The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-12-16

examined, ana the question as TO
where it was has never been answered.
But at the last election the state bank
law was referended and all the money
will again be returned to the local
banks from which it was removed.
The state-owned mill in Drake, N.
D., has proven one of the greatest ex-
penses to the state, and has been a
failure-operatcd at heavy loss.
Their hail insurance law has proven
a big joke, but rather an expensive
one to the farmers insured. talked
to more than 200 farmers this sum-
mer and fall who were hailed out, both
in 1919 and 1920, and have not yet re-
ceived one cent Of their insurance.
They have all received checks on the
state bank for their insurance, but
the officials of this bank declare there
is no money in the treasury. So they
have not been able to cash the checks,
and again the unanswered question
comes up, where is the states mon
ey?" In my work / found one man
who had received real honest-to-good-
ness cash for his hail insurance. This
man had paid $32.85 for hail tax in
the spring of 1919 and the Thursday
before our last election he received
1920 hail insurance. He was still
IS cents short after waiting a year
and a half for his insurance. Some
system!
One Of the leagues strongest talk
ing points, and that which has gained
many new members for it, is it's grain
dockage law. Now that law sounds
good to the farmers, but since it is
in effect, like all other league ideas,
it has proven a joke. You haul your
grain in and you can demand pay for
your dockage. Then you pay the ele-
vator man cents bushel for clean
ing it. If you have per cent or less
dockage you get nothing, whatever you
have above Z per cent you get paid
for, and grain that is over z per cent
dockage, you must admit, is pretty
dirty. So very little money is paid
for dockage.
I talked to a grain buyer who takes
care of an elevator just across the
river from a Minnesota elevator. He
said many people hauled their grain
right past his elevator to the one in
Minnesota because the grade was bet
ter, and they did not have to pay for
cleaning.
An article came out in the Courier
News, nonpartisan paper at Fargo,
stating that Minnesota farmers were
hauling their grain past the Romney
elevator in Minnesota to the Enloe,
N. D., elevator because they could re-
ceive money for dockagc there. l
drove out to Enloe, talked to the ele-
vator man in charge, and asked him
about it. He said:I was fortunate
enough to get in a carload of good
coal, and while that lasted I got Min
nesota grain because the Romney man
had no COAL" This grain buyer said
no grain had ever yet been brought
to him that was Z per cent bad and he
never had paid out one cent for dock
age. The Courier-News story evident
ly did not present the facts in the
case.
Speaking Of the high taxes, one can
say, "Well Mr.. Jones owns a quarter
in Minnesota and a quarter in North
Dakota, and his Minnesota quarter
has much higher taxes than his North
Dakota quarter" Perhaps his Min
nesota quarter is land worth $3.50 an
acre and is in a new school district,
or something Of that sort, and his Da-
kota land may be worth about $50 or
even less.
The only place you can properly