The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 12

i P T ' I WANT THE LEGISLATURE To PASS A LAW THAT NO MORE ADDITIONS CAN BE PLATFED TO SKINNERSVILLE UNTIL I SELL MINE!(Z—— PREVENTING BACHELORS GO/ING TO CHICAGO 10 GET: WIVES! (By J. W. Witham in the American Home Weekly, St. Paul.) N a few days the legislature, elected under the auspices of the Nonpar- tisan League of North Dakota, will asemble at Bismarck. The eyes of the nation will be upon this body of men from the hour it is first called to order until the gavel falls for the last time. The writer, who spent 12 eventful years at the sessions of legislatures in western states, while very important, anti-monopoly legislation was being enacted, has had ample opportunity to learn something of the “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,” resort- ed to by “the powers that prey,” in or- der to defeat legislation in the interest ' of the masses or designated to curb or restrict the rapacity of “organized greed.” : The interests that have held North Pakota in their grasp for so many years and against which the farmers have finally revolted will hardly sur- render without a struggle. The battle indeed will be titanic, for it involves the whole farmers’ movement, as well as the prosperity of the great North- west. LIARS WILL BE THERE In the first place, these lawmakers 7 A LAW REQUIRING ALL MEN TO SHAVE THEIR HEADS , THUS GIVING BALD-HEADED MEN AN EQUAL CHANCE. N THE WORLOD. “BALO-HEAR UNION — Some M. T. Dome ideas of laws for the legislature to pass. will be surrounded by a gang of the most ‘skillful and able-bodied liars rep- resenting some of the great newspap- ers of the land. These men will work overtime misrepresenting the situation end ridiculing the bills that may be proposed. An army of lobbyists, both -men and women, will be in evidence, not only filling wup the hotels, but swarming throughout the capitol build- ing and even the halls of legislation. The movement, so far, has been wise- ly conducted. North Dakota has a lib- eral constitution and a supreme court has been chosen that will give it an hcnest . interpretation. An able and conscientious attorney general has also been elected, whose- asistance will be a powerful factor in the conflict. Gov. Frazier, while lacking extensive legis- lative experience, has fighting blood in \ his veins, for he comes from a noble Scotch ancestry and, besides, he has the full and complete confldence of his supporters. LOOK FOR “JOKERS” The members of the legislature should take the support of their wives with them if possible, 80 they may have the refining and elevating in- fluences of the home. They should not suffer themsge'ves to be alome at amy = OF ;HE LAWS N ‘THE “OLD DAYS. 2 FAILED TO PASS 1N HOUSE AS THERE ARE TOoO FEW QLD MAIDS IN N.DAK. Watch What Happens in North Dakota Legislature time with any person, man or woman, whom they cannot implicitly trust. Personal envy and jealousy must be kept down, for there are no more po- tent factors, when fanned and en- couraged by skilled lobbyists, in side- tracking or defeating honest legisla- tion. “Jokers” will be inserted in the bills and amendments proposed that appear innocent enough, but which are de- signed to render the laws either in- operative or unconstitutional. SHERIFF WANTS A LAW PASSED.LIKE THIS! (OPPONENT WEIGHED 4 | RI3 PounNDS. It will be a miracle if some of the members do not fall by the wayside, but in the end we may hope that these farmer legislators will write upon the statute books of that state a system of Just laws in the interest of the com- mon people that will serve'as a beacon light for the voters of other states, and remain for all time as a lasting monu- ment to the intelligence, the honesty, the sagacity and the patriotism of the organized farmers of North Dakota. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: tage.”’ T TWELVE AS MINNESOTA SEES IT I' have been watching with interest what the outcome would be with the three judges that had been elected by the League in North Dakota. It seems to me that the three outgoing judges, also the two holdover judges and the district jadges violated their oath of otfi_ce and should be impeached. You s_a.ld that if the incoming judges allowed themselves to bt_a bound in any way tgy high-handed political trickery of this kind they would not live up to the expectations of the people of North Dakota who gave them such splendid majorities November 7. I want to know also if the Lea . gue would live up to the expec- tations of the states that are no X = w being organized if it does not resent such conduet. I say no, but let every member in North Dakota come to the front and put down such trickery. i Can:t you give us the pictures of such a bunch of chumps and and put in red letters under each one, ‘‘sold out for a mess of pot- - Yours truly for the League. — Clarissa, Minn., Deec. 25, 1916. A. 0. DENNISTON. v\\\\\\\\‘ % : : ‘ < RO