New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-02-25

reform. Inc NONpdItlSdH League HAS
had control of the government Of North
Dakota for four years and inuagurated
part Of it's program. Every one of these
measures was enacted by lawful, con-
stitutional methods and every step has
been ratified by the people Of the state
and approved by the courts, both state
and federal. Wherein does such a pro-
gram constitute a menace to American
government or American institutions?
In conclusion Mr.. Liggett cites some
Of the things done by the Nonpartisan
League in North Dakota. Here are
the goods it has delivered "A state
bank which acts as central reserve and
clearing house for private banks and
loans money directly to farmers on first
mortgages. The Bank of North Dakota
has been in operation but four months,
but it already has loaned more than
81 100000 to farmers; its clearings last
month totalled $50, 100000; its deposits
are ST., 900, 900, and it has made profit
Of $4,000 in less than four months
and is reducing interest rates to farmers.
State hail insurance has reduced hail
insurance rates more than SO per cent
and saved farmers more than 81 ,000,0 600
the first season in reduced premiums. =
State and dairy inspection acts already
have saved the farmers Of the state
several million dollars. will soon
start on state mill and elevator system
and it is conservativety estimated this
will bring farmers of the state at least
$50, 100000 more annually for their
grain, and at the same time reduce the
price of manufactured products to the
consumer. The state building act
assists farmers and workingmen to buy
and build homes on low initial payments
and easy terms and any industrious
citizen who wants to own his own home
can do so with the states assistance
| In addition to this, North Dakota has
the most advanced labor legislation Of
any state in the Union and it's laws
relating to social welfare and child pro-
lection are models in every respect
All such things it is the habit of the
| New York Times, and other papers Of
like persuasion to dismiss contemptuous-
| ly as s'socialistic nostrums.D But the
fact is that the people Of North Dakota
have done all those things in perfectly
legal fashion, showing that they have
a lively faith in constitutional processes
and vision enough to use orderly and
constructive methods to lead the people
out of the Slough Of Despond into which
they have been forced by vast monopo-
lies and unpatriotic profteers z That
there is a large and growing number Of
people who see in this program the only
solution Of our economic difficulties and
the only safe and legal way to avoid
a great social cataclysn, is proved by
the results of the recent meeting and
formulation Of public ownership and
! idle taxation program by the Committee
Of Forty Weight in st. Louis in December.
The League, the Forty-Eighters, and
other organizations in harmony with
them, constitute movement that is
essentially American and holds out
about the only hope Of redeeming our
political and industrial life from the
grip Of a comparatively small but sinister
group Of profteering monopolists, who
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will, unless they are checked, destroy
this nation as surely as the junkers
! wrecked Germany or the Romanoff
regime brought Russia down to ruin.
BY series Of statutes unprecede
in scope and liberality, with singleness
of purpose and patriotic devotion, the
! American people conferred upon the
President powers broader and more
autocratic than were possessed by any
sovereign in the Civilized world, . says
Eihu Root, former Secretary Of State,
in 9 recent speech. There was time,
and it isn't SO very-. long ago, when
people dared not speak their conviction