Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-07
PLAYS Game of Grain Combine
and Special Privilege in
Minneapolis.
NOT SUBTLE ENOUGH
Courier-News Charges That the State
Superintendent Uses the Free Love
Issue to Hide Her Real
Motive.
An Open Letter to Miss Nelson.

10 Miss Minnie Nelson:
You recently made 4 speech in Min
neapolis, under auspices which are
strongly suspected of being financed
by the same grain gambling II big
banking interests that have just been
detected in an attempt to rob North
Dakota farmers of millions of dollars
on the 1920 wheat crop, n that have
depressed the price of wheat between
40 and so cents below what it was
before grain gambling was resumed.
You are an official of the state OF
North Dakota. You should, by virtue
of YOU position, be guarded in all you
say by Il careful regard for the truth.
The heading which was placed over
the report of your speech by the Min
neapolis Journal, which is friendly to
you. was "Nohpartisan Leaders Placed
Books on Free Love in N. D. Library,
Woman Declares" OF curse o are
not responsible for the heading. Never
theless the tenor of your talk was such
as to Indicate that there was the pos
sibility that you intended your hearers
to gather that his absurd charge is
true.
And it is in regard to this that we
address to you this open letter. We
think there has been no more damn
able charge every made against self
respecting, God-fearing men and
women than the constant reiteration
by journalistic prostitutes and bought
politicians Of the statement that the
men n women who make up the rank
f, and file of the organized farmers Of
: North Dakota have ever in any way
encouraged anything even remotely
tending toward free love, or even hint
+, ing in that direction.
We wish to find out, for the benefit
; of the men and wOmen Of North Da-
= kota. just what sympathy, if any, you
:, have with his contemplate plot to
besmirch he good name of men and
, women who, in their defense of the
! home and church. rank the highest in
I any state in the Union. We are ask
t ing you these questions publicly, be-
cause you made our speech publicly.
We shall print you answers just as
you make them. We trust your an
Swers will be such as to show that the
f grain gamblers organ in Minneapolis
has grossly maligned you in its report
of our speech-just as it has grossly
o and maliciously maligned the people
e Of this state, for no other reason-as
e the Minneapolis Journal we'll knows, if
YOU do not-than that they nave re-
fused longer to submit tamely to the
merciless robbery practiced without
o let or hindrance for many years by
n the grain gamblers.
n In the first place, do YOU believe
gambling in grain, or in. any other
necessity Of life, should be permitted:
If not. is not the so-called "%specula.
s ton of the Minneapolis Chamber OF
~ Commerce gambling?
o If it is not gambling, where does il
-. differ from gambling?
6 And if you are against gambling
why don't you take your place will
70 those who are fighting gambling, in
a stead of unfolding and protecting it
You say the fight in North Dakot;
"is Il fight between civilization ant
6 Christianity. on the one hand and so
cialism and atheism IN the other
= that is, if you are correctly quoted.
Are gambling and ~profiteering neces
r. sary to "Civilization and Christian
w. ity.'
-, You are quoted as saying that tn,
10 fact that students have been asked il
North Dakota schools to define ''bi
-, business is evidence of the determine
ton of the Nonpartisan league to teac
SOCIALISM, in the schools. Ought no
n the students to know the facts abou
q present marketing conditions? In
state in which so per cent Of the popu
lation are farmers is it not the fune
ton of the schools to teach somethin
re of this sort? If students don't lear
ne about big business and it's methods
ms isn't it going to be easier for th
of gamblers to continue to rob them?
re You object to the asking of student
lin to define the Nonpartisan league. d
lot you also object to definitions of Repul
lrt lican party and Democratic party? ]
ng so, why? Are our schools to'teach onl
the past, and nothing at all about til
present and future?
You repeat the charge of O. b. Bur
ness that a list of books, which yo
ne name, was found ready to be sent O,
~ in travelling library. DO YOU not kno'
're that n committee, Of which j. II. +,
"a O'Connor was n member, unanimous
III found thar this HIST Of books was n,
for distribution among lhr ~lruvelli
libraries, but only for reference use
the stnte iibrnry2
in Judge Youno'e Sister involved.
NIB. Tni hive been anltle ma i.ln ID.
ia Fargo gDliegn, ~ q holder Of II
+ lep~ honernry drg'p q IN eduMlio
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