The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-06-18

we're elected to make into law. The
North Dakota lawmakers were also
elected to make such laws and they
made them. That is the difference
A little reason will show that if
North Dakota lawmakers are social
lists, bOlshevists and free lovers be-
cause they made their laws, then
Governor Norbeck and your law
makers must also have been social
lists, bolshevists and free lovers in
1913 because they stated by theil
PLATFORM and otherwise that they
wanted these laws made but after
election they never mentioned them.
Instead one of your honorable law
makers said he wished that an cleo
trio barbed wire fence could be erec-
ted on the state line to keep them
from coming in from North Dakota
If the said Honorable had got his
fence erected he would now prob
ably have become wise to the fact
that his fence would have been as
useless as his other tactics since
Townley is now in an airplane.
Ii your lawmakers wanted suc!,
laws before election, but were
against them after election, can you
depend on them in the future? II
you cannot. it is time to clean house
as they did in North Daokta after
being fooled for thirty years. Dc
it with smile. II will come easy
if you just think and vote and get
your neighbors out to vote. You
will not do it by staying at home on
election day. You must use your
brains or your back. Use both. Keep
your patience and leave the calling
of names to the other fellows foi
they have no other arguments. Their
only arguments are calling names
socialists. bolshevists. free-lovers
ETC.. and creating disturbances by
Shocking freedom Of speech and as
semblage. by using ruffians with yell
low paint. rotten eggs. etc. "A few
days ago an American Legion man
was nearly killed by such bunch
because he stuck up for the Nonpar-
tisan League.
Then they say North Dakota is
taxed to death. OF course in Rob-
erts county you pay hardly any
taxes. A North Dakota banker, who
was against che League. stated that
things we're not So bad Is represent
ed to be. He said that the extra
tax on account Of the League laws
only amounted to one dollar and
fourteen cents per quarter section
of land. Another North Dakota
banker from Grafton. way up north
told me that farms around his town
were selling at $4,000 per acre.
Does that look as il everybody is
leaving the state?
Then they say you are trying to
overthrow the government and
make it like Russia. The enemy of
the League has tried to overtime y
the constitutional government Of
North Dakota. The North Dokata
laws after being. voted for seven
times by Overwhelming majorities
of the people were blocked by the
enemy of the League. The laws
were referred to the people year
ago and again wanted by the major
ity. Then this bunch of super-pa-
triots" still we're not willing to abide
by the will of the majority of their
state and took the laws into court
The supreme court of North Dako.
ia declared all the laws good and
constitutional. Still these men. who
can call names, were not willing to
let laws made by majority OF their
state stay on the statute books, Sc
they (for the good Of the people)
appealed to the U. S. Supreme court.
A short time ago the supreme court
of the United States declared the
North Dakota laws constitutional.
Still the enemies of the League are
not content to let the majority rule.
They say, "well we know the major.
ity wanted such socialistic laws, but
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