The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-08
MUST HAVE LAND.

The people must have the land. They must
have the land at prices they can afford to pay.
We are condemning the profiteers of the war,
men who would make dollars off the needs of
preparing to take in still greater measure, the
excess profits made during the war. We must
take them. They belong to the people, for they
are possible only because of the needs of the
people.
What are we going to do with the excess pro-
fits, or prices, that are put into lands of those
who hold them and do not use them? Are we
going to allow the farmers who must buy lands,
to be held up for untold millions and billions of
dollars, money not made or earned in any way
by those who hold such land idle now? -.
Our Nation, our State, or both, can and will
find a way to put such lands into possession of
those who will use them. We believe that tax
alton of such land values, with or without added
tax on unused land will afford the remedy, when
taxes are removed from all but such values. But
1t something more is needed, in our constitu-
ton or anywhere else, we are ready to fight for
it. The men who actually work the lands are
the ones to own them, for use of them is the
only God-given title fee to them.-Southland
Farmer.
The North Dakota Bankers Association
through it's special committee of the executive
council, has gone on record in disapproval of
the pernlcious and greatly distorted reports
emanatlng IN certain newspapers in this and
other states in regard to the financial credit Of
North Dakota and it's citizens. Special refer
ence is made in it's condemnatory resolutions to
the reports, widely circulated through the
above-namedm medium, that the state council had
taken over the grain elevators of the state. when
no such action had been taken, and to their
dlstortlng the purport and intent of the mora
forum on chattel mortgages, which was adopt
ca solely as a war measure, whereby the reports
thereon were made to inure to the injury of
the state, rather than to it's benefit, and there
py destroying our credit abroad. Such action
on the part OF the anti-administration press is
deemed both unwise and entirely without war
rant, and demonstrates conclusively that these
consclenceless .purveyors of falsehood and de-
traction will go to any length, even to the ex-
tent OF working untold injury to the credit of
the state, If by SO doing they may hope to score
a possible political point.
Referring, editorially, to the seventeen Nom
partisan league organizers who, for reasons
best known to themselves, rebelled against the
leagues management and in consequence are
now without the pale, the Grand Forks Herald.
apparently IN all seriousness asks, Are these
men liars :" The Herald should receive i most
satisfactory answer to it's inquiry by simply
consulting its files, wherein it will no doubt
find that at diverse times during the past Two
years it has, both in it's news and its editorial
columns, seen fit to brand many if not al AZ
these same worthless not only IS liars par ex-
cellence but ~ potential, if not actual minnin-
ais - vel. III the light Of subsequent avenfs
It would seem that THU Oft discreditad mran nf
standpa41a1u came ~ near to the ~boundariaas ~
sne tkasn g there lnst e aEi II MiFpDppssible for