Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-26
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should be brief, and the editors re.
cauon Of TOO great length before
poetry to take its place. He did talk
two hours I believe. and ! v
heard a man talk SO long and say SO
little. He quoted the Lowry Nazarene
and after q few sentences got in some
cuss words. It sounded to one with
Christian training like blasphemy. He
also told about running a newspaper
and being sold out by the sheriff, and.
then about a man in Kansas named
Scully. And it was amusing to watch
Inc scowl on his face. when describ-
ing this man Scully who owned thou
sands Of acres Of land in Kansas. and
ne put no improvements on this land
and did not even pay the taxes. All
he did was to collect the rent, and
the farmers that had land adjoining
his built buildings and silos and in
creased the value Of the Scully land
and also away across the state. He
would like to have a law in Kansas
that would make such a thing i'm
possible. But then his countenance
changed. He had land up in Canada
and he expected the homesteaders to
come in and improve his land and he
would reap the profit. and the look Of
greed upon his face was amusing
when the thought Of the unearned
pockets when he sold his Canadian
land. I was taught when a man
preached one thing and practiced an
other he was a hypocrite. Honest
mel do not need laws to compel them
to do right. 1t is men who know a
thing is wrong and persist in doing it
that require laws to compel them to
do right.
your correspondent said I was a
a farmer in his opinion? I home
steaded in Pembina county, in 1879
and owned n farmed it ever since,
and 1t is the only business that I have
ever followed. I have seen this coun-
try and state develop from the stage
station and OK cart up to the present
helped' to organize the Penn
ance company some 20 a ago and
have been a director on the board
ever since. The company today has
over three millions Of insurance in
force and saves the farmers Of Penn
bina county thousands Of dollars every
year: I also helped to organize the
Pembina County Wool Growers as
ISOLATION and am a director Of the
same. And nov I want to ask the
farmers Of the state and especially Of
Pembina county who is more interest
ed in their welfare, this mouthpiece
Of the league from Kansas or I?
IF serving the county as county
commissioner makes me a politician
then I am one. as I served this district
eleven ear and would have been
serving still If my health permitted.
Thomas on Tuesday evening, March
18th. as your correspondent reported,
but there was a meeting held at three
o'clock at which several farmers at
tended. 1t was plainly evident that
Mr.. Brewer did not want the bills
discussed as he did not tell the whole
truth about these bills and a half
it will deceive the people. If this
Nonpartisan league wanted to be fair
to the farmers of this state they
should send our state representatives
n senators to explain these bills. I
consider it an insult to the intelligence
Of the farmers of North Dakota to
send a man from Kansas that never
tell them what they should do and
how they, should vote. I am sure that
Governor Frazier never heard this
| hireling from Kansas give his riga
4 marole of q talk else he would never
allow the league to turn him lose on
the -farmers>of this good old county OF
Pembina, the Oldest county in the
state. Brewer might be able to teach
the negro of the south. but they cer-
tainly would have my sympathy II
they had to listen to him. Aud now I
want to say to my brother farmers,
there Is no one who believes in CO.
operation and farmers organization
more than / do, but when we elected
men to the highest office in the state
and find in place Of taking their adj
visers from the men who have toiled
and struggled to make this the
wealthy state 1t is today. they import
ed men to make our laws whose whole
ltfework have been to array class
against class and have nothing in COM
mon with the farmers of the state,
and then when they had gotten their
ideas written into u laws, import
another bunch Of spellbinders that
state, to tell what we should do and
how we should vote they certainly
have gall to expect tho farmers to
stand for II. But II you will look across
the boundary line In Canada you will
find the Grain Growers association,
the greatest DETERMINATION or farmers
in America today, operated and run
by the farmers, They did not import
men that had farmed the people all
their life to tell6xhern. what they want
ed. They knew what they wanted.
Their legislation originated at the
bottom by, the men who had toiled
and struggled to build up the west.
They sent actual farmers to the legis-
lature and to Ottawa to introduce laws
that had been talked over and dis
cussed In their local organisations and
were considered best toad the farm
ers In their great work Of co-opera-
ton. The leaders Of this great or
g~anization are actual farmers, men
who believe in the fatherhood OF good
and the brotherhood Of man. It GER
tainiy does make true American
citizens blood boil to have q bunch
OF outsiders come into our state and
tell W how to run IT and how to vote.
men who never produced 4 dotlar'l
worth In their lives. What do you
think Of IT. brother farmers? il Y moi
ktime sthet we wake supaAa5kda. bounce
isthemsoutgof this statS?
Respectfully,
XoDeph Morrison" \