The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-01

stand sponsor for the Equity Cooper
alive Packing plant to be located in
Fargo. In fact, the official organ OF
the league, the Leader, in this weeks
issue, indicates that the league is
very much opposed TO the Equity
plant OF any other which conflicts
with the leagues program for state
owned and operated plant.
Otto O. Hoffman. C0operstOwn
member of the N0npartisan league.
writes the Leader as the official or
gan of the league. stating 1--WE have
in our community party (said to he
from Fargo selling shares in a pack
ing plant which is to be located in or
near Fargo, the city having donated
a tract of 200 acres for the location.
What | would like to ask is this. do
you sanction the movement or oppose
it? As 7 understand it, the league,
stands, or has stood, for state owner
ship OF terminal elevators, packing
plants, -four mills, etc, ever since its
organization. And as a. large major
ity of the league members In this
community are taking stOc Kin this
packing plant, It seems to me they
are working against their own inter
est in case the league program is car
ried through In regard to state'owned
packing plants" I.
In reply to the members query,
the Non-partisan league, through its
official organ, the Leader, says:
"You ask whether the league
sanctions any movements on at pres.
ent for a packing plant other than
state.owned one. he Leader has moth
ing to do with any such plan. It
stands firmly on the proposition for a
state.owned plant, the plan the over
whelming majority of the people OF
the state have approved, and the
Leader believes that only through the
building Of a state.owned plant and
the solid support of the farmers for
it can the evils growing out of the
packing combine be met successfully.
eve have not discussed the matter
of packing plants before because we
could not know until after election
whether the people wanted the league
program carried out or not. If the
North Dakota people wanted the
league program carried out they
would elect men pledged to carry it
out. North Dakota by the most de
cisive majority in the history of the
state elected the men pledged to car.
ry out their program, he men elect
ed are not political takers. The state
will, therefore. have a state-owned
packing plant .l ~ 4,
Solicitors Misrepresent. ,,@
The Leader has information that
solicitors selling packing plant stock
have intimated that the league is not
going through with !. it's plan for a
state.owned plant, and taht the PEG.
pie must build plant by private Sub.
scription; that with the plant they
will build, the people will not need
state.OWned plant
THE Leader takes this, Opp0rtun.
ity to say reads the statement, that
if any such statements have been
made, they are false and calculated TO
disrupt the NOn.partisan league. The
Lealer and the leaders, Of the league
are going through with the league
program from top to bottom, because
they believe in the program and he
cause they have no other course. It
ia the mandate of 100000 members OF
the league and of the people of the
state US q whole that the entire
league program be carried through
Any other course would disrupt the
league.
No Other Plant. VIII Do. b..
mo kind Of a packing plant except
one owned by the state will success
fully solve present North Dakota
problems growing out OF the packing
house combine. DO not be misled by
any statements to the contrary
The Leader cautions the farmers
against dividing on the packing plant
proposition, as tho quickest and sur
est way to kill the league" ... 4.
A What the Equity Says. ....,
The Equity Cooperative Packin.
company announces from Fargo tina,
it will begin building operations this
winter. "Stock sales" reads state
ment issued by representative Of tho
company, have exceeded the most
sanguine hopes Of the men who have
been active in boosting for North
Dakota packing plant, and the deci
sion, to begin building operations this
winter was in response to the de
mand of the farmers that the plan
be built and equipped as quickly a!
possible. Farmers of every section
have shown tremendous interest ir
the enterprise. Already nearly $500,
900 in. stock has been subscribed, ant