The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-05-09


of our natural resources, state or fed
eral ownership, aid or control of such
public service utilities and industries
as may be determined by a majority
of the voters of the state from time
to time as being necessary in order to
to prevent public service agencies and
industries from being monopoliZed by
private interests for an unfair private
gain No such undertaking, however,
should be entered upon without pro-
viding for civil service test for all
curing and guaranteeing of bond is
/, sues, payment of accruing interests to
protect public institutions, resources
and credits against any loss or harm
that might come from experimenting
with government ownership or opera
! tion of public service utilities or in
dustrial enterprises.
1--WE express ourselves as opposed
to all forms of gang control in our
body politics, and believe that the
people of our state will not, knowingly
want to give absolute control of our
government to a gang conspiring to
lead us into a brand of socialism that
has no reverence for the Divine; and
who officially declare the war to be a
"crime against the United States and
the nations of the world" and who
urge their elected legislative repre-
sentatives ''to vote against all pro-
posed appropriations or loans for mil
itary, naval and other war purposes" :"
1--WE likewise believe that the far
mers of our state will not knowingly
want to continue, at the head of any
farmers organization a gang of men
who, while enthusing us for govern
mental reform, have unjustly and
| treacherously utilized our enthusiasm
to undermine our state credit, undo
important work of the Society of
Equity and the Farmers Union, in the
interests of agriculture, and are now
promoting personal interests and pri-
vate corporations that have no parallel
in the Gold brick industry of our
state.
eve urge upon the voters of every
legislative district in North Dakota
: that men be brought out regardless of
party lines as candidates for legisla-
| tive positions whose loyalty is un-
questioned and who are, in the main,
in sympathy with this program and
will pledge themselves to not be a
party to any unit rule" or "secret
! caucus" interfering with the free, in
dependent and separate action on all
sneaelros in 60! .esesislls.i s.,slls s.iA1 ,.a,n5css.
Likewise men who will not vote in
favor of the legislature taking over or
purchasing for the state any capital
stock or securities or real or personal
property from any individual or cor
poration, except for the maintenance
of state institutions. without first sub
mitting the proposition to the voters
of the state for majority approval
and then only on the basis of physi-
cal valuation.
"We further urge the conducting of
educational campaigns in the way of
community discussions, bulletins and
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the auspices of some departments of
our state government, developing
thought and discussions on such sub
jects as taxation, election systems,
form of government management of
public service utilities and industries,
marketing, pricing and distributing
all necessities of life, betterment of
our rural schools, ETC., and generally
promoting agricultural interests. In
all discussions of these matters, let
: us not be diverted from the questions
at issue by personal attacks upon in
dividuals or newspapers or by any
thing that does not bear upon the
measures themselves. or the proper
method of procedure in the considera-
ton of them"