The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-09-02

has proved SO lucrative that hundreds
are devoting their entire time to it.
Conditions on the international line are
bordering on lawlessness and only re-
Gently chief of police was arrested
and fined for carrying concealed wea-
pons. And these are the conditions
brought about by the crave for liquor.
It matters not how much other people
are made to sufferf how much money
is wasted in this foolish manner, we
see fellows standing around drunk
and full to the neck, whining about
this taking away Of personal liberty.
The Duluth Herald says the question
to be decided at the polls in Novem-
Der is "Shall America help in the ef-
fort to curb war and curtail armament,
or shall it refuse despite the certainty
that if the effort is not honestly made
war will surely come again, and the
burden of armament will surely grow
more crushing every year," The Her
aid says the republicans say no to
that question and the democrats yes,
and then adds that those who are
willing to let war 60 on and recre-
ate itself unchecked should vote for
the republican candidates. Those
who, in the interests of humanity and
of the mothers of the world, are anx-
ious to, do whatever can be done to
check wars and lessen the burdens Of
armament will vote for the democratic
candidates. Being democratic news
paper the Herald has very nicely pre-
sented it's side of the question by
camoufaging the position taken by the
republicans. The republican party
tried hard to get democratic presi-
dent to agree to several reservations
which would be impossible to draft
the sons of these mothers of the Unit
red States into wars created and
brought about by foreign countries
without the consent of the people of
the United States-in other words
making it mandatory for our sons to
go over to foreign lands to fight in
any war that the other members of
this great league of nations might
bring upon themselves. The republi-
can party wants to put reservation
in the covenant to guard against such
a contingency, but stiff necked and
bull headed president would not stand
for it and either wants the covenant
to go through as he sees it or not at
all. He has refused to listen to ad-
vice from the best men of his own
country and in his own party, pre-
ferring to listen to the oily words and
confidential chatter of John Bull, and
other old world leaders. The republic
can party wants an American made
peace treaty. We notice that the
league of nations is in effect today
but we notice no cessation Of war as
result of it. The peace treaty or
league of nations part of it has proven
to be big fizzle up to this time. The
interests of humanity and, of the
mothers of the world does not Seem to
be worrying Russia, Poland and other
countries that are trying every day to
exterminate each other. This, bunk
thrown out by the Herald sounds very
much like that campaign cry of four
years ago "he kept us out of war;
That proves eficacious so far as Will
son is concerned and elected him pres
ident, but he did not keep us out of
war and he knew he couldn't do that at
the time the famous slogan came out.
It was nothing but camouhage. But
you cannot humbug the American peo-
pie all the time-and the league of
nations issue as presented by the DEM
ocratic party is the biggest piece of
hulnbug of modern times.
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