Emmons County record., 1921-09-15

ing plant was going bump. King
was league state senator, and was
defeated by the independent candi-
date for reelection last year. Craig,
the party who was to get the 25-per
cent commission on collections, was
for long time state manager of the
Nonpartisan league.
The packing plant project was
never strictly league venture, al
though many of those actively in
charge were active leaguers, and the
packing plant organizers were just
as crooked and lied just as fast as
the league organizers ever did. And
good many of those most seriously
"stung' on the packing plant deal,
have also been likewise stung on the
various league ventures.
1t is sometimes claimed by leaguers
that such enterprises as the consum-
ers stores, etc., were not league en-
terprises. Such statements are un-
true. The consumers stores project
was an absolute league enterprise,
and did much to provide the league
bosses with additional funds. Town
ley had the final say in appointing
organizers, and the consumers stores
funds went into the hands of the
league bosses. The same men who
robbed the farmers on the stores deal
robbed them on the other league
schemes, and are still trying to drag
donations out of them. The men have
pretty much ceased to dig, but many
of the league women have entered
the fight and are raising funds for
the league bosses by means Of dane
es, ricnics, suppers, etc.
One after another of the league
enterprises has blown up, and the
thousands of formerly wel1-to-do far
mers now find they are "holding the
sack" inthe way of responsibility for
accommodation notes they signed.
Right here in Emmons county we
have number of them. The Record
does not know them all, but it does
know some.
Probably T. E. Lawler, of Hamp-
ton, is as badly hit as any. Mr.. Law
Ter is one of the five gentlemen who
signed notes to the extent of five
thousand dollars in the local league
newspaper deals. Mr.. Lawler is now
beginning to realize that he is about
the only one of the five who is finan-
cially responsible to any extent. In
other words, it is not at all unlikely
that he may stand all the five thous-
and loss. In addition, he is one of
the heaviest investors in the county
in the packing plant stock, said pack
ing plant being at least million in
the hole and closed for some seven
or eight months past. Mr.. Lawler
is also interested in the Hazelton con-
sumers store deal.
Another farmer. who has been hit
is Henry Reamann, of Braddock. Mr..
Reamann is heavy packing plant
stockholder, other members of his
family also holding stock. Mr.. Rea-
mann has also been hard hit by the
defunct Farmers State Bank of
Braddock, and by the Farmers ele-
vator there. He helped gather suck
ers for the consumers store at Haz-
elton. There was a time not many
years ago when few farmers in the
Braddock neighborhood conceived the
idea that they were just about cap
able of running all the kinds of busi-
ness known to man. Mr.. r. was one
of the bunch. He is today sadder,
but wiser. Some of those gentlemen
proposed to have all the big enter
prises run by the state, and the small
enterprises run by themselves. They
went into banking, grain dealing,
newspaper publishing, the mercantile
business, as we'll as continuing their
farming.
We believe that if you could get a
candid statement from Mr.. Reamann
today, for instance, he would be fore
ed to tell you that the average man
has his hands full running one busi-
ness, that farming is for the farmer,