The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-09-18

EDITORIAL


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Those Of the old veterans still livin
and who were able to attend a conven
ton the other day, went on record a
being opposed to the ratification 9
the peace treaty with Germany in it
present form. That is just about tn
attitude we expected from the old sol
diers- and they are absolutely correc
in the premises.
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Senator McCumber is putting up .
mighty good fight in the senate fol
ratification of the peace pact with 6
few minor reservations of his own
He is out of line with his party OF
course, as are many others on the other
side. Mr.. McCumber probably is just
as sincere in his position other peo-
pie are in their opinions, but if the
senior senator will get his ear to the
ground he will discover that big ma
jority of people in North Dakota and
elsewhere are against the peace treaty.
Let him get in touch with the men
who served in the trenches and he will
discover that oratory and platitudes
do not amount to much in getting any,
where on this great question.
-BuY W. g. S. ......s g. 10
Judge Dean yesterday sentenced A..
G.. Townley and A. c. Gilbert, found
guilty for conspiring to teach seditiOn
in Minnesota last July to three months
in the jackson county Jail and fine
of 500 which is all he could give
these fellows under the Minnesota law.
In our judgment these men got off
light. While our boys were going day
by day to the front to serve the coun-
try in the great world war those men
by their speeches and papers were cir
culating matter that was anything but
patriotic and they certainly were not
spending much of their money in buy
ing bonds. The Townley press, of
course, will play up the martyr act
and claim that these men were rail-
roaded through to conviction, but that
will not go down with clear thinking
people. They were convicted on strong
evidence by jury Of farmers and had
a fair and square trial. The sentence
imposed is too light for the offense
committed,
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The Cooperstown Sentinel Courier
wants the business men and citizens
Of that city to join in an effort to!
purchase the Cooperstown- mill and
make it state institution-in other
words if the people there put up
enough money they can have the state
buy the mill. What are the people to
gain from such proceeding. We re-
many years ago that when
the editor lived in CooperstoWn we /
gave bonus toward putting in that
mill when it was originally put in.
Later on it was sold to the present
and today is turning out
some of the best -four made in the
state and is thriving and paying in
stitution. The town now has that mill
and to buy it all over again looks to
US to be foolish waste of money
unless the people up there simply
want the benefits of a state brand up-]
On the flour. There does not seem to
be any assurance that people will buy
1our any cheaper or get better SER
nee, if there was there would be some
sense in the people up there buying
his mill. But they now have this in
titution and cannot possibly lose any,
hing while on the other hand they
lave nothing to gain. Any town that t
loes not have mill would be justified 7
n going after one and would be fool
sh not to get in action trying to get {
me of these state mills located in /:
heir town. Drake recently sold the I
title mill it already had to the state
tut there has not been any drop in c
he price of flour and the people there '
ire not getting any better service than =,
hey secured before. +,