The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 6, 1919, Page 2

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Remember I have already given ponies | to 60 other boys and girls. Don’t delay, but hurry up and write me teday. THE PONY MAN, 628 Pepular Building, Des Moines, Tows OOD dealers “‘keep their ears to the ground’” for news of what different tires are doing. It’s part of their service to you. .Ask your dealer which tire has been delivering the best service throughout the Northwest * this year. He will say — “The new - type of Firestone—the Gray Side- wall.” And to get your good-will he will try to sell you— ~Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers PAGE. TWO POPULAR SONG - Keep the home: stills burning, For dry throats are yearning; Prohibition’s here to stay, But never mind. Keep the home stills burning, Everybody’s learning S To save our country from a drouth Through old moonshine. & * * President’ Wilson has appointed John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Judge Gary to represent the public on the capital-labor conference, both, of course, being disinterested. Gary is head of the steel trust, whose plants are closed by the strike, and Rocke- feller was responsible for the Ludlow trouble. : * £ * WONDER WHAT NICHOLAS WAS DOING IN THE TWIN CITIES THE DAY AFTER TOWNLEY AND GILBERT WERE SENTENCED ? * * * The packers have reversed the old biblical procedure of separating the goats from the sheep and are selling - goat for lamb, according to the daily - papers. * * * ? : A dollar, they say, buys only 50 cents’ worth now. But. our wives seem to buy about as much as they ever did. & % £ 7 The day after the mayor of Minne- apolis asked the milk dealers to re- duce ‘the price of milk during the - strike of drivers, the strike ended. 5 1% * * Funny that the prohibition sharks haven’t tried to suppress Shakes- peare and Meyerbeer. k%, % WILSON IS ON THE WAY BACK- TO WASHINGTON. WONDER IF HE’LL. FIND THE OLD TOWN CHANGED ANY? PR T Judge Dean seemed to recognize the fact that Townley and Gilbert were less on trial before the Ameri- can public than he himself. And he made a pretty bad defense, even when - there were no gag rulings made." * #* * 2 Some of the old-gang papers are taking the hide off the Milwaukee mayor who said “to hell with kings.” Wonder if these -editors remember what the United States went to war for? d \ 3 Ed * *. o Now that the frost is on the pumpkin, we may expect the prof- iteers to use it as an argument to raise the price of that sterlin pie-building material. ; - S * £ * A Certainly if it was hot that before, - the senators are trying to make it a league of notions. s e ; D’Annunzio, Italian poet, has seized the port of Fiume. Trying to make a comic opera of it, prob- ¢ ably. the strong is ours. : TO HIS HONOR, THE COURT These are the laws we have made for us, laws ye are sworn to uphold; these are our courts we have built for us, built with our sweat and our gold. We, the people, gave you the seat ye have, we have given you all your powers, and the place ye bear : and the Tobes ye wear, all these and more are ours. fix your gaze on the seats of might, where gold and silver _clink, and our voices fail in a minor wail as your greed and your senses drink. Your knees are bowed to the golden calf and ye make your prayers to Baal; the people’s laws are broke like straws by the men.in the golden mail. But we’ll tear you down as we raised you up, we'll strip you of your powers, for we have the might and we have the right, and the strength-of The miners have voted to join with the Nonpartisan league in polities. The miners, it seems, have begun: to get under the surface of politics as . well as under the s;:rfase of the earth. * ‘ TNOW THAT GOVERNOR BURN- QUIST HAS VETOED THE ORE TONNAGE TAX LAW, ALL HIS FUTURE IS IN THE PAST. * * » Ferdinand Teigen was arrested. re- cently for running his automobile. without lights. Well, Ferdinand al- ways did like to travel in the dark. * * ® Perhaps he was afraid that federal - authorities' might be after him to bring him back to St. Paul to answer disloyalty charges which are still hanging over him. < * * it It has been almost a-week since the gang has found a new excuse for intervention in Mexico. 5 * Karl Kositzky, 225 pounds, assaulted a 130-pound newspaper man. in Bis- marck recently, because the newspaper man found out the truth about Karl. ° Funny .how unpopular the truth is among the L. V. A, * * * 7 BURNQUIST SEEMS TO BE THE LOOSE NUT IN THE REPUBLICAN MACHINE. . : * * 3 - The packers, the federal trade - commission found, got two or three times as much profit dur- ing war times as they did before. Now we know what they mean by “100 per cent” patrit:tism. : et * * And yet -J. Ogden Armour com- plained that he couldn’t buy: shoes!: What about the rest of us who had to pay those profits? ; 3 z * = L% IF THE PRICE OF SHOES KEEPS ON GOING UP, WHAT IS THE COUNTRY GOING TO DO FOR BOOTLEGGERS? : B 5 The American who held an umbrella over the head of the Prince of Wales in Canada probably had an' ancestor who was aching to hold an axe over. the head of George IIL, the prince’s ancestor. ~ : : 08¢ Yo ) It may be an act of providence ° as much as an act of the legisla- ture that the hunting season opens just about the time it gets too cold for the fool te rock the boat. . d * * % 3 Cucumbers and letter postage, ac- cording to the paper, are about all that’s come down in price. And just as luck would have it, we don’t eat cucumbers and the postage reduction only enables our creditors to send bills around a little oftener. R * * * The kaiser has taken out a $4,000,-~ 000 fire insurance policy. Expects Old: - Nick to help him collect, probably. But you