The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-09-25
FOUNDATIONS OF A RUDE

bill into Congress providing for IL
months extra pay at $50 a month for
honorably discharged soldiers. The bill
provides that the sum necessary for
it's carrying out shall be provided from.
extra taxation on all incomes over $25,
900 a year.. and also by an upward
grading of the excess profits tax. Of
course such bills are anti-American
propaganda in the eyes Of the parties
who have been making said exces
profits and their I. v. A. pals
The Big Biz Clique have for years
past been claiming that public owner
ship of public utilities would remove
incentive. Wouldn't is be awful to re-
move the incentive Of working children
in factories, long hours every day in
order to make profits, wouldn't it be
awful to remove the incentive to beat
your fellowman out of every cent you
possibly cam, wouldn't it be awful to
remove the incentive. for wars ragged
because of the incentive of Big Biz
to expand their profiteering activ-
; tiles (1ike Mexico for instance) and
last but not least, wouldn't it be awful
I to remove the incentive for beating the
farmer out Of several millions pearly?
Oh! wouldn't it be awful, Mabel?
And then wouldn't it be just awful
to remove the incentive of the produc-
! ing class of always remaining a pro-
ducing slave?
+ The United Sugar Company of New
York City was caught red-handed
p~rofiteering. That outfit admitted sell
ing sugar at IA cents a pund when
the fair price was 9A cents. By prof.
iteering that outfit was committing a
crime against society. But were the
official against that profit grading
concerns arrested and placed in prison
where such as they and their kind be-
long? Oh! no, nothing of the kind. The
sugar company returned the excess
profit and everything was lovely. If
a poor man should steal a loaf of
bread because he was hungry and
needed the food and had been caught
in the act would he have been allowed
to go after returning the bread? Well,
hardly, he more likely would have re-
ceived alive or ten year term in pris-
on. This has happened more than once.
A man with money who grabs ex-
cesive profits which do not rightfully
belong to him is a profiteer and a fl
nancier, while the mar without money
'Twho grabs something which does not
rightfully belong to him is just a COM
com ordinary thief. Notice the differ
ence?
If we had public ownership of pub
lie utilities it would remove the incen-
tive for p~rofiteering in those lines at
least. And wouldn't that be awful?
; Wonder why it was that these ter
rible Mexican bandits didn't cause US
a little trouble during the late Europe
an unpleasantness? The "kept press
has. been just raving about thse band
its. It appears that Carranza govern.
ment does not intend to allow foreign
interests to gain a stronghold upor
8 their country by allowing them t.
2 grab the natural resources in Mexico
Perhaps that is why the kept press
! is so interested"
: The aims of the Kahn Chamberlain
: bills for compulsory military training
as well as the Wadsworth bill, backet
7 by the War Department are to mo
J bilize the Of this nation an,
: direct them under master minds.
= The military master minds" of Amer
: lac will lead this country to its doom
3 just as the military master minds
. Of Germany led that country to it
doom If the militarists Of this coun
$ try are allowed their full sway. Uni
yersal military traing is opposed t
democracy. If compulsory militar,
training is established in this countr,
8 the wave Of progress will be set bacl
9 fifty years.
7 Following is an editorial from til
Y Wall Street Journal Of August 7th:
J Representative Baer has introduce
his bill to give q years pay to ever.
! man who served in the war. He says
1T think it is the best way to max
i loyal American citizens. Loyalty is
Y quality vet to be reduced to terms .
dollars and cents. r the people 3
y North Dakota believe in the abilit
d their Representative to appraise 4
3 10 t~ransnlte il into exchange value