The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-03-21

ers League is just as socialistic as
is the program of then onpartisan
League. Since the acceptance. of the
challenge nothing further has been
heard from the gentleman from Kra-
mer, which leaves us wondering
whether the new organization wishes
to discuss its platform.
Sometime ago, Ed. Berg, Eidsvold
townships would-be statesman, thru
one OF his editor friends, took some
or the leaguers to task. in the papers,
for having sought office in the past.
Is it not a fact that he is a disap-
pointed office seeker? Is it not a fact
that before the primaries in 1914 he
was a candidate for the office of Rep
resentative; that one week after the
primaries he wanted to withdraw;
that the second week he wanted to
stay on; that the third week he want
ed to withdraw; and that the fourth
week he wanted to remain on the
ticket? AS a political jumping jack
the assessor-statesman is sure there.
One quotation from his fetter was to
the, effect that he had lots of nerve to
remain outside of the league. We
think that MI. Berg must Of a GER
talnty have considerable nerve when
ne signs a communication that Garden
wrote. AS to his cry about debat-
ing personalities his whole commune
cation was replete with personalities
The Minot Messenger lays claim to
being a friend of the farmer. What
an utter falsity that claim is is shown
by the Messengers own actions. We
remember how the Messenger sneak
ingly and viciously made an attack
upon Prof. Ladd, the best friend the
farmers of the state ever had,
last year in the following man
ner: "Prof. Ladd, in addition to
his salary of $4,000 per year was last
year made inspector at a salary of
$500 per year and hotel inspector at
$1,000 per year and state grain in
spector on a fee basis said to be worth
several thousand dollars" That
statement was an absolute falsehood
for Prof. Ladd receives only 81 5000
per year. And then too the insinua-
tons cast by the Messenger to the
effect that the league stores were
selling sugar at an exhorbant price
and that Ladd had condemned them
for SO doing has been proven false as
has the Messengers insinuations that
Townley had disposed of $780, 900
worth of notes for $4,000 at Killdeer.
The farmers do not desire the sup
port of an outright liar so consequent
ly they can not look with approval up
on the claim of the Messenger that it
is a "friend Of the farmer"
w. R. Lee, the he-gossip editor of
the Antler American refers to US as
the "Slandering Rube." We arise to
assert that articles which we have
been writing have been concerning
men who are well able to defend
themselves and have not been attacks
upon defenseless school ma'ams, such
as the aforementioned he-gossip has
allowed to appear in his paper.
The following is accredited to Hir-
am w. Johnson of California;: "How
the people must laugh to scorn a con-
gress that deals thus tenderly with
war profits while dealing with such
severity with the common human clay
to be put against the gun To the
Steel Corporation is returned under
the bill nearly $500, 1000, 1000 war pro-
fits for the year; not ordinary pro-
fits, mind you, but of war profits,
computed under the terms of this bill.
Congress hands to the Steel Corpora
ton, because, forsooth, it has coined
the blood and bone and the sinew of
the land into dollars, the monstrous
sum of nearly three hundred millions.
Can you justify it? Can you justify