The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-27
RETURNS SLOW

RETURNS SLOW
An unprecedented rural vote has delayed
complete returns, but enough is known to estaD'
lish league victory. The farmers have backed
their leaders and endorsed the Fargo platform
Indications from scattering legislative returns
also insure control of both legislative bodies.
North Dakota's voters, Overwhelmingly agrl-
cultural have decreed that they desire to try ex.
periments in state socialism and emphatlcally
declare for certain agraran reforms
It is well now to face the future sanely and
rive sympathetic study to the needs and prob:
lens of the farmers whose success is the success
Of the state as whole. ,....:.. ..
Governor Fraziers endorsement should lead
him to seek common ground where the city
and country can meet and discuss the issues pend
ing. .- 80.
In the coming Loyalty Week, Bismarck has
q fine. opportunity to meet the farmers of the
Slope and make their stay here agreeable: ~''>"s
IN It is hoped that out of this weeks confer.
ence some Of the bitterness and misunderstood
ing of the late unpleasantness will be wiped out.
:. The Tribune is unalteraby opposed to the
itinerant preachers of destructive socialism, and
damnable paciism, but it believes the time has
come in North Dakota for complete readjust-
mert Of sentiment toward the economic demands
of the farmers. .,....:.a
s Team work is what the state needs now. The
federal department of justice must punish and
ferret outsedition and disloyaty relentlessy, but
economic issues must also be faced and discussed
calmly and dispassionatey.
Every man, woman and child is enlisted in
North Dakota to help win this war, and continu-
ing the bitter dissention between city and coun-
try will only retard, not help. .-.
~ If the league leaders are wise they will not
attempt, while the nation is at war, to accomp-
lish economic reforms Of an extreme nature. In
surance Commissioner Olsness, in his campaign
statement, urged constructive not destructive re-
forms. If the counsel of such men as Major Wat
ers and Commissioner Olsness are needed, Gov
ernor Frazier will find middle ground that will
more completely voice the sentiments of his con.
stituents.
There are abuses in the system Of market
ing. The federal government, clothed with full
war powers, has corrected many of them and
North Dakota, in cooperation with Woodrow Will
son, can accomplish much more in securing fair
and equitable scheme of distribution as it affects
the products Of the soil. "
q Governor Frazier has fine opportunity for
sterling patriotic service the next two years as
the head Of great, if not the greatest agricul-
tural state of the nation. He should urge caution
80 that nothing will divert from the "win-the-
war policy" so we'll outlined by his state council
of Defense
1t is likely that the struggle between the two
factions will be continued until fall. Many will
see in Doyles nomination an opportunity to try
conclusions with the league again. This is an
other very urgent reason why Governor Frazier
should go slowly and indicate to the voters that
he Is ready to listen to the more conservative ad-
visers in the league.
1t is time for the extreme wing to hold their
demands in allegiance until after the Hun is con-
quered and the boys come marching home.
Let us approach the final election without the
bitterness that characterized the primaries.
North Dakota is loyal to the core-its 10y
atty can be used between now and next Novem-
Der to better advantage than feeding the fires of
dissention and class strife. .. 4&
ss. HIS MOTHER
II wish" wrote boy "over there" to pal
still in the U. S. A., "that you'd drop around and
see mother once in while. She writes. fine
smiling letters, but somehow or other have a
feeling in me that she's hiding q LOT of tears