The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-20

their sons to the front, but no
other state can point to such
vigorous steps to promote inter-
nal efficiency as the seed and
feed bonding act, the morator-
ium for soldiers, and the opening
of the "slacker" acres to crops.
North Dakota is not only using
the Ford plan of getting cheap
tractors to farmers, but it made
arrangements whereby all tract
ors held for sale in the state
could be put to immediate use.
| Legislation For Farmers.
| The following acts stand out
as the most important legisla-
tion passed in the direct inter-
est to the farmers:
| l. All but five per cent of
farm improvements exempted
from taxation or all that could
be exempted without amending
the constitution.
2. A grain inspection system
which really gets at the evils of
local elevator practice and at the
same time protects cooperative
elevators.
8. State laws on cooperation
amended in the interests of CO.
operators and the way prepared
to remove constitutional limita-
tions to effective cooperation.
4. Laws passed to protect
dairying and especially cooper
ative creame1ies as a means of
encouraging diversified farming.
5. Important steps taken to-
ward equalization Of taxation as
between the people and the large
corporations and absentee land
owners, and the collection of
back taxes from utility corpora
tions.
| 6. Adequate preparation made
for constitutional amendments
to be submitted to the people
preparing the way for real state
hail insurance, for making state
funds available for farm mort
cages, and for state owned ele-
vators and mills.
Z. Township dipping tanks
provided for.
8. Counties permitted to
bond themselves to supply seed
and feed to their needy farm
ers that there might be maxi
mum production in time of war
! and to save these worthy farm
ers.
The Torrens system of land
registration adopted which in
time will remove practically all
the cost now incident to the
transfer of real estate titles.
| 10. Protection and support
for DR.. E. F. Ladd, the farmers
grain expert and for the agri-
cultural school.
Support for Labor.
The present government of
North Dakota has been as loyal
to city labor as to the people on
tthe farm. It can say that every
pre-election promise made to la
Dor has been fulfilled. Labor got
what it asked in legislation, and
it is again united with the farm
ers for the coming political cam
paign. More than legislation,
labor desired impartial enforce
ment of the law without the fav-
oritism to the interests of large
employers under which it had
suffered, and the administration
and courts nominated and elect
ed by the people have at all
times given an even handed JUS
tice. Millionaires as we'll as men
without a bank account have
gone to Jail.
Railroad employees were Civ
en- a legal right to semi-monthly
pay and mechanics were given
a prior lien over chattel mort
cages. A public welfare COM
fmission was created to look af-
ter employment conditions, child
and women labor and the poor.
Night schools were provided for.
Two other acts which put North
Dakota in the vanguard Of civil
zation are those providing that
the earnings of the prisoners in
!, the state prison should go to
their families and the prisoners
and that compensation should
be paid to those wrongfully i'm
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