The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 18

1 Still a Chance to Help HERE is still a chance to let the North Dakota senate know how you and your neighbors feel about the passage of House Bill 44, the bill which provides for submitting to the people next June at a special election a constitution that will permit the farmers’ program being carried out. If you want this bill passed, giving you the right to vote on the new constitution and hastening the League program, cut out the petition below, sign it yourself and send it in. Or circulate it among your friends. If not enough room in the blank places for names, paste on a piece of paper. Fill in the blank with the name of your senator before mailing. Mail the petition to the Secretary of the Senate, Bismarck, N. D. THEY CAN NOT IGNORE YOU. ' o To the Hon. Secretary. of Senate, Bismarek, N. D.: Dear Sir:—Please present the following petition to the senate of the fifteenth legislative assembly, now in session, and particularly call it to the attention of Senator ..... Mo chnttidine who is the representative in that body from our distriet. - PETITION - TO THE SENATE OF THE 15th LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY AND TO SENATOR.......... ceseessestaasnassassssss. representing the district of the undersigned: We, the undersigned, qualified voters of North Dakota, do hereby respectfully petition you to vote for and support the measure which will pass the house of representatives, providing - for a new constitution and providing that such constitution be submitted to the voters of the state, for their rejection or approval, at a special election to be held in June this year. We further wish to respectfully urge upon you our wishes and demands that action be taken now favorably on such constitution, which provides and allows the state-of North Dakota to establish terminal elevators, flour mills, packing plants, cold . storage plants, rural credit banks, state hail insurance, exemption of farm improvements from taxation, and to engage in any other business from time to time, which the voters desire, that would be a benefit to the peo- ple of the state. £ We further petition and ask that such constitution be passed by the senate and submitted to the people in the form in which-it passed the house of representatives, which includes a more liberal and fair initiative and referendum and the recall and other provisions long demanded by the people of the state. ; ‘We believe the voters of North Dakota asked and demanded, by the vote cast for Gover- nor Frazier, that the Nonpartisan League program be carried out, and we join with Governor Frazier in asking that you let nothing stand in your way in doing and carrying out the wishes of the people of the state. - We respectfully submit this petition and ask that you give same due and careful con- sideration. : Address Occupation (Paste a sheet of paper here for more names) EIGHTEEN GET BUSY, HE SAYS Carrington, N. D., Jan. 1! Mr.“A. C. Townley, § Dear Sir: I am sorry to state that I cannot |~_‘ attend the meeting at Valley City. I am 67 years of age this year and I would like to . see things go through as soon as possible. We want a state constitution this-year. . ‘We don't want to wait four years. The hold-overs are farmers and they ought to go with the farm- ers, as the farmers had but one show and this is the one. We want you to make her go. . HENRY MILLER. A CENTER SMASH : Mapes, N. D., Jan. 16, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: > Frazier is sure some fullback. That center smash into the board of regents is the greatest ot his football career. R. H. ANDREWS. AS TO HOLD-OVERS - . Kensal, N. D., Jan. 14, Mr. A. C. Townley, Dear Sir: - 5 It looks like some of those hold- over senators can not get the “hunch” and start something useful for the peo- ple, in place of all those fake laws which they made more: for pastime than results. I am quite busy at home at present on account of the cold weather and much snow, and can not be present at the Valley City meeting, but hope some of those members present will open up their hearts and let those kind gentle- men find out what we need. I do not wish them anything bad, but wish you could get them out on a farm for some years. Of course, they should have plenty of 12 per cent money to work with so they can get a real farmer’s start, and should also have the gambler fix the price which they shall receive for the work, then we may have their sympa- thy, and not before. JENS P. PEDERSON. ENOUGH WORDS—ACT S Mose, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I notice in the Leader where Mr..W. F. Moebius tells about his experience with the Phelps mill concerning hig flour, middlings and bran. He must have gotten more than double what he would have gotten if he had sold his wheat at $1 and bought flour. 5 If we had state mills we could get out of our wheat all there is in it. Who will benefit by these hold-overs in the North Dakota senate blocking the League program and preventing state mills? Will it be the farmers or the millers and the Minneapolis grain gang? Some of you college professors try to guess the reason why the hold- over senators are bucking the League program. We want the constitution changed right now. We don’t want . to wait four or five years—we want it now. That is what we voted for. Get the League program worked out as soon as possible. 'We would like to know more about ‘these hold-overs. What do they look like? Where do they come from? ‘What is the matter with them? ANTHONY ANSON. RURAL SCHMOOLS Foxholm, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan: Leader: ‘While there is considerable discus- sion as to improving our rural schools, and while the legislature will no doubt consider the question and do as they think best regardless of what might be my ideas, I take the liberty to state my view on one point at least, though unasked. To my mind a great injustice is be- ing done to children in a school district through which there is no railroad, and that usually is a rural district. The district through which there is a rail- road gets the taxes from it and is able to build a better school house, hire an extra teacher, or have an extra month or two of schoal - ‘Whereas, the district without a rail- road gets no taxes from it, and the children get correspondingly less school advantages. Still the district without the railroad helps to support the rail- ways just as much as the district through which the road passes. They are, however, deprived of any of the taxes collected from this source. If we believe in equal opportunities and in giving all children an equal chance to prepare for life, it seems to me some way should be devised to make our professions more than mere words. Why not let the state collect the taxes from the railroads and divide them “pro-rata among the several dis- tricts? % The favored districts will no doubt be loath to give up the taxes rightfully belonging to all the districts of the: state though justice demands it. Should you deem it worth while you may publish this, though ‘it won't hurt my feelings if you don't. = LT ; E C. BIERBAUM. RNy B FO gl Annmvegl 'mzuonamgl lzm:::m>¥ i 0 Y ..4,-_.._‘“&_.:' -u.;uu-ng‘ y Tk SDRAATTER wl