The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-01-22

|constitution of North Dakota as a.
mended only year ago through the !
dictates of these same leaders, was |
so apparent that the average gram |
mar school student could easily dis
Germ it. And still this man Lemke
reputed father of the bill had the
temerity to go before dignitied body
of jurists, sworn to uphold the con-
stitution and the laws of their state,
and to ask them to stulify themselves
lin order that he might put through
his scheme for the more complete
domination of North Dakota.
Anarchy could go no further; Rus
sia, even under Trotsky and Lenine,
can offer no more glaring example
of a dictatorship which would over
ride all rights of the people and de-
grade the constitution.
North Dakota should give thanks
for House Bill so. 1t has put Social
ism-Communism, if you will-to
the supreme test in North Dakota.
The conflict between the anarchistic
!, will of an autocratic dictator and the
constitutional will expressed by a
| democratic people reached a crisis
at an opportune moment. Had the
} dictatorship been permitted to pro-
: ceed further, welding ever tighter
the chains with which it sought to
| stife freedom of thought, of speech
and of action, North Dakota might
! have awakened too late to the fact
2 that it was enslaved, it's hands tied,
| and it's every avenue of free govern
ment closed.
.! 1t is we'll to remember that the
5 decision which held house Bill 60
: unconstitutional did not come from
an unfriendly court dominated by
t big Business" 1t came from a
e tribunal four of whose members
e were endorsed and elected by the
!, organization which A. c. Townley
:, and Bill Lemke dominate. 1t is nat.
: ural to believe that had there beer
n a reasonable shadow of doubt
s these judges would have given Lem
i ke and Townley the benefit of it.
The thing which Bill Lemke sough
# to do to North Dakota was too glar
l. ing, too fragrant.
e Bill Lemke tday is not prett!
y spectacle Stripped of all the sham
y of false democracy, behind which h,
1t has sought to hide, he stands forth
lr bare and naked in his demagogery
'e revealed in his true light as petit,
e autocrat, a man who would abuse tn
II power of temporary majority, an,
who would sacrifice the constitution
and the guarantees which he, as
stepping stone to power, helped t,
secure, in order that he might fortif,
the dictatorship to which misguid
ed constituency has elevated him.
The constitution still governs
there is yet such thing as law an,
order in North Dakota. Bill Ltmk
and A. C. Townley and anarchism an,
communism are in eclipse. Will al
outraged electorate rise and furthe
redeem itself?
State Treasurer Obert Olson's tes
timony at the famous Kositzky- Gum
merson trial in which the state audi
tor is charged with indelicatel
spanking the league newspaper man
has added to Karl's reputation 70
Leadership in fistic encounters.
Did he run?" Kositzky's attorne
asked the custodian of state funds il
an endeavor to find out how the TEN
peramental knight of the press ha
acted when the latter had stepped be
tween them.
did he run?" replied the aston
ished Mr.. Olson, "Did he run Say
l never saw a jack rabbit hop lik
that fellow did. He was half wa
down town before we realized that h
had disappeared
By score of to the jury de
cided that the state auditor had acte
lady-like and indications are tina
both parties are satisfied with tn
disagreement.
BROADLAWN
Mrs. Glen Brace returned hom
Sunday after spending the week i