The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-05-21

! people Of the state that could easily
have been given. The Bank of North
| Oak ota, which is now being oper-
ated practically as rural credit
| bank, has not made loans to the
farmers in the proportion to the
need. We find that the admnistra-
ton boasts of the restriction Of
| the operation of the bank. Well
can they boast while hundreds, yes
! thousands of farmers are losing
| their farms every year
He charged that special prosecu-
tors have been employed at the
rate of $7l day, so | am told, to
prosecute this one banker because
he was connected with bank sup
posed to be friendly to the League
while hundreds of bankers in this
state are II hundred times more
guilty of fraud and deception than
this man, and not a word said nor
an action started by the attorney
general ) department to prosecute
them.
He charged the present admins
tration could not be expected to
make the mill and elevator program
success, saying that the present
administration is opposed to the
operation of the mill and elevator
is beyond dispute. While they
clcyerly come before the voters of
this state and say they are willing
20 give it fair trial, they are all
the time working for its undoing,"
He declared that out Of 500 taxes
PAID a North Dakotan pays but Sal
for the upkecp of the industrial
program, and declared the mill and
elevator program could be made
success.
Bank of North Dakota
He charged big interests" were
out to get the Bank Of North Da-
kota.
The bulk of opposition is center
ed upon the Bank of North Dakota"
said Mr.. Thorcsen. The political
question of today, be, they state or
national, eventually simmer down to
a money question. Finance is at
the bottom of the Ruhr controver-
sy. Finance was at the bottom of
the world war. Finance was at the
bottom of the Mexican trouble. FL
nance is at the bottom of the scan
dals in Washington. The big inter
csts are willing that you get any
thing, just so long as yyou leave
the money to them. That is the
reason for the fight on the indus
trial program and especially against
hn ,,,1- = ~
What Fight Is
My friends" said Mr.. Thoresen,
this is not a fight between the
people except insofar as some of
these politicians, receiving their or
ders from Minneapolis and God
knows where else, have been able
to fool some of the business people
to believe that the farmers and la
borers stand for their destruction.
No, this is not a fight between the !
people of this state. If it was, it
would have been over with long
ago. On the one side is the capital |
list system with all it's money and |
with all it's agents fighting to keep
the great mass of people from
|
ment. They know that they must
keep the people from exercising
their rights, otherwise they will
lose their grip upon the people of /,
this state. And they know too we'll |
that as soon as the people of one
state has wrested themselves away
from their control other states will
follow. They know the end will |
come ONE day. Their only hope is |
to keep that day away as long as |
possible. But thank God, regardless |
of the outcome of this election the |
victory is almost won. The pro-
gressive people throughout this |
great nation are rising in one |
mighty wave. and as Pharaoh was
swallowed up in the Red Sea so will !
the spoilers be drowned in their owr
lnequity.