The Bottineau courant., 1906-06-15

omical basis. That they might have
been built differently is perhaps true.
The money that has been spent on the
asylum for instance, with the addi.
tions and alterations, would perhaps
build better and more complete in
stitntion today. But this is always
true of such buildings. Could the
future be foreseen by any business
man he could save money, and lots of
it in his plans.
The laws of North Dakota. which
the gang are as responsible for as for
anything else. are as good laws as
there are in any state in the Union.
In many respects this state takes the
lead. In education, preservation of
health, temperance, the punishment of
crime, protection of the homestead by
liberal exemptions to the family, and
pure foods, North Dakota is in ad-
vance of all the other states. In the
recent Woman's Congress of the Unit
ed States held in st. Paul few DAYS
ago, North Dakota was highly CON-
mended in these matters.
North Dakota citizens are not per-
feet, therefore its those
who want Office and those who get in
are no more perfect than the citizen.
ship from which they spring. But
after all! the insurgent calamity howl
has been carefully considered. we
can draw no other conclusion as re.
suit than some fellows wanted an Office
and didn't get it, some had been tried,
found incopmetent and turned down.
There is nothing wrong, morally or
legally, in the men who have had
charge of the affairs of the state, in
the laws they have placed on the sta.
tute books, nor in their enforcement.
In fact, we are above the average in
every way.
This leads us up to the local contest
in Bottineau county. to be decided at
the primary election next Tuesday.
The delegates urged as the straight re-
publican ticket are to 20 to the con-
vention simply as republicans, pledged
to do only what is just and right.
They will favor any action or candi-
date they believe to pe right, whether
machine or insurgent; they will oppose
any action or candidate they believe
to be wong, whether machine or in
surgent. They are neither sewed up
no tied down. On the other hand
those who are classed as insurgent are
pledged to the misnamed Good Gov
ernment League. Whatever bears that
brand they are ready to swallow
hide, tallow, feathers and all A
vote for them means vote for a
change-for the mere name of change.
Let every voter, before he casts his vote
next Tuesday. ask himself this ques-
tion:
What's the matter With
North D0E0tU?"
Then if he concludes that average
citizen is as good and honore BILE as he
is himself. if the average Office holder
is as honest and efficient as he is him
self, if the laws of the state. as a
whole, are as wholesome code as he
could produce, if they are enforce by
the administration of justice and
the punishment of crime as we'll as
be could enforce them if he had the
power to do so, then ask himself an
other question;
What change is really
needed 0nyzUny?"
The man who does this, who forgets
prejudice and the howls of disap-
pointed Office seekers, who looks only
to vote the best interests of the state,
will need no urging to continue the
government along the same lines and
vote the straight republican ticket.
Peter Scott is seeking to create SYM