The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-05-22
LINKS IN THE CHAIN

The old proverb is: "A chain is no stronger
than it's weakest link" If we know it's truth, so
do the enemies of the Industrial program adopt
ed by the farmers of North Dakota.
That program is made up like a chain. Each
measure is like a link, and the chain is to be
used to pull us out of the mud of injustice and
exploitation.
Let us study the links. Here is one: The In
dustrial Commission. Suppose it is destroyed.
Suppose it is defeated at the coming election,
June 10th. With it's destruction goes the power
to run the State-OWned terminal elevators, flour
mills, home building association and in fact
the entire program. It is the main link.
. Of what use will the bonds be if there remain
no power to use the money raised by them? Of
what value is the law providing for the erection,
and location of terminal elevators and flour
mills, if no one is given power to locate them,
or manage them? ,
The enemy were too wise to refer the law
requiring s~tate-owned terminal elevators or
flour mills. They knew we'll that the law would
be sustained. It has been too often before the
pepole and too often been approved by tremend-
GUS majorities. They cannot defeat it that way.
But if the Industrial Commission law can be
killed-the link in the chain is broken, and the
other laws depending upon that Commission for
enforcement will die also.
You have decided to vote for the Industrial
Commission law? You want the terminal eleva-
tors and the other industries. Very we'll, let
us look at another link in the chain: The Bank
of North, Dakota law. That you will be asked to
vote upon, June 26th. If the enemy should sue
coed in/killing it, you would put the state indus
tries that you have decided to vote for, at the
mercy of eastern banks and hostile eastern cap
ital. Of what use are your bonds if you cannot
get money upon them? Your promissory note
will buy nothing unless you get money on it.
Neither will our state bonds buy anything if
money can not be secured upon them. Nor will
the Industrial Commission be able to manage or
locate the terminal elevator unless it can secure
that money. Break that link, the Bank of North
Dakota, and the chain is shattered.
Another link: The immigration law. You ap-
prove of the Industrial Commission law and the
Bank of North Dakota law. After you have seen
these in force you will want the world to know
of their success. You will want people to come
here and benefit you and with you. How will
you get them here? Trust to the great dailies
campaign through the past four years of mis-
representation, falsehood and deceit about the
movement in North Dakota? Without some
method Of speaking for ourselves to the people
of other states, we will be pointed to as the Boil
sheviki of America, when we are anything but
that; when we are building up our state, en-
couraging it's manufacture, making business for
private industry and encouraging men to work
by assuring them of a just reward. Will you
strike out that link in the chain or are you
proud enough of the things we have accomplish
ed to make the states motto: "We'll Tell the
World?"
These are but a few of the links of the great,
new chain we have forged in North, Dakota.
Link them together and we shall prosper as
never before. Shatter a link and all our efforts
are scattered, and the chain falls, useless, in two
parts. If you would have your chain strong
guard each link. .