The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-11

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this, it means the people and big business are
in good time to come to a live-and-let-live basis
and work and dwell together in happiness and
unity.
= ORGANIZED LABOR's ANSWER.
Pure and simple trade u~niopists may note in
state laws against idleness,, an unforeseen OBJ
stacle to success of their ideals. The war has
given organized labor the power in the indus
trial field that enthusiastic trade u~nionists have
looked for to be permanently theirs, whenever
enough skilled laborers should be gathered into
the union fold. Now they can know the answer
that capital has ready for them. Four states
have enacted laws making idleness a crime.
That means a ready weapon for employers to
use against strikers. And without the right
to strike, even though it be as a last resort,
labor organizations are helpless.
But organized labor should have it's answer
ready. If idleness in men is to be made a crime,
then withholding of opportunities from willing
men should be penalized also. And penalties
on industry such as existing tax laws impose,
should be abolished. If that were done just
demands of labor could be obtained without
strikes and there would be no occasion to send
men to Jail for idleness.
Do the Non-Partisans desire to be measured
by the A; M. Hagan standard? Some pre-
cincts voted solidly for him. Do the vot-
ers of these precincts want it understood
that in their judgment Hagan is an ideal
man to represent seventeen thousand peo-
pie in the state senate? Do they?-Ad-
vocate.
Replying to the above frenzied inquiry by
Mr.. Teigen's organ which, by the way, was so
electors at the late primary election, we can
only reply that, judging by the five hundred
and twenty-five majority vote accorded Mr..
Hagan in opposition to the ablest and by far
the best man of the Teigen outfit, it would be
reasonably safe to assume that the query will
be answered most emphatically in the afirma-
tive.
There can be no doubt in view of the past re-
cord but what the Advocate is a postmaster
in the art of conjuring up political ghosts and
hobgoblins with which to alright the souls of
fearful i-Nonpartisans, in which pastime it
appears to delight. It's latest venture in that
regard being the creation of a spectre of what
it is pleased to term "Kate O'Hare Republican,
ISM" and which it positively assures us twill
This sort Of mental pabulum may be highly
satisfying to Mr.. Teigen's handful of fatuous
followers, but it will merely provoke an audible
smile among the Nonpartisan hosts.
Anyway. John Steen not only carried his
nome county, says~the Steele County Tri-
bune, but also carried Frazier's home coun-
ty, where the Townley candidate was best
known.-Grand Forks Herald.
When it is remembered that John Steen car
ried his home county" by a meager majority
of but eleven votes it must be admitted that
the above boast is based on a mighty slim
foundation. But as that was one of the very
few results of the primaries of which it was
possible for them to exult their hilarity thereat
is in a measure excusable.
Lost or strayed! ut is not to BE- thought
that he has been stolen, otherwise his unfor-
tunate abductors would have discovered their
error and returned him ere this) One per-
fectly willing would-be Nonpartisan League
disorganizer and political reformer. Has not
been seen nor heard from since the late pri-
mary election. Answers to the name of M.
Teigen. One months subscription to the Sour
is Messenger will be given for information as
to his whereabouts. Address all communications
to any one of his small coterie Of disappointed,
disheartened and Disguised Bottineau followers
for reward.
Reverse or even divide the German vote
in North Dakota and ToWnley would have
been rebuked by the Fliekertails in the
same manner as it was by the Gophers.-
st. Paul Dispatch.
The above is a sample Of an original brand
of unmitigated and utterly ~sense1ess falschood
with which the Dispatch has regalcd it's read
ers almost daily for months past. AS a most
cheerful, willing and Whole-heartedlA liar the
Dispatch penny-a-iner is clearly entitled to-
rank with the disreputable editors Of the Fargo
Post and the Shaffer Record.
AS a political prophet Mr.. Teigen's hyphenat-
ed organ is q hopeful as well as an sanoosin'
Z iMofHfh1e factgtHatai1xAantSx
primary predictions ~ tn Mr.. Ha0an,g vote