The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-01
"THOUGHTS or 4 RUDE."

One Of the most patriotic gcntlc-
men in the county is Frank Andcr-
son, who lives about two and one half
miles northwest of Roth. When the
Red Cross Society appealed to the
people for funds in their cndcavor to
raise 500, 000, 900, Mr.. Anderson led
the list in this vicinity with a gift of
$4,000. When the government launch
ed it's Second Liberty Loan drive, Mr..
Anderson purchased of the local bank
a $1,000 bond. And by the way, Gar
den, Falky & Co., this gentleman is
a member of the Nonpartisan League!
Can you, Garden and Falky (shout-
ing patriots as you are) show as good
a record as this gentleman has? We
doubt it very much indeed.
With more than eight million wom-
en- workers in America engaged in
competition with their fathers, hus-
bands and brothers, for jobs upon the
economic battle field, their enfran-
chisement is a matter of preservation
of the political institutions of Amer
lea.
When women have possessed the
ballot as long as men have had it in
America, it will be time to cast up
results, and no advocate of equal suf-
rage need fear the comparison.
The city of Milwaukee, Wis, owns
its w water works. 1t supplies
water, which is ore Of the necessities
of life. The average rate is 25 cents
per month per family-unlimited SER
vice-people al use all they want.
And the private owned water works
rate in Racine, and Superior, Wis,
are five times as high. Notice the
difference? Right there before your
eyes stands the aus # the Fl. c..
Of l.. In other words it is the mid
dlcman through his tool private wv
nership-raking in the coin as usual.
Doesn't this one instance prove the
efficiency of public ownership? In
spite of the better wages that the
Milwaukee works pays and the low
rates that concern clears as high as
5000 600 per year.
The United States government has
an ice plant for the manufacture of
artificial ice in the Post Office de-
partment at Washington, D.. c.. 1t
costs at the outside $2.19 to manu-
facture a ton of the ice. The aver
age cost for delivery is about $500
per ton. That would make the cost
Of ice under public ownership, $4.19
a ton, delivered. Ice under private
ownership in most cities costs $500
a ton. Some difference, Ell, what?
Weatherford, Okla, has a munich
pal ice plant that uses the exhaust
steam from the municipal water and
light plant, and the cost of producing
ice is as low as $1.00 per ton. The cost
Of delivery is $500, thus making the
actual cost of ice $500 delivered.
They sell it at $500 a ton, thus max
ing an enormous profit for the city,
which they use in paying for their
water and light plant. But it shows
that ice can be produced and sold for
INV pei COIl, Iiu plOllC ldu al CAAdIs
Recent newspaper dispatches tell of
how the Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of
Cincinnati, O., a socialist, was TAX
en- by a bunch of masked men, car
ried into a dense woods, stripped and
whipped, after which oil was poured
On his head. The gentlemen (?) who
committed this dastardly deed are no
doubt the greatest howlers for dem
ocracy and opponents Of the I. W.
W. Talk about the L. w. w. Has
that bunch ever committed a worse,
sneaking, cowardly, and shameful
deed than the aforementioned? We
doubt it. Can anyone believe that
such men as those who committed
this crime are true believers Of true
democracy? But this deed has not
had a proper and appropriate ending
until Falky endorses it with one of
his so-called editorials.
Since San Francisco started its
municipal street car lines the wages
on this line have been increased from
81 cents to 37R cents per hour, re-
duced hours from 10 to s per day and
yet made a profit the first year of
$266,0OO. Now then Mr.. Farmer, don't
you think that you could receive more
real money for your grain and more
efficient service if your, elevators
were publicly owned? Why not try
and find out? Anything is a theory
until put into successful practice.