"The first settlers came to America for religious, political, social, and economic freedom. We fought England to obtain our political freedom. Our religious freedom is secured by the Constitution of the United States. Our social freedom was secured by the North's supremacy over the South. But this is the first time that there has ever been a war with ballots that has a reasonable chance for the common public to win over the "Blunder Bund" of the monied interests." -Fay Harding (1919)
"A genuine democracy bringing economic freedom to North Dakota tillers of the soil and industrial freedom to the laborers in her cities was born in the House of Representatives in Bismarck today."-C.K. Gummerson, the North Dakota Leader (1919)
A fascinating example of economic democracy and state ownership at work in North Dakota.