The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 10, 1919, Page 20

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So the League legislators have prepared and introduced a proposed constitutional amendment, similar to North Dakota’s, to allow the state to go into business for the benefit of its people. % League legislators also have pre- pared and introduced a proposed con- stitutional amendment to:give Idaho the initiative, referendum and recall. ~In 1912 the people of Idaho voted overwhelmingly in favor of these prin- ciples, but the Republican legisSlatures of 1913 and 1915 and the Democratic legislature of 1917 alike failed to give anything workable to the people, though both parties promised it. In the line of taxation League rep-o resentatives have introduced bills with real kicks in them. One proposes to exempt farm improvements a homes, assessed at $500 or less, from taxation. But the main bill is one that proposes to, tax owners of power sites in Idaho on the value of the 2 Size Avery PAGE TWENTY Idaho Gang on Wild Political Sp;rec hérsepower that they are capable of developing, whether they are develop- ing it or not. This bill, if passed, would be a cruel blow to the water- power trust, which is holding idle power sites capable of providing mil- lions of horsepower, playing the dog in the manger policy, holding these sites practically free from taxation, refusing to develop them or let any one else develop them, because that might hurt the market for power. ~These are the main bills of the League program in Idaho. The League legislators have slight hopes of getting any of them passed, but they are going to bat with them, and then are going to carry their case to the people. ‘ AID TO SOLDIERS “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” There are a few other bills that the League is behind. One is a bill to extend a moratorium on soldiers’ debts for a year after they are dis- charged from the service. In spite of the fact that similar legislation has - been passed by other states and the federal government, Republican lead- ers in the Idaho house of representa- tives declared the measure “unconsti- tutional” as soon as it was introduced and refused to have the bill printed. To punish League members the stand- patters have introduced and are pass- ing county. division ‘bills, cutting up counties in an effort to create new anti-League districts, just as the standpatters are doing in Montana. There is a nightly anti-League caucus in session, at which new ways and means of -worrying the farmers are discussed. Agreement has been reach- ed already at this secret caucus to.do away with™ the primary law as it stands at present—a law that the people of Idaho fought for for years. In every way the Idaho majority may be said to be on a wild political jag, the result of too much power. The League legislators are doing what they can, biding their time and preparing to carry their case to the sober judgment of all the people of Idaho. MOST INDEPENDENT MAN ON EARTH “I tell you, the farmer is the most independent person on earth,” declar- ed one of them. And he was right. If he doesn’t want to get up in the morning, he can lay abed—his stock can miss a feed and a.morning drink. If he doesn’t want to sell his wheat, ke can keep it—if it'isn’t mortgaged. If he doesn’t like the price offered for his cattle, he can. keep them—if they are not mortgaged and if he has the feed for them. : If he doesn’t want to pay the price asked him for a sack of flour, he doesn’t need ‘to buy it—he can eat corn meal, if he has the corn and a grinder. If he doesn’t want to pay the inter- est on his mortgaged farm, he doesn’t need to—if he doesn’t want to stay on the farm. If he’s so independent that he doesn’t want to stay on the farm, he doesn’t have to—he has the deed to it, but some one else has the mortgage. If he doesn’t want to have HIS farm mortgaged, he doesn’t have to— he can take up the mortgage if he has the money. Yes, sir, most independent man on earth. Just like the store clerk, if he doesn’t like his boss, he can quit or be boss himself—if he has the right pull. All the farmer has to do is work—and if he doesn’t want to do that he can do just like the tramp dog does, beg. “Most Independent Man on Earth.” —STUTSMAN COUNTY (N. D.) PRESS. 3 \