The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-19

Friday, May 10. 1911.
Entered at the Postomce at Virginia. Mimi.
- second class mail matter.
Terms. 81 Per Year. IN Advance
A WISCONSIN paper publishes the
statement that Senator Isaac
Stephenson is not a naturalized
citizen. If that is true, the average
American citizen has one more
thing for which he may feel justly
proud.
A HARVARD professor wants the
birth rate regulated by law. Had
he put his proposition up to the
past Legislative body of Minnesota
it would doubtless have received
the support of majority of men,
bers of that body.
THIS is the season of the year the
congressman plant political seeds
at government expense. shipping
garden seeds to their constituents.
If you have not received your pack
age as yet, put it down that your
congressman has quite forgotten
your existence at this time, al
though you may be assured he will
remember you again at election
time.
OSCAR LAFRANCE, a former En-
terprise employe, is reported to
have obtained possession of the
outfit of the defunct Chisholm
Independent, and expects to get
out the initial Issue of the publica-
ton under his charge the coming
week. Mr.. LaFrance is recognized
as first.class printer and has had
considerable experience on the
editorial end, and with the field Of.
fered should book a decided sue
cess of his venture.
THE conviction of John Dietz of
murder in the first degree by the
jury at HAYWARD, on Saturday last,
does not convict Dietz in the eye of
the public. Dietz evidently told
some truth when he stated, after
the verdict had been read, that he
had for several years expected the
lumber trust would "get him" in
some way sooner or later, and that
the verdict was no great surprise to
him. John Dietz may spend the
balance of his days in the peniten-
tiary, but John Dietz will have
more respect and more honor
among men than will the members
of the infamous gang who have put
the almighty dollar ahead of primer.
pie, right and justice, and who
rightly belong to occupy a prison
cell instead of the convicted man.
AN article by Rudolph Lee, editor
of the Long Prairie Leader and &C.
cupying conspicuous place IN a
recent edition of that paper, relative
to Legislative expenses. is meeting
with strong denunciation from
various papers Throughout, the
state, but it is to be noted that in al
most every case where adverse com
ment is made to Mr.. Lees state.
ments of Legislative graft it comes
from some editor who has "cut in
on the graft" in the shape of soft
thing during the session as CHIEF
clerk or lesser Turnkey about the
state house. The article as given
publication by Editor Lee will
stand in the minds of the people al
large until such time as it shall be
disputed from some authoritive
source-from some source which,
does not bear the ear.marks of &C.
cessory to the graft proclaimed.
THE supreme court decision
rendered on Monday in the Standard
Oil case. in which the big trust is
declared to be conspiracy in re.
straint of trade and is given sir
months in which to dissolve, meets
with varying oponions among
statesmen, although all must re-
cognize in the decision step to-
ward restoring to all people the
inalienable rights guaranteed IN.
der our government. AS to what
will become of the Standard Oil
and its nineteen subsidiary com.
panies is not known to common
people, although it is likeley the
trust attorneys have that all figured
out, but the wording of Justice
Harlan's decision indicating that
com binations to become unlawful
must be in unreasonable" restraint
OF trade leaves a wide margin on
which the trust builders may re.
organize with impunity. Com.
pulsory Jail sentences for violators
of the law is the one thing needed
in free America to restore the con.
tdence of the working classes in
the uprightness of the law in this