Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-06-26

Is conducted under. The most sensi-
BILE plan is to give plenary power to
officials and then hold them strictly
responsible.
Il called on Director General Cathro
and Manager Waters at the Bank of
North Dakota. am making study
Of the new laws. One thing I can
endorse about their organization is
that they are given full authority.
This should be satisfactory to the
opposition because If the League
fail, no one would be able to say they
failed because the managers lacked
free hand-just as free as any other
business man or banker. In business
a great many things can only be learn
ed by experience, and this undoubted-
~ is good reason for leaving the de-
tails Of the bank practice to be de-
veloped in the light Of experience"
Other Speakers Enthusiastic
DR.. w. ]. SULLIVAN, formerly head
Of the division Of Farm Management,
o. s. Department Of Agriculture, said
"The farmers of North Dakota are
putting their industrial program into
operation constructively and conserva-
lively. Everybody is looking at this
movement in this state. II you sue
coed, the idea born here will spread
to all parts Of the country. The farm
ers have always carried the long end
Of the log. The fellow who handled
his goods made more from them than
the farmer did. Some people think
that at present, the farmers are get
ting rich. This is wrong. They are,
with all this talk 'of the guaranteed
price being too high, not even getting
the cost Of production, to say nothing
Of making profit. They are not
even getting as much for their labor
as the workers in the city. Labor will!
retain its present prices, for it is
organized, while the farmers will not,
because most Of them are not or
ganized."
Milo D. Campbell, president of the
National Milk Producers Association,
said: IF I lived in North Dakota 1
would certainly be a member Of the
Nonpartisan League. You're moving
fast out here. You've got lot Of
fine laws. I have read, them and can
endorse them. What the League is
doing here is just what the farmers
everywhere want. The League, al
though 1t has SO far only entered
thirteen states, has lightened the task
Of every farmer in every state. Down
in Washington when any farm ques-
ton comes up, they ask one another:
What will the Nonpartisan farmers
think Of this2' The politicians know
that unless they give the farmers
what they want, they will organize
and put men in Office who will be
Nonpartisans."
Mr.. Campbell was for several years
Insurance Commissioner of the State
Of Michigan and was particularly en-
thusiastic labout the new insurance
laws Of North Dakota. zone Of the
big trusts Is the insurance trust, an
$500, 000.O 900 concern. They are not
only taking in as premiums TWICE
what they pay back, but are in many
ways danger. Fire insurance COM
panies should be supplanted by public
insurance funds. / am glad to see
North Dakota has made beginning
by establishing state system Of in
surance Of all public buildings against
fire. Under state system 80 per cent
Of the premium, would no longer go
to agents. Instead Of. ten solicitors in
a city. there would be only one man,
| the states agent. And he would not
insure any property at = figure higher
than its value.", ,i33i .S @ fsl4s ave-
Other speakers 4 Of nationwide
prominence, who, spoke fayorably Of
farmers organizations as a means ia
accomplish their own protection, were:
John A. McSparran, Master Of the
Pennsylvania State Grange; Chas. s.
Barrett, National President Of the
Farmers Union A.s "A. Gilmore, Presi.
dent Of the Farmers Union 81 the
State Of Washington.