The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
WHAT Of OUR
GREAT PUBLIC -.
SCHOOL FUND?
Hon. S. J. Doyle Asks How Safe
States Heritage Will be
With TOwnley.
NO INDEMNITY FOR PEOPLE
If Constitution is Ripped Wide
Open, S5O,0OO,OOO is at Big
Boss Mercy.

Dickinson. y. d.. Oct. SIS. J. Doyle
democratic candidate for GevarnOr. to-
day called upon the opposition to eX.
plain its attempt to remove the con-
the gigantic public school fund OF the
state, as attempted in House Bill A, in
an address delivered here
He pointed to the fact that House
Bill "A, drawn by such socialists as Ar
thur LeSeuer. the l. w. W. attorney.
did away entirely with section 165 of
the state constitution. That section
follows:
"The Legislative assembly shall pass
suitable laws for safekeeping, trans
fer and disbursement of the states
school funds, and shall require all or
ficerS charged with the same. or the
safekeeDing thereof. to give ample
bonds for all monies and funds re-
ceved by them, and if any OF the SAID
! officers shall convert to his own use
| in any manner Or form, or shall loan
with or without interest. or shall ue-
post in his own name or otherwise
than in the name Of the State of North
Dakota or shall deposit i'll any bank. or
with any person or persons. or eX-
change for other funds or property any
portion of the school funds aforesaid,
or purpOsely allow any portion or the
same to remain in. his own hands I'M
invested except in the manner present
bed by law. every such act shall constr
tute an embezzlement of so much or
the aforesaid school funds as shall be
thus taken or loaned or deposited or
exchanged or withheld. and shall be Il
felony. Any failure to pay over, pro-
duce or account for the state school
funds. or any part of the same. en-
trusted to any such officer, as by law.
required or demanded, shall be held
and taken to be prima facle evidence
of such embeZZlement.
Said Mr.. Doyle: Can any one
imagine why? The is just one great
fund of money owned by the state of
North Dakota. and that is the money
derived from the sale of school lands
and interest upon such money. This
land was set aside for school purposes
bN the trainers OIL Lie CONSTITUTION anu
sd surrounded by safeguards that not
one dollar of it has ever been lost anu
no norton of it, except the interest.
can be used, thereby perpetuating to
the children Of this state. continuous
income for school purposes. which ill.,
sures to them educational advantages
that it would be otherwise impossible
for them to enjoy.
1T is customary for banks. individ-
ualS or corporations. to always put up
an indemnity bond whenever their bus
mess neceSsitates the handling of trust
funds, in fact, in so far as I am aware.
this procedure is absolutely UNIVERSAL
And still. this coterie of socialist pat
riots so jealous in the interests of the
people Of this state, want to amend the
state constitution in such manner as to
withdraw every possible safeguard
from great public fund entrusted by
the federal government to the citizens
of North Dakota for the education of
fuaure generations. What possible Tea-
son could these people have for with
drawing these safeguards if they
really had the welfare Of this state and
it's citizens at hearth"