The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-09-06
SHOWING UP A MENACE

Inc non-paruSan league is SIMPLY
the radical wing of the socialist party
masQuerading under another name.
No subterfuge can change the facts.
Shrewd and inscriptions leaders,
most of them stand branded as dis
loyal TO the country, have taken this
means TO plunge America into the
chaotic confusion that has cursed
Russia and made that country scene
of wholesale murder, pillage and
rapine Below is published an article
from the Davenport Times that shows
what the non-partisan league will at
tempt when in power. 1t is plain
statement of facts that cannot be con-
tradicted satisfactorily. What do the
farmers of this county, the law abid-
ing farmers, who have been inveigled
into paying out good money for a
membership in this rotten organiza-
ton, think of party that advocates
the startling measures proposed and
insisted upon by the non-partisan
leaguers of North Dakota. the hot
bed of the organization? The article
| is as follows:
The final step toward complete So
sialism has at last been taken by the
non-Partisan league in North Dakota.
After securing control of county GEN.
trail committees of Hettinger and of
Adams counties, n. D., the league pro-
ceeds to adopt the following resolu-
| ton:
Whereas, it is the sense of the peo-
pie in control of the present nominees
of the republican party that the state
should own the business in the state
of North Dakota. and,
Whereas, we believe in equality and
| justice.
Be it resolved that our state CON-
mitteemen be instructed to have
placed in the platform of the repub-
lican party and the nominees for the
legislature from the 49th legislative
district be instructed to advocate the
state ownership of farm lands, horses,
cattle and machinery and that the
same be acquired on the basis of val
lie for the three years Immediately
proceeding the war.
The Minot. n. D., Messenger Of Au-
gust l, says:
1T will be noted that the Non-Par-
tisan league is not in control OF the
policies Of the republican party. but
it has no hesitation in asserting its
control of the nominees. The party
may repudiate the wild-eyed socialist
program which the league with the
mask torn off, boldly seeks to fasten
upon helpless North Dakota, but the
league is in control of the present
nominees of the republican party has
every man Jack of them in its power
and under its thumb-for brief pres
ent-so it proposes to make its own
platform of Bolshevism the creed of
the republican party
If the democratic party had been in
control it would have dictated the pol
icy of the democratic nominees. the
party being immaterial. The point to
be observed by thoughtful citizens is
this. the league has finally shown its
hand as a purely socialistic organiza-
ton. 1t has taken the final step which
its program of confiscation OF private
industry led up to, namely the propo-
sal 70 take over all land in the name
of the state.
This plan would overthrow and de-
stroy every principle of our state and
national constitutions and destroy the
American ideas of government. 1t Is
simply following in the steps OF the
Russian revolution. The farmers have
been playing with fire and they now
stand a good chance of having their
| fingers badly burned.
1t is unthinkable that an American
citizen. raised in free country. the
very backbone of which has been the
| right OF every man to own his own
property, should consider for a sec
ond the idea of turning this property
over to collective ownership under
state socialism and forever after be-
ing a landless tenant and rent payer.
| And yet the farmers of North Da-
kota are now face to face with the
proposition which is on par with
| Russian Bolshevism, namely the pro-
posal to have the state buy up every
acre of farm land, every piece OF farm
machinery, all horses and cattle and
run the farms itself.
The league is seeking control in this
state. Do its citizens want to face
a program of this kind which will
mean the ultimate loss OF their farms