Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-10-08
The Inside of the
Nonpartisan League
in North Dakota

in North Dakota
Continued from page four)
of any kind
The Terminal Elevator Law
Now we come to re Termfna
Elevator Law. No 20. Here again w,
find the one-man power to employ
discharge and and every person
connected with any department Of
the machine to be built up under tht
title Of the North Dakota Mill anc
Elevator Association The Indus
trial Commission will at all time:
be the dictator of location manage
ment and conduct of the elevators
and mills with Section 8. "The In
dustrial Commission snail Fix the
buying price of all things bought
and the selling price of all things
SOLD
1t has the power of EMINENT
DOMAIN here again. It also has
the power to establish and operate
exchanges, bureaus, markets and
agencies. WITHIN OR WITHOUT
THE STATE, INCLUDING FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.
This makes it possible for the
Industrial Commission to invest any
portion of the monies proided out
side of the state. and thus involves
the state of North Dakota officially
in interstate commerce and opens the
way to complications that would
carry the entire state in litigation
that might be without limit. both
as to eyrcnse and time 1t must be
remembered that the state OF North
Dakota under such plan as has
been worked I'D has no more rights
in any other state than an indiyidu-
al. and any action would affect the
interests of every taxpayer in North
Dakota.
Throttlino the Independent Press
The freedom of the press is one of
the foundation principles OF the AM
erican government 1t means free
dom from official and political do
mination, and freedom to express
opinions "actuated by laudable and
sacred regard for the liberties of the
people and the nation We have
heard much of the kept press" dur
ing the past two years. 1t has been
the favorite epithet of the league
orators and newspa pers applied to
newspapers of the state ana country
that have had the courage of conyic-
ton to EXPRESS disapproyal of their
hiehhanded methods and their eS
ploltatlon of the farmers for the ben
Eft of socialism. Here is their re-
ward.
Senate Bill 157 AN act Great
ing a state Publication and Printing
commission: prescribing its duties
and nowers and repeating Nj acts
and narts of acts in conflict there
with and this commission has the
power 10 designate ono aewsDa per in
each county il the state in which
all legal printing of every kind and
nasure f1pet he published. Needless
to say that the LEAGUE papers cot the
patronage and as a result of the law
over so indenends nj publications
have gone ont Of business. Thus
North -Townley through the
rovernor--wa .honld aay ,ra ,h,a 10
feed the farmers Of North Dakota
such hunromhe which they have
been feeding to tn. Idaho farn,er
and very inportant factor in mod
ing the pubic ORR 'n- In fnvor OF |
the state political socialist machine
The Home Building Law
The Home Building Law" is the
mare by which senate bill No.l9 l. /
generally referred to. Beyond the
TACT that this measure involves the
state IL a business designed to era-
ate mononolv in connection with
the bark of North Dakota scheme
IN the ioaning of money on real cs-
tate. the law has some merit. n
Is however. nothing more nor less
man the 2pnlication of state control
TO the building and III /. r-~p..r ZION
system, already established for wears
and extending the system TO farm
homes. The main objection to the
bill is that it places one more unit
In the great machine being built and
by the Industrial Commits
sion and that it contains the right
of EMINENT DOMAIN contained in
all of the other Industrial Commits
sion measures
There are numerous other meas
ares which constitute other minor
,ogs in this gigantic machine, such
IS making judges appointive by the
governor, arbitrary annual taxes on
awyers. dentists, physicians and
,ther professional men. and the loss
o towns and cities Of license fees
rom strictly local sources, such as