The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 15

ADVERTISEMENTS Your sympathy will never build Noi'th Dakota’s Terminal Elevator— Your MONEY Will! Buy North Dakota Bonds, and get— 6% Interest 1007 Safety And the satisfaction of doing something concrete for the farmers’ projects upon the success of which your own future prosperity depends. OFFERED AT PAR DIRECT TO YOU $1,000,000 Bonds of North Dakota Mill and Elevator Series . 8% Exempt in North Dakota From All State, County and Municipal Taxes— Exempt From All Federal Income Taxes Both Normal and Surtaxes. Maturities Denomination 1941 $ 100 1946 500 1,000 WHY THESE BONDS ARE 1009, SAFE First—They are authorized by an amendment to the State Constitu- tion which has been unanimously approved by the Supreme Court of the United States. Second—They are backed by the entire taxing power of the great State of North Dakota with its 645,000 people and 17,000,000 acres of cul_tivated farm land. Third—North Dakota can show one of the best financial statements of any State of the Union. Note these comparisons of bonded in- debtedness with various items of income and wealth. The present bonded indebtedness of North Dakota is taken as comprising a small remainder ($247,000) of territorial bonds, the Mill and Elevator Series offered here, and other current bond issues. Ratio of bonded indebtedness to value of farm produce, including livestock and dairy produets ... ... Ratio of bonded indebtedness to value of real estate and securities publicly owned by the state ... . Ratio of bonded indebtedness to 1920 assessed valuations ... ... $1 to $214 Fourth—In addition to the full faith and credit of the State, this loan is secured by first mortgages on the State Terminal Mills and Elevators now under construction. E DO YOUR PART Set an example to the bond buyers of America who have not the selfish interest you have in the success of the North Dakota Farm- ers’ Program. Show such men that you know these bonds are safe and that you want this program to go through. ; North Dakota already has your moral support. Now is the time to back that up with your financial support. s Make your application for- North Dakota bonds now, to Bank of North Dakota Bismarck, N. D. N “Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers ‘ “Let Your Money Work for You” ‘Minnesota Farmer "Pledges , His Support to the North Dakota Bond Selling Campaign DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: I have read your ap- peal to farmers to buy North Dakota bonds. That is a bright idea, and something we should have done long ago. Every farmer and laborer who has money on deposit in some trust bank has his money working against him. Take' this money, buy the bonds and show the big bond agencies that we are inde- pendent of them and at the same time help our' own industries. In buying these bonds we are not paying for am- munition, cannon or battleships to kill . off human beings and destroy prop- erty. But we are buying ammunition that our markets closer home will grind our wheat at home and save freight to Minneapolis and back, with a rakeoff going and coming. Now I live in Minnesota, where the legisla- ture seems bent on forming some spe- cial legislation to Thelp out the steel trust and street railways and trying every way they can to keep them from | bearing their share of the taxes. The taxes on farm land and personal taxes are so high I have not been able to make enough off a 240-acre farm to pay and am two years behind. But I have a chance to work out and, by heck, I will just stint on my living and take one of those $25 mill and elevator bonds to start the ball a’rolling and you fellows with money in the bank working for the other fellow, if you don't proceed to take over a liberal supply of these bonds you haven’t the nerve to call yourselves good Ameri- can citizens. If you stand by and let the money trust dictate to you that way you’re no American citizen. VICTORY AHEAD IN . ~ MINNESOTA FIGHT We are coming right along with the League here in Minnesota and will be able to carry the state by a big margin on next election and if the women voters will profit from what they had handed to them by our legislature and governor on that board-of control deal we should be able to get a two-thirds majority. I think they have had their eyes opened and will stick with a strong or- ganization like the Nonpartisan league. Our fight is their fight, and the only way to get what we are after is to have our representatives there to get it for us. This getting down on our knees begging for favors like the Farm Bureau proposes won’t work. We would only be where North LOOK AT THE LABEL! On the front cover of each copy of the Nonpartisan Leader is past- ed a mailing label, bearing the name and address of the subscriber o the date on which the subscrip- tion is to expire. Look at the label on this issue and see if your sub- scription is about to expire. If your subscription expires with this issue, or is to expire in the mnear future, send a check or money order if you wish the Leader to keep on coming to you. The second class postage regulations of the postoffice depart- ment will not allow us to continue sending the Leader after a sub- scription has become delinquent, so it will be necessary for the Leader to stop sendinig papers immediately to subscribers whose subseriptions- have expired. Send in a renewal of your subsecription promptly if you do not wish your name taken off the list. PAGE SIXTEEN Dakota farmers were nine years ago, when the legislature told. them to go home and slop their hogs. Well now boys, the thing before us is bonds. We will talk bonds, boglst bonds and buy bonds just like we did when Uncle Sam had bonds to sell, only these are to build our own in- dustries. We will show the I. V. A.s where they are if they have nerve enough to call a referendum election this fall. T’llleave my farm here and go to North Dakota and fight, and if I can’t convince a few boneheads it will be funny. -Everybody with a shoulder to the wheel, now, heave her over! GILBERT A. BENSON. Grygla, Minn. THE N’EBRASKA LEGISLATURE Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The legislature adjourned, thank God! It will go down in history as the most ex- travagant and least productive of all the legislative sessions Nebraska has had. The reactionary members were in such a majority that they succeeded in giving the common people less than nothing, as they took away even some of the liberties we enjoyed, such as the primary ballot, the right to strike, the language in schools and others. We have to undo at least some of their acts by referendum, if not all. While they strive all over the Unit- ed States to bring down wages-and prices with more or less success—suc- cess was great on farm products—our renowned reactionary $20,000,000 leg- islature raised the salary of a set of officers from $3,000 to $4,000 per year. We must put a halt to this. Fellow League members, it is up to us to put a shoulder against it. We must begin even now to find better men for office, men with reason and common sense. - They are hard to find. War has made them so scarce. g ADAM SCHIFERL. West Point, Neb. BACK TO “NORMALCY” Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am always glad to receive the Leader be- cause it really brings facts. I wish every farmer in the United States was a subscriber, and if I can help- the League in any way I will be delighted. The business men say things are coming back to normal standard. We don’t need a normal standard. That has always been our ruin. Load up a four-horse load of milo maize, 4,000 “ pounds, haul to town and receive $20 for the load.” Go into a dry goods store and a four-year-old child can carry the four-horse load in dry goods. I butchered six steers and the six hides bought me a pair of shoes and I had $1.60 left. Come on farmers, do we want a normal standard? If so I believe we will get it. But if you farmers are as eager as'I am we will make a standard that will be just to all humanity. Join the League. Boost justice and you will still be ‘boosting the League. I keep my League paper going after I read it. Give it to a friend if you have to wrap it and send by mail. If I had to buy a lister now it would cost me $80—16,000 pounds of maize, 285 bushels 40 pounds—to pay for a four-horse lister. Do we want a nor- mal -standard ? Dombey, Okla. I. E.MURPHY. _ IS FARMING PROFITABLE? Seventeen Minnesota counties, prin- "cipally in the southern part of the state, had smaller rural populations in 1920 than in 1910, the returns from the last census show.