Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-03-11

1913. l give a summary OF his state
ment:
County Taxes 1918 Taxes 1919
La Moure ISIS, ,366, 500. .$35, ,26s, ,612
Grant $1,000. 6,OS9,Os8 22,27s; ;994
MCLEAN ..... 7,4s5,s5e 26,252, 1893
In other counties he gives concrete
cases, as for example in Mercer Coun-
ty:
Taxes Taxes Hail
Farmers name 1918 1919 Tax
Thos. Fegenskau $254.44 $627.73 $13.
Geo. S. Davies 1924 1875 7.2o
And others the same way. 1nstanc-
es of increase of 200 and 300 per cent
in taxes on the same property can be
found in every county in the state.
The most remarkable benefit that
was brought by the Nonpartisan clique
in power is letter of the governor,
which instructs all state banks to re-
fuse to show their books to any depu-
ty bank examiner unless they have
first been notified by the State Bank
examiner of their coming. There is
a little story connected with the order.
When the State Bank Examiner was
down in Florida, one of his deputies,
at the order of the state Bank Board,
consisting of the governor and two
TRAITORS" the Secretary of State and
the Attorney General, or rather at the
order of the latter two, examined the
Scandinavian-American Bank of Far
go, the principal Nonpartisan League
bank. There they found that said
bank, which legally could loan only
$4,000 to any person or corporation,
had loaned $4,000 to the Townley
stores; $1e8,000 to the Nonpartisan
League; $66,182 to the Nonpartisan
League Exchange; $47,95O to the Non
partisan Service Bureau. They also
found that NOR ethan $3.50, 900 of state
money was deposited in said bank,
and they found an humble letter of
the president Of said bank which ask.
ed Townley, who is not even a resi-
dent of the state, for another $780,
900 states money to be deposited
there.
General Conclusions
1. The dominant leaders of the Non
partisan League in the State of North
Dakota are adventurers, seeking their
own personal advancement according
to practices we'll known in circles of
"high finance"
2. They succeeded because they ap-
pealed to some Of the very best traits
of the human mind. They offered or
ganization Of the middle class, COM
munity stores, etc. Such organiza-
tion under conscientious leaders will
always be highly beneficial.
8. They have given abundant proof
that every reformer who has not the
fear Of God in his heart and does not
first reform himself, is most danger.
GUS man. Such men, coming from the
lower classes, are always more grab
bing, more heartless, more .yrannical
than the heartless capitalists of great
wealth. They can risk everything.
for they have nothing to lose; no mon
ey, for they have none except what
they tax away from the people; no
honor, for they never had any; no
conscience, for they Dragged always
about their atheism.
Shall our country and other civil
ized nations, go on in this mad career.
by which the people at large are, and
become more and more, the slaves Of
unscrupulous robbers who CAN them
selves by some, euphemistic name
patriots, promoters Of industry, etc.?
Or shall we go back to Christian prin-
ciples and the Ten Commandments Of
God? A nation which rejects these
sooner or later loses all liberty and
returnes to savagery, even if it pre-
serves some exterior veneer of civil
ization.
Since the above was written, in Nov.
ember; 1919, there has been an extra
Legislative assembly where the radical
and autocratic tendencies have been
shown mora than ever before. But
quite number Of legislators elected
on the Nonpartisan ticket have proved
their independence, SO that strictly
lparty measures could not secure two
thirds majority. Several of the bills
passed were merely punitive measures
against those officials who do not obey
the party leaders in all things. One
Of the most interesting features Of the
session was when Judge Robinson,
member Of the Supreme Court, and
man Of eighty years, addressed the
Legislators and demanded that they
reduce the taxes or face revolution.
LEGION ENJOYS SMOKER
A poodIv number Of Legion nnen-