The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-27

10 uO) IL IIlc OlpdLClScau Ua11oC ii!Se"o-
ure is adopted by the people, whose
best interest it, according to Governor
Frazier, is intended to serve.
AS sample of how the Courier
News tells the truth we clip the fol-
lowing from that paper Of Sunday:
Former United States Senator A. J.
Gronna who started out last week to
stump the state for the |. V. A. lasted
only until Thursday when he "got
sick" and went home. There are
some people who claim that the icy
reception accorded him at the places
where he got any crowd at all was
the chief cause of the cold he is said
to have complained of. Gronna was
billed to talk at Finley Friday but he
failed to show up. Only handful of
people had gathered to hear him."
Mr.. Gronna was not billed to speak
at Finley last Friday but was billed
to speak at Fingal, Nome and Kath-
ryn, in Barnes county. He did speak
to good audience Friday afternoon
at Fingal and at night to big crowd
at Kathryn. At Nome some of the
weak kneed business men were afraid
to get him a hall and he did not speak
The ones that are getting cold feet
are not Gronna or the rest Of the in
dependent speakers, but the leaguers
themselves. They are scared stiff and
they will be deader than Caeser's>
ghost after next Saturday. Mr.. Gron-
ma did have a severe cold but the old
time campaigner is on the job just the
same pounding truth into lot of peo-
pie who have had no chance to get it
through league newspapers.
Yesterdays Courier-News carried
on it's first page the news that II
North Dakota farmers had been ad-
judged bankrupt in the United States
district court. That is only a small
part of the grim tale. 1t was only
few of Wall Streets many victims for
one day.
Thousands of North Dakota farmers
face bankruptcy. Thousands more
will not go through bankruptcy, but
will merely leave their land, when the
bankers strip them of their stock and
their household furniture and even
their seed, and go somewhere, any
where, to try to make living in some
other way. And in every other state
farm conditions are the same.
In view of the desperate condition
of farmers everything should be done
to help them. But just at this critical
time the bankers of North Dakota,
forced to the action undoubtedly by
the Wall Street interests that have de-
termined to crush both farmers and
workers, have made last desperate
effort to drive from the state the
money that at last, through the Bank
of North Dakota, has begun to come
into the state.
All of the above is another very
nicely worded camoufage to deceive
the people. We will admit that many
farmers are going into bankruptcy ev-
cry day and many more are to follow
along the same route. It is not that
big bugaboo Wall street that is doing
this as the Courier-News would so
adroitly have you think. but it is the
fact that these farmers are being tax
ed to death. It has gotten to a point
now that after paying their taxes and
help they have nothing left and there
is nothing else for them to do. That
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and more in prospect.
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In reporting the speech of John n:
Hagan last Saturday we said he did
not mention about his loan from the
Bank of North Dakota. We were so
informed but our informant was mis-
taken. Mr.. Hagan did mention it and
tried to camoufage the situation by
saying that as a member Of the ad-
ministration board he had no author
ity to get loan but as a PRIVATE
citizen he could and had a right to
get one. But he is not private citi-
zen and is drawing handsome salary
as one of the board of administration
of this state, so we fail to see where
he comes in as private citizen and
pushes his loan from over seventeen
hundred applications up to No. &c. He
explained this to his audience the 9TH
er day by saying that he had a quar-.
ter section of land that was clear and
the papers were ready while on that
seventeen hundred and more applica-
lions from farmers, the papers could
not be prepared for some time and