The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-03-11

There is an awful silence in th
league papers of late about the coun
ty commissioners being responsible
for the high taxes. 1t has just dawn
ed upon the minds of many of tn
league editors that the county board
are mostly controlled by league men,
bers-and of course they can do rt
wrong.
One of the proposed amendments t
the state constitution to be voted OF
at the coming election is one changing
the time of residence Of the voter IN :
precinct from ninety days to thirt.
days. This is vicious measure and i!
destined more for political purpose:
than for any other reason and should
be voted down. If this law goes into
effect it will give any political party
the chance to rush in voters at will
The time is also changed from si>
months residence in the county tx
ninety days.
The following interesting item from
the Bismarck Tribune indicates that
the Macdonald family are still slop.
ping the hogs" at the state capital
"Mrs. Katryn Macdonald, wife of for
mer State Superintendent Neil G. Mac
donald, now educational expert adj
wiser general to the state board OF
administration, will occupy portion
Of the officers vacated by the railway
commission with the records of the
state educational department, over
which she has been given control. y
Mel resigned from $4,000 position
some time ago but up to this time his
resignation has not been accepted. The
gang leaders are experts at bluffing
and acknowledging. They make great
play to the people about getting rid
of Macdonald then forget to get rid
of him.
The prohibition question is any
thing but settled in this country and
the vets are certainly getting busy
In New Jersey the legislature has
passed a four per cent bill and Gov
Edwards has signed it and now the
vets have their hopes raised so high
they want to run him for president of
this country. Any man, or any set of
men, who favor the destruction of the
home, again the filling up Of the poor
houses, again the increased expenses
of criminal courts to take care of the
infamous traffic Of the rum sellers, is
a mighty poor specimen to run for
president Of country like this. The
New Jersey people evidently have not
awakened to the fact that this country
is dry by constitutional amendment
and that all the laws they are passing
to permit the manufacture and sale Of
four per cent poison are no good 1t
will require wet congress to repeal
that part of the constitution before the
vets should waste any time passing
those kind of laws-and it will be some
time before that wet congress is elect
edit the women Of the country vote
and will vote before the next gen.
eral election.
Editor STRIDE wonders who has been
writing articles on taxation for the
Times Record and figures he can To-
cate where three Of them came from
but the fourth article sort of puzzles
Kim. Anyway he says he can guess
within two blocks where it was writ
ten If he can come within two
blocks Of it that is great deal closer
than he usually gets at guessing at
anything. There is one thing that is
definitely settled, however, and that is
that it is no guess work where he gets
his canned editorials from. If our
good brother would devote more of his
time to expounding the fallacies Of the
cause he is so loudly boosting and will
show his fellow workers m socialism
where the benefits are coming from
this new era we are supposed to be
enjoying, he might accomplish some
thing instead Of putting in most of his
time figuring on what the Tines-Rec-
ard editor is doing. If he keeps this
up he is going to be an exceedingly
busy man the next few months.
They have new scheme for getting
your money these days that makes the
$1S per year membership in the league
look like thirty cents. It is selling
stock in rabbits for the purpose of in
creasing the fur production !. Of the
country. You pay $40 per rabbit and
the promoters agree to give you a
share in the dividends derived in the
sale of the furs. The promoters also
keep charge of the rabbits and you
trust implicitly to the honesty of the
promoters. Many Valley City finan,
ciers have invested we hear. Some day
a circular will come along telling of an
awful epidemic among the rabbits.
This proposition is almost as good as
paying 500. for the privilege of buy
ing groceries in one of these league
stores--+in that you buy the stock but
get no voice in the management That
is the way about these rabbits-you
buy the rabbits but get none of the
stock. We would call it sort Of a
skin game-as you have to skin the
rabbits to get the fur.
We are publishing at the head of
our editorial columns today COM
plete ticket Of presidential electors and
delegates to the national republican
convention which are to be voted upon
at the coming election on March is.
These nominees make up what is
known o the anti ownley ticket and
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