The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 4, 1919, Page 13

, North Dakota’s Victory Official Returns Show Absurdity of Opposition Claims Against New League Laws FFICIAL returns of the referendum = election in North Dakota June 26, just - recently announced surdity of the claims of the corpora- tion newspapers that the League had lost any votes in the balloting on the seven reform laws of the Nonparti- san legislature. The figures speak for themselves, and they give the bank bill a majority of 13,256 and the total vote for the measure represents a gain of between 1,000 and 2,000 votes over the last previous election. But the organs of special privilege, ever ready to sing the swan song to the bankers and brokers on the eve of an anti-League slush fund collec- tion, twist the facts in an attempt to bolster up- their courage. The majority on the bank bill is just an even thousand under the ma- Trick Exposed " Farmers Cheated by Clause For- bidding Cars on Premises mmg] ARNING against trick 2| fire insurance policies be- ing offered American farmers by the big in- tained in a bulletin of the National Association of Mutual In- surance Companies. Under a clause in these standard old-line policies, if the insured ever kept his automobile on the premises, he may be refused pay- ment in the event of fire even though the automobile was elsewhere at the time the insured property was burned. Despite the injustice of the trick clause, the supreme court of Kansas upheld its technical validity and re- versed a judgment in favor of the in- sured and decided in favor of the big insurance companies. The insured in this case, Charles L. Morgan, kept his automobile in his barn for two or three months, but it was not injthe barn the night of the fire. - The automobile ordinarily had from three to ten gallons of gasoline in the tank. Each of the two policies held by Morgan provided that “it shall be void if -the insured now has, or if there be kept, used or allowed upon the described premises, gasoline or petroleum or any other products of grez’zter inflammability than kerosene oil.’ In deciding against the insured, the court stated: “Thus the contract was not to insure a feed barn in which a car with a tank of gasoline should be kept, or stored, but one free from such inflammable stuff. The plaintiff should have kept his contract or had indorsed thereon consent to keep his car in the building.” A standard policy of farmers’ mu- tual insurance companies, states the’ bulletin, makes the provision that the insurance must be paid unless a vio- lation of a provision of a policy con- tinues to the time of the fire. In other words, like in the Morgan case, pay- ment must be made unless the auto- mobile was in the barn at the time ‘of the fire. After several years of fighting against the Nonpartisan league farm- ers and farmer participation in poli- tics on the plea that co-operation would solve all problems, bills are be- ing introduced in congress and state legislatures to make farmer co-opera- tion lawful. The politicians who were running things before the farmers got mad were certainly great friends of co-operation. ‘The strongest influence behind the bills to make co-operation lawful “is the organized farmers. N at the state capital, il- - lustrate again the ab- - . 111,914 casting ballots. surance interests is con-, jority cast for the public ownership amendment last year. The League carried 42 counties and the opposition only 11. The constitutional amend- ment carried only 44 counties last year. : The vote was exceptionally heavy, More people in the towns and cities voted than usual. 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