Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-06-11


cents and must not exceed SO cents, and pays $500
damage (maybe, sometme.); the old-line rate is rs
cents pays $1,000 damage, which is adjusted and
paid at once. The old line companies pay minimum
damage of five per cent but the state will nothing
unless damage is ten per cent.
The maximum state premium is SO cents If the
damage great that this does not produce enough
pay the losses then the damages paid only pro
rata.
If loss were sustained this month"; the state would
adjust the loss at once, after all losses
puted necessary to be extended in the taxes
certified to the county auditors in October and ex-
the tax rolls These taxes supposed to be
paid March 1, according to Judge Robinson As per
cent of North Dakota taxes are delinquent and if the
same next year, the taxes would not be
paid till the tax sale in 1921, and the
should be available by January February 1922
AS matter fact, the state issues its warrant for
hail losses in October these bear cent interest
but if any farmer to realize them, he must
stand a heavy discount.
If the owner prefers to carry his insurance in an
old line company or mutual company, he must make
application for withdrawal in writing duly sworn TO-
year, and if his farm is rented the tenant must
consent
We do not see that the remedy remedied in this
case but we do see nice bunch jobs created for
the poor but deserving the of the
landowner For ourselves, prefer the farmers
mutual companies which Minnesota has favored and
whose especially espoused by our same JAKE
Preus Republican candidate governor when he was
"They have established state mills and elevators"
Yes they have state mill at Drake and it less for
wheat charges for flour Except as hereafter
noted) than any other mill small factor it is
in controlling fair weight, grade, dockage and prices
may readily be gathered from the fact that the
mills of Minneapolis grind flour while the noon
whistles blowing any day in the year than the
Drake mill grinds in six months. The Drake mill did
sell -four cheaper cities than it does to the
farmers paid for the MILL and it did this for
socialist propaganda those Eastern cities. The
mill pays 1t loaned 100000 without in
terest recent official statement showed that 1t has
$50 in overdraft of $1,934-a truly char
acerisc bit Townley nancering. There is no state
elevator.
So the mill remedy has not remeded. The Townley-
ties call the Drake mill experimental milf and
allege that great things will be done when the new
S. 900 900 mill is put into operation The experiment
does not justify any such faith.
Again that for North Dakota, Minnesota
any other state to embark in remedial competlt1on
as corrective is not socialism 1t IS true thaC
such attempts have generally been successful and
this leads the conservatvely minded to doubt their
value but contain inherent danger to the
state and nation. 1t is when the whole movement Is
controlled directed radical socialists of the Town
lev Lesueur Mills type and used cloak for COM
munisc and Bolshevistc activities that those things
become a menace. Probably would not have discov-
cred this quickly had not the Non-Partsan leaders
taken their cue the soyal Socialists in determ1n
ing their war-attitude had not Townley tried to put
across agreement with the W. W., had not the
Socialist New York endorsed them, had not Town
ley focks of radical Socialists as ADVISERS and
organizers had attempt been made to control the
schools and introduce propaganda in the text books had
not the free love introduced into the travel
ing libraries, and had not the institution OF marriage
been attacked by the passage of the law legtmatzn
children of lawful wedock. 1t was these things
that put us on guard to scrutnize the so-caled
economic program" closely and to find there in
stead of remedial competition" ample evidence of the
old Socialist ambition wipe out the private ownership
of land in the shifting the greater burden of taxa
ton to the farmer in the unjust hail insurance tax
and in the "farm-buyng" act which is really farm
taking" act.
And there has been graft coercion, false swearing
and all manner dishonesty, and bossism violation of
the secret ballot and all manner of rotten politics, but
all that is another story.
The farmer has his problems, and will have them a
thousand years from now, just all of us have our
problems (ours is IA print paper just now but
have said that the to the farmers marketing
problem is in Cooperation" and old Minnesota leads
the nation in the favorable laws gives the farmers for
this purpose, Minnesota member of congress, Con-
gresham vostead is fighting thru congress ma
tiona laws this subject. Why then, should the
telligent farmers of Minnesota turn the
bunch of radical socialists for socialist exploitation be-
the millennium coming quite so rapidly as we
desire?
And it is the opinion of The Tribune that when the
will not get it's principal support among the farmers
but among the radical labor vote in the cities