Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-15
FARMERS DESIRE
STRICT DRY LAWS
Congress of Tillers of the Soil
Adopts Resolutions to
This End.
RAISE A LITTLE" MONEY

o. G. Smith of kcarncN yesterday
afternoon was elected president Of
the Nebraska Farmers congrcS, Tor
the ensuing year
Vice presidents were elected as
follows; First vice president. Frank
Tannehill Norfolk; second, Charles
Graft, Bancroft; third, A. l.. Stoncr.
lnavalc.
George Junkn OF Smithicld ua>
elected treasurer, and j. B. Grinncll
of Papillion was reelected sccrctar,
Omaha was again chosen as the, meet
ing place for 1917.
The finance committee reported
that there arc no finances and no pro
vision for any. 1t was suggested that
some life memberships be taken and
when 100 men men were called on
to pay $40 apiece for life member
ships there was vast silence in the
house. Finally O. R. Thompson OF
Wisner came forward and laid
down $40.
SdttlClHdIl FOllOWS QUIZ.
well. l'll show that a shcepman is
as good as a cattlcman." remarked
S. G. Porter of Haiglcr, and he
waltzed up with another $40, vii
liam Larned of Haigler followed with
his life membership dues, and then
another vast silence fell upon the
house.
At last an old man with beard as
white as the snowdrifts Of his fields
tottered to the desk and offered a S.
! bill in payment for half-a-iife mem
bcrship. rcmarking that he must have
the other half for railway fare to get
home. That was the end of the CAM
paign for life memberships.
The convention favored the adop-
| ton OF all amendment to the prop
crty tax provision of the consttu-
ton to make possible modern tax
laws, declaring that the general prop
erty tax required by the Nebraska
constitution distributes burdens I'M
| equally.
Oppose Corn Rate Raise.
It opposed the increase in the price
OF corn the stock yards arc proposing
to charge for corn led to hogs.
They propose to have tho state
legislature pass strict prohibition
laws under tho new amendment to
have the spirit as we'll as the letter
OF the law enforced. Here Charley
Wooster OF Silver Creek proposed al
amendment to make the ministers Of
the gospel all over the state depu-
ties to enforce the prohibition laws.
and he proposed to take away from
them the right TO marry couples il
they failed to enforce the prohibition
law But he was showed under.
They favor calling constitutional
| convention in Nebraska.
They favored the government OWL
ership and control OF railroads, and
they will urge congress to take I'M
mediate steps toward this end.
That each county in the state is
able to take care of its own roads and,
with proper supervision, build good
dirt roads, instead Of spending large
sums for stone roads. was also the
opinion of the congress.
In the resolution adopted in the
morning, the exact language used by
the Farmers Cooperative Grain and
Live Stock State association was en-.
ployed. I'VE are most cmphatically
opposed to embarking upon policy
OF building stone or hard surface
roads, the resolution reads. "at an
expense of from $4,000 to $4,000
per mile, which would place we'll
nigh crushing and cver-increaslng
burden upon us, and which from the
nature of the case could never end"
They then decided to request the
legislature to pass no law TO meet the
federal appropriation for Nebraska