The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 6

f i i { i {1 T e o e b SIX veying, irrigation, drainage or other problems that require its service. Chemical engineering not only pos- sesses the advantages offered in other courses but has access to a chemical equipment that is the most complete in North Dakota and is surpassed no- where for facilities in technical chem- istry. A large building used by a faculty of specialists in_technical chemistry gives to the chemical engin- eer opportunities sueh as can not be given elsewhere in the state. This description of the work at the college shows how the courses inter- lock. It shows how the college would be crippled by removing the technical They THE NONPARTISAN LEADER The agricultural college has done much in the past to help the farmers of the state. injure them. the farmers haven’t much voice in its affairs. It can do more. It all depends upon who controls it. It can do much to Just now The college question is likely to be one of the big issues before the next legislature. Farmers may do what they want on this question as on many others if they know what they want and are united. courses, and how such removal would fail to reduce expenses at the college. All this is aside from the other and more important consideration, which should be sufficient in itself. This is that, owing to the different principle ow Why Hollis Bill and pl‘u:poée $o ‘which the Agricu!tuml‘ college and state university are dedi- ' cated, the college will always draw the great bulk of the young people of the farming and industrial classes seek- ing a higher education. No matter what eourses are provided at the uni- versity they will continue to go to the agricultural college on accournt of the very mnature of ‘conditions. There should therefore be open at the agri- _cultural college not only the technical courses now pravided, but others. These courses should be added to in- stead of reduced. Otherwise these courses will be virtually closed to the farmers and their children. Youmans Makes It Plain to All Willing to See; Underwood Heads Plan to Jam Bill Through By WILLIS J. RUTLEDGE Special Representative of the Leader at thhhléton The Leader’s Washington Bureau 302 Riggs Building Washington, D. C., March 13.— Grant S. Youmans of Minot, started back to North Dakota on Thursday after eleven days of as hard and ef- fective campaigning as any man ever put in here. He represented the Society of Equity in its great fight against the abominable Hollis Rural Credits bill, and by all accounts he certainly did shake up the dry bones. Senator Mc- Cumber secured for him a room in the senate office building where he made his headquarters and whence he caried on his propaganda. 1 told you last week about a brief or argument against the bill that Mr. Youmans prepared. It made such an impression on Senator McCumber that on Thursday he secured for it the rare distinction of having it printed as a public document. In addressing the senate on this- subject the senator said that Mr. Youmans was the spec- ial legislative representative of the members of the North Dakota state union of the American Society of Equity and of all of its affiliated farm organizations, and as the argi- ment gives the views of the farmer organizations of North Dakota he thought it ought to be printed and circulated at national expense. Five thousand copies will be printed and will be ready for distribution within two weeks. EQUITY ARGUMENT IS A “PEACH”, SAYS RUTLEDGE There is no doubt that the argument is a peach and well worthy of the high honor conferred upon it. There. is no answer to it and after a senator or representative had read it either: he was against the Hollis swindle or he was so hopelessly dull there was no use of talking to him, or else he was tied hand and foot to the interests. The chances of beating the bill are now better than ever, having been greatly improved by Youmans’ visit and work. But it should be under- stood that the Money Trust is putting forth all of its: tremendous power an is greatly assisted by that dull brand of congressman that 1 mentioned a moment ago and will call the Good" Natured Chump. This is the member that means well, but judges every bill by its title and what its advocates pretend about -it. He thinks the farmers ought to be able to get money -at cheap rates. Here comes -along a bill that pretends to fix things 'so that the farmers can .do that. So Mr. Chump is for that bill because he -wants to be kind to the farmers. When you tell him that this bill would not-effect anything of - the kind but just make everything- worse he thinks you are surely wrong. BETWEEN CROOKS: AND CHUMPS NOT MUCH PREFERENCE There’s the title of the bill.- It says plainly - “To provide ecapital: for agricultural development.” - then, he’s for providing ‘capital for. agricultural development, -and that’s: all there is to it. -Between the crook -and the-Chump in public. life -isn’t.- mueh »choice.m%nt after many years: of ‘experience my - preference. is for ‘the ¢rook. You always know' where to find - him and-can sometimes circumvent his deviltry. ; Only the Lord can deal adequately with the Chump. : : ENOUGH MONEY TO BUILD The senate post office committee re- gorted this-week in- faver- of ' the hackelford - good: roads: bill: but. re-- . it survive and be NONPARTISAN LEAGUE MAKES'BOW IN SENATE Washington, D. C., March 13. The Nonpartisan League reached the senate today. Senator McCumber deseribed its | origin, purpose and present strength. He was strongly at- {- " tacking the Hollis bill. Hollis made a nasty attempt to dis- credit Youmans and the societies he represented. McCumber effectively defended them. There is a strong movement head- ed by the smooth Osecar Underwocd to jam the bill through. ; The farmers should lose no time.—WILLIS J. RUTLEDGE. wrote the. me#sare. The -essential plan is not much changed, but instead of getting $25,000,000 at once there will be but $5,000,000 the first year, and then $5,000,000 added each year until by 1921 the sum of $25,000,000 is to be reached. The reason for this change is mot known. Probably there isn’t any, unless somebedy is trying to wreck the bill. Twenty-five million dollars for roads distributed among the states on the basis of area, pepulation and rural deliveries, would, by the time it got to North Daketa, build abent a mile and a half of road. Five million dollars similarly scatter- ed would build about as much as lies in front of Jim Dooley’s front gate. FARGO DAM BILL I8 PASSED BY SENATE The senate has passed the bill to legalize the Fargo dam in the Red River. " Also senate bill 3263 providing for enlarged homestead entries to this ex- tent, that a man having entered on one tract can enter on land contiguous un- .til his total holdings amount to 320 acres. Also the Shields water power bill, d.- Which is so far the worst of the.ses- sion. H gives all the remaining water powers of the country to the water power trust for fifty years. Senator Gronna voted against the bill and Sen- ator McCumber was paired and did not vote. The reactionaries were solidly for it. The senate also passed Senate bill 592 to authorize an exchange of land with North Dakota to promote ex- periments in d i ry A The agricultural .appropriation bill ' - 1 shall was reported to the house. have something to say about it next week. : .No other agricultural bills were in- troduced in either house this week. Petitions and remonstrances con- tinue to come from all parts of the country against the Hollis bill. .SAVE THE PARCEL POST; ' NO TIME TO BE LOST Do you ‘believe in the parcel post? Are you for it? Do you want to see and improv- ed and become the great, cheap, effect- tve:, servant of the people it ought to e? 7 = : Are you with the public in its long ~fight against the mlp companies ? R e ‘you are, you have no.time to iose. The railroads, that kept us so lo; post- and have tried cea overthrow what we now national - house: of re agresmmves ‘that sneaky,- snaky Madden amend- it appea: ort was the - — - United ‘States. ‘Any time ~Canada - ilroad gu;d express: hv oY, nge ; gclayed their cunningest trick against " They have slipped ‘over in the. mment to-the post office bill that tl{iéy tried so often in the last session.to ' put through. This time they waited until only a few members were present and tricked the thing through. The amendment limits the weight of parcel post packages and, what is still worse, deprives the post office de- partment of administrative control of the system, so that it can be reduced and hampered until it is destroyed. The vicious thing now goes to the senate and on March 24 there will be a hearing on it before the senate post office committee. Lose no time. Write or telegraph to your congressman and senators, urging them to defeat this most dangerous move of the corporations. Write to every member of the Senate Post Office Committee. Here are their names: Senator John H. Bankhead, chair- man; Senators Ellison D. Smith, South Carolina; C. A. Swanson, Virginia; N. P. Bryan, Florida; J. E. Martine, New Jersey; Luke Lea, Tennessee; J. K. Vardaman, Mississippi; T. 'W. Hard- wick, Georgia; J. C. Kentucky; Boies Penrose, Pennsylva- nia; C. E. Townsend, Michigan; T. B. Catron, New Mexico; L. B. Colt, Rhode Island; J. W. Weeks, Massachusetts; Thomas Sterling, South Dakota; G. P. McLean, Connecticut. NORTH DAKOTA DELEGATION FAVORS WARNING RESOLUTION All three of North Dakota’s repres- entatives and her two senators voted against tabling the resolutions warn- ing American citizens to keep off armed merchant vessels of the bellig- erent nations. Senator McCumber introduced a resolution of his own to this effect. ‘When a report came out that the ad- ministration ~was about” to take the - aetion the senator desired he with- Subsequently work of a press agency that has be- fogged the situation with daily fakes. The state department issued an official «denial 'of this one, and it is likely that Senator McCumber will reintro- GRONNA MISREPRESENTED ON PRISON GOODS QUESTION Senz . : 'Gronna durh the last week has been putdntlzn‘mnch incon- venience because one of the press as- sociations erroneously semt out the report that he is'in favor of the pend- goods in inter- “ ing legislation. to xnflfibit the ship- state ate commerce.” The senator i? :fh f; ceiving many . letters ‘from North: - Dakota constituents protesting against - The senator watits # %0 be em- - phatieally wnderstood that he not.only - week is opposed to.suchlegisiation; but that -- W. B : eckham, state penitentiary at Bismarck, was all through his career in Washington he has worked and voted against such legislation. - He proposes to fight the pending bill with every bit of his power. ) During the past week he showed by a concrete example where he stands. The Senate Committee on Commerce favorably reported out the bill which would put a stop to the interstate sale - of prison-made goods. Through the efforts of Gronna and one or two other senators from the grain-growing dis- tricts the bill was re-referred to the committee and -exhaustive hearings will be held on it. The prison manufacture of binder twine and farm machinery is one of the most effective checks upon the International Harvester Co. The Min- nesota state penitentiary alone last - manufactured 5,000 binders year which were sold to farmers on an average of $25 apiece cheaper than similar binders were sold by the farm and implement concerns. North Da- l-ota farmers consume annually be- tween 27,000,000 and 30,000,000 pounds of binder twine. An advance of a single cent a pound in the price of - this commodity costs the farmers of North Dakota between $270,000 and $300,000. Thus the prison twine fact- ories have a direct effect in saving money for the farmers. SISAL PROBE HALTED; - TRUST OFFICIALS SUMMONED The sisal-binder twine investiga- tions halted last week because several of the lawyers representing interests at’ the hearings were called out of town, but it will be resumed late this week. The most interesting part .of the investigations is te come. Cyrus Me- Cormick, Mr. Perkins, and several other ‘officials of fthe International - Harvester Co. have been summqned as 'witnesses. ¥rank ‘S. Talcott, ‘warden of the a witness before the ‘committee on Monday, March 6. He told how the increased price of sisal affects the manufacture of twine in his institu- tion. SENATOR M’CUMBER ASKS RECIPROCITY ACT REPEAL. Senator McCumber last week rein- troduced.his bill to repeal the Cana- dian reciprocity act. The American Protective Tanff League has written to MeCumber asking him if the Under- wood tariff act did not repeal the Can- adian reciproeity. ; McCumber replied that reciprocity still exists on our statute books, and that any day the Canadian parliament wighes it .can pass:‘laws which will put the act into, effect. He wrote that Canadian wheat now pays “10 “cents. duty: -per bushel *coming irnto the chooses to act she can put Canadian wheat on our free list merely by ‘McCumber ' declares that the reei- procity law ought to,._bgfrgmled- as . insurance to the American farmer. SENATE APPROVES GRANT = OF LAND IN HORTICULTURE ' | Senator Gronna’s bill granting 640 acres -of ‘land Yo the Mgsu?iai:ngorfi- cultural station of the department. of agriculture passed the senate last dry-fa section orth Da kota and Montana will be rown for Jacksonville, Fla. - s s Bad ree distribution to the farmers, e