The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-02-06

decent man sick. AS to our alleged
criticism Of the retail merchant the
merchant himself knows that as we'll
as anybody and we have no apology to
offer. We say what we think and all
the rawlings and howlings of a disap-
pointed soul like Hubbard would not
change our opinion one whit. We are
proud and pleased at being branded
as schoolboy editor. There are mil
lions Of schoolboys in the land who
could edit the Peoples Opinion much
better than the nonenity that now
warns the editorial chair with the
collar of socialism clasped around his
neck.
The action of the nonpartisan
league caucus in approving the bill
for a half mill appropriation provid-
ing a fund for home or an education
for North Dakota's returning SOL
diers means that the measure will
soon become law. Even the leagues
enemies dare not vote against this
bill.-Courier-News.
The Courier-News is hard up to
find some good thing that the league
has done at Bismarck and something
which the league enemies dare not
fight. The Courier-News forgets the
attitude of the league leaders during
the war. They were the ones who OPP
posed everything that was American,
that stood for justice, that stood for
right-what they did stand for was
sedition of the worst kind. The So
called enemies of the league were the
ones who are fighting for just such
measures as the one quoted above.
There is not a single man in the state
opposed to the league who will kick
on paying the half mill or several
mills for that purpose. We are all
glad of the opportunity to do some
thing for the soldier boys and don't
you forget it. We also want to COM
mend the league caucus managers for
their stand-it is one in the right d.
rection, But while they are spread
ing on this soap to placate the boys
in the service how are they going to
explain to them the killing Of the bill
forb;dding the display of the red flag
of anarchy in this state? This will
need a lot of explaining we think.
While they are shaking hands with
the boys with one hand they are bury
ing the stilleto in their backs with the
other.
We are publishing a criticism of the
editor in regard to his editorial on
the high cost of living in this issue.
Our critic evidently sees the wrong
side of the story and has gotten him
self worked up into fever over moth
ing. We were criticising the big
dealers not the local retail mer-
chant. Anyway we have nothing to
take back or hedge on and see no real
reason why we should pay any atten-
ton to this critic. He says he is re-
tail merchant. Granted. So are we.
We venture the assertion that the pay
roll every week of this office is four
or five times more than that of
this critic Of ours. Whatever kick
we made on the high prices was justi-
fled and it hit us as hard or harder
than it did anybody else. We are
compelled by the greed Of the trusts
to pay prices for all kinds Of paper
and stock that are not justified in our
opinion at this time, we in turn are
compelled to charge our patrons high
er prices for the merchandise we put
out. Isn't our criticism hitting at
the Times-Record just as much as at
any other merchant? We don't feel
bad at being accused Of charging
more for our goods-we have got to
do it-but that doesn't make the mat
ter right, does it? Our critic talks
about amusing ourself. He may find
amusement in the situation, we don't,
neither does the poor man who has to
pay the high prices. He talks about
candy and fruit. Candy does not ap-
peal to us very much, but when he
comes to the fruit question then we
are hit. We are crazy for oranges,
for instance, but under this beautiful
trust system we are compelled to pay
all the way from Coo to ST per dozen
for oranges that heretofore were sold
at from 35c to 40c per dozen. All on
account of the war. We have never
heard of oranges being shipped to
France as part of the soldiers bill
Of fare or to the allies to help feed the
poor, then why in thunder should
fruit be showed up tossuch outrageous
prices? Just to satisfy the greed of
those who control the fruit situation
just like the paper manufacturers are
gouging us. Meats, butter, eggs, all
kinds Of foodstuffs are too high to en-
able the poor man to live as he should
and our critic knows it. He may feel
like bloated bond holder and like
to pay these high prices, we don't.
There must come reduction along
all lines now that the war is over as
there is no justification in keeping
The high prices up. The people rea-
lied in times of war that it was nee
assary to curtail on everything in
order to supply the vast armies in the
ield, but the war is over and there is
neither justice or reason in excess
now Anyway people
1now who is doing the writing for
he Times-Record but they don't know
Who is doing the criticism of his edi-
orials. If our critic thinks he is right |
Why not come out into the open?
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