The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
A Poor Mans Views.

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EDITOR PREss:-As the time will
soon roll around, when our represent
atives will learn from primary ballots
whether or not their actions, in the
last legislature were satisfactory to
their constituents. would ask to be
permitted, as a poor and private indi.
vidual to express my opinion relative
to the same.
There were in our legislature las in
all other assemblies) men made up of
different stripes and composing differ
ent views; some endeavoring to rep
resent according to the wishes aud
for the good of their constituents;
some representing m%onopolies and
a few of the chosen elect, working
and struggling, day and night, through
storm and sunshine, to maintain the
fair name of North Dakota, keeping
her in her present status, with rate
of interest at "a per cent and to in
crease in proportion to the amount of
poverty heaped upon the poor debtor.
The same smooth tongued moralist
endeavoring to make the people be-
lieve that it is more beneficial to IL
unblemished name to have a commit.
tee travelling through eastern cities
begging for everything from gold
coin to old clothes to relieve our poor
destitute sufferers; to remain over
two hundred thousand dollars in debt
after taxing to the limit; to have the
real needy do without seed or feed.
than to have the headquarters of the
Louisiana lottery within the limits
of the state.
They further think that to obtain
seed wheat in the manner set forth,
when it would cost the poor farmers
81 per bushel with heavy interest
thereon to be furnished only to those
who own a sufficient amount of real
estate to make up a dead SINGH mort
gage, to be more productive of future
benefits, than to have two hundred
and fifty thousand bushels furnished
by the lottery company, only asking
bushel for bushel in return, to be fur.
nished free Of interest, to all who are
in need and only requiring their indi-
vidual notes for the same, besides
paying into IL empty treasury the
sum of one hundred and fifty thous.
and dollars a year, by which we
could have soon paid off the burden.
some debt, creating a sinking fund in
our state treasury and enabled our
people "to sit under our own vine and
fig tree and no one dare to make us
afraid"
10 enumerate the many advantages
arising from the passage of this bill
would occupy more space than l wish
to consume in your columns, know.
ing the people of North Dakota to be
endowed with high intellectual facul-
ties and capable of judging for them
selves. But suffer me to say that be-
ing a close observer of the proceed.
ings of IL legislature that / am
proud to think that our senator, N. G.
Lawrence, had the manliness, the
firmness and respect for his needy
constituents to come squarely to the
front in their behalf and support this
bill. 1 heartily endorse his course us
an advocate of this as we'll as others,
some of which he himself introduced,
which if they had not been vetoed by
our simon pure governor, would have
been of vital Importance to the state
and still more so to the West Nilsson.
ii slope. Wherever Senator Law.
rence's vote is recorded it will gener.
ally be found upon the side in favor
of the general masses Of his constitu.
ents, and | am confident that an an.
preciative people, such as we have in
our district, will kindly remember
him and recognize the fact that he is
a man capable of distributing justice
evenly to all without regard to race
or color.
A Poor MAN.