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

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state government sustains the /. w
VS., reds and radicals and are link
ed up with them in every way, while
the governor seems to delight in hav
! ing for a guest at his home Kat
Richards O'Hare, who is now in ;
federal prison and who has recently
been nominated for vice-president b!
the socialist party Of the country. Mr.
Liggett failed to tell the 'Bostonian:
these facts. We presume the present
| administration which is flying under ;
republican banner will swallow the so
cialist ticket for president and vice
president and also the platform of tn
red party adopted during the las
campaign at St. Louis.
-BOOSr POR VALLEY CITY
Gen. Leonard Wood, who is one O.
the leading candidates for the pres
idency, was asked by Senator Boral
lust how he stood on the matter of :
league of nations. Gen. Wood very
promptly states his position by say
ing that he thinks we should have {
league of nations but with reserva
tions. That is about the way a great
majority of the American people fee
about the matter, and from the way
things are shaping will be the out
come of the senate's action. President
Wilson keeps stubbornly set to the
point of view he personally holds ano
does not seem disposed to yield sin
gle iota to the personal view that he
holds-in other words he is setting up
his own notions against the entire
country because he certainly has the
big majority against him at this time
or this important matter.
BOOST roR VALLEY CRY
The l. V. A. convention at Grand
Forks recently went on record as fav-
oring a two million dollar mill in this
state which we think is enough to
start with. The Courier-News distorts
the facts by saying that the |. V. A.
favors a small MILL Two million dol
lars put into mill and handled care
fully and conservatively will go fur
Their than five million will go in the
hands of this socialist bunch who are
paving out many hundreds Of thous-
ands Of dollars in waste, excessive sal
aries and promotion. We think the
stand taken by the Grand Forks con-
yention was absolutely right. Two
million dollars is lot of money and
will build several very fine mills, ade-
cuate to our needs at the present time
and if the mill or mills built should
prove beneficial to the people then it
is always possible to get money for
enlargement. Let's go slow to start
with and work along sanely and con-
servatively. Of course the socialist
bunch want all the money they can get
their hands on and the more millions
the more there will be for lot of has
beens to draw salaries which they
could not earn any other way.
BOOST FOR VALLEY CITY
A farmer formerly of North Dakota
but now of Minnesota writes the Min
neapolis Journal as follows:
ut is no wonder that Messrs. Baer
and Sinclair of North Dakota are
peeved at the very pertinent remarks
of Judge K. NJ. Lands. The truth is
quite ant to hurt in such cases. There
are no doubt large number of loyal
farmers in North Dakota who are not
l. w. VS. nor socialists, or even in
sympathy with them, but who are
members Of the Nonpartisan league.
However, all I. w. VS. in North Da-
kota belong to or vote with the non
partisan and socialists or worse.
Having been a farmer in North Da-
kota, and now being one in Minnesota,
| don't blame farmers here in the
northwest for being incensed at the
treatment we got for years from the
wheat ring and the railroads. But l
cannot see that that is a sufficient rea-
son for them to furnish the nonpar-
tisan leaders of North Dakota with
funds at SIG or $18 per to fasten an
other and still heavier load upon them
selves. One has but to examine this
years tax statements on farm prop
erty in North Dakota to acknowledge
this fact. Of course, the Nonpartisan
leaders, Mes3rs. Townley, LeSueur ct
al, are making desperate efforts to
combine the farmer and the labor vote.
But oil and water won't mix. The
farmer quite naturally wants high
prices for everything he produces, and
he wishes the laborer he hires to earn
his wages. No eight hour day or five
day week will serve. Quite naturally
Baer, Sinclair and all the Townleyites
of North Dakota object to having such
an able man as Judge Lands call them
down. But why has not the judge as
good a right to "mix in Minnesota
state politics" as have the Townley
hired propagandists who for the past
year have been working night and day;
not only in Minnesota, but in South
Dakota and Montana It's poor rule
that only applies to one side"
BOOST FOR VALLEY cry
Paul 3. jenkins in the Chicago Tri-
bune, saps those people over the head
who have the temerity to get in the
way of their personal liberty in the
following very vigorous manner:
This heartless, inconsiderate gov
ernment! 1t prohibits slavery and left
a lot of freed slaves on the hands Of
people who had invested their all in
slaves. 1t put the lotteries out of bus
mess, and millions of dollars worth
Of gambling equipment and personal
liberty went to smash. It prohibited
opium, morphine, cocaine etc, without
giving benevolent dealers time in
which to dispose of their stocks of
dope. 1t prohibited polygamy, and
left eighteen perfectly fine but use