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The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-02-15

Farmers and Other Workers of America

Freight rates have been unequal
and unfair. To this day it costs as
much and often more to ship our own
products from one railway station to
another in our own state than to ship
the same products an equal distance
from any point within the state to
any point outside of it. And worse
yet, the rate for 10000 pounds of
fresh meat for 100 miles from one
point to another in Minnesota is
$34.20, but in North Dakota it is
$4,000, while all merchandise rates
are from 20 to so per cent higher in
North Dakota on the same lines OF
railway than in Minnesota. In the
incoming of supplies there is not
one single point in all North Dakota
which has or can obtain a through
rate from any center Of production
anywhere in the world.
Storage, the packing plants, the
stockyards, the elevators and flour
mills have all been in possession and
control of those not interested in the
welfare of our state and always in a
position to compel terms of trade
most unjust to us.
by the private possession ana cOH-
troll of those not interested in the well
fare of our state and always in a po-
sition to compel terms of trade most
unjust to us.
By the private possession and con-
troll of the natural resources, of the
means of transportation and storage,
of the big-scale manufacturers Of
farm products, and of the banks, it
has always been possible and still is
possible to take from the producers
Of this state the lions share Of the
value of their products.
It is because these things have been
done until they have become utterly
uncomfortable that the Nonpartisan
league came into existence. It is to
deal with this situation that we have
been elected to the legislative assem-
bly,.
We are undertaking this task, real
ring that Every obstruction will be
put in our way-that the same tactics
of Misrepresentation, Of the threat
ened boycott, Of the abuse Of the
The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-02-15
The Hundred and Sixteen Nonparsan League Members
or NORTh'DAkO-

courts, interference from other states
and of resort to national authori-
ties to attempt to make impossible the
successful doing of our task-all
these will be resorted to now as in
the past. 1t is for this reason that we
join in this brief, frank statement to
the farmers and to the other workers
of America.
HERE IS OUR PROGRAM.
Unjust Taxation.
We propose to exempt from need
less taxation, farm improvements, all
which are made and used by the peo-
pie who are on the land, and to put
the burden of the farmers taxes on
ground values entirely apart from i'm
provements.
In counties where it has been pos
sible to secure exact information
from forty to sixty-one per cent of
the land is owned by non-residents.
whole state, it will be assuming less
than the, whole of the unfortunate
truth, but if this is to be taken as
correct, then four acres out Of every
ten in the state are owned by nom
residents, and these acres are very
largely without improvements. We
have grown tired Of taxing our own
improvements in order to lessen the
burdens of the nonresident land own
ers of North Dakota, while by our
presence and our industries, we alone
make valuable these lands. We pro-
pose that these burdens, which are so
justly theirs, shall be taken off our
shoulders and hereafter be borne more
largely by themselves.
Credits at Cost.
We propose that the farmers and
working people generally, both in
town and country, shall be able to Sc
cure long time credits for home
building and for farm improvements
at reasonable rates through the use
of state agencies for that purpose.
The Federal Farm Loan Bank Of st.
Paul is now carrying twelve million
dollars of farm loans in North Dako-
ia, and the president of that bank
states that, Notwithstanding the crop
The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-02-15

Three years have passed since the
beginning Of our organization. In
this time, the Nonpartisan league has
obtained control Of the government
of North Dakota in all its depart
ments. 1t has made substantial be-
ginning in twelve other states.
The Leagues majority Of more
than two to one in both branches OF
the legislature in this state now
makes the League responsible for
legislation for the first time.
As League members of this body
it has occurred to US that statement
of the task before us and Of our ap-
probation of our responsibility for
legislation 'ght reasonably be made
to the farmers and to all other work
ers in our country.
This is especially true of the far
mers who are members Of our League
in this and other states, and above all,
to the League members of the legis-
latures in other states.
What Made the League.
All the years since the settlement
of North Dakota, the farmers of this
state have been the victims Of great
economic wrongs.
A very large share OF our natural
resources was given away to great
private interests before the state was
organized.
TRANSPORTATION has been in the
hands Of great private interests with
Duluth, Minneapolis and st. Paul as
the only outlets for our products and
the only gateways for our supplies.
AS result, the people Of this state
have always been dependent for their
existence on industries, banks, mar
kets, storage and transportation IA
cilities either existing altogether out
side of the state or controlled by
great private interests outside of the
state.
As a necessary result Of this sit
uation, interest rates have been and
still are such that of every two dol
lars paid in interest by the farmers,
only one dollar goes to the persons
who actually furnish the money, and
the other dollar goes to mortgage
sharks or is absorbed by vicious
system of privately owned banks.
The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-02-15

NJ. Anderson had been secretary of
state, w. c. Rae had been state
treasurer, and D. M. Kelly and ]. B.
Poindexter, had been attorneys gen.
eral, and Davee had been superinten-
dent of public instruction. While they
constituted the state land board, with
Governor Stewart, all was serene for
the invisible government. They had
refused to obey the mandates Of the
legislature as to the provisions Of
either the Brewer Farm Loan Law or
the Whiteside Law. They had refus-
ed to recognize even the Farm Loan
Law initiated and passed by the peo-
pie themselves. They poured sand
in the bearings of the state eovern-
ment machine, and damaged the gear
! ing here and there. Some Of them in
cluding the governor, the secretary
of state and the state treasurer had
engineered and put across that infam-
GUS swindle, the Northwestern Trus-
tee Company, where some 100000
were fraudulently worked out Of the
pockets Of needy farmers in Montana.
And the people Of Montana at the
general election repudiated the whole
gang except Stewart, who by the use
OF one Of the crookedest political deals
bot by the polls.
Ford became attorney general, s.
c. Stewart, secretary of state, Hart
state treasurer, and May Trumper,
superintendent Of public instruction.
So the Republican leaders in the sem
ate and house, lifting up their eyes,
saw the possible chance of a SQUARE
deal for the law and the people in the
State Lar Board, and joining hands
with the equally corrupt Democratic
leaders, passed some legislation TAX
ing the constitutional rights awav
from the State Land Board and vest
ing those usurped rights exclusively in
Governor Stewart, who has been per.
mltted to exercise them ever since.
Three bills by Ronald Higgins, re-
storing its constitutional powers to
the State Land Board were up in the
house and passed that body. True to
his character, D. M. Kelly-the menu
ber from Butte, who was not elected,
but holds his seat, because the up-
right members Of the house refuse to
even look at the protests against the
fraud, put up by the good people Of
Butte, with showing Of over 1900
separate and distinct crimes against
the ballot, the evidence Of which was
gathered with painstaking care by the
good women Of Butte-howled long
and loud against restoring the consti-
tuition and taking the control of the
department out Of the governors
hands.
And that reminds me. Have you
written to the members of house de-
manding that the house purge itself
of the criminal element, b. NJ. Kelly
and others, now holding seats and
raising their voices in that house.
while no heed is paid to the cry from
Butte that the purity of the ballot
shall be maintained?
Is the political trust so campletly
intrenched that honest and law res
pecting men in the house are COM
PEELED to sit in the same atmosphere
that is made fetid by the presence Of
such men as D. M. Kelly? Are you
doing your duty? Are you redeeming
the promise to send in demands and
protests to your members, promised
by you and your representatives at
the C-operators Congress?
The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-02-15

Sidney Sanner, democrat, was
elected justice Of the supreme court
by handsome majority, and served
his term with dignity and distinction
The fact that his party refused him
the nomination for another term has
been something Of mystery to me.
secuted aroung amongst the resi-
dents of Helena to learn why the
democrats had turned from Sanner a
man of brains and integrity to new
man unknown in the state, except in
his little home town.
My first inquiry was Of a woman
prominent in social and political cir
cles. She answered, why "Sanner was
in favor of the I. w. WIS or the Nom
partisans, or something like that. I"
just something? See?
Finally ran it home, he had writ
ten the opinion holding that the law
providing for the loaning Of perman-
ent state fund on farm mortgage at
per cent instead Of to certain favor
ed banks at 2 1-2 per cent without Sc
curity, and adopted by the people at a
general election, was NOT unconsti-
tutional. This hurt the feelings Of
Governor Stewart who with his attor-
Eey generals, D. NJ. Kelly and Poin-
dexter had decided that they would
not permit the law to go into opera
tion.
The "political trust" of which Gov
ernor Stewart is the local agent
spread around the poison, and turn.
ed enough votes to deprive Sanner OF
the nomination, and he was "made to
walk the plank" A man named
place, but the Nonpartisan league, en-
dorsed Cooper who was nominated by
the regular republican machine" as
an easy victim for Matthews, and the
only result of these efforts of the po-
litical trust was to put Cooper, hon
est and fearless in the place of San
ner, honest and fearless.
A Nauseating Perfume.
Newman of Great Falls has intro.
duced bill for the creation of "THE
MONTANA RESERVE GUARDS"
The bill provides for the creation
of a new office, Marshal, who will
be it's chief officer, subject only to the
orders of the governor, and a salary
of $4,000 year is provided for him
He is authorized to recruit companies
of from 25 to $50 men in cities hav.
ing a population of not less than
5000.
The bill says to all country districts
and all towns having population OF
4,999 or less Ego away back and sit
down-you are not to be in or of this
Montana Reserve Guard You are
not wanted, this is not to be of you,
but for YOU" The guard "recruited''
by the marshal will take care of you
as we'll as of protesting labor.
The guards will have power to make
arrests "with or without warrant!''
All jailors in Montana are to be re-
quired by the provisions of the law
to receive and keep any prisoner ar
rested by any member Of the guard.
In the event state of martial law
is declared in any county, Flathead,
for instance, the guard shall have full
and absolute power, subject only to
the orders of the governor.
The bill naively declares that its
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
The Evils of Superstition

A news dispatch from Dayton tells how man,
respondent over revelation" by band of for
tune teers, shot himself in the head and inflicted
probably fatal wounds. Fortune tellers and
clairvoyants are humbugs and frauds and their
alleged insight into the future is piffle of the
rankest sort Why rational beings should place
any confidence in the revelations of these men
and women goes beyond comprehension, but the
sad fact remains that superstitious streak IN
most of us compels us to seek out the fortune
tellers in the vain hope of having the future re-
vealed.
If the slightest credence could be placed in the
revelations of fortune tellers every business man
in the world would have one of these persons in
his office and would willingly pay thousands of
dollars for the service.
The baneful effects of fortune telling reach
their superative degree when men and women
commit rash deeds as result of their "revela-
tons" The happiness of untold thousands has
been ruined by the trashy and ambiguous replies
of fortune tellers.
The future is a closed book, and it is well that
it is so. The brave man does not fear the future
but is willing to trust himself to whatever fate
has in store for him. Only weakling tries te
anticipate the problems of tomorrow You car
put it down as truth that only towards visit
fortune teers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
Dr.. Light Will Speak At
Indianapolis VI. E. Session

The annual convention of the In
dianapolis district of the Methodist
Episcopal church convened in the
East Tenth street M. E. church in
Indianapolis this afternoon, and will
continue Saturday and Sunday after.
noon, ending Sunday evening when
DR.. Somerville Light of this city will
present the principal address.
The Richmond district of the Ep,
worth League will meet in Winchester
this year, the president, Mrs. A. H
Backus announced today. The dates
are set for June II and Is, and the
president, A. w. Potter of Anderson
is scheduled for one of the principal
. addresses
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
When Did Settlers
Have Trouble With
Indian Tribes?

Well within the span of the lives of
two men, the last Indian troubles in
Wayne county occurred, in the years
of 1911 and 1873. Before this tine,
there was the usual suspicious, mimi
cal relation between the settler and
the original owner of the land, and
stockades were built to protect ho
earliest settlers. These stood for many
years after their usefulness was ov.r
Many acts of savage barbarity 9
recorded in the early days, but they
| were the sporadic outbreaks of tie
worst class of both Indians and whites.
Judge Hoover once remarked With
| grim humor that las usually the ase,
we Christians were the aggressos.'
A man named Jones returned h,me
to find an Indian, who had frightened
his wife half to death, piundering his
| house. He shot at the redskin, mo
escaped, bearing a severe wound. In
a few days a delegation of Indians
came to demand satisfaction Asthe
| Indian was the aggressor, the bDod
of the white man, which they demmd-
ed in return for that of the Indian,
was denied them, but a horse vas
bought, and they took it back, sails
fed.
In 1871, John Shortr1dge was shot "
an Indian who mistook him for cT-
tain Isiah Drury, and in 1913, Charts
Morgan and two other boys. his hat
brothers, were killed and sealped TIE
suspected Indians, four in number
| were traced toward Muncietown. ant
one was shot, but the remainder es
capped. This incident frightened the
settlers with the fear of a general up
rising, and for many days they kept
close to the stockades
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
The Indiana Sunday School Convention

The list of speakers and their topics announc-
ed by E. H. Hasemeier, president of the Indiana
Sunday School association shows that this aux
iliary of the church is cognizant of the changed
conditions that characterize the after-the-war
period. The forthcoming convention will devote
the greater part of its time according to the ad-
vance notice, to a discussion of the new church
program, and for that reason state leaders ask
for the presence of aggressive delegates who may
carry back to the Sunday schools of the state the
new standards that will be set up.
The Importance of the Sunday school as a re-
ligious-educational system cannot be denied
Thousands of children and adults are enrolled in
the Sunday schools of Wayne county. Sunday
after Sunday they attend sessions. If these Sun
day schools are rightly conducted and imbued
with militant spirit, they become powerful
force for good in the community. The morals OF
the children are established on sound ethical
basis and their minds are set to think Alright and
on true principles of conduct. Because the Sun.
day schools have such large enrollments, it is
members have before them fixed program Of
endeavor.
The announcement of the state leaders of the
militant purpose of the state convention shows
that not only are they aware of the Importance
of the Sunday school in our national life, but asc
of the new problems that have been presented t.
the church as whole by reason of the war. Ire
mendous influences for good that will radiate il
all directions will follow the convention.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16

81 have tried Pepgen and know from
experience that it is a splendid medi-
cine for nervous dyspepsia" says B.
S. Inman, well-known travelling sales
man who lives at 122 East Vermont
street, Indianapolis, 1T relieved me
after everything else | had tried failed
to do me any special good.
1T is due to stomach trouble that
my system became filled with uric
acid and affected my back. / had
rheumatic pains in my back and when
sat down in chair l could hardly
get up.
MY nerves were excitable in the ex-
IRENE and I couldn't sleep soundly. On
many occasions l have gotten cut of
bed at midnight and sat in chair for
the balance of the night
"Pepgen was recommended to me
by friend. I tried it and am delight
ed with the rsults. Since taking Pep
gen l have good appetite. Ny sys-
tenn has been cleared of uric acid and
l have no more rheumatic pains. My
nerves are as sound as can be, I do
not dread to see night approach be-
cause know I can go to bed and get
good nights rest
81 feel that I would be neglecting
my duty If / did not indorse Pepgen'
Get Pepgen at Thistlethwaite's drug
stores or from any other first class
drug store anywhere.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
ORCHESTRA TO GIVE CLOSING PROGRAM
OF SCHOOL MAY FESTIVAL TONIGHT

The Richmond high school orches.
ira will give the final concert of the
seventh annual May Festival series to-
night in the high school auditorium.
This program should be the best Of
the series as the members of the or
ehestra are many of them. experienced
musicians. They have been playing
orchestral compositions for two or
three years and the ensemble has
reached the point where it is able to
| give big compositions in an admirable
manner.
The numbers on the program are big
/ and difficult and yet are not SO high
brow" that they cannot be appreciated
by everyone.
Director Ralph C. Sloane has reduc-
ed the orchestra membership to those
who have had experience and those of
lesser ability and experience are put
into the Garfield orchestra SO that
when they are admitted to the high
school orchestra they have had expert
ence in orchestral work
/ Mr.. Sloane stated recently that he
even has hopes of having two orches-
tras in the high school in the near fu-
| ture.
Marius Fossenkemper, clarinetist
will play composition by Webster
in three movements. He will be &C.
companied by Miss Helen Hadley, well
known musician. formerly pianist for
the orchestra, now a student at Earl
ham college.
Miss Mary Jones, concert master OF
the orchestra will play a violin mum
Der. She will be accompanied by her
sister, Miss LaVerne Jones.
Orchestra Personnel.
| The personnel Of the orchestra is as
follows:
Knode, Margaret Wissler, Grace Bar
Howard Dietrich, Ralph Giles, Mary
Louise Bates, Virgil LaFuse, Malvern
Soper and Omar Munger
Second violins: Irene Jarra, Martha
Webb, Elmer Bescher, Roy Robbins
Charlotte Colvin, Katherine Carr, Iris
Cook, Elmer Martin, John Black anC
Emily Parker
Violas: Cecil Cureton and Alice
Smith
'Cellos: Mary Kathryn Gates, Vera
Blossom, Helen Roland and Hilda Far
mer.
Clarinets: Marius Fossenkem
Roland Cutter and Roland Hockett.
Flutes: Paul Blossom, Floyd Nus
baum, Hiestand Brown, Mark Ken
nedy and Thomas Shoemaker.
Horns: Vernon Spaulding, Pau
Heironfmus and Morris Minnick.
Comets: Howard Munger, Elme1
Hurrell, Robert Hornady and Rober
klute
Trombones: Harold Wore and Yves
Ter Seull.
Bassos: Claude Miller, John Jones
and William Emsley.
Drums: Harold Latta, Morris Dru
ley and Francis Robinson.
Piano: Mary Luring.
The program for the concert is a,
follows:
1. Selection, Naughty Marietta. -.
victor Herber
2. Ananto, Fifth Symphony 49,.
1SCnlEOWSk7
3. Violin, The Humming Bird. .Drdl;
Mary Jones
4. Dance Of the Hours ballet Musi
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16

growing 400 900 pounds of tobacco annually,
her wheat area this year exceeds 100000 acres
with an estimated yield of more than 100000
bushels.
All of which shows that the closing of the
saloons in the United States will not bring about
big loss to the people who were directly and in
directly connected with the liquor industry,
either as producers of the raw materials from
which liquor and beer were made, or the manu-
facture of the product and it's many accessories.
The soil which formerly was devoted to the pro-
duction of raw materials is now producing food
stuffs and other products, and the men who were
engaged in the industry have found no trouble in
obtaining work elsewhere. The data furnished
by the state of Kentucky is conclusive proof OF
the foregoing statement.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
Dinner Stories

Nowhere does patriotism flame high
er than in the southern mountains.
A Kentucky hillman left his sunny
patch and his moonshiny private still
and walked down into the lowlands
to bid farewell to his lanky son, who
had heard the call of his country and
had enlisted and now was bound for
oversee service
Son." quoth the old man, taking
the younger in his arms, 81 fit four
year agin the Union; but I'm recon
clled now; and I'm proud to see you
wearin' the uniform of the federal
government. You'll be saiiin' fur
turin parts soon; and when you git
there | want you to remember whut
you owe to yore flag and country.
And, son, eff you run into one of
them there Germans don't show him
no mercy. Shoot him down like he
was revenue officer!"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-16
The Future of Kentucky

The advent of national prohibition will not
cripple the prosperity of Kentucky, once nation
ally known as "a state of whisky, race horses and
tobacco But that belongs to the past. Today
Kentucky is taking her place by the side of the
other agricultural, mineral and industrial states
of the central west.
To offset her loss from the closing of many
distilleries, Kentucky is developing her mineral
resources The market value of her Oil in 1919,
according to State Geologist W. R. Jillson, should
exceed 100000 and her natural gas produe-
ton is valued at 100000 annually Besides