The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 19

farmer 1§ going to support anything in . State or national affairs if his judgment tells him it is wrong and should not be supported? In return for our joining fee, we.get two years’ subscription paid up to the Nonpartisan Leader, one of the fairest papers published. Take a tip from me and get it on your exchange list. Are you a member of any organiza: . tion devoted to the interests of a cer- tain line or calling? I understand you are a lawyer. If so, you undoubtedly belong to a lawyers’ ‘“union.” * What are your yearly dues? Do you believe that the working men and farmers have the right to or- ganize? You state that the “local farmer who accompanies the organizeér gets good pay for his time and team.” You are wrong again. The- League Fords are furnished to the organizers by the League. You state that “in some states the League is harnessed up with labor rad- icals.” Do you draw a line between “laboring men” and farmers? I don’t. If a farmer works on his own land or on rented land he is a working man. The farmers as a class are producers and the laboring men as a class are consumers. Would you deny them the privilege of combining to eliminate the middleman ? You say “since farmers do not ever control it, the possibilities of its bene- fiting agriculture. are quite remote.” No one can obtain-a membership but a farmer. Will you kindly tell me who * controls the League? ! " You say “as the Farmers’ Nonparti- san league, it did some good work in North Dakota,” with special emphasis on the word farmers’—thank you for the compliment. As the FARMERS’ ~Nonpartisan league it will do good work in some 47 other states. “Farmers only need to stand to- gether to have the politicians of all parties, also capital and labor, com- Okanogan, Wash. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: As a meémber of the League and reader of your paper, I wish to inquire it you have, or can obtain definite in- States supreme court, at Washington, declaring stock dividends exempt from the federal income tax. A paper print- -ed in Chicago had an article declaring -that such a. decision had been made, the article being dated January 26, last. Should such be the case, would you kindly state;, in detail, the natire of such decision, through the Leader, so * that congress may be urged to pass remedial legislation at once. Yours very truly, y . “LEAGUER.” In response to the above inquiry, the . Leader herewith presents .a report from its Washington bureau in regard to the matter mentioned: Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leadepr cided, on January 17, that stock divi- %' .dends were not taxable as income, un- _year 1914. The case Wwas that of Henry "“ Hisner, collector of United States is- " ternal revenue for the Third district . of the state of New York. The collec- / tor had compelled Towne to pay taxes “ on stock issued to him from' surplus earned by a corporation hefore January 1,71913,"and the district eourt held that the ‘stock was-income within the mean- ing ‘of the income tax act of October ; Undemodehnmons act).” owns its‘ own line of Fords and the " formation as to whether the United ° D. C,, handed down recently a decision - The United States supreme court de- - der the income tax law in effeet in the . R. Towne, plaintiff in error, vs. Mark ©'3,11913 (the income tax section of the, pete in well doing for. agriculture.” Thank you again. You are almost right. That is the reason they are -joining the League — so they can sta.nd to- gether. ] The farmers of North Dakota repre- sent ‘approximately 80 per cent of the votes; and yet for almost 30 years their votes accomplished practically nothing for them as a class. But one political battle fought by them as an organization cleaned the political field and routed most of the standpatters, who left for greener fields to graft upon. As for the $16 many a North Da- kota farmer has lost that much on a single 100-bushel load of wheat sold on unfair grades and dishonest dockage. . We farmers in North Dakota ship the most of our grain to the twin cities, - ~ Minneapolis and St: Paul, and lose ap- proximately $45,000,000 annually, ac- cording to some: of the -best mathe- maticians of North Dakota., Who gets the $55,000,0007 When we produce and ship livestock to St. Paul, we pay freight to St. Paul. The meat is packed there and shipped back to us. We pay freight on livestock 500 miles and we must absolutely sell at a price fixed by the buyer. We want bacon from the local store and we must pay the price he. asks, and of course the 500 miles freight is “figured in.” Could our state of North -Dakota build a state-owned packing plant cen- trally located? Yes, the state built a twine plant and paid the bonds off sev- . eral years before they were due. At present the farmers do not have anything to say concerning the prices they should receive at the terminal elevators or at the packing plants. Mr. Myrick, how long would you con- tinue to publish “Farm and Home” if your subscribers set the yearly sub- seription rate, and the advertisers told | you how much they would pay per inch for advertising? I would be pleased to receive an answer from you imme- diately. . WARD SKEEN. Box 296, Egeland, N. D. ASKED AND ANSWERED corporation is no poorer and the stock: holder is no richer than they were be- fore,” and that the stockholder “re- ceives no more in the way of dividends, and his old and new- certificates to- gether are worth only what the old ones were worth before.” Hence the , Stock dividends are-mnot income, and | ' can not be taxed as such. This decision DOES NOT APPLY to the new income tax law, now in ef- fect. Treasury officials declare that, under the new law, stock dividends will have to pay the income tax. Law- yers for investors in stocks have dis- puted this claim. through the courts. DRIVING AWAY SUPPORT Andes, Mont: Editor Nonpartisan Leader. Am sending you a clipping from the Fairview (Mont.) Times.. The editor \ gave the front page of his sheet to’ an, attack on the ‘League. Now this kind of reading does not appeal to me and I don’t think it doés to any farmer. We don’t want any fish stories now. What can we do? Stop the paper is all' I can do. : : : ] : GUS THUNE. HEADER QUITS DISPATCH . ‘Paxton, Mont. Editor Nonpartlsan Leader: - “Enclosed find clipping from the St. "Paul: Dispatch.” Our “friends” ‘are at -us once more. 'Here is where the Dis-: patch loses another subscriber. I have']. - taken' their paper for nine years but .can’t stand to read this kind of trash. any longer.. We will all-stick for. the ~Nonpartisan league in Montana, - > OHN It will be fought Buvs1 °14. 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