Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-19
FRAZIER TELLS Of
FARMERS PLAN
Non-P Partisan League Leader Elk.
plains His Program of Pro-
gressive Legislation
HE'S PRODUCT OF MIMI;
WILL SUPPORT CASEY
North Dakota Farmers Candi.
date for Governor Outlines
General Policies.
North Dakota Farmers Candi.
General Policies.

date for Governor Outlines
General Policies.
BY e. c. RODGERS.
(St. Paul Daily News Staff Core.
spondent.)
Hoople, N. d., Sept 1S.-The last
time | was in this little village, up
near the Canadian border, Lynn J.
Frazier was too busy to talk about
the program laid out by the Farmers
Nonpartisan league.
Mr.. Frazier is the Nonpartisan lea
que candidate ION Republican ticket)
for governor of North Dakota. But,
first of all, he is a farmer. That
was why he couldn't talk about his
program when l first called on him
few weeks ago. He was running
his binder up and down the field cut
ting some velvet chaff wheat.
WHEAT's THREsHED NOW.
Now his wheat is all threshed and
MI Frazier has gone back on the
"stump," stopping in at the farm
home only for brief occasional rest.
Lynn Frazier is a big man, big
physically and mentally, also moral
ly. He doesn't drink, nor smoke, nor
swear. A university educated man,
he has lived most of his years next
to the soil, and as farmer he is
the peer of any in the state. His
farm shows it. y"
what will you do when you and
the Nonpartisan legislature get into
working ORDER" asked North Da-
kotas next governor.
'We shall do our best to enact such
legislation as is favored by the farm
ers who are members of the Farm.
ers' Nonpatrisan league" he replied.
THAT means that we will put to
the people for vote constitutional
amendment providing for a system Of
state-owned terminal elevators. Then
the farmers won't be at the mercy of
the grade fixers and doctors of the
trust elevators in Minnesota markets.
TOLD TO "sLoP THE PIGs".
"Twice the, people by overwhelm-
ing majorities have asked the legis-
latures to let us vote on such con.
stitutional amendment 4 md twice
they turned us down, once telling us
ito go home and slop the pigs n $
after the amendment is passed
on favorably by the people, and OF
that there is no doubt, the state will
probably bond itself to build the
terminals. Just where the first ter.
minal will be built is question for
the people to decide. Some want It
built here in the state; others in
St. Paul, or some other Minnesota
grain marketing point. 49,. b.
THE LEAGUES PROGRAM.
Another thing that we will do is
to demand our hail insurance law
As it stands now 1t is practically use
less to the farmert and was designed
so that it would fail. i believe that
all the agricultural land in the state
should be assessed. From the ire
losses due to hail. This loss in
North Dakota is often large, but the
insurance companies carry out of the
state enormous amounts in premiums
much more than they pay in losses
HELP FOR LANDLEsS MAN.
1--WE would enact fair grain grad
ing and inspection laws. In our pro
gram is a state rural credits idea
1t would go farther than the federal
farm loan law, in that it would hell
the landless farmer, and the farmer
who needs more to move or store his
crop-short-term loans, for which he
now pays excessive interest rates.
Another part of the program has
to do with the taxes the farmer pays
We will, if kept in Office long enough
change the tax law so as to exempt
all improvements ON agricultural land
In other words we will stop fining {
farmer for building nice home fol
his family, a substantial barn, a silo
or a fence.
WILL HIT LAND GAMBLERS.
"That will hit all the syndicate:
now holding good. farm land in this
state. 1t won't be so profitable t
them to speculate in land here, ant
the evident result will be that much
of this land will have to be sold tt
the farmer who will improve and
cultivate it. That will mean more
farms.
81 expect the 1917 legislature tt
pass for the first time a bill for the
submission to the people of con
stitutional amendment providing fo1
state-owned flour mills, packing plan
and cold storage plant. These viii
have to be passed second time bl
the 1919 legislature before they car
be submitted to popular vote.
CAREFUL LEGISLATION.
Don't misunderstood me. Thes'
progressive planks in our program
will not be handled hurriedly. Man!
eyes will be watching everything w
do and we must move cautiously
carefully and with the aid of the bes
legal advice. One by one these thing
will be taken up, considered seriousl,
and thoughtfully. But they will al
become facts within few years, TO
have no idea that the farmers o
this state will again give to the ma
chine politicians and outside business
interests the reins' Of government II
North Dakota. r. Vt.
PERSONALLY l favor granting sui
rage to women in this state. 1t