The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-02


were adopted at a mass meeting held
here Saturday afternoon. in the same
hall where. two days earlier. A. e.
Bowen. league organizer. made a
speech.
The resolutions are aimed more
particularly at the leaders of the Nom
partisan movement. charging them
with attempting to use North Dakota
as the experiment grounds for a
socialistic government. and declaring
that the success Of the proposal to
place the state government entirely
under the control Of the agitators
would work to the detriment of North
Dakota
Speakers at the meeting included
Senator John E. Paulson. of Hillsboro;
Peter Myrvold. Grand Forks; Theodore
Kaldor. Hillsboro; o. ]. Sorlie, Buxton,
and with o. A. Olson. Buxton. as
chairman.
The resolutions follow:
We, the citizens Of Trail county, at
a publicly called mass meeting at Bux-
ton, N. D., this 31st day Of March, 1917,
for the purpose Of discussing questions
of vital importance to the people Of
the state, and especially to the farm
ers, do hereby make this declaration
of our views upon some of the most
important questions:
farmers organizations as a means to
further the best interests of the farm
ers;
/, We are in favor Of a national grain
inspection law which will provide for
the grading Of our grain by experts
appointed by the federal government
under the civil service system and in
dependent Of the grain gamblers;
We favor the enactment of a law
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tons in grain or other farm produce
for gambling purposes only;
We are in hearty sympathy with
the Society of Equity as a means to
promote cooperation among the pro-
ducers and to secure to them a just
price for their products;
We unhesitatingly condemn the &C
ton of the governor in signing the
veto of the terminal elevator bill
endorsed by their vote at the polls at
two different elections and which the
Society Of Equity has done so much
to obtain. The last session Of our
state legislature passed this bill with
practically a unanimous vote in
obedience to the will Of the people and
the only way We can account for the
governors action in signing this veto
is that he is the tool Of the man who
solute dictator in our state:
We sincerely regret to see the agi-
tation now taking place in our state
for the purpose Of arraigning class
against class. Such agitation can re-
suit only in injury to our fair state.
We need the cooperation and support
Of all our citizens as we'll as foreign
capital and the preaching Of this
class-hatred that is now taking place
ie IN rI do
state pernicious injury.
We firmly believe that the farmers
Of our state are competent and well
qualified to take care of their own in
terests and need no imported Social
lists to act as their guardians.
Whereas. A. C. Townley, A. e. Bow
en-. William Lemke. D, c. Coates. and
o. M. Thomson and others of the
same type have entered into a con-
missions. to CAPTURE the control Of
the state Of North Dakota" and
Whereas. These men are Socialists,
ar some Of them atheists and infidels;
a, 0rding to the admissions Of their
chief in a public address at Grand
Forks. and
Whereas, These men have shown by
their words and actions that their
purpose is to make our state the ex-
eminent, which We are firmly con-
WINGED would be greatly to the harm
and damage Of our state, and
Whereas, They have already at
tempted to destroy the constitution of
our state and replace it with one Of
the most radical and dangerous docu-
ments ever penned in seriousness to be
the basic law Of a commonwealth on
the American continent, and
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their entire sympathy with I. w. W.
ism, and with anarchy, and their
hatred of the men who have created
the state Of North Dakota by their
hard work and sacrifices in years past,
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whereas, We are CONVINCED that
their main object is to take from the
people of the state large sums OF
money for their own ends. by the re-
quirement of SIC membership fees and
the selling Of stock in a million dollar
corporation which is utterly without
assets of any kind or nature, and
Whereas, We have knowledge that
the credit of the state has already
been seriously damaged by their
schemes of frenzied finance, and
Whereas, We believe their proposed
plan to put forth further schemes on
the credit of the farmers Of the
state and by making the sky the
limit of the states indebtedness" and
Whereas, There are various and
sundry other serious reasons why the
people Of the state of North Dakota
should come to a realization Of the
great danger to the state. now there
fore,
Be It Resolved, That we. citizens of
Trail county, do this day formally
make our protest against all of the
things hereby demanded and referred
to and urge the residents of Trail
county and the state to unitedly en-
deavor to remove these menaces by
every fair and just means, and that
every effort be made to inform the
people of the state of the true facts
and conditions as set forth in this
document and that request be made
for the publication of this document
in The Grand Forks Herald, The Nor
manden, the Press Of Trail county,
The Fargo Forum, and such other pub
locations as realize the importance of
the issues involving the good name
and credit Of the state.
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