The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-27
EDITORIAL


EDITORIAL
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If it were not for the fact that there
is no money in the Bank of North Da-
kota many of US would like to give our
bare note-like Bill did-and get five
thousand dollars Of easy money to buy
sisal stock with. BY the great horn
spoon the people of this state have
been easy marks
The following information has been
sent US this morning: Your precinct
workers in the cities should be inform
ed that under our present election
laws every city is one precinct and
that it makes no difference in which
voting place they vote except that all
cities are divided into voting| dis
tricts for convenience and every voter
should vote in the district in which
he or she lives. Voters who have re-
Gently moved from one precinct to an
other but have not lived in the new
precinct 80 days can vote in the other
if they wish.
League leaders are circulating stor-
les to the effect that all persons just
arriving at the age of 81 cannot vote.
This is another way to try and keep
people away from the polls. Every
person, a citizen of the United States:
who has lived in the state, county and
precinct the required time as privided
by law, can vote next Friday if they
arrive at their ma ority at IL mid
night on October 81. They can swear
in their vote and cast ballot. Do not
be deceived but vote if you are Of age.
Taxation so excessive that it hurts
and hurts bad, is driving thousands OF
farmers from the league. They can
not longer bear the burden and this
dream of state socialism has proved
to be nothing but a broken reed. They
have been willing to stand for this
dream for several years but now that
the truth has come out and taxes have
been trebled they can no longer re-
main tied to the comet of state social
ism that has been lowering over this
state in the past five years. They are
going to repudiate it in three days
from now and Nestos, johnson and
Kitchen will be elected by handsome
majority.
Hail warrants in q counties of the
state for last year remain unpaid.
with the time near for the issuance of
warrants for 1921. Many of the 1920
warrants will be paid with 1921 taxes:
and hail warrants issued this year
may be delayed in payment, accord
ing to state ffocials. Hail losses in
1920 were $3,407 ,479. Hail warrants
have been called down to Mclean
county, including many miscellaneous
claims. There has been paid of the
1920 losses $1,413,668.93, and there
remain to be paid 1898, 738.47. The
balance in the hail payment fund on
Oct. 20 was $0,7O1.80. No warrants
can be called for payment until the
fund is considerably larger.
Gov. Lynn j. Frazier, as head of the
board of administration, allowed about
one million and a half of the public
funds Ct this s.atc to be frozen up"
in de-cI"::c.t Ll~~.lks. Our governor shot
thousands OF dollars of the public
monies Of this state to various banks
without z bond or a surety of any
kind to safeguard these funds. Nearly
half million dollars went into the
Scandinavian American Bank at Far
go. Awful waste Of money. Yet these
same men want you to put them back
in office-or rather keep them there
They should be prosecuted instead for
the manner in which they have Jug
gled and 'blown in" the public funds.
Don't you think it is time to vote to
recall these men?
We rather suspect that many of
those who have been active in de-
stroying the finances of this state.
have already had their suit cases
packed and that if the election goes
against them next Friday there will
be a great exodus from this state to
greener fields and pastures new.
Maybe Liederbach will hike away to
his California fruit ranch and others
will go to Alaska to take up the bust
ness of the Behring Seas Fishing Co..
which is supposed to furnish fresh
salmon to the people of North Dakota
but which up to this time has only
succeeded in roping in a lot of suck
ers. A great deal of North Dakota
state money has helped to finance this
scheme and there are a fewvery choice
unsecured notes in the Scandinavian
American Bank assets as result of
this high finance.
E. D. Mastin, Fort Clark, Oliver
county farmer. who last fall was
threatened with being "thrown in the
creek" if he didn't buy $500 worth of
membership in the nonpartisan league.
was sitting in the Office Of a Mandan
chiropractor waiting his turn. So
were two women. They talked politics
They talked recall election. 81 think
the league plan is just socialism" said
Mastin. "Well what is socialism" ask
ed the woman. "The dictionary says
it is community ownership of all prop
erty," answered Mastin. swell I
think its all right, and the whole plan
is right" declared the woman. And it