The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 19

Xl RO R ER 2 datire D. C. Coates, Managing Editor. Farmers. and up-to-date farmers. - T 5 : The Nonpartisan Leader PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY THURSDAY ! Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1915, at the posbofice at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. iRl e o st s g AP N IO ) AL e B e e AT T ST ST Advertising rates on application. Subscription, one year, in advance, $1.50; six months,-$1.00. Communications intended for the paper ’should be addressed to the Non- partisan Leader, Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not to any individual. The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not kmowingly ad- vertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. Discriminating advertisers recognize the Nonpartisan Leader as the best medium in the state of North Dakota through which to reach the wideawake Herbert Gaston, Editor. ES ASKED and ANSWERED The Leader will be glad to answer the questions of any of its readers seeking information within its ability to.give. It is especially glad to answer the questions on the legislative record of candidates. Would you please tell us through the Leader how our representatives from Cavalier county voted at the last session of the legislature on the terminal ele- vator question? They claim they voted in favor of retaining the tax for build- ing such elevators but only objected to the place (St. Paul) etc. vote on other questions affecting -the farmers? These men claim they are entitled to the farmers’ votes for reelec- tion, but they were solicited by a com- mittee composed of five or six bankers, one or two merchants and only one lone farmer to come out against the League candidates.—H. C. OTTESON. The representatives of Cavalier coun- ty, eighteenth district, in the last legis- lature were Ole Axvig of Milton, John Baldsdon of Osnabroock and James Morgan of Clyde.. If they assert-they did not vote to repeal the tax for ter- minal elevators they misrepresent- their record. All three of them opposed the terminal elevator bill and voted to indefi- nitely postpone it, and they all also all voted to repeal the tax levied by the 1913 legislature for the years 1914, 1915 and 1916 with which to build terminal elevators. If they say they did not oppose -the proposition of a terminal elevator, but only opposed having it in the place specified in the bill, what was their objec- tion to the tax levied by the prior legis- lature to furnish funds for the project? The legislature could spend the elevator tax in the state or out of the state by passing an act sayingwhere it wanted to spend it, but instead it passed an act. repealmg the tax entirely and the Caval- ier county representatives voted for the repeal act. The farmers of the state, however,: thought differently about the proppsition ; and they circulated referendum - peti- tions against this act of the legislature and the repeal of the ‘tax is mow-held - up until the people can vote on it this fall. Other features of the records of these Cavalier county representatives ‘might be cited, but it ought to be sufficient to show what they did on vne other measure —not a strictly farmers’ bill but a bill of utmost importance to every patron of public service corporations in the state. Representatives Axvig, Baldsdon and Morgan voted for the fake regulation bill introduced by H. C. Harty of Bottineau county at the behest of the public ser- vice corporations of the state repre- sented by F. E. Ployhar of Barnes county, a gas company magnate. .Ploy- - har, as chairman-of the committee that had: charge of this bill, pushed it through for the benefit of himself and ‘other . public service corporations. This bill was particularly vicious. It took from ‘the hands of towns and cities - the power to regulate rates for electric light and- power, water and gas and placed the regulation of the price of these things in the hands of the railroad commission. It would have been all right, perhaps, to have let the state - instead of cities and towns do this regu- lating had the bill properly safeguarded the public. As it was it did not give the consumers " themselves power to initiate a case for the regulation of ‘rates, a power that is How did they’ reserved to the people in every other state where state regulation of publie utilities prevails. Rates could not be regulated under this bill unless the city councils or governing bodies of towns permitted it and the bill therefore merely put one more stumbling block than ex- isted before in the way of proper rate regulation. The bill made no attempt to regulate class of service rendered, which is just as important as rate regulation, and it gave corporations an appeal to the courts’ which it denied to consumers. There were other bad features in the measure and as a whole it was just the sort- of thing the corporations wanted. The bill itself and the fact it was pushed- to passage by a public service magnate proved it was a corporation and not a people’s measure, -but the Cavalier county representatxves fell for it. Crystal, N D., May 81.—Please tell us how Senator McFadden and -Repre- sentatives Husband and McMillan of the first legislative district voted in the last legislature on the terminal elevator and other measures affecting the interests and welfare of the farmers and the people generally in ~ this state.— FARMER. ' This district comprises all of Pembina county. Senator A. J. McFadden, wlule he favored some of the other farmers’ measures, went down the line against compulsory state " hail insurance. He was not even in favor of giving the peo- ple a chance to vote on this most impor- tant farmers’ measure. With a minor- ity of the .committee on judiciary he brought in a report calculated to delay and hold up the bill-and later he voted " against the bill itself. " Representative William N. Husband, ‘while he voted for compulsory state hail insurance, opposed the terminal elevator: ~bill and aided the-enemies of the mill tax for terminal elevators by not voting on that medsure when® it was attempted to - repeal it. Representative P. H. McMillan was against the terminal elevator proposi- tion and so voted, but he voted against the repeal of the mill tax for elevators adopted by the 1913 legislature, which was up in 1915 for repeal.” He probably voted against the repeal bill because it also carried an appropriation for the : investigation of terminal elevators in the state. He voted to let the people vote on state hail insurance, 'FOR STATE FUEL SUPPLY Bixby Suggests Need of a Briquetting Plant Owned by People ; Editor Nonpartisan Leader: If the state is going into state owned : or controlled enterprises, I think a state owned briquetting plant located wupon: - -our state coal lands to sell coal to our - people at cost, is something that is worthy. of :considerstion. superior to the one the state had at Hebron. - - ‘South Dakota slupped a car of hgmte “such satlsfactoryj results that - at the M lesmon -of - the ', | to: California, ) 1 1 noticed in - “The Dakota Farmer” for May 1 thaf California has a briquetting device far. !egislature an amendment 3 tution was passed to the effect that sup- plying of coal to the people of the state from the lands belonging to the state is a work of mnecessity and importance, in which the state may engage. I think our .coming legislature should .enact a similar amendment so it can be brought “to a vote of our people at as early a date as possible—J. S BIXBY. PAUL HAVENS CAPABLE Paul Havens, the candidate for repre- sentative from the twenty-third district, is a fine, capable man. I lived within half a mile of him for seven years and can truthfully say that he is a man who can be strictly depended upon. He has always been a farmer and a hard worker - on the farm. He will work for the interest 'of the people when it is entrust- ed to him.—M. L. MOORE. PAPER PELLETS PATTER L M. G. Explosives All Help to Boost League Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : The professional deceiver, L. M. Guilty, has again bombarded that part of North Dakota which he can reach, with paper pellets, loaded with high explosives of impertinent, malicious, and insulting falsehoods. These like a false fire alarm agitate us for a moment, but bring us to a more fortified composure, and com- plete faith in the leaders and the move- ment. 5 Any -attack upon the leaders of the “intended to disintegrate and: (Inm:lp':t!lgb Nonpartisan I.esgue every member -composing lt, since it 8 Teague, and greatly injure alL. - Not fox { . the sake of retaliation, but asamatten' of policy, discontinued subscriptions tq | this - political 'sheet ought to. bewmé _even more prevalent. < We do not need the unreasonable and ‘ “ignorant warnings of this, our pretended “friend—GILMAN J. KAMPHAUGH. V.E .BEAUD'RY’ Wamakeal'p‘dflbotddrkw systems for eountry homes. New Rockford Mmhh Kodak Ftlms Developed and Printed. - All Work Guaranteed - Camera Supplies - L.P. WELLER - ~ New Rockford, N. D. Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heatmg New Rockford, N. D One Man ; the One Man Does the Discing row behind at a good the ground. 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" NOT A PACKARD FOR LOOKS, BUT A MULE FOR WORK - “Ask the Man ° Who Owns One” WORKED AND " SAVED: MONEY FOR DOZENS OF FARMERS IN THE NORTH- : 2% WEST THIS SPRING. - s ' RESULTS TELL THE STORY Here Is: What Otto Sanger, Who Farms Near Hazen, Says About 2 It In Wnting To The German lnvestment Compmy = S Of That Town. 0 I ran MULE until dark’ last night and" 11: surely ins fme. I wouldn’t ta e the price of it if 1 couldn’t get ‘another. - -The steering feature ‘ig all O. K. : engine-and back where ‘one can see plows and all 55 1' double disced 15 acres yesterday and used only a gallon ofx Yours truly, M : : o 5 (ngned) Otto Sanger, Hazeh N. D. WE CAN FLOOD YO'IJi WITH THE EXPERIENCES OF OTEERS FOR FULL DETAILS AND NEAREST DEALER W'RITE . May 6, 1916, being so far fmm heat of “