The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-09-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT

the year until after the next crop IS narVeSIeu
in the history Of our city," prominent banker
remarked to an Independent representative the
other day. II do not want to scare anyone, Of
have anyone get the wrong idea about the best
city in the state, he went on, but | think il
will be we'll for the people to be on their guard.
Now is fine time to get out Of debt. Now is
lifetime to keep out Of debt. There are several
million dollars worth Of mortgages coming due
inward county between now and the first OF
the year and they must be. paid, or a part OF
them at least, and some of them will even be ex.
tended and enlarged While our crop is fair
and the price for the grain excellent, there are
some poor grades and even with fair price, the
farmers will not be able to meet all their obi.
cations. The presidential year is coming and
money will not be available to such an extent
in the east, and taken in all, money is going to
be scarce"
The banker is undoubtedly right The INDIE
pendent does not wish its readers to think that
the editor of this paper is calamity bowler
far from it. We believe in Magic Minot, we be-
ieve that our city is going right ahead next
year and improve as much as she has done the
present year land million dollars worth of i'm
provements have been been done here this year,
but at the same time it, be well for the people to
buy cautiously and pay cash as far as you can,
keep your credit good, meet your obligations
the man you owe with an honest countenance,
Gf you haven't one, borrow one, we'll lend you
ours, don't branch out too much, if you have
bank account, it's going to be mighty nice
thing in the next twelve months In short. ar
range your business so .you will have a steady
continual drain on your treasury. But you will
say, How can farmer have steady income
except once year, when he sells his ycrop?
That is the very thing we have been trying to
get at Why, we can name. fifty farmers or
more, readers of the Independent, who have a
few cows, and brings the butter to Minot OBJ
tanning good price: Another keeps a few
hundred hens and makes the eggs buy his gro
ceries. Another brings cream to Minot and
pays his bills as he goes along. Another raised
hundred hogs every year and markets them
not, another raises poultry to sell, one sells gar
den truck, several hundred dollars worth every
year, and another raises ten acres of potatoes
One farmer is picking wild plums and disposing
Of them to the people of Minot, and 50 we
might go on in many other ways that the farm
Why its easy if you know how It takes work,
but none of you are afraid to work. The grain
farmer is disappearing and we are glad of it.
We are glad to see him converted into mixing
things up. Why its the salvation of this coun
Try. Once let the country people get establish
Dental election-we'll have good times right
aolng. Well not notice a stringent eastern
money market like we are apt to next year.
3s3eee
According to state law, each newspaper
published in the state is required to send two
papers to the Secretary of the State Historical
Society. o. G. Libby, at Bismark, N. D. Now
if the law stipulated that the state should pay
the newspapers for those subscriptions the edi-
f<,p hov inf to 10 Inst
why the Independent should have to send two
copies to the secretary each week is more than
we can tell. We don't care for the cost of the
papers. but it makes US angry to be thus held
up: If we don't send the papers, then according
to law, we are not authorized to do legal print
ing. We don't like the principle. Some dub no
doubt passed the law, and pray tell US what
is this man Libby doing for his country any
way? Was his office created merely that an
other politician might secure a good fat job?
We're going to try and get another law passed,
that of pie tester, and require every bake shop
in the state to send two pies to Bisma rex each
week, or quit business. We are going to land
that job too, cause It's nice and easy and eating
pie is fun. Yes, stree, we're going to be sent
down to Bismarck with 0. G. Libby and some
more Of the igureheads.
And all this leads us to another thought, In
times Of financial distress cooperation means so
much more than at any other time Corpora
ton of the farmers and the business men. If
all the money that leaves this state unnecessar-
lily could only remain at home during the next
year, there wouldn't be any scarcity of money,
at least it wouldn't be noticed. Think Of it.
Money that goes away never to return, money
that helps to build up some other community
really it is pathetic when one stops to consider
the effect it has on the prosperity of the north
west Its money that will naturally get back
into the hands Of the farmers just as surely as
night follows dsy. If it doesn't come back in
coin, it comes back in the increase OF