The Butte daily bulletin., 1920-02-20
Political Boomerangs
(Contributed,) J

City and especially III the First Ma
tional bank and the office of the
Wilkinson Lumber company, is dis
played in large type a schedule Of
taxes for the past few years of the
state Of North Dakota, which has
been so terribly nislued' for the
past. six years. 1t is apparent that
the same was not intended to arouse
u Spirit OF. Investigation or inquiry
into the conditions existing in North
Dakota, but sintended .bv$a one-sided
statement to- deceive and mislead, for
gWell it is known by those familiar
with the affairs of North Dakota
that for every dollar that taxes have
raised the state has something be-
side promises for an Offset.
Taxes may have increased in North
Dakota as have they in Montana, but
let us state that the fact is that the
state has acquired state owned mills
and elevators, terminal elevator
and established a system of grading
of grains which alone has saved for
the farmers thousands through better
and more equitable grading and pro-
viding that the farmer receive pay
for all dockage, what the farmers
for years have been asking for. North
Dakota has its banking system which
has reduced interest on farm loans
from 10 per cent TO S, a saving to the
| people OF the state Il sum vastly
greater than any increase in taxes il
not greater than the whole tax OF any
year Yes, the farmer has some
thing left each year after paying his
interest to pay his taxes.
The state hail insurance saved
more than enough to the farmer this
| year, more than enough to meet any
increase OF taxes Do the banks o1
| Montana, or their paid press tell yov
this. DO they tell you whose inter
est it was in that the Bank of Nortl
4 Dakota had to fight its way through
the coults;s sof who tried to wrecl
I the Scandinavian Bank at Fargo, ol
4 how the attempt failed DO they tel
you in whose it was or is, that The
state ownership OF mills and eleva
tors has been assailed and that th'
matter is now before the supreme
court of the United States.
The first great fear that racke'
the bodies Of big business was tha
the Townley gang would rob the be
loved farmer OF $1,000 each an
thereby bring himself and family I
poverty and misery
Now the great fear they expires
is that Townley will turn the popu
lation OF Montana into Reds" The
pictured Il terribly inhnman monster
although they have not told us jus
what fred" is. The Reds Of Mort
. Dakota we're guilty Of the atrocion
; crime Of giving each OF the state
, soldier boys $500 per month TO
} every month Of service III the army
How many other 100 per cen
> American states have done the sam
| or anything for her soldiers? Yes
: and to meet that expense to the stat
) the Nonpartisan legislature of Mort
5 Dakota in it's "maliciousness' raise
] the taxes on all lands held for specu
: lation, such as coal lands, whc
measure was fought through TIL
courts and, reader. this is the ta
that has so greatly stirred up tn
100 per cent Americans, those VIII
are and have been so frantically way
ing the flag.
Yes, the kept press has publishe
almost anything that Mr., Saidso Q
Mr.. Hearso furnishes them. For in
stance, one 100 percenter," a bank
en- by the way, said that he went t
Minot, N. d., and paid $1,000 take
on a $1,000 house and tried to leav
the impression that was an annua
tax. Does the press expect the pull
lie to be deceived by such bareface
and bald-headed rot as that? Agal
the sheet called the "Loyalist,
printed at Helena would have tn
public believe that free love" wa
taught in the common schools i
dark North Dakota, and that Mort
fend marriage against the propagar
da of free love. Such rot is an il
suit to the intelligence OF our peop]
or to any people.
, The press and the interests bac
, of it do not fear reds radicalisn
nor free love as they do the fact ths
both the big interests both know til
, time is at hand when state bank
farmers elevators and mills, anothe
system of taxation and insurance
will be secured to our people as
+ has been in North Dakota. Remen
> bcr reader, that all those institution
!. have not been fought in the court
in North Dakota in the interest {
: the farmer and laborer. The pres
seems to think that the public ha
a no means of information excel
through their publications, and
our 100 per cent American press get
another special session of our legis
lature, we might be deprived til
right to publish un-American fact
as would stimulate independer
, thought and investigation, which W
heartily invite.
! Notice, Electrical Workers