The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-08
ROTH NEWS.

Roy Jacobson was a passenger to
Bottineau Thursday. Mr.. jacobson
has decided to enter the army SER
| vice.
Tony and Ted Anderson transacted
business in Bottineau Thursday.
We will $ a local example to
show the superiority Of public owner
ship over private o%wnership. The
Courant is owned by the farmers and
the News is owned privately. The
Courant has more than twice the cir
culation that the News has Still the
advertising rates are twice as cheap
as the News rates, incorporation to
the circulation. There you have it
Mr.. Reader. i
If Theodore Roosevelt was such a
lover of democracy why did he receive
a dollar a word for articles in the
Outlook" q magazine owned by the
Standard Oil Company bunch, in op-
position to true democracy.
A. J. Brown was a Bottineau visit
or Thursday.
During the winter Of 1884 I'M
employed men in New York marched
to churches and demanded shelter and
food. They were driven away and
many Of them were arrested and
were sentenced to serve one month
in prison. And our democracy seek
ing (?) press failed to go wild over
such anti-democfacy actions ascend
ing these innocent men to Jail. Would
it appear then that they have any
very strong desires for the rule Of
democracy?
Martin Maccarol was q Bottineau
visitor Friday,
Miss Naomi Mollet visited with
friends and relatives in Bottineau on
Saturday.
An excerpt from a dispatch from
Washington, D. c., says: Senators
favoring LaFollette's expulsion say
it is no worse for newspapers pub
| fishing statements Of this kind to cir
| culate through the mails than it is
for a United States senator to say
the same thing in a public address"
| get that, "it is no worse?" Weren't
the papers that published LaFollette's
supposed speech just as guilty as the
senator? If q radical paper should
have published such statements it
most likely would have been SQUASH
ed. The newspapers that published
the supposed statements of the Wis
consin senator are just as guilty as
he is-more so, for they condemned
| the actions Of themselves when they
called for Mr.. LaFollette's expulsion.
The press is so handy at suppressing
other news not looked upon favorab-
ly by their boss-Big Biz-that they
could just as well have suppressed
LaFollette's speech. It wasn't what
LaFollette said that hurt them so
much-it is LaFollette himself, be-
cause he will just naturally stick by
the people and demand consumption
Of wealth.
Albert and Olaf johnson were Wis
itors at Bottineau Saturday
Miss Anna Noun was a Rugby Wis
itor Saturday. Miss Noun visited
with friends in Bottineau. over Sun
day.
The newspapers of the country re-
Gently made considerable noise con-
corning the interference of President
Wilson in behalf of Thomas Mooney
| of San Francisco last spring. The
Big Biz bunch of San Francisco trum-
ped. up false charges against Mooney,
! his wife and comrades. But the press
in telling of this failed to tell why
it suppressed the new at the time OF
the interference-it would have inter-
fered with the plans Of the Big Biz
outfit in their effort to railroad Moon
ey and other laborers to the hang
mans moose.
Bob Sharvey, the livery man of
Westhope, was a business visitor in
Roth Tuesday.
This weeks items are perhaps the
last that will be written for the Cour-
ant by the present writer. Since the
first appearance Of these Roth notes
in the Courant we have endeavored to
keep our readers informed concern
ing the latest happenings in this vicin-
ity, as well as having dipped pen
into the political ink in favor Of
political move which in u very hum
BILE opinion is very progressive and
democratic, a movement, the facts Of
which lead US to believe that it is q
real and true advancement toward q
real "for the people, Of the people and
by the people" government. Our
connection with the Courant has been
enjoyed to the fullest possible ex-
tent by ourself, for it has been q real
joy indeed to have had the opportun-
ity Of expressing ourselves freely on
various subjects through this column
| We are very glad that our successor
is ! progressive individual and to his
tender care we leave the handling Of
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