The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-06-05

We read in the Courier-News this
morning of meetings of the league be-
ing held at various points in the state
at which meeting the C. N. says that
immense crowds were in attendance.
This may be all true and we are not
saying that it is not so, but why give
such large amount of space and big
headlines to those other meetings and
forget all about the one held here on
Tuesday and the one at Glen Ullen.
The crowds here did not choke the
streets so you would notice it. Why
not carry the truth to the people.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
Mr.. Townley at Glen Ullen, N. D.,
day before yesterday, while address,
ing large meeting of farmers was
asked if he had said that Atty. Gen.
LANCER was a crook. He admitted he
had said so but also stated in the pres
ence of big bunch of farmers that
Mr.. LANCER was not crook. He said
he was an honest man but mistaken.
Could it not also be possible that Mr..
Townley is mistaken when he says
that Tom Hall, Karl Kositzky and 9TH
ers who do not agree with the big
chief, are honest men, instead of be-
ing liars, crooks, etc., as he has so
often said they were. Men may diff
fer in opinion about politics without
being crooks or liars. The big boss
has not even made dent in the stone
wall of Mr.. Langer's support in Nor
ton county.
think IN 1NTEREsr-sAvE-
The good old state of Texas, long
the home of the cowboy and the long
horned cattle, known as one of the
wild and wooley west states of the
unien, is evidently getting more civil
lized than many other of the states.
They had an election last Monday in
which all the people voted on the
propositions of prohibition and wom-
an suffrage and according to latest
returns from that election both propo-
sitions won out. When Texas votes
for prohibition it is no small wonder
that the country is going dry. This
was no legislative affair in which the
legislature set the pace, but every
voter in the state Of Texas had vote
on both propositions who wanted to.
With forty-five states out of the union
sustaining the prohibition amendment
to the constitution what chance is
there of, repeating the prohibition law
of the country we ask? We are afraid
many people are going to get awfully
dry in this country so far as liquor
is concerned. Surely the world do
move when old Texas votes dry.
THINK IN 1NTEREsr-sAvE-
The city council will meet tonight to
listen to the protests of those who are
against putting in the city heating
plant of which there seems to be a
number. The Times-Record editor of
course has no property to be affected
by putting in this plant and if he had
it would not make any difference as
we believe that the proposition is a
good one to all concerned. City prop
erty is advancing right along and
while these improvements may cost
those who have no buildings on the
lots to be affected, they will benefit by
those improvements and the property
will correspondingly advance in price
To those who have business houses to
heat by this plant it seems to US to
be a fine thing and will be saving to
them and then the city also will be
ahead on the deal. We are inclined
to believe that many of those who
have been persuaded to sign this pro.
test petition have done so without
getting the real facts in the case, and
that after they have been before the
council and had the matter explained
they will withdraw their objections
and be for the proposition. What we
want is community unity and what is
best for the city.
THINK IN INyEREs1--sAvE-
George A. Montieth, of Finley
North Dakota, former presi.
dent of the North Dakota Press
Association and one of the Oldest
newspaper men in point of service ir
the state, has sold the Finley Beacon
to the nonpartisan league and in the
last issue Of that paper sang his swar
song to his patrons and friends. Ir
the retirement of Mr.. Monteith the
newspaper boys will lose warm per.
sonal friend in the business as we'll al
one of the best scouts that ever joined
an association. In selling out Mr.
Monteith says that the league intend.
ed either buying paper or starting
another one and that Finley was toe
small town for two so he felt he
"Ou1u IdtIlcI Sel1 I1ldu W IcIIIdlA Ill CIlS
field and fight for his existence and q
living with a divided community. This
is another league newspaper that is
being framed up to be the beneficiary
of the infamous printing bill passed
by the last legislature and is in the
county seat town of Steele county
One newspaper in the county seat OF
each county in the state is being
bought up by the league to fall he'll
to this printing graft in event the law
is sustained at the referendum election
on June &c. The Times Record editor
dislikes to see Mr.. Monteith crowded
out of the newspaper business in this
state where he has been so long anc
hopes that some day the clouds of so.
cialism will roll away, sanity will be
enthroned in this state and that hi
may be enabled to re-enter the news.
paper field untrameled and where
freedom of thought and action is moi
followed by oppression and boycott.
THINK IN 1NrEREsT-sAyE-
Last Thursday night the city coun
ell and the objector signers to the put