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CHI LOCAL ni NATIONAL TOPICS DISCUSSED hr tk* EDITOit
1 At thepottomee in dm«»i
Nortk Dakota, tecond class mail matter.
ce in Beach. Golden Valley
J. W. BRINTON, Editor
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M^Mkittr inctiM* 20c per inch 30 tnchea aad up,
lH.)trindi. Special rates on standing advectise
and yearly"contract.
"Some men succeed if en
couraged, but me for the man
who will in spite of hell.
—tKSSL
SOME FACTS ABOUT COM
MISSION FORM.
Efficient city goverment requir
es concentration of power, both
executive and legislative, in a
commission small enough to do
business and for the voters read
ily to fix the responsibility, such
commissioners to be elected from
the city at large, each commis
sioner representing the city as a
whole and not representing a par
ticular ward from which he was
elected. Can an alderman be
blamed, elected as he is by a par
ticular ward, for in a sense ex
ploiting the city, through looking
first to the desires of such ward
and second to the needs of the
oity?
Under the commission system
as proposed for adoption by
Beach:
Each commissioner is elected
from, represents the whole city
and is accountable to all the vot
ers.
The president is the executive
officer for the city and has charge
of and is responsible for the en
forcing of all laws.
Each commissioner is the head
has charge of, and is responsible
under the board, for an adminis
trative department.
Experience has proved that of
ficials selected with all care, are
oniy human, that they will not all
be efficient and should be ac
countable to )he voters during
their terms of office.
Under the commission system
they are so accountable, the elec
tors having the right to exercise
undev proper restrictions the ini
tiative, referendum and recall.
The referendum is merely a
simple means for the majority of
the. voters to veto a misrepresen
tative act of the commission.
The initiative enables a major
ity of the electors to compel any
desired act..
The recall is merely the re
placement by the electors of the
president or any commissioner,
whom they believe misrepresents
them-
These powers can be invoked
by the electors only upon a suffi
cient petition, and their moral
value has proven to be so great
that it has seldom been found nec
essary to use them. Shoujd not
a city possess the right, possessed
by employers generally, prompt
ly to replace an incompetent em
ploye, to force employees to do
its will or to desist doing from
any act against its wishes?
Galveston in its extremity
created the commission system of
city government. Three hundred
cities in twenty states have since
adopted it. Every city adopting
thia system is operating under it
today, to its proved advantage,
Press dispatches show that Day
ton, O., in its dire necessity is
about to take advantage of this
form of city government.
[Why should not Beach 'the:
biggest little city in the world'
take advantage of a form of gov
ernment proved incomparably
better than the form we now en
joy by the years of experi
ence of hundreds of other cities
or all sizes.
Those farmers who are inclin
ed to be enthusiastic over the In
dependent Harvester Company
sho«Id go slow—and look well
before they leap. The report of
the stockholder's committee which changing managers?
HENRY
was appointed to look into the
affairs of this company is not
very flattering. The International
Harvester company may not look
good to you farmers but be care
ful you don't get into something
that you will later look upon with
greater disfavor. Don't jump
blindfolded from the frying pan
into the fire.
F. D. Warren, editor of the
Appeal io Reason, Girard, Kan.,
has filed a suit against W. R. Nel
son, editor of the Kansas City
Star, asking $200,000 damages
for an alleged story in the Star
in which it was stated that the
Appeal was going to suspend pub
lication. Warren claims in his
complaint that he sustained a loss
cf $100,000 in subscriptions and
asks an additional $100,000 as
punitive damages.
Woodrow Wilson went from
president of a college to president
of the United States while How
ard Taft traveled the other way
and became college president aft
er occupying the white house.
John Bruegger, the democratic
national committeeman fov North
Dakota, was elected as one of the
city commissioners at Williston.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
If "Big Otto" would buy anoth
er Ford automobile?
11 the city council should order
sidewalks constructed?
If the farmers would all adopt
scientific farming methods?
If Judge Rosenberg should re
sign as justice of the peace?
If Beach should pdopt thr.- com
mission form of gorernment5
If James G. Burke, the insur
ance man, should get married?
If "Heinie" Wiedow should
become the tennis champion of
Beach?
If Chama should decide to be
come a candidate for county seat
honors?
If Beachites would stop fight
ing one another and all boost for
the town?
If Sentinel Butte should win
the county seat fight from Beach
by one vote?
If our city attorney should final
ly decide to become a candidate
for congress?
If Pierce Egan would establish
the third newspaper in Beach as
it is rumored?
If A. C. Townley should be
come the Socialist candidate for
governor in 1914?
If the opposition paper would
settle down and discontinue
BEACH OPERA HOUSE
C. F. SMITH, Prop, and Mgr.
It will be a great benefit to your
physical system to lay aside
your business cares and
spend an hour watch
ing our show of
HIGH CLASS MOVING PICTURES
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If State's Attorney Halliday
would fail to publicly criticize this
is.ue of the Chaonicle?
If Patty Norton should insist
on appointing Hugh Egan's son
to West Point or Annapolis?
If every property owner in
Beach would set out trees this
spring and build sidewalks?
If the post office department
puts on some more clerks to
handle the parcel post business?
If Sid Broderick, the barber,
should decide not to get into any
more arguments with strangers?
If all the people in the Golden
Valley would quit the mail order
houses—7-Beach people included?
If Wibaux should fail to secure
their new county and become per
manently attached to Glendive?
If Commissioners O'Keefe and
Egan should re-district the com
missioner districts before the next
election?
If some one would buy that
$700 worth of Advance stock of
fered for sale at a discount by the
Chronicle?
If the Democratic county com
mitteeman, M. H. Jefferson,
should fail to name the next Beach
postmaster?
If the Socialists should start a
red hot newspaper in Beach and
put a county ticket in the field at
the next election?
If the parties implicated in the
blowing up of the Chronicle
should be apprehended and
brought to justice?
If the Northern Pacific railway
would remove the old section
house and park the right of way
along our front street?
If the city officials would sell
their interests in the Beach Ad
vance and appoint the Chronicle
the city "official" paper?
If George McCellan, the Bull
Moose, should become a candi
date for governor next year, as
he anticipated doing in 1912?
If the Golden Valley should
have a bumper crop this year and
wheat and flax go up to $1.50
and $2.50 per bushel this fall?
PRESS COMMENT
Oliver County Creameries
According to the Bismarck
Tribune Oliver county is one of
the leading dairy sections of the
state, but owing to the lack of im
portant villages and newspapers,
as well as, until recently, of di
rect railway communications, has
had comparatively little general
publicity relative to this industry
or its natural resources.
Oliver has the second largest
number of operating creameries
there being six, though one of the
smallest counties of North Dako
ta—some fractions over eighteen
townships.
The creameries are located at
Hanover, Center, Rhein, Nesbit,
Yucca and Hensler, and are own
ed and operated by the farmers
on a co-operative basis.
Besides supporting these cream
eries, a large amount of cream
produced witjhin the county is
delivered to creameries over the
lines in Morton and McLean coun
ties.
For the year ending June 30,
1912, though two of these cream
eries had been operating a few
months, their output was over a
quarter of a million pounds of but
ter, for which the patrons receiv
ed, after the expense of manufac
turing and selling were deducted,
over $60,000.
The first dairy work in the
county that attracted attention was
in the eighties. W. F. V. Kiebert
made Edam cheese in his farm
dairy on the Square Butte creek,
near Yucca.
In 1888 he sent a sample to the
World's Exposition at New Or
leans and was awarded second
place. Later, he was the chief
factor in the organization of a
farmers' co-operative cheese fac­
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tory and was the manager of the
plant, turning out for a number of
seasons some very fine American
cheese that found a ready market
in nearby villages.
The cheese factory was later
moved to the new town of Cen
ter and converted into a creamery.
The first creamery was erected
at Hannover by the New Salem
Creamery company, in 1899. The
first churning was done August
4, 1899, present Dairy Commis
sioner Flint being the buttermaker.
This creamery was later sold to
an organization of farmers, who
still own and operate it.
Butter manufactured in the
creameries of Oliver county has
hanked high in competetive con
tests, At the Pan-American ex
position, Buffalo, 1901, butter
from the Hannover creamery re
ceived a rating of 97 1 -2, or with
in 1 -2 point of the highest score
during the six monthly contests
held in connection with the expos
ition, and in competition with but
ter from the oldest and best de
veloped states and sections.
The possibilities for dairying in
Oliver county are excellent. To
the abundance of native grasses
may be added the best of the cul
tivated foods for milk production,
alfalfa and corn silage.
There has always been a strong
tendency on the part of the early
settlers to breed high class horses
and beef cattle, and since dairy
ing has taken so strong a claim
on their interests it is but natural
that the attention of many should
be diverted to pure bred stock.
They are going after this as in
jther things, conservatively and
practically, generally purchasing
'to begin, with only pure bredj
sires that are owned in company
or co-operation.
A recent shipment of a state
and province winning dairy sire
to head a herd has been mention
ed in the press but is only one of
the numerous evidences of prog
sss being made and happened
to get into print.
Progressive or Prohibitionist?
Lieut. Goveror Kraable is
meeting with much consure from
papers all over the state for his
vote .against putting the clincher
on the Ployhar-Blackmore bill,
and although The Citizen support
ed him during the campaign, we
are free to confess that it appears
to us that he deserves all he gets.
If he is a Prohibitionist before he
is a Progressive then he ought to
have run on the Prohibition tick
et.
His contention that the bill re
ferred to would allow any muni
cipality or district to vote to
grant licenses to sell liquor, is a
mere' quibble, for such a thing
would be impossible if prohibi
bition were a part of the consti
tutional law of the state. And if
the constitution should be amend
ed to allow the sale of liquor,
why, '.should not each district or
municipality vote license if they
want it?
We are supposed to be living
in a country where the will of the
majority governs. This being so
we see no reason why the major
ity should not be allowed to have
what they want, even if it does
them harm. Experience is the
very* best teacher so why deny to
the people the privilege of gain
ing the experience.
For our part we despise the in
stitution known at the "American
saloon" and would be glad to see
its finish, but we believe in dem
ocracy, and are not afraid to
trust the people. Distrust of the
people is a strange attitude for a
Progressive to take.—Bowman
Citizen.
Libel Law Changed.
Grafton Record: We are sur
prised to learn that the last legis
lative assembly amended the libel
law by reducing the grade of the
offense from a felony to a mis
demeanor. Eight years ago,
while stinging under the criticism
of the newspapers of the state,
certain political influences during
the closing hours of the session,
Chronicle
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demanded and secured the pas
sage of a libel law making the of
fense a felony.
If these politicians who busted
themselves in the matter expect
ed to muzzle the press of the
state they were badly mistaken.
Immediately the newspaper men
of the state became more critical,
more bold in denouncing wrong
and more merciless in holding up
to public scorn the men who were
manipulating state politics for
their own base purposes. Many
arrests have been made during
these eight years under the law
and many trials conducted, tut
not a single conviction resulted.
The penalty was too drastic, and
the juries rebelled and nullified
the law. Now that the grade of
offense is reduced to that of a
misdemeanor we expect there
will be greater care exercised by
newspaper men of the state, and
that those, who without just
cause or for bad motive, commit
libel will suffer for their offense.
Do You Want Your Income
Taxed.
Now that there is a fair pros
pect of the passage of some sort
of income tax law, an article on
the subject, in the current issue
of Farm and Fireside, proves in
teresting. Following is an ex
tract:
"At the outset there are two
oposing views. Shall it be made
to affect a very wide range of
incomes—say, all down to $5,
000—or a small range—say, all
above perhaps $25,000? If you
raise $100,000,000 a year from
incomes above $25,OO0, the rate
will be much higher than if you
spread it over all incomes down
to $5,000. The people with the
very big incomes want it made
'popular'—that is, applied to the
widest possible range a device,
of course, that would really make
it unpopular. It'll never be very
popular at best with those who
pay. On the other hand, many
people want this tax to hit those
YOU MUST
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6ET BACK.
I THINK. I VIIU.
MOVE OUT IN THE
COUNTRY. IT WILL
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THE WIFE AND
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GET A LOOK AT
THE HIUS AND
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hereabouts
If
a careful system of taxing the
income 'at the source.' That is,
if you draw $25,000 salary as
president of a railroad, the rail
road reports that fact to the gov­
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Humor and Comment
CONTRIBUTED. CUPPED STOLEN SyMef PASTE ami SWAM
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Notice to City and County Officers
HERE'S A SNAP FOR SOME OF YOU.
$700 Worth of Stock in The Advance Publishing Company
For Sale at a BIG DISCOUNT.
The Advance Publishing Company is the owner of the
Beach Advance, which is the "official" paper of Billings
County and the City of Beach. It has the contract to furnish
all the county and city ^supplies. The majority stock in this
newspaper is owned by prominent city and county officials
and politicians and is sure to pay enormous dividends as the
paper will dictate the political affairs of Beach and the Golden
Valley and receive practically all of the "official" patronage,
at good pnees, from the city and county—provided of course
the present "officials"..remain in power—and there's no ques
tion but what they will, as this newspaper corporation is a
$15,000.00 concern and was organized for that purpose. If
you are an "official" and have not secured some of this choice
stock, now is your chance. It will practically guarantee you
a life long political job—and pay big dividends besides. The
only reason the present owner wishes to sell is on account of the
fact that he is not a city or county official and consequently
an uncongenial member of the corporation, hence is willing
to sacrifice this valuable property at a BIG DISCOUNT. If
you are a politician, a city or county official call at the Chronicle
office and get the list of officials and politicians who now
own stock in this company—and other particulars concerning
the money-making possibilities of this property.
Owners Note: I will also sell this stock to anyone with an itch
for office or a political bee in his bonnet.
If you own this stock your candidacy will no doubt be promoted
for anything from Congressman to Coroner by this political paper.
will be a valuable asset to any politician—"has been" or "would be.
with the big incomes, they want
it to keep the great fortunes from
going to fast to make them pay
a big share of the governmental
burdens.
"Objection to income taxation
as inquisitorial is little heard in
Britain nowadays, 'because they
It
ernment, pays your tax for you,
and takes it out of your pay-en
velope."
The Fargo Forum contained a
fine writeup of Beach and the
Golden Valley Chronicle one day
last week.—New England Herald.
Beach has a postoffice scrap on
and Editor Brinton has offered
his services as referee.—New
England Herald.
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