The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-03


vice if there was any place in the
town where you could buy coal, but
you can't. Advice is cheap but coal
is scarce and will be dearer.
There is to be another peace confer
ence at Washington with the union
heads and the president and cabinet.
Here's hoping that this one will bring
forth results. The public is getting
awfully weary of this representation.
What we need is more action and less
talk.
A card showing the resources of the
Marion district has been received at
the Times-Record office. The card
bears the following information:
Trade territory four and one-half
townships, farmers trading at Marion
800. In the Marion territory are 2,426
COWS, $685. hogs, 12,400 acres of corn,
$50 acres Of potatoes, $500 acres Of
sweet clover and alfalfa, 500, 10000
value of cream produced annually,
$35, 100000 value of poultry products.
Farmers here average cows, 80 hogs,
d acres of corn, 3 acres of potatoes.
With such a splendid showing and di-
versification of farming it would seem
to US that the farmers living in that
territory are in no danger of losing
out even under crop failure. 1t is
a mighty good showing for that par
ticular territory.
The Houston Post remarks that ev-
cry protective tariff law has been re-
pudiated by the people. If change
from Republican rule to Democratic
rule is reputation of a protective
tariff, then it is just as true to say
that every free trade or low tariff law
has also been repudiated by the peo-
pie. The Democratic party has had a
chance only twice since the Civil War
to enact tariff law in accordance
with it's theories, and the party was
ousted from power both times. The
party that stands for the principle of
protection has been kept in power for
As of the 81 years since 1860, and the
Democratic party only 16 years in
the same period. This country be-
lieves in a protective tariff. There
may be disagreement as to the meas
ure of protection necessary, but there
is an overwhelming majority in
agreement as to the principle.
Judge Amidon has handed down a
decision to the effect that strike
breakers can go onto railroad proper
ty and in a peaceful manner try to
persuade strike breakers to join them,
but they cannot go onto railroad prop
erty and use force, use obscene Ian
guage or take liquor onto the railroad
property. The judge says that it is
against the law for the railroads to
segregate it's strike breakers and to
surround them with armed detectives.
The strikers on the other hand are
enjoined from "using fresh, vulgar
and abusive language, words of cpl
thets to company agents, employees or
officials or men about to become
SUCH" The decision is sort of fifty
fifty idea. The strikers can go on to
the railroad property and mildly try
to get the strike breakers to quit their
jobs but they must not get rough,
while on the other hand the railroad
companies must not try to stop strik-
ers by armed guards. In the mean
time the public is asking when do we
get coal?
Senator McCumber, while discuss
ing the tariff bill in the senate re-
Gently, made the assertion that the
reason the republican party lost out
to the democrats in 1912, was because
of the newspapers of the country who
wanted print paper on the free list
and didn't get it. That may all be
but we doubt the statement very much
but if that is so and the newspapers
are so powerful as the senator claims,
and he knew these facts ever since
that time, he has shown mighty
woeful lack of acumen in not listen
ing to the newspapers of his own state
for the past year or two If he had
taken the advice of these state news
papers and come out and helped out
when we needed help the past few
years, if he consulted some other peo-
pie about appointments besides the
old stalwarts of the state, he might
now be looking forward to another
six years of increased usefulness in
the senate instead of looking for a