Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-24
FOREIGN Adyers,"ing Representative
THE AMERlCAM PRESS ASSOCIATION
THEIR WAYS ARE PECULIAR.

lneTe ID III Ola saying ABOUT Cne
heather Chinese that runs like this,
"For ways that are dark and tricks
that are mean the heather Chinese
are peculiar" this old saying fits
exactly on to the modern l. V. A.
politician and then it will run like
this, "For ways that are dark and
tricks that are mean the (. V. A..
politician is peculiar"
Their latest plot to ask for a re-
call of our honest and able state
officials, men that dare to stand
up for what is right, is a fair sample
Of their tricks.
But it seems as if they have taken
on too big a load this time, to get
the rank and file of the I. V. AS to
pull it over for them. The consensus
of sentiment at the l. V. A. meeting
held at the Commercial club rooms
on Monday evening called for the
purpose of considering the ADVISABLE
ty of calling for a recall election
seemed to be that it could not be
attempted successfully, for which
the level.headed and thinking men
of Langdon deserve credit. The
order seems to have come from
Minneapolis that if the State of
North Dakota wants to sell her bonds
to the capitalists of the east we
must recall our present efficient
state officials and replace them with
men who will do their bidding,
We have this month celebrated
the birthdays to the two great men
that made and saved this nation,
Washington and Lincoln. If these
men should step ont of their graves
today and see that such a plot had
ever been considered as to sell the
sovereignty of a state for gold. they
would turn away and weep for the
disgrace bestowed upon their beloved
land, although Lincoln had a vision
OF bad things that might happen, as
he mentioned in his last inaugural
address, that grave as the dangers
had been that We had already passed
through the Civil war he could see
grever dangers still in the future,
namely the c%apitalistic trusts that
were just gaining strength at that
time, hgving fattened on war prof.
teering if they were not curbed he
said, and WI must admit they have
not been curbed since Lincoln's days
but have grown out of all proportions
so that today they are standing at
our door and want to buy our States
sovereignty.
We have known for a long time
that the loan institutions and the
Chamber of Commerce of Minnea-
polls have tried to and many times
been very successful in debating
affairs in North Dakota, but this
last order from them to recall cur
Industrial Commission is too direct
q slam for the citizens of this state
to swallow, be he an l. V. A, or e
Nonpartjsan.
They want US to recall cur Indus
trial Commission and then they will.
loan US money 20 finish our state
industries. What do we want ~
state industries for when we have
recalled the men that we trust t,
run them?
How can Minneapolis interest
dare ask the citizens of North Da
kota to recall men like Governo
Frazier and Commissioner of Agri
culture Hagen who have stood tn,
test for the Last four years and hav
been re elected for a third term?
How can they expect us to recall
a mar with the integrity and abilit,
of Attorney General Lemke, a ma
who has already saved this stat
more millions than we need to finis
cur state Industries, by securing a
injunction against the unjust freigt
rates, by compelling the railroad
to pay the taxes they were levie
and unfolding the state grain gradin
Law.
1t might be timely here to parall,
in closing the record so far made (
by Lemke alongside of that of h
predecessor in office, LANCER, who
putting first things first always coul
be depended on to put himself fri
and the people whom he was elects
to serve second, if at all. We a
willing to leave the people to juds
for themselves as to this.
If this plot will be tried to
put over it will be another chan'
for the majority of the citize ns
North Dakota to show the world the
know the difference between rig
and wrong.
The Mountaineer at Walhalla
one of our near NV cOntemnnraYi