The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-29


are trying to hold them in line by cam.
outage and misrepresentation. Every
little town that has weekly news
paper should vote against this infam'
Gus bill.
| THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
Grant Youmans, famous in banking
circles of the state has come into con.
tact with the big boss of the nonpar.
tisan league because he does not en-.
dorse that persons plans in it's entire
ty. Like Hall, Kisitzky and LANCER
Mr.. Youmans has been pitched into
the discard and branded as a traitor
and few other uncomfortable things
One by one supporters of the league
are dropping from the socialistic band
wagon, which seems to have a couple
of it's weels broken. Mr.. Youmans
however, is sticking to the league pro-
gram and says vote for all the meas
ures passed by the legislature.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-.sAvE--
Hold on, Mr.. Nonpartisan: Don't
kick on the price of gasoline in North
Dakota. You are the fellows who put
the tax on in this state. And the oil
companies naturally added the tax to
the cost Of your gasoline. But any
time you happen to be in Fargo, you
can go over to the Moorhead filling
station and get the same gasoline for
nearly two cents less per gallon.
Mother Carey's chickens come home
to roost." The real facts are that the
Nonpartisan management needed the
money to carry on their policy Of ex-
plotting the state-and the "dear peo-
pie" have to foot the bills,-Fargo
Blade.
Another thing for which the public
will be grateful to the nonpartisan
legislature for is the raise on hotel
rates. At the last session the SUBJ
sidized members of that body passed
bill making an eight hour law for
women making it so that those work
ing in hotels and restaurants can only
work six days in the week and eight
hours day-Sundays people must
go without eating we suppose. To
meet this extra cost in hiring extra
help to take care of Sundays and the
time over the eight hour day. The
hotel men of the state have decided to
raise their rates 10 to Is per cent. This
will be appreciated by all who have
to stop at hotels and restaurants as
most people are Of the decided opin-
ion that they are paying enough at
hotels right now without being CON-
PEELED to pay more. Taking the raise
on gasoline and hotel expenses on ac-
count of the wise 81 legislation of
the last legislature, considerable joy
is being taking out of the life of the
average traveller these days. And it |
will hit the farmer, too. Then in thirty |
days comes another income tax and
then later on comes increased taxes.
Oh JOY, what pleasant world this is
to live in-especially in North Dako-
ia.
THINK IN 1s7EREsT-sAvE--
Speaking about league and anti
league propaganda the farmer is up
against it right at every turn Of the
road. A league man will go into
town and put up very plausible ar
gument against big business and those
who will not stand for league dicta-
ton and will go home satisfied that
the only ones who are wrong in this
political game are the fellows who are
opposing Mr.. Townley's high finance,
heavy taxation and socialism. They
think the flowery talk put up by this
spellbinder is about the truth. Then
in a few days along comes another
fellow from the other side who shows
up in glowing colors what a tremen-
dous load the people are going to car
ry if they endorse the side advocated
by this fellow and he goes home
again with the seed of doubt in his
mind and wondering if as the prophet
said: "all men are liars" and wants
to know where to get off at. He is not
to be blamed for this state of affairs
or for his lack Of faith in the human
race as whole. There is just one way
for him to get at the real facts. Let |
the farmers call a meeting Of their
own - sort of round table af-
fair where there are no lawyers to |
wax eloquent over their views or any
league man to try and camoufage and |
cloud the issue, and go to it and dis |
cuss these proposed measures that |
are before the people in a quiet and |
sensible manner. Get the bills and 20
through them section by section and |
find out just what they contain. They
can get very good line up on what |
is going to happen either in the way
of taxation, education, printing or any
other old thing, then they can go home
and draw their own conclusions and
vote accordingly. The truth is what
they want and nothing else.
think IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
FIT PLACE
We have just begun to realize that
if those insurgent state officers hadn't
butted in Mr.. Townley would have
made this commonwealth a fairly de-
cent place to live in. We feel reason
ably sure now that if he had not been
interfered with we would have had in
a very short time state owned hogs to
root up the fields for spring planting,
gophers to drill the grain, badgers to
dig the post holes, dogs to herd and
ring in the cows, and swordfiesh in all
the lakes and rivers to saw the ice
needed for summer use. This is only
few of the many good things that we
feel sure would have been provided by
the state to tighten the drudgery of
farm work.
In the towns and cities every good
citizen would have been living in a
tot