Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-01
ONTARIO

A brief news dispatch tells of me
Adjournment Of the Ontario parlia-
ROnt after the first session under the
administration of the United Farmers
organization, assisted by a small group
Of labor members. The dispatch
tells of the general spirit of harmony
that prevailed during the session. and
records the fact that on tho one
measure over which there vas Scr
ious conflict, the pension bill for
superannuated public servants. the
administration party was itself divid-
ed. SO that whatever opposition do
veloped could not be consideredas in
any way fractional.
The United Farmers organization
gained control of the Ontario legisla-
ture as IL result of the last provincial
election. The party did not gain a
majority of the seats in the single
body which enacts Ontario's laws, but
it gained the largest membership,
and. through cooperation with the
labor membership, it was able to con-
troll the organization. 1t will be re-
membered hat when the result of
the Ontario elections became known,
A.. c. Townley. who heads what pur-
ports to be Il farmers organization in
this state. wired his congratulations to
the successful element in the east, the
Implication being that the Ontario
farmers n the managers of tho
Nonpartisan league We're workers In
tha 4, n ,n,,, ,a,)i,~-+L~ ,r-.~
objects, using the same methods, inc
all good fellows together, so that
congratulations. under the circum-
stances. were quite appropriate.
The solemn fact is that there is no
more similarity between the Nonpar-
ttisan league, as at present managed
and bossed. and the United Farmers
of Ontario, than there is between
chalk n cheese, and there is all
the difference between A. c. Townley,
organizer, beneficiary and boss of the
Nonpartisan league, II Premier
Drury, head of the United Farmers
of Ontario, h a there can be between
tho s%peculator. the plunger, the So
cialist agitator and the contemner Of
government. and the solid citizen,
the practical and successful farmer,
and the sturdy patriot that Mr.. Drury
IL. Without question If the head Of
1.-The q. F. o. knew what manner of
mar Townley is, and what sort of
wild-eyes Socialism he Is trying to
cram dow the throAts Of North Da-
kota's farmers, he would have wired
the present boss Of North Dakota
politics to keep his. congratulations In
his pocket.
The Ontario Farmers organization
was originated by farmers. 1t "a con-
trolled by farmers. It's official head
had never don anything In a business
way but farm, n he has farmed In
diligently and successfully. and in
such a manner that he has been and
is In sym pat touch with every leg
itimate industry in his province. The
program offthe organization has been
mapped out by men elected by demo-
cratic methods by the general mem
bership, and realizing their RESPONSE
bility to that membership. 1t is a
program of construction, and not one
of antasonism. 1t is a so
conservative hat the element of pub-
lie ownership, for instance. is scarce
ly discernible in 1t. In relation to 4
number of features on which Mr..
Townley has run wild 1t Is on record
as being fatty opposed to the Town
ley program. The organiza ton is en-
phatically not socialistic, and, with
equal emphasis. 1t is thoroughly pa
friotic. which ought unalterably to
condemn it In the eyes Of TownIev. |