The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-03
The Non-P artisan | league
Anti-League Platform
CONTINUED from last week..

for such tax laws except that they are
a step toward confiscating farm lands
with the purpose of practically abol.
ishing private ownership.
| They have enacted an immigration
law and appropriated two hundred
thousand dollars for its administra.
ton, with no purpose but to furnish
employment for paid agitators and adj
vocates of the socialistic program both
within and without this state.
H They have passed an anti-injunc-
tion law which leaves the farmer the
greatest employer of labor in the
state, practically at the mercy of the
1. w. w. and other elements who seek
to practice sabotage and to interfere
with the operation of farms.
1t is impossible to enumerate in any
proper space the socialistic and mr.
American laws which have been fore
ed upon the people by means of mis-
representation and the exercise of die
tatorial powers on the part of the So
cialistic leaders of the league, but we
warn the people that the laws here
tofore enacted are but the beginning
of the execution of an autocratic and
confiscatory program avocated in
part by Missionaries, but more by po-
litical adventurers in an effort to es-
tablish and maintain an autocracy and
to deprive the people of the security
which the constitution affords to their
lives, their liberty and their right to
acquire and enjoy the fruits of their
own labor and thrift.
We charge that such program is
unrepublican and that its proponents
and advocates are not republicans, and
are not entitled to participate in the
deliberations of the republican party.
We condemn the governor for re-
fusing to allow the people of the state
to exercise their right to initiate meas
ures as provided by the constitution,
and we favor the enactment of such
laws as shall restore the functions
now. exercised by the chief executive
Of this state to the officials to whom
they rightfully belong.
We advocate the placing of the
management and control of the state
elevators and mills already establish
ed by vote Of the people in the hands
Of non-political experts of this state
who have knowledge of the grain and
milling business and under such a
system of auditing and accounting as
shall enable the people to know at all
timeAthe exact status of the business;
and as long as such business remains
in the experimental stage we favor
limiting the use of state funds for
construction purposes to approximate
ly two million dollars.
The Bank of North Dakota as or
ganized and managed is a menace to
the welfare Of the state. Past exper-
fence has proven that banks organized
upon such principles have invariably
been failures. We therefore favor the
amendment of the law SO that the
bank may become farm loan bank
and furnish first mortgage farm loans
at minimum interest rate to the
farmers and that the same be placed
under strict regulation and examina-
ton by at least two elective depart
ments of the state and that school dis
tricts, townships, villages, cities and
and counties shall be
restored to the right of handling their
own funds.
The governor, industrial commits
sion, majority of the supreme court |
and the leadership of the nonpartisan
league having repeatedly refused to
the taxpayers of the state any public
audit and report by elective officers or
boards of the Bank of North Dakota,
the Workmen's Compensation bureau,
and the State mill and Elevator at
Drake; and whereas the state has
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enough, and its menu
bers qualified, we demand as an in
herent right that such audits be at
once permitted by and thru the board
of auditors, and that sworn itemized
reports of such ,audits be forthwith
published to the end that they may
be. no question or doubt as to the use
of public funds.
We favor the amendment of the
present hail insurance law, so as to
provide larger indemnity and in such
a manner that the crops of no farmer
shall be insured unless he applies for
insurance and so no land not insured
shall be taxed to maintain insurance
on other lands.
We favor the enactment of new
laws, relating to taxation which shall