The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
choice in our selection Of friends!

choice in Jul selection Of friends!
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The San Francisco municipal street
railway has proven a great success.
The net profits of the lines from the
beginning of operation in December,
1912, to the first of October, 1916,
amounted to $456, 1850, according
to a statement issued by the board of
public works. Receipts from all sour
ces for the period Of nearly four years
amounted to $4,851,754.68, and the
total disbursements to 1869, 1OO.51.
The gross operating expenses Of the
road for the period mentioned amount
ed to $2,728, 3O8.11. In addition to
the operating expenses the railways
paid $1,13O.2O on accident insurance;
$4,185.87 on outstanding Indebtedness;
$545, 529.53 interest on bonds; $780,
900 for the redemption of bonds and
$34,209.85 for injuries and damages.
The income also covered the payment
of $172 ,135.9O for various extensions
and improvement Of the lines and
$728 ,856.47 for depreciation. There
fore after covering all costs Of opera
ton Of every kind, including interest
on bonds and payments for the re-
turn Of bonds, depreciation and ex-
tensions, the San Francisco municipal
railways have made a clear profit Of
$456,876.80 in less than four years.
Also the city paid $500 per day for
an eight hour day to its employees
on the municipal lines whereas the
private companies paid SPA per day.
This is but one of many similar ex-
amples of successful public owner
ship in this country.
Considerable of space in the anti
league press is filled with cries to the
effect that some Socialists are con-
nected with the League. Of course
there are some socialists connected
with the league, but what Of it? Just
because some socialists belong to an
organization is that any reason that
it should be destroyed? We hardly
think so.
The busted link, in the form Of Jer-
ry Bacon, of North Dakota's chain of
old regime politicians having been
thoroughly discredited in his own
state is seeking greener fields to con-
quer and recently he gave a miscon-
STRUNG speech before the Editorial
Association Of Northern Minnesota in
opposition to the league which con-
tanned the usual charges Of I. w.
W'ism and -Germanism. Jerry
knows better than to try to hand any
such false dope out to the people Of
North Dakota because he knows that
the people Of this state are wise to
him and his energy would be wasted.
In Lincoln, Neb. the maximum rate
charged per kilowatt hour for elec-
tricity under private ownership was
12c and after municipal ownership
the rate was sc. In Winnipeg, Can,
the price per kilowatt hour under pri-
vate ownership was zoe and under
public ownership the price was re-
duced to Sc per kilowatt hour. Herr
are two absolutely successful exam
Piles Of the superiority of public over
private ownership.
Representative Galloway Of Texas
declared on the floor Of Congress,
Feb. 9, 1917, that the J. P. Morgan
interests, the steel, shipbuilding and
powder interests in this country, had
procured control Of Is Of the most in
fuential and large newspapers in this
country and with these were using all
sorts of arguments and misrepresen-
tations to gain their (the %interests)
ends, and we have see a denial
of these charges. This proves unques-
tionably that the Big Biz clique in
this country does maintain a except
press"
Excessive p~rofiteering in American
shoes and leather charges were laid
before congress recently by the feder-
al trade commission. The commission
showed that the profits of the lead
ing leather manufacturers had in
creased from 100 to 400 per cent ov-
er 1915. Profits in 1915 increased
from 80 to 100 per cent over 1914.
Thus again is displayed the pa(y)tri-
otto efforts of one branch of our
American Big Biz clique.
Swatting Kaiserism and swatting
capitalism is n and the same thing
Onward march in the battle to make
the world safe for democracy.
John d. Rockefeller refused to pay
taxes on four hundred million dollars
worth Of property he owns in and
around Cleveland, O., alleging that he
was q resident Of New York City.
just what brand Of patriotism this is
our Big Biz editors haven't as yet
informed Us. In fact they didn't
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