The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 21, 1920, Page 4

- “We'll Stlck and We.ll th A éutl North Dakota, Elated Over Vtctory Before Supreme Court of the Unlted States, ‘ _‘Prepares for Another V1ctory at Prlmary Electlon J une 30 anmarck Bureau, ; Nonpartisan Leader.. NEW wave of enthusiasm is sweeping the result of ‘the recent unahimous decision of the supreme court of the United States upholding the- North entirety. The old céampaign slogan, “We’ll stick and we’ll win,” is bemg replaced by “We've stuck and we’ve won again.” The victory before the supreme ‘court of the Unit- ed States is the ninth successive victory in the farmers’ fight since the Nonpartisan league was or- ganized. -These victories have been: ' June, 1916—League ticket nominated in Repubh- can primaries. November, 1916—League ticket wins in general election and Leaguers control lower house of legis- lature. June, 1918—T.éague ticket agam wms in Republi- can primaries. November, 1918—League tlcket agam wing in. general election ‘and Leaguers control both houses of legislature. January, February, 1919—League legxslature_ A passes and governor signs laws creating the Bank of North Dakota, Mill and Elevator. association, Home Building association and other. industrial laws, . April, 1919—Industrial Jlaws upheld by Judge Amidon of federal district court. - : May, 1919—Industrial laws upheld by North Da- kota supreme court. June, 1919—Industrial laws upheld in referendum vote by people. June, 1920—Industrial laws upheld by supreme: - court of the United States. THE TENTH BIG VICTORY WILL BE WON JUNE 30 There is still one more battle commg 'The indus- tries have all been started. The Bank of North Dakota has been.in operation for mearly a year, . * has loaned nearly $8,000,000 to the farmers and has AND HE'LL GET MORE, TOO! -—Drawn expressfy for the Leader by W. C. Moms. through North Dakota like wddfire,‘ ; Dakota industrial program in its :- the big -1,600,000-bushel: ‘terminal elevator and “ by all the people of North Dakota. ‘The building = . shown in the lower picture is a temporary- office -»’. Mewer s > e fom_z This plctnre shows work nnder way at tl\e site of 3,000-barrel flour mill at Grand Forks. Fifty teams and 100 men are employed now on excava- tion wonk and when actual construction begins the force will increase to 400 or 500. In the back- ground is Jerry Bacon’s elevator. He is one of the 8§ “oldest enemies of the League and was one of the “42 taxpayers” who brought the recent suit in the _supreme court of the United States. Jerry natur- -ally ‘didn’t want to see his little private elevator overshadewed by a great terminal elevator owned ‘structure that will be used by the contractors and state officials overseeing the work on the ~«big elevator- and 'flour mill all expenses of ‘consider- But the work of the Home of the United States, is now for the first houses to “home huilders. At Grand teams are at work all day the mill, 580 feet long, 42 feet wide and 16 feet deep, - ,and are now digging the - excavations for the great cleaning house and giant ‘storage tanks. Soon, with workers on’the job. .. ery will be installed imme- - diately when'the construc- ' by January 1, 1921 IF -~ primary . electlon of June lng wctory. PAGE FOUR »made a clear profit over- ably over $100,000 besides. " Building association and of = ,the Mill' and Elevator as- sociation, delayed by the --suit in the supreme court still in its infancy. Ground is being broken at Fargo be put up by the state for - Forks 100 men+« and 50 * long.. They have already - ‘s excavated -a basement for the beg’inning'of concrete work, there "will 'be 500 : The contraet calls for the. completion of ‘construction ‘work October 31. Machin- - * ‘fion work is completed and the great electrically oper- ated ‘elevator -and flour . mill will be ready for the . first North Dakota wheat . The big IF is this: - If the people, at the = 30, 1930, win their tenth There has been httle reason to doubt any “such victory and there is less reason now that the su- preme court of the United States has delivered its -epoch-making verdict that the will of the ‘people is supreme. Before the decision was rendered the I. V. A.s of‘North Dakota were telling the farmers: - _ “The League has bunked you. You can’t build _the elevator and rmll. The supreme court. won’t let you." But now that the decision has come, the opposx- _tion to the League agam has been proved in the wrong.- - HOW LANGER TRIED TO “THROW” THE CASE =~ - William ' Tanger, elected as’ attorney general by the farmers, only to turn against them in: an at- tempt to get further glory for himself, is.the oppo- ~‘sition candidate for governor. La.nger claims to be - friendly to the mill and elevator, the' Bank of North Dakota and the Home Building association—but he s supported by every newspaper and politician that »has been fighting the farmers’ movement from the - time it started, and his own record, in addition, shows his attempt to kill the state: enterpnses while pretending to favor them. Langer and his deputies recently appeated be- fore the supreme court of the United States, nomi- nally to defend the North Dakota mdustnal pro- gram. . Mistrusting him, the industrial eommission of North Dakota authorized: Attorneys F, A, ‘Pike ~and Wflham Lemke to appear in behalf of the peg- ple. . The supreme ‘court allowed attomeys two hours on each side, - Langer’s men agreed to divide the state’s time equally with Pike ard Liemke. Instead of keeping their agreement Langer’s men talked 90 ‘minutes and devoted practically all this time to ‘arguing that the supreme court of the United States ‘and the supreme: court” of North Dakota | ‘had no : Junsdxctxon in the case—a ridiculous assumption. * Only about 25 minutes was left for Mr. Pike and Mr. Lemke. In this short time Mr, Pike set: forth, as clearly as the time allowed, the real argumentin favor of the industrial laws—-whlch was: that the " legislature of North Dakota; the supreme court of b North Dakota and the people of North,Dakota werd P good for North Das ] the best judges of what wa,s‘-