The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-11-18

say, and if any large proportion Of the
/. Y. A. legislators appear at BIS
marck imbued with this same spirit
then it can confidently be predicted
that the end of North Dakota's par
tisan warfare is in sight.
All that the organized farmers of
this state have ever commended for is.
what Mr.. Bacon now processes him
self willing to grant-namely, the
right to. give a fair trial to the state
industrial program for which they
have voted, by overwhelming MAORI
ties. year after. year. They do not,
know for certain that this program
will bring them relief. They strongly
believe it will. They are quite con.
WINGED that it cannot be worse than the
present banking gambler marketing
system And they are determined to
give the new plan a trial. It is for.
this-their constitutional right-that
they have been fighting all these
years.
No nonpartisan Lacquer would for a
moment contend that no mistakes have
been made in the league program. No
legislation that was, ever enacted was
! perfect. Only experience can grad
ually correct all errors. And any new
movement must develop its own lead
ers, and this always requires the weed
ing out of insists and crooks =.
But the farmers of North Dakota
earnestly believe that, whatever un-
important errors may have been made
!. in carrying their program into effect
and whatever mistakes may have been
made in selecting officials, the heart
of their program is sound. They are
the more convinced Of this in that the
opposition itself has for the most part
professed to accept the program.
But Mr. Bacon is the first leader
of the opposition actually to advise,
in specific terms, the carrying out of
the program, in order to give it a fair
trial. This is the first demonstration
from the opposition of a desire to CO.
operate for the good of North Dakota.
And, we repeat, if Mr.. Bacon is sin
cere, and speaks for any appreciate
number of his friends, then it will be
possible for North Dakota farmers
and business men to get their heads
together this winter on program that
will be tremendously beneficial for all.
- And, we repeat from previous edi-
torials, unless business men and farm
ers do get together. in the face Of the
onlinous clouds that are forming on
the eastern industrial horizon, and of
the bare-faced robbery Of the farmers
by the gamblers and big bankers.
North Dakota will suffer one of the
worst financial crashes in its history,
in which business men will suffer far
warse even than farmers.
The above from the Courier News
shows how apprehensive the leaguers
are Of the future. 1t has never been
the intention of the independent press
to buck the farmers program, on the
contrary the independent press has
been favorable to the program in the
main. What we have been bucking
are the socialist leaders who have
foisted a regime of socialism and
waste on the state. The taking away
Of authority from those elected by the
people and the running of the various
sdepartln ents with a high hand. like
unto what has been done with the state
;. uperintendent's Office. The making
of fat jobs for socialists at sextrava.
giant wages, unnecessary, and the pro
IHlSate plIlng up OItLaXeS upon Cne peO-
pie of the state. With Townleyisn7
killed and the league under the leader
ship of real North Dakota tax paying
;. farmers, and the driving from the
state of the hordes of socialists who
are trying to fasten a soviet govern.
nent on this state, then we say there
will be very little opposition to real
farmers program. Moderation in leg.
islation is demanded at Bismarck this
winter and safe and sound judgment
is needed to bring the state back *
it's rightful place in the nation. There
6 is no question but what the present
administration has involved the state
: into useless debt and some of the de.
partments will be found in bad shape
and now that there is chance tx
have these departments, like the bank
for instance, Investigated, the league
, papers are whining for mercy. NJ
real North Dakotan wants to see The
, state go backward along industrial
!. lines but we want sanity and reason
: used In state government.
M FANG rnn An