The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-03-05

being made appointive until the gov
ernor through his appointive power
has become car Governor Frazier
is only a rubber stamp for Townley.
Carpet-bagger theorists have been
! imported and placed in important po-
| Sitions. The state industrial commits
| sion, for instance, consists of the gov
crnor, secretary of agriculture and la
| Dor, two elected officials, the other
three embers being appointed.
This commission has almost unim-
tied control of public funds, has the
right of eminent domain and the
right to buy, sell and lease property
for business uses by the state With
this power in the hands of ineXperi-
enced theorists the finish of state in
dustries is not hard to guess.
Taxes Have Increased.
"TaXCS have increased from 80 to
POO per cent. In one case the office
expenses for a onc-man commission
which replaced Il three-man commits
sion have increased $4,000 a year.
The league is starting all sorts of CO.
operative enterprises in addition to
the state industries. Stock in these is
sold to league members and notes Civ
Ell in payment. These notes are then
handled through the farmers banks
organized by the league. The whole
thing is u sample of high finance thai
will some day come down with a
crash.
"Townley is Il dreamer, but the
league has Shrewd and brainy lead
erS among its licutenants. and alto
gether it is a wonderful machine. In
spite of the impractibility and fail
ure of many of the league schemes
ToWnly retains power over the league
and control of affairs in North Da-
kota through control of the press.
The power to appoint one official pa
per in each county gives the state
government this control. | have had
a league member refuse to believe A
transcript of court record because
it was contradicted by a statement in
league paper.
Press Bureau Formed.
"A league press bureau has been
organized with funds raised by sell
ing stock to league farmers. This
bureau manufactures editorial opn-
ION for the league papers. The league
also owns The Daily american, Grand
Forks, and the Courier-News, Fargo,
daily newspapers, besides the Non
partisan Leader. st. Paul. weekly
propaganda paper Everything is
ready to start a league daily in Min
neapols. The league sold stock to
the farmers and is building its own
paper mill
There is only one way to prevent
the disaster which will follow this
combination of high finance and i'm
practical utopianiSm The league in
No. Dakota is about at the end of its
rope so far as getting more money
from the farmers in that state. The
funds to finance the movement arc
now coming from Minnesota and Wis
consin. The way to stop the league i
t. show the farmers IN these states
exactly what the league is doing in
North Dakota, how it has failed there
and what the end will be there and
elsewhere
Warming for Wisconsin.
unless this is done in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and other agricultural
states will be captured by the league
and its program carried out in them.
Those who are posted say that next
fall Minnesota will either be carried
by the league or the result will be
very close. Wisconsin will come next.
Encouragement of the co-orcra-
tive marketing movement among
farmers would help to prevent the
league from making Roadway.
We organized the Independent Nof-
ers association 70 fight the league in
North Dakota and arc making p"op-
ress, but it is almost impossib to
make successful campaign when the
opposition controls the press. Last
fall ran on the state ticket and was
beaten by only 1000. But the time .
beat the league is before it gets con
troll. Wisconsin should profit by the
experience of North Dakota"