The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-02-09

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921.
ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE
Exposure Of the perfdy of F. P. Mann, who
talks advertising and merchandising-and anti
North Dakota propaganda in all parts of the
country, apparently brings no abatement of his
insidious and egotistical dreamings as is in
Dictated in his latest myth on the Nonpartisan
league and pointedly commented on in another
column.
The two facedness of Mr.. Mann's scramble
for popularity and at the same time the sheckles
of trade, was first openly exploited in Devils
Lake several months ago when The World
charged he was an enemy of the Nonpartisan
league and an opponent of the farmers move
ment. At that time he was particularly bitter
in his denunciation of leading Ramsey county
farmers, He charged socialism against them
In bitter emphasis. Yet he goes on Boosting his
friendship for the farmers, declaring recently:
"they are the best friends we have"-and a
Colorado paper pointed out this same F. p.
Mann is a bittersopponent of the Nonpartisan
league.
When Mr.. Mann refused to advertise in The
World, he did so, if his own statement may be
regarded as truthful, because he ''must take a
stand against it" the League, The World and
Ramsey county farmers. But; only a few
weeks had elapsed until he was pounding his
favorite typewriter in an epistle to a 'Nonpar-
tisan league newspaper editor denouncing his
home town press, it's editor and owners-and
soliciting patronage for Mann's. (The letters
appear in another column of this issue of The
World. His perfidy knows no pounds.
His perfidy knows no bounds. = 81
Just who pays the bill for Mr.. Mann's Com
munity Development association Of North Da.
kota? Who digs up but the Twin City whole.
salers and jobbers to keep alive Mr.. Mann's
North Dakota Retail Merchants association ?
And who finances Mr.. Mann's propaganda tours
over the country?
The home town side of Mr.. Mann's career and
love for community enterprise is forcibly brot
to mind in his labelling of The World as a
"socialistc newspaper" It did not however
prove a fact any more than did the applying of
Socialist" to its editor nor his statement that
The World is not backed by any number of
farmers in this community" unless -
Publishing a newspaper for the interests of
all peoples, unprecedented by the advertising of
the biggest merchant which The World, farm
crowned, does not want, can be charged as
socialistic. And the fact that nearly as many
farmers read The World in Ramsey county as
read the combined circulation of all other news.
papers published in Ramsey county including
the Mann-fed Journal. And that its editor has
no inclination to sacrifice principle for the sake
OF Mann advertising pap.
If the thousands and thousands of dollars the
majority of the people Of Ramsey county who
read The World have to spend annually with
advertisers in Devils Lake is worth having. its
columns are worth using and paying for-but
It does not sell it's principles. r.
Conceiving so gross a malignity against the
farmers as that so evidently perpetrated by F.
T. Mann and at the same time apparently so
closely identified with the gambler-big bank
er crowd, is beyond the comprehension Of any
fair-minded farmer or business man.
Playing the ends against the middle might
well be the title of a hippodrome comedy act
with our colossal student Of Ananias and per.
fdiously inclined 'friend Of the farmer and
workingman" as the chief contortionist.
FORGIVENESS AND FoRcETFuLNEss
A little more than two wears AGO American