Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 4, 1920, Page 6

o PAR A GRS T " @, B CARSON, Pres. - necessarily: for publication. SEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER T ¥ BEMIDJT PIONEER PUBLISNING CO. G. ' W. HARNWELL, Editor Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second- elass matter under Act of Congress of March' 8, 1879. = == = No ' attention = paild to ~anonymous contributions, Writer's name must: be known % the editor, but not Communications _for: the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday .of each week to-insure. publication in the eurrent issue. ’ P b . SUBSORIPTION BATES your s8.00 By Ml 42&'11::::: 3.00 One Yeaf ....... o 1.60 'One X 56 One Week . 16 WEEKLY PIONEER--Twelve pages, published OV'EIBYETHI"'ICIY_ ;’:’P llgnt‘ postage paid to any address {for, in advauge, FINANCIAL SPEEDERS. - The,s] eeder at ‘the wheel of an’ automobile is considered a menace to society, and is justly curbed by law. . . : - .. The financial speeder is even a greater menace, and yet he appears to be immune. The dastardly bomb outrage in New York is un- doufitedly -due mainly to bitterness against these financial speedérs—a small percentage of the popu- lation who have accumulated most of the wealth of the country within a comparatively few years, Jeaving the remainder to be divided among a hun- dred million people, < These men have accumulated so much of the wealth of the counrty that they could produce a disastrous panic and plunge the country into the most appalling: state ‘of confusion merely by the wave of a hand or the stroke of a pen. The fact that they refrain from such agtion does not lesson the danger in the least. Their great wealth is drawn from all classes of people. In every walk of life; in every article we buy, we pay tribute to some one or other of these speeders. Such tremendous fortunes are dangerous in a republic—firebrands in the midst of tinder. They create too great a gulf between the elements of humanity, and are a potent factor in fostering class hatreds which only too often lead to acts of violence. _ 4 i If the wealth of the country continues to gravi- tate toward a limited few the time may come when we will return.to the days of feudalism, when the “lords of the land” will be above the law and so powerful through means of their.gold that.even the government itself would find itself impotent when in opposition to their will. There apparently is but one remedy which offers practical results in curing the ills which now. afflict us. That is for congress to place a reasonable limit upon individual or family fortunes. = ... The man who can not_live on five million" dollars is too expensive a luxury for a democratic country. He should. move on. In the meantime, hang every one connected with the New York outrage, even if the law has to be stretched as much as the rope in order to do:it. Men who are loyal to the flag. of this ‘country . will not. quibble over minor details. —————— JUST-A FEW FACTS.' .' When a farmer ships a-car joad of cattle, or a ton of hay, or any other product away to the city market the money he received becomes a part of the Wealth of this co.mmupity. V'B.-H. DENU, Sec. and Mer. It' is upon the income from the products that . we ship away that we depend for the- prosperity - of our home people.' That fact is. plain fo every thinking person. Every article we consume or use must come from some source. If it is producg?l at home the money we pay for it all remains in circulation at home. But if it is not produced here we must buy else- where. That, also, is a fact well known to all people: =~ s A retail mexchant can buy the article we want from the manufacturer or wholesaler for ‘consid- erably less than we would have to pay if we ordered direct frofit the factory. That is the discount made by manufacturers to all dealers. That is still an- other fact which requires no extraordinary amount of brains to understand. - ¥ 5 I we send away ourselves for what we want all of the money paid for the.article goes out of the community and helps to enrich some person in some - other community. . e If we buy from a local dealer the wholesale pricé only is sent away, the -dealer’s profit’ remaining in circulation as part of the wealth of our own community. That is the most vital fact of all, and yet it is one which #many excellent citizens seem- ingly fail to comprehend. A home’ trading community is invariably pros- sperous. A foreign trading’ one is more often. de- pressed. -Ineither case, it is ‘as we make it. N b PR g THE CONSCIENTIOUS OFFICIAL'S REWARD. The time comes when a new town board must be chosen. ‘ : i Mr. X. is a worthy citizen, a business man, en- joying- the respect and ‘confidence of the entire community. Because of his popularity and his well known integrity he is elected to membership on the board. Many town imptovements are needed, but avail- able funds are low and only a few can be made in the immediate future. Mr. X. is mindful of his oath of office, which requires that in his official ae¢ts he must consider the welfare of the people as whole, and not those of any particular class or faction. - He studies the situation carefully and is con- vinced that a certain improvement is of more vital importance to the public than any of the . others that are desired. S - He advocates that improvement, -and votes .for it, although people are importuning him daily to favor improvements in the immediate vicinity of their own homes. g His action is condemned by the disappointed ~ones, and he is roundly denounzed as a man of ulterior motives and one who plays favorites in public aairs. The" erstwhile highly respected citizen becomes a victim of his own conscience and his desire to ~ do right. But it is only the way of the world-;-for public officials. 0 FORGETFUL—THE BALM OF THE CRIMINAL. A“bomb is carted into a public place and ex~ plodes. 4 . Hundreds of people are killed or maimed for _life—innocent. persons -against whom the perpe- trators could have no possible grievance. Everybody is horrified—the public becomes ex- cited—newspapers dish up.volumes of details—man hunters scour the country in frantic haste—every- body tells everybody" else ‘what should orshould not be done—an din a week’s time the whole thing is buried in forgetfulness. in the face of a new sensation. The arm “of the law is long, but.if those who wield it are short sighted it avails but little in the end. Forgetfulness induces short sightedness—short sightedness is the father of undue leniency—and leniency fo perpetrators invites repetitions of such " diabolical acts. : CS But it's only the way of the-world—or of this ~country. | T \ — COMMENTS—THAT'S ALL (By EXORANGE BDITOR) PRESS Amendment No. 1. % A card put out by the Minnesota Highway Im- provement association boils down into a few words the main reasons why every man and woman should take especial care to vote for Amendment. No. 1, the first on the pink ballot at the November 2 election: A seven thousand mile system of state trunk highways, paid for by auto savings on tires, -gas, ete. Counties and towns, relieved of the burden of maintaining state highways, will have fifteen million dollars a year for other roads. $1,580,000 a year more federal road aid. - All roads good roads. No road tax raise. To carry, this amendment must have a majority of all the votes cast at the election—not merely a majority of the votes cast on the proposition. Thus -when a man or woman who goes to the polls neglects to vote on this amendment, the effect on the chances of Amendment No.-1 is precisely - the same as if he had voted no.—Duluth Herald. —0— They -are going to put Shipsteads’ name on the ballots this fall as an “Independent” candidate for state governor. That lame duck flung down by the voters at the primaries is just about as Independent as a monkey with a string around its neck. “When Townley pulls the string, Shipstead jumps Inde- pendent—it is to laugh.—Fergus Falls Tribune. plal’ b The St. Paul Dispatch says: “Another session of the council of the league of nations will be !.\elgi before the American election, but neither party is inclined to ‘view it with alarm’ or ‘point with pride’ " to it.” A meeting of the council can be described like a society function. “A pleasant time was had.”-——Mankato Free Press. o Some men are experts at tax dodging, but they will have to hustle some to dodge old St. Peter at the gate.—Clearbrook Leader. Subtitles. Columbia, 8. C., State: The ‘photoplay “Mar-' riage” has the subtitle, “Not a War Play.” The drama entitled “The Gold Diggers,” might, with .equal_advantagé, add, “Not a Political Expose.”’— Duluth Herald. i & —0— S The young man who promises to develop into a husky and fearless football player is more gladly received at the colleges along about now than he who is most likely to expand his brain to the:size of that which worked in the cranium of a Webster or a Clay.—Mankato Free -Press. —o—. Speaking of “U. & I.” we would advise anyone wishing to scare us to use a dark corner, gas-pipe, ‘black-jack or gun as this dynamite way “incon-. veniences our neighbors and causes them anxiety which should not be theirs.—Cass Lake Times. % —o0— > A Theory. < A New York baby kicked ‘his nurse so hard that she’s suing the reckless rascal’s mother for $10,000 damages. ~Do you .suppose somebody dropped a raisin in the kid’s bottle?>—Buffalo Express. —0— A wife-beater in Ellwood City, Pa., when told that he was to be.tried-by & jury of women, fled to the woods an%}stayed there three days without food or drink. omen juries are going to have their uses, after all—Little.Falls Transcript. —0— Ford says he cannot afford to pay more for tires and if any of the manufacturers of the tires make an attempt to elevate the price, he will establish a factory and make .his own tires.—Stillwater Gazette. : —0—= Several million women, just like several million men, will be so well satisfied with having the right to vote that they will let the matter stop there. -—Little Falls Transcript. g AP The attack on the printery has convinced us that these- bomb outrages are for the purpose -of killing off the capitalists.—Cass Lake- Times. 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