The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-03-21

for, and these warrants should be
drawn only on order of the state aud
iting board, afer it has satisfied it.
self that the claim is correct and just.
1 think it is not only unwise but posi-
lively criminal to place at the dispos-
al of any set Of men, care not how
high-principled they may be a fund
of $17 1000, 900 to be expended without
an accounting to anyone. The people
have a right to know that their mon
ey. is being expended wisely. In view
of recent developments in connection
with privately promoted banks and
other utilities, I feel that we have a
double reason to insist upon proper
accounting of every penny received
and expended by these state enter
prises."
One.Man Legislation.
II regard both the newspaper bills
and the board of administration bill
as most vicious type of one-man
legislation" declared Mr.. Kositzky.
Neither, by any possible stretch of
the imagination, can be considered
league measures. No league member
nor legislator ever throught of either
scheme until it was presented in eau
Gus here. Each of these bills was con-
nd 0pI, NV
man for his own Individual benefit.
! am ashamed to think that a league
legislative body should hvae been mis-
used in so shameful a manner and
that there should now be made an at
tempt to impose upon the leaguers a
belief that this; is legislation enacted
lin their interest. i
Board Of Administration Bill:
"The board of administration jum-
| bles into one heap administrative du-
ties of a radically different nature,
each requiring highly technical ex-
perience in. 2 certain field. I do not
believe any three men can be found
who can satisfactorily manage the
penal and charitable institutions, the
common schools and the universities
and colleges all through one board. I
do not believe that this was ever in
tended that the state superintendent
an official eleced by the people,
should be made subordinate to any ap-
pointive board whose personnel may
be change over night and which can
undo in one day all that the superin-
. tendent Of public instruction has ac-.
complished Though months of efforts.
| II believe I am acting as good
Lacquer, true to my trust in the high
est sense, when 1 combat these bills
| that can only serve to disrupt the
league and bring about dissension,
distrust and disgrace if they are per-
mitted to become operative. I be-
!: Heye these one-man measures will in
terfere with the successful carrying
out Of the league program, in whose
sucsess all of us are interested, and
toward which even these once most
bitter in opposition now are showing
at least a tolerant attitude.
The seIf.seekers.
1T is inevitable that any movement
when it has attained such a success
as the Nonpartisan league has shall
attract to itself horde of selfseek-
ers, men not in sympathy with the
movement, but who see in it an oppor-
! tunity to enrich themselves. We have
such men attached to the league to-
day, and unless we shake them off at
once, unless we drum them out of
camp, thessday is not far distant when
we will have cause to regret it."
- uu.American Says LANCER
SIT t do not look upon either the edu-.
cational bill or the printing bills as!
being part Of the league program"
says Attorney General lillian. Lam
ger. Siss..B 9TH measures are und emo
cratic and un-Americ ican, and the peo-
pie should not approve Of them II
they have an portunity to svote on
the them, n ttht proposea I referendum I,
election: 1s35.s !,
I'm the last election campaign the
educational bill was not at any time
an issue, and the changes that are
sought to be made IN II have never
been considered BY the people g the
state.
AS. to the printing bills, the same
condit ition holds true They are no
part Or parcel u. the league program