The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 21, 1916, Page 2

05 & i of Scuttlmg PASSING ON THE DEBT The state board of equalization has re- duced taxation ten per cent in the state, taking this action it is claimed in accord- .- ance with the wishes expressed by the- Nonpartxsan League at the June primar- ies that taxation should be lowered. This is all right if it can be lowered without causing a deficit. According to the state auditor this action will leave the. state * treasury in the hole at least $600,000 and maybe more. This is mighty short sighted business acumen on the part of the state board if this is correct. What a splendid legacy the present state administration will turn over to its successor—six hundred thousand dollars in debt. If we are to ge in the hole that much it will have to be raised an- other year (won’t it) and how is it to be wiped out? The only way to lower taxation is to cut off unnecessary expense.and econom- ize. You can’t reduce taxahon by cut- ting down the levy and then shoving sev- eral hundred thousand dollars more: debt onto people—because it /has ali‘got to be paid for—and. the people will have to pay MEXICAN ‘BORDER Sept. 11—Report is Villa flees before ad-- vancing American forces. HELEX \ Sept. 12—Funston plans e:ght-day divi- . gional hike for regulars and guards, ' biggest army ‘movement since Clvxl | war. RSSO Sept. 13—Villa believed: to be entu'ely surround ~; 5 Sept. 15—Withdrawal of ‘all American national guard and substitution- of Carranza soldiers on border hinted in official war department mqumes. Sept. 15—Carranza 1ssues proclamatmn for elections. NORTH DAKOTA Sept. 11—Professor Theodore Wanner, formerly of Fargo college, is drowned in James river near Jamestown. Sept. 11—J. Frank Hanly, Prohibition candidate for president, enters. North Dakota on western tour. -Sept. 11—Anton Grass, farmer, believed to have died from glanders- now raging in vicinity of Mandan. Sept. 12—State supreme eoutt decides New Rockford capital removal -initia- tive measure cannot be put-on' ballot. Sept. 15—Equity scciety chooses Fargo as site for cooperative packing-plant. Sept. 16-—North Dakota Agriculfural coilege opens its fall term -at Fargo. Sept. 16—Wilton Coal company com- - pletes equipment of new tipple - and increases output of ligmite. NORTHWEST Sept. 11—Mine operators announce end of Mesabi iron range strike. Sept. 11—Republican state convention of Montana declares for statewide pro- _ hibition. : Sept.‘ 12—Threshing’ teturns from vicin- “ity of. Dalas, S. D., indicate 20 bu- . shels of wheat per acre. Sept. 12—Duluth prepares data to show - itself entitled to $11,000,000 govern-' ment munitions. plant. Sept. 12—Hill estate’s inheritance tax to Minnesota will be $1,250 000 on estate of $40,000,000. Sept. 16— “Veterans” of Great Northern - railway service have annual mieet -in. < St. Paul;'and- w:lldormnlly leam- oth -$1,000,000 pension system." EUROPEAN WAR Sept. 11—Bulganans evacuate Varna, .and Russians lose Silistria:~ * Sept. 11—Rumanians and Russmns ;tm advancmg against Austria and flght ing grows-continuous. Sept. 11—Bulgarians recapture’ nearly all of Rumania. south of the Danube river, taken from them after Second Balkan war, Sept. 11—Berlin admlts Bnhsh ’ha.ve . won more trenches. Sept 13—-—Kaxser nges ont he is - plan- ~ " nping huge counter-offensive to dwarf . 12—State department hears ‘that it in the long run. Just like the railroad strike. ~VALLEY CITY COURIER: ° NOT A PLEASANT FACT The prospect of the state “half a mil- -lion in the vred” is not a pleasant fact for the people of North Dakota to face bee cause of the action of the state buvard of' ‘equalization. That little piece of -polit- . ical work will not: get the present. state - administration ‘anything when the voters - are counted at the polls in Novembet, is a‘very frequent prediction. But it is‘'what may be expected. — NORTH DAKOTA CAPITAL (Jamestown) ~ — e A “BUSINESS” GOVERNOR After. ‘extravagant management-.of state affairs, the old gang of the state have now made a big: reduction in. the levy and equalization. This is done:for the benefit- of the Nonpartisan -Leagueé: men who will be eletted to run the state ‘government this fall, leaving big debts without- sufficient funds to meet them. “And still Hanna ,won a _ reputation ‘as . being a business ‘governor. — -WELLS COUNTY F‘REE PRESS.™ .~ "« " united efforts of all the allies, Sept. 15 — Dimitracoupulos; propesed Greek premier, gives:up. plan to form ¢abinet and another must be.selected. Sept. 15—British - advance 2000 yards over German. trenches on a wide front: NATIONAL , Sept. 11—Gifferd Pinchot issues : state- ment- declaring he is for Hughes in preference to Wilson. ; Sept. 11—Longshoremen ‘again -prepar- -ing for Great Lakes strike that might tie up grain shipments. .in next LEAVE IT FOR FRAZIER B Thé board ‘of - equalization ‘at Bis- Jarck decreased .the valuation $30, 000 less than last year. The incoming administration faces a $500,000 deficit year’s . expenses.— YORK ABOUT THE DEFICIT With a ‘deficit estimated at. from one ‘half million to a million dollars, facing “the next state administration, the legacy .of extravagant appropriations made dur- ing ‘the last four years by two. ' legislat- _ures, the incoming state officials and new legislative assembly will find themselves % -handicapped ‘at the start. The/very ex- istence of such a tremendous deficit car- ries its own comment on the business management of the state, and enforces public- expenditures. 1 of the first-problems which the next ad- ‘ministration and the next’ Tegislature will ‘have to meet and-overcome. — JAMES- TOWN ‘DAILY ALERT. . the-State . year, .according to & Lloyd George's statement’ fl\at foreign Boar BOTH SIDES OF IT. : There is considerable discussion con- cerning the order by the state board of equalization which cut down the assesss - ed value.of the state by ten percent. . The state board of equalization consists of Hanna, Attorney General Linde, and ~ Commissioner of Agriculture and Laboz Flint; State ' Auditor = Jorgenson - and Treamrer Steen.. The first three voted in-favor-of the reductxon'and the last two’ agamst it. ‘ 2 It is'claimedthat this reduchon w1ll decrease the revenue of tlie state to ;such an.extent that the néw administration beginning the ' year 1917 will face a shorta.g'e or. deficit amounting in various estimates to from $400,000 to $1,000,000. The three who voted for the cut state . that ‘they were simply complying” with the wishes of the voters as expressed at the primaries for a reduction of ‘the'ex- . penses of running the state. - On the “_.at the beginning a: policy of economy.in ° This .will be one. ‘other hand Jorgenson and Steen claim ‘that regardless: of whether the -people wished a cut it mthebusmess of- " the - board ‘to- provide enough money to meet- - And: there you are— Tunning-expenses. i)UNN COUNTY SETTLER. All the Week_’s_ News in Srnall Space 126:6 peitent -or §§05,9§9000. rer test Hgures. ept. 14 — Unslqlled smkebre&ng DIoto] n »wnagk five N. Y. cars injur- T i':% 'S, ‘in' qddat.lon to . trade secrets gleaned from mail opern- Sept. ‘ed by English censors.are pass English manufacturers. - . Sept. 12--Republicans .carry-: e by 12,000, defeating Democratle governor, and choesing two senators and ' four congressmen, Sept. 13—Mayor Mitchel of N. Y. con-" sidering asking Governor Whitman to call: specusl session of leglsiature to <end-car strike. Sept.13—Bids for the - $11,000,000 in- -vestment munitions’ phmt are made by: 125 _cities of. Umted ‘States. Sept..13—Net earnings of the large raxl- ways of the United States increased . Mikletfi“fl Indorsed League members in the Sixteenth leg- islative district ~of - North Dakota, in- including ‘all ‘of Steele and Griggs ‘coun- - ties, met at Cooperstown on Septembor 8. and indorsed .John ' Miklethun, . pioneer farmer of that part .of the state, as candi- date ‘for the house of : representatwes at. the Noveniber élection in place.of-A. M: Hermerlin, ‘who ‘had"the ‘League indorse- ment but - withdrew just before the pri- maries, - Mr. Miklethun w:ll run . as:-an Independent. # This - district is: entitled to elect three ‘members of ‘the house " this fall. The League-before , the: - primaries. mdorsed Porter Kimball, E.-W. Everson.and Mr. Hemerlin. Kimball and ‘Everson were nominated on ‘the- Republican: ticket by an- overwhelming = vote’ and Hemerhn withdrew, but ‘too late to get 'mnne ‘off the ballot. “He:got a big vote er- theless, but R. A, Lathrop, old-line poli: tician and former member of- the legisla- ‘ture, -got - the Republican-nemination - along with Kimball and’ Everson. . Lath- ‘rop’s yecord in the Ieg:shhn'p, where : he opposetf farmers’ legxalahon, makes hi ) xsimdxdate, showmg well ‘organiz League meni- three, Kimbal -acres, has a good education and ] a. strong Nonyafl “Lea ue known pwneer farmers of the' county, who has had much to do with the devel- opment - of this section: sinte the -early _days. “of - farming and has:always been inter- ested-in such ‘things as would -make for a . better community, county, and state at large. The Feague could -hardly hnve‘ chosen a ‘better man.” The League convention at Coopers : town, where: the new candidate was in- dorsed, was presided over;by S. J.- Tande. . George N. Sbepherd was secxetnry. FOR. “THE: DAILY LEADEB’! Shall we haye a-daily paper? : : Shail our plans go.up in vapor? Shall we make. our plans come true‘! The' answer rests with you? - Yes, we need a daxly paper, Need it badly, need it now, Then “Big Biz” will cut a caper : 'Cause we started such'a Tow. ; He will read it every column Just to see what's going on. - It’s the busy iarmer’s pastime To the “Daily. Ludé:f'aafi.z Wi Aot Thon let us all take hand and help 1t € - Or it is of no avail 1 For ‘our enemies will' squelch: 1t . for. sure 1t rmses sa.xl. 7 He-has made a splendid success - b i Sept. 12—Business men ’zoes out Secretary df Commeree Redfield is to: resign ’ and become head of tariff commission. Sept 15—Roosevelt plans. trip: to Pacif- - ic'const in behalf of Hughes. ‘Sept. 15—-Morgan, Rockefeller and Du- pont make several millions on recent :manipulated boom in steel, oil and powder stocks. Sept. 16—Frost does $1,000000 da.mage --in Wiseonsin is report. Sept. 16—Mrs. ‘Anmuie’ Howe, only sister of ~President W!lson, - dies . at - New London, Conn. 'Sept “16—Twenty" . persons™ lnlled in chemical . plant- explosion in Pittsburg. Sept. 16—New York street ‘car com- .panies plan suit for conspiracy in effort to bring about sympathetic strikes, to parallel Danbury: hatters’ case. Sept. 16—National grange at. Washing- ton considers *‘dual tax” which m tax: on land and incomes only. -~ ¥ : GENERAL . - Sept. 11—Five thousand sightseers see Quebec steel bridge fall into St. Law- - rence: with loss of 25 lives. 3 Sept 12—China’s new minister of jus-- ::;cel arrested in 'big opium smugghng ea) Sept.: 12—Preudent Wilson gets personn& : ‘ “note from Kaiser Wflhelm on: plea for starving Poles. - Sept.’ 13—Holland “and Scandinavian countries now: ptactlcally _on. ration ‘basis. X Sept.: 15—-Bnt|sh Columbia. votes the saloon ‘out of ess. i Sept. 16—Japanese interests estabhsh ; - regular freight line from San: Fran- cigco to Australia.- /[ . Sept. 16-~Report tha ;!@wfilfi Panama. -is near as. result o at Washmgton, : ODD BITS OF (NEWS Sept. 12-—Bones of prefiiuom ‘mastodon’ i dxscoveredm Tripp county, S: D. .on; roller skates because