The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-01-17
PROGRAM TO Be
IN OPERATION
PREDICTION MADE BY LEAGUE
ORGAN BELIEVED TO COME
FROM A. C. TOWNLEY
TO MANUFACTURES
AND DISTRIBUTE FARM PRO-
DUCTS HOME BUILDING

AAA>N AAo ASAD " T. AIM TnO-
DUCTS HOME BUILDING
Within thirty days the Nonpartisan
league, a farmers organization which
completely controls every branch of
government in North Dakota, the ex-
ecutive administration, judicial and
Legislative, will have under way in
this state more radical experiment
IN pure democracy than ever has been
attempted by any other American
commonwealth.
This statement is made, it is beliey-
ed, on authority of Arthur C. Town
ley, president of the National Nom
partisan league, and it has been pub
lshed in the leagues official organs.
less than three years ago Townley
walked out to F. B. Woods ranch.
'ear the little town of Deering, a pen-
'iless bankrupt, walking through the
liter cold and the snow of mid-wfn-
er because he could not afford to
lde. Today he is the chief execu-
tive and the absolute master of the
most powerful farmers organization
III the history of America, an organiza-
ton with 100000 members, and with
apnual revenues in excess of $4,000
600.
What The Program Is.
The program which the Nonpartisan
league intends to place in effect in
North Dakota within the next thirty
days-and thereis no power in Ameri-.
ca short Of hte supreme court of the
United States which can halt the
league, was outlined in the second in
augural message of Governor Lynn ].
Frazier.
1t includes:
A state industrial commission to
comprise the governor, the attorney
general and the commissioner of agri-
culture and labor, which will finance,
establish and operate all of the many
industries, utilities and
for which the leagues
public ownership amendment to the
Worth Dakota constitution paves the
way. A bill creating such commits
ion and giving it almost unlimited
lowers, carrying an emergency
lause which will make the act effec-
i've from the date of its passage, and
roviding an appropriation of $4,000, 900
lrp96v he ho1
eading in the house.
Band of North Dakota, which is
be central reserve agent for all
late banks, the sole repository of all
ublic funds of the state, its counties.
'wnships and municipalities, and
hose $2,O00,O00 capital is to be pro-
lded through the sale If state bonds
his bank will be under the control
the state industrial commission. It's
rlnclpal office must be in North Da-
cta, but the Industrial commission
ay establish branches elsewhere AZ
sees tit, and the bank may deposit
surplus wherever it chooses. The
ank OF North Dakota reserves to
self all the powers Of any ordinary
lstlttution of this kind, and it also
9comes fiscal agent for the state and
i OF the many state-owned utilities,
lterprises and industries which the
ague program contemplates. 1t has
IL privilege Of fixing its own rates
interest, and it may loan money to
le site or to any civil division there
:; to any state-owned enterprise, or
the farmers of the state, on first
ortgage security
The North Dakota Mill and Elevator
;sociation, provided for in a. bill en-
'rsed by the league causus and in
oduced in the house today, declar-
6 the purpose OF. the state to en-
ge in the manufacturing and distri-
tion of farm products of every de-
ription, and for this purpose es-
blishing a system of warehouses,
rminal elevators and factories, to be
ntrolled and operated by the as
citation, which in turn will be man.
ed by the state industrial cimmis-
n.
NJ, >.~.$
The Home Building Association of
rth Dakota, endorsed by the league
lcus and provided for, In a bill in j, d
duced in the house today, declaring &
, intention Of the state to engage s.s
the enterprise Of providing homes
residents of North Dakota. 3 \ ,5.I 4; e.y
rhe capital Of the North Dakota
! and Elevator association Is fixed
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