The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1919-05-21

known as Bolshetism in Russia and
as Townleyism in North Dakota.
You have repeatedly stated that
the Independent Voters Association
instigated and fostered certain law
suit that has been started by q num-
Der of North Dakota tax payers tc
test the constitutionality of one or
more phases of the present industrial
and taxing program OF North Dakota'
The independent Voters Association
has nothing to do with the lawsuit
in question; has nothing to DO with
it in the future; If you had taken any
pains to inquire from the officials vi
the Independent Voters Association as
to the Associations connection with
this case, as all ordinary decent news
papers generally do before msnng
such statements as you have made,
you might have had this information
long ago.
You have also repeatedly charged
that all those who are not shouting
for Townleyism in North Dakota are
enemies of the farmers and laboring
men. You know that all the business
men of North Dakota do not consult
ute more than small fraction of the
voters in the state and that even ii al
of them voted alone on one side, they
could control nothing. You know that
there are many businessmen in North
Dakota who are aiding Townleylsm
Even some of the biggest businessmen
from other state have come IN here
and shouted for Townleyism.
Your efforts to make the people ct
North Oak, believe that all the labc:-
ers and farmers are lined up on one
side, will not last forever. Perhaps you
helped to get the Governor into tre
notion of having the Referendum Ell
ection two weeks earlier than petition
ed for, fearing that if the people have
time enough to get themselves inforn,-
d, they will discover that you have
been misrepresenting facts when yo9
claim that you are the only friend
that the farmers Of North Dak., have
and that all those who are opposed TO
YOU are enemies of the farmers.
You know that those who voted lcr
|Townleyism as set forth in the con-
stitutional amendments that made it
possible for Townley and his hencn-
men to WELD the whip over the legls-
lators of North Dakota as was done
in the 10Th Assembly, We're less than
majority of all those who voted az
the last general election.
| With only few businessmen IN
the state, and these divided politically
| it is evident that there are farmers
on both sids of the issues. You are
therefore, in the absurd and ridlcul-
GUS position of charging that ti1ous-
ands of intelligent farmers are their
own enemies. = -
North Dakota is not a lineup between
farmers and businessmen. Men Who
are raised in the state or have ilvea
here the greater portion of their lives
and have their homes, families and plo
pertv in the state, are doing their ut
most to protect what they have from
the dangers of experimenting with
theories produced by men who own tlo
property, whose homes are IN o!ner
states or nowhere. Men whose prime
ipal ambition in life in the past mas
been to get rich quick by big farlnlne
or otherwise and whose principal ex-
perience has been to fail and drag
others down with them. This same
leadership is continually suggestive
and nursing ideals in the press, on the
platform and in private conversation
when carefully analysed, is found ie
; be full Of deadly poison against stable
government, our homes, schools ane
our churches.
You have repeatedly charged th@
the laws initiated by the lndependen
Voters Association are not workable
, and, therefore, not initiated in go''
, faith. challenge you to point OF
single phase or single paragraph
!. of any of the initiated laws that max
them less workable than the laws thfi