Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-08-05
COMMUNICATION.
Editor Farmers Press.

Bank Notes published monthly by the
Citizens State Bank of Langdon. 1
read the following, which to my
understanding was good and true. it
said: cit is time for loyal Americans
to ask themselves this question, for
there are now at work in this country
forces more menacing to our lives and
liberty than Kaiserism ever was.'
The question referred to was:
eff you knew an enemy sought to
seize your money or your land. to
to destroy your Liberty Bonds or
other investments to rob you of your
home and drive you into slavery, to
lay licentious hands on your loved
ones to fill our land with ashes and
ruin, starvation and pestilnece,
butchery and death. If you knew
such things were about to occur,
what would you think and do?'
So far so good! every honest and
intelligent person whether American
or not would say amen to above state.
ment and as to the question every
one hundred per cent Americans and
foremost among them the Nonparti-
sans, the answer wonld be this. We
will y ith our votes 8endeavor to place
honest ard capable men in all, both
lawmakiny and administrative offices
men who will do justice to all the
people in other words a government
of for and by the people,"
Vel! l said to myself, there are
surly Il Bank worthy of the patronage
of common people, but also Adam
was o very long in Paradise and
neither was l as | read on l 500
found that according to the scribler
it was the common herd who was the
menac of the country and the para
sites. war profteers big business in
general were the real benefactors of
the world, he tried to make it appear
that ail of the calamities mentioned
in the above question would befall US
if we were not good boys and did as
big biz dictated
AS q fearful example he holds up
t. our wondering gaze the old combi-
nation of lies ami dreams about Soviet
Russia, but today there are amongst
usu other volcer than of those home
staying hurrabellowing one hundred
cent patriots Of profit. Men and
women who actually have been there
and know of what they are talking.
Men who have not merly been sit
ting in a nice comfortable bank build
ing, giving out or receiving money
and for a change taking a promenade
on the sidewalks of Langdon, but who
in fact have done something for a
world democracy. Truth struggles
against lies with more and more
promise of triumph. We can listen
to the words of one whose integrity
no intelligent and honest man or wo-
man would dispute. He comes from
Russia back to England, his native
land and writes to us:
mo one contends that the Bolshe-
viks are angels. l ask only that
they look through the fog Of libel
that surrounds them and see that the
ideals for which they are struggling
in the only way in which they can
struggle, are among those lights
which every man of young and honest
heart sees before him somewhere
on the road and not among those other
lights from which he resolutely turns
away. These men who have made
the Soviet government in Russia, If
they must fall, will fail with clean
shields and clean hearts having striv-
en- for an ideal which will live be-
yond them. Even if they fail, they
will none the less save written d
page Of history more daring than any
any other which | ran remember ia
the story of the human race. They
are writing it among showers of mud
from all the meaner spirits in this
country in yours and in my own, but
when the thing is over and their
enemies have triumphed, the mud
will vanish like black magic at noon
and that page will be as white as the
snows of Russia and the writing or
it as bright as the gold domes that
/ used to see glittering in the sun
when / looked from my windows in
Petrograd. And when after years
rnen read that page they will judge
your country and mine, your race and
mine By the kelp or hinderance they
gave to the writing of it,
These are the words of Arthur
Ransome. The prostituted press of
America, inspired by the invisible
government profteers, do not gener
ally publish such statements. Nor is
Arther Ransome alone, Scores OF
Americans and English, who have
been 10 Russia. Hastily to the same
Among others the headman of the
American Red Cross in Russia. Il do
not know If ! rightly remember his