The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-25
ZONE PRo-GERMAN STATE"

The Brooklyn Eagle indicts Nortr
Dakota.
Surely an unjust indictment, but
one that stands without reputation
in the east, and 1t is not the first
time that this charge has been drawn
against North Dakota since the
United States unsheathed its sword
The Brooklyn Eagle, citing the
position taken by Senator A. ],
Grenna Of North Dakota setting
forth Governor Frazier's notorious
proclamation warning peace officers
that they must not modest I. w. w
and specifically declaring that they
must not search men without the
authority of search warrants; the
state executives position on the
thoroughly discredited Peoples Coun-
Gil issue, and his action in sending
the attorney general to Fargo to in
sure that body protection, comes to
the conclusion that North Dakota is
untitled to the proud distinction of
being the one pro-German state in
the Union"
Small wonder that The Brooklyn
Eagle proposes that the I. W. w. of
the nation be rounded up, driven in
TO North Dakota and placed under
'the protecting wing of Governor
FFazier".
:. The Eagles editorial follows:
q while protests have been
heard from Missouri Oklahoma,
Wisconsin and Georgia as to the
pro- German attitude Of their
representatives in the United
f States Senate. 1t seems that Sem
ator GTonna of North Dakota is
= supported by the officials of his
{. State, if not by the majority of
its citizens. North Dakota is en-
q titled to the proud distinction of
in the Union.
Governor Frazier issued
+. proclamation warning peace off,
!. GERS that strangers should not
e be searched when arrested with
= out a search warrant, and MEM
= bers of the /. w. w. arrested at
3 Bismarck have produced copies
8 of the proclamation as their de-
8 tense. The state is Republican,
! but the machinery Of that party
is said to be in the hands of pro-
s German Socialists. If Senator
3 Gronna should be moved to re-
sign it Is believed that Governor
s Frazier would appoint another
pTo-German to fill out his term,
: the belief being founded on the
Il fact that he invited the Peoples
q Council to meet at Fargo and
4 ordered his attorney general to
8 investigate the home guard of
3 that town when 1t prevented the
Z. paeifists from assembling in re-
Spouse to his invitation. There
is a Farmers Nonpartisan
League, whose president is fight
: ing the war measures of the
administration as strongly as he
is able, and the state is in a
situation which must give great
satisfaction to Berlin as a fulfill
ment in at least one instance Of
2 the predictions made by German
spies of what would happen all
over this country in case we en-
3 tered the war. If we had entered
the war two years earlier indeed,
s North Dakota might not have
had her present lonely eminencs
of dtsloyalty.
1T would be a blessing to the
. rest of the country If all the I.
s w. w. could be rounded up in
North Dakota under the wing Of
Governor Frazier. That can't be
done officially, of course, but
something approaching that re-
suit might be reached by making
the other States so hot for these
nuisances that they would be
glad to flee to North Dakota for
VerafnaTiNp Tho frat uEnYa In
direction might we'll be taken by
the Pacific states in which /. W.
w. strikers are disrupting indus
try"
Within the past few days. North
Dakota people have witnessed the
departure of nearly 1000 Of their
sons for the great training camp at
Camp Dodge; this week they will
witness the departure of over $500
more men in the two regiments Of
the North Dakota national guard:
fully 1000 others have enlisted in
other branches of the nations SER
vice, while there still are over $500
men who will enter the National
army before Nov. 1. In all. nearly
10000 of North Dakota's stalwart
sons will be doing their Bit.
Those boys are going into armies
to fraternize with the soldiers Of the
nation. They will meet the soldiers
Of the south; the soldiers of the west,
the soldiers of the east, and by their
participation in the Great Adventure
they viii effectively give the lie to
the indictment that has been made
possible against the commonwealth
by reason Of the attitude Of its senior
senator; the position taken by the
state executive whose own patriot
ism, If his words uttered at the recent
mass meeting Of the Nonpartisan
league in Fargo are to be taken SER
iously. is measured by the available
ity Of food for his own consumption,
Tor It was then ne declared the
strange doctrine that "a man can't
be hungry and patriotic at the same
time
But with the great body OF Ameri-
can people. the Indictment stands