The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19

| people 10 kllO" tLdC 81 SdCIcu oil III
stitution as the saloon could be abol
ished? With an income of only So,
600, 100000 year they could not EN-
ploy competent counsel to interpret
the United States supreme court de-
cisions to them, rendered years ago
to the effect that the liquor business
was bad business, dangerous to pud
lie health and public morals; that M
one had an inherent right to engage ir
liquor selling; that it existed only BY
tolerance and could be prohibited al
any time without Erecompense' tt
those who took a gamblers chance anc
went into it. The poor fellows were
not even warned by the Anti-Saloor
league slogan, adopted six years ago
''The Nation Dry by 1920
"The people of the United States
and their government have been very
rude to those who would preserve ou1
liberties-in alcohol.
! --Boosr YoR VALLEY CITY
| From the way the republicans of the
state are getting into the game elect.
! ing delegates to the convention at Bis.
marck next Tuesday we think that
there will be big gathering and that
! the proceedings will be harmonious
| and of the get-together nature. There
| is a disposition this year to get TO-
gether to work for the good of all and
all personal ambitions and past differ
ences are being laid aside with that
end in view. We look for real meet
ing at the capital city next week with
lot of good men placed on the ticket
as presidential electors and delegates
to the republican national convention
with platform adopted that will
have the right ring to it. All efforts
of the opposition to split the party so
far have been unavailing and it now
looks as if the republicans Of the state
will 20 into the fight with a united
front.
--BOoST FOR VALLEY CITY
The shortage of print paper some
how does not seem to affect newspa-
pers which take the side of the great
aggregations of capital. All the or
gans of reaction are printing the usual
number of pages and apparently are
not troubled by the reported dearth of
white paper. The American is un-
able to understand why it's consign-
ment of print paper has been delayed.
If we were at all suspicious, we would
say that it is because the American
is not playing the game of big bust
ness. Every sinister interest is op-
posed to the effort of the people to get
the pure news. All the powerful in
fuences of the monopolistic plumber
bund are centered in killing off liberal
publications that show no fear or fav-
or. Anyone who has tried to buy the
American on the railroad trains has
discovered that it is barred. The rail-
road interests do not want you to read
a paper which advocates public owner
ship.-Grand Forks American.
Such driveling rot as the above
gives a person pain. The American
has been getting paper enough to pub
lish it's sheet all right and we know
of no league paper that is giving pure
news to the public that has been COM
PEELED to close down on account of not
getting paper. OF course the Times
Record comes within the meaning of
the American when it says that the
shortage does not affect the papers
lined up on the side Of the big aggre-
cation, but we notice that awhile ago
we had just as much trouble getting
print paper as any other paper did
and we still have hard work getting
enough to keep going. If there is any
paper that represents big business and
great aggregations Of capital it is the
American and other league papers
who are operated and controlled by
one Of the most gigantic corporations
that ever went into the financial field
looking for suckers-and found them.
The Americans lament is indeed
laughable and childish.
BOOST FOR VALLEY CITY
THE STATE BANK FLIM-FLAM.
When it was calmly proposed to
start the Bank of North Dakota, using
the deposits for capital, bankers of
the state either gasped, swore or
laughed, but the average citizen may
have failed to grasp the situation.
Perhaps it is becoming more clear
to him now that the claim of ''profits"
for the state bank has been made and
punctured.
Here is the situation, briefly: The
state voted 100000 in bonds as
capital for the bank, and these bonds
"CiC CuIIlCA OVCA w Illc Uduk ~ UlS-
pose Of. The bank "disposed" Of them
by buying" them with it's own de-
posits, and calmly proceeding to do
business.
The state has never received any
money for those bonds. They were
never actually sold and paid for, yet
the bank now proposes to collect in
terest on them and count that interest
as profits" for the bank
If the bank really bought the bonds,
where is the money for them?
If it didn't buy the bonds, why is
it entitled to interest?
This is fair sample of the "busi-
ness methods" Of the Bank of North
Dakota.
1t is about as useful to North Da-
kota as a fur overcoat to Hottentot.
1t is actually lessening the amount of
money available for loaning in the
state. For example, when a man
draws $500 out of his account to pay
taxes, that money is not available
again until it has been deposited in
the Bank of North Dakota and then
re-deposited in the local bank. And
ayon than tho local hapkor roocp,t