The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-11
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Secretary McAdoo Effectually I'm
masks the Hypocritical Pretensel Of
the Newspapers and Interests Hos
tile to the Nonpartisan League
AN UNPATRIOTIC ATTACK.

AN ONFAlHlOllC AITACks
Real Estate Sharks Violently Opposed
to the Baer BilL-Substitute Bill ID
Made the Vehicle for Attack on the
Nonpartisan League.
By suggesting simple way out Of
which anti-league farmer intereSts,
had proclaimed was a conflict betNeen
the Federal Farm Loan Act and The
North Dakota Seed and Feed bonding
law, Secretary McAdoo of the FEEDER
al Reserve Board on March 80 shaw.
ed up this new attack on the LEAGUE,
in it's true colors. The hostile lptess.
had not only carried news itms to the
effect that the Farm Loan bank would
have to withdraw from North Dako-l
ia, but editorials branding the farm.
ers' legislature Of North Dakota Jas
stupid, vicious, and false to the In
terests of the farmers.
More than this, prominent bank1rs
in the Twin Cities announced. that
they, too, would have to curtail loans
to North Dakota farmers. Yet from
the very beginning the whole thing
was big business propaganda against
the Nonpartisan League with no fodn-
dation in fact or law.
McAdoo's Telegram to Frazier
The essential part Of Secretary Nc
Adoo's telegram to Governor Frazier
reads as follows: -
f"The Board has authorized the Fed
eral Land bank of St. Paul to resume
the making of loans in North Dakota
in all cases where the applicant gives
surety. bond indemnifying the bank
against any loss resulting from the as
sertion of the prior lien.''
The Attorney General of the Unit
ed States had previously rendered q
decision that there was no conflict be-
tween the two laws, and several sure
ty companies volunteered to take care
of the; surety bonds suggested by
Secretary McAdoo for the bare cost
Of the bookkeeping and other expense
involved. &s :s*a5-- ..',Ss7sss u ~
Seed Act to Increase Wheat. S
Owing to, the poor crops in western
North Dakota in 1916 and 1917 many
of the farmers there faced the 1918
season without finances to carry on
farm operations. The situation was
serious not only because of what this
would men to the farmers but be-
cause the nation needed every possible
bushel Of wheat. Governor Frazier
called special session of the Legis-
lature, and law was passed enabling
counties to bond themselves to lend
feed and seed to needy farmers.
The great need for it was soon
proved by the fact that within few
weeks counties had bonded themselves
to the total Of about $3,O0O,000 or the
equivalent of 100000 bushels of seed
wheat. With fair crop conditions
this law will, therefore, be respon-
sible for giving the nation from
twelve to twenty-four million bushels
Of wheat which it otherwise would not
have had.
In view of the importance Of wheat,
the State of North Dakota could not
have done more patriotic service to
the nation than the passage of this
act, and at the same time the attack
on it for ulterior purposes was rank
disloyalty. The law was so necessary
that even the stand-pat senator's in
North Dakota did not vote against it
solidly; yet special interests hostile
to the League sought to nullify it as
means Of fighting the farmers.
Prominent in the opposition were
the land spectators who would rath-
er see the farmers foreclosed and the
nations wheat supply cut down than
have a public acknowledgement that
some farmers needed special help in
financing the next crop. The action
Of the money lenders Of the Twin Cit
les is also without an excuse because
this seed bonding act by insuring a
crop where the farmer would other
wise fail, strengthened the security
Of the private mortgage.
This law did for farmers who had
suffered from drought in North Dako-
ia, what the Baer Bill would have
done for farmers unable to finance the
1918 crop for similar good reasons,
there and elsewhere in the United
States. Although backed by Herbert
Hoover, this bill was killed by the re-
dictionary interests in Congressional
Committee, and the substitute bill
now before the house is being used
as an occasion for a spectacular at
tack, not on the merits Of the bill, but
on the Nonpartison League.
Be sure You buy your share Of Lii
berty bonds before you try to sell the
other fellow.
Z a Canadian order in council pro-
vides for the free admission into Can
ada of meat cattle until February Z,
1912, when imported by bona hde res
idents q Canada under regulations
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