Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-03-10
THE REPORT

ed to the house of representatives
Friday scores the conduct Of the
state government and industries pn-
der the present administration.
The report, going into details on
the bank, and making an analysis
on the Home Builders and Drake
mill, upon the showing in the Rish-
op, Brissman and company, flaye
without mercy the alleged waste Of
money and declares the taxpayers
! must bear the cost. The committee
concluded in part:
These impractical theorists have
launched the state into an orgy OF
financial excesses and . deltrium or
socialistic experimentation born in
hate and nurtured in prejudice, the
results Of which are such that it will
require years of conservative prac-
tical administration Of public affairs
to eliminate the nefarious consequ-
ences resultant therefrom.
Available to Prosecutors
1T is not for this committee to
pass upon the questions pertaining
to the violations Of the criminal laws
Of tbs state. The evidence taken at
this investigation is submitted here
with and will therefore be available
to the states attorneys of the coun-
ties involved and the question invol-
wing the criminal features would
properly be subject for grand jury
investigation therein.
These theorists have had won
derful opportunity to demonstrate
their use in practice in North Dako-
ia: an opportunity to prove to the
world their claim Of far reaching
benefits and values of their conten-
tions.
What do the results show?
North Dakota is pitiful object
lesson to the world as to what greed,
dishonesty and faithlessness to a
great trust, combined with misguid-
ed theories of government, can ac-
complish z
Not Fighting Lies
1.-THE representatives IN office Of
these proponents are not fighting
lies. They would welcome lies. They
are contesting with the power Of
the truth about themselves. The
knowledge OF their own Weaknesses
inspires their zeal to- dispel the light
of truth by shade of hatred and
prejudice, and attempt to shield
their own transgressions by con-
STRUNG criticism OF their own mis-
conduct as attacks upon the constit-
uency which they have claimed to
represent
''The committee recommends that
the state confine its business activi-
ties to the matters which are in
their nature at least Quasi-govern-
mental in character: that 1t awake
from its socialistic dream Of empire,
Independent Of it's neighboring stat
es; that it brand as "quack" the re-
medies for, industrial injustice that
may have been recommended as the
panacea for all ills and confine it.
self to a specific remedy for each
specific injustice that may become
apparent in the body polite: that it
divorce itself from the false proph-
cts whose leadership has ousted 1t
from place Of honor among the
states Of the union.
THAT If, in it's efforts to accomp-
lish these results, a major opera
tion" is necessary that it provide it.,
self with the anaesthetic, submit to
the operation with the certain
knowledge that it's youth and native
strength and latent power OF recu-
peration will soon fit 1t for the stim-
ulant that will permit it to recall its
present pitiable plight as an experi-
ment valuable only as an example
to posterity."
The Introduction
Introductory sections of the re-.
port are devoted to presentation
OF tho resolution by the House Of
representatives under which tho in
yestigation was conducted, the form
OF organization adopted by the COM
mittee, tho time devoted to tho hear
ings. Q general outline OF the work
OF the committee and q list Of the
witnesses. .., t. a. ,5
While not SO indicated, an early
devoted to the attitude Of
Governor Frazier and Attorney Gen.
eral William Lemke evidently is in
tended as an answer to the claim
made by Lemke before the senate
committee that he was denied an op-
portunity to testify before the house
committee. The report says. :5i
ii, i: L. An invitation was extended to
Lynn ]. Fraster,l governor OF the
state OF North Dakota. to appear be-
fore the COMMITTEES. if he % desired,
and at his convenience. to make any
statement he deemed expedient. Will
liam Lemke. attorney general; was
to u appear before the
committee on Fob. ii q. However, the
did not see tit to accept the 4
Invitation and Mr. Lsmke ignored
the subpo oena. .5 .sS
!. 4 3. $R. sinkier, attorney It law, of
Minot. appeared Al, each of said
claiming and purporting
tosrepresent the public emp ployes CALI
~ - / witnssses and the i industrial
som miesion, M ts
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