The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-07-01

ceive cost-plus- reasonable
price for big or full crop are these
viz: that his fellow farmer engaged
in the line of farming in other states
may have failure.
There is no more reason why the
taxes should be taken to teach farmers
how to farm than there is to take the
taxes to teach the hotel men how to
run hotel, or the manufacturer how
to produce more dry goods, canned
goods, implements, or the -four mills
to make more flour, or the packing
houses how to produce more meat, or
the saw mills how to produce more
lumber, or the merchant how to sell
more goods, or the bankers how to
supply more money.
When our banker-governor recon-
mended that the legislature enact a
law giving the state banking board
authority to refuse the issuance of
charters to new banks in towns where
they consider the banking facilities
sufficient to supply the community,
had in view to keep competition out
In short they practice the reverse to
the so-called "better farm" method to
improve their own business.
When physicians, BARRIERS, lawyers,
ETC., seek law to better their condi-
tons they do not ask for law to in
crease the production (number) in
their profession. They look pointedly
to the PRICE.
Those who designed this scheme
were either trying to ruin the price Of
wheat by over-production, or else they
have the wrong conception of business
affairs.
The Cost and Cause
But few people realize the plan and
cost of this nice sounding scheme. The
$4,000 a year to be raised in this coun-
ty is only a drop in the wallet. Under
some misleading term like Extension
Work." the legislature is induced to
make the appropriation. The plan as
designed by the agricultural project
ors contemplates that the state en-
perts shall select and set the salary of
the expert, pay $1,000 per annum on
his salary and also expenses for every
county in the state Taking Ward
county as basis, if all counties 20 in
to the scheme it would require about
$4,000 per annum from the state to
finance their part of the game. Then
the counties are supposed and in fact
are told to pay an additional $4,000
per annum to each expert. Supposing
that all the counties look kindly on the
scheme, levy and appropriate the tax
es according to directions, then $4,000
more would be raised by the counties.
The total for the whole state would re-
quire $4,000 per annum. There is
yet to be added the expense Of the as
sistant, experimental plots, etc., etc.
am not opposed to the levy and col
lection of any tax for a legitimate pur-
pose for which the function of govern
ment demands. But I am just as much
opposed to the illigitimate use under
a make-shift term as by any other
name
If there is an excuse to justify the
levy, collection, and use of this tax the
better cause would be on the roads.
The Law Unconstitutional
"Neither the state nor any county,
city, township, town, school district or
loan or give its credit or make dona-
tons to or in aid of any individual, as
ISOLATION or corporation * * Sec
ton 1876 State Constitution
The unconstitutionality of the law
is too apparent to need comment
That theorist educated in farming
without soiling his hands, can obtain
the practical knowledge about farm
ing, that the boy born, raised and
trained in the actual doing of farm
work, there is no reason for debate.
For a "better farm expert to be
paid salary of $4,000 per annum and
expenses for his farming, while the
real farmer must depend on his earn
ings in farming to pay both salary
and expense is no parallel, hence not
the right plan to determine guiding re-
suits.
The number of bushels produced per
acre, size Of hog, horse or COW is not
in itself a criterion. The difference
between the cost of production and the
selling price is the basic principle to
better farming This rerainds mo Of