The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-02-21
The Predicament in North Dakota

The PROSTITUTION Of words is n common vice. but not often has
that vice been exhibited more wanionly than 1t was when the or
ganizcrs Of the Nonpartisan League gave it ITS name. Nonparusan
il IS In the technical sense that It's members iorswcar allegiance to
an noliical nariics. Iut 10 the substantial sense of purpose no
organization could be more partisan than the Nonportison League.
since L dc,o,cs 3d. energies % thc promotion col the interest "'
n single class. Politically nonpaftisan. socially and economically 1t
has been imbucd with that iauatical degree Of parusanshnp which
recognized no rights nor virtues which lay beyond the line cireum-
scrlinr the selfish interests OF its own members.
Most people iofesau that tue disregard al the principles oi
Justice and Of the natural laws OF rohtisl economy and hnanec
which the purpose and policies Oh the Nonpal'san league -
mircd must eventually bring disaster ON the community which
tolerated it by giving that organization control OF us p9nVom -
fairs. That easy prophecy seems to have been ahm'danty iuDIleu
IN the experience col the people OF North Dakota Disaster has
come upon them, and they are confronted b., ue necessity " Nfeel
ing their political aiats from lr grip. "i me N'n"usI' ','5"
as thc edy means OF fescuing ihcmscve, rom tr plight ID im'
brought thcm into. 10 give effect to measures which were do
signed To- promote the interest OIL a single class alone thai "l INC
farmers the league put the state banks under the hidlance oi ITS
officers. and. after cNhau,tng the resources oil the state. com
mandccrcd the resources OF the banks TO finance their socalistc
projects. In that way they banbrupted the State Treasury, and
thereafter brought insolvency on thirty or more state banks ana
ON thousands OF individuals who had made them the repositories
of their funds. Moreover. those State banks which they did not
thus bring into abicct insolvency they roduccd to a state OF en-
f.ctlcrent which renders them almost impotent to perform their
functions. All the money in the State Treasury and in these
which TAINTED every principle Of Justice and equality they appro-
priated to the effort to aggrandzc a single class OF the States
citizens. Now they are without further resources. To get more
they sought to use the States credit by the sale OF 100000 OF
entity but under the condition that the laws which had brought
the State into this plight be repealed, and that those who had ush-
hold. - se.1Ess
That price the officers Of the league have not been willing to
paw for the financial sueeor they had to seek beyond the confines
of the State among men who were free OF the tyranny Of their
political power. 1t is because they have not been willing to pay
that price.by r%elpqushing their power that the people OF North
Dakota are confronted by the necessity Of Wrestling their political
affairs from the grip OF the Nonpartsan League as the only means
Of arresting the disaster that that body had brought upon them.
This is Immediately the task that awaits the people OF that
state. BY refusing to drive the Nonpartisan League from power.
they will insure the speedy completion Of the ruin it has brought
about. BY driving it from power, they can get the help needed to
work themselves out Of the ruin already done. In either case they
will be made to pay a heavy penalty for tolerating the rule of
ideas at war with principles OF human nature which, for being
that, are the laws Of social progress that ineXoraby bring con
fusion and grief to those who defy them-Dallas News.