fully meet the needs of our rural
population and shall insure to them in
their home schools as much instruction in
elementary agriculture. manual training
and home economies as it is possible tc
give.
Be it further resolved. that we recon-.
mend the establishment of more schools
in the State of the type of the Crookston
School of Agriculture, and further believ-