The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-25

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That is all, for the Bank Of North Da-
kota cannot now be destroyed, as GER
tain. mouthpieces Of the Grain Gamb-
lers were boasting that it would be,
for If they attempted it today they
KNOW they would bring down with it
many other banks and business houses
and such condition the most fanat-
ical League opponent would hardly
view with equanimity.
So, the main question for the Peo-
pie, and especially the Farmers and
Liberal Businessmen, to now decide
and act on is "Shall the Bank of North
Dakota retain these Public Funds and
use them, as it always has, to STA
BILIZE the Public Credit and thus
avert, if possible, financial panic in
the State" This is the question con-
fronting North Dakota.
Ten Thousand Farmers
Ten thousand farmers and more in
the drought stricken districts OF the
State together with their wives and
babies were looking to the Bank OF
North Dakota for help and praying
J. for its success at the polls; Ten Thous-
and men and more who had given
the best there was in them to the
State and Society; ten thousand men
who had struggled, true soldiers OF
the commonwealth, day after day,
month after month against the blind
forces of nature to wiring from them
! living for themselves and families,
to bring on the markets of the World
the food without which Society Can
not Exist. These ten thousand men
and their families, due to no lack OF
effort on their part, but to the mex
onible laws of nature that cause the
fYuctifying rain to fall here and the
bliphting droughts yonder, were fac-
ING that hardest Of all hard human
fates-the loss Of the OLD HOME
STEAD and years and years OF labor,
simply because they could not get
! CREDIT to tide them over their mis-
fortunes, and the Bank of North Da-
kota was their only hope.
II Is unbelievable that the Forty
Two Taxpayers realized the hunger
of body and spirit their action would
cause in thousands of FARM HOMEo
when they brought their regrettable
snit to keep the Bank of North Dako-
yta from selling the SIT, ,0Q0,OOOs worth
of real estate bonds it had arranged
far in order to furnish credit to the
farmers of North Dakota, but, Whetn-
er they realized it or not, it is manly
because Of their action, and that OF a
few others like them, that the grey
wolves of want are today stalking
hah;es on many and many q farm. .
81. They. the aForty Two Taxpayers
- not have meant to will all this
Ssuffering when they brought tnelr
suit. but, being themselves the fathers
I a habies. It was their duty to think
Il other peoples babies before acting
s. they did, to remember the words q
Robert Burns, Mans inhumanity 20
man makes countless thousands
mourn.'' before committing an act ina.
nrofited them nothing but that did
permanently injure thousands of tnelr
neighbors. \. ]. ! !.
Nor IS this all. The adoption OF
/ these laws hampering and restricting
ma functioning Of the Bank Of North
Dakota came just at q time when ar
ranrennents had been almost closed
with Liberals outside the State where
bv they were Ia purchase $40 900 900
\ az the Banks real estate bonds, and
this loan, also, the adoption Of these
], laws had prevented the Bank floating
to saw nothing of the probability q
IA losing large deposits from big and.
hfluential Labor Unions. The Farm
ers viii never have great Credit
M if things ara ~ 30 On in this lalll.