Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-02-26

M10068pOllS fSC0auO6E Oh NO1QUeECo,
the Twin City Rapid Transit Co., The.
Milling Combine nor the Booze Inter.
ests. S 80 & ~ .. /. 81 r. q. ... s1 ss%
How to head of the League program
Il q question that Ii giving the stand
pat leaders more grief and worry than
every thing else. Townley cannot be
bought, coaxed OF driven. Farmer
owned ably. edited papers that dare to
tell the truth are spring1ng up all over
the state; competent and fearless men
are on the Job rapidly learning the
ways Of legislation; vigilant CORES
pondents are keeping tab on indi-
Yfdual members and sporting the, lob.
byists: So no wonder some Of them
VIII want to raise the legislators sal.
aries and think of resigning.
"Good Roads" will be the slogan
Of all the anti-League shouters in the
next campaign. but can be satisfactor-
lily explained, that in order to have a
good road 1t must be first necessary
to put it in the constitution atian enor-
nous expense to the tax payers.
ii Fourteen banks have. recently gone
up the fume in Minnesota involving
and impereHing deposits OF more than
a million dollars: and yet bill is
pending in the, legislature making
derogatory remarks concerninga bank.
er criminal offense. So that If this
were a law now and one of the unfor-
tunate zdepositors In one of these
banks should express his honest opin.
ion of his banker, he would have to go
to jail instead of the real criminal
And this Is Justice" as viewed from
the standpoint of the reactionaries.
The big Minneapolis miuers are in
a peck of trouble because Prof A. D.
Wilson, the Government Food Admin.
istrator and head of the, Extension De
partment Of the State University stub
bornly refuses to certify to the: investi-
eating committee that the 800 90 per
ton jump in the price of mill feeds
is :justifiable. Prof. Wilson was look
ed upon in some quarters as the prob.
able candidate Of the League haters
for the next governor, but now he has
probably spilled the beans.
Mrs. John Wicklund Is here visiting
her husband, her friend, Mrs. Senator
Gandrud, Messrs. H S. Nelson and A.
G: Anderson, prominent farmers of
Kandiyohi Township were recent Wis.
ltors. Hon. John B. Bosch looked In
on Legislative proceedings several
days recently as the guest of Rep:
Wicklund. r.,
Messrs. c. A. Geer and. M. O. Kvam-
so of Colfax, leading farmers of that
locality came down with Victor e.
Lawson Saturday to see what the Leg
islatures1s doing and to watch the Lea
que members wrestle in debate with
the representatives of the special in
terests. =. 81
Sen. 4Gandrud, has introduced an
amendment to the State Constitution
to add these lines IN reference to tax
alton. "And> these may be exempted
from taxation, household goods, wear
ing apparel, agricultural. products in
the hands Of the producers, tools, i'm
Elements and machinery to such an
extent and In such a manner as the
Legislature may determine. Taxes may
be imposed on incomes, privileges and
occupations, Which taxes may be
graduated and progressive and the ex-
emption Of a reasonable amount of In
come may be provided for. and such
taxes may be in lieu of taxes on any
class or classes of personal property"
The present exemption Is repealed. It
is expected that the ,reactionaries will
fight this proposed amendment to a
finish.