The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-15

10 nelp TO enunclaCe new
declaration of the right and duty
of an American family to really
live and enjoy life, regardless of
the fact that the breadwinner
works for day wages-as is the
most untamed labor leader on
the board.
Every concession to labor sug-
gests better things for the farm
er.
The Russian revolution got
under way when the soviets be-
gan to discuss the right of the
Russian peasant to eat bread
and own land and learn to read.
Vindication of the Baer Bill.
The Baer bill,to advance $780,
100000 to farmers in the 1917
drought areas was killed by the
reactionaries in congress last
spring. Now the administration
is planning to advance special
loans to farmers who suffered
from drought in 1918 at the rate
of So an acre to insure greater
production in 1919. That the
Baer bill was defeated at great
risk to the food supply of Amer
lea is not a reflection on the bill
but on a good many congress
men, not a few from the North
west, who do not represent the
people and who should be retir-
ed next November.
Working Girls Aid Miss Rankin.
Three thousand working wo-
men, employed in the big bur-
eau of printing and engraving
run by Uncle Sam, are grateful
to Miss jeanette Rankin, Mon
tana's congresswoman, for the
battle she waged and won on
behalf of better hours and wages
for them, during the last year.
They sent her a big embroidered
banner, expressing their thanks,
but that did not satisfy them.
When she announced that she
would run for the senate, these
women and girls announced that
they would become a part of her
campaign committee.
Each of them is writing post
cards to half a dozen voters in
Montana, telling in her own way
why the first woman ia the house
deserves to be promoted to The
senate to keep up her fight, for
women in industry and for all
the rest of the common folks.
In addition to that, these wo-
men are going to send out a
hundred thousand other post
cards, which will go to every
woman in Montana, and will be
signed by committee of the
leading women of the country.
Samuel Gompers, as president
of the American Federation of
Labor, has added his assistance
to Miss Rankin's campaign send
ing out a letter calling attention
to her service ''in behalf of the
workers generally"
In the Republican primary
contest. which closes August II,
Miss Rankin is opposed by four
men, all of them representing
the standpat element Of the par
ty. After speaking to, and
shaking hands with, more vot-
ers in Montana than she met in
the 1916 campaign, she reports
that the men candidates are do
ing the worrying.
President Wilson's proclama-
tion warning the country that
mob violence and mob spirit are
directly helping Germany, has
had a distinctly SOLDERING effect
upon the country. 1t has check
ed, if not quite stopped, the flow
Of provocative and incendiary
lies from the news factories and
the political headquarters here
and in Philadelphia, New York
and Boston. It has driven down
the market quotations on dis
loyalty" talk about 90 points.
It is worry Of notice that the
national association Of patriotic
societies, representing the real
ly decent element among the so
cieties claiming to be doing pa
triotic work, was among the first
to congratulate the president,
publicly, on his stand. But the
president is now receiving, from
farms all over the West from
Minnesota, Montana and Texas,
from Washington and Colorado
and Oklahoma flood Of let
tiers, written in the painful
scraWl Of a hand stiffened hv