The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-26

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curb the activities Of the l. w. w. be-
i cause they did not want to Antagoniz1
certain labor elements in Minnesota.
| IF this organizations will sell yoJ
leaders do when they build up a great
to DO.
| q finger to help defeat the oleo bin ii
congress bin which would have
ers. And that was because they feared
they are planning to make deai
Now 1 call on Mr.. Randan to come
gown gown out OF the clouds and tell us why
,Randall Alleges Discrimination.
Before forget it." replied Mr.. Ran
dan, 4 will Just come down out OF the
Professor Ladd OF North Dakota to
show that "no grade" wheat is dis
criminated against In price by the
"Now. TIL tell. If you want to know"
he said, what we are organizing the
Nonpartican league for. We are organ4
igin$ the farmers to get through poll
which handle their crops and complete
the process OF production.
He says they don't object to farmers
cooperating; No. but they holler now
live. ''
Welcomes investigation.
Mr.. Lee says we are asking him to
join. He couldn't get In. He is a bust
ness man. They have their organize
tons and didn't Invite the farmers in,
and now the farmers are organizing
for themselves
Mr.. Randall here asserted that the
league welcomed investigation. He in
vited the chairman to appoint three
farmers. members OF the Nonpartisan
league, as committee to 60 to ST. Paul
and investigate the league.
Wen pay all your expenses" he
shouted. "WiIl you do it 2" he demand
ed. TITS put up or shut up"
There was no response from the
chairman or the audience.
Mr.. Randall admitted that he had ad-
vised farmers to stop taking ,newspa-
pers that criticize the league.
Mr.. Lee has told you about Mime
sofa giving you such things as cent
Says system" Creates /. w, w.
They give you crumbs, but what is
the use of stopping with crumbs when
You can get the whole loaf. / don't
know much about the North Dakota
legislature, or this stuff Mr.. Lee has
told you, but IL he has this evidence
1t is his duty to publish 1t in his paper,
or he's not honest. Not hearsay. but
tacts. The hearsay you get in these
capitalist sheets don't 90 with me.
II will say this, further II you de.
tect the semblance Of any political
leader trying to use the Nonpartisan
league for his own ends, publish him
as damned scoundrel
Declares League is MohiIixino.
He speaks about the /. w. w. The
!. w. w. is a product OF the system.
The first thing you know we will all
be I. w. WIS. We have not done any
thing in the Minnesota legislature this
winter because the time is not ripe
yet, We are mobilizing our troops.
These metropolitan papers are not
fulfilling their functions. They are
lot Of stuff about murders
and divorces, a lot OF garbage, but
when they talk about anything that
affects the special interests the stuff
is colored, and you know 1t. The
newspaper men know it. One Of them
is sitting right here taking down what
I say. They can't help It."
Lee Points to North Dakota.
Mr.. Lee opened his rebuttal by say
ing he would like to talk to his audi
ence as men and not as children.
II have made these charges" he
said, land an investigation in st. Paul
would settle nothing. rIf they did not
defeat the two-cent fare and the !. w.
w. bill In North Dakota, who did?"
Mr.. Lee said that Mr.. Randall had
not met his Charge about the defeat
of the tonnage tax, but to prove 1t he
read q letter from Senator r. G. Dunn,
stating that friends OF the tonnage
tax in the senate received no help from
the Nonpartisan league.
Mr.. Lee took up the leagues pro-
gram. He quoted the North Dakota
league as favoring q bond issue of
$500, 100000 in that state.
And that is only q starter" he de-
clared "The only thing that would
save you from having to pay those
bonds would be efficient management.
But IL you issue them and the state
runs these industries. who would be
the managers?"
But" continued Mr.. Lee. ''this sort
Of thing is going on to Minnesota as
well. The tonnage tax bill in our state,
to be backed by this league,
was beaten in the senate and not a
finger was raised by the league to put
that bill through. They gave It out
quietly that they did not want the
bill passed, and the reason was that
they wanted to have this issue to talk
about in the next campaign. Isn't that
playing politicst
Alleges monumental F1yP0CFt5ys
He called the roll of the North Da-
kota leaders, A, G. Townley, a pro
ressional socialist agitator" and other
former socialists.
There. is no disgrace in being So
cialist," he said, shut 1t is a well
known fact that socialists are not
practical men. IL they get you into
this thing nothing can save the peo-
Pile OF this state from having to pay
these bonds.
Il am against the organization be-
cause it doesn't practise what 1t
breaches. They talk about rule of the'l
people, yet they never have let the
rank and file say who shall be the Of
icers. or what their salaries shall be.
They preach pure democracy but they
don't practice 1t"
Mr.. Lee then produced a petition
signed by members OF the North Da-
kota legislature asking for a cOnven-
ton to pass on the officers. He said
they later signed paper taking 1t
back" but safter Townley had prom
sed to grant their demands. He ac-
eused the league of monumental
Objects to Financial Operations.
'I am against this. league because
Of its financial operations" he de-
clared. "They have raised a million
dollars in North Dakota, $25O,000 in
Minnesota and $4,000 here in Todd
county. Now 1t isn't necessary to