The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 7, 1918, Page 11

iy 2 f\* © “GREETINGS: ..o+ “ments-of the National Nonpartisan faeid ONPARTISAN 2| league members of Nebraska re- cently appointed a committee of three prominent farmers to inves- tigate the books and accounts, methods of conducting business and other details of the work of the \ League’s various state headquarters agd the national headquarters. = The ° committee consisted of the following men, all well-known farmers of Ne- braska: J. D.-Ream, prominent member of the League and master of the Ne- braska state Grange. W. J. Taylor, farmer, member of the Nebraska state legislature from Custer county. Hiyo Aden, big hog raiser of Sher- man county, Neb. ! The committee made a thorough in- vestization and has rendered a report to the Nebraska members of the League. = The. report finds the books and accounts of the League kept in an efficient manner, which enabled the committee to trace down items and check up expenditures. - The investi- gators found that the books were regularly audited by licensed audi- " tors, that League employes handling. money were bonded, that the League employs experts in' all branches of its work, whose salaries are modest in comparison with what they could make in other lines of work, that the officers’of the League have been " efficient and have displayed great wisdom in handling the organiza- _tion’s affairs, that the relations of the various state branches of the League with the national office are satisfactory and'that $16 for two years’ dues is none too .much to carry on the work successfully. ( The committee reached other im- : portant conclusions .-and among 2 other things recommended that some sort of action should be taken against bankers who hold up or re- fuse to pay farmers’ checks drawn in favor of the League by new members. - - 'The report in full, which should be read carefully by League members: in all states, is as follows: “TO -THE MEMBERS OF THE - NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE IN NEBRASKA. : . “Your committee, appointed by the state convention July 10, 1918, to investigate the different depart- -~ ~headquarters at St. Paul, Minn,, “and ' Lincoln, 'Neb., would report as follows: : “We could not go into all of the. ¢/ detailed. transactions. of this organization in a. - few days’ time,-but. we have examined the rec- _sufficiently to establish to our complete satis- " faction:that the entire business of the League /is managed in a systematic, orderly manner. fhat enabled us to trace items of accounts rapidly ~ are ‘audited regularly every three months by the Equitable Auditing company of St. Paul, Mimn, ~ which is duly licensed by the state of Minnesota, - and ‘that the records of each state League head- - ‘quarters are regularly audited by an accountant . from the national headquarters, and that every .. person_wha handles League money is under suf- - " company of Omaha, Neb, ficient bonds issued by the Ly'bn;Boncrl‘i‘ng'& Surety “Onr investigations lead us to be'liev'e'fhatflydur' . eral business: of the League is as efficiently con- “ducted ould be expected, when the ma League Funds Safe, Three Prominent Nebraska Farmers, Appointed to Thoroughly Investigate ~ Accounts, Take Back Strong Report to Home State - THE SILENT ANSWER OF THE LEAGUE FARMER | | ~ ords and inquired into the methods followed, - “We found a rigid system of keeping records - to satisfactory conclusions and that these accounts * " money is as economically spent, and that the gen- . gnitude ///,‘ : 7 / II\. \ //7[/, //2///) I /il /,\/\/& 7l As Cartoonist Bicknese here shows, the League farmer has not let the special interest blowhards interfere with his es- sentiai war work—all that he insists on is that they keep from under his feet. '\ Kkinds all his life and one more isn’t going to rattle him. - Read om this page the report of a committee | of three well-known Nebraska farmers on that question which anti-farmer interests pretend Gl : 5 - to be losing sleep over—“What has become of the $162” : of the business transacted, the territory covered -and-the large number of people employed are con- . ° sidéred, and especially so, when ' you, realize that this is a new organization, embracing entirely new systems of operation, that its progress has been hindered: by every obstruction, either legitimate or illegitimate, that the genius of the old-line poli- ticians and big business could devise. "“Tn the management of ‘the National Nonpatti: / san league we find employed some of the best ex- perts in the different lines of business: transactions that it has been our pleasure to meet. Both men and women are employed at salaries far below what they. could readily demand if they were to offer- their services in the open field of business. This is especially so of the higher officers. All are serving _ here not merely for the salaries they receive or the hope ‘of official position, but largely from a sense of duty in the cause of human rights and human Sl S e s ol “We were especially pleased withthe fore<. AGE, ELEVEN leaders to aid the members of the different . . ' © ative features of the League between the several: * states wherein it places the funds from the dif - the states where most needed, at the same time. - giving each state strict credit for all its contribu- sight displayed by the leaders of the League He has been used to pests of various il , in originating and working out the details of - (- --the . organization, the-discretion they have ex- b hibited in ‘defeating the politicians and big® - | . "business interests in- their unrighteous at- '« - & tempts to throttle the League. Of more inter- = " | est than all was the information we received .|| regarding the vigorous efforts they were mak- Sl ing and the wide field of investigation they" were covering in their attempt to secure au-' = - [ thentic information that will enable those = state legislatures and members of congress in intelligently. framing just and adequate laws - that will solve our present economic problem -in the interest of all the -people. ; “We were favorably impressed with the co-oper- ferent states in one general fund, to be used im " (Continued on page 14), . = e e BV P TP