The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-02

not tell you that H. B. A states that
any county, township, city or village
may mot must) vote to have some
OF their Offices a~ppointive? Yes, they
do not! All Of which goes to show
that they r afraid to trust the peo-
pie. Then the resolution tries to
leave the impression that H. B. "a
will in some way jeopardize the school
FUNDS which it certainly does not do.
Here is what it says as to the main
tainance and disposal of them. Act 10
Sec. 144 and 145:
"All proceeds of the public lands
that have heretofore been, or may
hereafter be granted by the United
States for the support of the common
schools of this state; all such per
centum as may be granted by the
United States on the Scale of public
lands; the proceeds of the property
that shall fall to the state by escheat,
the proceeds of all gifts and dona-
tions to the state for common schools
or not otherwise appropriated by the
terms Of the gift, and all other pro-
perty otherwise acquired by common
schools, shall be and remain a perpet-
ual fund for the maintenance of the
common schools Of the state. It shall
be deemed a trust fund, the principal
Of which shall forever remain invio-
late, and may be increased but never
diminished. The state shall make
good all losses thereof"
"The interest and income of this
fund together with the net proceeds of
all fines for violation of state laws,
and all other sums, which may be ad-
ded thereto by law shall be faithfully
used and applied each year for the
benefit Of the common schools of the
state, and shall be for this purpose
apportioned among and between all
the several common school corpora
tions of the state in proportion to the
number of children in each Of school
age, as may be fixed by law, and no
part of the fund shall ever be divert
ed ever temporarily, from this pur-
pose, or used for any other purpose
whatever than the maintenance of
common schools for the equal benefit
of all the people of the state; provid-
ed, however, that if any portion of
the interest or income aforesaid shall
not be expended during any year, said
portion shall be added to and become
a part Of the school fund.-"
What better protection can our
schools funds have than is given here?
Then I quote, "We are opposed to
the proposition embraced in H. B. a.
which provides for unlimited bonding
Of the state or it's political sub-divis-
ions. W. believe that the enactment
of such a provision would place in
jeopardy u homes and farms and
life savings" What they fail to tell
US is that before any such bonding
can be done a majority Of the voters
must vote for it and this is therefore
only another proof that this bunch
Of ~"patriotic citizens" are afraid Of
majority rule and this howl about the
"sky the limit" is just made to con-
fuse the unthinking and prejudice the
ignorant. They never tell us that
none of the Canadian Provinces have
a constitution and consequently nc
costitutional debt limit, also they have
no senate, standpat or otherwise to
protect" them and no supreme court
that has any power to declare any
law unconstitutional and yet they
have better laws, better enforced, and
less taxes on their property than we
have although every city owns it's
water and sewer system, also all or
nearly all own their street car lines,
electric lighting and gas systems and
several of the provinces W their
telephones. They have state hail in
surance and some provincial and gov
eminent owned railroads, wharves,
electric generating and distributing