The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-13
|1HE NORTH DAKOTA Ideal
new FORM OF P0Pul|SM
EMISsARiEs ARE CARRYING THE
RUINous DOCTRINE TO
FARMERS OF IDAHO.
Manufacturer, Portland)

Its leaders announce tnat tney VIII
work with union labor leaders in cities
and 50 farm partnership with the
expiring propaganda of the socialist
labor party.
The success Of this movement Is
fatal to large Investments in railroads.
mines, smelters, numbering. utilities,
and all large industries that must be
carried on over long periods 10 earn
profits on capital.
The North Dakota Nom Partisan
league asks the western farmers to
engage in politics when the whole ma
ton is turning away from political
|agitation. The farmers are asked to
back an exclusive farmers political
party at time when all the people
are turning their backs on party poll
tics and are asking that the highest
type of men from all walks of life
go to the front unselfishly and serve
their country as patriotic duty The
first step taken by the president after
declaring a state of war was to invite
all the heads of large business enter
prises to go to Washington and help
strengthen the government for it's
great struggle against autocratic
power.
Ten years ago the wave of expert
mental reforms and peoples rule was
started in Oregon. Direct legislation,
direct nomination, and the long list
Of radical uplift measures were en-
acted. The first result was swelling
the volume of legislation, rapid in
crease of taxes and bonded indebted
ness and lowering standards in pub
lie affairs. For the last five years
Oregon has been saying no to freak
laws and trying to overcome paralysis,
of industries.
For number of years Pacific coast
states have had reform movements,
like the seven sisters bills in WASH
ington and the 80 measures submitted
to the people of Oregon in 1914 thrust
at them from a tripartite source
the Grange, Farmers Union and Fed
Grated trades. But their defeat shows
the rank and file of the farmers would
not stand for the progress of radical
| ism. A new organization appears
based ON more direct action and to
overcome slower tendencies of farmer
voters.
| In oregon 1t Is given out that the
new North Dakota Non Partisan
league of farmers and labor unions
will only undertake few reforms,
like public ownership Of warehouses
and FIGURING mills, and state market
ing bureaus. Oregon has voted down
so many ideas in the line of public
ownership and state control that the
reformers do not feel safe in putting
up very stiff program
Reform is to be speeded up. The
leaders in Idaho say: go into politics,
abolish all robberies, pay us SIC to
get in, and see how we will save you
$500 to $4,000 by marketing your
grain, packing and canning your fruit,
selling you groceries and farm ma
chinery, running your Touring mills,
packing your pork and beef, doing
your banking, irrigating your land,
furnishing you power, and above all
you farmers shall hold the offices.
An element of disloyalty enters into
an agrarian political agitation at this
critical period when the nation has
entered into the European war and its
life Is at stake. The western states
are again to be made the goat of new
experiments at the hands of a social
ed Partisan league, uniting pop
ulistic elements among farmers with
labor unions of the cities, combine
to raise prices on the consumer and
put over program against all big
business.
AS supreme test of patriotism let us
take the contributions to the Red
Cross fund and what is the record Of
the Dakotas, compared to states where
agrarian socialist politics is unknown?
Idaho was asked for $4,000 and gave
s3O5,654, 2O4 per cent. Michigan sgave
144 per cent, Massachusetts, 1876 per
cent. New York gave 119 and Oregon
ia per cent. North Dakota was put
down for 100000 and gave 1000,
or 43 per cent. South Dakota gave
only "a per cent, an unpatriotic record.
Portland, Oregon, that at a recent
city election voted down all socialistic
and public ownership candidates and
propositions, was asked to give $780,
600 but responded with 100000, or
over 200 per cent A similar city In
Ohio was asked for $250,000 and gave
$603,0O0--a steel manufacturing city,
whose industries the Non Partisan
league wants to take over and oper-
ate. II would be interesting to know
what Dakota cities give-the Dakotas
that would substitute politics for pa
triotism.
One of the first fruits of the North
Dakota Nom Partisan league was to
send young newspaper humorist and |
cartoonist to congress. II there is a |
type more irresponsible and more
inimical to stability in business affairs
and sound industrial policies for the
nation than 25-year old daily news
paper politician we would like to have
1t called to our attention. He tickled