Emmons County record., 1920-04-29
WHERE is HERMAN HARDT,
His Logan County Newspaper Seems
to Have Gotten from Under His
>. Eagle Eye for Spell.


recently, Mr.. Hardt favored us with
his august presence while such weigh
ty matters of buying the Hazelton Re-
publican and putting up league coun-
ty ticket was under way. In fact,
we are told. that when Joe Volk decided
he wanted teh league endorsement for
sheriff, he camped on the trail of Her
man Hardt for week. And-Joe
got the endorsement.
But to the point. A returned sol
dier, Carl V. Torngrent was hired to
run Hard's Logan County Farmers
Press. All ran well for spell. One
day that soldier boy received request
to be agent for "The Life and Writings
of Eugene v. Debs," notorious social
ist and convicted seditionist. Right
there the soldier boy kicked out in
meeting, and we on the out side held
our breath waiting for the blow that
was sure to fall.
And that wasn't the sum total of
Torngren's :transgressions. Later,
he ran an editorial on socialism. We
print it herewith. Just imagine such
an editorial in nonpartisan newspa-
per. Of course, there could be but
one result. And the result came
quickly. Torngren is out of a job.
When canned, he asked permission to
print few farewell lines in the paper
he had published. He was refused.
Frank Bryant, of the old-time Napol-
con Homestead, gave him space. And
Torngren had something to say.
Note this: "The Socialistic regime
is doomed to defeat, and the sooner
it happens, the better for the welfare
of the state. Let the red-fag wavers
rave about their progress but al
ways consider where it is coming
from. ** We took the job as
editor of the Farmer as an experiment.
Leaguers always deny that they are
socialists, and we decided to find out
for ourselves. We fought disloyalty
and socialism through the columns of
thu Farmer, and in an incredible short
time, the Chief Moguls of4+he local
leaguers were buzzing like angry hor-
nets. Two weeks ago one of the
leaders Of the Service Bureau came
down and told the people of Napoleon
that we had to leave as we were too
radical Going back, he borrowed,
our books and files and took them
along. to Townley headquarters in Far
go. We hope our editorials proved
interesting for Gar Arthur 1. ** =
But we are most tickled over our
forced resignation, as we now are able
to feel once more that we are not dis
gracing the uniform we once wore, by
running sheet created for the pur-
pose of spreading socialistic class
hatred in our country. Respectfully,
Carl v. Torngren.
And here is the editorial that ap-
peared in the Logan county league pa
per that did the damage:
eve have been criticised by some
people because Of our editorials deal
ing with socialists, and it gives us
great pleasure to copy an article from
the Grit, Of Williamsport, Pa, dealing
with socialism. The article entitled
"Why Not Socialism ?" is to be found
in another column Of this issue.
To those of our readers, who are
friendly to socialism we will simply
ask: "What benefit has socialism been
to you or what benefits will it ever
give to you?"ha You, the farmers of
North Dakota, pent your sons, to
France to fight pr this country, and
we the returned soldiers are proud
Of the support you gave us. You
worked herder to make up for the
ones that were gone, you put in more
crops than before; went without the
luxuries Of life and spent more money
for Liberty bonds than you could af-
ford. We will never forget what you
did for us. But neither will we ever
while life lasts forget what the So
cialists did for us. They took advan-
tage Of every opportunity to stab us
in the back while we were gone, They
opposed the drafts, they worked
against Liberty Loan, Thrift Stamp
and Red Gross drives; they ridiculed
patriotism; they acted as spies for
Germany: they advocated and snread