The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-06-25
HUGE CROWD
HEARS FRAZIER
AT n. P. PICNIC
Frazier Raps Big Business -
Urges Farmers to Keep
In Fight

five miles southeast of Bismarcl
Sunday under the auspices of tn.
Burleigh County Nonpartisan's Wo
mems clubs attended by crowd o.
1000 to 1900 people who took {
chance on the threatening weather
to hear Senator Lynn J. Frazier ant
the other speakers. Showers ant
threatening weather during Tho
forenoon prevented many peopl.
from attending from the surround
ing country although several aut,
loads of people attended the picnic
from west of the river, north AZ
far as Washburn and south as far as
Linton.
Mrs. Ella C. Boise acted as chair.
man of the meeting and introduced
the speakers after Mrs. Irene
Charlebois had welcomed the visit
ors for the Burleigh County w,
mems Nonpartisan clubs of which
she is president. John N. Hagan was
the first speaker and he gave a re-
view of the recent National Wheat
Conference at Chicago last weel
which he attended and where h.
served on the resolutions committ&
Mrs. C. A. Fisher of Valley City
president Of the state Nonpartlsar
women's clubs was the second speak
er on the program. Mrs. Fisher
pleaded for more thorough organ
ization of the leaguers and more
broad minded and tolerant spirit to
ward the leaders and the state exc
cutive committee of which she is +:
member. She stated that the com
mittee was doing everything i
could, handicapped as it was by lacl
of funds to keep the organization
going, and she asked the member
of the league to do their share il
putting the organization on it's fee
rather than leaving the work to fiv
members Of the executive committe,
who are serving without salary AM
who have paid their own expense
at many of their meetings in orde
that the organization might live
She asked for help and advice from
the members of the league, Stain,
that if there was any objection t.
anything that the committee ha
done, that the members should writ
and let them know their views, s.
that they could get the sentiment o
the membership. She declared tina
such course would be much bette
than criticising the committee whel
their critics were probably not in
formed as to the reason for tn
committees actions.
| Mrs. Fisher stated that Will
politics was comparatively ney
proposition to her and the womel
of the state and nation, she believ
ed that the granting of the fran
chise to women would eventually re
suit in cleaner politics and bette
conditions. She pointed out tina
men had run the government of tn
country since the beginning an
even they were too satisfied wit
their own work, and she believe
that the women of the nation,
they really decided to take the mi
tiative could do much better jo
of it.
Judge R. H. Grace, spoke on tn
need for the organization of town
ship and precinct units of the lea
que as decided on at the conventio
held in Bismarck in March
| S. S. Mcdonald made u short tai
on labor and farm organizations an
President Samuel Gompers of tn
| A. F. of L. attitude on the fixing Q
a price on wheat when railroad com
panies were guaranteed fixe
price on their freight rates by tn
Esh- Cimmins law.
Senator Frazier was the las
speaker on the program. He en-
phasized the need of keeping up til
fight for better conditions for til
farmer and workers. He pointe
out that the big business interest
are thoroughly organized and con
peteht to protect themselves in IL
law making bodies of the states an
nation, but that while organized Il
Dor has few representatives in OF
national congress, he is the on
real dirt farmer, who depends who
ly on the farm for living in eitht
house of congress. He stated tn;
while he was making several speecl
es in Nebraska last winter an Om
ha paper made the statement
commenting on bill that was b
fore the Nebraska legislature to e
tablish a state hank similar to II
bank of North Dakota that Russ
had experiments with state socia
ism to it's destruction and that
the people of Nebraska wanted {
example nearer home they had o.
ly to look at North Dakota. Sen
tor Frazier said that he found {
Investigation that Nebraska w
more heavily mortgagcd per CAPT
than North Dakota was and in r
, plying to the Omaha paper he r
. ferred to this fact and stated tn
he presumed the rea ION for Nebra
|, ka farmers being more heavily MOI
gagged than North Dakota agric,
turalists( was because of the fla
, that they had been farming long,
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