The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-30
forced business associate? No answer is need
query many times daily in the affirmative.
RUNNING THE RAILROADS.

improved. Government operation of the rail-
roads is just fairly under way, and it must be
remembered that they have had to carry an
enormous increase in the labor cost of opera
ment with the railroads is not going to be a
failure. Fifty-six million dollars have been adj
vanced to various roads to pay rentals, meet
maturing interest, etc. The New Haven got
$43, ZOO, 900; the New York Central $13, 900 200.
The Michigan Central will get 100000 this
month. It's lots of fun for railroad men to
run the roads now, with the government look
ing after the details of fixed charges. If the
government had helped the roads in this way
before the war, the country would have done
better than it has done in keeping war mater
ials moving. Most of the railroads will come
will never go back to their owners on the old pre-
war basis.-St. Louis Mirror.
The Valley City Times-Record processes to
doubt the existence of a kept press" in North
Dakota unless, as it says, it is those papers
favorable to Townley. This causes us to wonder
whether or no editor Trubshaw has by any
chance ever seen an alleged newspaper called
the Fargo Post. 1t he has he has seen a most
glazing example of what is commonly under
stood by the term kept press" This sheet,
we are Informed, is without equipment for do
ing a printing business, it's 'office'' being large
ly in it's editors hat; it probably has not two
hundred bona fide paid-up subscribers; it has
scarcely enough legitimate advertising to pay
it's paper and ink bills; it makes no attempt
at printing the Jews other than an occasional
clipping from some newspaper and a few mawk-
ish "sassiety" items, but has al editorial page
always devoted to a servile imitation of the ut
terances on. political matters of it's larger sis
ter-that other Fargo journalistic prostitute,
the Forum. The sole excuse for it's existence
may be found in the assertion made in Fargo,
by those in a position to know, that this sheet,
lilo tho Eo,u,po 10 hn;nn. SG&c;1ol ,,~31 H., A. IT,
na-Bacon gang until after the Fall election. IF
friend Trubshaw, after having given this sheet
the once-over, still remains skeptical regarding
a kept press" we will agree with him that
there. amt no such animal" always excepting.
of course, the measly bunch which Townley has
in captivity.
The Teigen opposition to the local Nonparti-
san legislative candidates appears to have Sc
lected the past official records of these gentle
men as the sole ground on which to base it's OBJ
lection. The gentlemen in question not only
have no objection, but on the contrary, they
heartily welcome such a course on the part of
their opponents. Both their records as public
servants and private citizens are open books,
which contain nothing for which they are
ashamed or for which they find it necessary to
apologize, and it is by this record they expect
and desire to be judged by the honest yeomanry
of the county when they come to pass upon
their claims for a continuance in office. The
unsolicited advice of Teigen's rejuvenated orr
gan, which persists in insulting thir intelli-
gence by it's implied assumption of their ignor-
ance of public men and measures, should and
undoubtedly will have the effect of causing
some voters to support these men who have
heretofore entertained no notion Of so doing.
One of the many things which are seemingly
totally beyond the comprehension of Mr.. Tel
gems disciples is the fact that House Bill A is,
per Sc, no longer an issue, the object which
was sought to be attained by it having been
fully accomplished when the proposed amend
ments to the constitution were placed on the
ballot for submission to the state electorate by
popular petition. Some day these deluded fol-
lowers after false gods may advance to the
point when they will become aware that the
Dutch have taken Holland.
The Bismarck Palladium, one Of the very
best OF the many excellent state papers which
\ comes to The Courant's exchange table, has
just entered upon it's eighteenth year of useful
ness. It's advertising columns bear the ear
marks of prosperity, and editorially-there are
none better. Like Nelson, of the Cando Record,
"Knap." is an old Wisconsin newspaper scribe,
and The Courant man knew them both back in
the Badger commonwealth in the beginning of
the last quarter of the last century.
The integrity Of men is to be measured
by their conduct, not by their profession.
The Advocate.
For example: An individual-not a man
may pose for years as a Sunday School class
leader and at the same time be guilty Of brazen-
" swindfng a little schoolgirl out Of over $500
through the medium Of q fake piano-voting
contest.
The estaemed Advocate may rest assured
that every one Of The CnuIxanf,S Nannnvnocs,c,,