The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19


ton of owning his own farm in a
reasonable length Of time-state loans
even as great as 80 per cent of the
value of the farm have proven safe
for the state and resulted in the break
ing up Of large estates and division
into small farms owned by working
farmers" South Dakota under their
farm loan system loan 70 per cent. of
the value of the farm. Why not try
this in North Dakota?
The high cost of living and the pol
icy of the government or what ad
ministration would be best for the
whole people is not half as much con-
Germ to a whole lot of voters as the
question as to which side can prom
ise them booze. The stomach gov
ems the politics Of a whole lot of
these fellows more than the good of
the country. The candidate who comes
nearest to lifting the dry lid is going
to get the vote of millions of men
who do not care picayune what be-
comes of the country so long as they
can get the booze-and yet there are
lots of supposedly intelligent men
who say the women of the country are
not intelligent enough to vote. Men
stand around on the street corners
roasting the profteers and cussing the
high cost Of living who will spend
hundred dollars in auto livery hire to
go to the Canadian border to pur-
chase a quart of rotgut for $40 the
quart, who will go crazy with the heat
if their wives or children ask them for
a nickle to buy an ice cream cone or
a pint of milk. And we allow these
men to elect our presidents aud ma
tional legislators. William Jennings
Bryan swept the San Francisco dem
ocrats off their feet with his eloquence
and habit not been for his dry pro-
clivities he would have been NOM
mated hands down, but Tammany
liked this man Cox better because he
is supposed to be "wet" and so he
was Notwithstanding that booze
is the greatest factor of them all at
this time. Bryan made a wonderful
plea for dry plank and lost out.
Then we see that the love of party
again rises above the innermost con-
science as to what is right by reading
in the papers that Mr.. Bryan has de-
cided to support Mr.. Cox. In view of
these facts does Mr.. Roosevelt want
to go on record and claim that he is a
strong progressive with a capital P.
while supporting candidate nominal
ed by these men and whose chief at
tainment is his leaning towards the
vets.
NEW YORK'S ''SUDS PLATFORM"
The studied silence of Governor Cox
on the prohibition question is a part
of the strategy of the Democratic cam
paign. At San Francisco the we'll
known wetness of the Ohio governor
was one of the chief arguments in his
favor. The state bosses who finally
put him over, Murphy of New York,
Nugent of New Jersey, Taggart of
Indiana and Brennan Of Illinois, cal
culated that he could take some of the
great Eastern States away from Hard
ing on the wet issue, despite the strong
reaction all through the East against
the Wilson League Of Nations.
Since the convention Governor Cox
has found it necessary to espouse the
Wilsonian Covenant with ardent COM
pleteness. He also deemed it the part
of wisdom not to offend his dry sup
porters of the South and West by ad-
vocating any relaxation Of the VOL
stead law.
Under these circumstances Tam
many, which for the first time in half
a century has won a national conven-
ton fight, is worried about it's ability
to put New York in the Cox column
thing Tammany is naturally eager
to accomplish.
In order to improve it's chances,
therefore, Tammany ordered the adop-
ton by the recent New York state con-
vention of what is described by for
mer Mayor Lunn Of Schenectady as a
"suds PLATFORM" This demands the
boon for the people of beer containing
PTS per cent of alcohol. Light vines"
usually coupled with beer of that ex-
hliaratlng power, were omitted, be-
cause Tammany thought it best not to
go too far.
The effort is thus to be made to
carry New York on the "suds plat
form" while soft-pedalling the Will
son Covenant. In other states farther
west, the reverse English will be used,
emphasis being put on the League and
the wetness of Cox being ignored or
spoken of in a whisper.
Two questions arise:
Will the vets of New York, even if
thirsty for 2.75 beer which Tam
many has no poWer to give them, per-
NIT an unattainable vision of that sort
OF beguile them into endorsing the
plan to intarnationaIizo thu Porrh
lie?
Will the drys of other parts of the
country relish a bit of political stra-
tegy that does violence to their prin-
clples and involves palpable insin-
certify minneapolis Journal.
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