The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-12
T0WNLEY FEARS
WAR W|LL.BOOST
i uvUuI1UOuvIVU
Willing Others Should Fight for
Democracy But Not to In
: s. crease Profits
FRAZIER DOESN'T BLAME
:, FARMERS FOR "ANARCHY
HAS RESOLUTION.

HAS RESOLUTION.
Il Minneapolis, June 12.-Theo-
dore Void, governor of the Min.
neapoIis federal reserve bank, de.
clared today that he had received
copy Of resolution adopted by
North Dakota bank presidents
representing the total number of
banks in one county, p|edoing
themselves not to assist in the
Liberty Loan campaign. The res
oiution declares in substance that
the farmers need the money more
than the country and money to
carry on the. war shoutdS be oh.
tanned from the 'rich.a ~,. -.
- Mr.. Woid declined to make
public the names Of the sigma.
tories or to say whether they
were connected in any way with
" the Nonpartisan league.
Beach, N. D., June 12-Before q
gathering of over 5000 at Beach,
Monday. afternoon, Townley stated
that, the evils Of the private fixing OF
buying and selling prices. for food
products INCREASED ten times in war,
and that it was not the farmers that
benefited from the high price of
wheat, but the stock gambler, who
made war an excuse to boost the
price after he got the supplies in his
hands: He quoted alleged enormous
war time profits of corporations, such
as sugar, machinery and steel COM
panies, compared with those In 1913,
and fstated that the same was true
with all other organizations dealing
in farm products.
y He said we had entered war and
have, got to stand by our guns and
co1ors, but must not cease to fight for
our personal. rights. The government,
he declared, may urge farmers to
raise ten to twenty times as much
as before, but that would not win the
war If the gamblers are allowed to
buy wheat at $3.50 and sell it to the
government at IS the bushel. ~
I TO succeed the government must
take charge Of the transportation and
distribution Of food products, h. as.
serted, and demanded that the United
States, like the Allies, take charge of
these. ta.>
, I'VE are told we are fighting for
democracy and liberty for Europe. If
so, every energy and ounce of blood
should be consecrated to the cause,
but we must be sure that it is for
liberty and not for millionaire's prof.
its. If not, it is our duty to fight for
our own people rather than the people
in Europe"
He said he was absolutely favorable
to conscription not only in war times,
but in peace He declared against
volunteer governors or officials and
for conscription in politics.
borrowing money by bonding.'
said Townley, means you must pay
the bonds. Under the present system
Of financing the war 1.-The gamblers
would get as much as the war cost
before the armies get the use of nlu-
nitions it would purchase" .'
He said, in view of the govern
ment's CONSUMPTION of lives, let 1t
money from those who
make the war profits, and mot come
to young people again and ask them
to work so years to pay the bonds.
He pictured millions dying or rot
ting in the trenches with-fies and
buzzards swarming about, but said he
was willing to make the sacrifice i'll
he was sure it was for democracy and
not for millionaires' profits.
The meeting adopted resolution
by the league, as published
in the league organs. Bowen recited
The history of the Nonpartisan league
and talked on House Bill AZ and the
rate bill defeated by the SEN
ate.
Frazier said North Dakota people |
ire just as patriotic as those of other |
states. He praised the efficiency of
he North Dakota National Guard and
said he did not blame the farmer for
ceiling little anarchistic when cheat |
I'd on prices of products. The sys-
EN- of handling farm products must
'e changed, he declared, and he hop
I'd the government would guarantee
he price of wheat and also secure
cheaper money to make farming prof
table.
Crawford Charges Treason.
"All our enemies are not in Ger
many" said President Lewis r. Craw
ord of the state board of regents last
in addressing a Liberty Loan
Meeting attended by the governor.
There are men in this state going
p and down, believing like the bull
f Basham and melting to treason"
Other Beach business men and at
orneys, men who know more of
'ownley, their old neighbor, than any
ther citizens of North Dakota, by
Inference charged the autocrat of the
league with treason.
his stirred Frazier, who has been
'ownleys companion in the present
peech making tour, to volunteer the
dvice that Il have been pretty we'll
yer the state and l have not heard
ny reasonable utterances."
He suggested that it be we'll to re-
lember there is such a thing as a