Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-20
THE sA1rE OLD CAME.

\ s SaAA lA 80 III asnsw man M the United States ssn-
ate but he has very early got on TO some 81 the political
sa1 IS which FniA have been played by y good many others
who have preceded him In congress. He has used tho
I g mn Of the government to distribute hs own poMt-
tc .d propasanda and. to pave the way Tor his reelection
Wnen the term upon which he has Just entered has err
pred. The first speech which he delivered IN the senate
vas one reiatinss to the political developments In North
DaAota In which he took the side 81 Townley,# Lernks,
And their tribe, and that speech Has since been scircuiated
under the senatorial frank. printed and distributed It tn
expense OF the tax payers Of the United states.
That ts the speech. in which Senator Lad took oc-
casion to censure former President TAFT Tor an address
IN which the latter declared that the Nonpartisan League
was not 2 patriotic Organizations. Taking that tor his
-. .aa : nj, lao launched INC out into = history Of the Leasue.
ana a defense Of It's acts. That speech is now being cir
culaIed among the voters of North Dakota for the pur-
pose OF demonstrating to those voters whats true friend
tr'sty friend they have In Senator SLadd.
That Is the speech In which Mr.. LAdds ATTRIBUTED to the
ENonpartean League, and sometimes directly and come
times inierentiany. to the leaders and organizers Of that
body all the patriotic work which had been done by the
people OF North Dakota during the entire war period
It will be interesting to ! good many North Dakotans
VINO are not in any way associated with the Nanparfisan
League to know that whatever patriotic effort they may
nave made, whatever their sacrifices may have been,
|~hatever contributions they may have made in any way
70 the work of$the nation in the war, are being credited
to Mr.. Townley and his organization. This will be news
to a good many OF them. They have been under the i'm
preston that whatever they did in.support of the nation
during that crisis was due to their own innate1feeMng Of
patriotism and their recognition OF the obligation Ell cit
Ilzens, ana not to any effort which Mr.. Townley, Mr..
Lemke, Thomas Allen Box and others Of their glorious
company may have made.
Mr.. Ladd in his addressesaid a great many things, but
q great many others were omitted. He landed the patri-
odsm of the organization for which he has become one OF
the sponsors as he is one OF its chief benehciaries. but he
neglected TO say that the chief organizer Of that body is
now under sentence for his unpatriotc acts during the
war. He made no mention OF the fact that Mrs. oHarc.
who was endorsed and vouched for by the Nonpartisan
League governor Of the state, had se-ved a term in prison
for unpatriotic language. He refers to the North Dakota
Safety Commission but he neglects to make any mem
ton Of the peculiar banking enterprise Of Thomas Alien
Box, the man who headed that commission. He rerers
to the Bank OF North Dakota as one Of the grand ana
glorious enterprises inaugurated by the Nanpartisan
League, but he omits al. mention Of the Scandinavian
American Bank Of Fargo, and the peculiar methods
which were employed through the cooperation OF that
concern with the Bank of North Dakota in financing
politicians and their enterprises. The address is remark
able not only for what it contains but for what it ornlts,
and an estimate can be plated upon 1t only by due ret
gard to the COMMISSIONS. It is a political. document cir
culated for political purposes and it is quite possible that
ts circulation may have an. effect not anticipated or in
tended by its author. 4 S 81 4.