The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-20

the past. II the lndependenC workers
keep at it for another week and do
their utmost on election day, Oct. ~
league bossism will be done for in
North Dakota, and Nestos, Johnson
and Kitchen will take the places of
the three recalled officials who have
for an altogether too long time dis
graced the fair name of the Flicker
tail state.
Fifty-three houses built by the state
and only one of them for the laboring
men for whom the law was intended
to help. The other ffty-two went to
Lemke, Wallace and few of the ad-
ministration pets-men who did not
need state help but who seem to have
gotten several thousand dollars more
than they should have. The men VINO
are getting loans at Bismarck are not
the poor farmers-they are men ike
Hagan and some Of those other chaps
who are on the state pay roll: But
the poor farmer out west and else
where has to pay in increased taxation
for the loans of the rich fellows and
for state built houses for the leaders.
We are Informed this morning that
tho state has sold six million one hun
dred thousand dollars of North Da-
kota bonds, that the cash has been rel
ceived for two million dollars-all OF
which has been "blown in" and that
the other four million will be forth
coming as soon as the bonds can be
prepared. 1t is time somebody put an
Injunction on the bunch to stop the
spending of this amount If the report
is true. If they get chance to spend
four million dollars more In chasing up
and down the country in visionary
schemes then God help the poor tax
payer who is now taxed to the limit
of his endurance.
Secretary of State Tom Hall says:
t"That there had not been a checkup
of the states business for six years.
sThere isn't a man who can tell US
whether we owe $5.000,00O of $780,
600 900, and it will probably be years
before it will be possible to find out
the exact amount even after the new
administration goes into office. More
than 200 socialists are on the state
payroll and using state credit without
any sort of check on the public
purse strings" State Treasurer John
Steen, who is supposed to know about
the finances of the state, under his own
signature, says that he knows nothing
of the sale of those two million dol
lars worth of bonds. The league lead
ers are trying to fool the voters with
a lot of bunk, it would seem.
For five years we have been living;
under this new industrial program
and during all that time taxes have
steadily increased until today they are
a burden. We are promised another
big raise in taxes for next year. How
can the people of this state longer put
any trust in the present administra-
ton that is responsible for this condi-
ton. The leaguers cannot, but thelr
failure on to anybody else. They
changed the constitution to suit them
selves, they passed tax laws to look
after their visionary ideas. they have
employed about 200 socialists to get
your money. and any sympathy racket
that they put up to the farmers of
North Dakota at this time is bunk.
They have been weighed in the BAL
ances and found wanting. What
we want more than anything
else at this time to stimu-
late business is to restore the
lost credit of the state. No investors
will invest in anything they consider
shaky and that is the position Of North
Dakota today-decidedly shaky. IT you
vote the Nestos ticket next week 1t
will show to the outside world that the
state is ready to get back to a condl-
ton where investments are safe.