The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-26
MERITS OF a. UNDER
DEBATE ALL MORNING
fContinued from PaEs ono,

DEBATE ALL MORNING
Continued from Page Ono,
Wednesday night, it became known
today. The present fair apprOpria'
ton is $4,000 each to Fargo and
Grand Forks, between which cities the
fair alternates. The bill would carry
$4,000 annual appropriation for the
fair to be conducted annually in Far.
80.
A plea for the recognition Of the
authority of the people in the making
of constitutions was made by Attor.
ney J. F. T. O'Connor of Grand Forks,
late yesterday afternoon in opposition
to the passage of house bill A. He
spoke one hour and 80 minutes.
The chapIain's Prayer.
"A day or two ago we listened to
the prayer Of the chaplain" spoke
Representative O'Connor, land in
opening the legislative day, among
other things the chaplain said. We
thank thee, Holy Father, for our his
tory and for the men who laid our
foundation deep and we'll. Righteous
ness exalteth nation and sin makes
a nation miserable
1T is with a great deal of hesita
tion that rise to express myself on
House bill Al. l esteem it one of the
highest honors to be member OF
this assembly. We have gathered here
from all parts Of this great state not
as Republicans, not as Democrats. not
as Nonpartisans, but here with a
single purpose to serve the great com
monwealth. l doubt if there ever as
sembled in this legislative hall body
Of men whose purposes were higher
whose sentiment were nobler than the
men WIN are assembled today to serve
the great state Will &c.. 49,. =.
A Sacred Privilege.
Zone of the great privileges that
our. forefathers !, fought for. bled for
and died for was to give US freedom
of speech, was to. put. down in the
very foundations of our government a
stone that guaranteed to every man,
woman and child the right to. express
his convictions and to only be amen.
able for them when he damaged un'
justly the character Of another. al
ways hesitate when l find myself DIFF.
fering from a large body in which !
happen to sit, but if there Is one thing
that I hold sacred in my heart, it IS
that l shall always express myself,
whether in the majority or in the min
ority. so that all may know where /
stand. The men who are gathered
about here today would have nothing
but contempt for myself Or for any
other man, if they felt that that man
sat silent in his chair: and permitted
to 70 unchallenged some statement or
some law to be passed because he felt
that the majority cried for it.
1.-THE Farmers" Movement.
1--WE are under the most unusual
conditions that an assembly ever sat
under in this great state. The farm
ers of the state have organized, I
personally have never challenged the
right Of the farmers to organize to
make North Dakota a better place
Every group Of men in the different
branches of industry have an organi.
cation. Men have that right. A move
ment similar to this one was started
shortly after the Civil war. The far
mers of Texas organized to prevent
spectators from buying up all tho
land which they believed should be
left for the bona fide inhabitants and
residents. They called this the Far
mers' alliance. In 1887 the Farmers
union of Louisiana. united with the
Texas organization under the name
of the Farmers Alliance and Cooper
alive Union of America. The move.
ment spread into, Missouri, into Ken
lucky and Tennessee, into Nebraska
and South Carolina, and Florida
Georgia and Mississippi. The farmers
in Illinois and other surrounding
states joined the southern alliance in
1889. In 1889 the alliance. elected
several governors and a few congress
men. That party later united with
the Knights of Labor under the name
of the Peoples party, and later chang
ed to the Popuist party. These par.
ties rose and these parties fell; and
it is for. you who have the majority
in this state now to. temper your &C
tons. -s....'.
A Pledge to the People-1ut.
Last year in, the great political
arena-and it seems that 1t is always
true that in every great conflict one
man challenges the opinions Of others,
that there are always scars and al
ways hard feelings-and SO it has be-
come the custom of parties that ap.
peal to the people for support, to set
forth tc the people of the state the
things that they will do, if given pow
er in the state-and the majority in
this house stood upon a platform
which no doubt was pledge to the
people that, If entrusted with power,
they would carry out the planks OF
that platform. And one OF the planks
Of that platform reads. as follows: We