The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-20
REbUKES
LEAGUE ENEMIES
Reveals Motives of Traducers
Of honpartisan Movement
and Praises farmers.
(James M. Pierce in The Iowa
Homestead.)

Homestead.)
Not only during the war, but ever
since the armistice was signed, a most
amazing campaign Of suspicion and
hatred has been carried on in this
country through the newspapers. So
long as this sort Of propaganda could,
during the war, be attributed to hys-
terical fear Or misguided patriotism, it
could be and was in a large measure
excused and condoned by thousands Of
thinking people, who from the first re-
garded it as wholly un-American and
entirely uncalled for. But o that
the wal is over, what excuse or honest
reason can be offered for the present
Incorporate rawlings concerning a
falsely charged ~"disloyalty' Of the
farmers in different sections of the
country, and especially of the farmers
Of the Northwest? To my mind, one
of the meanest and lowest pieces of
work that the pr%ofteering interests
have I'VE tried to put owe (not ex-
cepting the theft of millions of dollars
Of the peoples money during the wary,
has been their planned and studied
propaganda to blacken the character
Of the farmers of the Northwest in the
eyes Of the rest Of the nation.
There is a well-considered purpose
In this propaganda, which is not read
lily apparent to thousands of readers.
who daily accept as truth the doctored
"news," with which the newspapers
r supplied by the foes Of the organ
ICED farmers. Really intelligent people
well know why the legislative pro-
grams Of the farmers Of North Dakota
and other western states are so Bit
terly opposed. They know that the
carrying out Of these programs means
the death Of the grain-dealing privi-
leges. the mining thefts, the lumber
and coal CRAFTS. the political ring, and
q dozen other organized thefts, by
mea of which the profiteers have for
years and years been robbing the farm
ers Of the northwest to the tune of
hundreds of millions of dollars annu
ally. One need not be an advocate
of the particular legislative measures
that the farmers of the northwest are
putting through, in order to be able
to see through and understand the
wicked animus and fendish dishon-
esty of the big-interest propaganda,
that is being put forth through a cor
rupted press against the farmers of
that section.
A Question Of Right.
The farmers of other sections of
the country may not believe in state
owned public facilities and public utili-
ties Of any kind. for the protection
Of the farmers and the consuming pub
lie from wholesale r0bberies; til ey
may not believe in state-owned ter.
minal elevators, stockyards and mar.
ket places Gas they now have them in
North Dakota), through which the
grain and livestock, free from the ex,
tortions Of the spectators and the
profiteers; they may not believe in q
state-owned mill (such as North Da'
kota now has), where the farmers car
have their grain ground into flour al
cost; free FROM the extortions and
steals Of the great milling combine
that has for a long time existed anl
fourished in the twin cities; they maj
not believe in a state-owned banl
(such as North Dakota now has), from
which the farmers a secure loans Q:
money at less than z per cent intereS
per annum, as against the s, 10 and il
some cases IL per cent which they for
merly paid; they may not believe tina
a state should take possession Of an
operate coal mines for the benefit an,
protection Of the people, as vas don
BY Governor FRAZIER, Of North Dakota
during the recent coal strike: they ma,
not believe in i liberal compensation
law for the soldier boys n the late wa