The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-30
SHOULD LOOK TO THE EAST
(FrOm WilliSton Heraldl

NIon winston Herald)
Campaign years always bring their kevnotes. So much
has been written and "speeched' in keynotes this year that
we nave decided That we would do a little keynoting our
selves here in the state of North Dakota.
keynOtes are of two kinds. The first is conposed of
gitterlng generahties that flaunt pompously before the
voting public the alleged virtues of some candidate or par
ty, and the secondhand the one with which we are here
most vitality concerned-is short, curt, crisp like a COM
.mand to battle-a slogan, if you please; but it goes to the
very marrow of every Christian soul in our fair state to-
day. There can be none other which must rouse the peo-
pie from their lethargy, to bring them to a full realization
of the reeking, sinking monster that is staring them in the
eye like a rattlesnake and hypnotizing them with the spell
of the same serpent-none other, we say, than: SAVE
THE STATE FROM SOCIALISM,!
North Dakota stands today upon the brink Of socialism;
she stands today looking across an abyss so deep, so black
that those who have stood there before and have taken an
other step in the same direction have gone-we don't know
where; but they have never come back alive!
The red dragon of socialism is standing today with his
murky paws upon the doorstep of every red-blooded, honest
American citizen of North Dakota, and is smacking his
Shiny slthering chops in immoral anticipation as he gazes
with greed and lust upon the fair daughters of our homes;
he stands with %gittering eye and hunger1ng nav in glut-
tonous covetousness as he looks upon the prosperous farms
and all the other industries of the state, biding his fiend-
ish time when, under the cloak of the Nonpartsan league,
he may confiscate every atom of productive property with
in the state, slough it into one heterogeneous pot and bid
the buns of the earth: Come to our North Dakota Mecca
and eat we free Of the fruits of the sweat of North Dakota
farmers; we have them working for US now!'
Men! Women! Will you stand idly by and see this sneak
ing, skulking pirate deprive you of your most sacred her
itage-your farms, your industries-ah, yes, and what is
more important than all others, the virtues of your women
and the honor of your men-under the guise of an organ
ization which might otherwise be directed to work unde-
niable good for everyone, but which these sociaistic lead
ers have stolen bodily from you and are making serve their
own selfish ends?
William LANCER, in his battle with this maudlin monster,
has been defeated by a mere handful of votes-about one
fourth the majority given to it's nominee two years ago,
which shows that the trend Of the peoples thought is in
the right direction. But his defeat does not of necessity
end the struggle in behalf of our state. There remains an
other opportunity this fall to drive from the state these i'm
ported hen-hounds of autocracy and SAVE THE STATE
FROM SOCIALISM.
Will you do it? Will you obliterate any differences that
may heretofore have existed between republicans and dem
ocrats as such, turn your faces toward the common enemy
and, shoulder to shoulder, SAVE THE STATE FROM
SOCIALISM?