The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 12

to glve ab: uw satisfaction or money refu is to be cons! built our business. rgt :— to stand the acid test. turer using hard wire throughout. Second:—it must hi under heavy strains. Detrolt, Minn., March 4, 1919. United Fence Company. Gentlemen: Enclosed please find check for $14.10 for which ghip me at once, 30 rods of your woven wire fenc- ing, Style No. 10-50-16 as per the enclose have already used about, 300 rods of your fencing, and tound it entirely sacismewry Kind- 1y ship®this order at once, and oblige, Yours truly, Earl E. Howard. R.R. 1 Brace wire, 25 lbs Delivered prices outside Big circular upon request. the fence must be made throughout from the bes UNITED FENCE CO. of Stillwater, sstans. 2o, DON'T BUY A ROD OF FENCE UNTIL YOU COMPARE OUR PRICES ¢ others Belovgmyuu will find our freight pnld ;c)(r‘lces on the famous Pendergast Fence. It is guaranteed rst when buying fence. After twenty-five years’ experience in the man- ulacmre ot woven wire lence we know the requirements of a field fence and upon these demands we have 1 open hearth wire galvanlzed t hard stee! Hard wire and walved horizontals make it just like a long spring, always tight, Pendergast Fence never sags like fence made from soft wire. We do not know of any other manufao- ust be properly woven so that it will stretch up with an even tension on all wires. rd:—the stays must be evenly spaced, and locked tight to the line wires 8o they wfll not slip Read what our customers say. Mt. Ayr, Iowa, March 10 1919. The United Fence Co., Stillwater, Minn, Dear 8irs:—I am sending thig order to Stillwater and as 1 recelved the advertising and blanks frnm there will put it u, gw you to ship order from F Madison, if you like I lmd an order in last winter for woven and barbed wire. _I put part of the woven wire up and will say that T like it first rate. Trus}lmé t}xat gxlu will ship my order as soon as convenient I re: ours res| T, oUrs e ivkpatrick Price—You only have to compare our prices with others to be convinced that we actually sell for less money. We invite comparison and recommend buying where you get the best value for your dollars, Only two profits on Pendergast Fence=—=YOURS and OURS. We prepay freight to your station in states as shown below: above states on request. - BUY DIRECT FROM ABOVE AND SAVE TIME! Order trom your nearest factory. Save Your Threshmg Bill! “Bankruptcy” Fable Is Exploded Figures Show.That North Dakota Is Solvent Despite “Quotations” of Auditor Kositzky . Bismarck Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. NDER a heading, “Town- ley Is Running North Dakota Into Bankruptcy —Auditor Issues State- ment Showing State Lacks Funds to Pay Salaries — $150,000 Unpaid , Bills,” newspapers all over the country re- cently published the following article: “BISMARCK, N. D., April 18.— With $150,000 in unpaid bills on file, and with but $9,869.73 in the state treasury’s general fund on April 1, State Auditor Kositzky, stung to ac- tion by criticism of his opponents with- in the League, who have, it is alleged, spread the report that he holding up certain bills through ‘spite,” has made public a report which would indicate that North Dakota is a trifle worse than bankrupt.” This story, which in effect is abso- lutely false and vicious, was evidently syndicated throughout the country by one of the big slush funds which League opponents maintain. It even - in taxes due the state from counties, over half last year’s taxes, and prac- tically all of which is available this year for the general fund. A not very clever newspaper re- porter concocted the bankruptey yarn by taking THE GENERAL FUND ALONE, aside from all other state funds and assets, and by failing to state ALL THE FACTS concerning even the general fund. year, when he has cast his lot with enemies of the farmers’ administra- tion, he fails to collect during March from 17 of the largest counties, and on April 1 gives out to newspapers fig- ures which they use to “prove” the state is bankrupt. The general fund, however, is only one ‘of the numerous state funds, which -contain millions of dollars, and even the general fund has due it from counties in taxes already levied an amount totaling nearly $1,000,000.. A state can hardly be said to be bank- rupt when it has several millions in cash in its treasury and when it has due from counties for its general fund nearly another million. This money due from counties will flow in in a continual stream and the state will meet all its obligations, even those payable only out of the general fund, with no difficulty whatever, HAD TO MAKE UP LARGE DEFICIT It should also be taken into consid- eration that the farmers’ administra- = - appeared in so i ines. g A 9 P @ 5 g Price per rod delivered in pII:I st D kstme finazlclai magalz)melf tion, since it took office, has had to Z 5 PO wg_ 2% | Mtnnsnes, | NDe 9 axota 1s not only not bank- a1 yp huge deficits left by the old & £ | o S¢T %5 | Wisconsin® - Do | Towa rupt, but could not even be considered ; = @ IC. 2y gBEE Fe Kansas | "1)1. F regime. Unfortunately and contrary 2 8 ] 99 S88E <8 | Missouri Nebr. as approaching that state by even the . ez [ s} s} 7R SE 23 . 5 to reason an outgoing state adminis- 1 30 wildest imagination. The state treas- . . ; 3‘%&%8 ; %g ég Stanqmd gsg 5 fi $ '22/2 ’ '405'5 ury on April 1 had, in all funds, in tration levies the taxes for the first & spacing . E K ! unds, 5 St Bk SB[k | e 80| B | ) |l | actu CASH, over 52,400,000 onde: yeor of its mccessor. The adminis- 04216 | o | a2 | 16 10-50.30 | 723 Ig :gg Zgg posit in banks, much of it on long- g:ggn ‘:hlclh :23 fagmefs tadmxms& {9:42:30 1?, O i%"'}g%”g 900 22 2o e time deposits drawing interest, as it taxesI:i OS ppt%nmak:ua :lfo:v?nm;sora?t- 10-50-30 50 30 8 9 5734 60 .55 will not need to be used at present. 1 g alvamzed Barb Wire No 1214 gauge This cash ide £ th tat self, after it had been voted out of of- Barb wire 2-pt. hog 3-inch spacing, wt. per Sorod spool 85 lb. ... .. 5.00 5.20 | 4.95 ash is aside from other state fice in the prlmanes and to put the in- Barb wire 2-pt, cattle §-inch spacing, wt. per S0red spoo{ 20 }gs g.zg P assets' totaling many millions of dol- coiming od trats p t it Stap J:,"fs‘;fi?st. e e [l lars, and aside from about $1,000,000 g Atounisn Lot L againstsl The primaries were in June, the tax for the following year levied in Au- gust, and the outgoing administration was not threugh till January 1. There are other problems the farm- ers’ administration has to face. The last legislature appropriated money to get the state bank and state mill and elevator propositions under way, which appropriations will be paid back to the state as soon as these enterprises float their own bonds and begin to GENERAL FUND NOT make a revenue of their own. But, Y The Gra"‘l-SaV'“ g Stacker INDEX OF CONDITION while the farmers’ administration is Y G In Th Th e TR e B R e i e general fund is absolutely no ese projects and to get them into o 5 P Uts our raln n e index of the financial condition of the operation, NO TAX CAN BE LEVIED 4 k N t I Th St k state. This fund often fluctuates TO RAISE LAST WINTER’S LEGIS- - Sack—Not In e ac $100,000 in & few days. For instance, LATIVE APPROPRIATIONS UNTIL 3 . it had in it, in cash, in the middle of NEXT FALL. ° £ PORTS ofleadlnzzrain farmers and experimentstations. | Afril, $60,000, against the $9,000 on Until the bonds_ are floated, or until the new tax is levied next fall, the farmers’ officials will have to pay ex- penses of getting the projects started K out of money saved in other ways—in E 3 R show the actual saving of 10 to 25 bushels per thousand threshed ) last season by the use of the Grain-Saving Wind Stacker, This was with dry grain and separators \never overloaded. Under ordinary conditions of straw and moisture the Grain- SavingStacker = makes a much 4Wothreshed 36 days. The Grain-av- 3 -Hav. 4 t & good bit of threshing zreutersavlnz. :'gm us :rn:ou:ed enough to pay the April 1. Out of this fund are paid some of the general state expenses and into it flows part of the tax money as collected and sent in by counties. Saving Stacker has a device in the hopper which returns to the separator { the grain that otherwise goes to the straw stack and is ! 1ost. You need never again have a green strawstack— : 1 sprouting from wasted grain. Booklet fully illustrating : ) and describing the Grain-Saving Stacker will be sent you by any of the manufacturers named below—the 1 makers of North America’s standard threshing ma- . chines, agricultural tractors and implements.’ Write to Any of These for Booklet: View looking‘ in hopper showing grain trap near stacker fan; also auger \ running from beneath trap for return= ¢ ing the saved grain to separator. ™ LN\ LIST OF MMUFACTURERS United Statec Hh Co., Glpc Girardeau, M Thxnshl Machine Company, lhdn{', ‘Wisconal Com 8t. Jehnnvme, N = Ellln-xzydm- Aer‘Illllw wn, Pennsylvanis ‘¢ Emeraon- Bx-mu am Co., H 7§ Farmers ndependont Thrcshse o, §nrlnzflela, Iilinota A B Flmnlur , orl', ennsylvani: i ;}:rb?n conau orh, Bellwllls. Ilinois % r “{ Keck-Gonnerman Com, ‘ernon, Indian; % Ilnnolwlll Mn.pinlyc%lno co Hopkins, lllnnmm &'1 Mention the Leader When Writing Advertiseu Huron Engine & Thresher Co., Port Huron, Michigan The Russell & Company, Massillon, Ohio Russell Wind Stacker Company, lndl-mpolh Indiana Sawyer- Massey Co., Ltd., (U. 8. Agency) Moline, Illinols Swme, Robinson & Co éfil‘:\h:hmond, lnd.lan The Westinghouse enectady, N Canada Robt. Bell Engine & Thresher Co., Ltd., Benfor'.h, Ontarlo Dominion urc. Ontarjo Ernat Bros. Co., Ltd., 0 8% Neh be S Goutison Fomeciter Go m.’ e-mu. Ontario Thresher Co., leo Sm Sheaf Loader a wlnnl H-nitohl wm‘a' i . Company, WMoo. Onmlo R. ] hl Ontari Watt Mac ne Worh, lfi Ridgetown, o 11. Gmiu-Sauiu Damc; 3:-::-':;:;.:;1 with The. lmfiana Manufacturing Com, 4 = the Wind Stacker i -a‘single. county in:the state, yet this In April, after the legislative ses- sion, when some $100,000 in legisla- tive expense has been paid, and when tax collections are slow, it is always low. But there is now due this fund from counties, in taxes already col- lected, some hundreds of thousands of dollars, which the state has only to ask for to get. For some reason, probably not an unaccountable one, the state auditor, who has turned against Governor Frazier and the rest of the farmer state officials, has not been getting the money in from counties. For in- stance, there is now due the state in taxes from counties, much of which has already been collected from tax- payers, $900,930.14, of which over $727,000 is LAST YEAR’S TAXES. The state auditor, in a public de-’ bate with W. W. Liggett the other day, admitted on questioning by Mr. Liggett that he had not collected from 17 of the largest counties of the state ANY TAXES AT ALL during March. This has never happened before in the case of so large a number of coun- ties. During -March a year ago the auditor did not neg]ect to collect from other words, out of taxes levied last year, before the legislature met and ‘made the appropriations for the new state enterprises. The farmers, busy with the great projects they have in mind, have' not yet got down to reorganizing the financial system of the state, which is ‘crude, inefficient and not economical, but which is enforced by rigid laws which have been on the books since statehood. The farmers’ administra- tion is-not the only one that has had to’ grapple with this out-of-date and inefficient system of making appro- priations and levying taxes. Former administrations were constantly in the worst possible financial shape and fre((i;uently had their hands completely tie The farmers, however, without a doubt, will carry out their program and eventually solve all these prob- lems. The present administration has ‘the state solidly back of it, and with this confidence of the people, and with a realization of their responsibil- ity and trust, Governor Frazier and his farmer assoclates in the state gov- ernment are truly bringing about “the new day” in North Dakota.