The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-24
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Cakes Journal 1t is observed that
the legislature is now organized and
ready for work and that it is in the
hands of the progressives, If that
means, and it should, that the legisla-
ture is ready to do business for the
whole state and do it so that it will
be to the everlasting credit of the state,
it is something to be proud of; but if
it Is organized to dicker and monkey
around to see what lot of bunkum
it can make or do to blind the people
to the real needs and demands of the
people of the state IL is something to
keep still about. The general tone of
the general remarks is that there is
more of the spirit of personal and sell
fish ambition than should be. If the
progressives have organized and are
the legislature and the whole thing to
represent the interests of the people,
let them go ahead and do the work.
They need not flaunt the fact before
the public that they have gently skin
ned the conservatives. The Haunting
and haunting spirit is not the spirit
that is likely to do things because they
are just; they do them in a spirit of
are never for the good of the common
wealth, Tt is enough that party has
won, and it need not be bowling of it's
victory. There are none so dense that
they do not know who is in the ma
jority. The best thing for the winners
or the victors to do is to get to work
and do something that shall prove that
they deserved to win and that they can
be trusted to do more good work and
do it in less time and at a less ex-
pense than any other party. That is
what ought to count and it will count
from this on The shouting and boast
ing that is sent abroad to blind the
public is, getting to be so rarified that
| it hides nothing from the people, but
rather calls attention to the intention
of the party that it means to defeat the
purposes of the people for the personal
selfish interests, The responsibility
placed on officers by accepting an of
| flee from the people is great and no
officer can afford to spend the time
| in Dragging because he was elected
rather than some other good man. Let
them bring forth works fit for Boosting
and then let the people boast. The
spirit manifested in haunting is not
one to tend to make harmony among
| the people and without harmony there
| can be little good accomplished. Then
that spirit indicates that the officers
feel and think that 1T is they who de-
serve the credit and that they should
do what pleases them and have no re-
gard to the welfare Of the general pub
| lie. That notion should be knocked
in the head with a good blow that
would put the notion to an eternal
sleep. Who are these officers any
way2 How did they get their posi- :
ton? Why were they given the place
they hold? Was 1t to give them the
right to skin the people who elected
them or to do business for them ?
How is 1t that SO many persons who
are elected to an office get 1T into their
little noodles that they are the peo-
pie and that they are RESPONSIBLE to
no one but themselves? Who is 1t that
1 pays the expenses of the administra-
ton OF government? For whom Is the
government? TO listen to the petty
officer, It would seem that they be-
come so magnified that they can see
nothing but themselves when they get
| into an office. The thing for the peo-
pie to do Is to hold every man strictly
to an account for the deeds that are
done by the whole legislative body,
not let him plead that some one else
did it and he could not help 1t. It
makes no difference to the people who
does the business for them IL ii Is done
fright. It is not done right and with
the least possible expense, the people
should have the right to make the Off
GERS make it right. It il not the in,
/ tention Of the people to demand ina
possibilities of the officers, but it il
right that they should demand and SCI
cure the most perfect and just service
possible. Progressive or standpat OF
conservative or stalwart means moth
ing except as 1t does something worth
mentioning. Amy name will serve to
l.conjure with II it does the right thing
ANY name can be a reproach ii II
stands for something unjust What
the people Of the state and the more
contracted communities want Is Just
plain, good, honest service for the
whole state, no more, no less. If pro-
gressive gives that good. all well and
good, If not. give some others q chance
but let the people aat IL