The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 10

5 " The Roli Call. : : By Olaf Larson: Bankers 14, : Lawyers 4. Merchants 6. * Other professions 7. - Farmers 7. Look ‘at the above roll - call, This ?__ is a business roll call.” Tt means some- “\thing to the farmers of North Da- kota.~ There isn’t: any guess work about this roll call. It is official. It is ‘taken from 'House Journal Vol. T, sesswn of 1913 and the 1913 blue book. Dorn’t take our word for it. Look: it up for yourself, House Jour- nal Vol. 1, H. B. No 4 blue book pages’ 522-533. 2 . And‘what roll call is it? It is the roll ‘call ‘on .the ten per cent’ bill. It is ‘the roll call to reduce the rate of - interest from 12 per cent to 10 per. cent. the reduction. They voted to keep the rate of interest high. = Twelve per cent:looked good to them. Look at that roll call again. No- tice the figures. Notice the occu- pations. Does this roll call mean ‘anything to you, Mr. Farmer? Does it ‘show you something? Plain, isn't it? ‘We felt it before; now we cail see it. Now we can see why we are betrayed by our Legislators. Because they are not ‘ours.” They are the other fellows Legislators. of, by and for the other fellow. They do not belong to us. They are nof| of us. We could not expect them to be for us. And they never have been. They work for their own interests. There isn’t any doubt about that. Let us look at that roll call once more, ‘We cannot overdo this thing. 2 % For ‘it ig mighty important to us. Fourteen bankers. There were twen- ty-two in the House, all told. Theré are-twelvé hundred bankers’in Norfh Dakota. They compose one-fifth of & one per cent of the population of -4 - the state. 'In the Legislature they ” constituted’ twenty per cent of all members in-1913, - Interesting? - Rather! Four lawyers. There were * thir- teen-all "told. There are tweive hun- wyers in"North Dakota. They are one-fifth_of one per cent of the Carbiit: | | ol population of the state. And ten per Lo - . centof the populatlon of the 1913 Legislature. Seven:farmers. : - . -Is comment-necessary? ~ s e -~ But let us see what happened. : : Thirty-eight men voted against the i B ./ ten per cent law, ‘and in favor of 4 _ twelve per. cent.: ‘Less 10 one- 28 fourth of these men were farmers. & And what -did: the voters think of %ose thutymght men? Did ‘they permxt them - to. vote against reduc- ing the rate of interest the second time? ' Hardly. This reduction’ became an: issue in ~the 1914 campaign. The farmers were gvettmg restless and the signs of* - tlemen “who thrive by the interest ‘route -The people were awsakening. “must be reduced. And it reduced by the 1915 Leglslature The above voted against |- They are|- THE NONPAR i/ //;// ’ «// ; ; {Y ’?/f/ ;mll il SR J TISAN I.EAI)EII PAGE ELEVEN I FURNISH THE FEED AND HE QETS THE er: and Ten Per Cent--- The Roll Call 4 HE'S SOME. B008!' LET THE OLD MAN ‘ WORW. o{.)flcfil- Pmacr\mfi A North Dakota Dairying Scenei- Twenty-five per cent of the lawyers voted wrong. ‘And sixty per cent of the bankers voted wrong. Why should lawyers and bankers make laws for farmers? Another thing is evident. That no man should be sent to the Legis- lature to use his own personal judg- ment upon all matters. . These men are our servants. Let us have them serve us. Let us say what they shall do. Have them ‘throw away their platforms ‘and let us give them a program -for -a. change. = Let them stop telling us what they would like to do for us and let us start tell- ing them what we expect them to do. This is the way to secure represent- ative government. : 1 SHORTAGE OF MEN. Britain’s women of the future had better have an occupation or a pro- fession. Husbands are going ‘to be scarce, ;i : ; This warning has been sent to Brit- ish girls by Mrs. W. L. Courtnay, a well-known sociologist, who warned: the majority of them that an idle and luxurious age is past. 2 “I think the shortage of men will ba ‘terrible after the war,” said Mrs. Courtney. “Tffe ‘girls now in the ‘schoolroom will have 'a very bad time. do somethmg. “Women' in the future, also, “will shortage of available young men. 1t is extremely 1mportant to recognize now that few girls of 17 or 18 will ‘to become useful to the community.” Mrs. Courtney believes that women uable in municipal ‘and government work. Poultry keeping, horticulture | and farming should b2 spiendid fem- inine - occupations, -she- stated, 'add- ing her belief that the British girl roblem will be senous for years to i ‘WAswr ovr.nc'omsf : Jones met: his nenghbét, Smith. They ought to be taught to be needed in work because of the| ‘be able to find husbands after ths: war; o they ought to fit themselved will in the future be especially val- f$5,098,232. - : were $3, 155,957. RUN ON THE ROCKS Bismarck, N. D.—The general fund out of which the state government is maintained is again depleted. Today there is a balance in this fund of $29,044.73. The receipts up to January 1, 1916, will in all prob- ability not exceed $300,000 and the expenditures will | undoubtedly . run considerably beyond $200,000 and $300,000. This is to be taken care of by the increase of approximately 26 per cent in the valuation of the assessable property in the state made by the state board of equalization. The -payments- out of the general fund for 1915 to September 1 weré as follows: January, $98.345; Feb- ruary, $145,695; March, $248,345; April $134,398; May, $90,898; June, $114,709; July, 300,752, and August, $118,166, or a tofal for the eight months of $1,277,308, or an averagé of $159,663. Last year the receipts of the gen- eral fund for the last four months of ‘‘the year were as follows: Sep- tember, $23,368; October, - $46,160; November, $144,506;- December, $78,- 814, or a total of $292; 849. This gave the general fund an averagé income for the four months of $7 3,212, Sub- tracting * this the average expendi- tures per month of the current year of $159,663 and it will give a monthly deficit in. the general fund of $86,454. While ‘there: may be considerable variance’ in ‘both the expenditures and income for the remainder of the year yet it is a foregone conclu- sion that officials and employes and those haying business. relations’ with| the state will have to wait for a considerable portion of their money until ‘revenue begins to come in from the new tax. . “If the expendltures from the gen- eral ‘fund for the first eizht months of 1916 continue throughout the two year period of 1915 and 1916 they ‘will “reach the very ‘large ‘total ‘of _ Accordmg -to the state auditor, for ‘1912 and 1913 the ex- penditures from the general fund If the. present rate | ennial period. good ones at $5.00.: $4.50. to $5.00. in order to keep the expenses of the state as low as for the previous bi- It is safe to predict that the increase in the state ex- penditures for the years 1916 and 1916 will be -greatly in excess over the increase during any other bi- ennial period ih the history of the state. MARKET LETTER. (By J. R. Kirk Commission Co.) Killing Cattle: The ‘market < has shown a little strength This week. Killing cattle have shown a gain of about 10 to 25c while the best stock cattle have gained 15 to 25c. Med- ium to fair kind held about steady. Good to choice western steers $7.00 to $7.75, fair to good $6.50 to $7.00. Good to choice range. cows and heif- ers $5.75 to -$6.50. Good to choice natives. $5.00 to $5.75, fair to good $4.60 . to $5.00. Cutters $4.00 to $4.25. Canners $3.50 to $3.75. “Shel- ley” old cows $3.00. . Butcher bulls, $4.75 to $5.25.. Bolognas $440 to $4.75. - Common: light bulls $4.00 to $4.40. s The stocker and feeder market % gain of from 10 to 15c and has done likewise this week, making a big quarter gain from last week’s low - time. Seléct Tleshy feeding steers $6.76 to $7.26.° Good t®: choice feed- ers 860- to 10650 pounds' are selling from . $6.256 to $6.75, fair to good $6.56 to '$6.00. Yearlings and calves, good to choice, $5.756 to' $6.50, fair to good '$5.25 to' $6.76 and all’ common light off-colored stuff is selling at from $4.25- to $5.00 according to flesh. - Heifers $5.25 to $5.756 for the best, fair to. good kind $4.75 to $5.25. Feeding cows -$4.25 to $4.76. Right ‘Stock bulls at Milkers and Springers: Dairy cows held steady on good t6' choice kinds while common and‘ backward cows - are . slow’ to moye. cows -$62.60. to $75.00, fair to goon ~Good to. cholce $65.00° to $62.50, common and Dack: ‘ward cows $35 to $50. 'The hog mafket today ‘ruled ten Iatter part of last week showed a : S higher, sales ranginc from $6.75 to $8. = v Bood' heavy hogs are” now selling at ; comparatwely better - prices, while still dmenminating ag‘alnsfi 3