. The literary digest. are employers of labor, be considered North Dakota now has is aa agrarian dictatorship, u The Literary Digest for March 29, 1919 remarks the Boston Globe, which reminds us, however, that theState is 90 per cent, agricultural, with no manufactures, andwith only one city of 20,000 inhabitants. In the same paperwe find this illuminating comment on the situation: A somewhat conservative Bostonian who often enthusesabout Middle-Westerners came home the other day with aglowing story of North Dakota. They are Socialists out there,arent they? inquired a dubious
. The literary digest. are employers of labor, be considered North Dakota now has is aa agrarian dictatorship, u The Literary Digest for March 29, 1919 remarks the Boston Globe, which reminds us, however, that theState is 90 per cent, agricultural, with no manufactures, andwith only one city of 20,000 inhabitants. In the same paperwe find this illuminating comment on the situation: A somewhat conservative Bostonian who often enthusesabout Middle-Westerners came home the other day with aglowing story of North Dakota. They are Socialists out there,arent they? inquired a dubious friend. Socialists? No! No!he replied. Socialists are improvident persons who are simplytalkers spouting ideals. These are money-making farmerswho are going ahead and doing things! Conditions which place the farmers in the saddle and in com-plete control, adds The Globe, mean a rather emphatic revolu-tion, because North Dakota not long ago knew a railroaddictatorship, which operated not only through the transportation. HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR. —Morris in the St. Paul Non-Parii:an Leader. thousand j-ears would any observer pick out as a leader ofmen. We read further: The Leaguers now pay him .f5,000 a year as their of the farmers refer to him as their hired man, and in thesame sentence pronounce him the greatest man in see the League in its most spectacular aspect, one has to goto a League picnic in summer, when from .5,000 to 10,000 farmers,with their families, come together. Then one sees also A. in his most spectacular aspect. Those who havewitnessed the spell he weaves describe him as a re\ivalist withall the powers of a Whitefield preaching the doctrines of amovement that is to bring in the social millennium. To the ordinary observer, however, he is a puzzle, a mystery,like all the other leaders of this Leag\ie. One of the spokesmen of the League who credits Townleywith the gift of leadership describes him as very moody andtemperame
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