The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-10-13

saw no other way in which to block this than
by staging a recall campaign.
Bonds Being Sold to People
At a conference between representatives of
the l.: V. A. and big business agents IN Chicago
late last April 1t was decided 70 set the recall
election late IN the tall. The sabotaEers believed
that the bond sale would be effectively blocked
until after the election and that the BANK Of
North dakota would be forced to close its doors
in the meantime. The readers know by this time
that the plans OF the piunderbund have all gone
aWry; that the Bank OF North dakota has sold
more than SZ,OOU, 100 Of state bonds. borrowed
large sums OF money OUTSIDE the state and IS
now in a stronger position than ever before.
The progress now being made in bond sales
LEADS the members of the industrial commission
to believe that esumption OF the farm loan
business by the Bank OF North dakota will be
possible in a few weeks at the longest. This
part Of the industrial program is beng carried
out despite the Wall Street boycott.
The state mill and elevator at Grand forks
viii De completed in ample time for the handnng
of next years crop unless the League is defeated
IN the recall Inc rapid progress now beng
made with the bond sale assures ample funds
with which to put the Grand Forks industries
into full operation early next summer.
OF course if the Leaguers lie down in this
fight at tins time all that has been accomplished
towards putting the industrial program into
operation Will be lost. And we Will lose this
election. unless. all Of US get busy from now
until election night Unless every Lacquer, man
and woman, goes to the polls on October 28
and votes mo" on every one of the %constitu-
tional amendments and the initiated measures
these measures will become law. And this
would give the sabotagers everything they have
been fighting for; the industrial program will
then have been s%crapped.
Sabotagers Plot to Ruin State
The /. V. A. bosses never had any hope of
being able to recall Frazer, Lemke and hagan.
They had to have a recall to get an election and
a vote on the measures. They do hope to get
one or all of these measures approved and made
into law, just as they did in the election last
faI. They never expected to elect any OF their
candidates last fall. They were the most sur
prised bunch in the state when they found that
they had elected Steen and Hall. But they ex-
pecred to get their initiated measures thru and
thus Grippe the Bank Of North Dakota. They
expected that the state bank would have to close
when the counties, townships and school districts
started to withdraw the public funds. 1t had
been all carefully planned beforehand.
So in this election. The constitutional amend
ments and the initiated measures have oeen so
drawn that If they become law all public funds
must he taken cut of the Bank OF North Da-
kota; there will be a new industrial commission
composed of /. Y. A. politicians pledged to scrap
the industrial program; the state bonded indebt-
edness would be 50 limited that the state could
not even go into the farm loan business; the
Grand Forks mill and elevator could not be
completed but would have to be sold the way
they stand. In other words the League state
officials would be absolutely powerIess to do
anything in the way Of carrying out the in
dustrial program.
Not only that but the state government would
be thrown into complete chaos. Then the I. v. A.
propagandists would have plenty of material
for their political propaganda against the state
Of North Dakota. The big bankers would have
excuse for drawing their money out Of the state
to an even greater extent than they are doing
now. The state would be on the way to COM
plete ruin. -
This is just what the I. v. A. politicians are
plotting in the recall election: complete ruin Of
the state. With League officials in the state
house in Bismarck the sabotagers would then
point to them as the cause of it all, just as they
are now falsely blaming the League administra-
ton for the havoc wrought by the laws initiated
last fall. a@
LEAGUERs! YOUR INDUSTRIAL PRO-
GRAM Is At STAKE IN THIS ELECTION.
YOUR ORGANIZATION IS FACING THE
GREATEST CRISIS IN IT'S HISTORY. 1T rs
UP TO ALL OF US TO STAND PAT AT THIS
TIME; NOT TO WEAKEN BUT PUT UP THE
BEST FIGHT WE ARE CAPABLE OF. WE
MUST WIN THIS TIME AND SAVE OUR
STATE FROM THE GANG OF SABOTAGERS
AND POLITICAL CoRRUPTIONISTS WHO
ARE NOW PLOTTING DUB RUIN. II WE,