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dependent voters association made the
emphatic declaration to q league Of
fetal at the Interstate fair in Fargo
that none Of the money used to pay
the expenses Of the recall campaign
was being raised in North Dakota he
started something, according to rs1-
mors leaking out from the anti FARM
er headquarters il Fargo.
IF the people Of North Dakota are
not paying the campaign expenses
who are paying them and why = is
the question being asked by the voters
Of the state now. N
While the Leaguers have never had
any doubt about who are paying the
]. ". "A. campaign expenses there
have been i great many people in
North Dakota who honestly believe
that the. Nonpartisan League indus
trial program is not q good thing for
the state who also believe that the
good North Dakota people, bankers,
business men and farmers, opposed
to the program have contributed the
funds necessary to finance the cam
paign.
Bat now that the ahead of theGL
Y. A. vehemently denies that the rank
and file Of that organization pay the
expenses many Of them have begun
to see q light. Hence the question:
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When this question was put direct
" to President Everson he did not
answer. Rumors about the state in
dicate that the I. ". A. bosses have
been asked this question many times
daily Of late, but they are unable to
give any satisfactory answer. I
Recent developments indicate that
the people are doing lot OF think
ing these days. The more they think
Of it the more they are convinced that
there is something "rotten in Dem
marck." For if the people in North
Dakota who are opposed to the Nom
partisan League program do not pay
the ]. v. A. campaign expenses, who
on earth can be interested enough IN
this state to pay all these costs
One line Of reasoning leads to an
other. .If the people from outside
the state are paying the anti-farmer
campaign expenses these people must
have a financial interest in opposing
the program. As all these campaigns
have cost millions of dollars it is not
likely that farmers, working people
and snall business men have footed
these bills. It must be some OF the
big business interests that are finan-
cling this fight against the majority
of the people Of North Dakota.
Big business does not pay out any
money unless it expects to get returns
for it. Then if big business expects
70 make money out of defeating the
Nonpartisan League industrial pro-
gram it must be that this big business
thoroly believes that the present sy-
stem is more profitable to it and that
the program would cut off some OF It's
profits.
But if the present system is the
most profitable to big business it must
be something in the Leaguers' claims
that the Industrial program is design
ed to help the common people and
that big business knows that to be 9
fact. Probably the League program
is not as dangerous thing to me as
Everson, Nelson, Twitchell, Judge
Young, the Fargo Forum, the Grand
Forks Herald and the rest Of them
would have me believe, ! think I'll
have to investigate this, reasons the
voter.
It is this investigation that is keep
ing the /. v. A. bosses in cold
sweat these days. Their followers
want to know who is paying the bills
and the bosses don't want them to
know. To tell the truth would mean
the complete disruption Of the ]. y.
"A. and keeping silent is probably go
inr to have the same effect
The /. Y. "A. gang is in hole.
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