The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-08-11

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Secretary Mellon won't cut much
of a "melon" with the producing class
of this country if he succeeds in TAX
inp off the excess profits tax and plac-
ing it on the &c postage. Melon should
take another tack in his treasury sail
boat and stick some more taxes. on the
profiteers and take it from the 81 ould-
ers of the middle class. Some OF these
big corporations can better stand ad-
ditional tax than can the common peo-
pie.
The coal situation is not going to
be as bad as some folks try to make
out. Receipts of coal at the Duluth
Superior docks during July totalled
1868 400 tons, according to reports OF
dock companies made public yester-
dav. Of this 1:634,100 tons was btu
noinous and $4,000 tons were an an.
tracite. This is an increase OF l,o26
tons over the receipts Of July last
YEAR, The coal barons about this time
of the wear are always trying to throw
a scare lllCO Cilc puOAAS'
The musical world has sustained a
great loss in the death of that ltailan
Singer, Enrico Caruso, the greatest
tenor in the world, whose golden voice
has pleased millions Of people in all
countries and whose benevolences the
poor not only Of his native country
but of this will long remember. Car
uso was a wonderful singer and ex-
perts say that there is no one in sight
now that can take the place of this
great man who has been taken away
in the prime of his life and of his Won
derful success.
Secretary Mellon, of the treasury
department, has estimated that ne Will
need four billion five hundred and fifty
million dollars. A very modest little
sum, isn't it? Congressional leaders
have already made plans whereby they
think they can scale this down at least
one billion dollars as starter. This
is a good start all right, let them keep
up the pairing down proposition and
thus cut down taxes instead of send
ing them up. There should be no need
of higher taxes now-but there is
great need for lower taxation and the
people should get it.
A telegram from Bismarck under
date of August reads as follows: A
letter was received by the governor
today asking him to appoint "prin-
cess" for North Dakota to attend the
noted cotton palace exposition in
Waco, Texas, in October. Entertain
ment and costumes will be provided by
the fair committee but railroad fare
must be paid by the lady" Here is
the great opportunity of our COVER
nor's young life. He can appoint
Kate Richards O'Hare, and her rail-
road fare can be paid out of the VIC
tory Airedale pup fund.
George Horace Lorimer, editor Of
the Saturday Evening Post, frequently
says some mighty good things, and
the following is one Of them: " Men
do not work because they are virtu-
Gus, but they are virtuous because they
work. The vices man has invented
are the vices of idleness. Man is most
respectable while sweating for his
bread-not because sweating is vir-
tue but because idleness gets him into
mischief. Remove the necessity that
now drives men to labor and within
year the devil could annex the world
without the formality Of a plebiscite.
Bill Lemke. who owns a palace
built by the state contrary to law.
made the statement, it is reported, in
speech recently, that the reason his
house in Fargo looked so large was
because the photographers put their
machines so close to- the house that
it made it look large. A majority of
the farmers in the gathering were
greatly tickled at this naive explana-
ton offered by Lemke. We venture
the assertion that if Lemke will allow
some photographer to take a picture
of the cost of that mansion the eyes
of the farmers will bulge out with
amazement. Lemke is getting to be
a great joker.
A great many farmers are COM
planning about the city allowing these
I. W. W. meetings being held and are
indignant because they are held. Most
of those snaps who claim to be peeved
are the very ones who are responsible
for that condition. They are the ones
who wanted this new day and who saw
in Lynn J. Frazier the salvation of
the country. but it has turned out that
this governor has proven to be the
biggest menace to the state than any
thing we have ever had. These
farmers who are complaining should
remember that they wanted this and
that they are reaping the whirlwind
They seem to be getting their vision
cleared without the aid Of any calomel
these days. They. brought on this con-
dition and they should be the last ones
to kick. eH Es.-l
Since it became publicly known that
the money that was being gathered by
the nonpartisan state committee for a
campaign fund to be used this fall in
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