The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 11

S - ™ BRANDS STORIES FALSE '_l‘he stories that have been sent out charging Governor Fraz1'er and the people of North Dakota with a lack of patriotism at this erisis in our nation’s life are false. I have never heard more patriotic utterances by any man anywhere than those made by Governor Frazier in my presence at the many meetings I have attended with him. The patriotic response of the people when any of the speakers have touched upon patriotism is equal to the response made by the people anywhere in this country. Governor Frazier never fails to urge the people to buy Liberty loan bonds in as large amounts as their finances will permit them to do. I feel confident that when the final roll call is made that North Dakota will make as good a showing in the men they have sent to the firing lines and in the money they have subseribed for the support of North Dakota’s soldier boys, measured by its means, as any state in the union. J. L. M’BRIEN, School Extension Agent, Bureau of Education, ‘Washington, D. C. Protect Farmers? Certainly Not How the Twin City Banks and a North Dakota Attorney Are Helping a Foreign Insurance Company Fleece the Farmers HEN Bank Examiner Waters of North Dakota issued a statement, saying that when banks refused to pay checks of farmers who had checking accounts, they were violating the law, the Twin City papers and the gang press of North Dakota let out an awful roar, It was hard to see how it was any business of the Twin City papers, but they saw a chance to discredit the farmers’ administration by lying mis- representations. No sooner had this unjustified out- break of the enemies of the farmers been silenced, than Twin City banks and newspapers made another com- plaint about anether effort of the farmer officials in North Dakota to protect the farmers. The second out- break was occasioned by the fact that Bank Examiner Waters and the attor- ney general HAD DARED TO TAKE STEPS TO SEE THAT THE BANK- ERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY OF MONTANA, WHICH IS INSOLVENT, PAID WHAT 1T COULD OF ITS OBLIGATIONS FOR CROP -LOSSES IN NORTH DAKOTA. Again the farmer officials seemed to have step- ped on the toes of the big interests OUT OF THE STATE, that have so long had things their own way in North Dakota. The Bankers’ Insurance company took notes of farmers in payment for insuring the 1917 crop. . These notes were traded at the North Dakota banks by the insurance company, the banks taking the notes and issuing certifi- cates of deposit to the company, AFTER THE BANKS HAD TAKEN OUT THEIR COMMISSION FOR WRITING THE INSURANCE POLI- CIES. The insurance company turned the certificates of deposit over to Twin City banks. Then the insurance com- pany became insolvent—with over one million dollars owing to farmers for crop losses, the company can pay only about $400,000. Anxious to protect farmer policy holders by getting for them as much as possible, the farmers’ administration ordered some 76 North Dakota banks, who had issued the certificates of deposit, to refuse to pay them, until it could be made certain that the money or the notes were turn- ed back to the farmers who suffered losses, IN ORDER THAT THE FARMERS COULD GET ALL THAT WAS POSSIBLE OUT OF THE FINANCIAL. WRECK OF THE IN- SURANCE COMPANY, ANOTHER ATTACK i COMES FROM BEHIND * Immediately the -Twin City banks, which held the certificates of deposit, brought suit against the North Dakota banks, tying up the reserves of tl‘xe North Dakota banks held in the Tw1_n city banks. Do you see through this dirty trick of Twin City bankers to dbring pressure on North Dakota banks, to force them to pay the certificates of deposit, whether farmers who have Jost crops get anything or not? And then the Twin City financiers jumped into the Twin City press WITH DE- FENSES OF THE INSOLVENT IN- SURANCE COMPANY, WHICH WILL FAIL, TO PAY FARMERS OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS PDUE THEM. The Minneapolis Journal was one of the papers that carr!.ed a nasty attack on the farmer officials and a defense of the insurance com- pany and its methods. And then, right while the farmers’ administration was in the midst of its fight with the Twin City financial SoNx @) % machine, in comes the North Dakota Bankers’ association and the Fargo Forum and attacks the farmer offi- cials FROM BEHIND. The Forum printed a column write-up of an opin- ion by Attorney Engerud of the North Dakota, Bankers’' association, saying the attorney general and bank examin- er were all wrong in trying to save farmers what they could out of the smash of the insurance company. Engerud’s opinion—from the same attorney who conducted the Chamber of Commerce legal fight against the Equity Co-operative exchange — is rather remarkable. He says the farm- ers have “obtained due consideration” for their notes, and that for this rea- son the banks can not hold up the cer- tificates of deposit issued in lieu of these notes. The “due consideration” that the North Dakota bank associa- tion attorney says the farmers got was “the insurance company’s PROM- ISE to pay crop losses.” Get that! He doesn’t say the farmers got paid for their crop losses, and that THAT was “due consideration.” Oh no! The “due consideration” was the insurance company’s PROMISE, which HAS PROVED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS. Perhaps Engerud’s opinion is mighty good law—as were his briefs in the Chamber of Commerce suit against the Equity farmers—but if so, the law is monstrous. It's a pity that Mr. Enge- rud, legal advisor for the bankers of North Dakota, could not have hunted a little more:in his law books and tried TO FIND SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE ~ HELPED THE FARMERS IN THIS FIGHT—THAT WOULD HAVE GIVEN HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE STATE OFFICIALS FEARLESSLY STAND- ING OUT FOR JUSTICE TO THE FARMERS IN THIS CASE. But no, all he can find in his law books is SOMETHING TO SUPPORT THE TWIN CITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM in its attack on the North Dakota offi- cials, and to support AN INSURANCE COMPANY THAT ASSUMED $2,000,- 000 WORTH OF LIABILITY FOR CROP LOSSES AND CAN PAY ONLY A FEW HUNDRED THOU- SAND OF 1IT. The people of North Dakota should be proud of the effort of their state of- ficials to help the farmers in this case. The effort of the OUT-OF-THE- .STATE, Twin City banks to prevent the farmers being protected was to be expected. But how about the attack FROM BEHIND—the attack of Mr. Engerud, a NORTH DAKOTA. citizen, :and the Forum, a NORTH DAKOTA PAPER (so-called)? The rights of a foreign insurance company and foreign banks are to be protected—but to —— with the North Dakota farmers is the attitude of those who are fighting the North Dakota officials who are trying to get justice for the people. CANADA DOES IT There are at present nine public cold storage plants in Western Canada— three ‘in British Columbia, at Victoria, Prince Rupert and Penticton; two in Alberta, at Calgary and XEdmonton; three in Saskatchewan; and one at Brandon, Manitoba. Saskatchewan’s fourth plant is about to be constructed at Saskatoon, and it will have a gross storage space of 206,000 cubic feet. The public cold storage plants are subsi- dized by the Dominion government to the extent of 30 per cent of their total cost. In consideration of this grant, the storage rates are subject to the control of the Dominion government, and must at all times' be available to the service of the public and not oper- ated for the benefit of any private company or corporation.—CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD BULLETIN, PAGE ELEVEN ADVERTISEMENTS ‘What a Co-operative Packing Plant Means to the Northwest Under the present system, the co-operative ideas of the Equity Co-operative Packing Plant at Fargo operating at a capacity, will be able to save the stockholders on commissions and yardage alone a total amount of $75,000 per year. This saving would in less than six years’ time pay for the entire plant, or in other words, the en- tire stock raised in North Dakota alone in one year would produce a saving on commissions and yardage an amount sufficient to pay for the entire plant in less than one year’s time not mentioning anything about preventing excessive shrinkage on long distance hauls. : We will leave it to the farmers or stock raisers just what profits they have been giving away to middlemen that should really belong to the people who rightfully earn this margin—the producers. VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY As evidence to show what packing centers will do for the de- velopement of livestock in any state, there are now located in the following states of ILLINOIS..................9 cities Operating 37 P. Plants IOWA......... 10 cities Operating 13 P. Plants MISSOURI and KANSAS, 10 cities Operating 29 P. Plants NEBRASKA...............4 cities Operating 10 P. Plants WISCONSIN...............6 cities Operating 13 P. Plants Three of these Wisconsin plants are operated on a co-oper= ative basis and are making progress regardless of all the criticism given by parties UNFRIENDLY to CO-OPERATIVE movements. These plants are all of modern construction and so arranged to : operate economically and utilize all by-products the same as the & large packer. Many packing plants are independent of the large packers. Throughout the United States there are nearly 1,000 plants of various sizes, but the large packers control only about 55 per cent of the entire meat supply. This leaves still a large field for independent co-operative packing plants. The Work Has Started to Put North Dakota in the List of Packing House States. Success is in Sight, You Can Help. The Equity Co-Operative Packing Co. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $1,000,000 Fargo, North Dakota P. M. Casey, Pres., Fargo, N. D. L. C. Hoopman, Mgr. and Sec'y. Wm. Olson, Treas., Valley City, N. D. EXECUTIVE: P. M. Casey, Fargo, N. D.; J. C. Leum, Mayville, N. D.; O. 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