Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-18
AUDHOR0USTS
VELVAL EACUER
I NHOTDEBA1E
McTIenry County Repre-.
sentative Confesses His Ig-
norance Of League Laws.

velva, n. D., April 1S.-Forcing
from Representative 3. .. Organs .
McHenry county Nonpartisan men,
ber Of the last two assemblies, the adj
mission that he really knew very lit.
tie about the leagues taxation pro-
gram. the educational bill. printing
bill and some 400 other measures for
he cast q favorable vote during
the 18th assembly, State Auditor Carl
Kositzky scored q GScided victory
over his opponent here last night.
The isas9s solo 9, stteT 1Sa to
auditor had made in addressing q
large audience Of league farmers:
The velva opera house was filled
with farmers. some Of whom had
spent a day In driving in sixteen
miles or moreover muddy roads. The
state auditor explained tho league
taxation> system. declaring it could
probably would treble them. He
showed the farmers that under the
single tax plan the bulk OF the bur.
den would fall upon them. He at
tackled the educational bills and the
printing bills. and the judicial redis-
1tricting act, declaring the first was
dictated by private ppiaue and =. M,e ct.
services the people had rejected at
the polls: that the second was deigned
to give the owner Of q chain Of news
papers a monopolitic graft in public
printing, and that the last wa passed
solely to give the governor an oppor-
tunity to reward friends with ap:
poihtments to judgeships which would
Increase the expense OF administering
justice $685. 900 per biennium.
Tho state auditor vigorously. de-
nounced the attack which taxpayers
have launched. on the leagues eco-
nomic progr1thsin federal court and
declared that he was doing everything
and to give the farmers industrial
scheme a fair TROUT.
At the conclusion Of his address
the state auditor invited his audience
to ask questions. Representative
Bryans then arose and launched into
q political speech, denouncing ko'
! sitsky and declaring that he was mis-
leading the people, With q very few
questions, Kositxky disclosed! the legis'
lator's ignorance Of the subjects with
which he sought to deal.
The state auditor had official copies
Of the various acts to which he !
| objecting and he read excerpts from
them. proving to the league farmer
that the Townley press and the or
| &4nI3olS WnOu1 1OWIloy A00 ooAA
among them have been deceivtnl
them as to .the true purport of thos'
laws. His questions to Bryans on tn
league tax laws revealed the fact tina
organs knew little Or nothing OF thet
content and their effect
II voted for the educational bill be
cause Prof. Ladd and Dr. --.
, And here organs paused. iN
'Dr. Mills" suggested Kosttzky
completing Bryans' sentence for him
IT understand they are cousins"
"How do you expectla man to ez
plain all Of these bills when we paase
more than 400 ;of them at the Lac
session ;" organs finally cried In des
peration. !.
might it not have been better t
pass fewer bills and to have know
what was in them" asked Kosttzk,
'"That is the objection we are raii
inR-that you men allowed yoursel
to be dictated to-; that you blindl
voted for bills that you knew abs
lutely nothing about. and bills. II tn
truth were known. that you are pc,
sonaily ashamed Of now"
Following the meeting the farmer
gathered in groups for discussions {
the state auditors revelations whic
continued until after midnight.