The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 26

ADVERTISEMENTS The Missouri-Yellwstone Pure Bred Live Stock Ass’n 2= ANNUAL SALE OF REGISTERED STOCK WILLISTON, N. D, %=5-: FEB. 27-28 50— PERCHERONS —50 STALLIONS AND MARES 80—SHORTHORNS—80 60 BULLS and 20 HEIFERS and COWS 40— HEREFORDS— 40 25 BULLS—15 HEIFERS 20—Aberdeen-Angus—20 10 BULLS—10 HEIFERS 8—Shetland Ponies—38 STALLIONS—MARES 4—Belgian Stallions—4 This is a breeders’ sale and will be held under the direction of the Missouri- Yellowstone Pure Bred Association. Every animal will be sold as represented. Any misrepresentation will be made good by the Association. Among the Short- horns will be several Pure Scotch animals good enough to head any pure bred herd.. The Percherons will be better than those offered at the last sale, and those were the best bunch ever offered in the state. They have the flat bone, the quality and the ability to make good. The winter will be practically over by the time of this auction, and any animal raised and wintered here during the past three winters ought to be a winner in any capacity as a breeder. From the sale last year only one animal came back on the Association, and that was a bull that proved unfit for service. That shows that our stock is good and that we replace anything that is defective. We invite the farmers and stockmen of this territory to come and see how a well-organized bunch of breeders can do busi- ness. By-bidding is not allowed. They go, and go fast. Come a day in advance and pick out your animals. Don’t miss a real live auction. TERMS OF SALE: Cash—Those desiring time should present letters of credit to Clerk before the sale. PLACE OF SALE: The New Sale Pavilion, two 'blockl east of Main St. Seats for 400. Heated; well lighte MISSOURI-YELLOWSTONE PURE BRED ASS'N AUCTIONEERS: Frank Hyland, Dev- SALES MANAGERS: B. H. Critch- ilg Lake; W. W. 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Wihiesovx S“WHERE YOUR SHIPMENTS BRING MOST MONEY” " ESTABLISHED 1883 e e e e e 4 e A Y 3 T A ST A ST IO Looting the Gem State and Its Péople (Continued from page 5) was more convinced than ever that something was rotten in the state- house—something worse than the sub- stitution of imitation marble and cheap woodwork and shoddy rugs, something worse, even, than the theft of a few thousand dollars in bond premiums. In 1914 Van Deusen found a backer who was willing to finance him to the extent of printing 65,000 copies of a pamphlet telling what was known to be wrong with the state treasurer’s office—the sale of state bonds at suspiciously lew figures, the furniture contracts, the substitution of - cheap material in the capitol. This pamphlet was printed for dis- tribution among the voters of Idaho, but four copies found their way outside the state. Somebody found the names of the presidents of the four New York sure- ty companjes that were on Allen’s bonds for $200,000 and sent them copies of Van Deusen’s pamphlet marked “Personal.” Just-ll days after these pamphlets were mailed four ex- perts appeared at Allen’s office and asked to look at his books. And then something else happened. What happened next was that O. V. Allen, state treasurer, came back to Boise and voluntarily pleaded guilty to embezzlement. He had been caught with the goods on him and he knew it. But this wasn’t all that happened. A campaign was on at the time and most of the state officers were candi- dates for re-election. The governor put a special investigator named Ram- stedt in charge of the office to check up on Allen’s shortage, and then sup- “pressed his report., Not until months later, until after the governor had been defeated for re-election and a new governor had come in, was the true state of affairs in the treasurer’s office disclosed. Then it was shown that Allen and his deputy were “short” in cash alone $93,112.03, that thousands of dollars had been stolen in other ways by sale of state bonds for amounts greater than were turned into the treasury, by theft of interest belonging to the state. The report showed that a Boise bank had conspired with the state treasurer and had accepted bogus deposits from him to cover up shortages while examinations of his office were being made, that thousands more had been lost to the state in a Nampa bank that had failed, that other state officials and employes were involved in the short- ages. It showed, in short, about as rotten graft as could be found -in poli- tics anywhere in the United States. WHAT THE FARMERS ARE DOING ABOUT IT It takes a long time in this story to get to the point where something can be told about the farmers’ move- ment in Idaho for honest government. The reason is that the farmers’ move- ment has only just started. Idaho is a young state—it only came into the Union in 1890. Up until a dozen years ago there was not much doing in the way of farming. Then the great irrigation -enterprises were started, and what had been desert wastes in southern Idaho were turned into fruitful farms. Farming began to be a respectable business. Also, the farmers begain to organize. But I have told how the state is di- vided by mountain ranges, by lack of railroad communication, by difference ‘in religion. The farmers were simi- larly divided. The Farmers’ Union, for instance, sprung up in Idaho in two -divisions—a North Idaho and Washington division and ' a South Idaho and Oregon dlvlsion. The Farm- - PAGE TWENTY-SIX ers’ Society of Equity was organized, but without a state organization other than a commercial clearing house at Pocatello. The Idaho State Grange came nearer being a statewide organ- ization than any other, but it was weak as compared with the Granges, Farm- ers’ Unions and Equity unions of other states. Then there were dozens of smaller organizations—the Dairymen’s association, the Poultry Breeders’ asso- ciation, the Honey Producers’ associa- . tion, the Fruitgrowers’ association, the cattle and Horse Breeders’ association, and many others. In 1916 these organizations decided - that it was time for them to get to- gether. They found that divided they could do nothing and that it was high time something should be done. A meeting was arranged and held at Boise in February, 1916, at which the “Idaho State Federation of Agricul- ture” was organized, intended to be, for the farmers’ organizations, just what the State Federation of Labor is for the labor unions. The . Federa- tion adopted resolutions declaring for the principle of state ownership of marketing mdchinery—grain elevators, warehouses, and the like for the bene- fit of the farming industry. But this was just a preliminary step. A year later, in February, 1917, the Federation held its second meet- - ing. By this time the farmers had ' ‘learned that passing resolutions wasn’t enough, that expecting a legislature elected by the special interests to do much of anything in behalf of the farmers wasn’t reasonable. They be- gan to see that it was necessary to do something that had never been at- tempted in Idaho before, to organize the farmers politically, regardless of their previous party, geographical and religious divisions. They looked off east, to North Dakota, where the farm- ers had just elected a farmer governor, a farmer legislature, and judges of the supreme court friendly to the farm- ers’ cause. So the State Federation of Agricul- ‘ ture of Idaho, in its second meeting, adopted this resolution, by unanimous vote: “Whereas, in the state of Idaho there is need of an organized movement of farmers to gain po- litical freedom, to secure better marketing facilities and clean, nonpartisan government, be it re- “solved, ; “That we, the ldaho State Feder- ation of Agriculture, do hereby ask the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League of North Dakota to extend their interstate organization to our state. “That the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League of North Dakota be re- quested to begin such operations not later than May 1, 1917.” Hasn’t this story had much.to say about the farmers’ movement in Idaho? Well, that movement is on now. . For the North Dakota league, which had become the National Nonpartisan league by this time, heard the call for help. And how the Idaho farmers are flocking in!. ¢ This story is too long already, but some more will have to be written. The writer wants to sérve notice right here that there will be a good sized installment of the story of the farm- ers’ fight in Idaho ready to be told immediately after the general election of November, 1918. And it will be mighty pleasant reading too, for the farmers. A news item from Baker, Mon- tana, remarks: “John Hilldegrade has sold his interests In Baker and gone to a warmer. climate,” - We looked in vain through thc paper for the obituary,