The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-02-18


American Legion of Kansas is attack
ing the Nonpartisan league.
Commander Vernon of the Ameri
can Legion in Minnesota will, accord
ing to the Legion's news service. issue
bulletin to each of the AIS Minnesota
posts giving the gist of the Kansas
commanders letter, to the following
effect
ut is apparent, from letters receiv-
ed from American Legion posts and
individual legionnaires throughout the
country. that they have been misin-
formed regarding the attitude of the
Kansas department of the American
Legion toward the Nonpartisan lea
que.
I'VE naturally do not attack tn.
League for two reasons: Because it
Is considered a political body and be-
cause many Legion members belong to
the Nonpartisan league.
II inclose a copy of the resolution
passed by the Kansas Legion executive
committee on January 81, which am
sure will make clear the situation, if
communicated to your posts and given
publicity in the public press
THE KANSAS RESOLUTION
The resolution of the executive COM
mittee referred to reads as follows:
at is the sense of this commit
tee that posts should be informed
that there is no restriction in the
constitution Of the American lie.
gion prohibiting members from
joining the Nonpartisan league or
any other political organization.
"Be il resolved, that insofar as
the economic and political princI-
pies Of the Nonpartisan league
are involved, the American Legion
Of Kansas takes no stand. but
urges each member of the Ameri-
can Legion to perform his full
duty as citizen according to his
own conscience and understand
Ing"
Thus another unusually vicious at
tempt by politicians and the kept press
to drive former service men into fight
ing the common people has failed.
The local post at Salina. Kan. evil
IDENTIFY was won over by the plotters
against the Nonpartisan league But
National Commander F. w Galbraith
Jr. Immediately repudiated its action.
and now the Kansas organization has
done the thing which speaks we'll for
its genuine Americanism and loyalty
to democratic principles.
Those who have had anything to do
with large organizations know how
difficult it is to keep all local bodies in
Nne. The responsibility for the dis
honorable incident belongs with the
politicians and the kept press.
RAILROADS DESPERATE
President Atterbury of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and lieutenant of j. p
Morgan & Co. broke into the confer
snce Of the United States railroad la
Dor board this week with an ultimatum
that the railroad labor laws of the
country had to be treated as scraps of
paper if the roads were net to go bank
rupt.
Rail labor protests reductions on the
ground that it has never gotten it's
wage up to cost of living, that during
the war satisfactory adjustments
could not be made. and that declining
prices have not yet made the made
quate wage living wage.
The most that the railroad finan.
siers claim to be able to save by par
ing railroad labor to the bone is $780,
100000, and hence one can hardly
imagine them escaping bankruptcy IL
labor is gouged as we'll as the general
public.
The plain truth is that the railroads
are in bad shape, that return to pri-
vate exploitation was colossal error
formed by few financial pirates and
the general fear of encouraging pro-
duction for service, and that in the
near future the government has got to
take them back.
N. o. BANK IN GOOD SHAPE
Chicago's leading financial organ,
the Journal Of Finance and Commerce.
carries an article on the Pank Of
North Dakota which ought to reassure
those who have noticed the attacks on
It by anti-farmer politicians and press.
North Dakota Bank is Solid" ran
the headline, and under this these sub
heads: state Audit Shows Assets
Are $2,1SO,O00 in Excess Of Liabili-
Mes" and fractional Leaders Agree
Report Vindicates Nonpartisan Admin
istration."
The important part of the article.
found in it's first four paragraphs,
reads as follows:
1.-THE Bank Of North Dakota. which
is state-owned and operated on De.
sember 81, 1920, showed surplus of
$4,000 and undivided profits of s140,-
900, according to the audit of its books
just completed by firm Of account.
ants under the direction of the state
audit board.
1.-THE audit was required by an ini.
tiated law passed last November pro
viding for an examination twice a
year of the state institutions and state
bank without previous notice." in or
Ger to make q complete oxamipation Of