The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-09
EQUITY HAS NO
FIGHT WITH THE
NON.PAR7|SANS
State Secretary of Society An
nounces That Everything Is
Lovely
LEGISLATORS COMMEND
FOR COURTEsIEs SHOWN
Deadly Parallel Drawn Between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Assemblies

II have been asked in travelling up
and down the state whether it is not
true the Equity and the league do not
agree" said M. V. Boldly of Fargo,
state secretary of the American So
ciety of Equity, in addressing the
joint session of legislators and Equity
delegates in the house chamber yes.
terday. ..
II can't see any occasion for fight.
We may have different ideas, but
we're all headed for the same place,
and there's plenty of room for both
of u.s." "
| Board Of Control Did 1t.
Responsibility for the Nonpartisan
league was placed when Mr.. Boldly
said, referring to the report which the
board of control made on terminal ell.
evators two years ago:
"The report of the board of control
was the thing that started the Non
partisan league, and the end is not
yet" -.a '.' ''5 III
He accused the board of control in
making it's investigation Of seeking adj
vice from men who were inherently
opposed to terminal elevators, owned
and operated by the people.
In opening his address, the Equity
secretary commented on the different
atmosphere in the legislature, and de-
clared he appreciated the change.
II think" said he, zone of the rea-
sons why the atmosphere was not so
cordial two years ago was that we did
not understand one another"
He did not altogether blame the
chamber of commerce of Minneapolis
for it's attitude. Had we taken the
same number of farmers from these
prairies 80 years ago and given them
the same opportunities as members OF
the chamber of commerce, they would
today probably be just as keen for
gain" ~ ~'.+
" 42a's Interesting Session. IF
It was an interesting session. The
Equity folk marched to the capitol in
a body at O'clock. The senate and
house then adjourned to meet in joint
session in the house. Committees
were named from both bodies to es-
cort to the speakers desk Governor
Frazier and other state officers, and
President M. P. Johnson of the state
Society Of Equity; President j. M:
Anderson, of the Equity exclhnge;
Secretary Boldly; L. P. Straube, OF
Chicago, member of the Organized
Consumers of the Cities of the United
States, and other distinguished guests.
Lieutenant Governor A. T. Kraabel
presided and expressed the pleasure
Of the fifteenth assembly in it's priv.
lege of meeting with the Equity.
ut is appropriate that the legisla-
tive assembly should become better
acquainted with such organizations"
said the chair. It
History Of Equity.
| ]. M. Anderson, the first speaker,
told of the organization Of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity in North Dakota
in 1907, when it undertook it's famous
campaign for dollar wheat. In 1908
the movement for the organization of
the Equity Cooperative exchange was
begun. '@a ~
| ut was never political organiza.
tion," said President Anderson, but
stock company built on cooperation.
The exchange represents the Society
of Equity insofar as carrying out it's
principles is concerned. We have
been in the grain business in Mime
apolis since 4,l2, and to this day the
big mills and terminal elevators there
have never bought or received a BUSH
ell of our grain, because they did not
want farmers operating on the termi-
nal markets. Our purpose in going