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THE ToWNLEY EXPERIMENT
Readers of Golfers in n North Dakota and elsewhere. may re-
member one of the funniest of Q; Renry's tales. jeff Peters, the
broke broke in a co country viiage. In the he circumstance there was noth-
inf for Jeff to do but descend from fo,nal his sphere gn s; as a thigh 6 f n::Sr r.
out the richest farmer in the neigthberhood and drove over to the
farm to sell him a gold brick. He found our him in "a white flannel Il
his attention to the fac; that his coat sagged a good deal offered
room q " oq5a 81 ere i' ike a Bro Brcsd " st sto sdS cEsss /" y With v -! "a tel ticker r
hitting of the news in one corner" This agricq]turist went to
the te aer5 ass'g read d all tn the " i and i' daily new newspapers pal ers's drank na@
green chartregse, traded t in the stock kmanaa5hk + IN; nd was Otherwise rmst
JEFF returned to his partner in despair. But andy wasn't so cas-
hy defeated. He determined to accept this challenge to his tshory
can't "a overcome e., He ?, put On en- a ," ~sgit h with ad brown y IAN; and y;5! Ssf checks h shd
IS @so sis as b zeq sa haRd; m "a nss 4ssi IN n a E G5%s o of blue / s's ink k!'' hi 1n f sn9
hours he r re returned ni1peS laid $3.50 on on the table, and told his story: '"
say a. a wo O. Il but got out the e walnut In she shells and S b Al to roll the aH lit.
tie hall on the table. whistled a tune or two. ard then started up
"Step up lively, gentlemen" says l, land watch the little ball.
1t costs You nothing t to look * There G you see e:. it and there + you Sun dp9 ut
on IS ;tss fs;s : !s2h At it tn s5 ta' s1sr @ asa closes, ! sss Il; he sT zssat eoG Gaos s ss5
watches wa ahS me me- some some mo more EN- Di nndtE n he says: ""' bet you twenty |
cash in the house. When left he followed me to the gate; There
was tears IN mis- eyes. Dunk, Says nG, Hduh YOU lI Ill OHy
/ was only a farmer, not an agrieuiturist. God bless youS
An re1 Ecker e X d' and p Ar To SeG FeWn egse or !9 tSst f tas sp pyo CRANES 81 3 the Sen
Partisan League partakes Of the nature Of a shell game. But there
is something at once pathetic and amusing in the eager way this
big state has taken to St the ever old l.: and d ever " ne new y,d political ias,s "get,
S stateg ie the se eomnuni NG''h It's Di Percentage IS e@e Of q ii lite aSSi IS p sn5a1I con:
sidering the great acknowledgements like .o24. It has a
R n6ea sisse o The NoSth s Dakota pa9f farmer 1esei is sSr pen a and thrifty He
is able to see good deal Of the world: !, He asd knows neya;at the th ways that Shht
s sbf d mare sa g,d 5h bricks fe5sks sr {hs s6ld arr IN 7 Wsii street sas sY Ssfors sh eeen a very
Ssyt than in North .snt ! Dakota k a+ in the m;t course ! e of n, a year; ofa If Ar + %e
had called his program socialism, the farmers would have laughed
at him. ..1 They 11asn what What modern oder socialism c%d n implies elss d better tier than
but b IN never verb have Ner taken Rt the pains pains to n read ot t9he stern n uni Hnl1 SstEgyo noSii
nj %o ss great a d TSlr; sq Se 1oy s3 Z put Th ssf' IS known w 'i ia s9 5sE Ps?srs
profession as the "Iba1lyhoe", and when his audience had beer been
ment that must be nearly as old as the Missouri River and should
be described as a geological rather than a historical phenomenon oF%n? n
1892 and 1896. 1t presents the same general theory Of rule by
farmers as a separate class, the same kind Of romantic fnancler-
tor tory, IN music and ppoetry1that marked the political spree of the
1 95% sSeat % Ts1n9sS. find ID p @ss@s ct f. T be- fs 6 t1s sia Ssa th inG e sls Snf1
he is, in I his way way, a genius a4sn;d Any 1 man whG f can n nSg1ne $S's s1rsagy
eus % %s P to them . by 1n the Constitution %1i has las Qualities uditsse that make
Ills failure in business almost unbelievable. There is no question
that in the past the Northwestern farmers suffered from ex-
:ortions that often outran what might reasonably be expected IN
trading between the unwary and the calculating. But who could
party as well organized as the Steel Corporation, and that the
members would subscribe out Of their earnings millions Of dollars
State funds amounting, it is said, to over $lo0ooo,ooo? And
please remember none or few of his projects have been actually
carried out. AS we understand il, the Bank of North Dakota is
still On paper, the elevators and flour mills and packing houses un.
built, the 'h9mes at cost" not yet planned, the Ignite mines un-
surveyed. The people of North Dakota have paid a fortune for a
prospectus. Let us hope that when they come out Of the dream
and Towney has folded up his tools and definitely migrated into
the party of national socialism, they will have no greater loss
to write off or charge to the years amusement than the amount
now in his possession. >. x4
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Golfers has the proposition sized up far better than one might
expect from one viewing the situation from that distance. 1t is
fair to state, however, that the farmers of North Dakota have or
are becoming thoroughly awakened to Townley, the foreigner, and
his imnOrted hnnch Of adhoronfs PotitiOna hoinuc iro,1afo1 for
a referendum vote on measures that threaten to throw the State
into bankruptcy, are rapidly being flied with signatures by even