The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-04-17

lists do. When they get in the tolls
Of the government for sedition, muir
der, arson and a few other stunts,
then they appeal to race prejudice,
start a great agitation among the
masses and try to work up the labor
ing classes to make nation wide
strike in order to win their point.
We have been having this kind of ex-
perience with the Mooney case in San
Francisco. If Mrs. OHare is guilty
let her stay in prison where she right
fully belongs. If she has been con-
victed illegally then she is entitled to
her freedom. But all the courts have
sustained the verdict of guilty. Why
should she be pardoned any more
than any other convicted criminal.
THINK TX I4yEREsT-sAvE-
There never was a time in the his
tory of North Dakota when the peo-
pie were so much interested in the
political and economic conditions that
now exist. The nonpartisan league is
in power in this state because it's pro-
gram whe:: - first started out was
right in line with what the farmers
wanted and it was a just cause, but
the whole trouble with that has been
that a few socialists, with view to
making lots of money for a horde of
hangers on and for the purpose of
building up socialistic government
in this state, has trampled over the
rights of the people rough shod, put
ting the state hundreds Of thousands
of dollars into debt, passing appro
priations that will need the limit of
bonded indebtedness to meet to pay
these bills, and increased taxation in
their new measures that will be bur-
den to the people. In addition to this
the new laws created are going to
make openings for an army of social
lists at big wages for the benefit Of
Mr.. Townley and his hired men who
are trying to foist on this state a So
cialistic government, use the funds of
the state for wildcat enterprises and
ultimately plunge US into debt that
will take years and years for US to
get from under. We can attain what
the farmer wants in legislation with
out robbing the great big school fund
of the state and without spending mil
lions that are unnecessary. 1t is no
wonder then that leaguers as we'll as
non-leaguers are looking askance at
each other wondering whittier are we
drifting. They are beginning to in
vestigate these things for themselves,
and while they are still loyal leaguers
they are not going to stand for those
measures that five state officers
elected by the league are repudiating.
But the trouble is that every Lacquer
who does not think on these matters
the same way as Boss Townley, is
instantly dubbed as a traitor. This
may seem good to the rank ones who
are heading US onto the rocks and
shoals of financial disaster but to the
hard headed league members, who
likes to do his own thinking, it does
not go down. That man is going to
look into these matters thoroughly be-
fore he makes up his mind what he is
going to do-that is why so many
| league men are signing the referen-
dunn petitions-and they are signing
! them up by the thousands. They
want it thoroughly explained, then if
they have been stung they are going
to vote these five measures down in
July. The league program as origin
ally started out was all right, but it
has been abused and twisted up in
such a manner that it no longer repre-
sents the principles for which it was
started. Farmers by the thousands
joined it three years ago because they
wanted the wrongs righted that the
old political gangs of this state had
refused to right for them, and the
time was ripe for secession from po-
litical parties and the forming of a
party that would afford them relief.
But what has happened? Under the
most cunning manipulation born in
the brain of man who has been a
business failure himself, who had
wits enough about him to know that
the farmers goaded to action by the
wrongs of the past political bosses,
were ripe for the harvest, called about
him bunch Of socialists who had a
! reputation for being eloquent agita-
tors not only in this but other lands,
men of the Mills strips, and they de-
vised one of the most stupendous par
ties that has ever been born in
American political annals, and have
extracted millions Of dollars from the
| farmers, built up mighty political ma
chimes, created big subsidized press,
and are now trying to make a press
trust, and have built up by socialistic
propaganda the greatest political ma
chine, created big subsidized press
position to be filled by appointment
of the governor or the various boards,
is now filled by an imported socialist
subservient to the beck and nod of
one man-Townley and the governor
is mis- abject tool. Not single soldier
has been appointed to lucrative po-
sition under this state government
we have to go to St. Paul for So
cialist or to Denver, COL, or Spokane
Wash, or some other place. Do you
wonder that the people are waking
up and are demanding that the state
government be turned back to the
people and again located at Bismarck
instead of St. Paul. The soldier boys
can fight for the country, come home
and look for job but get handed a
stone, while much subsidized and
boss ridden legislature passes a meas
ure that says the red flag can float