The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-24
THE v BEGINS

49,. In those counties in the state where drouth and grass
hoppers have permitted the growth of a crop,the bind
&er has begun to sing in it's course across the broad
fields. Only in some counties does harvest follow seed
ing and reaping follow sowing. To those poor souls
who have seen their labor of seeding andsthe seed 1t
self all wasted, help must be given to tide over the long
winter that is coming and aid provided for another seed
ing next spring.
and the process of establishing the industrial demon.
cracy which the farmers plan for North Dakota. It is
worth attention at this time, because we are approach
ing the harvest season and the first fruits of our sowing
begin to appear. ,sA
Our crop of results does not ripen all at once. Some
of it was delayed by the referendum, which prevented
ripening until thirty days after the expected time. Some
of the crop which has ripened and is ready for our use,
is being attacked by the grasshoppers of greed. The
Standard Oil Co., objects to paying the cent 9 gallon
tax, for inspection Of its product and has gone to court
about it. The grain gamblers see their "sure thing"
game sadly interfered with by the Grain Grading and
Dockage law and are taking it to the courts. The For
ty-two Taxpayers, who claim their rights under the Y.
S. Constitution are seriously damaged because they are
asked to pay taxes to maintain the states Industrial
enterprises, are appealing to the u. s. Supreme Court,
from Judge Amidon's decision. Other agents Of the
interests are busy in every possible way, distortlng,
defying and delaying the new laws.
These are the grasshoppers who would eat up the
harvest raised from the seed sown by the, organized
farmers of North Dakota. As time passes morerr3nd
more of them will appear. It is not that the laW4aaEe
bad that causes them to attack them. It lis in the. be-
lief that BY delaying and postponing the harvesting ct
the crop, by making the heart sick with deferred hope,
that the farmers who have staked 50 much, in money,
in labor and in suffering, will be made to think that all
this has been wasted and they have gained nothing.
The man who has seen his blowing, his seeding, the
seed grain. his labor, the feed for his horses, the cost
Of his machinery, all and more, sunk into his land and
who now looks with gloomy eyes at the desolate fields,
where a crop should be growing, is not to be blamed Tor
being disheartened. Yet few Of them are. They are
ready to begin again and try next year.
That is the spirit Of the North Dakota farmer. IL il
the spirit with which he will meet the disappointnents
that the interests plan for him ia his attempt to realize
a crop Of reforms from the legislation he has enacted.
He can neither be discouraged nor disheartened. All
the petty tricks at law Of the interests can not darnt
him. He has learned patience and persistence from his
long fight with the soil and the elements, and rests se-
cure in his eventual victory.
But Townley has been teaching disloyalty.n He has
taught d~isloyalty to the ancient political REGIMES; pro-
fteers; ~disloyalty to the explorers and the ~grafters;
~disloyalty to the grain gamblers and The packing hogs,
It was dangerous doctrine Tor the Old gang III Mime
sofa, - they framed 4 law, . JUDGE u ipry and 4 cass
against him.
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