Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-23

broadly Humanitarian that they have Interested them.
selves in legislation here from purely a~ltruistic motives.
On Thursday votsrs win have their SAY about the laws
which have become known ~. respectively. the Indus
trial Commission bill. the Bank of North Dakota bill.
the Printing BILL the Tax Commission bill, the judicial
bill, the immigration bill. and the Administration bul.
The dement's Of these bills have been exhaustively
discussed ana effectively exposed. The ultimate conse-
auencss Of leaving them stand have, been pointed out 80
frequently that there cannot be a reasoning mind Yin the
entire state ignorant Of the fact that these bills simply
thrust the welfare Of the people into the dangerous
abyss OF reckless experimentation. Successful efforts
have also been made to reveal the 'innermost causes for
the obnoxious legislation which citizens who have the
interests of the community at heart will do their best
to kill. 1t has been seen that selhshness and radicalism
are the parents of the bills now awaiting their doom at
the hands Of intelligent voters. @
So 1t is not necessary to- revert to q detailed dis.
aussion of all the features that make these seven laws
harmful and dangerous in the extreme.
1t might, however. be timely and quite proner to
emphasize the incontrovertible fact that the principal
North Dakota If voters have been so deeply impressed
with the results OF socialistic administration ia, for in
stance, Russia, Germany and Hungary that they will
like to repeat the experiment here. they viii, of course,
vote in favor Of retaining the laws on the statute books:
they Will vote yes as they are vociferously invited to
do II they want to see their home state started on the
road to economic suicide. If they desire to make North
Dakota the only red state in the American union. they
should by all means vote yes so that all the world may
see to what unspeakable depths the Flickertail state has
descended.
But the intelligent voter does not want to stigma
tie and ostracize his own state. His own self-respect
forbids that. His love and affection for his home COM
mand him to~vote mo" all down the ballot, conscious
that his negative vote is a challenge to the principle
lack OF the bills. Those who desire to see the state of
North Dakota continue on, her progresslve' way, will
throw a defiant and laundering mo- in the face of that
creating values of pertinent character. =.
This summons to the voting booths on Thursday is
nothing less than a cali to arms. Voters are asked to
defend their homes and their hearths, to protect the
interests Of themselves and their children, to sustain
the fair reputation Of their state, and to attack that
Opposition which, in the final analysis is hostile to all
the ideals which have been loved and respected here
ever since the early days.
There can be no compromise. There should be
none. The issue is clear as the summer sky, and all the
force of socialistic augmentation has been spent in vain
in an effort to becloud, the one predominatfns issue.
Thus the day will be a momentous one, for North
Dakota is asked \ to answer plainly and truthfully
whether or not it wants Socialism to govern the people,
Those who are familiar with the high standard Of intel.
the result that the answer will be No, and that it will
be given with such enthusiastic emphasis that no one
can misunderstood the real meaning of it. I /