The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-03-02
North Dakota's dustrlaI
Program Will Save State
DR.. E. F. Ladd Points Out Wonderful Utility Of Great Plan
Adopted By The People And Now Being So
Bitterly Fought BY Big Interests
Allotted BY Pikers

DR.. E. F. Ladd has been a resident of North Dakota for many years, and
his name is a household word in every farm family which has been in the
state long enough to become familiar with the great work he has accom-
rished. He is the man who led the fight for pure food, which started il
North Dakota and has since extended to nearly every state in the union. HI
who would use this state IS the dumping ground for their impure nostrums
paints, etc. He is the ma who pioneered the fight against the grain thieves
who have stolen untold millions by under grading, unfair dockage, excessive
handling charges, short weights ana unfair discrimination. He is the maj
who exposed the famous ID feed" robbery, which proved to be the limit Of
endurance of the farmers and forced them to organize IS Nonpartisans t.
correct the abuse from which the producers of this state had long been sf
feres. He is not only a national character in educational and economic
circles of his own country, but his counsel and services have been sought by
foreign countries and international councils o n more than n occasion.
Compare what DR.. Ladd says about conditions in the state which he has
spent the best years # his life in building up and working for to the vampid
mouthings of the imported scnbbers for the Fargo Forum and the Mann-fed
sheet of this city, neither of whom have been in the state long enough t
DIR. LADD's STATEMENT
"Bruce Blven, Editor, Feb. 10, 1921.
"New York Globe,
"New York, n. Y.
Farmers agricultural and industrial program of North Dakota
will be continued by the farmers and their supporters as developed
by the Nonparisan League and in the end the farmers will be victorious
in securing better marketing facilities, better living conditions and a
reasonable profit o their years business. The banking policy approved
by the Nonpartisan League a 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 n a sound
er basis.
"The question is-have the people of North Dakota the right to dew
ehp a banking system for the benefit of her people IT musts she be sub
servient to private banking interests within and without the state?
Approximately 60 per cent of deposit funds used in banking be-
long to the farmers; hence they should not be at the mercy of private
greed with scarcity of lquit funds when the money is most needed to
move the farmers crops and place them on the market in orderly
fashion. In my judgment the private banking system and financial in
terests are fighting the farmers program and are back Of the present
attack and adverse advertising now being given the state.
"Townley is one of the three national committeeman of the Non
partisan League and is supporting the farmers at Bismarck, aiding and
directing the efforts of the League. I predict there will be n o COM
promise and that the farmers will in the end win but not unlikely there
may be some shaking of the very foundations of the private banking
institution in the future brought about by the policy of defeat O. destroy
of American agriculture m a sound basis with other industries of this
at any cost the farmers program IS adopted by the enemies of the farm
er movement for better marketing and living conditions and the placing
country. Just back from Kansas City.
f: F. LAID, senator-elect"