The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-20
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted 10 The Task OF Keep
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In agricultural towns, prosperity. depends
Oh on. RRa farmer 5I1n ana community demands
ana the farmers. In all our experience we
nave never seen town where the need Of this
spirit Is greater than in Towner And We
nave faith to believe that the necessary har~
mcny ana cooperation is going to grow
sgfronser here than any other LOCATION in
North Dakota. The one great trouble has
been cultivated hatred Of some one they
nave condemned without hearing But there
no one man big enough or mean enough to
become wedge between honest and reason
able men and women and the people Of Tow
ner are not the kind to build a wall between
them and the farmers.
The Mandan Pioneer discusses the disafgectiou
m the ranks Of the Nonpartisan league as fol-
lows
at is reported that there is dtsaffection in
the RANKS OF the Nonpartisan league in Mon
tana. Just how much disaffection has ap-
peared We do not know.
1T is said, however, that Sam Teagarden,
Nonparttsan candidate for United States SEN
ator is leading the revolt and he is quoted as
saving:
'Townley will destroy The league in Mon
tana unless the d-blooded and sound cit-
zenshlp Of the state expresses itself prompt
ly in state convention to take over the or
ganization and to sweep the state clean of
podiitcal kalSertsm and financial crookedness.
sam Teagarden is expressing the growing
peliet OF large number Of Nonpartisan mem
bers".
Dickinson evidently has a few food slackers
left, as witness the following from The Dickinson
Press:
Real patriotism is better evidenced by
deeds than by words. Self sacrifice, voun-
tary deprivation and foregoing Of Iuxuries
are sane evidences that your heart is in the
cause. The big fighting machine must be
Kept In flrst-class condition, If we are to pre-
serve our lives liberty and independence.
Yet, there are many of us who do not
n dali l1Tu walk
was shown last week at a local restaurant
when several people engaged in wordy bat
tie with the mattresses because they were not
given as much sugar for their coffee as they
demanded The fact that one Of these men
was lawyer Of prominence makes the affair
all the sadder. The mattresses are but siYnp-
ly carrying out the instructions of the pro-
pFletors who, in turn, are ordered to conserve
on sugar by the food administration. Care
ful figuring of the amounts allotted show that
each customer is permitted to have about
tWo-thirds of a spoonful.
Patrons of restaurants should govern their
appetite for the saccharine delicaey as long
as the necessity for conservation exists AS
a matter OF fact we have been gerging
selves on luXurtes so long that it's a hard
matter to break away from our DESIRES.
The Grand Forks Herald discusses the Maxwell
revelations follows
The official organ of the Nanpartisan
league in North Dakota intmates that there
is nothing to the Maxwell denunciation of
Townley and the revolt of a number of other
of Townley's associates except that Maxwell
wanted TO run the league, and that num-
Der Of employees wanted more pay and
couldn't get it. That may be the case. Those
of us who are on the outside are not in a pe-
sttion to knoW-or care.
The thing that should imagine would
interest the members of the league in the
ranks is that these men, Maxwell, who wrote
the exposure, and Gilbert, williams and the
rest of the II who signed the protest which
ToWnley threw into the basket, are the same
men from whom, few weeks ago the farm
ers OF the state were receiving the doctrines
OF Townleyism, who hand and glove
with TeWnley, doing his errands, carrying out
his orders, and who, coming direct from the
fountain head, were supposed to- be of the
very elect.
Now, when a league organizer appears in a
community, doing exactly the things that
these men, did, preaching exactly the same
doctrine, bearing, these men did the en-
dorsement of ToWnley the question will nat
urally arise whether or not these men also
are wolves in sleeps clothing; whether or
not they also are seeking to build up per
sonal machines of their own; whether or not
they also, working on the Job with no
thought of public service, but merely for what
there Is in it.
IF Tewnley is as these one-time trusted
employees have painted them, it looks rather
bad for ToWnley. If they are as the mouth
pieces Of Townley describe them what guar
antee have the farmers for the future that
any ToWnley stroke Is trustworthy?