The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-02-05
COMMUNICATIONS
Lansford, n. OAK.

Dear SIR:
/ have been reading the gang pa
pers the last few months, reading Bill
Langer's and the other II. W. "A. spell
binders political speeches, trying to
find out what their platform is or
what they advocate, but to date they
have advocated nothing, they only try
to destroy what the League has done.
They revile Governor Frazier, Town
ley and other prominent men in the
League, but they never give us any
proof Of any wrong they have done.
They simply tell us that they have
appointed themselves guardians Of
the people to save the state from
free love, bolshevism. Tie I remember
correctly we have had just such fell
lows as those that got their campaign
funds from outside the state as our
guardians for a great many years.
and what did they save us from? And
what did they get for US? Did they
save us from the grain thieves and
profiteers of the east, did they get us
a terminal elevator or a flour mill.
Our wheat was hauled to Minneapolis
to be ground and Minneapolis shows
what that industry has done for that
city and where are the large cities
in our state? Did they get us a hail
insurance law in all those years, did
they ever get us a decent grain grad
ing law? They have gotten the small
towns fighting US but did you or I ever
see a progressive movement started
that the interests outside the state
did not get the small towns to fight,
such as parcels post, rural free deliv-
cry and rural credit banks, those car
pet baggers from the east told the
merchants that those things were in
tended to build up the mail order
houses and to kill off the small towns
but now the small town wise men all
admit that parcels post and rural
free delivery have built up their busi-
ness and it seems strange to me that
they cannot see that the agents of
the outside interests are lying to
them again. What are they going to
do now? Are they going to contrib
ute money to the slush fund of those
lying interests outside the state that
they know have robbed us in the past
and have never helped to build up q
town or city in this state but have
drained it of all its to build
up the Twin Cities and other cities
or are they going to fight with us, the
mes that love the old state and have
proved it by raising and educating
families and building homes under
conditions and prices that would have
discouraged any other class Of people.
All we have ever asked or ask of them
now is to sit tight and not rock the
boat. Many Of us have sacrificed our
time and hard earned money to help
elect mel to office who have the best
interests of the state in their hearts.
The talk about farmers advocating
free love is too silly and absurd to
comment on, and, it is equally as alb
surd to listen to the lying gang press
statements that Townley advocates
any such absurd doctrine. If those
people had any proof that Townley
was an immoral man or If he had ever
made one step outside the path of
morality, those ours would publish it
in every gang paper in the U. s. The
gang press cite Russia as an object
lesson to any people who advocate q
rule or government by the common
people but think you the rich ruling
classes of other nations cannot see
an object lesson for themselves in
the chaos existing in unhappy Russia
today or are SO arrogant and blind
that they cannot see anything? Any
student Of the conditions or the his
tory Of Russia. for the past 80 or 40
years knows full we'll that Russia's
ruin and downfall was caused by the
brainless aristocracy or rich ruling
class and any n person knows that
there is no comparison between the
common people Of the United States
and Russia. "a vast majority Of the
poor Russian people have no educa-
ton thanks to their rich ruling
~class). But yet you and : know that
il it were not for the interference OF
the ruling classes Of other nations,
who want to see Russia establish an
~autocratic government, months ago
Russia would have established 9 gov
eminent 81. the people, for the people
and by the people.
1 also notice that the ]. Nv. q. ora
tors do not tell their audiences that
the farmers Of the state have saved
at least As cents an acre on hail IN
surance this last year and that they
received ais high $3.50 per buslhuel
more for their wheat than the farm
ers just across the line il Canada, and
so cents per bushel more than The
Farmers over the line il Minnesota
received and / know Of farmers around
here who have. received checks rang
inR from $17.O0 TO $500 and az high
as $500 for dpckage and we only
raised about one sixth of "A averags
crop here last veal.
Yours sincerely
VIM. Martin
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