The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-03-24

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COMMUNICATION - (
Sims Ridge, March goth, 1921.
Editor Courant:
One of our I. v. A. neighbors re-
marked to me recently that "you fel-
lows didn't accomplish much at Bis
marck, at least nothing wonderful" I"
I asked him if he felt that he had
any reasonable grounds for expecting
any accomplishment worthy of men,
ton, with an I. V. A. majority in the
House? and modestly admitted that
we did at least one thing that was
wonderful, and that had never before
been successfully done. We appropri-
ated over seven thousand dollars that
did not exist, said amount having been
checked out to carry on cases in the
courts, by the Governor, and we had
his signed statement before us, to the
effect that the money had been used
prior to Jan. 1st 1921 but we appro-
priated it nevertheless, and then when
we heard from home thru the full
page of letters contributing; among
other amounts, the small, butter and
egg sales of the housewives, to the
Lemke fund, our chairman, Mr.. Watt
(House Appropriations Committee)
sent letter to the Attorney General
asking him to appear before us and
explain "what he intended doing with
the money the people We're contribut-
ing" Needless to say the Attorney
General did not appear before US, but
letter from him did, and, gentle
men, it was ably written, you should
read it, it's good stuff. When the
matter went thru the House Hopper
Rep. Heaton Il. v. A. Burleigh) re-
marked the IN. P. LIS have beer
belly-aching about money for rate
cases and now we've given it to them
this is why I vote "aye."
The /. v. AS before election prom
ised to "Carryout the Industrial pro
gram" and upon the strength Of that
promise received the votes Of many
honest, and well meaning people and
they weren't at Bismarck a week un-
til their every action proved they were
doing just the opposite to what they
promised, they evidently meant by
carrying out tn program to carry it
out and bury it," See House Journal
Feb. %, 1921, pages ID, Is and 18
What they did I repeat was, against
the expressed will of the people, and
particularly vile, and peculiarly devil
ish.
Their Speaker L. L. Twichell, stole
votes and proved it himself by return.
ing them when he corrected them and
according to Gummerson, recently, al
so, must have stolen the eight hour
and blacklist labor law and, as yet
las failed to return it, as he did the
W+cs.
Former U. S. Senator Burton OF
Kansas said recently that he had
spoken publicly in every state in the
Union and felt that he was CONVEX
SAINT with the general situation and
that he "firmly believed that It the
liberties of the people of this Republic
are to be saved, they must be saved
by the citizens residing in the states
roughly bounded by the Mississippi
River and the Rockies and by the Ca
madam line and the Gulf of Mexico"
because in the New England and ad-
iacent states it is too late" Another
man (of /. v. A. tendencies) said, "The
best and only successful government
ever known in the world was a Benev-
olent Despotism."
Mr.. Cox in the recent campaign, ac-
cording to public prints, said "Senator
Harding represents the Oligarchy OF
the u. s. Senate" maintain that if
half Of these mems statements are
true, its high time we were all doing
some reading, and real thinking, in
order that we may for the sake Of self
preservation, be- able to understand
and to vote with real Intelligence, and
If we fail to do so then we will be
used and bartered as merchandise. In
hook by VIM. H. Harvey called
Common Sense or the Clot on the
Brain Of the Body Politic,' page 28.
I'm the membership Of your organi-
cations Labor Unions) there are
about five million votes. which, to-
gether with the farmers vote can ne
cord at the ballot boxes, victory for
the new civilization" usuary has cre-
ated . condition that forced you 70
organize, and that same power viii
utterly destroy you, 4 the unequal
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