The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 3

A _newspaper that dares to print the trath Off‘malPapaofmFms Nalpa!ml’olmml League of North Dakote ; VQL. 8,NO.14 7 Here is a champion field of corn—130 acres’ of it, on the farm.of E. G. the eye can reach. - Mr.. Patterson’s farm bufldmgs and . grove ean be seen ‘on the the bu.ildmgs and grove in the distance. . Do-you know Alibi Ike? -He’s the hired man whom you send on a hurry- up errand when -you can’t 20 yourself In twice the t1me it would have taken you he geis back. - Has he done what .Alibi Ike° -you, told him to do? No, but he’s got the best excuse for not doing it that-anybody can think of. Has He You would be: convinced, only you know that some- a Seat on ‘how he never gets results; he always brings home o the & hardluck &tory instead of what he was sent : 3 ' . after. - His long suit is the: “alibi,” the explanation : Supreme of why it couldn’t be done. You meet him also in Bench? ’.the leglslature He is elected on-the promise that e " he will get you some legislation that will do justice - to the farmer. Does ‘he. do it? Oh, no; but he can explain just - i exactly why it was.unposs:ble is told to make plans for a terminal elevator.” You don’t get the terminal - ~ elevator, but you get'a dandy explanation of. how a termmal e]evator is notthethmgyoureallywant,atall £ . " 'The people: of the state enact an amendment tp the const:tutlon pro- . viding that “amendments to this constitution may also be: proposed by - the filing with the Secretary of state, at least six months previous:to any - 3 '.general election, of an initiative: ‘petition containing the signatures of at ;leas %wmtfi:&ekgdvowrsmewhofmtmmanmhafifixe eonshtutmn shall. be S8yS dshall ‘be made effective, - ' pages recedents to: 4he ‘people are FARGO; NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY OCTOBER b5, 1916 Patterson, near Bismarck, N. D. Or he is on-the board of control-and he WHOLE NO. 55 The stand is 10 feet high and reaches almost-as far as edge of the field in the background. lt is corn all the way from the foreground to About Precedents and Parties leg'xs]ature would not a MAXIMUM REQUIREMENT have been laid down, guamnteemg the power of a certain percentage of the people to ‘initiate an’'ameéndment? ‘reasonable as it would. be to ‘rule that the usury law means that NO . LESS THEN TEN. PER CENT interest shall be charged on all loans. . The court simply TURNS THE AMENDMENT INSIDE OUT—a very - skillful process, but far from fair. i * % % By this time the people of the state must be pretty tired of putting on the bench men who are merely SMART LAWYERS. The smarter the lawyer the easier it is for hnn to make wrong ap- ; A “Smar.t _pear right and to give ‘an apparently reasonable Lawyer;” excuse for overthrowing: justice.. The smart : lawyer can always bolstér up a ' ROTTEN CASE - is He with plenty -of PRECEDENTS and intricate log- ;> Your Ideal ic. Oftenheis better trained in doing this than he : for a i in searchmg for justice. -~ Why not look for = ‘judges who have something moré.to recommend Judge? them than ability to quote precedent? Why not B - choose men who will think first of all of fair deal- .,.mg, who wfli not be warped by pre;udlees or- eontrolled by powerful in- : The people of the state are dJSSahsfied w1th their supreme court. They have Jost confidence in it. They want a change. There-are three canehdntes who-believe that fair play and human . nghts are above nar- row techmealltS’, who will mterpret the law in the hght of common sense.and: 6ommon’ honesty / There ‘i§' no issue in the electnon S0, xmportant as that of electing the peoples nandxdates for ‘the supreme eourt—Robmson, Birdzell and 3 * s s year The Nonpartisun League has not indorsed The League i 1‘ Hasnt Held dorsed Hughes; neither has it indorsed Wilson. s State -~ Cumber; -neither has it indorsed Burke. . The court’s interpretation seems about as .; ‘. any candidates for county offices or for national ' - The ‘Nonpartisan Teague has not in- . The Nonpartlsan League: has ‘not indorsed Mec- 5