Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-03-02

VpSIiCsIl III WVVIICy OoSCs
have made a tobacco monopoly big
revenue producer
UNCLE SANS FALSE Teeth
The, big battleship advocates appear
to take the'stand. that even If the last
war proved the naval monsters to be
: false teeth, Uncle Sam should have a
full set. And it doesn't seem to mat.
ter if they are too big for his mouth.
The British admiral, Sir Percy
Scott, recently said: IF the German
emperor had only spent the price of
one battleship on submarines his coun.
; try residence-or one of them-in this
country would have been Windsor
i CASTLE"
The big battleship, by the very fact
of its enormous cost, acquires a host
OF powerful friends whether In Ger
many, England or America.
COMMITTEE OF, II REPORTS
The second report of the committee
of II, appointed by President Howard
of the American Farm Bureau to in
vestigate the wheat market, contains
further approaches to the problem.
The core of the more definite plan
is grain growers cooperative ma,
tional sales agency. The grower would
make sales contract or pool contract
with the local elevator or other organ
ization, and the local organization, in
turn, would make contracts with the
national sales agency.
The national sales agency, in turn,
would control by owning voting stock
in the respective enterprises, terminal
agencies, warehouse corporations, fl
nance corporations, export corpora
tions and service departments.
Another part of the plan calls for
an export corporation to provide
proper facilities for marketing the ex-
| portable surplus of grain.
Work on the plans is continuing
and when the committee believes they
have the thing in final shape it will be
submitted to conventions of different
farmer organizations.
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LADD ON NORTH DAKOTA
Senator-elect E. F. Laid of North
Dakota has put the North Dakota
bank situation in clear, forcible light
in a special interview requested by
the New York Globe.
: The farmers agricultural and in
dustrial program of North Dakota -
says DR.. Ladd,. will be continued by
the farmers and their supporters as
developed by the Nonpartisan league
and N the end the farmers will be VIC
torlous in securing better marketing
facilities, better living conditions and
reasonable profit on their years
business. The banking policy ap-
proved by the Nonpartisan league as
now conducted is sound. The Bank of
North Dakota has five times the legal
reserve required under the banking
laws of North Dakota No banking
: institution in the state is on a sounder
basis
"The question is-have the people
OF North Dakota the right to develop
banking system for the benefit of
her people or must she be subservient
to private banking interests within
and without the state?
Approximately so per cent of de.
post funds used in banking belong to
the farmers; hence, they should not be
at the mercy Of private greed with
scarcity of liquid funds when the
money is most needed to move the
! farmers crops and place them on the
; market in an orderly fashion. In my
judgment the private banking system
and financial interests are fighting
the farmers program and are back of
the present attack and adverse adyer.
Using now being given the state.
"Townley is one of the three ma.
tlonal committeeman of the Nonparti
san league and is supporting the farm.
ers at Bismarck, aiding and directing
the efforts of the League. I predict
there will be no compromise and that
the farmers will in the end win, but
not unlikely tn ere may be some shak.
Ing of very foundations of the pri.
vate banking institutions in the near
future brought about by the policy OF
! uoAo@1 VI ucSLIOy at any cost the
farmers program as adopted by the
enemies of the farmer movement"
ANOTHER MOONEY CASE CON-
FEssloN
Frank Macdonald, the only remain.
ing witness against Thomas Mooney
and j: Billings, who were convicted o1
bombing a Preparedness Day parade
in San Francisco, in 1916, has con.
fessed that he offered pre1ured testi
mony. ALI the others, including
Police Officer Draper Hand, have nut
themselves In the same class to ease
their conscience.
Macdonald says that he was drilled
by Prosecuting Attorney Fickert and
promised part Of the $175,ooo RI
ward, but was double-crossed. -.
Another Interesting phase Of the
matter is the memoirs Of a German
consular attache, almost openly stat.
Ing that the fatal bomb was one IN.
tended for concealhent, on. q shin;
which went son in the wrong place. {.
/ To maintain the reputation Of mi