The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-04-13
Communications
From All The People

The fight IL on, q continual fight
without abating. Generally termed q
political fight for state control. For
state control means control Of the
people within the state.
/ remember well, how, three years
ago, the st. Paul and Minneapolis
papers kept the readers busy over
ridiculous comments on the North Da-
kota legislature. They could not pos
sibly spend the time and money. for
working against the North Dakota
Nonpartisan league unless ZONE pri-
vate interests were at stake. The
blackest OF most vicious. name they
can give it is ""State Socialism" to
scare private owners. into the rank
~antaeonistic to the, ,Nonpartisan
league.
Anyone with a small part-of com-
MOI sense must see that there never
was or never viii be any socialistic
act or even tendencies in the Nonpar-
tisan league.
The majority Of the state public. or
perhaps better the states farmers
were q long time, for years and
years aware Of the misconduct in
marketing their products. Wheat.
North Dakota's staple product, had
to 60 out Of the state to be graded
and converted into food stuffs. The
North Dakota grain was under the
mercy and tyranny Of the wheat
gamblers and millers outside Of u
own state. The majority Of farm
ers then came to a conclusion, to try
to remedy this commercial evil by
fighting those capitalists and middle
men with their own weapons, not by
socialism but by capital.
But in order to accomplish this they
had to legislate laws for their rights
and protection whence, it became a
state function because of the state
as a whole does not protect the com
mon people. The people are help
less. a. IL
But, the numerous branches in the
interstate commerce who had to live
on the profits Of North Dakota prod
ucts or Of the people, could not very
well let North Dakota go on to their.
independents without a fierce fight
1t would be foolish to wonder why,
The state owned mill and elevators
can not be expected to be q big prof
it making plant as to each individual,
except that the farmer gets the right
grade for his grain, and the general
profit would strengthen the state. The
cost Of operation would stay in the
state. That is money paid for labor.
The laborers had, a keen eye on the
issue and helped with their ballot to
set the legislation in the right direc-
ton. I think the laborer has q far
greater insight in the commercial
world than has the farmer in general.
A farmer car go as far as he likes
production. The more the mer-
rier for the capitalist. But the labor
er who-has the job to~finish the pro-
.uction, happens ut times to be shut
down or laid up. So not to have but
much finished product on the market
in order to hold the prices up, in the
other words if 81, 900 1000 worth Of
beans are bought at 4 and s cents pei
pound and sold at Is cents per pound.
. the laborer does not want to work
for the reduced wages he can go.
the overproduction only ap-
plies to raw material, not to finished
products.
I will conclude by urging every right
thinking person to stand by your pru-
dent Nonpartisan league. Remember!
that your governor refused to sell the
state control to the Bankers associa-
ton. Frazier never was nor ever will
be q traitor to our state. Frazier has
fought for you people Of the state.
Now is your turn to fight for him.
Don't Be fooled by the word Social
ism. The state has no more socialism
than Devils Lake has by paving the
streets.
A citizen,
P. ]. HANSEN.
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