The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 3

; oot of a square deal for the farmer £ k VOL. 3, NO. 10 the pockets ‘of producers and consumers. The remedy? governments. ~HE Hanna administration is about to finish as it began—by play- : I * ing politics at the expense of the people of North Dakota. North - Dakota faces a deficit in its funds that has been accumulating from year to year. Officials of the present state administration refuse the exact facts about it, but it is known that the deficit on January 1, 1917, will be greater than that of last year. A large amount of bills will be carried over without payment. There will probably be a debt - of the state’s financial year. Revenues have not been equal to the lavish expenditures of the Hanna administration. =~ ° pile upon the shoulders of the incoming administration. - : . In the face of it they have been giving out stories in the servile - pressof *the{stat‘e@istorti_ng_ the facts and “pointing with pride” to the record of this “business administration.” All this was for the evident o the people of this state “in bad” at the start, to put them in a bad hole good shape, The Old Gang papers have all been ‘the new administration, to FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916 _ WHY NOT KEEP THE MONEY IN THE NORTHWEST? “dae «.Ucthwesienu wiates are paying huge wi to the power o. big busmess. . tors al- the way from Flinneapolis terminals to the seaboard. Millions are made anrually in.gambling on the grain, all of which comes out of oy of more than $300,000 beyond the funds on hand to meet it by the end i :*‘efficient” - Har - STATE FUNDS IT EVER FACED. The reduction of assessed valu- . part of the load that the Old Gang is getting ready to : : ! - incoming state administration WITHOUT SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO - J : o1 : ;ieluge.” - purpose of putting the new administration to be voted into power by - ear that Hanna and his men had'left the - A ne spaper. . that v s to print the truth Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota WHOLE NO. 51 \ s i — Lross are imarketed under a systeni coutro.ed LYy specuiz- Railroads milk the country and pour their money into Wall street and a huge profit is paid to the - masters of great corporations which supply the Northwest with the manufactured articles it consumes. cities gathers an .immense profit out of the necessities of the farmers, waxing the fattest from usurious interest rates in crop-failure years. Use the power of the ballot to break the chains of servitude to Big Business, which perpetuates its rule by control of state A banking oligarchy dominated in eastern ~ The Frame-up at Bismarck 1zation, voted into effect a FLAT REDUCTION OF TEN PER CENT IN THE ASSESSED VALUATION OF THE STATE. : 3 One of the newspaper tools of the administration gives it out that *“the efficient handling of the state’s business during the last two years’ made possible this action” and further insults the intelligence of the people of the state by stating that “the reduction of the tax load will meet with general favor.” ‘ ; The fact .is that the handling of the state’s business has been so . that the state now faces THE BIGGEST DEFICIT IN ation ordered by the state board is solely for the purpose of leaving the MEET.THE DEBTS THEY WILL HAVE TO MEET. The maxim of the Hanna administration is: “After us the It is the old political trick of MAKING ‘A PRETENSE AT SAVING ° BY ‘UNLOADING DEBTS UPON THE NEXT - ADMINISTRATION: e : Ao If the Hanna administration had been honest with the people of the . ‘é’tate‘it would have raised the taxes instead of lowering them. Some * - way or other the people of the state must raise the money to pay the . debts this administration has contracted by its wholesale distribution : of political “pie,” ity wastefulness and its general inefficiency. bin g In state business, as well as in private business, the.only way to . saye money. is not to spend it. . You can’t save by running up a big bill - - .at the g'rocery\store, another at the clothing store and another at the < ‘hardware store-and then putting off their payment until next year. The only way to save the state’s money is to cut down expend- tures. Itcan’t be done by CUTTING DOWN THE TAX ASSESS- SR I