The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
STEAL WHILE THE Is GOOD.

us+o., ubuet the stealing is good "seens to be the motto of the grain e
thieves these days. The "spread" for several months has been from 40 s
~ s +ht the government hs prohibited the selling of futures" and that in t=
cd, Wv nake themselves, safe from falling prices it is necessary to buy f
IN upclosing Yesterday at Minneapolis at $500. 1t is true, Of course that s
Me narket shmns violently at times, but it goes up just as violently, and :
=. +hs md thu grain buyer is lot effected in the least by market changes.
Il may be that the loters see the end of their gladstone days, as FEEDER
@, .sa;sa+ion tiphteps around their necks, and for that reason they are
i is to be hoped that it may come in time to protect tn farmers from
heino robbed of the little crop they are about to harvest.
And vet there arr those who complain because the farmers Of this state
have the unmitigated gall to organize to protect themselves against such
condtions!-Devls Lake Journal i
Grand Forks has al attorney named Tracy Bangs, who is devoting con-
siderable of his time ostensibly in the service If Red Cross work. ot IN
maipning the good lame of North Dakota and insulting a large percentage
{" mel os4 M - C,ss +his mo Ramos referred to North Dakota a. "a
b1ack snot on the map of the United States" because, as he stated, the
scandinavians of the state had NJ interest in the war, Liberty Bonds or the
Red Cross "God Almighty is becoming tired Of hearing Nor%eelan prayers
loo Nm from North Dakota" is n Of the remarks credited to this man,
who styles himself q patriot. "show m e a la who crticMes the Amerl'
,ex..e ven zen the constitution" Ks another morsel of philosophy from this
man, During the course of his rantngs he advocated the closing of every
-h~, vham+ e Norwepian language is taught, the suppression of every
newspaper published in the scandinavian language and a number of other
drastic measur equally "patriotc" This parody of a man is a brother OF
the George Bangs, who was recently 50 ANONYMOUSLY defeated Tor engress
in tn First District. It is understood that he takes this means OF wreak
ing vengeance o. those who contributed to the defeat. Of his own flesh and
Hood. If George is of the same clay as Tracy the First District is GER
tainly t. be congratulated on it's excellent judgement.
At last We have 4 concrete definition of "bg biz" The Botineau
County News say it is "a host of small deposHors, very many OF them
careful, judicious farmers. "Never knew that before, did you? In the
future be very careful how you speak of "big biz" lest your nelghoor
mite on O. the beak for insulting him. One cannot be toe cautious IN
AMe peruous times.
,arasan League who are non bona-fde farmers. The Messenger will perhaps
acknowledge, however, that there are ONE members of the league who
ae honestto-goodness farmers.
n is . wonder that the postonice authorities do not suppress those
newspapers, big, powerful metropolitan daMes, that re lighting tn pre-
sdents program for CONSUMPTION of wealth. Why should any favor1tsm
le shown them? That's = tip to Lamar-Bsmarck Public Opinion.
n omemee Herald takes the right attitude by refusing to play post
,saasa base ball through the columns q the press.