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beef products. The contestants will
assume that it will take an average
of $4,000 of the public's money to
operate each saloon for the average
aloon in Boltrami county, or in
other words that about 100000 in
cash would be spent by the public
each year for the merchandise of
those so saloons, and as second con-
liberation, that the public, in spend
ing this amount Of money will spend
at least 5000, 900 worth of laborers'
:ime. loafing around the saloons that
could otherwise have been utilized in
producing wealth, or taking care Of
dairy cows, or total expenditure
during period of 10 years, for mer-
chandise of SO saloons of five million
dollars in cash, and two million dol
lars in loss of time.
Will the executive committee of the
Merchants and Tax Payers league
claim that my figures are too high?
If so, let them bring out exact figures
for the past ten years of the opera
ton of the so leading saloons in the
county. The question then comes, at
the end of 10 years, how much actual
good has the expenditure of five mil
lion dollars Of the peoples cash, and
two million dollars of the laborers'
time in the saloons done for farm and
home development We make spe-
cial mention of the farm for the rea-.
son that the league claims to be a
farmers league"
Economical Facts.
Let us get at the facts from an
economic standpoint for the best de-
velopment of Beltrami county. On
the other, or dairy cow side, the con-
testants should consider that for the
same 1O-year period, if the public
would deposit their 100000 In cash
that would be spent for saloon nner-
chandise, in the rural credit banks,
with the instruction that the money
should be lent out for the purchase of
not less than 1000 dairy COWS per
year, or during a period of 10 years,
that such a move would bring into
Beltrami county from the outside,
10000 new dairy cows, and that the
100000 per year in time lost loaf
ing around the saloons would be
spent by the public in producing
food and taking care of these 10000
extra dairy COWS in Beltrami county,
will the actual benefits in the way of
farm development from these 10000
extra dairy cows and their increase,
equal the benefits that would be re-
ceived from the same amount of
money invested across the bars of
the proposed SO saloons?
The dairy cow will produce better
farms, furnish healthful food in the
homes and give employment to more
local people than the so saloons, and
the question before the rank and file
of Beltrami county should be to de-
termine in which line of industrial
development can we invest our money
for the next ten years to the best
advantage for our county. =.
J. J. .OPSAHL, ...
Colonization Agent,
Red River Lumber Co.
P. S.-The answers of these con-
testants will be printed in the Be-
midi Pioneer from time to time as
received, and list given of the con-
testants. The contestants will be al
lowed to select their own judges dur
ing the first week of September, and
the awards will be paid through the
Northern National bank as soon as
the contestants committee has filed
with their bank their decision.
Pioneer want ads pay.