Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-29

and it is just practically what we are
doing. We must let live in order to
live.
Now, we all have dissappointments,
misfortunes, faults and mistakes and
troubles and sins of our own, and God
Almighty knows that is enough for
any person, and is about all the aver
age person can stand, without suffer-
ing for the faults and sins Of others.
The innocent can't afford is and must
not suffer for the sins Of others. If
a man burns his hand he must stand,
the pain, and more is the reason, we
should have public improvements, con-
trolling floods, improving the chan
nels of the rivers, irrigation, reclaim
ing land and other public improve
ments too numerous to mention where
by man can get work every day in the
year, wages not less tina two dollars
and fifty Gems per day for the most
common work No limit to energy
and ability, and skill, let it have all it
will command, would be one Of the
greatest blessings that was ever
known. An honest man had rather
work than accept charity, and the
man that is able to work, and won t,
with no visible means Of living with
out works. a questionable and suspic-
ious character, and should be arrested
on general principals with the dissipat
ed that will squander their money any
time, and not sustain themselves nor
their families, are not only s%quander-
ing their own money and time but
other peoples as well, are abusing
their opportunities and their liberty,
and should be deprived of it,and made
to work, and take the money and sup
port himself and family. With a sys-
tenn of insurance against accidents,
sickness and death, makes life a Ger.
tainty to the limit with human power
to all. Strikes must be strictly pro
hibited. They interrupt business, dis
courage enterprise and are in defiance
and contempt Of the constitution .
Life and property must be protected
Labor unions and hours Of labor with,
out work availeth nothing. All labor
ing men in the world might join in {
union, they might command wage.
when there is work, but they cam
command work.
Poverty, Vice, Crime and corruption
cause more deaths, and is more ex
pensive than all the wars that wer.
ever known; wars are local and per
iodical. While poverty, vice ane
crime are universal and continue.
every day and every night, the cost o.
poverty, vice and crime and corrup
ton, would more than pay all of our
Government, and maintain all the pul
lie schools, construct and equip ant
, operate all the great industries, AM
improve the channal of the Mississippi
river for the largest ships afoat from
, New Orleans to Minneapolis, and a
+ the same time, reclaim millions o
acres Of land, and the Red River O
the North, from Grand Forks to Hud
). son Bay-and who is guilty. TIL
Government, that fails to Govern tina
fails to protect Life, Liberty and Pro
, erty.
Now, with a chance for every ma,
to make an honest living, the penalt
; for crime must be more severe. TIL
first ofense brand him so that he vii
be known to all the world; the SCI
! ond offense brand him again; tn
third offense is evidense convincin,
= that he is past redemption, and
murderer at heart, if not in deed, j
y because he has accumulated his OF
3 ject without committing the crime
q And the penalty should be death.
. Don't wait until he has murde % som
innocent man-no man will take DO
. son for fear Of death. Crime is DO
son. The man who commits Grim
must suffer. The man who burns hi
! command must stand the pain, and th
innocent must not suffer for the sir
: Of the wicked, consequently any ma
: that will delibertly and %psen,endiati1
: " commit crime, the penalty must /
cash, and cash for damage. If a ma
robs a person Of more or less none,
he must pay that money back to IL
man he robbed. and a cash penalt
or put to work o,l pay him wages, chars
him fol, his board and insurance, tai
the money and pay the man he robbie
and all convicts must be employe
on public improvements; an hone
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