The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-19

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demand goods made in England and
France, forgetting that money made
in this country should build up this
country.
Looking from the window Of this
little ranch house, you see five men
haling alfalfa, cut last October, and
now as green inside the stack as when
1T was cut. Twenty-eight dollars
ton IS the price it brings, here on the
ranch, and the crop runs eight tons
to the acre, seven crops season.
Tell Eastern farmers about that.
The Holstein COW, looking at the
baling machine gives five gallons of
milk day, enough for all on the
ranch, with some left over for butter.
David Macaulay, who is handling the
alfalfa bales, says: "They would not
believe that, back in Lakewood, N. T."
Many things are happening. far
from this spot on the Mojave desert,
and some should be mentioned. A
judicial decision, declaring the tax on
gifts illegal. is welcome. That law
was simply good excuse for selfish
ness, unwilling to give away anything.
Every man worth while should put
property, as fast as he can. in the
name Of his wife and children. and
beyond the reach of any foOlishness
that he may develop later.
Congress dcvotes thirty-four mil
lion dollars to aircraft, not enough,
but better than nothing. And the
total appropriation for the navy, three
hundred and sixteen millions.
The idiocN Of that last figure is
made clear by the fact that If war OF
the modern kind should come the air
ships would have to protect our hum
dreds of millions worth OF ships float
ing on the water. Only submarines
and flying machines would be OF any
value. p
In any real business, managed by
competent business men, such trash
as our battlcships would have been
junked long ago.
The Government, fighting the Ma
tional Food Products corporation, ex-
plains that the plan is ito fight
tendency toward trusts, rather than
to attack trusts already existing.
The battle against big business.
which is the real name of the "trust."
was fought and lost long ago.
Modern business, to succeed, must
be big business. The Governments
business is to supervise big business,
control it, and encourage it, not dis.
courage it. No business in the United
States is as big as it ought to be.
Anthony Bimba, editor Of a COM
munist newspaper, to be tried for
blasphemy, under law two hundred
and twenty mine years old, is accused
Of denying the existence of God. His
LAWYER will say that the Constitution,
which guarantees free speech, rules
out the blasphemy. charge.
Why not leave the case to the Ruler
of the Universe, in whose omnipotence
the vast majority believe? He has
mower to wither Mr.. Bimba. as the
barren fig tree was withered. But 1t
"a ,possible that omnipotencc is not
much interested in what Mr.. Binba
believes.
The way to make foolishness. bias
phemous or other, important, is to
take it seriously.
Thousands cheered Mr.. Trotzky. OF
Russia, while he denounced the Unit
ed States as the worlds slave driver.
He said this grasping nation was try
ing to get mortgage on the whole
world.
The whole world seems to want to
sell us mortgage. for dollars. and
we are buying billions of the worlds
bonds, which may come home to roost
at very few cents on the dollar.
ks,Trotzky's judgment on wealth Is
not sound. 1t cannot be. His salary
from the Russian government Is only
twenty-five dollars week, and with
that he must pay Communist dues,
income tax. etc. Russia's prime min
lister, Rykoff, and all other members
of the cabinet get only twenty-cight
dollars a week.
What can they know about Ameri-
can finance? What chance have they
OF persuading. Americas workmen to
"rise and throw off their chains Z
When Trotzky says to our workers,
"You have nothing to lose but your
chains" the American carpenter an
swcrs Excuse me, have also eight
cen dollars day. Some chains.
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