Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-27
WHEY Writes Her Views
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Editor of the Willmar Tribune:
Thru the courtesy of a friend we
were given a copy of book entitled,
"The Leaders of the Non-Partisan1
League" wherein Senator Sageng and
two other men have addressed arti-
cles to the public.
Now, when l saw the name Sag
eng" my thots turned back to the
years when one could buy a share
in the "Sageng Threshing Machine
Co." at 500 and it appeared good as
the inventor had been offered $1,000
900 for the patent according to some
ones story. Well those that purch-
ased shares received the experience
at any rate.
We also noticed in the records of
the 1919 Legislature that Sageng vo-
ted for the repeal of the Primary
Law tho he voted for it in 1911. There
fore l believe that Sageng, as the
people who live in glass houses,
should not throw stones.
When Mr. Sageng spoke to the far
mers in Willmar he mentioned the
North Dakota taxes. Fortunately l
have some knowledge of North Dako-
| ia as two of my sisters reside there.
One of them sent me her tax receipts
| for 1919 payments on taxes covering
| 200 acres of land. Her taxes were
$93.13 and of this the state gets $13.18.
| They have built new school house
and have been employing two teach
ers. This year they will add two
more instructors. Her personal taxes
are $50 of which the state takes 81
| cents.
Here in Minnesota however we paid
in the year 1919 $127.23 on 100 acres
and of this 80 cents is ditch tax
| We employ only one teacher but we
built a new school house some years
| ago and ran into debt upon which
payments are still being made Our
personal property tax was $28.84 for
1919 bringing our tax up to $15607.
In 1912 our taxes were $56O6 on 100
acres and of this $1622 was a tax on
bitches. In view of these facts l be-
! lieve Minnesota is in need of new men
in the State Legislature if we are not
to be further oppressed by the high
taxes. In North Dakota they have
something to show for their taxes
They have created state Industrial
Commission to carry on business for
the state, provided for state-owned
elevators and -four mills, working
mans Compensation Law, state hail
insurance, taxing idle land or land
held for speculation as high cas- i'm
proved lands. They have also estab
lished plan by which city workers
and tenant farmers can buy homes at
low cost and on easy payments
The North Dakota farmer gets paid
for the dockage on his grain and the
elevator company which refuses to
pay for thef dockage will be denied a
license to carry on business. In case
of necessity the State has the power
to step in and operate the elevators
and pay fair rental to the owners of
the elevators. So you see that the
"rubes" or the farmers l should say,
enacted laws with teeth in them.
How many remember the beer cas-
es we were accustomed to see on the
depot in Willmar after Kandiyohi
County had voted to be dry? It was
unlawful to ship booze into dry ter.
ritory but there was no fine or pun.
ishment prescribed for it.
Now about Volstead and his being
f the only man from the Seventh Dis
, trict or the country at large who can
fill his place in Congress for the drys
: oOuAuo oAAAy " AAC dS lSu01AU0I IL
4 the campaign of 1918 when we sup
ported E. E. Lobeck for Congress from
Y the Seventh District, we received 6
t paper from the wet element urging
us to work and vote for Vo;stead a.
t E. b. Lobeck was ''dry.''
I am not afraid of being called :
d Socialist or Bolshevik or any othe1
t. similar name which the opposition
l. hurl against us. I remember we'll thu
fight in 1891 when the members O
j. the Populist Party were called So
e clalists, Anarchists, etc., and if thu
Populists came into power in thi.
t country everything would go to racl
d and ruin. One even said that the PEG
T. pie of North Dakota would not ge
coal hauled there by the railroads.
h Some OF the things which thew ad
e vocated then and which appeared s.
i fearful have now become laws sucl
as the Parcels Post, Postal Saving,
Bank, Federal Income Tax, POPULAR
Election of Senator's Well as I an
a woman I have more to say but viii
conclude for this time, Now. Ladies'
let us go out the Second of November
and vote for the men who stand fo,
the rights of the common people. La
l. dies, let us try to get column in the
Willmar Tribune in which we cal
a discuss publicly these political issues
Just A Hayseed's Wife.