The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-27

their keep as nurses in bomb-raided hospitals
or fighting white plague and despair among the
thousands of homeless and friendless refugees.
No money being made in that business.
A higher tax on profts-above-profts, a high
err tax on unearned incomes, a heavy tax on
luxuries is now to be levied by Washington as
war profits on big business, and none too soon.
When all the world is sacrificing it is criminal
to make big profits out of that great human tide
of compassion, suffering, death, self-denial and
hardship. Every blood-stained dollar is &C
cursed.
The Lidgerwood Broadaxe, after having lit
orally hewed to the line in the cause of Truth
and Right for 10 these many years, has discon-
tinued it's publication at Lidgerwood and this
week it will greet it's friends-and their name
is legion-from it's new home at Wahpeton as
"The Richland County Farmer" the plant and
goodwill of the paper having been purchased
by a joint stock company composed Of farmers
Of the Nonpartisan faith. John Andrews, by
far the ablest and most versatile of the bril-
liant galaxy of North Dakota country editorial
writer's, will continue at the head of the paper
which, solely through his genius and person
ality, has become the most widely quoted il of any
newspaper in the state.
Zone by one the roses fall, one by one the
fowerets die" The latest journalistic blossom
in Bottineau county to fall before the blight
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Messenger, which for sometime past has, as a
newspaper, had no valid excuse for existing.
Its name, which seems to have been about all
that was left to dispose of, will this week be
added to the list Of deceased newspaper ven
lures which go to make up the hyphenated
Teigen gang sheet across the street. Mean
time, there appears to be an excellent opening
at Souris, one of the best towns in Bottineau
county, for a real newspaper.
The Journal at Dunn Center is among the
latest newspaper acquisitions in the state by
the farmer members of the Nonpartisan league,
and it will hereafter be issued as The Dunn
County Journal. It's late editor, Charles
Doherty, who was recently called to the colors,
succeeded in making that paper one of the
brightest and most interesting publications in
the western part of the state, and his response
to the call of duty to his flag and country made
the sale of the paper imperative.
From it's coign of vantage on the very apex
of the political fence, in which position it has
been fairly successful in running with the Non
partisan hare while hunting with the old gang
hounds for some time past, the LaMoure
Chronicle on the eve of the primaries elected
ner in the old gang ticket and accordingly it
proceeded to make an eleventh hour flop to
thai side. Characteristic but-holy Allah, look
at the result!
One of the most saddening features of the
present gladstone sunmer season is the afro
cious samples of original poetry which the Bis
marck Palladium persists in inflicting from
time to time upon it's host of otherwise eager
readers. Misguided efforts of that sort are most
admirably calculated to cause the innocent and
unsuspecting reader to so far forget himself as
to almost vote the jerrybacon ticket or indulge
in any other mild sort of midsummer madness.
" . !
Notwithstanding the most vicious opposition,
supplemented by whatever aid which was to be
derived from a conjured up ghost of the lately
deceased House Bill 44, Father" Hagen proved
an easy winner Of the senatorial nomination
over the popular senator Sandstrom, thanks in
the main, to the fight made upon him by Mr..
Teigen's hyphenated organ across the street.
Break the news gently to the Numbering,
mourning Minot Messenger.
There are one or two other self-styled news.
papers in BOttineau county for which there is
absolutely no excuse for their not following the
example of the late Souris Messenger in ceas-
ing to be an infection upon an all too patient
and an. long suffering rs3e: people pso A; few though no. s1;,1 the he lat 1a,
next to give up the ghost and join Teigen's
News-Herald Me ssenger-Advocate list of news
paper hyphenates? hi
"Say Matt!" in view Of the popular verdict
as registered at the primary polls yesterday
doesn't it look as though there was really nc
crying need, after all, for those proposed de.
Hagen, on the merits or dement's of the late
House Bill AZ, so urgently and persistently ad.
vocated by the, Teigen outfit Of political mis-
fits?
Well, Minot may be the modern sodom ane
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