The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-20

enough? The bosses are breaking
their backs trying to get the people
not to sign the petitions. What is
-THINK IN INTEREsT-sAVE--
Among the many expensive happen
ings that happened during the late
session of the Legislature is~the fact
that under the new taxation deal the
farmers Of Barnes county will be call
ed on to raise fifteen thousand dollars
for a county feir and fifteen thous=
and dollars for the county agent. Both
are all right in their place and here
tofore the amount raised was three
thousand dollars each. Twenty-four
thousand dollars more are to be rails
ed after this all because the legisla-
ture was so busy passing graft news
paper bills and trying to put the state
superintendent out of business as we'll
as placing millions and millions Of
dollars in one mans hand, to spend
as he please, that they forgot to
change this law-hence we have to
pay more taxes unnecessary for these
two items. But what do we care for
a lot Of excess, unnecessary taxes.
Perish the thought.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
The Independent Voters League has
established a new paper at Fargo for
the dissemination of the principles of
that body and for the purpose Of COM
batting that rank brand of socialism
and money spending that now has the
state by the throat. The new paper
is live number and has already sent
chill up the back of the mouthpiece
of the league, the Courkier-News one
of the league Brintonized papers, to
be fostered and kept by the people of
the state by the peoples money for
which we help pay but get no say IN
the matter Talk about kept press.
If the people do not kill those graft
printing bills the league press ought
to wax fat from this Infamous news
paper bill that throws all the public
printing to the league papers and in
cidentally fattens the prospects OF
good dividends for those legislators
who own stock in the league papers
and voted for the bill without batting
an eyelid, knowing that they were vot-
ing themselves dividends from public
printing.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sNE-
The great question OF the hour isl
show will the new taxation laws pass
ed by the late legislature affect me"
Every tax payer in the state might
we'll ask that question and get little
insight to what is coming to them as
a result Of this benefcient admins
tration that has been telling them Of
the benefits they are going to get as a
result of league domination. Take |
your pencil, then get copy of the
new laws and figure up what you will !
have to pay in taxes. After you have !
done this it will make you sick. 1t
will be no ordinary raise in tax it will
oe a deluge and don't you forget it.
With seventeen millions Of dollars to
be raised by taxation somebody has
20 pay for it and the farmer himself
s going to be a heavy contributor to !
these great problems. The fellow
owning town property also is going to
feel the heavy furden Of taxation. His |
little home will cost him double what |
It has in the past and what applies to
he town folks also applies to the farm |
and there you are. In this case it is |
not question of we'll stick, but it is /,
A concrete fact "that we are stuck
THINK IN. 1NTEREsT-sAVE-
We notice in the Peoples Opinion,
that some Lacquer who has not the |
to sign his name, says that |
he Times Record is losing out on SUBJ
scriptions and that the business men
will be the losers. Without any de-
IN iy,41 q
statement the editor Of the Times
Record desires to state that the daily
has larger subscription list than it
ever had and we further say that the
daily has the largest subscription list
in the county. A few farmers did
stop the weekly-most Of them to take
the daily-but very few for any 9TH
er purpose. A few-a couple of dozen
or so-did try to boycott the paper
last summer by stopping their SUBJ
scriptions, but it was merely a baga-
telle and did not amount to much.
Most Of these same men are now.
sneaking around to the neighbors to
borrow the Times-Record While they
do not approve what we say most Of
them are, interested enough to read
the sheet just the same. We are not
going to fight with this Lacquer. We
believe that in the main the league
program is good but that does not
mean that all the league program is
good-far from it, there are many
things about the program that are the
rankest kind Of legislation and this
will be put before the people For
referendum vote, then if majority