The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-07
ALSO THE WORK SHOP.

ALSO THE WORK SHOP.
The last weeks exchanges that have
come to our table, almost without ex-
ception, contain an article entitled
Minnesota, the Playground of the
Nation" and dilate at length on the
advantages that this state offers fol-
vacationers.
This is all true. Our invigoraSing
atmosphere which gives new life ia
the ailing, our limpid lakes and crys-
tai rivers furnish unexcelled orpor-
tunities for the most fascinating OF
all sports, angling, our innumerable
duck passes and plentiful chicken
ranges" furnish the devotee of the
1 shotgun, retriever and bird dog I'M
Alimited facilities for indulging in
ltheir favorite pastimes, and in the Big
Woods of the north are found splendid
A.nces for the man who goes after
game. There is no question that
A,esota as an outing ground is
1t a peer, and we fully realize
santages that accrue from this
] !, ybut there is no particular need
advertising it. There is a free
Dnry among pleasure seekers and
one of them finds place to his lik-
ing he will return and bring his
friends with him. We suspect that
this simultaneous advertising was in
spired by the transportation compan-
les who reap a rich reward annually
from the carrying Of the "idle rich"
and their sporting paraphenalia to
and from their play grounds.
We are as proud as anyone of the
splendid facilities that Minnesota Of
fers to the players" of tie country,
but we are still more proud of the OPP
portunities it offers to the workers"
of the world, and we are fain to be-
lieve that this fact is the one that
should be proclaimed to the world
through the press. Minnesota is not
only the playground Of the United
States but, what is infinitely better, it
is the workshop of the continent.
There is no State in the Union that
offers more numerous or better
chances to the toiling brain and Drawn
of the land than the North Star State.
We do more iron mining than all the
rest of the United States combined;
our lumber, industries require an army
of strengthened laborers, while the
supply of farm workers is never equal
to the demand. Opportunities for the
unskilled workmen and the stipend for
his services are as good, if not better
than in any other part Of the country.
The developing and building up Of
the country, especially in the newer
portions is progressing with extra
ordinary rapidity. This creates a
good demand for mechanics and there
is scarcely a town or village in the
northern part of the state that is
not crying for skilled workmen. The
WIN uCSiICS w WI n iOA
himself can find abundant chances to
purchase farms at reasonable prices,
prices that will enable him to earn a
livelihood and pay for his farm with
the labor of his hands.
1t is a good thing to have pleasure
seekers visit our state. They spend
their money freely. They add gaiety
and gladness to life but they do not
aid in building up the country and
make it great.
For our part we would rather have
one hdrny-handed farmer come into
our state, buy quarter of section OF
vacant land, carve out home for him
sch and family, raise horses, cattle,
pigs, poultry, and children, sell his
produce in our markets, buy his goods
of our merchants, and become per-
manent subscriber to the Sank Centre
Herald, than to be visited by all the
vacationers that ever vacated since
vacations were first invented. Work
ers make country; Pleasure-seekers