The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-11-04
'AUAI.l DAnUIA hEIURNS
TU THE UNION VIA RECALL

AD I'LL UissDA VIA nL.hlL
North Dakota returned to The
Inioa wa one Of the banners carried
N The Fargo celebration wien tie
state "edaened itself from Tcwnley-
isN and socialism las1 week. Ii j.
said i3e celebrations in man. Of tie
ROWS of our sister state eoua'led the
ce!eo.ation that was put on TIE first
aimi@tce dav at The ending Of the
world var. Prominent socialists from
al over the United States had been
Imported into North Dakota during
liza campaign in an enaeavor to hold
tho 19npaitiSan rore, bat the farmers
and people Of North Dakota knew that
their state had had enough and re
IN sed 10 be broaDeaten any further.
The nonpartisans had taken possession
GT the tate sCme five or six years ago
with 3 thirty OF forty thousand ma
jority. This had been whitfield down
more and more at each succeeding
election until the people Of the state
have rendered an unmistakable verdict
against their socialistie doctors who
have ..lnk the state into an abysm of
debt ard destruction that will take
years FOR it to be rescued from. even
ander the wisest leadership. TIE
people Of North Dakota have learned
that as they sowcd to thc ".ind Of So
c:a'i:n ard denlagogism they would
have 10 reap the whiiiwind Of social
and financial disaster, and for years
they have felt the earth crumbling
underneath them. The one good thing
that has come out OF the reign of So
cialiso1 in North Dakota is that i. is
4 Sanding warning to other states
that the voice of the demaycgue is
rot always safe to follow no matter
how Il!uring the sound may be Under
TIE heading "It was beautiful pic
ture,' the St. Paul News presents one
OF the best editorials we have read
or tie Moth Dakota situation:
Defeat Of the Nonpaltisan league
in North Dakota furnishes .orceful
example Of the difference between
theoretical ard practical government.
''In the league heyday an army of
demagogs drew beautiful picture
before the eyes Of sturdy farmers in
which was citrassdaa Hera of equal
|itv when the farmer wa. to get the
maximum for what he had to sell, pay
the minimum for what he purchased
get big interest rates for the money
he pat in banks, pay small rates for
what he borrowed, and so on
''Theae was 10 be Utopia bringing
wealth to the more or less impover-
ished by reducing the ;.ccumulations
and income Of those who it was con-
sidered had more than their share OF
worldly goods. Equitable distfibu-
ton was 10 be the new order, with Il
sharing alike among ali individuals of
the blessings and Opportunities u
iifo
"It was beautiful portrait, and as
long a It didn't cost anything TO lock
at it lie demafogs were in their
Glory.
"Ba. when given power and a
chance to riahc good, the leaguers
discovered many things about human
nature That weren't contained in their
picture. It is very true that there
should ne much more equality in life,
but the leaeuers not only found out
but demonstrated that equality coul,i
not cosac ont of their program.
''Ths farmers Of North Dakota also
learned that it required good hard
cash to keep on looking at the pic
ture they once surrounded with an
unbounded enthusiasm.
when they got to experimenting
with consumers stores, state bank, CO.
operative banks, cooperative news
papers, and other enterprises conceiv-
ed in sparkling in,aginations and por-
trayel BY lowing tongues, they were
Taught the hard lesson OF, experience
that dreaming something and doing
something are vastly apart.
The league can explain the rea-
sons for It's defeat, as it is doing, bv
claiming it's strength wasn't pollef,
that cvercosfieiessce brought disaster.
and citing a multiplicity Of other
theories, but the real practical rea-
son < found in the disappearing beau
ties of their once appealing and att
tractise pictnre..
1T Il 1saa3 ips the empty purses Of
the farmers who hopefully invested
in s0eislistic ideals and lost when the
w. 1lssss6 the inevitable clash be-
twelB hxselGzs theories and stern
pr.esise.