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Show ; The NonPartisan League In V North Dakota SSL . ' Although some of the organizers and leaders of the W x Nonpartisan League are under indictment for disloyal I utterances, the success of Governor Frazier, the candi- j date of the League, in the Republican primaries of North ! A Dakota is not an indication that the farmers of North aj Dakota are not loyal to the nation and its cause. It sim- r' '' ply indicates that the farmers of that state, who sup- ''- "V ported Governor Frazier for renomination, have not kr ' ' iully understood all-the issues.' As the Grand- Forks "Herald" of June 26, primary day, said editorially: "To- ' " day's primary will not be a test of the loyalty, of North ', l Dakota. It will, however, indicate whether or not the . ' -V ' people of the state, and especially the farmers, have yet fcjfejr- reached a true conception of the charactr of the men fifist w have )een successful in obtaining the acceptance of Jf tneir leadership by a large number of our people." ,W A reader in North Dakota has sent us the account of 1 Stev ' " a speech made in the campaign by A. C. Townley, presi- s pTl - dent of the Nonpartisan League. In this he referred to U hi.' the business men as "leeches" and "bedbugs" and ?$ " 'skunks.'? This speech is characteristic of much of the 'iff?- - spirit-of the movement. That it has tended to promote UV- -" class prejudice ,or "class consciousness," as the Socialists f . , call it, is not to be denied. So pronounced is the.Bolshe- $ . vik temper of the League in some quarters that some of f its members have stated ,as reported by a member pro- i ' ' liounced to be in gooa standing by no less a person than , the president, that 'they would just as soon live under 's! f the rule of the Kaiser as under Wall Street. Loose talk s' . of this kind about the bourgeoise in Russia has been en- it couraged by the Bolsheviki to Russia's undoing. This sort of thing bodes no good to a free people. But it is wrong to imagine that the farming people of the North- . x , west are not stalwart Americans. , . It is unfortunate that necessary social progress, and ''. r '' particularly the needed advancement of the farmers, w&n cannot apparently be made without the injection of the W , spirit of disunion. The nation has been experiencing the K.' great power that comes from unity; and any region that J has not grown in the unity of its people during this past ,' . - vear nas 3een at a disadvantage. The greatest indict- fcrjS iwent against the Nonpartisan League is that at this time mmb, national and international peril when the nation nedds Wfirp- the united action of all of its people, the tendency of txia mT leaders of the eLague has bee'n tp stir class antagonism. B " So far, however, we have seen no evidence that the B-. Nonpartisan League has shown the temper displayed in H the crude and impious verses produced as evidence in the S . trial of the I. W. W. leaders, and reported in the special Wk correspondence on another page" The disloyalty ex- H pressed in these' verses is directed, not merely against xthe nation and its soldiers, not merely against the cause for which the Nation is fighting, but against the family, H against religion, against faith in chivalry and honor, H against all the spiritual resources of mankindThe Out- ' , ' look.' Vr ' J ., & -. - |