The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 30, 1916, Page 11

A N ] ana Nyt B O R THE INSURANCE “BREAD AND BUTTER”- ; HAT do ipsur_ance men of the state mean when they get to- bk Y ggther In a state-wide federation and their official mouth- B97] piece announces that they intend to “defend. their exist- ence” and to “fight for their bread and butter?” Qne way to judge is by what the insurance men have been able to.do in the line of defense in the past. Part of the record is con- tained in an article in this issue of the Leader, dealing with the a.ct'%on of the last state legislature and showing the records of in- dividual members; . “Defense” is a good word in this connection. The insurance men of the state have “defended” themselves by making their license to plunder the People absolute. The actual fact is that the insurance men of North Dakota - have been able to prevent even a shadow or semblance of regulation by the state. The state has an insurance commissioner who can I_nerely collect and tabulate information about insurance. He is just a clerk. He can’t do a thing to protect the clients of the in- surance companies from extortion. Insurance Commissioner Taylor fully realizes the limitations of his office. When he tried to get through the last legislature a very mild set of bills placing insurance rates under regulation he was met by an organized opposition of which the lieutenant govern- or of the state was an important factor. That same lieutenant governor was prominent in the recent organization convention of the insurance men and was chosen a delegate to the meeting of the national federation. : The organized opposition to the insurance bills was able to sguash them in the senate without much trouble. The insurance men were well enough organized at that time for that purpose, though there had been no brass band announcement of their get- ting together. It was a nice, effective little working agreement between them and certain members of the upper house in the legis- lature. Now the insurance men have changed their tactics. They have found public sentiment awake and they are trembling for their “bread and butter.” ' Farmers should understand that insurance men sometimes speak figuratively. “Bread and butter” means 20 per cent com- missions and hundred per cent yearly stock dividends in this case. THE FARGO CORRESPONDENT o Several daily newspapers in the state have permitted them- selves in the last week or two to become the medium for the circula- tion of a series of maliciously false and baseless stories about the League. These stories, identical in wording in the papers using them, appear in each case under a Fargo dateline, as if sent out by a special correspondent in this city. . ; One would naturally suppose, therefore, that they were sent out from Fargo, except for the fact. that the correspondent shows so little real information about the League. If he is, in truth, a real person living in Fargo, he is one of the laziest falsifiers with which North Dakota ever has been afflicted. He doesn’t even take the trouble to gather enough easily substantiated facts to give his pro- ductions the partial color of truth. He takes it all out of the dream book. : This must be an easy and delightful way of getting onto the payroll of supposedly innocent newspapers. : The League, according to this correspondent, is tottering to its fall; it is financially embarassed; there is mutiny in its ranks; the state convention mass meetings have been called to raise “a pot of gold” to go on with the work. Then the correspondent goes inta‘speculation'as' to thé__;candi-. dates the League is going to indorse, gravely set forth as assured and determined facts, and a little later he plumes himsclf on having agitated the officers of the League so thaf they are excitedly look- ing for the “leak” through which this astounding inside inform- ation could have fallen into the hands of the acute correspondent —himself. . v We hasten to assure this “news” faker that the only emotion, after reading some of his dispatches, on the minds of those who know something of the League’s affairs, is.amazement that a man who presumably is on the ground and to whom many facts regard- -ing the League are available could have learned so little about it.- After his pipe goes out and the smoke blows away, he will wake up to the fact that there “ain’t no such animal” as a leak. ~Any correspondent who cares to come to. the League head- quarters can get plenty of true ififor;natio_n about the doings of the Leag'ue, information which the readers of the papers he serves no doubt will be glad to get. No one has come to League headquarters asking information for the papers which have prin_ted these \fakq; ispatches.- BESC CCce R dlspi'll‘h‘e Leader wishes to assure the newspapers of the gtate ‘that there is no need for applying their intake nozzles to any polluted “leaks” or rummaging about back doors and rooting in garbage barrels to find out what the Nonpartisan League ?s doing—that is, unless their nature is such that they prefer to do it that way. But G " THE NONPARTISAN LEADER ELEVEN to all individuals who walk straight up on two legs the front door is always open. - It would be foolish to waste space denying false statements, especially falsehoods relating to matters which the events of the next few days and weeks will disprove. Some editors of daily news- papers appear to rely on the belief that their readers will have- forgotten tomorrow what they print today. But if anyone is inter- ested in verifying or disproving the predictions of the prophets of calamity regarding the Nonpartisan League the Leader would ad- vise them to clip a few of these stories and save them just a week or two. ASKEDand ANSWERED The Leader will be glad to answer the questions of any of its readers seeking mformat!on within its ability to give. It is especially glad to answer the questions on the legislative records of candidates. Stanton, N. D. February 28— Please tell us how our representatives voted in the last legislature on the terminal elevater and state hail in- surance.—H. W. Umpleby, director Patrons Buying and Shipping asso- ciation. The representatives in the house for the 48th district, including Mercer county, in which Stanton is situated, were August Isaac, Sherman Hickle and J. B. Dickson. The senator from .this district was John Young. On the terminal elevator proposition, which did not come to a vote in the senate, Dickson voted for indefinite postpone- ment, which was a vote against the elevator, and Hickle did not vote at all and was not excused from voting for cause, thus by his failure to vote aiding those opposed the bill. Isaac also failed to vote on the bill, being excused from voting for cause. Thus none of the legislators of this district aided the terminal elevator by their votes. In the house Hickle voted against state compulsory hail insurance. A NORTH DAKOTA SONG BY NORTH DAKOTA COMPOSERS “DOWN A VALE OF SWEET WILD ROSES” Complete with words and music. Prices, Songs Prepaid: Single copies In lots of ten.... In lots of fifty .20 Order together and get the reduction. EDWARD B. CARVELL Garrison, N. D. 2 fceccccoececcccens Study Law ot Opportunities . Law offers big opportunities to men i Wh p who can represent Labor.in its fight on 3 y * power. Look at Walsh, London, Darrow, Hilquit, Sheppard, LeSueur. 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