The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-05

| 300 of the faithful. The mill and ele-
vat0r association should accommodate
as many more. Then there will be a
far.reaching organization of petty
job.holders in the state home build
! ing association, and anothelbregiment
in the farm loan operations of the
| Bank of North Dakota.
These missionaries of the new era
| trivial bonded Indebtedness of ST.
| 100000. In fact, Q majority of those
for whom the best plums are reserved
are not taxpayers in North Dakota
and will have to contribute nothing
to the pot from which they draw their
fancy stipends. Neither will they
| worry over an increase of $5,000,O0O
to $1O,000,000 per annum in the gen
eral and special tax levy, for this levy
will not touch them.
They Should Worry.
They will leave the worrying to
home-owners and wage-earners, to the
farmers and the businessmen and the
| bankers. Through its gross earnings
tax, its income tax, its excess profits
tax, it's Inheritance tax, its l0U per
per cent tax on lands under cultiva-
| ton, and through; its special schedule
OF taxes on monographs and records,
piano rolls, baseballs, golf balls. read
ing matter, tennis balls, baseball bats,
toDaccOs, cigars, soft drinks, theatre.
| tickets and amusements OF all kinds,
through it's taxes ON commercial
travellers bills of sale and upon every
! thing and anything which goes to
| tighten the strain OF everyday life,
the league will draw its resources
from the people who are permanently
located in North Dakota. who have
acquired farms or city homes here.
and who have endeavored to improve
their. holdings and to develop the
state. - -
An average tax of $50 per capita, or
$3.50 for the normal family of five
vii represent the cost to the 100000
! people of North Dakota of mainta ming
in easy circumstances some 200 or
200 league organizers. agitators and
managers. Everyone will pay his or
her proportion, from the girl toiling
all day long over steaming laundry
tubs for a bare existance to the pres:
Derous farmer with his income Of So
600 to $4,000 per annum. And with
the tithes which they pay into, the
Golfers Of the TOwnley machine. the
Nonpartisan oligarchy will weld tight
er about the state the bands with
which North Da!;cta IS now encircled.
Governor L. J. Frazier and A. G.,
Townley appeared before the secret
caucus Tuesday evening and urged
legislators to speed up on the, league
program 81, " ..,
thine is passing rapidly Cover
nor Frazier declared, land but few Of
our important measures have been
PASSED. 1t is time to put through
those bills. The people sent you here
for the purpose ofN carrying out the
program We should forget these
many minor bills and get our import
ant league measures ont OF the way.
I'VE have record to make, and
you men have the chance OF making
the greatest record Of apy legisla-
ture in the United States If you will.
finish these important measures and
get through by the time the 60 days
|isfup,5if5;aiji;E5f::.iai.tA13.;;,7tE5fjli;if,
NJ think III very likely a specialf
session will be Called and you should
save enough on the regular session to
pay the expenses OF the special se'-
sion.
4 hope each and every one Of you
wilT cooperate to make thisS possible.
and you can II you will remember the
big things you were sent here to 40
and put them across" Y
an t. ha
problem Yin the world, said Presid lent
Townley. ut always has been sers
ious matter to get men together to
devise laws for the greatest good OF
the greatest number. But now, here
in North Dakota, we have an oppOr-'
tunity to show the people Of North
Dakota, Of the United States, of the
whole world, that the great mass Of
voters can and will select men who
can make intelligent laws for the
benefit OF the majority Of the people.
Sometimes wonder if the hoops
vii hold. Your success depends up
on how big you are, how far you car
see. how much you can forget and
forgive of the little jealousies and
differences that heretofore always
have held the people apart.
~ want to- join with Governor
Frazier in cautioning you against too
many little bills. 1t is in these meas
ures that the differences lie. Kill the
six big league program bills and
you could remain here for 60 days
and pass go bills a day and you would
be remembered only as the biggest
bunch Of fools who ever got under one
roof in the history of the world. But
if you forget, all the other bills and
pass those six league measures this
North Dakota legislature will be
known for 500 years as the greatest
gathering of men since the revolution
AIRY war"
II you want the family to be healthy
and active, give them HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea this month. 1t
regulates the bowels. helps the appe-
tite, puts life and energy in the. whole
family. 35c. Tea or Tablets. J. Bres-