The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21

ton, Mimi, brought SIT each last
week. In addition women Red Cross
workers served lunch at a meeting Of
farmers gathered to organize a CO.
operative creamery and the result was
more than $50 Melted for the local
organization.
FOUNDATIONS OF A RUDE.
The following is from the report of
the Commissioner of Corporations:
"When the steel trust was organized
in 1901 the value Of all the tangible
assets acquired by it was $682,O00,-
600. This property was capitalized
for the enormous sum of $1,402, 1884,
817, the capitalization being more
than half water and exceeding the
actual value Of the property by $780,
846,817. The syndicate which put
through this enormous deal was man
by j. P. Morgan. This syndi-
cate provided about $28,0OO,0OO,0OO
in cash to swing the deal, and for
this cash consideration, plus it's .un-
derwriting services, it received from
the steel corporation 100000 shares
of it's stock, having IN aggregate par
value of $13O,OOO,OO0. This stock,
approximately SOC, 5OO,OOO,
as profit to the syndicate, a
net sum of $62, sc $1,000. Of this
amount $12,5OO,O00 went to Morgan
for his services as syndicate manager,
the remaining $5O,00O,OOO being dis
tributed among the syndicate MEM
There you have, gentle read
er, a display of the so-called legiti-
mate and beneficial activities of the
Big Biz clique. And still Falky and
other editors of his ilk endeavor to
give the impression, thru their small
lingo sheets, that there is no such an
organization as Big Biz.
If the Minot Messenger, Bottineau
News and Souris Messenger are such
mighty friends of the farmers why
haven't they explained to their read
ers the manner in which the farmers
of the northwest were robbed of ST.
600, 900 by the Big Biz packers, in the
st. Paul stockyards, in one year?
This is the way the anti-league
press fights the league: A Mime
sofa paper will claim that the league
in North Dakota is pro-German and
a North Dakota paper will claim
that the league in Minnesota is COM
posed of ro-Germans. Then an
eastern Big Biz sheet will claim that
the entire league is pro-German after
which we can rely on the Bacon junk
sheet to copy the eastern editor
ial thereby claiming that such is the
opinion of the league in the east.
Quite a nifty little trick, isn't it?
News reports state that Teddy was
operated upon twice recently, one
examination closely following the
other. Possibly they didn't get all
of the hot air the first time!
The Minot Messenger has been do
ing considerable bowling Of late to
the effect that league leaders were not
patriotic. We assert that they are pa
triotic and have proven themselves
as such. But is the wiffit who is en-
to handle the Messengers
so-called editorial policy at present,
patriotic? We doubt it indeed. If
he is, and has been, patriotic, why
did he flee from Peterborough, Can
ada, when he failed to enlist Was it
not to prevent the patriotic young la
dies Of that city from pinning a white
feather on him? Our. information
leads US to believe that such is the
truth. Come, wiffit, answer these
questions. W. told you we had more
on you and you smiled and set your
former Hanna ward heller assistant
to "bawling" us out. We've got your
number, Sonny, and you'd better lay
low.
Do you know that extending the
franchise to women actually increas-
eS the proportion OF intelligent vot-
ers; that there is now and has been
for years, according to the report of
the Commissioner Of Education, n
third more girls in the high schools
of the country than boys; and that,
according to the last census, the il
literate men Of the country greatly
outnumbered the i~lliterate women?
Do you know that extending the suff-
rage to women increases the moral
vote; that in all states and countries
that have adopted equal suffrage the
vote Of the disreputable women is
practically negligible, the Stun wards
Of the cities invariably having the
lightest women vote and respectable
residence wards have the heaviest;
that only one out Of every twenty
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