Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
SIMPLE N EASY.

The Nonpart1san league has a candidate for gov
ernor OF South Dakota this year in the person of a
candidate for a mere state office, Miss Daily has de-
voted thought to national problems and she has
thought to some purpose. She has a solution for
the present troubles which embarrass the country
by cutting off its supply of coal and menacing it's
entire transportation business.
Miss DAILY proposes that the government take
over the coal mines and railroads and pay the strik-
ers what they demand. Just like that:
The taking over of the mines and railroads
would be a relatively triding matter. We might fol-
low the lllustrious example of Trotkzy, Lenin, ct al,
and just take them over. The Moscow worthless
use the term "nationalize' in this CONNECTION. There
are many people who prefer direct action, and ma
tionalization such as has been ~practiced in Russia is
about as direct as anything can be. u
Or, if more indirect methods were preferred,
the property might be paid for. The cost, of course,
wouldfreach many billions, but billions count for
little when a principle is to be put into effect. Fur
%thermore, the billions which would be necessary to
pay for the property would be a mere bagatelle com
pared with the ~trilions and squintillions which
would be necessary to keep the mines and railroads
going.
It is in the cost of operation rather than Of ac-
QUESTION that there would arise such principal COM
%plications as were to be dealt with. Miss DAILY pro-
poses that the government, having taken over all
this property, shall pay the strikers what they de-
mand and this is certainly very handsome of her.
he strikers having obtained what they demanded,
and the government being an easy mark, and en-
dowed with authority to create a million dollars
where only one grew before - as witness Russia.
|again-there would presently be a demand for more,
for a little more is never quite enough, and the gov
eminent having launched itself on a program of
giving what is demanded could not very we'll stop.
The several millions of men employed in the coal
and transportation industries having been taken care
of by the granting Of all their demands, those en-
gagged in other industries would demand their turn.
Their just demands being refused, they would be
supported by strikes, and it would be necessary for
the governmental take over the other industries
and pay the other workn1en what they~demanded
A little PROSECUTING with black Jacks and steel
knuckles ought to get all the farm laborers enrolled
in the l. w. w, and a carefully timed strike would
put a crinp in the whole farming business. Then
1.-The farms could be taken over, and the government
would pay the farm hands whatever they demanded
and What they demanded would be a-plenty.
When the supply Of money ran out, as it certainly
would, more could be printed, Just as in Russia. or
we might at about that stage abolish money alto
Igethcr. 1t wouldn't make much difference.
It would be interesting to have the comment on
this Nonpartisan league plan of DR.. Ladd, North Da-
lkotas league member Of the senate, and of Mr.. Fra
[zIer, another Lacquer who is trying to get into the
SENATE. Are they in favor Of taking over the rail-
roads and mines and paying the strikers what they
demand, and are they in favor of all the conse-
tquences which would flow from that act? or do
they repudiate the South Dakota fellow worker and
her plan and stand Tor some method of settlement
which IS contrary to the principles Of the league?
IA gentleman by the name ar II CI@ve DA.r