The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 18

i a | R AN Q W W Any! || \ I S\ N ) I J A | i “He bid me goodbye and tripped down the steps” the idee. It's sum peeple's bizness to slop hogs an’ uther peeple’'s bizness to run politicks but the minnit you begin to mix hogs an’ politicks you'’re goin’ to have a mess an’ a bad mess, too. Now in North Dakota when I wuz runin’ the politicks uv the stait we had peace and harmony an’ everbody wuz happy an’ contented. Very few peeple cared about who wuz elected an’ very few ‘worried about who wuz defeeted. The bankers wuz happy, the grain dealers wuz happy, the biznessmen wuz happy an’ the farmers had so much work to do that they didn’t have time to be unhappy. You know work iz a mighty good thing to keep peeple kontented,” he koncluded. .1 told him I node that fur I had tried it nigh on to sixty years. “But what in thunderashun hap- pened, Mr. Crafty?’ I ast, betrayin’ much interrest. He leened back in hiz cheer, took out anuther seegar, lit it an’ blew a ring uv smoke as big as a forty-inch auto tire. “That, Mr. Head, iz a long story,” he sed deliberatly. “I can’t tell it all today, az I have an engagement with sum gentlemen frum Denver with whom I'm going to talk over this very thing, Not only am I goin’ to tell them the whole story but I'm going to lay plans to co-operate with them in stop- pin’ all this damphoolishness an’ try to maik the country safe fur politishuns agin. An’ I'm goin’ to need lots uv help, Mr. Head, an’ frum what I've seed ’ uv you I can use you to mighty good advantage. But I'm not goin’ to ast you to decide till I have explained it all. But az I sed, I can’'t do it at this time,” he sed, lookin’ at hiz watch, “fur az 1 sed, I have an engagement an’ am due thar rite now. But I'll run onto you agin an’ then go over the whole thing.” He roze, bid me good by an’ tripped boyantly down the steps, enterged a taxi an’ disappeared down the street. Yoors Trooly, RIPP. (To be continued in a subsequent issue) Farmers’ Governor is Right Frazier Pursued Only Course Possible Under Constitution and North Dakota Has Peace (From the Slope County News, Ami-. don, N. D.) Labor trouble in North Dakota this year has been reduced to a minimum. While there has been trouble in some parts of the state, in comparison with last year and in comparison with this year in adjoining states, North Dakota has had peace and quiet. There can be no doubt that the chief cause of this condition has been Governor Frazier's much denounced, but fearless and hon- est proclamation declaring that the laws of the state would be enforced. Governor Frazier declared that acts of ‘lawlessness, or plots or agitations to commit lawlessness had to stop in North-Dakota. He promised quick and sure punishment for those plotting to or actually trying to burn crops, dam- age farm machinery, intimidate em- ployers by threats or in any way dam-’ age life or property. The governor also said that lawless- ness against workers by peace officers or hysterical citizens would not be tolerated. Such acts in the past have included herding innocent and guilty alike and herding them from town to town, instead of punishing them on the spot by due process of law; beating up men who asked higher wages who were guilty of no wrong and who are as much entitled to the protection of the laws ‘and constitution as any other citizen. The one practice of herding men and driving them on to the next town to take care of, has been the source of unlimited trouble in North Dakota. Such men, often including many innocent of any crime or inten- tion to commit crime, naturally resent this unlawful procedure by citizens and peace officers and people should not be surprised when these men also take the law into their own hands. WAS ONLY COURSE OF HONEST GOVERNOR Governor Frazier's proclamation was the only kind of a one that an honest governor could issue. He said the con- stitution and laws would be enforced —not only against workers violating the laws but against thoughtless peace officers or misguided men who sought to take the law into their own hands. Notwithstanding the dishonest criti- cisms made by papers and others who are not interested in keeping the peace in North Dakota but who are interest- ed in circulating sensational reports to inflame the employers against the em- ployed and the employed against the employers, Governor Frazier has done more than any other governor the state ever had to eliminate labor trou- bles from the state and he should have the hearty support of every citizen in this great work. Grading System Unfair Towner, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: This government price of $2.20 per bushel for No. 1 at Chicago is Just about the cost of raising a poor crop this year and the producer is entitled to a margin. I do not want to be mis- understood that the producer wants a big price so it bleeds the consumer but he does want a margin and also let the consumer live. This bleeding comes from the middle- man and the government has given him a new weapon to bleed both the producer and consumer in this new grade law. There is not over five per cent of the wheat grown in North Dakota but what could be lowered three or four grades by the foul seed and mixed clause in the grade law and very little is suffi- cient for them to take advantage of it and make the producers’ crop sell for about $1.45 to $1.50 per bushel and as quick as they get control of the bulk of the crop it would probably be like it was with our 1916 crop which was sold by producers for about $1.20 per bushel and the consumer paid for his flour at the rate of from $2.80 to $3.20 per bushel for the flour made of this same $1.20 no grade wheat. So look out for it again. - I B. COORK. 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