The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-05-23

UosAet VI Am0ElCS, ~ 6XClSl0S our
farmers against all individuals en-
gagged in enterprises other than farm
ing. other agents Of, the Kaiser were
busy breeding strikes among the
workingmen engaged in manufacture
ing necessities for the farmers. The
farmer has been taught by Townley
that he is abused by the manufac-
turer. The laboring man is taught
by another set of anarchy breeders
that the manufacturer is not using
him right. He is also taught that
the farmer is holding him up" by ex-
horbitant prices asked for his wheat.
Thus 1t is easily seen how the Boil
sheviskf movement German has car
ried out in Russia to that country's
temporary ruin, is undertaken in the
United States with the aim of secur-
ing the same results here, the object
being to pit the farmer against the
business man, the labor against both
manufacturer and the farmer, an
other class crying for bread against
the farmer-with the hopes that a
state of anarchy can be successfully
brought out. All this is to the
benefit of Germany.
We have always regarded the
'Hunpartisan League" as the great
est graft and swindle by its promoter
and assistants that ever befell the
people of our state, yet we felt also
that if person had SIG and wanted
to become ''buffalo" or "join"
something it was his business,
whether he knew that the "wise guy"
soliciting his membership was
principally after the $3.50 rake-off
for getting" him or not.
But-when it became known gen.
orally that that or any other organi-
cation is an agency in opposition to
the governmental has been establish
ed by the arrest of many of its So
called ''organizers" and spokesman
on account of disloyalty and sedi-
tion-it is high time that all respect
able citizens who have been gulled
into handing their money over to
this organized band of bandits should
turn their backs upon them-or
better still report all Of them whom
they know to be talking and working
against the United States. The lat
ter is the profound duty of every
citizen who has an ounce Of sense and
grain of sand to back IT. up.
BY this "No-Party" (Bolsheviski)
movement North Dakota has been
made the. black sheep of the United
States. Why? When the Peace
Council" which made an effort to
SOW seeds Of sedition and dissention
was chased out of loyal and patriotic
states, it was welcomed to North Da-
kota. but thanks to Home Guards Of
Fargo. they didn't get very far with
their nefarious undertaking. And
who bid the peace doves welcome
to- North Dakota? It was our social
list governor who registered as 4
republican" =.
Who opposed the draft law? Town
ley and his outfit. Who made an eff
fort to discourage the purchase Of
Liberty Bonds? Townley, the self
constituted Kaiser (by divine
right" If you please) of the so-called
Farmers Nonpartisan League. Who
attacked the Red Cross and the Y.
n. G. A? Townley's outfit.
Townley has made vast Clean
up" in North Dakota. We are won
tlering-since all the stencil the
Townley outfit has brought to the
doors of our farmers IL any Richland
County farmers who are now and al
ways have been loyal citizens of the
United States, and respected citizens
Of our community, will be rs proud
now as they were two years ago to
ffount the big buttons Well Stick, :"
SWELL VIM We are wondering II
Townley can still eamoudage and
sandbag any more of them for their
confidence and money?
There are but few, socialists in
Richland County, but they are the
leaders and promoters of the
Farmers Nonpartisan League" here.
Townley has about all the cream
skinned of from North Dakota and
has moved to Minnesota for a green
er field. He is not having such easy
sailing there, as most of the people
OF that state found him out before
his arrival. The 'pi@king" in North
Dakota has become poor. His exon
quest and Kultur" must find "a
place in the sun" somewhere, so if
Minnesota won't have him maybe
some other state will lose by his
gain.
"Nonpartisan' members here
are being told to register as re-
as the Nonpartisan League. Decep-
ton like that should be sufficient
warning to men with honest motives.
The socialist, wherever you ind
him is opposed to the government of
the country which harbors him and
is opposed to everything else. as far
as we have been able to learn. By
greatest clunnig and deceit they have
managed. with Townley's leadership
and his confederates, to inveigle
honest members Of other parties into
their trap by masking themselves
Farmers Nonpartisan League" But
who did Townley slate for them
to vote for? Look over the list and
you will find from top to bottom that
It contains the names Of men who are
and have heretofore been known as
7ed-rag socialists, or that they are
$3.50 (if even that strongly patriots
or else they are Of the stripe ''any-
thing for al Office" like some Of our
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