The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-05-27
League Platform

its laws. There has been WITHIN our
borders no act of seditious character
on the part of any. of our own citizens
the attention of federal au-
thorities. Free speech and free as
semblage have been maintained up
holding the fourteenth amendment to
the federal constitution.
We commend the efforts of DR.. E.
F. Ladd and his able assistants in car
rying into effect the grain grading law
based on milling and baking values;
pay for dockage or its return to the
farmer to be used rs feed for his an
imals; and of the industrial commits
sion in the satisfactory results thus
far obtained thru the operation of the
small state owned experiment. mill at
Drake, for the milling of wheat with
in the state, thersoy preventing a
double ha6l and SAVING the by-pro-
ducts for use within the state ard
thereby increasing business and in
dustry and conserving soil fertility
and also thereby reducing the spread
between prices paid to producers and
prices charged to consumers. In view
of the millions of dollars that have
been and will be saved to the people
of North Dakota thru the operation
and enforcement of the state grain
grading law, we condemn the attacks
upon the same and do allege that these
enemies of the farmer are also the en-
emies of the best interests of the state.
We commend the successful opera
ton of the hail insurance law and
would call the attention of the voters
to the immense financial saving eff
fected to the taxpayers of the state
thru the operation of the hail law.
Realizing that the year nineteen
nineteen has in an agricultural way
been the most disastrous year in our.
history since 1889 and that a great
hardship has existed by reason Of poor
crops thruout a considerable portion
Of the state, we. commend Hon. John
M. Baer and Hon. ]. II. Sinclair in
their efforts in the congress of the
United States, to obtain federal relief,
and We condemn and censure the re-
dictionary spirit in the congress that
refuses federal aid to agricultural in
terests, whereby full normal crop
acreage might be produced; and we
also condemn and censure the parsi-
mony and illiberality exemplified by
congress towards other agricultural
activities which attitude is especially
censurable when so much waste and
extravaganza is permitted by congress
in other lines of government activity.
Obstruction of the operation of the
federal farm loan act by. the special
interests thru litigation now pending
in the federal courts has resulted in
the inability of farmers to obtain funds
at a reasonable rate Of interest, there
by hindering and impeding crop pro
duction. In response to war time de-
mands our farmers periodically pro-
duced the maximum of crops, without
resorting to we'll established require
ments of soil resting, soil recupera-
ton and crop rotation, thereby largely
impoverishing their fields; it is abso-
lutely essential that farmers be able
to obtain. plentiful supply of cheap
er money to permit them to restore
their farms at pre-war conditions Of
fertility. We condemn the obstruc
tionists who endeavor to prevent, ant
who do prevent, the obtaining Of
cheaper money for the financing o.
, agricultural activities, endeavor II
cripple the Bank of North Dakota il
, its efforts to supplement the activities
, of the federal land bank and to fur
nish to our farmers additional cheap
er money is also condemned as being
!. detrimental to the best interests o
: the whole state.
We heartily commend our governo
for the position he took in furnishing
! the coal to the people Of this state q
q time when the lives Of the citizen
: were imperiled by the rigors OF Sc
: we're winter just passed; and we Sc
a verely reprimand the predatory in
4 terests for their unjust unpatrioti
b and unAmerican interference with tn
a carrying out Of this strictly humani
: tartan act; we heartily commend tn
: loyalty Of the organization of Goa
: miners who 80 earnestly and willingl
cooperated with Governor Frazier j
t this undertaking and we do expires
s our hearty appreciation of the so high
e ly satisfactory outcome of the Who'll
: proceedings.
f ITO be continued)
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