The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

rather than uphold the cause of those
who have this fair state practising
would make Utopia out of this state,
Mexican peonage in a short time.
Ones greatness lies not in wealth
and station, as the vulgar believe, nor
yet in his intellectual capacity, which
is often associated with the meanest
moral character, the most abject ser
Witty to those in high places and ar
rogance to the poor and loWly; but
ones true greatness lies in the con-
..2io;,;;c-.-..c5s o. g., honest purpose in life
founded on a just estimate of ones
self and everything else, on frequent
self examination, and steady obed-
fence to the rule which one knows to
be right, without troubling ones self,
as many do, about what others may
think or say, .or whether they do or
do not that which one thinks and says
and does.-Antoninus
The above is from the Darcy Com
mercial of last week and is signed
"Antoninus." We presume he meant
to have signed it "Antonious,'' but
whether he did or not is neither here
nor there and whoever it is-and we
could make a good guess-he is one
of those kind of chaps who like to
bury the Ratchet in your back when
you are not looking; is the kind of d
chap that cannot look you in the eye
man to man; is one of those kind of
chaps who has not the moral courage
to come out in the open and tell his
name so that of course we have to
fight one of his ilk in the dark. We
like to have a fellow come out openly
it shows more stamina and has more
weight. On the contrary TrubshaW
never goes back Of anybody to have
his say-that is the difference. can
toninus" knows just where we are,
while on the other hand we do not
know where he is-and care less. can
toninus" says we have had our face
turned backwards all our life because
we have not endorsed all the vagaries
of the nonpartisan league in the past,
and we might come back here at this
time and say that his brain has be-
come n?ildewed all these years because
he could not see that he was being be-
guiled into swallowing a lot of social
istic humbug that has led the state
into the pickle it has been in the past
few years. Trubshaw has never
crooked the knee to anybody, parry or
creed. He has had the independence
to do his own thinking and expressing
his thoughts just as he felt like it.
'Antoninus" says that we should be
careful or it will be cur political IN
doing and further says that the "Eor-
rum, our mother, will be peeved and
give us a scolding." TIubshaW thinks
a great deal of the Forum, because
its editorial policies agree with his
very largely, but that paper nor any
other paper or individual controls The
editorial policy of T'rubshaw or the
Times-Record. We care nothing Of our
political future if we have to sacri-
flee our independence for political
. preferlnent. We have always carried
a policy of independence I'll through
our life and we rather think we will
continue TO do SO until 1907 has been
sounded for us. Regarding our edi-
torial on the price of wheat they were
our honest convictions and we still
stick to that theory that the farmer
should have a fair price for his pro-
duct. IF this is heresy to the indie
pendent cause, then we plead guilty
Had the farmers Of this state listened
to the voice of good counsel instead of
y letting a lot of hair-brained socialists
run the state, there would not now be
this feeling between the two classes
that now exists and the state would
have been in better shape financially
and the farmers would have less tax
, es to pay. The Times Record favorE
any program that is sensible, practi
, cable and efficient, but it has not, anl
; will not stand for any class such a.
= those who have wrecked the stase
, and we are not going over to thei1
' ranks either. We are going to figh
to clean up that entire bunch, and i
we find some good things to advocat.
p, in these columns that will be goo<
t for all the people, we are going tx
7 advocate them regardless Of the fu
S ture. We see many wrongs being
? committed in the nation against
( proper adjustment Of agricultural in
j terests, but until this country can cleo
\ enough men to congress in bot
!. branches to right these wrongs, yo1
! won't get very far. You cannot ge
G very far electing cartoonists to con
e gress, or electing men like Townley
d Frazier, and so on, because they can
), not fill the bill-they wrecked tn
{, state and in congress they would max
!, as much Of a ShOwino nc q no11st r.