The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-03-25
COMMUNICATION

ed to The Courant for publication and
clearly show where Congressman Geo
M. Young, stands on the railroad
proposition: J.
Washington, Mar. 10, 1920.
MI. Fred e. Sims,
Willow City, N. D.
Dear Mr.. Sims: 4 w. .
Your letter Of February 18th at
hand, in which you say that you are
curious to know my opinion in re-
spect to the Railroad Law recently
passed by Congress.
In reply will say that the real is
sue in respect to this bill was the
Plumb Plan as against private own
ership under government regulation.
The Plumb Plan League, an organiza-
ton made up largely Of railroad en-
ployees and employees of big indus
trial concerns, in their efforts to put
the Plumb Plan over, have been re-
ceiving, [ regret to say, considerable
support and encouragement from peo-
pie in our State. My conviction is
that the adoption of the Plumb Plan
as applied to the railroads Or other big
industries would be exceedingly det-
rimental, first to the farmers, and
later through them to other lines of
industry.
My views in respect to the Plumb
Plan are contained in the inclosed
printed copy of my address in Con-
gress. After you have read the
speech I would be glad indeed to have
your views upon this subject.
Yours sincerely,
George M. Young.
P. S. I have not attempted to dis
cuss in this letter the provisions Of
the Railroad Law just passed. It was
not prepared as I would have written
it, if l had the power, but at that it
is a we'll prepared bill and is free
from the lying representations COM
monty made to it in the labor papers.
1t does not contain a guaranty of 5k
per cent or any other return, except
ing for six months, to the owners of
the railroads and it does not contain
an anti-strike provision. For the per-
iod of six months the guaranteed re-
turn is to be continued which obtain
ed before March LIST, but those who OBJ
:ject to that were willing to retain
government operation for two years
and if that had been done instead of
a guaranty for six months it would
be a guaranty for two years.
The following is a copy of the let
ter Mr.. Sims wrote to Mr.. Young:
Willow City, Mar. 20, 1920.
Geo. M. Young,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir: Your letter 10th inst. to
hand, contents noted, also Of your Oct.
goth speech, the latter Plumb Plan
you have misstated, purposely, l pre-
sumo, however, without going into
that part of it, to me it looks as tho
YOU weren't in touch with the major
ity of the people of North Dakota, o
DESTROYS of acting according to their
wishes. A member of Congress is or
SHOULD BE a servant of the whole
people of his state and should he find
the majority against his way Of think
ing and his conscience will not allow
him to act according to their wishes,
his duty to resign is a very plain one
You we're not elected to use YOUR
PERSONAL Judgment entirely, but
to use OURS as far as possible. The
railroads right now are falling down
to their old time inefficiency and are
failing for a week at a time to even
carry the mail. The service is going
back to the incompetent kind we re-
ceived before the government took
charge. We never had as good SER
vice from them as under w. G. Nc
| Adoo.
Exceeding Detrimental" is RIGHT
as you say, but not to the FARMERS.
You mean to the large interests which
you serve, or are attempting to serve.
What the people Of North Dakota
seem to wish is progressive things
and not the reactionary kind. We've
had that kind long enough. Cannot
YOU plainly see that hat we want in
our Members of Congress is men to
do what WE wish-we elect SER
WANTS to office not MASTERS.
Yours truly,
Fred e. Sims. ?
P. S. J mold no office, and never
desire to &c so, but insist upon my
right as a voter to criticize those in
Office, not in accord with their con-
stituerts. ~.
Fred E. Sims.
The Misses Gertrude Scott and En-
ma Neville came down from their
school neal Souris on the Saturday
train. These young ladies kept all
their pupile at the t~eacherage during
the storm last Monday night
Paul Kveum, "Dutch" Hearonam-
GUS, A. C. Miller, Eddie Patterson,
Sandy Fairweather, and the Misses
Ilene Sherrard, and Ida and Anna