Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-02-21

anu OF the psOpigIS " .sAAS y =. ~.
their INK for their hypercritical attitude
toward the Presidents visit and says
that the u. 8. Senate has not made one
Nations S or Of the Presidents acts Ia
supporting such League Truly. MT:
TAFT has been re- born politically since
1912. Meetings Of the Congress- were
held IN M MtnneaRSl{tf apd St Man an
than, DR.. Charles r. Brown. Of Yale
University; DR.. Henry van Dyke, form
er U. 8. Minister to The Netherlands;
Mrs. Philip N; Moore. President Amert.
Wilson Of Harvard; p: A. Fliene. direc-
tor Of the u. s. Chamber Of Commerce;
DR.. Lowell of Harvard. and various
other celebrities. On Thursday: MT MT
Legislature. his subject upon that oc-
casion, as upon all others. being the
League Of Nations. The meetings sof
the Congress were well attended ana II
hearty sympathy with President Will
son and with the speakers who came
here to cultivate sentiment in regard
to the great work he is doing in Eur
ope. %
Now that the u: s: Senate. for the
time being, has defeated woman suf-
frage, the suffrage workers in this
what their next step shall be to for
ward the good cause. The consensus
of opinion is that they shall put their
influence behind the bill introduced In
to the legislature which provides that
tors only They fgure-and figure
wisely I think-that if they can make
their influence felt in presidential cleo
tons, it will be only q short time be-
fore they will be granted complete sur
frage.
The much advertised Lincoln Day
banquet on "Wednesday evening. ssry-
cd eat once neeca me and 70 SarmonY in Minnesota
ranks. Victor Power. may
or Of Hibbing, was the principal speak
er, and by inference he stated that the
Republican party is co 1;e ny srn "a
his hearers that If a return is not made
to the teachings and principals OF Lin
coin. the party will meet with defeat
and that such defeat would be 3ustihed:
Lieut.. Governor Frankson. who COM
memorated the birth of Lincoln by beg
ging his hearers to stand by the G. y.
p, from president to coroner, and as
surfing them that this was the only
panacea necessary to bring about the
political millennium. 1t is a safe bet
that at Governor Burnquist's meeting
in st. Paul, on March Z, another brand
of oratory will be on tap. wonder
if these divergent interests and aspir-
ations can be welded together so as to
get solidly behind any one candidate in
1920. i wonder!
The primary called to fill vacancies
in the state senate, held in the counties
of Hennepin. LeSueur and Washington
last week, resulted as was indicated In
my last letter: Coleman and Donohue
ars and Cosgrove in LeSueur, and Will
cox and Sullivan in Washington. The
finals will be held this week and each
is going to put up the fight
states that George Sullivan has made
his peace with the liquor interests, who
deserted him to some extent in the
last fall because of his alleged
mission bill, and that as a result his
chances are looking up. ILL.,.
Several, bills have been introduced
providing for increases in the salaries
One Of these bills pro:
yides that the governors salary shall
beVincreased from $1,000 to $4,000; that
the state auditor, secretary of state.
nnd
shall each draw an advance of $500
per annum: that the Supreme Court
Justices shall receive their raise" and
shat s tie nfsas y:ftSs,
each. Somehow: in the shuttle. Her
man Mueller. Clerk Of the Supreme
Court. seems to have been overlooked,
in spite of the fact that in the list Of
schmahl, they are all. including Her
man, labeled -"Republican." 1t is also
noted that there is no concerted effort
to get increases for the poorly paid
ers who were drawing SIS per month
fifteen years ago still draw SIS. On
their behalf at least hope that the
legislators will have-a-heart. To one
with even a bit of the milk of human
that these should be taken care of SUBJ
stantially, even if the higher-ups
should have to struggle along at the
old rate.
One bill, which saw the light of day
on Tuesday, was introduced upon rec
ommendation of the Women's Division
of the State Labor Department: It asks
an s-hour day for housemaids and
women not taken care of in the regular
bill establishing q general S-hour day
for woman labor, which I understand
is to be introduced ina few days Miss
charge, feels that If eight hours is a
days work for women in one trade or
avocation, it should also operate for
those in homes and hospitals.
During the week the Senate and the
House, by immense majorities, passed
the Babcock Highways bill, providing
for an amendment to the constitution
authorizing a bond issue Of 100000
900 for the construction of hard surface
ed roads throughout the state. The
amendment will go to the voters of the
state at the 1920. election.
T. q
When Governor BurnQuist lodged the
Lincoln Day banquet this week, he al
so lodged attendance at the League of
Nations meeting. AS the governor has
been consistently anti" upon every
proposition favored by President Will
son to date, his admirers feel that he
played his highest trump when he alb
scented himself from these meetings. 1t
would have done number Of Minneso-
ia Democrats world of good to have
seen the governor put in a position
where he would have had to openly ap-
prove just one policy of the President.
During. the 1915 Hcammnaien Ole Han