The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 18, 1917, Page 13

e s particular reason—and & very good pamphlet might think 0. What it reason, from the standpoint of the N. C. U. The war has proved the utter tnefficiency of our economic system, which has broken down under the stress of the war emergency. The gov- ernment has had to step in by control and price-fixing to bolster up the tot- tering structure. e The men who are organizing the N. C. U. see the danger of such a prece- dent. They see that, if the govern- ment succeeds in its plan of controlling business, the people will begin to think it ought to be a pretty good plan IN PEACE as well as war. The N. C. U. organizers see that the private owner- ship of property USED TO EXPLOIT AND OPPRESS MANKIND has been proved inefficient and wasteful in an emergency, and they know that a lot of people are going to reason from this Alton B. Parker, interested in big mines and insurance companies, former re- actionary Democratic candidate - for president, one of the backers of the Na- tional Citizens’ Union, formed to fight the Nonpartisan league. 3 o i that, if it is no good in an emergency, can it be any good in the ordinary course of events? This idea back of the N. C. U. plans is revealed in the following, carefully guarded paragraph in its pamphlet: “During the war all - citizens will willingly permit any necessary cur- tailment of their individual rights and liberties, BUT GREAT CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO SEE THAT THERE BE NO PERMANENT FOR- FEITURE OR MODIFICATION OF SUCH RIGHTS.” Now this is all right too, if the N. C. U. means the abridgement of freedom of speech and right of assem- bly during the war. These rights should not have been withdrawn, even during war. But the N. C. U. doesn't mean that, though unwary readers of its BACK GOVER lutions were adopted: No. 277; of the people of North Dakota; Be it further resolved that Justice for The chief business of the department of agriculture this year has been to secure the-production of bigger crops. When the big food crop is ready, as it will be next year, the producer will " Jook to the government that urged him to produce it to see that he receives a fair price for it. In short, it will be the job of the secretary of agriculture to see that the farmer gets the price also for what he has been urged to grow. " Ppatriotic appeal to the farmer is not enough. ‘He is as patrictio as anybody. e R S S S e e e e i st pemetes e THE REAL “DANGER” S e does mean is that GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF BUSINESS AND PRICES OF BIG INDUSTRIES, AND LATER IN THE WAR PERHAPS THEIR ACTUAL TAKING OVER BY THE GOVERNMENT, must not be a precedent, and must not take away from private interests the private property used to oppress and exploit the people. . SEEN BY THE N. C. U. The N. C. U, according to 1ts pam- phlet, is afraid that “a majority of one vote” might some time amend the con- stitution and “sweep away all property rights.” This is a funny statement, in view of the fact that the same pam- phlet elsewhere states approvingly that “our government is what the voters at the polls make it.” If that is so and rightly so, why should the N, C. U. fear “a mere majority”? But, is there any danger in the peo- ple of the TUnited States *“sweeping away all property rights”? Do you think they are going to vote away their homes and their farms and all their other personal property—their foun- tain pens, their plows, their farm tools? Not at all. There is no such danger and the N. C. U. knows it. The citi- zens are not yet, nor will they become insane to that extent. But there IS DANGER that the people will “sweep away all property rights” in the great natural industrial and public utility monopolies, NOW USED TO EX- PLOIT AND OPPRESS THE PEOPLE —the railroads, the terminal marketing facilities of food products, the street railroads, the light and power plants and the telephone and telegraph sys- tems. THERE is the real danger, and everybody knows that is the only danger that the N. C. U. sees. It wants to protect THAT KIND of property rights. It has no interest in protecting the rights in property NOT USED TO EXPLOIT AND OPPRESS HUMAN- ITY—it has no interest in protecting you in your ownership of your farm or your home or the tools and machinery by which you make your living. Not the least. In fact, THE BACKERS OF THE N. C. U. WOULD LIKE TO DE- STROY THAT KIND OF PROPERTY RIGHTS—sweep them away into the hands of the Big Interests to be used, as other monopolistic industrial and public utility property is now used, TO EXPLOIT YOU AND OPPRESS YOU. The N. C. U. will furnish fat jobs for organizers. Any Big Business man will come through with the $5 necessary to join, and will pay thereafter the dues, which are in addition to the initiation fee. 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The or- ganization is such that it will appeal to most bankers, land speculators, trust magnates, oil, coal and mineral land operators, packers, millers, etc., etc. The N. C. U. ought to scare up 5000 members in Minneapolis and St. Paul— say 25,000 in Chicago, and four or five in Fargo, N.' D, including Norman Black, editor of the Fargo Forum, and Judge N. C. Young, attorney for the Northern Pacific railroad. NOR FRAZIER At a meeting of 40 patriotic North Dakota farmers at Brook- lyn Center school house, near Wheelock, N. D., the following reso- ‘Whereas we have seen and read the set of resolutions adopi_;- 5 ed at Minot, N. D., September 20, 1917, by the U. C. T. Council Be it resolved by the farmers assembled that we do not be- lieve that said resolutions passed by the U. C. T. o.f Minot, asl'npg the resignation of Senator Gronna and condemning the official acts of Governor Prazier, are in any measure expressive of the will Resolved that we believe that Governor Frazier has not by his official acts shown himself to be unpatriotic: we believe Governor Frazier is acting in accord with the will of the majority of the people of North Dakota; that Governor Frazier, together with the people of North Dakota, are patriotically supporting the president and goverment in the prosécution of the war for ‘World Democracy. Signed: Frank A. Johnson, W. H. Pingrey, Harold M. Shaw, F. H. Crook, R. J. Siverson, Committee. : the Farmer Other manufacturers of things needed for the war are assured their profits, nor is their patriotism reckoned any the less because they do get such prof- its. 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