The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-01-17

There are nan little tricks of favo1itsm that can be played under private
operation of railroads that cannot be worked any more 10 that the govern
ment has Communicated the railroads of thu country n is operating mem
for the public benefit
For instance it as recently disclosed in New York that eighty cars of food
had been kept unloaded in the yard of one of the railroads for many days.
They were owned by spectators who held this food out OF tn market and
these carso out Of use to await higher prices.
Meanwhile, New York was deprived of this food and the country "a de-
p1ived Of cars at a time when it had double use for every car in the country;
all for the exclusive benefit of a trbe. that deserves less of this country than
anybody outside the boundaries of Germany-the food spectators.
Also, a carload Of copper has been reconsigned fifteen times, IS still
unoaded. The copper is kept from use and the use of the car is lost to the
nation by tactics made possible to spectators only by railroad favortism.
Such things al these will not be possible under government operation. The
fact that they are possible under private operation and will not be possible
under governmnt operation is going to be of the powerful factors tend
ing to prevent the return of the railroads to private operation, ever again.
Towney and his organizers are importing a large number of speakers into
this state to promote the cause Of Socialism, under the gmse OF a Farmers
Non-Parhsan League, and among these speakers is who they claim one
Of the greatest platform speakers of the day, and he is no other than Walter
Thomas Mills, a man who has stood for and advocated Socialism for many
years past. If you have been a reader of the Appeal To Reason, Of the
rankest Socialist papers ever published in the United States, and a paper that
became ST rank that it had to change its name in order to get any support,
eve from the Socialists, you will notice that "Comrade" Mills carried a n ad
reading like this:
"You Can Become a Trained Socialist! An Egechve Writer! A Pow.
enul Speaker! Yes, You Can, Through the Appeal Correspondence
Courses of Study: Walter Thomas Mills, Deportation, Will Teach
You"
Then under the head of "Mlls Reputation" it goes OF to say
"Waler Thomas Mills, NJ. A., author and instructor. Author of "The
Struggle for Exstance" and Democracy O. .Despotism," and special
commissioner for the city of Milwaukee (under socialist administrator
ina five year world tour of investigation for municipal industrial en-
terpises. .yas L*z.. #~~
aEhe@ Appeal said years ago Mills has n o equal o the platform, liv-
ing OF aeadyin this country n any other 1t thinks so still"
KATE OHARE SAYS: ALL l HAVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO AC-
COMPLISH 1 OWE TO COMRADE MILLS"
The above testimonials from the Appeal to Reason and from Kate OHare
gives us quite an insite into the past life of this wonderful Mills.
We wonder if the farmers of North Dakota are willing to stand for the
talks of such lecturers as this a Mills and Kate OHare? We aren not will
ing to believe that the people Of or state have turned Socialist yet, but if they
tohrat Mile, and his folowrs sent here by Townley, We believe that they are
drifting that way fast, - -