The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
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EDITORIAL


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It has been nearly five years since
the crops in the Golden Valley have
given as great promise Of aboundant
Weld as is now in sight. With the ex-
ception of the lands that were seeded
on stubble and some few that fell VIC
tins to cut worms, the grain every
where is looking fine, and II the nall
keeps away, farmers who did not even
have fodder for their stock last VIM
ter will this fall take long step to-
ward getting even for the lean years.
Beach Advance.
The Courier News seems to be very
touchy about statements contained IN
news dispatches telling about the do
ings of nonpartisan league delegates
at the Farmer-Labor convention at
Chicago called by the committee OF
az and seems to be afraid this will
hurt the league if read by farmers be-
cause it will look like endorsement OF
the radicals who make up that conven-
ton. Well, if the Courier-News IS
really in doubt why Walter Liggett,
O. NJ. Thomson and other leaguers
are there and what the league thinks
about the committee Of AZ they need
have no doubt about what the COM
mittee of 48 thinks about the league.
An editorial in the Nonpartisan
Leader said a few months ago in re-
spect to QUESTIONABLE which they had
conducted among their friends:
''Do you favor the program of the
nonpartisan league in North Dakota :?
"To this question sc per cent an
swered yes and per cent answered
no."
Burglaries and hold-ups are COM
ing fast these days. At Oberon in
Benson county, this state, night be-
fore last, burglars broke into the bank
and got away with twenty thousand
dollars. The people in the town heard
the explosions but seemingly did not
have the proper preparedness to get
out and catch the burglars. That is
the big trouble nowadays. Unpre-
paredness. We presume that hardly
one in the whole town had anything
ready to shoot burglar with and the
stunt was pulled off without any SER
ious opposition to the yeggs. 1t is
time the people of the country awoke
to the realization that preparedness
is necessary. The whole country
seems to be in most deplorable con-
dition along these lines. No person
wants to 60 out and chase a yegg
without a gun and many Of US would
not want to go if we had gun. In
Minneapolis and St. Paul and other
large cities bold hold-ups are pulled
off in broad day light and the yeggs
get away with it while scores of peo-
pie look on. 1t is time something was
done to check this wave of crime in
the country.
The republicans of the nation have
one perplexing problem already solved
for them. President Wilson has agreed
with Nominee Cox, and Nominee Cox
has agreed with President Wilson
practically swallowing all the vagaries
of the president regarding the league
of nations in order to get the admin
istration support, 80 that Mr.. Cox is
really replica Of the present iiicum-
bent of the presidency and if elected
will carry out the present administra-
tons foreign policy, which has been
anything but success. Then we are
informed that Mr.. Cox is to be elect
ed-Wilson says so, all the leading
democrats say so, and if that is true
It is hardly worth while for the re-
publicans to waste any further time
over the presidency unless they want
to do it just for the fun of it. After
reading about the sure thing success
of Mr.. Cox it gives US a sort of hope
less feeling, yet" we have known of
these sure thing elections sometimes
to go the other way so we are living
in hopes that perhaps, after all, these
sure thing guesses may be wrong and
that Mr.. Harding might possibly win
out.
Ex-Gov. Hoch, writing to the Mar
,ion (Kansas) Record from North Da-
kota where he is delivering Chautau-
qua addresses says: What humbug
this "Nonpartisan" movement is, even
in name. 1t is narrowly and bitterly
partisan. 1t is rank socialism in thin
disguise. It is nothing its name indi-
Gates. But it has fooled the farmers,
who are even now it's worst victims,
and who pay sixteen dollars each to be
victimized, and seem to enjoy it.
Verify, Barnum was right. People like
to be humbugged. When the night
mare is over, Townley, the socialistic
leader, will be a millionaire, the state
will be we'll on the road to bankruptcy,
and the chief dupe, the well-meaning
North Dakota farmer, will be holding
the sack waiting for the snipe to come
in. what fools we mortals be-
Burlingame (Kansas) Enterprise
Chronicle.
This shows how the league is sized
up by an outsider. Mr.. Hoch recently
passed through this city and spoke in
some of our neighboring towns on the
Chautauqua platform. Kansas is an
other state faced by the menace of the
nonpartisan league.
A great deal of dissatisfaction can
still be heard on the sub-value which
IS placed upon liberty bonds at this
time The last issue If these bonds