The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-18

IScLA4H5 W a tululEIOu WIlSES any rSoN@
official will be in public disgrace.
mot only should the official do his
full duty in enforcing the law, but he
should himself be a keeper Of the law,
for an official, be he mayor, police,
sheriff, states attorney or judge, to
frequent, a club and participate in a
gathering where the law is violated,
or for these officials, to engage in
gambling even on a petty scale, is
setting a bad example and is poor
ethics. In one case where, on my in
s1stence the, states attorney had a.
building ~padlocked for gambling, I
have an affidavit that. said states at
torney. gambled in said building. In
one court in North Dakota where
ordered closed for year. complaints
came to me from parties who said
they saw for themselves that the dis
trict judge put In spare time in a
| private gambling game The stakes
were said to be small, but no less
gambling because Of that. The day
is bout here when men with private
and public records not in keeping with
good citizenship cannot be elected to
state office, and where their records
will stand across the path Of their
candidacy to Office. I have known
some to sneer at these sentiments,
but they belong to the old gang who
are fast being consigned to political
oblivion. With three large, well or
ganiZed temperance societies in the
state working in harmony and stand
Ing for high standards Of official life,
such will be eliminated and conditions
Will constantly improve.
IF the statement made by Senator
Clapp Of Minnesota, THAT all the sim
lister forces of the country are lined
up against woman's suffrage" is
Il fNJTA oyr1 r HoIs4-.a a. t. %I1~ ArA~kG
Dakota should line up strong for Civ
ing woman the ballot. North Da-
kota, by her laws, has shown that she
is against the sinister forces that in
tend to ruin men physically, mental
ly and morally. Men drink intoxicat-
ing liquor. frequent gambling dives,
and because of doing these things
to use the ballot to make such illegal
and to elect such officers as will en-
force the law. Woman should have
the ballot that she may protect her
home and her children.
ut is q significant fact that the
only open organized effort against
woman's suffrage in North Dakota Is
the Characterization alliance. 1t is
also true that the only North Dakota
protest against the Webb bill came
from the same source. There are rea-
sons to believe that most Of the pro-
test comes from the breweries outside
the state, but for local effect r sent
through the local German-Amertcan
alliance. It seems to be true that
certain officials elected by state vote,
and other persons in state employ,
and paid out of the state treasury,
have been busy agitating within the
German clubs for re-submission, and
hat when travelling at state expense.
+ believe the three great temperance
organizations should see to 1t that
these caterers to outside brewry inter
ests should be defeated for Office. They
are not imbued with the North Da-
kota spirit.
I'm the words Of The Marmarth
Mail. I say that when "a bunch OK
German voters of our state have
centered their interests against wom-
ans suffrage and the prohibition law.
and when considers that a crowd
Of foreign-born men, many Of whom
have difficulty in reading and writing
the English language, should take 1t
upon themselves as a body to prevent
educated and refined native born
women, to exercise the privileged Of the
ballot, it is high time that we take
notice." Sometime ago I was present
in court in Mclean county when some
of these German Russians were seek
1uS LdbuI d4ILdL1OAA III ~ ob4LlS up OIA
their claims they had had to do with
certain officers. Invariably upon be-
ing asked, who is the president Of the
United States? They would answer,
John Doe. Who Is governor Of your
state? John Doe. Who is United
States senator from your state?
John Doe. L for one believe our intel
ligent American-born women are more
capable Of a right use Of the ballot
u ~I-- re -~~- Ts.--t-a-
and / believe We can find men far
more capable Of serving the state in
official position than those politicians
who cater to them and try to use these
ignorant Russians as a political whip
to satisfy outside state brewery inter-
ests. .
1.-THE largest problem OF the North
Dakota enforcement league Is to get
sufficient money to do business with
without spending too much time in
raising this money. This is not say
ing that it is hard to raise money for
law enforcement, but 1t does require
personal effort n a good deal OF
time to secure sufficient funds to keep
the work going, and this constitutes
our hardest problem We did not
meet with sufficient success in raising
a, $4,000 fund to, put on the extra men
we needed. We might have" raised
that mount put would nave mad 70
desert the actual enforcement work
for too long. When I took charge OF
the league almost three years ago and
got the collection machinery to work
ing, we had a debt Of $500. The league
on March l., 1914 was out Of debt, ex-
cept a few, dollars for printing bills,
and the years financial report showed
a small balance In the treasury. Az
ter going over the matter with the
executive board it was decided to
adopt q conservative policy and not
in any way to run the league in debt,
80 it is not determined as yet whether
or not other helpers Will be put on.
Some have had a wrong idea Of the
duties OF the league. We cannot come
to your community and enforce your
laws for you and let you sit by and
look on. The league Is advisory and
its place is to direct the local forces,
assist in getting evidence, and see to
It that the officials do their part In
accomplishing this the local people
must take a hand and unless there
are a number who will do sc it would
be almost useless for the league to
close the illegal places, for it is neces-
sary to have community sentiment.
"The books at the Office show 1nan-
ofoI conditions as fnllnyva.