The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 9

oo 5 -THE NONPARTISAN LEADER NINE Among the Boosters for the League CARL MATSON AND WIFE. ALFRED LINDQUIST AND WIFE. Carl Matson and wife live on a farm near Deering, N. Dak. Mr. Mat- Mr. Lindquist was born in Sweden 46 years ago and came to the Unit- con was born at Stockholm, Wisconsin in 1876 and, has lived in North ed States in, 1886. He filed on a_homestead near Grandville, N. Dak. in Dakota since 1901. He is one of the first members of the Nonpartisan, 1902, He has farmed all his life and is a booster for the League. - League. it S e e S St e L e S SRR TR R T o d SOME MACHINE, THIS. . State-owned terminal elevator. $14, grain sacks and hardware and, at a much reduced rate and make _ 4. I suggest, also, that the state wire $30, for seed and grain $80, quite a saving. Let’s get together Antler, N. D. Nov. 2:, 1915. equalization board, be elected by the Then I have to save some seed for and talk matters over. The middle- _ Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Find people that it may be free from the 1916, wheat, oats and barley. Then man has spent your money long % enclosed, $1.50 for -which please en- influences of the governor’s office, I have to have feed for horses, hogs, enough. E. E. KUNTZ. | ter .my subscription to the Nonpar- or any other offiec. chickens and I haven’t got a thing L S tisan Leader. You are building a B . NELSON. for myself yet. I must have flour q machine that will crush the idle — and , other g{'oceries, clothing, wood, Gover nment P lans tO (_-.lj '\ parasites and liberate the laborer. THE MAN WHO PAYS, CONTROLS and coal and I need a stove and a Baer’s cartoons are second to none. pump and many other things—may- La}’ H eav}’ B ur den Respectfully, Valley City, N. D., Dec. 2, 1915 be a harrow and a set of harness E. M. WATKINS, Edifor yThe yLeader:—The men who for next spring. And I have no mon- On P oor TO Meet Supt. of Public Schools. furnish campaign funds for candi- ey left. This farming is great busi- ' rT dates have pce%tain policies they ness. Nothing but work, from day- DeflClt would like to see carried out. The light till dark, no time or money for ? : men elected to office necessarily -even a ten-cent show. Yes, this Washmgton,. Dec. 7.——-Incr¢?ases in Lunds Valley, N. D. carry out those policies in return farming game is a peach!” internal taxation rather than 1ssx’1ance Editor The Leader: I persuaded for the funds furnished. Now this is what I heard and 1 ©°f bc‘mds tp.mest the fiscg,l il e:’z- | Mr. R. B. Martin to give a lecture ~ he farmers of North Dakota are venture to say there are hundreds o, Penditures of the . administration’s j - while he was here. We had only, beginning to realize this fact and farmers in the same condition as this 9efense program are advocated by one day to advertise in and yet we will no longer accept the candidates fellow. I will add, that if he figurea ?ecretary McAdoo, °f. zhe treasur)]'é had a’ good - crowd.....After the handed to them by Big Business. the threshing bill and hired, help fo, 1P & formal statement deined 1eat woe meeting we signed up four, being They have come te realize that no threshing and harvestin and many ZiViDE an estimate of e revenue: all that were present, not already political party can work to the best other smaller items his wheat crop and expenditures up - to the pndio . : members. These four were fellows j ierest of the farmer who farms would not square him. the fiscal. year beginning next July. i that we organizers had failed to get, and of the farmer who farms farm- Assuming that- Congress will .con. { but after they heard the lecture, o ¢ at the same time. tinue in effect the present emergency | they walked right up and said. “Mr. The gahg that furnishes the farm- tax law and cust9ms duty on st;gl':;r, organizer, we are ready to join.” ers of North Dakota with candidates. y;opnt when I say, let’s get togethe: the secx:etargrd‘e:txmftes > ;:atw?u b'; AN ORGANIZER. for office at every election and also , 4 fight for $1.00 wheat, a lowe: 806,394 in, additiona revenue i didates with cam- s : paie needed for the expenditures for 1917, S 2 furnishes those can rate of interest and lower prices fo: includi $93,800,000 for new meas- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. paign funds, is the same gang that ¢ . Shaihinery ‘and other eteast: ncluding $93,800, ' i res for national defense. ~ X85 ; is buying from the farmer at wholex 400 1 pelieve unless we organize i i . : Odense, N. D., Nov. 23,1916. sale and selling back to him at re- o e N R v _ win Be" No Burden. Nonrartisan Leader: I hereby sub- tail. sontinge “to ‘Gl th g th ‘Zell ‘., “This amount,..says th'e statement, mit the laws I favor: The sooner the farmers control dtick e other fellow’s «weqn really be ralsed- by internal tax- 1. State Hail Insurance. the political policies of the men they 2 : v \ . ation without. appreclable’ ’burdens upr 2. State-owned terminal eleva- put in office just that much sooner Let’s wake up and see l.f there is on the American people. tors and flour mills. will they reverse the condions of n?t a way to make the midddle-men Deficiergcies and supplemental ap- 3. State-owned packing plant. buying and selling that is now keep- &ive up, at least, some of our ha propriations are put at $12,000,000, { 4. State owned banks. ing the mortgage on the farm. earned money. to which he adds $50,000,000 for 5. State-owned, farm implement ED. WOOD. Go into any town and you - treasury working balance for 1918 plant. see the merchant smoking ten-cent 2nd $25,000,000 for Panama ca_na_l,. 6. Abolition of State Senate. FARMIN GIS SOME GAME. cigars, all dressed up, with a bro: making a total revenue to be raised 7. State-owned telephone and tele- petidie smile on their faces, telling what for the fiscal year 1917 of $112,806,- v ¢ graph system. x : Schafer, N. D., Nov. 29, 1915. good time they had at the last blow 394.22. He adds: - 8._Single tax of farm lands. Dear Editor: A: couple of days out, the convention or the show. C: To Tax Commodities. 9. Proportional Representations . ago I overheard a conversation be- you will see them whizzing aroun “Merely as suggestions, I would say 10. Constitutional amendmentem- tween a brother farmer and a clerk in automobiles, sizing up the cror that consideration may well b€ given powering the state to engage in any i, one of our businss houses here. and figuring how long it will be b to increasing the rates or taxation on business that a corporation, a par- The -following is part of the conver- fore they can grab you again. Wh: individual and corporate incomes and tnership or an individual may. sation: SRR do they care for the farmer? It’ of reducing the exemption under the PO e s § Yours very truly, “Hello,. Jack, how are you coming? his MONEY they are after. I believe present law of $3000 for single and i JOHN VAN NULAND. “Oh, not too bad. I am still alive. its time to reverse this and get our $4000 for' married persons to $2000 R T T B e “How did your crop turn out?” money back. ¢ and $3000, respectively. The surtax THE LAWS HE WANTS. “About 17 bushels per acre for A card stuck up in a store read: could begin at $10,000 or $15;000. in- IR the wheat, oats about 85 and barley “If you deal out of town and your stead fo $20,000 as provided at pres- Desart, N. D. Nov. 25, 1915. about the same.” neighbor deals out of town, what will ent. Nonportican Leader: I am a mem- “Well, that’s not bad at all. You become of our town? A good ans- “In addition to any increases that ber of the Nonpartisan League and had in how much wheat?” wer would be, “We don’t need your may be made in the corporation and have received all the copies of the = “About 100 acres, 20 of oats and__town.” individual income taxes, a tax should “ 4 5 “WE’'RE READY TO JOIN” I know from experience that there is no end of expenses on a farm. Every farmer will see that I am -~ i iy i Leader. It looks to me like this or- 10 of barley.” This can be accomplizhed by us all Be imposed on such prdouets as gasoy - ganization is a long step in the right ~ “You’ll get squared up and have joining solidly and working together. line, crude and refined oils, horse- T, , ,"?. direction. : money left, won’t you?”’ We can run our own stores and power for automobiles and other in- ) ) There are several bills which have “Huh, look what we get for wheat banks the same as we are running ternal combustion engines and various been introduced in the Legislature —81 cents, oats 23 cents and barley our Farmers Eleveators, Creameries, other articles not necessary to men- iy = ¢ of North Dakota, which are good, 35 cents. And look who is wainting cheese factories, etc. tion. These taxes would be widely () but which. have not been enacted with an open sack to receive it. 1 ~ Winter is at hand now and the diffused and scearcely felt. yet. I will mention a few of them. owe for a binder, a mower, a new farmers have spare time to call mass “Certainly the nation is willing, 1. Single tax law. wagon box, my twine bill, and $160 meetings and figure out some way when it is able to do so, to raise by 2. State or county hail insurance, interest. I owe for 8 horse, my gro- to eliminate a big share of this taxation the amount needed, for such raised by a tax, adopted in_ each cery “bill is $100, blacksmith bill $30 big leakeage. By joining the .Equity a vital purpose as national prepared- _county by popular vote. - - ° or more, repairs $13, new plow lays we can get the bulk of our supplies ness and defense.” e TR e