The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-14

matter is that about every dollar that
the farmers are raising is being used
to paw elegant salaries to the many
hangers on and for the purpose Of
keeping alive the Courier-News-that
is about all the interest the gang have
in the farmers of the state.
The Peoples Opinion, which has
been having a wobbly time Of it OF late
trying to weather the financial storm
is again in the hands of the Publishers
Service Bureau of the nonpartisan
league. Friend Olson, who was keen
for having this paper in order to save
the world, has become tired along with
some of his associates, in trying to
keep the institution from sinking out
of sight under load Of debt and loss
and wanted to get rid of the plant
which was a mighty good thought on
his part. A meeting of the directors
was called some time ago to talk the
matter over and they agreed it would
be best to sell out. A meeting OF
stockholders was called for Saturday
afternoon to try and put over a sale
of the plant and a bone fide offer was
made for the plant-all it was worth.
However,, some of the league captains
did not want to let 60 and sent up
spellbinder to talk the stockholders
out of selling. The funny part OF the
whole deal is that the farmers are sup
posed to own 81 per cent Of the stock
and the service bureau owns the min
ority end of it, yet the league bunch
come up here and tell the majority
they cannot sell their own property.
This shows how much the farmers
have to say about their own newspa-
pers. The farmers have been stung
and they would like to unload but the
bosses say, you must hang on to it
at least until after the November
election. They will be dead willing to
let it go after that in our opinion. In
the meantime local financiers will have
to carry the burden for while at
least, when they had a chance to get
from under. The only way that paper
can be made to pay is for a real print
er to get hold of it, one who knows the
business and can run it himself with
out dictation. Running it for a poll
teal sheet costs the owners more than
it takes in-too many salaries to pay
and too much over head expense.
When the Times Record suggested
some three years ago that the present
regime in this state was handling it
to the farmers in big packages of in
creased taxation, heavy financial bur-
dens and buncombe, one of our local
physicians, who has been much inocu-
lated with the new day administration
advised US to take some calomel and
sulphate of magnesium to clear our
vision. We did not need any. Follow
ing events have been ample proof that
our statements were true and We did
not need the prescription suggested.
But from the way things are going we
rather think that doctor needs some
of his own medicine unless down in his
heart he has become convinced that
we were right and that the only reason
he does not say so is because it might
hurt his pride. Things have become
so rotten in league circles among the
ones who are responsible for the car
rying out of the programme do not
say this, but we take it from an issue
of the league organ, the Fargo Cour.
ier-News, the bible of the leaguers
who won't read any other paper, is
sued yesterday, but suppressed ac-
cording to all accounts by Liederbach
and his crew Of managers. This paper
was edited by Gummerson, editor of
that paper and assisted we are told by
George A. Totten, Jr., the manager
The paper went on to tell that Lieder-
bach and the others composing a COM
mittee, were getting away with the
victory fund. An employe told Lied
erbach what Gummerson and Totten
were saying in the Courier-News and
then Liederbach formed posse and
stormed the newspaper Office, Selling
several thousands Of the paper and
taking them to the dump grounds and
burned them up. They did not want
the subsidized readers of that paper
to read about their own wrong. deeds
that is the story purported to be given
by Totten and Gummerson and which
we reprint from the Forum in today's
Times-Record. If the Airedale pup
and pure bred bull subscribers have
not believed US in the past surely they
should believe their own editors and
Each day is proving that
the Times-Record was right and
should prove to the most rabid
Lacquer that their bunch is wrong and
has been wrong since they got control