The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-06-18
FORMER ROBERTS COUNTY
MAN MAKES A FEW sTRIK.
ING COMPARISONS
OPPOSITION HAS NO
DEFENSE; USE NAMES
Calling Of Names Solves Nothing,
Says; Discusses League Pro-
gram in No. Oak.
BY Carl j Rice

BY Carl j Rice
.sThe Nonpartisan League far
mers are only bunch of socialists,
bolshevists, l. w. W.'s and free
lovers who have no respect for home.
church or society, and who would
overthrow our government IL they
could. Look at what they have done
in North Dakota. ALI decent people
are leaving the state, and taxes are
simply ruinous.' Thus spoke a we'll
known man from your county to me
a few days ago. told him that he
was blessed with an innocence Of a
child and that he had cause to be a
happy man for ''when ignorance is
bliss, it's folly to be wise
The man who breaches that FREQ
love ''stuff' against the Nonparti
san League is either a hopeless ig-
noramus, or he thinks he is talking
to very ignorant people. The same
free love stuff" was used in the
South against Abraham Lincoln
Ignorant people Of the South were
told that IL Abraham Lincoln ba-
came president of the United States
the people of the North would come
down there and take away their
wives and daughters for the people
OF the North were FREQ lovers.
Whether sBig Biz" had laid plans
to fool the ignorant or not. it is a
fact that one MIR. Harris did intro
duce in the North Dakota legislature
a free love bill. 1t was laughed ct
and, of course. never considered.
Later Mr.. Harris made public apol
ogy to the legislature for having in
troduced the fool bill. At any rate
MIR. Harris has been fighting the
Nonpartisan League laws ever since
and is working now to defeat the
League. so it seems apparent that
il anybody wanted free love in North
Dakota it was the men opposed to
the League.
Later on. one Mr.. Burtness found
one of Ellen Keys books in the
North Dakota library and he imme
diately started to make noise
about it. The same Ellen Keys
books have also been to be had in
the public library of Minneapolis
and dare say that any up-to-date
library has some of the same books.
but nobody has yet raised "kane'
about the same book being found in
scores Of libraries in Minnesota and
elsewhere, but found in North Da
kota of course it must be made use
of against the Nonpartisan League.
Then they say that the North Da-
kota laws creating a few state-own-
ed elevators and flour mills are so
cialistic and bolshevistic. If SO. ]
say that you straight republicans
must have been socialists and boil
shevists in 1918 for you voted in
favor of the same laws in South Da-
kota.
II It is socialism in North Dakota
to have state-owned mills and ele
vators it must be the same in South
Dakota. Alright. then Governor
Norbeck and the whole bunch of
his followers must have been social
lists in 1918 for they were all osten-
sibly in favor Of state-owned eleva
tors and other industries and were
elected on platform which defin
itely stated that they wanted state
owned industries. I understand that
Norbeck is still saying he wants
state-owned cement plant. He
must therefore be a mild reserya-
ZIONIST socialist yet. Norbeck made
many speeches fayoring state-own-
elevators. mills, packing plants, cold
storage plants. etc.
You voted in favor of 1t. Your
lawmakers we're elected on that
(socialistic) platform. But they
did not make into law what they