The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-01-05

I'M the open; Frequently the inspira-
tion arrived on . late train, was care
fully closeted iii proper quarters and
Iits spirit had returned to New York,
HIP phia or elsewhere before
y 20 s'nrise. They shaped the
H. Atpszo. Aldrich and Dingley
They rAda. lroad legislation
sent banking - ~ topped ii
with the Federal, Axcrescence
If you doubt it, read h pry of politi-
cal Washington, Congress and the sew
eraI administrations Watch the gal
Eleries and talk with the press boys
who know more than they tell. These
were the influential and powerful
groups who made Senators and Con-
gressnen or unseated them at their
will Who because you were not re-
Egular and voted her straight lost all
patronage and they hint it can be done
now. Anyway it would relieve Of y
lot of annoyance and bad blood only
the people back home need to know
about tt .4s. u
The blocs II have been discussing
were all secret affairs In and out of
Congress, usually within the party sin
power. The agricultural bloc, SO hat
ed by these people, is different. It is
ii the open and above board. It is
composed of y little group Of Senators
from agricultural regions Of the West
and South who feel the old sblocs, the
old guard, have been giving the farm
ers the worst Of it. Why !? Because
they did not understand the farmer OF
his needs Of agriculture and 50 for the
past 80 years agriculture was unin-
tentionally penalized with the enact
ment of nearly every piece OF great
national legislation such as the tariff !,
the banking system, marketing and in
its efforts to build up and prom tie
commerce and manufacture. 7
Those few Senators constituting the
b'cc came together 70 talk over the
kind ef Legislation needed to aid agri-
c, lture and thy ysrd put the fa,rler IN
"a better bssis purely economical
questions for he welfare of the whole
,'aln,ry and all its people. Ihev did
rot Wclk ( in Gha t.ark. They l.sli O Ell.
+ eelings. Trey invited prominent
men members tf the Cabinet, and
.c,hers to give advice and counsel and
naving decided on what shou. .dt4,e done
they did team rork in the open. .,er,se-
times they succsa led; sometimes the.
failed, as for instance, when the Nor
ris Bill was killed q bill Intended to be
of t'irect aid and benefit to the farmers
in tie 1oaning sf none and to pro-,
mote export traae of oulfsurpius agri-
cultural producCrr 81 place of the N:."<
sis Bill the Old Guard gave the coun-
try, a bill 10 save the banker from
arkIup sissi i.lci sespea
I ,e fsrmer to ! s.. I'll degr = at great-
.er expense wneseas the Norris, Bill
was intended to be of direct benefit to
the man on the farm bearing the bur-
den and without paying tribute to the
bankers. The group Of workers in
the Senate was not seeking publicity
but was trying to serve the farmers
and place the country above party. For
this they are now discredited, in some
circles even despised and slandered.
The president condemned it in his
message, Secretary Weeks danns it,
but Secretary Wallace speaks kindly.
IL it can be brought about the bloc will
receive no recognition in social status,
in patronage and for this they will all
be happier when they go to the Happy
Hunting Ground or to retirement. May
Heaven bless and prosper the agri-
cultural bloc. | commend it for your
sympathetic approval. *s@ # < y,
Our Weights and Measures
E The greatest clog on the wheels of
progress is human inertia. The US.
at it's inception adopted decimal
money system and every school boy
knows that 10 mills make 4 cent; 10
cents make dime and 10 dimes make
ST. How simple as compared with the
English guines, pound, shilling, pence,
etc. We adopted simple decimal
system in money but followed the
English system Of fact and inches
which in turn bears no relation to gall
Ions or pounds. We have four systems
of weights in use, namely, avoirdupo-
lis, apothecary, troy and metric, caus-
ing endless confusion, an enormous y
waste of time and energy and many
needless mistakes which one of the
English Kings foot was taken as the
standard III length for our foot and
why was the foot divided into 12 equal
parts, each numbered one inch !? Our
hay and coal we weigh by avoirdupo-
is; our medicine by apothecary; our
gold and jewels by troy, each differing
from the other as to the ounce and
pound. But for hay we have one stan.
dard of 1000 pounds ito the ton, but the
dealer ia coal often takes 224O to the
ton but he sells to the consumer 1000
pounds I'd the ton. In our presen.
system, weights, measures and vol
une have nj material relationship,
How different from the decimal metric
system where the relation Is IS sim.
Die as our decimal money system. The
matter liter and grem of the decimal
metric system are directly comparably.
A bill ii now before Congress TO
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