, 1922-02-22
FAILURES And
MORE FAILURES
SOME OF THE TRUE FACTS RE-
GARDING THE NoNPARTISAN
LEAGUE SCHEMES.

schemes put into operation in North
Dakota. This is presented MS a plan
to aid the "-wage-earners'' build homes
for themselves, and not be al the mer-
cy of the money trust
OF All the wild schemes naueurated
in that state under socialist control
referred 10 as ~Nonpartisan League con
trol-the home builders association
proved one Of the most disastrous.
and just what the final loss to the
state will be can not be determined
until all titles are Strengthened out
and the houses sold for what they will
bring in the open market. The book
loss Dec. 81, 1921, the date of the
audit, is S113,256, but this is not a
marker to what it will be when the
affairs of this institution are wound
up and the taxpayers made to forget
what socialism "in action means.
The following few statements of
facts taken from the audit of certified
public accountants should impress
themselves ON the minds of the people
of Wyoming, where the Nonpartisan
Leagle is seeking political control to
do what it did in North Dakota:
Part of the Record.
h association owes S413,716.16 to
the Bank of North Dakota.
1t has built fifty-one houses for buy
ers with whom no contracts have beer
made.
Paid s2s.277.oe to the Equitable
Audit Company for audit and account
ing work, yet the records are in a "de
plorable condition"
Association officers borrowed money
from the Bank of North Dakota with
out compliance with law requiring in
dustriaI commission to finance the de-
partment.
Disregarded law limiting residence
construction or purchase to houses
costing less than $1,000.
Violated sfss requiring organization
of 'home buyers leagues" no such
leagues being organized in any in
stance.
Bonds can not be legally sold until
each residence so bonded is paid down
to $4,000, a condition held not likely
for five or six years.
Fifty-five houses built cost an aver.
age of $4,000 each.
Two houses built for Industrial COM
mission members; me-, the most ex-
pensive, has been paid for by William
Lemke, who since his recall as attor-
ney general has found important bus
mess in Mexico to occupy his atten.
ton; the other for Jonn raaen, a,sc
recalled, has been abandoned anc
stands vacant.
Titles to lots upon which houses
have been quilt are, in many Instances
defective.
Expensive equipment purchased by
the association missing from the de.
partment.
Public money expended for photo.
graphs used as political propaganda.
Permitted 1,400 sacks of plaster to
spoil in a Bismarck warehouse.
Always the Same.
Indeed, the record of this socialist
scheme is but n fair illustration of
what has occurred under similar cir.
cupsstances elsewhere, and what might
be- expected to occur in Wyoming
should the League cur political con
troll in this tate. The whole trouble
was not only one of mismanagement,
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of the peoples money, but back of all
that-and that was bad enough to de-
stroy those who engaged in it's the
purpose for which the Nonpartisan
| League came into existence and is now
working i'm Il number of western states.
The Nonpartisan League is not an
organization of farmers, for farmers or
managed by farmers. Its purpose of
organization and all its work since or
ganization more than proves the oft
made charge, and contradicted
by those who know, that it was simply
n scheme to bring socialism to the
farmers and the farmers to socialism
hat in the end these farmers may be
destroyed, for socialism proposes to
destroy private ownership of every
kind and nature. 1t proposes to lake
over the means of production and
farming lands is one of the all import
ant means of production.
Those who come with this scheme OF
the Nonpartisan League are clever anil
trained in their work. Their success,
If they attain success, lies in decep-
ton. They 10 not tell the truth about
what has happened in North Dakota.
Their publications. do not carry Il
word showing the awful financial con-
dition of the socialist schemes they in
a%ugurated In North Dakota, and which
must be finally liquidated by the tax
payers, although those who handled
these. who got the money that was Sc
cured, were not, in many instances,
even residents of h state, but merely
clever radical organizers who used
funds so easily secured. from North
Dakota to extend their propaganda III
other states.
The statements of facts above Sc
cured from the report of a firm of GER
lifted accountants hired to do the work