The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-10-07

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Reynold e. Anderson IN the Independent
in the monsters pockets and threw it
right in the monsters face. Yes, he
did! Great is Cathro and St1awman
No. . is dead. Does it make your head
dizzy to follow Cathro's operation?
Well, it does everybody else's, too. but
Cathro says 1T is good banking That
settles it. See?"
Strawman No. 8.
A good little boy has come to Fargo.
He will go to all larger cities very
soon. His name is Municipal Coal
Yard. He was sent up here from So
cialist headquarters in ST. Paul for
Lemke, laborcrs like Emil Fridlund
and the city council I play With. This
little boy has a lot of brothers. Some
of them will come later if we like the
first one. There are: Municipal meat
shops, shirt shops. shave shops. pants
shops" "Well, but you are simply
naming our stores" "Of course, I
n I'VE will either kill all the store
keepers or starve them to death or
send them out to work on he farms.
Then we will tax the people for money
to start all these things. Townley
and Lemke will appoint Emil Frid-
lund and q bunch of other faithfuls
like him to run these municipal shops.
They will all be sold cheap and on all
kinds Of time. If some don't pay, we
will tax the people to make up for it,
"Ies. yes, but when there are no store
keepers. no Shopmen. no business men
to tax, whatll YOU do then:" "Hush.
You talk too loud. Then We'll put a
single tax on all land "a single tax
on land?' "Ies, sir! on land. Henry
George and Karl Marx, both want the
land confiscated by the state by means
of taxation" $50 the farmer will be
the goat, then, after all?" Certainly.
If he has seized any of the means
Of production, we will take it away
from HING "Who is we?" "Why,
we the people. We the farmer-labor
friends. We the saviors. We the
radicals. We-Townley and Lemke."
S this is not a strawman or q straw
boy, then?" "For the present it is.
Don't YOU remember House Bill No.
A? That was all straw. Just a bluff
to kill the constitution? We knew the
senate majority would kill it. That
gave us ar excuse to kill the senate.
Just so with the Municipal Coal Yard
We don't need it. Nobody froze to
death in Fargo last year. Nobody got
rich selling coal. We don't want the
Municipal Coal Yard. But it sounds
like getting something for nothing and
it sets those who work with their
mouth like Emil Fridlund, up against
the council and we may gain a few
votes to keep Lynn Frazier in office as
head Of the pet gang.
The City Council is the monster Big
Biz that kills poor, dear, little straw
boy. Municipal Coal Yard, who has
come here just before election, mind
you, not last spring when everybody
else was ordering coal for the year,
but just now when he is needed to stir
up things. And they have killed him.
BoOhoo! boolOO!"
Strawman No. 4.
"The Federal Reserve banks have
gone into politics. They are being
used to build up and strengthen the
banking and industrial interest at the
expense of the agricultural interest
and the working men," "a short time
ago the farmers papers exposed the
conspiracy Of the Ninth Federal Re
serve bank to force the farmers to sell
the grain. Now come the stock grow
ers with the same charge against the
reserve bank: 1t is being used to force
them to sell their stock ut unfavOrable
prices to the future ruin of the indus
try" Those are quotations from an
editorial in the Townley-Lemke press
Of September 22nd, 1920. 1t continues
speaking Of the federal reserve sys.
TEN. "1hcy build up the profitecrs
and strive the farmers and workers.