The Ward County independent., 1909-06-03

doing.
In North Dakota, great many thousand acres of
potatoes are being raised this year. Farmers are
trying them as an experiment, and hope to send
hundreds of car loads to the eastern or western
markets. Farmers should be very careful to find
a good market and should be careful that they
deal with honest commission men if they do not
sell to the consumer, or the retailer direct COM
mission men rule are crooks OF the worst sort,
and make their money mainly by peatng tne
raisers. Take potatoes for instance. They may
offer the raisers say fifty cents bushel for choice
poatoes and when the potatoes arrive, if the mar
ket he little off, those potatoes will be kept on
the track until the potatoes which the commission
man already has, are disposed Of or until the
market improves. Or the commission man may re-
port back that the potatoes are not in first class
condition. and consequently he will have to cut the
price to say forty cents What is the raiser to do.
He knows that the potatoes were all right when ne
shipped them, but he needs the money, and doesn't
want to run the chance of losing the entire car
So he ACCEPTS the offer. Chances are that the COM
mission man had shipped the potatoes east already
receiving seventy-l cents or dollar 1or them'
The raiser cannot afford to accompany the car The
raiser is worked at every turn, we want to say
to our farmer readers who raising potatoes for
shipment to be careful with whom you DEAL
die west lumber lis not to be placed on the free
list We note with pleasure that the Senators from
North Dakota McCumber and Johnson both voted
for free lumber, and Senator knute Nelson from
Minnesota, also right, as he generally is.
Dolliver the tricky senator from Iowa, who has
been posing an insurgent, in favor or free
lumber not only voted wrong but made speech
In favf< of tariff on lumber Dolliver is such d
good man in many ways, that this no doubt has
surprised the farmers of his state, and he may have
some explaining to do. large number OF Demo-
cratic senators voted for a protective tarlH on
lumber this repudiating portion OF the Demo-
cratic platform adopted at the Denver convention
The Democratic party seems to one with out prln-
cple or leader.
After July /, Attorney General Miller will begin
q strenuous campaign to enforce the liquor laws of
the state The new law, giving him an assistant,
will be in effect at that time, and he intends to
appoint several assistants in the various countles.
He will make it for some of the sherlfs VINO
shut their eyes to the violation of the prohibition
law and will try to remove several of them This
can only be done by the court, and after jury
trial He says that of the worst spots is right
at Bismarck, where the sheriff pays little atten-
ton to the violations.
vs. The supreme court has sustained Judge Pollock
in his decision that boards of county COMMISSION
ers do not have the power of changing Individual
assessments--but they may merely raise or lower
the classes of property only so as to equallze the
assessments as between assessment districts
q Notwithstanding the stand that Senator Johnson
took on the matter of providing statute for Alex
ander Hamilton Congress has provided for such
statute . But think of the advertising the Sen
ator got out of the controversy. -...-.. e r..
1.-THE Illinois legislature failed to pass the law,
giving cities the privilege Of adopting the commits
sion form of government. The politicians OF chi
saeo are responsible for the defeat Of the measure