The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-04-19
ARTHUR MILLOY AGAIN
CONDEMNS N. P. LEAGUE
Bottineau Courant:-

CONDEMNS N. P. LEAGUE
Bottineau Courant:-
see letter in your Courant Of
April 5, where George White invites
me to answer a few questions. AS
seeding is on my time is limited to
writing but he is good fellow and I
will try and accommodate him with
a little time.
Well George, you used the white
wash brush pretty freely but there
are lot of dirty spots you are going
to have hard time to cover up. If
it was the intentions of the socialist
bunch that run the legislature last
winter at Bismarck to levy the tax of
$2.07 to a quarter section of land to
build terminal elevators as was vot-
ed at last falls election, why didn't
they frame a bill to that effect and
I don't suppose there would be one
man in the state would find fault with
it. But this was not their intention.
They used that as a cloak to blind
fold the farmers. They did not care
continental whether the farm
ers had an elevator, grist mill, or any
thing of the kind, all they wanted was
the peoples money and they showed it
plainly when they tried to change the
constitution of the state where they
could bond without limit and could
also use our school funds at their own
free will. Now George, if there had
been a bill introduced where they
could not tax farmer for any more
than you speak of in your letter, it
would have been vetoed the same as
the elevator bill. If the socialists
thought it would be of any benefit to
the farmers THEY would be the first
to kill it. Now George, I will trust
the farmers as much as would trust
any man that lives, providing they
are not led by bunch of crooked So
cialists, but 1 would not trust So
cialist as far as I could throw an OK
by the tail for I believe he is man
looking for something for nothing and
is no friend to the farmer. Now
George, you claim you are not a So
cialist, that you are an orthodox re-
publican. That is just exactly what
the socialist party has done in order
to get control of the legislature. They
came out as Nonpartisans, they have
| been trying for the last twenty years
to make some headway. You have
nominated everything from presi-
| dent down to dog g-catcher and fell
| down. Now you are out in VOLTS
fclothing afraid to own up to what you
| are but man with socialist ideas is
a socialist no matter what he calls
himself and you showed it last winter
when you got the lines in your hands.
You were socialist to the core.
I am a democrat, 1 believe in demo-
cracy, I believe in a government of
the people and by the people and any
time bunch go behind closed doors
to plot against the common people
and come out and tell us democrats
what we have to do and how to vote,
I am not a democrat, but that has
never happened us yet, and I don't
think it ever will. What is the rea-
son the legislature did not pass some
laws to protect the state from the Nv.
WIS. that come here every fall to run
it. The I. w. WIS. are socialists and
; the Nonpartisans are socialists and
birds of a feather will flock together
and if the farmers had sent bunch
Of I. w. Ws. to the legislature last
fall they would have got just as much
for their money as the bunch they
sent.
You are anxious to know what about
this 80c on every bushel of wheat
Saturday, April Ia, so lbs. of wheat
was selling at the elevator in Onemee
for 2. IL bushel. The best flour in
the stores was worth $3.50 hundred.
Now $3.50 will not buy bushels Of
so lb. wheat. You write to DR.. Ladd
and ask him how much first class
flour there is in a bushel of SO ID.
wheat, then take your pencil and pa
per and do little figuring for your
self and I think you will throw away
your socialist almanac and look up
facts before you start making any
such statements.
Now George, if this does not satis-
fy you I might write you again later
on but 7 am shy on time at present.
Arthur Milloy.
Omemee, N. D. April 16, 1917.
OAK VALLEY TOWNSHIP.