Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-03-11

any p4rtsOf nc ever started out under
falrer auspices than the Northern
Minnesota Develo pment u association
which was organized at the historic
meeting at Bemldji Feb. 1918 5I:a . 53s:
Every county OF the thirty IN North
ern Minnesota was represented there.
and by some of its best, most public.
spirited ana most aggressive citizens.
Earnestness sincerity and purposeful
determination showed in every step
taken. Realizing that partisan or
personal politics was dangerous, it
was guarded against at every turn,
and rlgldly kept out of Of the speeches
and the resolutions. The meeting was
conducted with resouroeful tact, and
its every move was wise and
From it spread throughout Northern
Minnesota a new spirit of unison and
self help. It had been made clear
enough that the state at large could
not be depended upon for the aid
Northern Minnesota needs for it's
Development; nor is that unnatural
or surprising Very likely if the
population of the two sections changed
places the result would be the same.
Northern Minnesota has found that
she must do for herself, and that in
order to do for herself she must act
unitedly. Hence the Beimldji con.
ference and the organization of the
Northern Minnesota Development
association.
50. far, SO good; but the battle is
only begun. The new association is
based upon and bulwarked by q
system OF county organizations To
make it effective and to continue the
work in the spirit in which 1T was
begun, it 10 necessary that in each one
of the thirty counties vigorous and
aggressive county organ zatlon he per-
fected to cooperate with the general
organization. The organization of
these county associations already has
begun. st. Louis county has one
already made in her county club
Koochiching and Beltrami counties
organized on the ground and i'm
mediately called county conventions.
To give the new association founda-
ton and substance it is necessary that
similar action be taken In each one of
the other counties in Northern Mime
sofa; and The Herald hasn't the
slightest doubt that that will be done
promptly and effectively.
Nor is that all. It was made clear
at the Bemidji convention that the
real reason why Northern Minnesota
has been left to develop herself alone
is that the superintendent Of legislative
legislation made in 1897, when the
states population was much less than
it is now, leaves the thirty counties of
Northern Minnesota with far less than
their fair share of representation.
There are districts in Southern Mime
sofa with 10, 600 population that have
as great a voting power in the state
senate as districts IN Northern Mime
sofa with more than so, 900 people.
Reapportlonment, then, is the first
need. Inc Bemidji convention, in
most emphatic terms, so declared
and it also demanded that candidates
for legislature from Northern Mime
sofa pledge themselves properly upon
this subject.
That was about all the convention
could do along this line; the rest is
up to the voters. 1t is for them to see
that their legislative candidates are
properly pledged, and that none who
fail to make such pledges shall be
nominated or elected.
The movement for the development
of Northern Minnesota, then, needs not
only the vigorous action of it's new
association, but equally vigorous ac-
ton from the thirty county organiza
lions, and alert and aggressive action
on the part of all the people of this
section. Thus, and thus only, can
be realized the trem N o u 8
potentialities of achievement that the
movement contains. -Duluth Herald.