Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-07
'tFlower of Nation to Die For
Profit of the Rich," Townley
Declares; Tells What Farmers
Should Get if Theu Giue Aid

This patriotic (%sneeringly) gov
eminent which US now to raise
more potatoes permitted 16 carloads
OF potatoes to rot on sidetracks near
Chicago while sucking children in
the city were starving for potatoes.
farmers to raise a larger crop until
you or they wipe out this monstrous
wrong and I will say that unless they
are big enough to control the trans
p%ortation Of food ana ooal for the
Northwest / cannot see q possibility
Of the United States being successful
in this war.
Demands ON Government.
1.-THE government spends most Of
h time crying for the young to come
to war. I demand that the United
States shall instantly take charge Of
the transportation Of the food and
of the manhood Of this nation is sent
across the water.
Opposes War Debt.
Tens Of thousands will be sacri-
feed to defend the freedom Of de-
mocracy but there is another thing,
we do not want our young men to
come back with arms and legs and
eyes gone to have facing them a war
debt that will keep us and them
slaves for the next twenty-five or
fifty years.
Ninety per cent Of the wealth of
h nation Is in the hands Of billion
aires and multimillionaires. Billions
of wealth are piled in the laps of the
your industry here at home, wealth
they need not but which is a detri-
ment to them and we say to our coun-
try. Come. take Of their wealth az
much as you want and as much as
Raps Merchants.
MI. Townley and A. M. Thomson
paid their respects to the business
men Of the state, the retail merchants,
dealers who are coming to understand
that the Townley propaRanda is q
boycott Of them If they oppose his
campaign and the promotion Of the
interest Of the mail order houses of
the country for whom the Townley
ing for some reason not quite clear.
Elevator Men Crooks.
MI. Thomason made a surpf1uoAs
attack on the elevator men OF the
state declaring that the $500 Grain
elevators in the state were robbinE the
farmers Of an average Of $1,000 per
elevator per year, which would make
a total Of some 2,soO,o 900 per year.
Thomson read some figures which he
alleged had been supplied by State
Commissioner of Agriculture Hagen,
relating to eight elevators which had,
he said. robbed the farmer Of amounts
ranging from 1874 bushels to 22.42O
bushels.
these elevator men may not be
Intentional CROOKS" said Nj. Thorn
ason. but they are only weak flesh
and you should not put temptation in
front Of them"
This was his argument for the
Grain Grading and Weighing Law
which goes into effect July /. and
which will cost the grain grower Of
the state at least 100000 for Weigh
10y satellites fat Jobs and. which win
not give the graded grain any better
standing in the markets Of the nation
which establish their own standards
under the laws Of their respective
states.
Ooncede Draft.
Governor Frazier advocated the re-
call o. state od1cials who did not do
their duty - their constituents felt
they should. He expressed the opin-
ion that We had grown away from the
declaration Of Independence because
mon REPRESENTING big business run thu
government and said because the row
eminent had decided that ~selectfve
conscription wa the faireat method
of raising an army I'VE would havs
to concede It,"
During the governors speech. he
was presented with Q bouquet by q
charming little girl. II bore the I'm
scription. 'From the Equal Franohiss
/ Club
Thofnason promised the fArrnsrs
that whom they put their program
through every farmer would own Z
six cylinder automobile and live 81
1ns seven andselght room farm h6aaes.
veto 0f tho terminal elevator ball
which 49, for ths reaeon gthaAt Hosos
Btil rs the Dupuis freight So4o I'm
was knlo4s1A 10 aao0AtA