Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-07-24
Entered 80 SECOND .class matter Novem-
her q. 1914, at the post Office at Fort
vates, North Dakota, under the Act
~ March 3. 1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
OrFItI " pApER SIOUX COUNTY

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Evangeline Booth has written
Gov. Lynn j. Frazier personal
letter, in addition TO the usual for.
NAL engraved note OF thanks, recor-
ding her appreciation Of what the
Governor had donc, quietly and
without any blowing Of horns, TO
help the Salvation ARMY in its great
work for the army and navy. 1t il
evident that the / V A. forgot to
notify Evnugeline Booth that the
Governor represented state and
was the nominee OF ain organization
that denied the existence nf God,
the sacre(lness Of marriage and the
purity OF woman. Or, if she heard
such talk, she judged men and or.
CARNATIONS by their deeds and
not by what o ers said OF
them. There is but the one test
for living faith: II was hungry
and We gave me to eat; l was thirs-
ty and We gave me to drink; l was
q stranger and We took me in; | was
sick and We visited me; was in
prison and We came unto me {"
That is the creed of the Salvation
Army, to which it adhcres without
fail, and if our Governor and W,
North Dakotans helped or followed
after that great doctrine OF Love
Everlasting-what should we. care
if we are called atheists, free lover
and anarchists?
Hold on, cry the big interests.
you can not mix business and poll
tics and have any success The
minute you attempt to mix them,
business gets the worst CT it. That
is why your industrial program ia
doomed. Yet the same interests
hive mixed business and politics
sincethey left the infant Industry"
class-and they seem to have pros
pered, somewhat. They mixed in
politics enough to control the MAX
ing Of the laws and the enforcement
of them. They mixed in politics
enough so they had the courts rea-
sonably friendly to them. They
mixed in politics enough 40 they
were granted the resources that be-
longed to the whole people-the
mines, the timber, the water pow
er, the land, the streets and alleys
of cities, and anything else that
they saw they could use-on a mere
request. If they did so we'll, at
this mixing business, perhaps the;
farmer may be allowed to try his
unskilled hand at it, and see If he
cannot run terminal elevator or
packing plant or a home building
association, by mixing little poll.
tics with the business. Without
that same politics, business never
would have got to where it is to.
da, that's sure.
But Townley has been teaching
disloyalty." He has taught disloy-
atty to the ancient political regimes;
disloyalty to the interests and the
proGteers; disloyalty to the exploit
ers and the grafters; disloyalty to
the grain gamblers and the packing
hogs. 1t was dangerous doctrine for
the old gang in Minnesota, 10 they
framed law, a Judge, a jury and o
case against him.
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Another instance of the indepen-
dencc ~ of newspapers is brought
to light in letter from an ADVERT,
sing agency wherein they complain.
that it is Inconsistent for a news
paper to carry advertising for to-
bacco and at the same time to carry
an anti-tobacco advertisement.
Just another case wherein the tobac-
co trust believes it hasa right to
dictate the policy Of newspaper
because it spends money with sucl,
newspaper in advertising. II is