The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-10

crue to the farm producer Of wheat.
We, therefore, demand that the AZ
cent tariff be made effective on wheat
through the sterilization corporation
taking off the market the annual
temporary surplus to the end that
the American wheat growers will have
possession Of the American domestic
market and consequent benefit from
the tariff. With the American farm
er established upon the American
standard of living and assured of q
price for his product commensurate
with the cost of production, his pros.
perity will inevitably lead the rest Of
the country into the paths OF prosper
ity and dispel the appalling gloom Of
100000 unemployed vainly seeking
work and bread.
-Four years ago in Jul convention
at Valley City. the Democratic party
took the position that the state mill
and elevator was an established in
Stitution and must be accepted as
such by our people. That it would
pay for itself in service rather than
in money profits.
THAT the principle thus enunciated
has been accepted by the people gen.
orally, and by all factions of the Re-
publican party, is now well known.
That principle was and is accepted
because it was and is based on COM
mon sense and truth.
Less Service Charged
again, in the interest of fairplay
and truthfulness, we call the atten-
ton Of the people of North Dakota to
the fact that the present increase in
so-called money profits to the state
mill is not because of any superior
management or less extravaganza, but
is derived solely from less service to
the farm producer. In truth and in
fact, the so-called increased money
profits is due to the fact that the
state mill and elevator has not, and is
not, paying protein premiums for the
wheat it mills, and the farmer is the
loser. AS usual the farmer pays the
freight" while the present admins
tration plumes itself on its superior
managerial ability.
I'VE condemn the present state adj
ministration for its extravagant adj
ministration of state affairs. In
stead of taxes being reduced there Is
continual advance in taxation. APP
parently the present administration
believes in the theory of the French
man who said "the best system Of
taxation is the one that produces the
most feathers with the least squak-
ing from the plucked BIRDS" and it
can only be on that theory that the
present administration Is advocating
an increase on the sales on gasoline
for highway purposes. Taxation Is
taxation from whatever source the
revenue is derived, and this unwar-
ranted increase on an already over
burdened people Is without example
in state history. The ultimate
consumer will pay this gas tax just
the same as he pays all other taxes,
and the ultimate consumer in this
case is. of course, the farmer.
I'm this connection, VIC wish to
point out to the people of this state
the u~nwarranted extravaganza Of the
present administration carried on
through the highway commission. The
unusual high cost of dirt roads in this
state can not be explained away in
any other manner except through
extravaganza. There are many in
| stances where state roads built under
the high way commission and almost
parallel roads built under county com
| missioners at a cost of one-third tc
one-half less for the ann quality OF
work.