The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 14

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Write SECURITY STATE BANK New England; N. D. We Pay 6 Per Cent on time certificates of deposit if left one year. Safety guaranteed by North Dakota Depositors’ Guaranty Law. Write FIRST STATE BANK AMIDON, N. D. WE PAY SIX PER CENT on certificates of deposit, if left six months or one year.. All deposits are fully guaranteed by depositors’ guarantee law. Write Slope County State Bank Amidon, N..D. ELEVATOR MANAGER WANTED The board -of directors of the Farmers’ Co-Operative Elevator and Trading Co., D., will receive applications of Crosby, N. for said position until June 15th. Position open July 1st. Applicant must state pre- vious. experience, age, wages desired, and furnish reference. 33 Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Answers Attack of New York Times atus C. Smith Tells Easteners the Facts About North Dakota and Its Government EAGUERS are not letting the enemy get away with false statements about North Dakota. When the New York Times recent- ly published its bitterly unfair attack Upon North Dakota and the League, Datus C. Smith, owner of a splendid farm in Traill county, N. D., where he spends his summers, but a voting resident of New York, was one of a number who wrote to acquaint the New York Times editor with the facts. Mr. Smith’s letter to the Times was published, as follows: To the Editor of the New York Times: Will you not give me a little space in which to make belated comment on your article of January 4 on the Nonpartisan league? I regret to say that I believe the Times, so generally right, is wrong in this instance. I have had opportunity to see clear- ly the situation in North Dakota dur- ing many years prior to the advent of the Nonpartisan league and since. I know that the League has been wrong at times, and I do not seek at all to justify it in such cases; but I believe that in the main it has been right and has given the state the best government that it has ever had. I speak as a taxpayer. The Nonpartisan league is, in its best interpretation, a cry for economic justice—against those who have so long exploited the helpless farmer of North. Dakota and the Northwest. For 30°years in my own experience I have seen the interests taking their unjust toll through unfair grain dock- age, unjust grades, destructive dis- crimination against low grades of wheat, controlled livestock markets and other trade practices, some se- cret, many open to the eyes of men helpless to protect themselves until they got a government strong enough in some measure to compel justice. GROSS BUSINESS WRONGS PRODUCED LEAGUE If the farmer delivered flax in his wheat, though easily separated and - worth more than the wheat, it was counted as worthless dockage. The state of North Dakota under the Non- partisan league has remedied this, compelling every one of the 2,000 grain elevators in the state to pay the farmer the value of whatever is-in his load, less the cost of separation— saving the farmers a total of over $3,- 000,000 net last year, according to Doctor E. F. Ladd. Millions of bushels of wheat were proved to have been taken into the terminal elevators at one grade and shipped out at a higher grade. Switching charges on cars never switched were charged on thousands of cars of wheat every year in Minne- apolis. Low grades of wheat have been penalized many millions of dol- lars below their milled value, as has been established by the milling depart- ment of the North Dakota Agricul- tural college. In such things as these and in noth- ing else, was the origin of the Nonpar- tisan league. The state voted twice, by about 83 per cent majority each time, for a constitutional amendment for the building of a state-owned ele- vator. Then the standpat governor and his associates in office defeated the expressed will of the people by re- fusing to build the elevator. Four hundred farmers went to Bismarck in midwinter—*“a petition in boots”—to demand the fulfiliment of the law. At the hearing they were told by a legis- . lator: “Oh, go home and slop the hogs.” And they did. So began the Nonpartisan league, driven into polit- ical action for redress of grievances that 30 years of other appeal had not been able to accomplish. Your correspondent, Charles A. Selden, says definitely that the Non- partisan league has literally and ac- tually robbed the people of North Da- kota of “their money, their newspa- pers, their banks, their constitution and the contrel of the schools.” This from Charles A. Selden, long known to Teaders of the Times as an intelli- gent, careful correspondent, can only. be accounted for on the theory that prejudiced men gave him the state- ment. Much might be said to show error here. I can not ask space for it, but will say that no intelligent man in North Dakota really believes that any of those things has happened. LAWS COMPARE WELL WITH NEW YORK LEGISLATION I wish, however, to notice Mr. Sel- den’s conclusion. He devotes half a column to a picture of little Bismarck, with its brick statehouse which looks like a grammar school building, and the town’s one street car line with one car, and ‘its sandbox, filled freshly every legislative day for those law- makers who use tobacco without fire. But Mr. Selden says of it, in sin- cerity I am sure, that it is “no mean attempt to poke fun, but an effort to suggest a certain simplicity 'which may throw some light on why and how' the serious governmental condi- tions now prevailing in North Dakota could have been brought about.” There is the mistake. It is a very old argument—*“Can any good thing come .out of Nazareth?” Since I am a citizen of New York and not of North Dakota may I not, without offense, compare some of the laws issuing from little Bismarck’s bare brick building set on a lonely hill with those from Albany with its $30,- 000,000 capitol. > North Dakota has achieved a con- centration of government, practically the entire state business being effi- ciently managed by three state boards. North Dakota, a poor state, at once provided for every one of her sons in the great war a bonus of $25 a month for the full term of service. This has taken one-fifth of the entire revenue of state taxes for 1919, a fact in har- mony with all that was done there in support of the war. And what has New York done in the way of bonuses to her sons in the war? Nothing. North Dakota herself bonds every public servant in the state. This has cost during the last two years less than one-fifteenth of what private companies would have charged for the same service. Then look at the income tax laws of the two states. I ask statesmen, lawyers and business men to -make comparison. North Dakota exempts all income of its citizens earned out- side the state. New York taxes all (including incomes already taxed where earned), even taxing charitable and philanthropic gifts earned in other states and given in those states. North Dakota makes no invidious dis- tinction in allowed exemptions between citizens and noncitizens, and does not get drawn -into the courts to defend its income law—while New York does both and 1is, I believe, so far con- demned by the courts. Whence has proceeded a greater statesmanship— from the simple brick building on the hill at Bismarck or from the marble pile on the hill at Albany? ‘DATUS C. SMITH. 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