The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19

along with several others VINO have
become disguised with the Townley.
Lemke machine and they are begin.
ming to desert the sinking ship like
rats. The independent public will
watch with much interest the progress
of the scrap that has developed among
the free love. red flag adherents in the
state.
Bill Lemke's morning excuse at Far.
20 says: "Those judges who vainly
try to bind and gag the American
press might do we'll to read and re.
member Judge Fawcett's opinion
Judge Fawcett is a New York judge
and his decision reads: "The press Is
the lever that moves the world as no
other earthly power can move it. 1t
should not be hampered while in the
lawful pursuit of gathering news 81
interfered with while honestly dis
seminating really important informa-
ton for it's readers" All we'll and
good so far as it goes. Any good,
sound thinking judge would give the
same kind of an opinion, unless he
was personally embittered toward the
press. But how about the press right
here in North Dakota. The supreme
court of this state has gone on record
as saying that the infamous Brinton
law-which takes away private bust
ness from the newspapers-is all right
and according to the Courier-News is
the great American right of the press.
If the papers of this state are not
hampered in news gathering it is
hampered in getting legitimate busi-
ness that rightfully belongs to it be-
cause socialist agitator has whip
ped into line rubber stamp legisla-
ture that has taken the right to Sc
cure private business away by passing
one of the most pernicious laws that
was ever placed on the statute books
of this or any other state and set up
newspaper monopoly Of fifty-three
subsidized papers to control and get
the benefit from all the legal business
of attorneys and private injviduals
that rightfully belong to those news
papers that these attorneys and pri-
vate persons want to give their bust
ness to. The press is the greatest
medium in the world for good or evil
and we rather think that in the main
it is mostly good. There are newspa-
pers that would be better put out of
existence because the influence they
WELD is on the side of evil more thar
on the side of good, but the American
press, as whole, particularly the
country papers, use their columns for
the good Of their individual commune
ties, their state and their country, and
every court in the land should give
them the right to get legitimate bust
ness wherever they can without re-
straint or intimidation from a bunch
of socialists who want to boss and
govern this state and country.
1T is true that Mr.. Lemke by poll
teal and legal juggling has prevent
ed public examination of the bank,
but why prevent public examination
if the fairs of the bank are honestly
administered The gross mismanage-
ment of this institution, however, can.
not always be kept secret and sooner
or later the true conditions will be
known, and then our enemies will take
our own dirty linen and drive US into
oblivion. And who will suffer? The
homestead farmers who will live
here 10, 20 and 80 years from now and
become the objects Of jest and ridi-
Guile. They will become-thousands
Of them-the laughing stock Of their
respective communities, and real 1915
suckers" in truth and in fact. They
will be the laughing stock of the ma
ton. Flying machines and all that
you and / can do to win elections can
not prevent disaster if present condi-
tons continue within our organiza-
ton and your administration"
The above is another gem clipped
from the letter of Mr.. Brinton, author
Of the newspaper grab bill, head of
the consumers store graft and few
other lucrative enterprises to the
league leaders, written to Gov. Fraz-
ier and what he says must be true, be-
cause he has always had the backing
of Mr.. Townley, Mr.. Lemke, Walter
Thomas Mills, Kate O'Hare and the
other truthful shining lights of the
league organization and also of the
Courier ews-that great purveyor of
righteousness that disseminates the
truth and nothing but the truth from
league standpoint and for revenue
only. The fact of the matter is that
there is mix-up among the league
leaders and it is going to be fight
for the survival of the fittest before
they get through with it with the re-
suit that the people Of the state will
throw off the hypnotism that has held
them in it's grasp for so long and will
return to sanity. The more these facts
become known the more convinced it
will become to the farmers of the
state that they have been "buffaloed"
by lot of socialist political pirates
and that what the Independent press
has been telling them is the truth.
More interesting disclosures will fol-
low, no doubt, unless Brinton and his
gang are muzzled by substantial
promises. The public is just at that
point when it is enjoying this ruction
and hopes that it will continue. It is
the juciest kind of dope to read and
only substantiates that "when thieves
fall out and disagree" honest men will
get a chance.