Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-02-23

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primary law. Ole might be slipping,
but he sure ought to watch his step.
The Brainerd Posten, after few
weeks publication, has given up the
ghost, and the plant has been sold to
Barnes Of Pillager, who is issuing The
Meddler.
In the appropriations TOR public
) buildings, passed by congress is an
item Of $4,000 for Little Falls, EVIL
IDENTIFY an additional amount to apply
on the postofice building.
The Minneapolis: Journal, which has
been calling vociferously upon the
people to stand behind the admins
tration, in an editorial on Lincoln,
makes a poorly yelled attack on the
president.
The contention that better men
would be selected for the legislature
if convention in connection with
the primary should be held should not
appeal. very strongly to tho present
legislature. They were elected under
the primary system.
The office of treasurer of the new
Federal Farm Loan bank, which is to
be established at st. Paul, has been
rendered to A. H. Turrittin. Mr.. Tur-
rittin, who was state superintendent
of banks, is banker of long expert
.enceN He left for Washington to
confer in regard to the matter and it
is said is inclined to accept the prof
fer.
The disagreeable weather generally
prevailing around the middle of Sep
TENDER, close to the equinox period,
was one Of the deciding factors in
the change of dates of holding the
Stearns county fair held at Sank Cen
trc, TO the last three days of August,
this year. There is more than one
fair management that would be pleas
ed to read the weather signs correct
ly.
Betterment of the primary law with
most Of those. opposing the present
system, is to replace it with the old
convention idea. Few, however, have
the gumption to assert themselves on
this point. The claim is advanced
that the present law is too cumber-
some. "A combination Of conventions
and primary would certainly be all
the more so. The changes proposed,
we believe, will not meet with public
favor.
Representatives Brown and Bouck,
who voted against the "bone- dry'
constitutional prohibition amendment
before it went to the senate, voted
favorable on it's return to the house
for final passage. Governor Burn
quist has signed the bill, and the
amendment will be voted on by the
people in the election of 1918. Both
representatives voted no on the con-
stitutional amendment bill, giving the
voters the right to vote on wocaan
suffrage, which carried in the house
by vote of IS to Al.
Mark G. Cutter, editor of the Thief
River Falls Press News, died sudden
~ of heart disease at Chicago
hotel Monday. Mr.. Cutter attended
the state editorial meeting at st. Paul
last Friday and took part in the dis
cussions, and appeared to be in good
health, out it is said he has been af-
hicted with the disease for some time
Mr.. Cutter was 4S years old. Before
entering newspaper work, he held the
position Of secretary and purchasing
agent of the board of control for
twelve years. Mr.. Cutter was, man
of ability, a strong editorial writer,
and made his paper one of the most
Influential in northern Minnesota. The
obsequies, were held at his old home
at Anoka, which was attended bv
many of the state officers, and other
men in public lire.
The proposal in the legislature to
do away. with the distribution of law
supplements by the papers and also
the publication of the proposed
amendments to the constitution should
be killed. It is proposed that both
be printed in pamphlet form to be
given out by. the auditor to those who
call for them. Naturally this would
make very limited circulation, and
information on proposed changes in
the constitution, would be at a mini
mum. Many good proposals have fall
len by the wayside under the present
system, but with the change no
amendment unless there be overwhelm-
ing sentiment in it's favor would even
have a chance. The people are en-
) titled *, the fullest information on
these * matters, AS to revenue to the
papers, especially in relation to the
distribution Of the laws, paper with.
a, fair. CIRCULATION, makes nothing from
distributing them, on account Of the
cost Of the supplements.
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