The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-11-11
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EDITORIAL
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that food prices are COM
ing down. In all the Childs restau-
rants which are to be found IN all the
leading cities of the United States,
reduction in the price OF meals IS De-
ING made from 10 to 20 per cent as
soon as new menu cards can De re-
printed. With potatoes at about one
third the price Of last year, hour, su-
rar and other staple foods on the TO-
hoopan there is no reason why meals
showld not come down. If the restau-
rant and hotel keepers were ASKING
good profit at last years prices
and they certainly were-then unoer
the present conditions they are max
ing about double now, and that is not
fair to the public. When toodstuns
20 up there is no delay in sending up
The price of meals. Now that all KINDS
of foodstuffs are coming down there
should be readjustment in prices.
The Courier-News is sending up the
8 O. S. sign for help from the busl-
ness men Of Fargo. Other league pa
pers are going around begging Tor
support from the merchants OF the
towns in which they live and are
bowling loud and long because the
merchants are not giving them their
business. Can any publisher or edl,
tor of any league paper give real
valid reason why they should get the
support of a single business man OF
the town in which they live? Every
one of them were advocating the
Townley idea of driving the business
men from the towns in which they
live and have lived and paid taxes tor
many years, before Townley ever
dreamed of trying to run this state
These same editors have accused the
business men of their communities OF
being grafters and profiteers and OF
being linked up with big business:
They have sown the seed or nate ana
discord between country and town IN
order to continue in power TINS social
list organization that is sapping the
life blood of the state and plllng up
taxes and expense mountain hlgh.
Now that the election has brought
about an almost complete loss to the
socialists these same papers, among
them the Courier-News, sends up a
wall for help from the very men that
they were trying to have driven out
of town by this man ToWnley. why
should the business men OF Fargo or
any other place where these things
have been happening, support any
paper that has been lending their
every effort to drive them out OF
town?
One Of the most remarkable things
this election is the fact that according
to the votes of the people substan-
tial majority of the voters have reg
istered their disapproval of the laws
passed by the nonpartlsans relating
to the bank, newspaper law, superln-
tendent of public instruction and 9TH
er matters while at the same time
Frazier is elected by a bare majority
of 1000 or less. This would Indicate
that those who favor the league pro-
gram have become tired OF some OF
the laws passed by their own /eglsla-
ture and is most healthy sign. On
the governorship, however, it shows
that the league inspectors OF election
were mighty good counters. In some
precinct it is reported that where the
ticket had cross on top of the ballot
and then the voter went over to the
other ticket and voted for O'Connor
these ballots were not counted Whlch
is in strict conflict to the law which
says that the ntention OF the voter
must be taken into consideration and
in these cases it was the intention OF
the voter to vote the republican ticket
one precinct in this county we are
told where league Judge OF election
right out before several people per-
sisted in telling the voter how to vote
contrary to law. These are all after
election matters but it shows that
perhaps there is ground for the be-
lief that if the ballots had properly
been counted the result of the election
would have been different.
The Courier-News, still under boy
colt in Fargo by the citys leading ad.
vertisers, because it stands against
the gamblers and big bankers, is able
to sympathize with the gallant strug'
gle the New Republic is making. Any
of our friends who wish to study worlc
events as impartially as possible will
find the New Republic absolutely in
valuable-and by subscribing for the
magazine they will be doing their part
to build up in this country a press in
dependent of advertising domination
-Courier-News.
The above is inspired because of ar
appeal from the New Republic fol
new subscribers and for what it calls
a Gree press" The Courier News is
not entitled to one bit Of sympathy
from any sourse from the advertisers
of Fargo or anywhere else. It has
been the most persistent advocate Of
the boycott on the independent press
Of North Dakota and has been the
most bitter advocate of the Infamous
newspaper law that gave ffty-thret
league controlled papers all the lega
business of the state which put ;
great many little country papers out
OF business. The turn Of the whee
and fair minded public at the recent
election has acted as a boomerang tt
the Courier News, and it, along with
many other league papers have lost
the printing that they, fought so hare