The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-10

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ragists can command the necessary
majority.
RU.N MI NATIONS OF ia RUDE.
The average cost of gas in Amer
! lean cities under private ownership is
$1.OO per thousand cubic feet. The
sworn statement of the Milwaukee
Gas Light Company to the Wisconsin
Railroad Rate Commissioner showed
that gas was actually Manufactured
and distributed by that company for
80 is cents per thousand feet. Some
margin that between 80 1-5 and $1.00
cents. There you are, gentle reader,
that kind of profit making is the
cause of the H. C. of L.
The city of Pasadena, California,
owns it's own electric light plant and
the people there have purchased elec-
tricity at five cents per kilowatt hour,
which is less than half what electric
ity costs in other cities the size of
Pasadena. under private ownership.
This is another proven example of
the superiority Of public over private
ownership of public utilities.
Now that the government has
taken control Of the railroads what
does Garden, Falky, & Co., think OF
the governments "socialistic" ten
dehcies. The reason that the govern
ment took possession of the roads is
that the thousands of dollars of need
less expense that is necessarily a part
of private competitive ownership must
be conserved Absolute government
ownership of the railroads is NO
doubt the goal for which our govern
ment is striving. Government owner
ship should continue after the war be-
cause whenever the American flag is
planted in the industrial field, for the
benefit of the people, it should stay,
Kansas has it's own printing plant
for its school books. 1t is working
over a hundred employees and is say
ing the state 100000 a year. 1t is
producing school books at 60 per cent
of the price formerly paid eastern
book companies in spite of a bitter
and continuous struggle on the part
of the book companies against state
publication. It has saved the pupils
nearly $4,000 and is turning out
more and better books each year as
the work becomes better organized.
Here is another instance of the &C.
onomic and efficient superiority of
public ownership. There are instances
of the superiority of public over pri-
vate ownership in practically every
line of industrial activity.
During the first month after the
prohibition law of Virginia went into
effect the state saved $20,979, because
of the greatly reduced number of ar
rests made, And still we have some
so-called public spirited citizens in
this county who are opposed to pro
hibition.
A wit on an eastern newspaper
claims that by wearing short skirts
the women are doing their bit. If such
is the case what of these wearing the
short, ex-ray, tight skirts and the
low necked, short sleeved waists ?
Surely they are doing their bit with
out number! Speaking frankly tho
the mode of dress used by the young
and some not so young, ladies is abb
solutely disgusting. Must be the
ladies believe in firing around the
rosie" and are endeavoring to ring
around to lives mode of dressing.
The following is from the Indus.
trial Relations Committee Report;
"The wealth of the country between
1890 and 1912 increased from 65 tt
1877 billions, or 1873 per cent, where.
as the aggregate income Of wage
earners in manufacturing, mining
and transportation has risen between
1889 and 1909 only 95 per cent, 2,51t
millions in 1889 to 4,916 millions il
1909. Furthermore, the wage earn.
.ers' share of the net product of in.
dustry in the case Of manufacturer
"a only 40.2 per cent in 1908, q.
compared with 40 per cent in 1882
There you have i'll THE American
white collared, manicured middle mar
is the one who is topping the coin
and not the laboring man.
An old farmer was once asked tx
give his opinion on the best slope o.
land for the raising Of q particular
kind Of fruit. ut does not make *
much difference" said the old man
/ 1about the slope Of the land 90 TIL
slope Of the man..
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