The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-06-28
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ANTl.LlEACUE ARGUMENTS OF SENA-
TOR SANDSTR0M IN HIS SERIES OF DEBATES.

lUA OAVDOlNUM In lid OENEO VI DEDAlCJ.
Now that the series of debates between Senator sandstron
and Representatives Hagan and Stair have been completed, the
Courant will permit itself to review some of the arguments pres
program. The senator takes the position that he has been WITH
in the laws" by supporting the things called for in the republican
league Rsas1Si% repreeen t. 'a % ~fins the i four q hou ps'n mem htmse OF B 5 Eoea
so~nty, f in aeSo SG tns 3 ta xps1 psSEss% e Ss1 tas 6sssnf ran Sf R9t dn fse
same platform as sandstrom is supporting, have misrepresented
It is hardly worth while to discuss a matter so absurd. There
was never at any time any question about what the people OF
was any question in the mind of the senator, the hundreds of Pc
H f5ti0ns Bill RHu ri sbd in to di s% 's ef that him anes tt so 7efy ds sad yGte f Re
was not pettioned to support the Republican platform" but the
There never was any time during the session that he did not
thoroughly understand what this program was. Hiding behind
he, together with the other standpat members of the holdover
senate, did everything possible to block the carrying out of the
to kill off ANYTHING that bore the semblance Of league legislation,
and putting on an innocent front at this time and claiming that
desires of the majority of his constituents and carrying out the
constituents.
The standpat senate; as a matter of fact, did everything: in
its power to head off all progressive legislation and was contln-
ualy engaged in the not too innocent game of playing politics.
Bills introduced in Bad Faith.
Fool legislation was INTRODUCED by sttandpat S senator's to cast
ally referred to as a farmer legislature" One glaring example of
this kind of legislation was the bill i introduced by D.; Senator Nc Ian
ever sent to the state house. His bill prescribing a penalty for
given formula was heralded through the press as a sample Of
the kind of legislation the farmer legislature" was devoting itself
a Nonpartisan measure.
Those L. W. w. Bills.
y Useless laws were introduced for the purpose of putting the
,eapue members in a hole" An instance of this is the different
vagrancy bills introduced, commonly referred to as u. W w.
North Dakota has one of the strictest vagrancy laws Of any
state in the union: Sections 1852 and 1852 of the Revised Codes
of 1905 read as follows:
vagraney Defined; All persons J" who 10 are fs idle and nd dd1sI seis snS who asm go
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R Ps :H s' ssss 1%s s a:! ;;sss { ':S1 !sa5 men,; : s& f S & t t. E sE; ;ss5 ;a ) sSs$s:
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ar '3 soass IN ': ssy s sz :% 81 i5:s%! s.' S:%1{ SH:. s$:s s' o s1 pr nSsssssssSs Shall s
ssus ss2i III 1 sy : a 5s:: ssf tt sst; ss;: ;sy fifty * f y s::e g. es$Ss !ss'5'' sS ~'st n as ;s
crime n's u1dsr rhieh S Vaersn c? could sfi possibly :" be defined: And the
6 s3asa pa !: s ": V. f 5i!s, a. Il the e9s cs St%s t to call then them; II The proposed
bills contained nothing specially new-and the intent was not TO
t %sk So ans t m1pe them lsn,l do~n as Useless ssi legislation Ia - and thus make t
appear that there was collision between the farmers m go and nr tine T.
w. w. The league house refused to play politics and very proper
ly sat down on this and similar useless legislation, introduced for
'h0 %ed GS %ns9 %dre i H97y Drive, could be contemplated than to as
srt that ct;t there was "a + fo,usi ;s n b cssa the h d ! Wi y Da fnS t9 that 1af has
s5t SI1fs rom I. Y W ' V: a ls vi$ i It is IT the farmers. They have
this problem to deal with every fall. And they know that a per
son of criminal tendencies will not be deferred from filling gram
shocks viii rocks merely by examining the penal code tMl OF ne%
statutes. There are already all the laws necessary to place sucn
and other criminals in the state penitentary. But legislation
does not stop crime. There are laws t: against %aiad murder m;ras eneat' o0o''
Merely belonging to the !. w. w. organization does not IN IN IL
self constitute a crime. But members of this body, as wen as
those who are not members, must conduct themselves IN al oroer-
ly and l%aw-abiding manner. If not, the present laws OF tne sta!e
are sufficiently drastic to put them behind the bars, whetner y
be on a vagrancy charge or for a more serious crime. But the
introduction of these bills by the standpat senate served its pur-
pose-namely to make it appear that the Nonpartisan League
is in cahoots with the !. W. ". in a plot to loot, pilage and plum
der the farmers of the state.
Not Willing to Trust the People.
House Bill "A comes in for a lot of adverse criticism from