The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-20

Dy anu ny every o1lop t1llu OAAl SC WILL NC oa"PPos
with it's live soldier pet.
WIPING OUT FARM MORTGAGES.
A greater per centage of farm mortgages in the
Northwest has been paid off this year than in any
other single year, if financial men dealing largely
in these securities correct in their reckonings
This is a rather dependable indication that the
farming population Of this part Of the country
has shared we'll in our wartime prosperity.
Despite scattered crop failures and in the face
of statements from sources that farming Of late
has been an improbable business, land values arc
said to have been increased for the most part.
At any rate these values are so stable that farm
mortgages, save in North Dakota, are said to be
increasingly attractive as investments for surplus
funds. The reason they are not so in North Da.
kota is that the Non-partisan League, whose DIES.
TIMES are shaped by Socialists is in political con-
troll of public policies in that state. Socialism has
an ultimate tenet that there should be private
ownership Of land or other natural sources Of pro-
duction. That is a discouraging thought to those
who would otherwise be predisposed in favor OF
investment in farm mortgages.
Minnesota voters, including the slevel-heaaed
farmers, went to the polls election day and re
turned a Judgment that the affairs of this state
should not be turned over to the Nonpartisar
League. They feared that such adventures as
North Dakota has entered upon, if undertaken
here, would result in an economic blight upon Min
nesota They had excellent reason for so think
ing hence their continued dependence on the party
already in power and their intrusting of theil
problems for solution to that party and to thu
sound sense of men of other parties willing to CO.
operate with it in policies of true remedial virtue
We do not believe that, in so doing, they have
thrown away any advantage nature has giver
them in this prosperous year.-Minneapolis Trib
une IS n
The topsy turvy state in Germany also "just
growed"
No, when the boys come home they certainly
won't have to fight for jobs.
Lots of people are taking this world-disarma
ment thing seriously these days.
After four years of substitutes, Germans naturally
banker for primitive square meal. ,.....,.., T..
Extremes not only meet, these days-they col
Tide. Absolute monarchy runs smash into absolut,
anarchy.
Nobody has yet ventured to ask Count Bentincl
how, he likes William Hohenzollerns accusation O.
friendship.
This is just as good time as any to sugges
that the new German republic adopt American a
it's official language. ;.-
The German people will find it lot harder to ris
themselves of the name ''HUN' than it was t.
ditch Bill Hohenzollern. g.. 81
A Grand Rapids paper complains that locally tn
duty in nutshells has not been DONE" However
it maybe said in nutshell that civilization ha
done it's duty. ,.
Already competition seems to be spring u
entitled: "Who can suggest most ways of bein
merciful to the beaten foe?" And the beaten FOE
in the very hour of defeat, was gassing and nun
dering women and children.
T. R., those initials after Bills SIGNATURE: A De
troit colyumist thinks they will now be change
to Il Was" The German people, however, ar
simply wiping out the wilhelm" part of the sig
nature and letting the initials stand for nitiativ
and referendum.
Hindenburg let the cat out Of the bag when h
said to his army, by the armistice terms we al
obliged to return to the fatherland which is
heavy task" Showing that what hurts them
not that they must give up their railroad car