The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-08
ownership is far superior to private
ownership.

ownership is far superior TO- private
ownership.
The telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS r state owned in Denmark.
Their earnings Appropriated $780,
900 in 1916. Maintenance, salaries,
etc., amounted to $1,17O, 900, leaving
a net profit to the state of about 10
per cent on the capital invested. And
still we haven't heard Of a single Off
fetal in Denmark being charged as
being a Socialist, an I. w. w. or an
anarchist,
The financial statement of the I'm
tied Steel Tor is it "Steal ?") Corpor-
alton for the quarter ending June
3Oth, showed net earning os $9O,579,-
POP, after the setting aside of $685.
918,872 for war income and excess
profits tax. Why not conscript this
sum to help win the war for democ-
racy. "Should we be more tender with
our dollars than with our sons ?" Per
haps for making such a seditious
CD and undemocratic (?) statement
as the above we will be crarged with
being on "tobstructionist," or a trait
or, but we just can't help letting it
out of u system. ~.
The New York Post claims that be-
aus of a disagreement over prices
the dairymen of Ohio threw away
milk. That is certainly a fine exam
p1a IF food orrco,r,of;nr
Outrages are just as outrageous
when they happen in the United States
as when they happen in Belgium. We
call attention to the shooting of wom-
en- and children in Ludlow, COL, dur
ing the miners strike and more rec
emily the deportion of 1900 Ameri-
can citizens in Arizona by gunner,
the murder Of Frank Little, near
Butte, Mont, and the horse whip
ping of Herbert S. Bigelow of Gin
cinnati. All of these acts were COM
mitted by hoodlums who are no doubt
seeking democracy" and we venture
to say that they will never find it,
but beyond doubt they will receive a
severe 'raking over the Goals" in the
hereafter. Also, there are some ed
itors that have endorsed some of their
acts who will not be mere spectators
either,
The city Of Pasadena, Cali, owns
it's own electric light and power plant.
The people there get electricity at five
cents per kilowatt hour. But in De-
troit, Mich, and Portland, Ore, the
electric light plants are privately ow-
ned and the people pay more than
twice as much per kilowatt hour.
Some difference. And the cause of
the difference is public ownership.
Public ownership always is the pro-
Queer of more efficient service and
lower expense.
Municipal ownership of the street
car system in England reduced the
cost of that service to an average of
/ As cents per ride-a little less than
2 cents. That is less than one half
what it costs here and considerably
less than what it used to cost there
under private ownership.
The incomes Of the Kings Of Bo-
varia, Belgium, Denmark, Greece,
Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Sweden,
Portugal, Prussia, Saxony, Servia,
Spain and Wurtemberg, the British
Royal family, the Emperor Of Aus
tria-Hungary, the Presidents Of the
United States, France and Mexico,
the Governor General Of Canada and
the rulers of the South American Re-
publics for 25H years amounts to
$862,449.78O. And the income Of the
Rockefeller Interests" in this coun-
try for the period amounts to 1929
100000! Which makes it appear that
the Kings Of this country receive more
than their share Of the wealth in this
country.
Some months ago the United States
Bureau Of Chemistry reported that in
this country every year ore than
twelve million pounds Of shoe leath-
Ell is deliberately treated with chem
icals lat the tanneries-to make your
shoes Yea out more quickly This
is one ~ the tricks of Big Bin IA help
Increase their wealth.
GE8nE