The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-13

league got into power was the fact
that the people did not have the ref
erendum. Now that they have it the
leaders do not want the people to vote
on these laws and are importing all
the best speakers they can get in the
country to fight the very proposition
that they went before the people to
get. There must be a niger in the
woodpile somewhere. Don't they
want the people to get the inside facts
of their expensive legislation at Bis
marck? Why are they SO afraid of
the cars if they are all right?
: It is possible, according to the ac-
ton of the banking board of this state
who has forbidden the sale of any more
stock of the packing plant that the
promoters of this institution are 60
ing beyond the limit of the blue sky
I law in the matter of commissions.
When some of these orators who are
putting in their time abusing the in
dependent press are so busy telling the
dear people what grand and glor-
ious vista of prosperity is opening
out before them after this great legis-
lative hokus-pokus at Bismarck, they
might get right down to the meat of
things and explain why it is necessary
to put stop to this watering of the
stock of these various institutions for
which the people are to be taxed mil
lions of dollars. Is there any assur-
ance that when the state gets down
to floating bonds that lot of these
expert fnanciers for their own good
will not get busy and get some big
promotion fees for themselves out Of
the tax payers money. If they do it
in one instance they are very liable
, to do it again, having acquired such
keen taste for high finance for reve-
nue. only-for themselves. Yes, the
dear people are getting beautifully
film flammed these days, and the
more loquacious the talker the better
results.
-BUY W. S. S.-
( One Of the biggest stock sales of
pure bred bulls is now being arranged
for by E. S.. DeLancey at various
points IN the state as follows: Hank
;inson, March 81; Valley City, April
4; Bismarck, April 2; Dickinson, April
3; Minot, April 7 and New Rockford,
April 8. On the face of it perhaps
this mayo not mean very much yet if
you stop to consider what is being Of
%fered IN the way of pure bred stock
you will easily see that it is a great
thing for the state. At Valley City
the farmers should make it point to
be present at this auction, because the
animals to be offered at this sale are
pure bred Herefords and Shorthorns
and they will have an opportunity to
purchase animals of real worth and
ones that will help put their stock on
higher standard Of breeding. These
sales through the state are great
things for the various communities
where they are to be held and give
every former chance to procure
pure bred animals. Mr.. Delaney is
doing good work in getting up these
sales and the one at Valley City
should be hummer. 1t costs no more
to feed pure bred than it does
scrub-then why not get the pure
bred animals and improve your herd.
--Buy W. s. S.
There is gradual breaking away
Of the big political machine which
has been gouging the state for the
past three years. Too many raw
deals have been attempted the past
few months so that it has dampened
the ardor of many of the leaders.
Attorney General LANCER is too good
a man to stand for some of the rot
tenness that the bunch is trying to
put over in bank deals, newspaper
deals and other big promotion deals
and has called a halt on that stuff.
The big boss does not like it and is
chatting under his collar. Tom Hall,
secretary of state, is another man
with an honest and open mind and an
independent makeup, and he too will
not fall for the deals the bank promo
tors and newspaper muzzlers are try
ing to foist on the people. This pains
the powers that be also. Then comes
State Auditor Kositsky, who could not
stand for the way the Brinton bunch
was trying to muzzle the press and
ne influenced a few legislators to vote
against the emergency clause. This
got under the skin of Dictator Town
ley, who called the auditor on the car
pet and told him where to head in
with the result that our independent
state auditor told his royal nibs to 90
to hell or words to that effect. Mr.
Townley is reported to have said that
he would get the axe the next election
but Carl came back by saying she
should worry" Here are three of the
biggest men in the organization de-
manding a square deal for the people
and refusing to close their eyes to the
big promotion stuff and other raw
deals that a bunch are trying to put
over on the people-in other words in
our opinion these three men-Langer.
Hall and Kositzky are absolutely
square and want to do the right thing.
We do not approve of all these men
do, neither do they approve, perhaps,
of what we do, but we believe them to
be square and willing to give the peo-
pie 9 square and upright deal The
people will stand by these men any1