The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-09-13

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session last winter to provide bonus
Of $25 per month for returned SOL
diers. Packard is one of those selfish
renegades who begrudge reimbursin9
soldiers who worked for pittance
while they were risking their lives
fighting for world democracy, while
he, and others of his ilk were drawing
fat salaries in addition to what some
of them borrowed from corporations
using their official positions to make
their credit good.
Need No Defense
The farmers of North Dakota plead
guilty to voting a bonus Of $25 to
each returned soldier for every month
he. spent in 4tha~ ~serXice. but they also
attached a provision that the money
must be used to buy or improve q
farm or home, or used to secure an
education.
What fault has Mr.. Packard to find
with that?
The Nonpartisan League offers no
apology for doing this much to show
appreciation to returned soldiers, and,
in a measure, reimbursing them for
the money lost while others at home
were drawing good salaries, and while
proflteers were increasing their bank
roll.
Just A Falsehood
When Frank Packard said that
he lied, knew he lied, and lied ma.
liciously. When he said that the
average tax on 100 acres of land
had been raised from $24 in 1918
to $50 in 1919 he told falsehood
that puts Ananias completely out
of the running as champion liar.
Includes Insurance Money.
....As member of the State Tax COM
mission for several years, Packard
could not make such statements with
out wilfully distorting the truth. For
instance he includes the assessments
the farmers will pay for state hail
insurance at cost.
It would be just as legitimate
to include what the farmer pays
for pew rent and blame that to
the Nonpartisan as well.
Without The Truth.
Packard DID NOT make any refer
ence to the fact that state hail insur-
ance cost the farmers Of North Dako-
ia about one third what they have
been paying to old line companies.
HE DID NOT tell his Montana au-
diences that since the State flour
mill started operations at Drake,
Pillsbury flour dropped 81 per barrel
to consumers there.
HE DID NOT tell the truth
and inform his audiences that in
stead of c0nfiscating farms the
ing people money at 6 per cent ON
On On tSp~~n ks,Uy En~vnc
with, or to improve farms they
owned.
HE DID NOT tell the Montana peo-
pie that the State of North Dakota
loaned working people money to build
homes with on the amortization plan
and that it cost the people less to live
in modern comfortable homes Of their
own that they have been paying out in
rent.
Protection and Compensation
He DID NOT tell the farmers he
talked to in Montana that the League
legislature forced grain buyers to pay
for dockage at whatever rate the
dockage was worth as feed.
He DID NOT tell the Montana min
ers that this same legislature which
he criticized passed the best mine in
spection and mine regulation laws to
be found in any state in the Union.
He DID NOT tell the laboring peo-
pie of Montana that this same League
legislature passed the best compensa-
tion law to be found on the statute
books Of any state in the Union, and
passed it gladly and willingly with
out one cent of expense to organized
labor.
Not Here To Tell Truth.
Oh, No, Packard was not brought
to Montana to tell the truth-undel
the wing of Will Campbell who acted
as his press agent.
And if the truth were known. il
would be a 40 to bet that the Mon.
tana Power Co.. which paid the hotel
bills of the members of the Montans
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