The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 11

& ‘has money in him. 3l THE GREAT B AMERICAN SUCKER TRICK, - Well! Well! Well! Here's-an old friend—“K;"” the famous magi- “eian, conjurer and prestidigitator: ‘Recognize him? Why, of course! TR “K” this time. Let’s go to the show. miss_ this. ) It’s old Krafty, spelled with ‘a ‘Here he is, showing for the last time—under the dis- tinguished auspices of the Good Government League. You oughtn’t to ... We're a little late, but as we come in here we see Krafty -pefform- ing one of his most noted tricks. +“Will some boy please step. up from the audience? Ah, thank you,- Hiram Rube, you’ll do nicely. “Now, -ladies and gentlemen, attend carefully. Notice that I have pothing whatever in my hands. pocket is gone. Hiram is a seedy looking boy, but he I wave my hands, so! : He don’t know how it happened, nor where the money - went, but it’s in my pocket now. - ‘ The money that was in his “See, I tap him on the head and here comes a dollar from his mouth. ; Hé’s so pleased at the sight of money that he never thinks which way it is'going. Thank you again, Hiram.’ Your pockets-arée empty. .That’s all. “I roll it up into a cone, so! “Next we have the newspaper trick. That’s 3 neat one. You see I have here a common newspaper. : : The object-is to conceal what'’s inside. Then see what I get out of it. Look, here it comes! It looks like any newspaper. First some false 8 HEL-LO! WHAT'S THIS? jSTILL ANOTHER ONE ? B OPEN YOUR MOUTH- fF WIDER~THERE 1T COMES! AREN'T ; 8 You ASHAMED To 8 DECEIVE AN OLD E MAN LIKE ME! B ANNANNINNNNNNNNY ARNNRRRRIRNNRNNY ANNRRRRNRRN RN “And thére we have it! do: it. R “Now here we have the stuffed ballot box trick. A simple thing, but neat. of candidates on slips of paper. you drop. in'the names. HE CABINET TRICK WHERE POLITICAL PROMISES ARE. MADE—~ - TO DISAPPEAR! ANRANRRNLRNRNY ANARRRRRNRNNNN DNANNSAANANNANNNG 7 o s T 7 N N ANANLN LRI ANNANNNNNNNNNNNN NN DO hmmm \\ N ! \ DA Great trick, 'isn’t it? " Nobody else can T'll ask a number of persons in the audience to write the names Now I pass the ballot box around and The ballot box is full now, thank you! Watch me closely now, while I take them out and count them. Al “First ballot, one vote for Krafty ;.second ballot, one vote for Kraf- ty; third ballot, also for Krafty. Why they’re all for Krafty! Krafty’s elected. What, you say you didn’t any of you intend to vote for Krafty? Oh, but pardon me! go behind the results. You did. The ballot box shows it, and we can’'t “Now we have the last trick of all, and the most wanderful. Hei‘é we have the solid oak cabinet with a padlock. - We’ll just ask our gen- tlemanly assistants, the Political Promises, to step in here. are in plain sight, smiling and full of life. Just to show that they’re still in there, we’ll ask them to ting them in. Here they Now we lock the door, shut- ring the bells. Hear the bells ringing? Now"we open the doot. Empty ! " Political Promises are gone—nothing left! “I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for youi- kind assistance.” How did you like the show? Not as well as you used to enjoy it, did you? Getting a little tiresome, isn’t it, being fooled by the same news—yards and yards of this; next a great gob of poisoned.public opin- ion and deceived voters; after this something more valuable—some fat - old tricks every year. 'A one-man show never lasts. Let’s give our money next time to that legitimate drama, “The Rule of the People,” as ’ M -¢’ great importance were initiated : by the last”North Dakota legis- *_lature and, under the procedure for amendment of the constitution, will come. automatically before the legislature ; FIVE constitutional amendm’ents of ‘to meet next January. }F approved by 11, that legislature they will'go before the people at the general election in 1918. If approved then they become a part of ‘the constitution and the legislature of 1919 can carry them into effect by the enactment of the necessary bills. The - five amendments are now being 'printed in ‘official state papers by Secretary of ‘State Hall,, according to law. .. . LN *The amendments propose fundamental ""iixd:'r,eyolutionary changes in ‘the policy _of North Dakotg. They are as follows: | ‘hail insurance on the “bits of legislation in the interests of Big Business. Permitting the establishment of a state highway system, existing in most states but never started in North Dakota, and permitting counties to incur, by a two-+ thirds vote of their people, additienal indebtedness to build highways, not now . Taking away from the supreme court the Tight to declare laws of the state unconstitutional, except by the agree- ment of four judges. Three of the five judges, a majority, can now declare laws unconstitutional. . - . G st ; STATE RURAL:CREDITS ; ‘OBJECT OF ONE AMENDMENT Pernjitting the ‘establishment of state: ce ; dian plan by creating a state fund through a tax on played by the company headed by Lynn Frazier. Five Amendments Are Proposed 3 Legislatfife Will Considér Constitutional Changes agricultural lands to payfihail losses to farmers. : \ Pernmitting the establishment of a state rural credit system, with state aid and’ control. . : ST Permitting - cooperative associations and companies to make their own rules .regarding the voting ‘power of stock- holders, making them immune from the general ‘and épecific rules of law on the: subjeet. ; The first amendment mentioned above affects sections 183 and 185 of the con- stitution. = Section 183 now. limits the indebtedness counties may incur to.5 per cent of their total assessed valuations. Incorporated cities may, by a two-thirds “vote 'of the people, contract an additional ,.indebtedness of 8 per cent of the \ assessed valuation for general purpeses, and an additional 4 per cent for the buy- ing or construction of water works and sewers.: But counties now have no right to exceed the 5 per cent limit for any " ' purpose. The 4amendment would give counties the right to contract, above the 5 per cent limit, an additional indebted- ness of 3 per cent of the assessed valua- tion. for the construction of public high- ways “and for no other purpose.” Section 186 of the present constitution now provides that. the- state shall mot “engage in any woyk or internal improve- ments unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the peopie,” which prohibits a ‘state. highway. system without a two- thirds vote of the people on every road {Continued on page 15) 3