The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

hAIGS PAN 10 Tax out ElA5IGIlEd all
rights vested in the Individual
In these words George A. Bangs
of Grand Forks, who delivered the
keynote address to the Democratic
central committee Wednesday aft
ernoon summed up the reasons
which his party has for active and
unrelenttng opposition to the Non
partisan league whose leaders Mr.
Bangs describes as having swallowed
whole the tenets embraced by the
american Socialists in the platform
adopted in April, 1917, at st. Louis,
and reaffirned in the recent national
convention at Chicagoy and which
the speaker declared the most
damnable declaration of principles
ever made by an organization OF
men"
"fThe duty of democracy in North
Dakota lies in opposition to the in
sidious campaign of socialism
which has been carried on in this
state for the last two years or more, .
said Attorney Bangs in opening his
address to the convention. "The
leaders Of the Nonpartisan league
when they first preached the organ
izatton OF the farmers of North Da-
kota for the Fighting of certain
wrongs met with, at least qualified
approval from a majority of the
thinking people Of the state, But
as time passed, and the true nature
OF this propaganda was disclosed
and the character and disposition of
the men at the head of it stood re-
Vealed in all their hideousness. there
was reVulsion OF sentiment. To-
day all thinking men in North Da-
Kota unite in condemnation Of the
A1diNddmals themselves and the
principles upon which they have
based their propaganda.
Pure Socialism.
ut has, been a campaign of social
ism pure and simple. The same
men who had gone up and down
this state for years preaching these
doctrines took advantage Of this
movement to impose their propa-
ganda upon an unsuspecting people
under the guise Of righting wrongs.
In House Bill IL their aims finally
stood revealed in all their hideous
House Bill "A was
nothing more than socialism in
carnate. AS vultures flock about
cartons, so have national and state
leaders of socialism gathered about
the Nonpartisan league banners
What is Townley, what of LIE Sueur
and Bowen and Thomson, and Mills
and Kate Richards O'Hare?
And what of the movement. it.
self. Never has there been a dom
nation so complete. Tweed Of New
York, Penrose of Philadelphia, and
Quay of Pennsylvania were mere
pupils in Bossism when we compare
heir work with that Of Townley in
he house chamber across the way;
n the ante rooms and committee
'ooms of this capitol: in that old
hotel building down town, here in
Bismarck. Scenes have been en-
acted there in the imposition of the
will of one man upon the minds of a
great aggregation of people which
nave no parallel in history.
No man can be true Socialist
Ind be a loyal citizen Of the Uni
ed States or of any other nation.
No True Socialists.
There may be some self-styled
Socialists who are at the same time
They are not true So
,ialists In March, 1917, when it |
vas apparent to every one that
America was being slowly forced in
With which A. G.. Townley is regis |
cred, an afflliation which he has
lever denied; the same party Of |
which Arthur LIE Sueur Is a mem
Der, insofar as he is not a mem
1er Of the /. w. W., called meet
ng of it's representatives in st.
louis for the month of April And
Is representatives met there, and
hey spread broadcast over the UNI
ed States and the world a platform
Which they conceived to embrace
he principles of Socialists Of the
United States, If they had made
heir declara tons sixty lays later,
every one of them would have been
anded in federal prison for terms
angling upFto 20 years. The repeti-
ion of these principles in North Da-
,ota sixty days later did lead Kate
Richards O'Hare and others to the
This declaration was
whole by the Socialists
If North Dakota-by the men who
Ire in control of this Nonparttsan
eague movement.
1.-THE Socialistsl said there at St
4otlis as had been repeatedly said by
he Socialist Nonpartisan league or
sanizers in this state that this great
var which America was waging for
he salvation of democracy and for
he relief Of all the nations of the
world from militarism and the worst
'orm of autocracy had been declared
~ our President, Woodrow Wilson,
ind by our congress in order that
Big Business might reap greater
profit. And they pledged their mem
,ers to resist conscription; to work
,gainst war; to influence legisla-
ion to prevent the sending of sold
ers to the rescue of France and
Belgium; and they pledged their
members to do all in their power to
prevent the sending Of munitions to
,ur soldiers who did go to France
Ind to keep supplies away from our
orave boys, over there, to leave
hem helpless and starving in the
ace of the enemy. That's true So
,ialism, and that is the party with
which A. G.. ToWnley is proud to
ally himself.
Most Damnina Declaration.
Never was such a damnable and
tanning declaration made by any
body of men in the his
DRY OF the world And the men
in the work OF socialism
,ere in North Dakota with the Non
PARTISAN league swallowed it whole.
They swallowed that platform
whole, and in May and June of last
year they preached that platform
lere in North Dakota, at Devils
lake, at Williston and elsewhere.
wish had that platform here to-
lay that might read it to you, that
zou might realize all its helIishness.
Until the Socialist leaders of
he Nonpartisan league in North
Dakota purge themselves of this
poisonous doctrine they cannot COM
nand appreciation from any intelli- \
rent, patriotic citizen of This state.
rhe only reason they were not voted
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