The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-12-16
THE GRANGE AND
IT'S ACHIEVEMENTS
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value of stocks and bonds outstanding
each tax unit to share in proportion
of mileage in that unit to total mile
age.
Equality of assessment between IN
dividuals and between tax districts
No city to have separate assessment
all property everywhere to be assess
ed at fair cash value.
Bank property, real or personal, to
be assessed and taxed just like any
other property.
Income and Inheritance taxes indoors
come.
Excess profits, luxury, and excise
taxes afford just and equitable sources
for meeting unusual government en-
penses.
All taxes should be levied to en-
courage home owning and to discour-
age speculation and tenancy, so FAR
as public policy will permit.
The Grange opposes general sales
tax.
The Grange is opposed to any form
of so-called classification" of prop
erty which would discriminate in favor
Of any class Of property, as against
any other class, for the purpose of
taxation.
Reaffirming the position heretofore
taken in favor of collective bargain
ing, The National Grange does hereby
express it's disapproval of any system
which denies to any individual the
right to work in any place where his
industry is needed at any time and at
any wage which is satisfactory to him,
o, to quit his employment whenever
and for whatever reason may be to
him controlling, subject only to such
contract obligation as he may willingly
enter into and as may be enforceable
in an American court of justice.
The Grange passed resolution, de-
claring that we need less government
in business, and more business in gov
eminent.
The Grange favors government sup
port of reclamation work for such pro-
jects as will stand on their owr mer-
its.
A resolution favoring extension Of
postal savings banks, raising interest
rates to not less than three percent,
making every rural carrier an agent
to receive deposits, and the use If
the deposits to buy Liberty Bonds at
par, in the order presented for pur-
chase.
The Grange asks for appropria tons
to continue highway work, until con-
gress decides on plan Of procedure.
Opposed to any change in the al
coholic contents permitted in bever-
ages.
The tax on telephone charges was
criticised, and sliding scale asked
for, instead of the present five per cent
tax on rates from ID cents up to so
cents, which bears hardes on users Of
rural phones.
Among other resolutions was one
supporting the land banks, one oppos-
ing speculation in wheat and all food
products, one opposing the Nolan bill,
one supporting cooperative organiza-
tions in developing water power one
in favor of arbitration through an as
ISOLATION of nations, to prevent war,
one for the honest labelling of wooden
fabrics, and enc for cheap rate of
postage on library books on rural
routes from the office where the H.
brary is located.
Now, it is well to remember that
while the grange is a strong organiza-
ton with a membe rship approaching a
million, there are between thirty and
forty million farmers in the country,
If, by organized effort the men and
women who compose the Grange have
been able to achieve so much, what
then might be accomplished if YOU