The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 9, 1916, Page 8

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER The above is a panorama photograph of the delegates to the annual convention of the North Dakota union of the American Society of Equity; which met at Minot recently. The picture was taken especially for the Leader.- The papers being held up by a number of the dele- gafes' a:“e Leaders, 500 o’f which had just am\[ed for distribution among the delegates. This convention brought together one of the livest bunches of cooperators ever aseembled in the state. The goat in the foreground furnished much of the amusement of the session. This is “Governor Hanna’s goat” and was kept in the basement of the Minot armory during the ‘convention, being brought up at psychological times, much to the glee of the Equity boys. Soak the Farmer “Everybody Else Does It, So Why Not lassen™* introduced in the 1915 session of the ) 66 ® 99 iiciature taking of ‘the Limit on interest counties could receive on their funds. This bill merely struck out of ; the law above quoted the three words “more than three.” It left the mini- mum a_county could receive on its HOW THE BURDEN WAS DISTRIBUTED MORTON COUNTY Railroad Values Real Estate Values 1914 1914 191 $ 75,1557 By Leader Staff Correspondent before. It 238,383 Bimarck, March 7.4 phaseot the Your Lawmakers Are Whole-Souled, B nen pase. " e iled hn’ the Caribou 40,432 8:2’;3% {?\i?l:;lsv:ec’:‘i?;fiitg{e :{'ol:;h lmbliv.i:a . ) Sommitiee Q:fi?tefsfigrgéunfies had Us,” say State and County Boards-- Judson 92,004 102755 77,096 85,910 . concerns numerous _statutes _whi Liberal Boys---Here s How the BANKS been gotting in any mmstances five Some Further Details Showing How the Land Owners Pay the Railroads’ Taxes Tawnship gpp‘lie Creek The great increase in taxes placed figures of record from Secretary on farm lands throughout North Da- Kositzky of the state tax commission 4 and they are therefore reliable and kota at the last '_.ax making becon}es official. ~ A summary of the results of fe ‘more real and easier of comprehension comparing railroad Sad et oiiat Lincoln $538,161 $597,408 BURLEIGH COUNTY Railroad Values 1914 $ 23,108 116,570 8,0 93,378 82,014 75,119 87,106 71,656 81,465 Real Estate Vals 1! 9; bankers and newspapers are respon- sible for placing in the state code for their own particular and substantial benefit. These statutes, passed by subservient legislatures, practically since statehood have taken tribute out of taxpayers in sums that make a staggering_total. A search through the journals of North Dakota’s legis- latures reveals the consistency with which laws made for bankers and newspapers have 'been protected against, amendment; or repeal by the and NEWSPAPERS Get Their Share many things required to be published. No matter what the quality of the newspaper offered is, whether 1t will reach 10 people or 10,000; no matter phat the newspaper oftering space is willing to take for it or how much competitors are willing to cut prices; regardless of the market price and the state of the public treasury, and 3308 of the state code, edition of 1913, It reads as follows: “The board of county commission- ers of each county in the state must at its first regular meeting in January of each"year designate three news- papers, qualified to make such publi- cation within the county, to publish and six per cent. Bankers at this session_tried to get through a law fixing the maximum interest a county could pay on sinking funds at five cent. This failed, for what reason is not apparent, for this legislature actually did pass a law fixing a maxi- mum interest on state sinking funds. Section 370 formerly provided, “to secure the safety of state funds,” the state could not receive more than three per cent interest from banks on average_daily balances of current b or repea the proceedings of said board as pro- I 3 urre it i i ~ stalwarts placed in legislative 5eats countios must pay seven cents per vided by law: provided that at least funds. It said nothing about sinking by the taxpayers when it is traced Jaluations in the five counties and 48 el e at Bismarck by the people of this nonpareil line and can_not, by law, one of the newspapers so designated funds. It left it to state officials to back through the final action of the L elow: 4 2;‘:?6 u'l'_fxee:; l:awsrlel:::“\aeel;;:':demfig offer or pay a cent less for newspaper must be located at, the "’cogmty se‘;ae ;’é stm a‘i"m“éfig“é’;; ’é etg,:; could, as state board of equalization to the Comparative Increase STUTSMAN COUNTY e T n e heroms oo Space. such coumty * « % % and the board soms counies wers SOHNE g by, county boards of equalization and Increased Increased Township they have been guarded as sacred One Rate For All per counted line, nonpareil type, for the 1915 legislature, making the max- to the actual townships themselves. railroad values real estate Peter privileges. ? And 50 newspaper s} is different the first insertion, * * * *” imum interest the state can receive The Leader recently published Count; t vah Sharisie S0 newspaper space e e first insertion. oh intrent e, oty 2 The Leader recently published an County ' percent values por cent Self Serving Laws from pigs in more ways than one. The rate for subscquent insertions 9%, sinking funds five per cen counting improvements, which were Burleigh, 8 twps. 11 19 If John Smith; farmer, had a nice ':exs‘tl;-cee;gl]line»;'gmperst must. li?t setvlfin fme fmi-‘g‘; cmfig 3115 ; E: !‘_’y“t‘;fif‘eg“; rg]‘;’_ time and generally in large sums mfi left proportionately the same,had been Stutsm'n, 15 twp. 16 34 fat pig to sell to one of the state insti- oeros Bor e pop, unty PrIILNg this 4 by the counties runs one time only, Worth a lot to the bank which gets increased 28 per cent in valuation in Barnes, 16 twps. 14 29 tati S thare was & law which he Price must satisfy papers with a big o t price is the rate them. Why senate bill No. 75, for- 1915 while all other property in the - Kidder, 4 twps. 11 17 ooy farmors, fad Bincod o thy Circulation as well as papers with lit- 8o that the seven-cent price is the rate i35, 0 0 Hies™ getting more. than state was increased only 16 per cent. — — Books prahibiting the stats from BT " Lo Chin creulation, Conseqmently . ! e more than 400 newspapers of five per cent on sinking funds, did To show how these percentages Av'ge, 5 count’s, 12 2 ing him less than 15 or 20 cents & going further into the question, that the state can give a lot of unfavor- DOt pass is a mystery. Waybe it was ¢ yorked out in the townships, especial These figures are enlightening. Bithinas 32896 pound for the pig he would be in ex- FilSrice was made to jeturn an ad. able publicity fo legislators who try ot desired to go too far all in one Hin relation to railroad valuations, Townships in the five counties shown Spiritwood 93341 - 108645 actly the position which bankers and gquats profit to the jargsst. papers, ¢ “monkey” with this law! session. T for 48 Sudividual toumgined figures in three instances had twice as great Bloom 106174 119,458 newspapers now are and have been papers whose space is of the most Some Bankers® La Makes a Distinction Tor 48 individual townships in five an increase placed on real estate as Ypsilanti 6,291 8,256 for many years, Newspapers have value because it reaches a large num- & R bk The law governing school districts £ oaken, &t Jandom. These on railroads, The cases of individual Corwin 41,154 53,856 statutes enacted in their fflqfr wl;lch ber of people. As a matter of fact n interesting thing about the 1aws and city funds is section 1480 of the t yfied o Vil Gae average increase townships, shown in the tables accom- - Hogasek 78,750 84,000 prohibit counties paying them less guch is the case. Very few if any of the bankers have got on the books to state code. “To secure the safety” of . 0 ly 12 p anying this article, are remarkable. than a certain fixed price for legal the biggest papers in North Dakota boost their game by keeping interest these funds school districts and cities t cent, while the increase placed on real Dy Stntsnn county, for instance, St. $830,419 $967,249 advertising. Banks haye statutes en- get a price from regular customers on the public funds down is that all can not receive more than four per y estate—farm lands and improvements Ppaul township formerly had railroad ’ 5 acted in. tiieir favor ‘which Probibit for thewr sosce 5. groat os the Drice these liws trate they are “to secire oy ot receize move tham ! o per —was 24 per cent, or twice as great and real estate valuations at about the BARNES COUNTY the taxpayers receiving more than fixed by law for the county printing. the safety” of the public treasury. or any other kind of funds. Why as the railroad increase. same figure, the railroad valuation in i Railroad Values Estate Values cortain fixed smounts I interest on Thore re pver 406 neaspupersof i The mesring of this o that it & bank Srel Jeopardize state and county t Figures Tell Stor: 1914 being $84,947 and the real estate Township 1914 1916 4 1915 bl funds. And, as it may at once kinds in the state equipped to take could afford to and wanted to Pay funds to get more than three per cent A 3 b $84,070. The 1915 figures place the aiton $ 90,683 $108,334 deduced, the price the counties county printing. Practically every five per cent on the public fund, interest, and not jeopardize school and 1 s previously explained by the railroads at $94,214 and the real Binghampton 66,286 71,465 must pay for space in the newspapers one is geting twice to ten times or putting up the gilt-edge ity the city fands to get four per cent? lgaader the state wished to obtain in estate at $110,744. This is typical of Oriska 92,792 is a fat one. Equally true is the more what the market price of space state or its political subdivisions re- "~ The laws are strict on security re- 1has 2 greater total valuation so that what was done in nearly every fown- Thorderskjold 56,856 natural conclusion_ that the interest - Is in tho community in which the quires before allowed by law to do- quired of banks to protect public funds Hon at & maximum of 4 mills, waad P °f the comty. Rhee it e arount - Banka una - Pover is published SE i iatabask ool ke the e . 98 depesit s that regasdicasio? what faise more revenue for state purposes. Raise is Unequal Baldwin newspapers have seen to these things. Costs Three Prices funds insecure. " Listen: e e ate: YaSetton D511 pros was incroased 23 por cent. Tha aaqy ;_ Classen township in Morton county Cotchel) i TR Nor is this all. No matter how Section 8322, state code—“Further, vides, In the case of county funds on Was that farm lands were the oaly 1 @ g00d example of what took place Hovert (Whore tlic Karmer Cets Off spaxsely setiled a county is orwhether o secure the safety of the county . deposit, that counties shall be secured Class of Droperty given macthe oMY in that county. Here the rai St Now when the farmer sells his pig ~there are less than three newspapers funds deposited under the provisions the’ bank in_double the probable den to meet this raise. In other VSSSEPRSC ool from S20LOST | pacey e e L o e o Cronissbncos shall Sobaty {SOE 0F b7 Ao, Iand bvices who oih qushiy Words, 2,559, while real estate was in- s conf y many things. There designat newspapers as commissioners i er the wetse e S8 O BIODOTtY creased from $217,165 to $525,768, out- ! s the quality of the pig, which tho papers and all publish all the matter the responsibility of the several banks 8 owning enough land to protect th ¥ tically the same or a less proportion of . 2lL Proportion to the increase in state: looks carefully into. There is required by law to be published, so proposing to act as depositories, and bond. The same provisions govern £ the total tax, while farm lands, which ~"®.roads. 1“53{;‘, -74,150 ,320 the matter of the market price and the ~ that each county must spend 21 cents ~ no offering MORE THAN the security of state funds on deposit, ' paid 52 per cent of the total tax in __ Stewart township in Barnes county elson 93,821 104,281 foct that there areseveral other per nonpareil line for everything pub- THREE or less than two per cent per Seven land owners must * 1914, must pay 55 per cent of the tota] Was also a mark. Railroad valuations T farmers with pigs who will offer or lished. One peper in the county ~annum on deposits subject to check sign the bond, or it ean be a surety W tax of 1915, were increased here only from $134, $1,146781 $1,810,901 have offered to sell pork pretty chean. might reach nearly everybody in the shall be designated as a depository company bond, in which case it n J Tt was albo shown that the propor- 378 to $154,698, while real estate in Then there is the possibility that the county and_ be sufficient publicity; under the provisions of this article” not be double the deposit, School tionate burden on farm lands was thiS township suffered the following KIDDER COUNTY state institution is low on“funds and there might be only one or two news- ounty commissioners in various ~district and city funds are protected S| raised despite expert reports ani increase: 1914 valuation, $149817; T E Railroad Values can't afford to go very high for the papers in the county. These things ~counties found they could get more on by exactly the same provisions as . opinions before the state hoard of 1915 valuation, $195.651. Tornaips 1914 1915 luxary of pork for its inmates. May- make mo difference, Three papers average daily ces of current eounty funds. SO equalization showing that railroads etail ryatal Springs $98399 $109,462 be the farmer will have totake his must publish the matter required by =~ funds than three per cent, if they could The laws ‘maximum interes B e vg, Wat rallronds The detalled figures of the 48 fown- Bleasant Hill 90484 "100,378 pig home without selling it. * = Iaw to be published and the supposi- ~do so legally. On funds not covered banks are allowed to pay on public Nt ishould Tave - had. Shers: peomostion s fape selecte e s ol Tappen. 89,450 99, ot 5o when & county of tho state tion is if there is only one newspaper by the above section banks actually burden increased insicad o loft the In each of fhe taxing disiricts can be , as was done. ascertain i ‘T Leader has obtained the actisl ~ aecompansing, oo 5 the tables 90,487 100,592 33685820 $409,667 ‘wishes to buy space in newspaj to abiiah the thises requived to b6 pube Euhedb law—and, by the way, news- ‘papers seen to it that are two others will be started on the were paying five and six per cent. were gef 12 per cent from farmers for money. on farm loans. So. house bill No. 107 was