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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
kOSI1ZkY RAPS
T0WNLEY PLAN
OF PREFERMENT
DECLARES BIG BOSS is HANDING
MONEY NEEDED BY RESIDENTS
OVER TO NON.RESlDENTs
TALKS AGAINST PRINTING GRAFT
SAYS PUBLICITY WORK SHOULD
BE LET BY CONTRACT ON
COMPETITIVE BIDS

Drake, N. D.-Speaking to large
State Auditor Karl Kositzky reiterat-
ed his attack upon the autocratic rule
which Townley and his imported agi-
tators have sought to fasten on this
state. Attacking the immigration bill,
which appropriates 100000 for league
propaganda in other states, the state
auditor said:
when I was at Dunn Center
short time ago, Senator Liederbach
informed me that thirty families NOV
ed out of Dunn county last year on
account Of poor crops and other con-
ditions. Now, there is no question in
my mind that If some Of these fami-
lies had been given little lift, say
about four or five hundred dollars
from the state, many of them would
have staid another year and tried it
once more. Don't you think we should
try and keep what people we have in
7 stead Of appropriating 100000 for
immigration purposes to be spent by
some nonresident as he may see fit?"
The Printing Bill.
Denouncing the Brinton printing bill
graft, Kositzky said:
III Townley was so anxious to save
the apeople. money. witt~; his printing,
bill, why did he not provide in the
bill that all printing should be let on
competitive bids and require newspa-
pers to bid for the printing? am sure
that no one would object to a law of
that kind, but people will object to
class legislation, to laws which will
benefit a certain few at the expense
Of the many"
Remembers Macdonald.
The state auditor also paid his re-
spects to Neil c. Macdonald, unwilI-
ingly off the state payroll at present.
Il do not believe Mr.. Macdonald did
the right thing when he refused to
turn over the office of state superin-
tendent Of public instruction to Miss
Nelson after she had received a ma
jority Of over 5000 votes, and l don't
believe in law which will make a
figure-head out Of an official who was
the board Of administration law does
with Miss Nelson. think Miss
| Nelson is able and competent and
can run that office without the aid
of an. appointed' board placed over her
department. If she is unable to fill
the position, then let the people speak
| at the next election.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

Bismarck, N. D., April ga. &c
Townley and William Lemke Of the
nonpartisan league shared in the dis
vision Of the profit reaped by the or.
ganization of the American Exchanges
bank of Valley City, according to the
statements of Thomas Allen Bog
made to H. C. Aamoth, testified to
by Mr.. Aamoth before the banking
board. ,Saj
Mr.. Aamoth, in revealing to the
banking board the text of convers
sation he had with Box at the time
the organization of. the state bank
and sale of the national bank was pers
fected, said that Box's statement de-
veloped from Mr.. Aamoth's observas
tion that a $4,000 profit, which was
being gathered by the transaction,
seemed pretty strong. Z =!
1t was then, in explanation of the
huge profit, said Mr.. Aamoth to the
banking board, that Mr. Box .explain-
ed that it wasn't much of a profit for
any individutl as it had to be divided
four ways, as "Townley and Lemke
have to get their share" ~ =;
The profit, originally $35,O20, re-
duced to $4,000 when Attorney Gen:
eral LANCER and Secretary of State
Thomas Hall forced the operators to
replace s15,O26 that had been taken
from the assets of the national bank
while it was in the control of the
Box-Hastings combination, according
to the Box statement to Aamoth, was
divided four ways. =
To obtain $15,O26 additional profit
with the deal and Of which portion Of
the profit the farmers who purchased
stock in the state bank knew nothing
until the facts were forced out BY
LANCER and Hall: before: the banking
board" the price at which the national
bank was sold to the farmers was in
creased by that sum over the price
that it was sold by the stockholders
of the national bank to the state bank
promoters.
Mr.. Aamoth testified that repeated
attempts were made by J. J. Hastings
to have him, Aamoth, aid them in
covering up the $15,O26 additional
profits, but that he declined to do so
The Aamoth testimony is the most
sensational development of case
that already has attracked statewide
attention because of the manner in
which it has brought to light the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
PACKARD DEFINES STATS
RI0Y0US FINANCE RIDE

229,054, while according to statistics
prepaid for the tax commission by
L. A. Baker, the total for 1919 will be
$12,954,285, an increase of $8,736, ,23l,
or 2O3 per cent. Showing what he de-
clared an unfair increase on acre
property tending toward the single
tax system, he showed that the
leagues own estimate of the average
acre value in North Dakota in 1918
was $5.48, or $876.80 for a quarter
section, and that under the league tax
plan this would be increased to $2,923
per quarter section. The league. esti-
mates that the levy for state purposes
will be 35 mills as against 4.3 in
1918. From letters written by levy
ing boards, the tax commissioner. es-
Inmates that the total levy will be
poses state as we'll as local, will be
20.5 mills this year as against 40 mills
last year. Applying these to the
changed values he showed that the
ldTm0r WOulu pay oil dS0Ad60 VI
s59:92 per quarter this year as COM
pared with $35.07 last year.
| 1.-THE significant fact in this con-
nection is the increased burden on
acre property,,":, said Mr.: Packard,
"This 1ncre ssmueh:, greater: than
the average pa Al property, and city
property: both real and personal, en-:
joys the advantage of : especial ex-
emptions. which are not extended to
acre property. This transferring of
the bulk of the burden to acre prop
erty shows that we have progressed
thus far toward q single tax +, :. :. ::
Bearing on the states present Il
hancial situation, the tax commits.
Aioner showed that June 30, 1913, the
state had all of its bills paid and a bal
ance Sof $4ss. .7o2 tn Its general fund;
IA 1914 all* bills paid and 3 balance
Continued on page
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

"North Dakota's Financial De-
bauch was the subject of an address
delivered before the North Dakota
Employers association in it's first an
nual convention here by F. E. Pack
ard Of the state tax commission.
Mr.. Packard showed that appropria-
tions and levies made for the ensu-
ing two years will aggregate an in
crease of 21.4 per cent over levies and
taxes for all purposes in 1918, includ-
ing state, city, county, school dis
trict and township levies. With the
increase over 1917, the total gain will
be 33 1-3 per cent, said the tax COM
missioner, and he projected that if the
increase in local levies is more than
normal every taxbill in the state will
be boosted between 33 1-3 and so per
cent.
The increase in the tax burden is
not due to appropriation or bond is
sues necessary to carry out the Non
partisan league program, said Mr..
Packard. Only II per cent of the
total appropriations and levies are
mad etc carry out the industrial pro:
gram q; the league, he said, while 20
per cent of the whole for depart:
Ements old::or newly created. :::s., v,
Our finances are IN e. 5d esperate
plight, said. the commissioners. Or
5dinarily> for the fiscal year ending
June 80 we have cash balance Of
Ss35o, 900 to s5oo,0oo, with alr bills paid.
The prospects are now that June 80,
1919 at the end Of our fiscal year our
general fund will be depleted and we
VII. have from $3.50, 900 tos5oo, 900 in
unpaid bills" {. I ~ s.t:i; :.
s203 Per Cent Jump. fit 2
Showing how rapidly state expen-
sSdltures have risen,4 MI. Packard noted
the fact that IN 1917 the total appro.
4priations for state purposes were $14s.
z
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
T0WNLEY Ind bEMkE
SHARED IN PROFITS

marvellous workings of the financial
ring at the head Of the nonpartisan
league.
.ss More developments, however, are in
store, for Attorney General LANCER
announced this afternoon that he
You'd make public the entire record
in the Valley City bank case, "be-
cause of the lying newspaper reports
that have been published by the in.
ferests identified with the deal, and
Who seem so anxious to discredit pub
He officials who have done their duty
ih the enforcement Of the banking
laws. We have saved the farmers
5$15,026 in this deal, and when any
Newspaper sets out to villify officials
Who. have brought this about, and
Have protected the people from ex,
Ioiters, it is time to do business and
Show the people Of the state just wha:
Happened at Valley City. The record
will disclose the status Of the case
and we will most certainly give it to
theS people Of North Dakota" said Mr.
hanger.
@ "Ihe banking board yesterday
granted the American Exchange
bank the right to merge with it the
@assets of the American National
bank, on my own notion" said Mr.
Eanger in the statement made pub
He.
|3sH s"This step was taken as result o1
the fact that we have forced the re
Eplacement Of $15,026 that was illeg
Eally taken from the assets of the ma
EttonaE bank; it was taken after we
forced the making, good of certain
NOTES signed by Box, Hastings, th'
Federal Development company ant
Hhe Consumers United Store com
pan ysound in the assets of the STATE
after certaina thegsss e.. mat nat
tiers Lad been taken care of in &C
cordance with demands that we hav
made.
GAS for the Valley City transa
ction, l have determined to make th'
while record public, because Of th'
lying reports which have been pub
lished in certain papers that ar
! more interested in discrediting Ger
tain state officials, that they are IL
the protection of the people of th'
state from unscrupulous bank opera
tors, and who seem more interested
in the protection of such OPERATOR
than they are in the enforcement O.
the laws of the state"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
SHAW ASSAlLS FREE TRADE

Washington, April 80. - Protect
your own country and let the rest
take care of themselves, because they
will do it anyway" is the homely ad
vice given by former Secretary of the
Treasury, Leslie M. Shaw, in state
'ment in which he attacks the league
of nations covenant because it pro-
vides for the removal of economic
barriers.
"Who is credulous enough to be-
ieve," he says, that the proposed
constitution, which admittedly does
not unite but at best only confeder-
ates will prove more effective as a
peace preserver than the Constitution
of the United States, which Gladstone
Edeclared the greatest chart Of freedom
that ever fell from the pen of men at
one time? The league is anything
but a union, and yet it proposes ulti-
mately to gather within it's jurisdic-
tion all the nations Of the earth. Eco
Enomic riyalries, which President VIII
son says have been the prime cause
Of war and which he asserts must be
prevented in binding terms, else peace
would be both insincere and insecure,
'are eliminated as far as possible be-
tween the states Of this proposed
union. But If Mr.. Wilson's avowed in
ttention to affect International free
trade is not definately squelched and
prohibited, the American people will !
surrender their Industrial and eco-,;
nomic Independence. - %$t5&si :".s&ssii -: !
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
Need Of High Tariff
Is Urged BY Harding
GIVES FIGURES TO SHOW PRO
DUcERs CANNOT COMPETE
AND MAINTAIN STANDARDS

Washington, April 30.-Further de-
tails are coming to the attention Of
members of the majority party in the
House and Senate to impress upon
them the necessity of Republican
high protection which will shift much
of the burden Of taxation from the
American to the foreign producer in
such a way as to at the same time
stimulate domestic and foreign COM
merce.
Striking evidence of this is fur
nished by Senator Warren G. Hard
ing, of Ohio. VERY recently" he
said to your correspondent, five thou
sand tons of English salt were de-
livered to an Atlantic port at $6O7
per ton. This seriously menaces the
salt works of my State The freight
rates alone from Ohio to Atlantic
Coast points, such as New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston,
range from S. to 81 per ton. The
manufacturing cost in this country
now averages about 81 per ton.
Manifestly, if it costs 81 per ton to
produce in Ohio and a minimum of
SIS to deliver, we cannot hope to find
sale for American product at $12
when the English salt is sold in this
/ country at $6.07. The pity Of the sit
10 hot ha ~
does not reduce the cost to the
American consumer, because the dir:
ference in price is Immediately absorb.
ed by the importer. Thus we have
the maintained prices along with dim
inished American production and the
inseparable diminution of American
capacity to buy. Undoubtedly stu
ations like this will be given the
attention of the incoming Congress
and find remedy in the new tariff bill
Very prominent manufactures have
written to me- repeatedly that On the
rome hand the Governments is seeint
to return American soldiers to thei1
homes and find employment for them
and, on the other hand, is admitting
foreign products when will displace
American labor. OF course, these
policies are utterly inconsistent. We
cannot hope to have the higher Ameri
can production unless we protect the
American market for American inter
ests. The time has arrived, in my
opinion, to understand that it is pos
sible for humanity to begin at home
The per capita annual governmental
expenditures have increased from st
to S84 in short time, and it is becom
ing daily more important that pro
Etection be afforded through an ade
quate tariff for the benefit of the Am
erican producer and the American
tax payers generally"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
Democracy Of Labor
Is Favored By Taft
SPEAKS OUT FOR COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING between EN-
PLoYER AND EMPLOYEE

. Washington, May, l.-FOrmer Fres-
ident William H. Taft's pronounce
ment in favor of the needs of the de-
mocracy of labor and his appeal to en-
ployers to heed its just wants has met
with general approval on the part of
Republican members of Congress, and
by some of them is placed in impor-
lance beside the achievement Of Sen
ator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa.. in
incorporating in the Clayton anti
trust law the declaration that labor
is not a commodity or article of COM
merce.
Taft's statement is in line with his
praise of President Samuel Gompers,
of the American Federation Of Labor,
for holding labor in the right line
during the war with Germany. Com
pers said upon his return from
Europe that "in theory Bolshevism
is an impossibility; in fact, If it were
put into operation it would mean the
decadence or perversion of the civi'
lization of our time" He reported
the fact that the first of the demands
of labor put forward at the Versailles
conference was the idea, now law, OF
Senator Cummins, who is to be the Re
publican chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce in the
next Congress.
In his idea for labor democracy
Taft says. what does the term in
dustrial democracy as we hear 1t us
ed in labor mean? 1t is an expression
that gives to many employers who dc
not understand it shiver. It makes
them think of the Bolsheviki and
their hopeless experiments in taking
over, without compensation, the pri
vate industrial establishments in Rus
sia and running them by decree O.
the workmen engaged in them, will
the former proprietor as expert ant
fellow servant. Fl1is is. an entire mis-
understanding of the word as it ha'
been used in conservation labor cir
cles in this country. Industrial de
mocracy means an organization o1
industrial plants in which the work
ing men have full liberty to belong tt
trades unions and full liberty, whether
union or nonunion men, to select il
their own way their own representa-
tive committees to deal with theil
employer in respect to wages, and IL
which every order Of the employer IL
respect to wages, hours or othel
terms and conditions shall not be
made until representative committees
of the workmen to be affected shall
have had an opportunity to be heart
and express their opinion on. the pro
posed order. 1t does not mean tina
the workmen are to be vested witt
the power to determine for the EN-
ployer, without: his agreement. Wha'
+ the terms of employment shall be
It still leaves it open to both sides tt
strike or lockout"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

Alfred Gambriel, the new proprie-
tor of the City Barber Shop, moved
his family overfrom Washburn the
latter part of last week and they are
now comfortably settled in the Shro-
bel cottage. We are pleased to vel
come this estimable family to Turtle
Lake.-The Wave.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

Clean Up and Paint UpKeep tup-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02
north DAKOTA
OWES S5O,000;;
$9,S69 ON Inland
STATE AUDITOR KOSITZKY
FEAR SOME OFFICIAL MUST
GO. WITHOUT SALARIES
SET ASIDE ALMOST HALF
MILLION IN EMERGENCY -,
APPROPRIATIONS

With $150,00O in unpaid bills on
file, and with but $9,369.73 in the
state treasury's general fund on April
\ State Auditor Carl Kositzky, stung
to action by criticism of his opponents
within the league who have, it Is al
legged, spread the report that he is
holding up certain bills through
"spite," today made public report
which would indicate that North Da:
kota is a trifle worse than bankrupt.
How The Moneys Went.
April i, 1916, the last year of the
Hanna administration, North Dakota,
after paying all it's bills, had a $522,-
OeO.43 balance in it's general fund.
April I, 1917 when the Townley re-
gime had been in the saddle only three
months, the balance in the general
fund, after all bills were paid, was
$431,2S2.82.
April 1, 1918, the second year Of the
Townley administration, North Da.
kota had all Of its bills paid and $242,'
877:79 in its general fund
April /, 1919, in the third year of
the Townley era, North Dakota owed
$15O,O00 in current Indebtedness, and
it had balance in it's general fund OF
s9,369.73.
Theofficial payroll is $3s,0O0 per
. month Salaries have been paid up to
April 1, but the state auditor ex
pressed the fear that officials and en-
ployes may be forced to ,eschew their
semi-monthly pay checks for some
months to come.
North Dakota has $463,000 out,
standing in bonds, some of which fall
due this year.
100000 Was Overdue
For nearly four months 100000 in
bills charged against various state in
titutions remained unpaid.
State institutions, says the auditor
are still according to the statement OF
Secretary Liessman of the board OF
regents, paying $500 interest monthly
on loans negotiated with local banks
to produce funds to.-p Day their current
expenses.
The last legislative assembly in
emergency appropriations called fol-
about "a half-million which must come
from the general fund. Some of these
Z; funds already have been drawn
against, but there is much more that
must be set aside.
Most of Tax Is Paid.
A majority of the tax levied fo1
1918 already has been paid intp the
state treasury and appropriated, de-
clares Mr.. Kositzky. He states that
there remains a considerable amount
due from the counties, and that there
will also be some miscellaneous col
! lections in June and July and some
!. revenue from .the new oil tax, which
2 - ~, Continued on page ~ .
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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+ per in Mclean County-@
+ Established as The Times d
+ on May 10, 1883. q
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

e4.ee#.eaa.t.s.s-.4s.s.s..s.
&.DevOted to the Best In r
&.terests Of the City, Coun- +
Ssty and sState-OfHc city =
. and county paper.
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-05-02

"A penny saved is two pence clear
A pin day is groat a year."
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-04-04
Ell MUNDo

de millones puestos al servicio del pro-
greso del pals y cuyos poseedores fin
can todo afan ' esperanSa EN- verIos
prosperar Y ser TITLES la Patria, al
amparo de la normalidad sostenida por
Ell Jefe de la Causa Rehabilitadora. Ese
grupo de voluntades acordes en- Ell sos
ten de la paz que signi1ca civilization
con todos sus brillantes attributes, for
ma cimiento incontrastable la obra
que ell Gobierno seguira desarrollando
cada vez con mayor amplitud, y general
APPLAUSE de todos.
Todas las classes, desde las obreras
hasta las que poseen Y manejan los
mas fuertes capitales, rodean, pues, al
General Gomez, dispuestas apoyar su
labor patri6tica, servir de salvaguar-
dia la paz y al orden, defender los
bienes conquistados y asegurar Ell adve-
nimiento de nuevos adelantos y nuevas
conquistas que agregar a los va exis-
tentes.
Hoy, como hace diez amos, la for
mula de Paz Y Trabajo compendia fe-
lizmente las necesidades las aspire
clones de los pueblos, mucho mas CT IL
do tras los estragos de la guerra su
aplicaci6n practica resultara mucho
mas rica en- prontos Y numerosos fru-
tos de progreso, bienestar Y cultura.
He aqui la manifestation que Sc
hace referencia:
"Caracas: de febrero de 1919.
Senior General Juan Vicente Gomez,
ETC., ETC., etc.
Senior General:
Miembros como somos de gremios
cuyas actividades implican, para su fir
me progresiva prosperidad, altos in
tereses intimamente adscritos al man
tenimiento del orden social Y al acre
centamiento de la riqueza economical de
la Naci6n, es de justicia reconocer que
las aetuaciones ADMINISTRATORS implan-
tadas por usted han sido un factor i'm
portante para la paz de que goza Ell pals,
10 cual, undo los planes progresistas
que Ell Gobierno empieza a poner en-
practica, fabran de producer cuantio-
SOS benefcios en- todo el ambito de la
Rep1blica.
Nos congratulamos con usted y nos
place suscribirnos
Sus altos. S. S. y amigos,
Pedro Paul, Luis A. Castillo, Santa
ma Hrmanos Y Co. " siguen las frmas)