The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-09-16

will show at the november election
the amount of esteem they hold for
each of the three.
Out in Seattle recently Gov. Cox
was asked to state his position on
the prohibition question and this is,
how he answered it.: GAS a progress
sive government know when an
event has passed by and becoms
part of yesterday. The reactionary
rarely does. The friends Of world
peace and the friends of progress will
win this election and any attempt to
divide them on any question not at
issue will be unavailing." We should
saw that was a very clever way OF
evading the all important question all
right. The democrats at San Fran
cisco took particular pains to leave
the prohibition question out OF the
platform and Mr.. Cox is too astute
to bring it up now. Wonder if ne has
heard from Maine, the state where
prohibition was born? '-s....
An effort is being made to get the
farmers of the northwest to hold their
grain until they can get $2.75 per
bushel for it. This is a move in the
right direction if the farmers are able
to do this, and we believe that most OF
them can at least hold the greater
part of their crop. The grain gamb-
lers are taking too much out of the
pockets of the farmers of the country
/ and it is about time they we're taught
to realize that the farmers had a come
back of their own. The holding OF
the crop will no doubt work hard
ship to the business men who have
! carried the farmers on their books all
through the season. The machinery
concerns look to the machinery deal
ers for their pay and the merchants
are being held for pay for the goods
they have sold the farmers on credit,
yet in spite of it all, we believe the
farmers and the business men can
stick it out for awhile. Representative
farmers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklaho-
ma and Nebraska recently met in
Kansas City and adopted resolutions
indorsing the movement to hold wheat
until it brings cost plus small pro-
fit" A request for Minnesota, the
! Dakotas and Montana to join in the
movement was adopted. This is a
move in the right direction and we
hope the movement will gain impetus
and go through. The farmer is en-
titled to a profit for his work and he
is in no manner bound to let the
grain gamblers rob him of the profit.
The Times-Record editor favors any
legitimate movement that will get the
farmers of the state just and profit
able price for their products.
PROFITEERING
The New Republic points out that
the shipping board is paying $40 per
ton for West Virginia coal at Allan
tic ports. A survey by the federal
trade commission has just ascertained
that the average cost of producing
coal at 81 West Virginia mines, at
present wages, is 1888 per tom. The
operators get $3.4O for the coal at
the mine mouth. The freight to At
lantic ports averages 50 per ton. That
is a total legitimate cost Of $40.
Somebody, who performs scarcely any
service, gets $14.60. !
That's only. one of many instances
Of the vicious profiteering that is now
being practiced on the American peo-
pie. And nobody is to blame! Every
handler Of coal, and other essentials
Of life, points to somebody else, and
blames him. Nobody is to blame, and
yet prices are mounting to unheard
of heights, unemployment is increas-
ing, and somewhere, some time, there
is bound to be an explosion.
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nobody is to blame. 1t is the system
that is to blame. Business is not
done for the greatest possible SER
vice to the community, but for the
greatest possible profit, to the great
est number of interfering middlemen
There is only one possible solution;
that is, to cut out the middhmen.
The miners have shown the way; it
is by government ownership Of the
mines, and operation by the men.
But that, the big business press
shrieks, is "socialistic," and therefore
not to be thought of! But the pres
ent method is profteering, in the most
vicious degree. Of course, however,
if the people prefer profteering, SIM
ply because big business calls the
cure 'socialistic,H then .they have
what they want, and should not COM
,plain.-Courier-N ews.
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