The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-09-18
SAYS NORTH DAKOTA
is BEHIND WILSON
Senator MOstad Says the Bismarck
Address Proved COnclusively That
This State is for the League
of Nations,

Senator Thorwald Mostad has re-
turned from Bismarck, where he heard
President Wilson's address. He has
given the Independent the following
interview concerning the attitude of
the immense crowd which gathered
at the Capital City on the day the
President spoke:
President Wilson has the people
with him in his controversy with the
reactlonary stand-pat members of the
United States Senate, over the Peace
Treaty and the League Of Nations COW
enant. If there ever was any doubt
on this point the cheering crowds of
twenty-five thousand people at the
Bismarck meeting dispelled anv ques-
ton as to where North Dakota stands
in this matter. The Flickertail State
was carried by Wilson in 1916, and
would carry again on this issue by a
tremendous majority
The rank and file of the common
people are done with war and feel now
for an international Arbitration Tri-
bunal for the arbitration Of all con-
troversies between nations is being
brought forward by President Wilson
in the League Of Nations covenant.
The only thing for the members Of the
United States Senate to do is to ratify
the treaty of peace including the
League of Nations covenant immed-
lately. Any member of the Senate
from the Northwest who fails in his
duty to his constituents at this time
will be relegated to the political scrap
heap in the National election of 1920.
The issues are clear-cut On one
side the combination of reactionary
Republican Senators like Lodge, Pen
rose, Hiram johnson, Borah and Sen
ator Gronna from our own state. Sen
ator Reed Of Missouri, Bourbon re-
dictionary democrat who has been re-
pudiated by the democratic central
committee Of Missouri and the State
Legislature of his own state. These
worthless were Joined recently by the
extreme radical factions of the coun-
try. The Socialist National conven-
ton met in Chicago last week and af-
ter considerable wrangling split up in
two separate National organizations
One extreme radical element sponsor
ing the PRINCIPLES Of Communism as
expressed by Bella Kun in Hungary
and Lenine and Trotsky in Russia.
Both factions endorse Bolshevism in
Russia and both united in condemning
President Wilson and the League of
Nations covenant.
The covenant is now being opposed
by the reactionaries on one extreme
and by the radical extremists on the
other. They fight each other on most
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they find common ground. Reaction
airy republican Senators, extreme rad
ical Bolsheviks and I. w. WIS, all
FIGHTING President Wilson The League
of Nations covenant and the one only
hope of the world to substitute arbi-
tration for strife and prevent 80 per
cent of furure wars. The United
States Senate may not ratify imnoed-
iatelv, but when the people at home
are heard from. whether now or next
year in November, the result will be
the same. and the reactionarv mem
bers of the U. S. Senate will never
again have the opportunity to misrep-
resent the common people Of their
different states to satisfy their own
personal spite against President Will
son.
(On State issues Mr.. Mostad had
the following to say:)
The attempt being made in certain
quarters to discredit the State of
North Dakota bonds and iniure the
credit Of our State is nothing short Of
sabotage. The people have been
heard from time and again in election.
The issuance Of these bonds has been
authorized by the Legislature and up
held in the referendum. Their legal
itv has been upheld in the Court,
Whether these new ventures in State
ownership of terminal elevators and
mills prove a success or not is beside
the question. If these ventures never
paid out the State Of North Dakota
would never repudiate it's bonds and
obligations. And the critics of these
State bonds know these facts as well
as anyone. The men who will dis
credit their State securities for po-
litical purpose are in the same class
with Jack Law, Bill Haywood and his
1. w. w. followers who burned crops,
put spikes in bundles and destroyed
machinery all for political purpose.
There is no difference whatever be-
tween them.
There is considerable dissatisfaction