Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-07

years 10 at present. II for any reason
may be necessary for the legisla-
tWe to convene In special session the
governor has the right to call the leg
tslature together in extraordinary ses-
sion at any time.
If the constitution Of our state
shall be changed to provide for the
legislature converting once in four
years, then I would recommend that
state senators be elected for terms
of eight years and members OF the
house for terms of four a
1.-TWO years ago I recommended in
my message to the legislature four
year terms for state officers. I wish
to earnestly re-recommend that our
state constitution be changed to pro-
vide for the election of state and
county officers for four-year terms
instead Of two-year terms; also that
a governor who shall have served
four years shall not be eligible for
a consecutive election.
FAvoRs BUSINESS AGENT.
North Dakota should have a bust
ness agent. Nearly every town in
North Dakota has q commercial club,
but few of the towns are financially
able to employ a salaried secretary.
We should encourage the location of
manufacturing plants in the state.
There is an opportunity to build up
a great pottery industry. perhaps glass
factories, and certainly all kinds Of
brick and thing industries, and to
further develop the splendid Ignite
coal possibilities. I believe we need
In North Dakota a man who shall
not give his time to and for any
particular community, but who shall
! work for the whole state and who
| shall go outside of North Dakota and
present to individuals, firms and cor
porations the opportunities for busi-
ness enterprise here in North Dakota
and ask them to look the field over.
II North Dakota shall become that
which we hope 1t will become. we
must, not be content to be simply a
raiser of so called raw material, but
must manufacture this raw material
we. produce and use those raw ma
terials which we have in abundance
and are not using at present.
GOOD ROADS BOND ISSUE.
I'm the national congress a good
roads bill has passed the house, called
the S%hackelford bill. II North Dakota
shall obtain its part of the appropria-
ton under the provisions of that bill,
provided It shall become a law, It will
require that North Dakota appropriate
a large sum Of money to meet the
conditions imposed.
1.-TWO years ago I recommend q
change in the auto license law. The
past year the auto licenses brought
into the state treasury. q little over
$4,000 and this money was distribut'
ed among the counties of the state
an average Of about $1,000 to each
county. Within a short time with the
rapid increase in the number of autos
used in the state the auto license will
amount to at least 100000 per annum
I believe the way to this auto
license money would be to provide
for the issuance of 100000 worth o.
state road bonds. This can be done
by amending the constitution of the
state to provide that the state shall
have authority to issue road bonds
, Then use this auto license money tt
pay the principal and interest of these
road bonds and if the bonds were
taken by the common school fund o
the state at 4 per cent interest 1
!, would require $4,000 per year to pa!
the interest, leaving 100000 to be ap
piled on the principal of the bonds
and If provisions. were made tina
some of the bonds should be retired
each year, thereby reducing the an
nual interest charge, in twelve o
> thirteen years the bonds could b.
= retired from the auto license none.
and without any expense to any farm
er or business man, unless he owne'
an auto. This would give q very larg
amount of money to be used in build
ing trunk lines Of road. This none.
= would be spent in the state and woult
, be earned by our people.
! SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS.
"a certain amount Of school and In
Q stitutional lands should be sold eacl
y year, not a large amount, but some
wherever the crop conditions an
financial conditions warrant, so tina
9 gradually these lands will be gottel
r under cultivation and will pay thei
9 share of the taxes for the support O
the state. In addition this would Civ
to the state a very large fund to loa1
to the farmers of North Dakota upo,
their farm mortgages at a moderat
e rate of interest. BY doing this I be
lieve that we in North Dakota ca,
solve the so called farm credit propc
sition. I know of no other way b
which we can obtain a large sum Q
d money at a low rate Of interest an
make It available to our farmers upo,
mortgages on their lands"
The governor declares somethin
9 should be done to cleanse the polite
9 of the state and recommends tina
q laws be enacted to protect men in O.
q Acn ond nandidafoa for nf1ca agains