Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-07
WHAT STAND|SH Thinks.
General w. H. Standish Explains the
Ideas o the Government Owner
ship Party.
Believes the Government Shouln Con-
troll Railroads and Semi-Public y
Utilities.
-.L TT. n..Iz En~&d - Cnefaio
Arguments He Puts Forth to Sustain
His Position in Promoting
New Party.
Editor Bismarck Tribune:

Editor Bismarck Tribune:
Your are a pretty good fellow, but
you suggest that if I prefer to have
the New Zealand system of govern
ment adopted in the United States
to it's present rule by the mergers
had better move to New Zealand.
was born in the United States
and braved my life to save it when
the class who compose our mergers
bought substitutes or when drafted
paid $500 to be left off under a law
then existing that permitted them to
do this.
When we common people were call
ed by Uncle Sam we said like Steaham
Of old, Here am l." When the class
who now form the Mergers were call
ed, Here is my $500, take somebody
else"
Your invitation is not to me alone
but it is to every man in this country,
that if he prefers the system OF govern
ment that I have suggested to the
present condition whether he be nat
uralized, native born, a soldier or the
child of a soldier he had better get
out of the United States in order to
give it UP to the mergers.
Have you considered the New
Zealand proposition contained in the
platform that I have prepared for the
organization Of a government
ship party and what the effect of them
would be as compared to what we nov
have il. they should be Immediately
adopted, and have you acquainted
youself with the history of that u
try and its conditions.
New Zealand was settled by the
Scotch-prOtty good blood.
New Zealand is a very rough u
try, nature is against it.
In 1893 her people were on the
verge Of bankruptcy, her parliament
II Was =GOAVSACuE dhu ouS4oA AASu "SAa w
borrow S%25,OoO,O0O at 8 per cent and
loan it out at AZ per cent on approved
property security and she has been
following that policy since and buy
ing and condemning land and making
small farms improved and provided to
start the poor and in building village
and city homes on the outskirts and
renting these to the poor at 5 per
cent on the investment with the right
of purchase at government cost and
she also conducts a life insurance bust
ness. and before 1898 had entered upon
government ownership and govern
ment operation of public necessities
and still continues it and refuses to
let its cities and small towns grant
franchises. All franchises T owned
and operated by the public.
1 have her government reports COW
ering four years to show the govern
ment has gained on all these enter
prises.
They have no large overcrowded
population in cities and towns as we
do and these reports show that arrests
for crime in proportion to population
have decreased over 80 per cent, and
that she has no extremely rich men,
and very few that are extremely poor.
She regulates the hours of labor and
looks after the sanitary condition of
every enterprise on the island. ,
And in case of a dismissal Of any
employee in the government service
without cause provides him with a
court in which he can file his appeal
or complaint and be restored.
This is determined by law as much
as our courts determine whether a
man is in debt or has committed a
crime, and it takes government owner
ship and operation entirely out of
politics as it would be in our country
when our platform is adopted.
The provisions of our platform are
not exactly the New Zealand system,
but they partake of its general feat
ures
Let us consider them as they would
operate with MS.
Our platform requires that a law
should be enacted that all future
grants or patents OF land shall except
and retain in the government for pub
lie use all coal, iron and every other
public necessity. This would not cost
the government anything or prevent
the taking of homesteads and have
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sible to find a
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