The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 13

Poisoning the Intellectual Well Farmers Protesting Against Turning Chautauqua Into Anti-League Propaganda Organization BY MRS. SAM DEAN HEN I read in the Leader | that the chautauqua was to be used as a means to fight the Nonpartisan league, it made my in- dignation rise—to put. it plainly, I was mad -clear through. Think of it! The chautauqug, that fine, clean amusement that has meant so much to the farmers, especially the rmers of North Dakota. The win- rs of the state are long and hard, and they' are pretty dreary, some- " times, We do try to have a few par- ties and dances, and those that live close enough attend the lecture course in town or shows' occasionally, but those far out must content themselves at home, and sometimes weeks and months pass with no social events whatever. ; How we do look forward to summer —summer when we can roll out the old car and once more get about to ball games, and most of all we look forward to the chautauqua. Why, it’s the one and only vacation most of us have all summer. Long before the snow is off -the ground we farmer wives begin our summer sewing—we want to have it well out of the way before chicken raising and gardening begin, and while we sew, we plan to make enough little dresses or trousers so that during the blessed chautauqua week we will not have to stop to wash and iron. And do we . go? should say—everybody does, and we see old friends, folks we’ve known for years, and oh, but it’s good to get away from the regular grind for a week, and isn't it fun to buy things ready to eat and be a little extrava- gant for just a week? I don’t suppose the effete easterner would enjoy it, it isn’t opera nor the theater, nor, as the Leader has it, a “leg show,” but it has always been a clean, wholesome amusement, and I - do believe it has brought more happi- ness into the lives of the plain people than any other form of recreation or amusement. The farmers especially enjoy the programs. Why shouldn’t we? We are not loaded up with good music, readings or lectures, we are not bored to death by entertainments. On the contrary, these things are few and far between with us, and when we do come, we enjoy them all the more, and so, clad in our best, it’s dollars to doughnuts you couldn’t tell us from the business people of the town who are there. We go and have the best time we expect to have all summer, all year long. And now they are going to take that away from us. They are going to send out speakers to talk against our League. Instead of listening to some good lecture on some of the vital questions of the day, we are to pay our good money to be entertained by hearing our farmers’ organization ridiculed and abused. Are we, I wonder? Just try it out, " Mr. Speaker. You come to North Da- kota and try it out! I'd like to be there when you get up to speak in Goodrich, for example. : Had you heard of the one-time sena- tor who tried last summer to speak against the League ‘there in his own. home town? He came very near be- ing knocked into a cocked hat, and that’s what’s coming to the man who thinks he can do that in our mest loyal North Dakota towns. As for the business men who help in it—well, they’ll find it the poorest advertising they ever did. ; If they really can prevent the chau- tauqua, or turn it to such base uses as that, the town people who are help- “tend such a farce. Well, I ing that cause along will undoubtedly find themselves attending it alone. Surely the country people will not at- If they do attend, the man who gets up to talk against the League will be quite likely an ob- ject of pity when they get through with him. At least, I for one hope so. 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