Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-03-19

1t was always the DOaSC VI hePuOAA-
can leaders that theirs was "the part.
of the business man, They have posed
from the beginning as the friends Of
business. That friendship: found ex-
preston in their tariff laws and in
Various domestic policies, they assert,
ed. Yet, with al. this concern and re-
gard for business, the Republicans re-
NAMED in power for forty yeas with,
out devising q ~safe monetary system;
without making provision for fern
loans; without taking step to create
an American mercantile marine; with
out any attempt to modernize and ex.
pand our consular system in the inter:
est Of our foreign commerce.: A. Re
publican Congress at this moment is
opposing acknowledgement Of our mer-
chant feet, is preventing the repeal Of
the tax on clothing and the like; is re.
ducing the appropriation required to
continue and extend the good work OF
the foreign trade service of the Depart
ment of Commerce. And the business
man can't seem to understand this sort
of friendship.
The mighty have fallen, and they
have fallen hard. In Austria and Hun
gary the nobility are in 'desparte fna1l-
ciai Enthusiastically pauperized, many
of them-not knowing one day from
whence the meals for the next one will
come. It is even said that hundreds OF
duchesses, princess and baronesses are
seeking employment las governesses, on
" to be rebuffed. Parents fear that
they will implant extravagant ideas IN
to the minds of the little children.
Many of these women are even waiting
on table in observation-disclosures the only
thing left which they are capable OF do
ing. America, rich in everything, can
not. help a feeling of sympathy for
these unfortunate women who have had
everything and now have nothing, just
as we sympathize with all who are
struggling in the depths Of poverty
whether high born or Of plebian birth.
But will the lesson it teaches be taken
home9 Will women learn that from In
fancy every person should be taught to
be self supporting in one way or anoth-
er-that the day Of the drones is rapid
ly drawing to a closes
That the old convention system would
again be adopted for selection OF Off
Gals, it has appeared 70 us, would not
come about again in Minnesota, at least
with the general consens or the people.
In this relation, and commenting on the
republican caucuses Of the past week,
Vance Chapman, who writes repubh-
can dope under the name OF 1.-The
County Chairman,' and who is next to
political matters in Minnesota, says:
"The republican state convention to
be held in st. Paul Saturday will prob
ably be the last political gathering of
it's kind as far as the Gopher state is
concerned. Predictions are plentiful to
the effect that it is the end and that the
present state wide primary law for state
Offices may even be affected. The
trouble is that a self chosen few have
the rule or ruin idea and the rank and
file simply will not stand for it. It is
the history Of the majority party OF lat
er years and it is simply case of his:
tory repeating itself. Too much small
town stuff perhaps better explains the
situation. This same rule or ruin idea
put Townley over in North. Dakota and
it has political Minnesota on the run at
the present time, 80 get ready boys fol
a presidential Proficiency primary law
q, stiffening of the present state wide
primary and anything else that the min
ority can cook up. It is coming and the
present presidential fight is going to
hasten the day.
Duluth Herald:---some of the politi.
>c;edns never tire Of telling how insistent
the former soldiers are for compulsory
military service, but according to the
Nilaca Tmng6t5 three members Of the
American Legion post there voted in
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