Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-10-14
GIVES REASON FOR
EXPECTED VICTORY
OF ]. F I. O'CONN0R

Western Farmer. Realize
Iownley Schemes Can MOI
Solve Marketing Problems
Of North Dakota.
w. J. Arnold, who has been at
tending meetings in the western
part Of the state, and speaking on
the issues of the campaign, was IL
the city Monday. He says that II
the voters Of the eastern part Of
the state register as large a vote,
against Townleyism in November,
as they did in the June primary, o.
Connor, will be elected governor by
$1,000 and the anti-Townley ticket
will succeed.
The reason for this belief is the
marked change in sentiment among
the league members west of the
Missouri River. They now see that
the reforms which they entered the
league to bring about, cannot be ac-
complished by the legislation pre-
pared by Townley and his socialist
organizers, and which was enacted
into law at Bismarck last year.
Farmers now see that it is ridicul-
ons to think that higher prices for
grain can be obtained in North Da-
kota by building q state owned mill,
elevator or packing plant. Other
means will be had to bring about
these reforms, but the TownIey plan
simply requires the state to plunge
into the issuing Of bonds, and to in
crease taxation, witch 10 already =
burden.
Mr.. Arnold traces the history Of
Townleyism. showing that the
League was not organized by farm
ers but by socialists. who favor rev.
olution while the bona fide farmers
favor reformation. The socialists do
not want the mill and elevator and
packing house. plant to succeed, un-
der state control, but they want
state ownership of all public utili-
ties including land.
Tho Nonpartisan League has made
little progress as an organization
outside Of North Dakota. It has
fallen down in Iowa, Minnesota and
South Dakota and the reason that
It has had greater success in this
state, is that such men as George
L9ftus. the EQUITY Society. proEres-
sive republicans and democrats. had
prepared the ground In North Da-
kota. for the organization Of farm-
ers. who demanded solution Of
their marketing problems and cer-
tain needed reforms. This was long
before. Townley and. his crowd came
here to take advantage of, the work
that had been done before by 9TH
ers. Townley organized the League
for socialistic purposes. on an en-.
tirely different plan from that Of
LOTUS. and the others who had
worked rs pioneers in the reform
movement.
Mr.. Arnold says that many Of the
league members are not falling for
the argument in regard to the de-
cline Of wheat prices. The nve
northwestern states raising hard
wheat, are not yet able to- fix the
prices Of wheat for the other forty
three states in the union. It Is
now known that the, sudden decline
in prices is due to world wide con-
dttions. to the dumping Of the Can
adian crop Of 200,000,000 bushels
ON oar market, which is further
favored by the difference in ex-
change. This gives the Canadian
seller Of wheat raised in that coun-.
try, an undue advantage over the
American wheat raiser, as there is
no tariff law to put q duty ON Can
adian wheat, and the Federal ad-
ministrtion so far refuses to put In
to effect the anti-dumping provision
of the law, which Senator :Gronna,
Congressman Young. boards Of
trade. and others have requested the
administration to do. .,5s
Mr.. Arnold says that farmers.
have learned that the money which
they were promised from the bank
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