The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-03-28

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FOUNDATIONS OF A RUDE.
"Where put the manure" anxious
~ inquiries Falky in last weeks issue
Of the News. Why not continue
printing it in your paper and call it
news, as you always have done here
tofore, Falky?
Our readers can certainly endorse
Senator Borah's stand on open di-
plomacy. The following is his reso-
luton before the Senate, "Resolved,
That the Committee on Rules be, and
the same is, hereby directed to pre-
pare a revision Of the rules of the
Senate relating to the consideration
of treaties so as to provide that all
treaties hereafter shall be considered
in the open executive sessions of the
Senate, and when such revision is so
prepared, to report the same to the
Senate for it's consideration" Sem
ator Smoot, Of the standpatters clique
is reported to have proaned: "Oh!"
when he heard the resolution read.
The reactionaries may we'll groan for
that is about all they will be doing in
a few years from now.
Minnesota's two senators and eight
congressman are lawyers as we'll as
ffty-six in the Minnesota house, while
there. are only forty-seven farmers in
the latter house. In the Iowa house
there are hundred and fifty eight
lawyers and only forty one farmers.
Women in Wyoming have been vot-
ing on the same terms as men since
1869, in Colorado since 1893, in Utah
and Idaho since 1896. In 1910 the
state of Washington voted three to
n to extend the full suffrage to
women. In 1911 California doubled
the number of voting women in this
country by giving the full suffrage to
more than half a million women citi-
zens and in 1912 the men of Kansas,
Oregon and Arizona voted to give
votes to their women. Also, in 1913,
the legislature of the state of II
linois passed a measure giving power
of the legislature to bestow, including
presidential electors, all municipal
officers and some county and state
officers. The territorial legislature
of Alaska granted full suffrage to
women. Nevada and Montana gave
full suffrage to women in 1914. The
ome of America, and the world, are
entitled to the same political as are
the men for they are the moral back
bone of the country.
The following is taken from that
very conservative paper, the Satur.
day Evening Post of February 1918:
"The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western is merely a railroad-not a
system. It has never been reorgan.
lied, consolidated, expanded or finan-
ced. It was built from the proceeds
of it's capital stock and has no bonds
1t ~traverses a rich territory and is
reasonably prosperous, paying its
stockholders 10 per cent a year in reg.
ular cash dividends. In 1909 it gave
them in addition an extra cash pr.
vilege to subscribe at par to some
coal stock which later sold at 5000
share and now pays 10 per cent divi.
dends. Including this privilege
Lackawanna's share holders melon
that year amounted to about 200 pei
cent, o r $500 for every dollar of pa,
value of their stock. The next year
was comparatively lean, shareholders
receiving 20 per cent in cash divi.
dends. In 1911 shareholders receiv.
ed, in addition to the regular 10 pei
cent, an extra cash dividend of II
per cent and a IS per cent dividend
in 4 per cent guaranteed stock. In
1912 shareholders were given the pri.
vilege of subscribing at par to 40 pc,
cent of new stock, the right being
equivalent to a dividend of 1873 pei
cent-making altogether something
like 400 per cent in four years. OF
course Lackawanna is quite excep-
tional among Enthusiastically be-
aus it has been merely a railroad
rather than a subject for dazzling
manipulations in Wall street."
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Our readers have without a doubt
read considerable about Hog Island
of late. The following from the Phil
adelphia Public Leader published by
the Saturday Evening Post owners)
brings forth a grand display of the
Big Biz clique "doing their bit" as
patriots "In a voice quareving with
emotion, the witness turned and faced
Senator Hiram Johnson of Califor-
mia, who had just concluded a cross
examination, and exclaimed: "Why,