The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-03-09

school houses, libraries, and the like
are essential functions Of govern
ment. They are NOT operated for
profit. Eminent service regardless
of cost, should be the motto Of their
operation. H is not my fault that you
cannot discriminate between essential
and nonessential functions of govern
ment, or between utilities like po-
tato warehouses or flour mills
operated for profit to the producers,
and such things as school system
and others which are NOT operated
for profit. l never helped to bend
the twig that swayed the tree Of your
knowledge.
This reminds me of misunder-
standing viz:
| In building warehouse for the
farmers potatoes, my position is that
I want-the producers to reap the
major per cent of the cream Of pro-
fits on his goods.
l grant that the Nineteen-per-
center is mislead in believing that a
socialist-built warehouse is for the
same thing.
BUT editor dub has been a student
of socialism too long to be mislead.
Here is what the socialist platform Of
1904 contained and which has been
confirmed many times since viz:
SOCIALISM means that all
those things upon which the
people in common depend shall
by the people in common be
owned and administered; that
all production shall be for the
direct use of the producers; that
the making Of goods for profit
J shall come to an end"
| Now Mr.. Nineteen per-center, if
you will spend a little time inter
4 viewing members of the old socialist
local which existed in Minot BEFORE
the advent Of the N. p l.. you will
find out that they understand the OBJ
ject of a socialist (city) owned po-
tatoe warehouse is NOT to give the
producers more profits, but to give
| them cheaper potatoes than farmers
as private individuals would sell
them.
Now editor dub, what you say about
me viz: "since he fears to give his
name to the public the same instinct
would no doubt prompt him to follow
the trail of a sneaking coyote"
YOU editor dub, are posing as a
"nonportisan" editor. Is it sneaking
coyote fear that prevents you from
coming out in your true red color as
a socialist editor?
A. C. Townley stated under oath in
his bankruptcy trial that he was and
had been from the very first, editor
of the Leader, yet he never come out
in the open. Was it sneaking coyote
fear in you that you did not force
him into the open?
! Again, editor dub, the original
program of the N. P. l.. provided for
an executive committee "to be elected
by the membership" But the socialist
leaders usurped dictatorship, and
now when, say A. C. Townley's5 time
expires as member of the executive
committee, he with one other member
can nominate himself (section 6, pre-
sent articles of association) then sub
NIT the nomination to the national
committee of which he is member
(sec. 81 and then he, Townley, may
vote for. himself and act as chairman
of the meeting of his own election
| (sec. 16). You are in position to
know all about this dictatorship. Why
don't you expose it,? Is it sneaking
coyote fear in you that you don't?
In your last issue, you limited at a
suspicion about selling out the
league" You know all about how
the Leader in 1876, ridiculed the
Mckenzie Patterson gang, and the
Mckenzie hotel. Then in the face Of
all this you knew that there was Z
makeup between Townley and the
4 Observation-Disclosures gang during
winter of 1916-17, and ever since that
time the N. P. L. headquarters in
Bismarck, has been at that gangster
hotel. Why have you not come out
in the open and told the leaguers
about it? Was it sneaking coyote
fear in you that prevented
An octopus or devil-fish is all head
and legs, therefore it is a very appro-
pirate emblem for socialist-con--
I trolled and poly-supported thing.
The eight legs should be marked thus:
Republican. Democrat, 1. w. W., Pro-
hibition, Woman Suffrage, Anarchism,
Atheism, or Infidelity and Radicalism.
This leaves the socialists to crawl in
to its head and act as the brains Of
the king. Thus socialism is in its
glory, using the "nonpartisan" excuse
as a blindfold to hide it's identity
while it is supported by the many
factions.
!. Now editor dub, you may have just
as many spasms of ridicule, muck.
raking Observation-Disclosures, slop-pai
adjectives, jeers at Christianity, OF
any other line Of socialist statesman.
ship you may choose, but that will no,
. side track me, from uncovering thu
recorded truth about socialism. Thu
curfew-of- deception echoed in til,
name Of "nonpartisan" shall no longel
Ivibrate, without exposure.
\ = 2 q i . ~ ts ri