Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-12

ality of the opposing parties, "(if all
charges prove to be true.) etc. This
last in parenthesis vas omitted. My
only excuse is-if it is an excuse at
all-that / was in a hurry to get it
to the post Office in time for that
weeks issue of the paper.
But by what twist of imagination
can the editor make it appear that I
raj incorporating the business
men of Langdon, when the words
"Langdon" and ''business men, does
not appear in the article. If the L.
V. A., party does not contain any
more members than can be found in
Langdon you had better not start the
recall.
Let's look at things in q sober
and reasonable way: The nonparti-
sans never held that the 1. v. A.
was a party of free lovers. as the N.
P's., are represented by them as be.
ing. But we hold that the parasite
class, witt, but very few exceptions.
are either active members or in SYM
pathy with the l. V. A., as they are
W anting the same measures enacted
and the same men put ipto office. We
are all agreed on that. if not verbal
ly, then at least mentally. And it is
a fact that a very big %percentum of
moral lepars are to be found among
the parasites. This is not saying that
the l. V. AS. are all parasites. nor
that the parasites are all libertines.
The Republican dou't hit the mark
when it says that l got my inspira.
ton from Mr.. Snowfeld, as that ar.
ticle of mine was "a dirty slanderous
.insinuation." l got my cue from the
I. v, A. press in general and the
Republican in particular. But l did
not go to the limit that the Republi-
can did. as l did lot give names,
consequently did not insult anyone
personally. which was not my object
anyway. My aole motive in writing
what l did was to see how a small
dose Of their own medicine would af-
feet the L. V. AS as it had no affect
OIL the N. P. LIS, who are likely
getting too we'll used to it.
Now, n question: What started
this free love rot of the I. v. AS,
against the N. P. LIS? Was it not
that unspeakable bill, introduced in
the 1919 legislature by that moral
renegade Harris, who at that time
vas posing as a league member, but
soon showed what he was by working
against the league. l do not under
stand why the leaguers then and there
did not kick him out of the party in.
stead Of looking upon it as a joke,
for which it was too rotten. But still
it served the purpose for which it
was intended to a certain extent as
many we'll meaning but ignorant PEG.
pie did believe the lie, that the bill
was a league measure md then voted
accordingly.
l also am told tina. l am so filled
with poison an d prejudice. instilied
by Townley and other socialists hat
l prefer to speak evil and untruth to
satisfy my political disease. But
there is at least one disease that nei-
Their o partisans nor socialists
would be likely to catch from their
leaders-if they had it, which they
hsve not-and that is to prosecute
anybody. challenge any person to
prove one single case, where nom
partisans or socialists did tar and
feather, or otherwise maltreat peace.
able speakers, as has been done unto
them by sympathizers Of the l.. v,
AS in other states, who are styling
Themselves as a party of law and or
der and one hundred per cent Ameri-
canism. But did you nee any condem.
nation of those outrages in the l. V.
A, press? did not. But that is as
it always has been from the time of
Christ to the present day. 1t was
those who were right who were tor
mented by these who were wrong,
IF cannot regain my manhood
if | have lost it-by other means
than to turn lick spittle for the prof.
teers, it will haye to stay lost, but
how about the manhood of intelligent
and educated editors, who want to
pose as champions of democracy, and
who should be educators by bringing
the truth to their readers and then
instead of doing that they are trying
ALI they can to oppose the clearly ex.
pressed will of the majority of the
people.
AS | understand it the Republican
is out after scalps and that he is out
after Mr.. Snowfield's, Well, that is
what we expect from every honest
person, that he will retract and rec.
tify, when he finds himself guilty of
an untruth even if it was not told in
tentionally But if everyone started