The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-07-28
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ings Of all the farms OF Kansas. any
record year.
"Standard Oil is benefited by cor
p0ration laws. Just now the copper
industry. 'functioning Under the pro-
visions OF the Webb-Pomcrenc act,
has arranged for regular exports Of
copper etc.
Capper's Weekly says formers must
make the government do something
for farmcrs---sct up some machinery
that will help farmers 70 deal profit
ably with their surplus.
!. Democrats should promise to do all
that and more. ii they want the wheat
farm vote--and even then they would
not get it. Their only real issue is
prohi bitiOn. and. with women voting,
that might not be much Of winner
unless for a candidate like Cover
nor AL Smith, for whom millions ~
women would vote. on any platform.
As regards oil profits, the Stand.
ard companies operate in every state,
at every cross roads and in every ma
ton on earth. Comparison OF their
earnings with farm earnings In the
one state Of Kansas may not mean
la,snh.
Also. IL farmers were organized
fndustrially with modern mach'n-
ery). financially and politically rs
we'll as Standard Oil. their sorrows
wou,d diminish.
People could. il necessary. do
without gasoline. They canno, DO
without food. Farmers control the
real NECESSITY Of l.fe." and could
operate the greatest monopoly IL they
knew how. But that demands organ
ization.
A solemn Republican statesman
warns the nation against blocs IN thc
Senate and House. "First thing YOU
know,"s says the warning, your Con
sxresS will be like the French Cham
.bef ofstleputics--cut up into so many
parties, SECTIONS or blocs that any
definite government action will be.
come impossible"
Many feel that the good old Wall
street bloc should be the only one
. OF any size. and be, in fact. the real
Senate with perhaps some radical,
low-elass" opposition. just enough to
make the nation appreciate the
smooth work of the big bloc.
a rich individual Of Newport gets
IL separation from his wife on charges
of cruelty sufficiently unusual to
arouse interest.
8 The lady asked her husband for
100000, and when he said no. she
knclt down and prayed God to curse
him. That would make any man
nervous.
And. worse, the wife barricaded
herself in her husbands apartment,
and gave the reporters unpleasant
statements about him. She would
write out what her heart dictated
pin the note to one Of her husband
silk shirts. and throw the shirt to the
reporters through the window.
This and similar igenious devices
broke down the husbands health
You needn't envy the rich. they arc
mot always happy.
Ten vnrc killed. Al injured. whcr
a n,nto- Jus fell over q cliff. Pas
.engers said the driver, going too
fast. lost control
Control Of speed should be pub
lie regulation. on all puhiic omni
buses. and might we'll be applied Il
private automobiles. A simple de
vice. sealed up BY the authorities
would control maximum speed teNcep
down hil without diminishing powe
of or hill climbing in any way.
Why leave speed and the lives o
passengers to the discretion OF
Sdriver in hurry TO get home.
Officers of the Leviathan den.
that rum IS sold on the ship. Per
haps ii Is not. but the. temptation
must be great for the stewards.
They mix the cocktails and serv
the drinks for passengers on tina
.''prohibition L. S. A. Line'-no on
will deny that.
Passengers bring their alcohol
supplies on board, everybody on tn
ship sees the drinking done. Nothin
is gained By adding hypocrisy to boot
logging.
The rich in this country want alec
hol. and get it.
The poor arc controlled. to som
extent. by high prices, but even the
can get bargain rates from men tina
redistil denatured alcohol. They pa
with their kidneys and with shorte
life. but that seems not to distur
them.
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