THE ROLL CALL
The Roll Call ON MEN AND. MEASURES The Issue in North Dakota AFIGHT is on in North Dakota to wrest the state administration from the stalwart Republican machine. It is the old, old issue between...
...Burdick is young, capable, forward-looking, with a political record of service to the public interest...
...Catching Up THE United States Department of Agrieul-ture has abolished the "guarantee" by label under the national food and drugs act which is to take effect May 1, 1915...
...When the infamous TaFt-Wickersham railroad bill was before the House, Hanna stood loyally by the Hill interests and the rest of the railroad magnates...
...There should be a new deal all around...
...Hanna owes allegiance to the predatory powers that fatten on unrighteous privilege...
...Burdick sees them from the standpoint of human rights...
...In the primary campaign now in progress the voters of North Dakota are confronted with the overshadowing question: Shall Republican leadership be made truly representative of Republican thought...
...Usher L. Burdick is the candidate of the progressive forces...
...If this state is not to make the mistakes of other states, particularly in the east, it will let nothing stand in the way of laying down the lines right now for industrial justice and equality of opportunity...
...When he was a congressman in Washington his official deeds, as recorded enduringly in the pages of the Congressional Record show him as a "regular," a "pork barrel" statesman, whose vote has ever been at the service of the System...
...He struggled his way through school singlehanded...
...There as elsewhere the political machine has been interposed between the voters and their government...
...Let him watch the army of silent lieutenants that invisible government can control...
...Hanna, the present Governor, is one of the state's big businessmen, subservient to corporate interests, and has long been a cog in the discredited machine, in state and nation, that bore the name of Cannon and Aldrich...
...He voted with the Cannon crowd and helped press down the yoke of Cannonism upon the House and the country...
...But the will of the people of North Dakota has not yet found complete expression in matters of government...
...Five times on the very first day of his service in the House, Hanna delivered his vote over to the Cannon-Tammany-Wall Street organization...
...Hanna stands for the perpetuation of Machine government...
...L. B. Hanna is the candidate of the reactionaries...
...Throughout his whole political career Hanna has been a corporation ally and a machine man...
...This action on the part of the United States Department of Agriculture is in striking confirmation of the attitude which Dairy and Pood Commissioner J. Q. Emery of Wisconsin has maintained since the national food law was enacted and went into effect...
...Commissioner Emery has strongly opposed the movement of special food interests to secure such amendments to the food laws of Wisconsin that they should conform exactly with the national food law...
...Let him keep in mind all the time that there is a big issue at stake...
...North Dakota's campaign is being followed in all parts of the nation...
...The Department now holds that each of these legends is misleading and deceptive in that the public is induced to believe by such legend and serial number that the articles to which they relate have been examined and approved by the government and that the government guarantees that they comply with the law...
...Hanna a System Henchman MORTH DAKOTA is a progressive state...
...Hanna stands for the Old Order...
...He has strongly and persistently opposed among other things amending the Wisconsin law so as to adopt the "guarantee" feature of the national law...
...He voted for the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and for the general run of standpat legislation...
...Are the people of that state going to clean every vestige of the insidious Machine out of the state house...
...These combines are part and parcel of the Machine in state and nation that Governor Hanna has so long been serving...
...THERE should be no question as to the peo-ple's choice...
...Today he is an able lawyer, a successful farmer, an experienced and efficient public official...
...Something must be done, for instance, to free the farmer from the clutches of the big Grain Combines at the terminal markets that now have him at their mercy...
...Now the United States authorities charged with the enforcement of the federal law have taken the position, always maintained by the courageous Emery, that the "guarantee" on the packages of foods and drugs was a source of deception to the public...
...And there is already the 'great agricultural problem of marketing farm produce in the interest of the farmer...
...Burdick owes allegiance only to the thousands of men and women in whose rights he believes and for whose welfare he has fought...
...He made his own way from the moment he left school...
...In clashes between public interest and corporation interest he has been tested and found not wanting...
...He supported progressive measures only when his vote was not needed by the System and when to do otherwise would have clearly meant political destruction...
...It is the old, old issue between the forces of progress and the forces of reaction...
...The manufacturing interests are giving promise of one day vying with the agricultural industries...
...North Dakota was free from special interest domination once: let it...
...Burdick stands for the New...
...Like the other Granger states of the Northwest it early learned the danger to our free institutions that lies in the control of the railroad monopoly over government and business...
...Otherwise the time will come when the task of righting the resultant wrongs will be a bitter task indeed...
...be free again...
...Burdick spent his boyhood fighting poverty on a frontier farm...
...Progress or Reaction...
...Burdick stands for the right and duty of the people to rule their own government...
...They will if they nominate Burdick, and elect him...
...Its outcome will determine who shall rule the Republican party in that state—the People or the Bosses...
...This machine, though battered, is still in operation...
...The result of the contest between Burdick and Hanna and between the forces they represent, will have a vital bearing upon the political history of North Dakota for years to come...
...Consider this: North Dakota's vast coal beds are just now being exploited by capital...
...As legislator, speaker of the House, and Lieutenant Governor, Burdick helped give North Dakota an anti-pass law, regulation of railroads, direct primaries and a corrupt practices act...
...Let every North Dakota voter in this campaign keep his eyes open to the power of money over the press...
...In accordance with the regulations prescribed by the three secretaries for the enforcement of that act, the legends "Guaranteed under the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906, or "Guaranteed by (name of the guarantor) under the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906," have been used on the labels or packages of foods and drugs accompanied by a serial number given by the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Hanna sees legislative problems from the standpoint of property rights...
...Republican voters in every state and in the nation must rid their party of the Hannas who misrepresent them...
...All his life he was learning to see things from the viewpoint of the great mass of men and women who work for their living...
...Burdick's Progressive Record AT THE time Hanna was in Washington serv-ing the machine, Burdick was in Bismarck fighting the machine...
...On the memorable day when the House insurgents fought the Cannon machine to a standstill on the question of rules, Hanna cast his vote steadfastly on the side of the System gang...
Vol. 6 • June 1914 • No. 23
