The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-20
THIRTY CENT DOLLARS
Bismarck, N. D..

Editor, Tribune: The editorial,
"Rise and Walk" as printed in re-
cent issue of the Tribune contains
much good common sense. Among
other things the writer declares dol
lars are being sold for 80 cents. II
this is true, what about the stagger-
ing toll of farm Indebtedness for
which creditors are still demanding
100 cents on the dollar, together with
high interest rates?
To be sure, the farmers dollar
has shrunk to 80 cents or even below
that figure, but his debts still re-
main stationary. Taxes are being
slowly reduced-too slowly we fear,
and only upon the peoples demand
that something be done about the
matter. Why shouldn't the farmers
through their powerful organizations
demand the scaling down of their
Indebtedness to meet present condi-
lions and their ability to pay? Is
there any reason at all for farmers
continuing to pay high fictitious
prices for everything they have.
prices which prevailed and were con-
tracted for in times of plenty. and
when farm products sold for several
times what they bring today?
More and more our thoughtful
writers and economists are calling our
attention to the fact that present
conditions of unemployment and
starvation on the one hand and a
bloated plutocracy on the other cam
not continue. That unless some
thing is done. and that quickly, we
are going to have an actual revolu-
ton on our hands.
Let us not think that, because our
present government has continued as
long as it has, that 1t can endure
under any and all conditions. Re-
member it is only for the past gen.
Grafton or so that we have had Am
! erican millionaires and billionaireS.
In our grandfather's time, million
ares were comparatively scarce and
the man who had a million was
something to talk about. Today we
have several billionaires, and men
who possess several billions outright.
Wealth, in itself perhaps, Is not
wrong, but wealth concentrated In
the hands Of the few, wealth that
4 is used not for the good Of the whole
! people but for their subsection and
persecution, is not only wrong, 1t
us intolerable.
N I believe a mistake was made IN
the first place by our government
when it permitted man to amass
kseny sized fortune without let or him
lrance if. in so doing, the great COM
non mass Of people was robbed. To-
ey, 1t is practically impossible Tor
1yone, even the government, to
Ampel rich men to disgorge. They
u SO thoroughly intrenched behind
IS cial privilege they have our courts
3Q our laws at their command.
They have even been known to bride
orr highest officials, thus proving
there Is graft and corruption even
Id the so-called temples of Justice
Some appear to think that only
B red revolution can bring back to the
people the heritage they have lost,
Mat only through bloodshed can they
1tgain the right to liberty and the
Ilrsuit of happiness, but we believe
better method lies in the weight Of
y ballot. Through it, the people
"a still exercise their rights and
IKE their Just demands be needed.
want no revolution in America
as France went through before
people gained their independ-
|1t the Bourbons are bringing Just
kind of thing nearer every
by their intolerant attitude to-
the masses.
erican Bourbons are every whit
Feeling and unsympathetic to-
the poor as were the French
rats before their fall. Perhaps
lntry does not owe every man
y, as some claim, but 1t at