The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 18, 1921, Page 15

‘Queensland Makes “Forced Loan” Bankers Tried to Block Sale of Bonds as They Did in North Dakota; Wbat Happened Then? ECENTLY the Leader -published an interview with Premier Theodore of the Queensland gov- : for public ownership, to help the farmers and workingmen, al- ready put in effect by this Australian commonwealth. A correspondent sends us some fur- ther news in regard to Mr. Theodore and the Labor party government. The Queensland government n'eeded to float bonds to provide for additional public enterprises. Mr. Theodore went to London to sell the bonds. Unfriendly bankers of Queensland were instru- " mental in having the London bankers refuse the loans. Sounds rather like North Dakota, doesn’t it? The Australian government differs from ours in some respects, however. Instead of having elections at fixed periods only, the government can vol- . untarily call an election whenever an ernment,; telling the plans * important new issue arises. If the government officials who advocate this new issue are returned to office they have a clear mandate from the people to go ahead with their plans. When Premier Theodore found, therefore, that the Queensland gov- ernment loan was blocked in London, he immediately called a new election. - Going before the people and asking re- election, he promised that if re-elected. he would levy a “compulsory loan” in -Queensland. Theodore and the other candidates on the Labor ticket were re-elected. They are now putting their compul- sory loan into effect. All residents of Queensland with more than $5,000 an- nual income are to take a portion of the loan. It is the same principle ap- plied in this country in income taxes, only instead of taking the money as taxes the government issues interest- bearing . securities which go to the. ca_pitalists who contribute. ¢ How They Introduced Mr. Langer * Oklahoma Farmers Give Proper Greeting to Traitor; : Who Pays His Expenses Some weeks ago the writer of the follow- ’I'lx letter asked the editor of the Nonpar- tiean Leader who was Mr. Langer, who was being billed through the South as a speaker against the Nonpartisan league. The editor of the Leader answered that Mr. Langer was a politician who had been repudiated by the voters of North Dakota. ‘What use Mr. Reim made of this letter -is . told in his letter below. DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- i| er: Received your letter some time ago in regard to who is Langer, ex-at- torney general of North Dakota, and it just ar- rived in time, for Mr. Langer was bill- ed to speak in our beautiful city of Enid, Okla.-As you know, it is custom- ary for some prominent man to in- troduce the speaker. Of course that left our side out, as usual, as you know the farmers and laboring men have no say in introducing the speaker to the farmers and laborers. But I had 300 copies of your letter printed, of which I am going to send you a copy. Just before the meeting was called to order . weé handed them out and in order to slight none we handed them to every- body, business men, bankers, farmers and laborers, and I don’t know whether it was by mistake or not but one of the boys handed Mr. Langer one, but he didn’t seem to approve of that kind of literature in his audi- ence, but nevertheless it is true and it was there. SAYS LANGER SPEECH - HELPED THE LEAGUE So finally he began his windjam- ming and mud slinging, but it didn’ seem to make much impression on his audience, for it was small compared with all the publicity he was given by the kept press and county papers. The audience consisted of a few bankers, a few business men and the rest were farmers and laborers. Of course it didn’t make much difference to them. They have been humbugged so much - they don’t pay any attention to such " windjamming. I believe it was a bene- fit to the Nonpartisan league to have Mr. Langer speak here. They all seem to have one point in mind and that is, “Why does Mr. Langer speak in Ne- braska, in Kansas and Oklahoma, and ' who is paying his way?” Mr. Langer didn’t explain that part of it. Further- more, it doesn’t take an intelligent man to know who is paying his way. That reminds me of a story I read ~about a miller when I was a little boy. A little boy by the name of Johnny came to the mill one day and the miller said, “Johnny, they tell me you domn’t know very much.” “Well,” said John- ny, “some things I know and some things I don’t know.” “Well,” said the miller, “Johnny, what do you know?” Johnny replied, “I know millers have fat hogs, but I don’t know whose corn they eat.” And that is the way with Mr. Langer. We are not supposed- to know who is paying his way. Wishing you luck in your undertak- ing of a square deal for everybody, I remain, A. W. REIM. Kremlin, Okla. MAKING LEAGUERS Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I had 32 acres of flax, $1.50 per acre to cut it, 20 cents per bushel to thresh- it and $1.25 per bushel when I sold it, and the whole thing didn’t pay for the seed. Wheat cost $4.25 for seed and when I went to sell my wheat it was $1.30 per bushel, 3 cents dockage. Saturday night before the, election Mr. Belden, from Lewistown, came to Winifred and told the people in his speech that if they voted the Nonpar- tisan league ticket they would be closed out—the eastern capital would not stand for anything like that, and he simply scared the people, for it was a pretty skittish time. I told several of them to let them close, as they had the money and the power with it, and T told them if we could only get the power we would soon fix things, but they were afraid they were going to lose their ranches. Mr. Belden is president of one of the big banks in Lewistown and also has large holdings in Butte. Now they are striking oil here very fast and three of my neighbors have been notified of foreclosure, but now Mr. Belden doesn’t have any money | to loan and maybe that is the reason all of the Nonpartisans here say they will stick! J. W. BARTLEY. Winifred, Mont. GINSENG DEMAND Reports of immense profits in gin- seng are. “highly exaggerated,” the United States department of agricul- tufe says, showing 700 acres would produce enough ginseng to meet the world’s demand. ~ PAGE FIFTEEN e ADVERTISEMENTS $3,000,000 . Bonds of North Dakota Real Estate Series 5%4 %o Evempt from Federal Income Tax, both normal and surtax The Big Drive Is On! North Dakota’s Bonds must and will be sold. You men who believe in industrial democracy have got to put your shoulders to the wheel and help. If we expect the impartial American investor to buy, we ~ have got to set him an example. Let us show him by our willingness to invest that we be- lieve North Dakota Bonds to be what they are, the best investment on earth. Send in your application and check to the Bank of North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota. Watch the papers. Two weeks—April 25 to May 9— have been set aside for an intensive campaign. Old Time Prices On Work Shoes Save You Big Money It makes you think of old times when you can buy as high grade men's black work shoes as these at only .89. The uppers of these shoes are made of soft, pliable leather. They have a egood weight exten- sion sole both sewed and nailed. The shoe is made over a comfortable foot form last, and it is a shoe that will give excellent service. You can pay, from $3.50 to $4.00 for a shoe at retail which 1“2 in V&% w:vyi ;&spenoxl'l %o this om:..gh flzes 6 stg . Wide R ping weight, four pounds. 20AD11219 $282 Send No Money! M.W.Savage & Co. Dept. 5 Minneapolis, Minn. Listen, Folks— Want to Give You Some Good Advice DON'T SELL YOUR HIDES & FURS | My name is “Omaha Hide”, They call me “Old Man Omaha Hide”. Guess it’s because I am an old timer myself in these parts. Used to trap Fur m as a boy, farmed until I was grown and then went into the Hide, Fur and Wool business with my two boys. Both the boys was raised right, too. We've had lots of experience, but I'll be gosh derned if I ever seen times like now. Did you ever see the like? Buy a piece of leather and they charge you $2 a 1b.; sell a big cow hide and get 5c a Ib. Whole bloomin’ hide hardly buys 1 Ib. of leather. Women folks buy anything with a little fur cn it'and pay $100 and up. OidMan N oma'ha “lde But when you sell you've got to give the stuff away. WE JUST CAN’T KEEP UP THIS SORT OF THING Let’s quit now, folks, before we go busted. We must do business more direct. Just got to cut out alot of these speculators and slickers who have been making a lot of money without working for it. Got to Jook out for No. 1 and now’s your chance to do it. : We sort of seen this coming along time agoand and Robes, tan and dress Fur skins o you repared. The boys and I got interested can get lots bi (fr prflca fig’r them. It's to 1es Ior sef t lg: a big Tannery. So now we can make your sell them to hides into your own LEATHER. Good leather, E)urselt’. Now is your chance. Old Man Omaha can’t hardly wear it out. Beats anything you your hides than if sell them raw. mbuynow ays. Also make up your ts let us show you what he can do for OMAHA HIDE & FUR CO., 710 South 13th Street, Omaha, Nebraska too. We call it our Wear-Well brand, because Hide will make you a lot more mne&mnal:fi you. Tile Leader does not knowingly accept advertising from dishonest people. Our advertisers are worthy of support. 2fention the Leader When Writing Advex‘fise:t‘l< RS