The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1922-09-15
ASKS PRESIDENT HARDING
TO HELP \. D. FARMERS
Flaxton. North Dakota,
August ~. 1922.

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Honorable Mr. President:
I think it YVES Lineoln who made
this statement: Labor was before
consideration at the hands OF gov
ernment than il capital. TO gua-
rantae to every worker the fun pro-
duct Of his toll is the worthy end
OF any soEernmsnt.'
HonoraDls Mr.. President, wish
that i could have the power to
bring you out among the producing
and working people on our plains.
that yea might see for yourself how
those higher up are determined to-
make slaves OF the working people.
We have jHst harvested nice CROP
God has been good to us, but we
have Government that allows the
nOnproducing class to take it all
away from us. Think Of it. Mr.
President, and when we raise Sur
voice in protest, we are called un-
AnIerica1, bolshevists, socialists and,
undesirables etc.
Honorable Mr.. PRECEDENT, you have
heard Of the great struggle In North
Dakota but have you H6aEd the true
facts Of this struggle. have be-
fore me a little paper called the
Pathfinder, published In ysur
beautiful city OF washington, D. C..
and terms itself al Independent
journal for the American homes.
Full of lies about the political con-
dittoas IN our fair state, ! note one
srtfcl0 iii particular telling what Me
Cumber has done fsr North Dakota
Yes. McCumber has helped the grain
gamblers, bankers and other DQliti-
cai graftars but what has he done
foE the real producers of Ne wealth
OF North Dakota?
We came heie as homesteadens
twenty-one years ago. We were
Young people then, and the Wsrld
looked rosy. What OF It Il we did
have to live in sod shack. Tor q
time. We gladly denied ourselves
OF many Of the necessities Of life.
Didn't Uncle Sam give us One Hun
dred Sixty acres Of land. And we
were young, ambitious and wilkins
to work and soon we would have
nice little home OF our own. Yes,
SO thought we d nd 90 ta0ugfH all
who came here and took homes
stead. Mr.. President. a say again
that might have the power TO
make you fully understand what
these homsteaders went through. I
know that 1t is hard to make ono,
who has always had plainly OF this
worlds good things realize what il
means "a "a moor: / read the other
day that 1T was the heigths ct cu..
tnre to he able ta INIT yorself in the
nthar fellows place. If this Is
true how few eaIltured people have
- +cdav Marmon r1,lea the Uni
vsrae "A nresiaent of our fair
land Vol, must be 4 cultured man.
With this conviction IN mind I beg
Won Ia follow me while i .picture to
You ii nv feeble way what the grain
s g ths,, a,,t @ .vo,,rsalf n orr riace
and ask n YOU could truly say that
mi. "a N sr6yerunlent of the people
hv tha naonle and for the people, 81
for 4 p4IyiIeeed class az nonpr6duc-
ers whose only thought n to get
mo9es Meso1ssIs 1.h0pNs N VT prssident. n aot what
a. VA ana today. aver twenty- one
vsars - N caaaeless toll? We find
home unon home being fOreclossd
on ana these faithful producers ~
the stan OF Life without wtic1
no man, woman or child can Hve. 9
say these men and women, after
I toiling all these years, many times
working beyond their siren gth are
being driven from their homes, &c.
ter twSnty-one years Of faithful
service IT, the nation. s9s