The nonpartisan leader. [volume], October 07, 1918, Image 11

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methods of conducting business and
oth^r details of the work of the
League's various state headquarters
aj£d the national headquarters. The
committee consisted of the following
men, all well-known farmers of Ne
braska:
«T. D.-Ream, prominent member of
the League and master of the Ne
braska state Grange.
W. J. Taylor, farmer, member of
the Nebraska state legislature from
Custer county.
Hiyo Aden, big hog raiser of Sher
man county, Neb.
The committee made a thorough in
vestigation and has rendered a report
to the Nebraska members of the
League. The report finds the books
and accounts of the League kept in
an efficient manner, which enabled the
committee to trace down items and
check up expenditures. The investi
gators found that the books were
regularly audited by licensed audi
tors, that League employes handling
money were bonded, that the league
employs experts in all branches of its
work, whose salaries are modest in
comparison with what they, could
make in other lines of work," that
the officers ~of the League have been
efficient and have displayed great
wisdom in handling the organiza
tion's affairs, that the relations of
the various state branches of the
League with the national office are
satisfactory and that $16 for two
years' dueB is none too much to
carry on the work successfully.
The committee reached other im
portant conclusions and among
other things recommended that
some sort of action should be taken
against bankers who hold up or re
fuse to pay farmers' checks drawn in
favor of the League by new members.'
The report in full," which should' be
read carefully by League members in
all states, is as follows:
"TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
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ONPARTISAN
league members
of Nebraska re
cently appointed
a committee of
three prominent
farmers to inves-'
tigate the books
and accounts,
NATIONAL NONPARTISAN
LEAGUE IN NEBRASKA.
3* "GREETINGS:
"Your committee, appointed by the
state convention July 10, 1918, to
investigate the different depart
ment&of the National Nonpartisan
headquarters at St. Paul Minn.,
and Lincoln, Neb., would report
as follows:
"We could not go into all of the
detailed, transactions of this organization in a
few days' timfe,butwe have examined the ree
^K^ords and inquired into the methods followed,
sufficiently to establish. to our complete satis
faction that the .entire business of the League
is managed in a systematic, orderly manner. ~0
"We found a rigid system of keeping records'
that enabled us to trace items of accounts rapidly
to satisfactory conclusions and that these accounts
are audited regularly every three months by the
Equitable Auditing company of St. Paul, Mimu,
which is duly licensed by the state of Minnesota,
and that th$ records of each state League head
quarters are regularly audited by an accountant
from the national headquarters, and that every
person who. handles League money is under suf
ficient bonds issued by the Lyon Bonding & Surety
company of Omaha, Neb.
"Otur'investigations
lead us to believe that your
money is as economically spent, and that the gen*
eral business of the League is as efficiently xon
ducted,
as
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could be expected, when the magnitude
Three Prominent Nebraska Farmers, Appointed to Thoroughly Investigate
Accounts, Take Back Strong Report to Home State
THE SILENT ANSWER OF THE LEAGUE FARMER
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As Cartoonist ttiMmApo. here shows, the League farmer has not let the special interest blowhards interfere with his es
sential
war work—all that he insists on is that they keep from nnder his feet. He has been used to pests of various
kinds all M« life and one more isn't going to rattle him. Read on this page the report, of a committee
4 of three well-known Nebraska farmers on that question which anti-farmer interests pretend
to be losing sleep over—"What has become of the $16?"
of the business transacted, the territory covered
andrthe- large number of people employed are con
sidered, and especially so, when you. realize that
this is anew organization, embracing entirely new
systeihs of operation, that its progress has been
hindered by every obstruction, either legitimate or
illegitimate, that the genius of thes old-line poli
ticians and big business could devise. .Sf
.'"In the management of the National Nonparti
san league we find employed some of the best ex
perts in the different lines of business transactions
that it has been your pleasure to meet. Both men
and women are employed at salaries far below what
they could readily demand if they were to offer
their services in the open field of business. This is
especially so of the higher officers^ All are serving
here not merely for the salaries they receive or the
hope'of official position, but largely from a sense
of duty in the cause of human rights and. human
progress. .. ts
"We were especially pleased with the fore
sight displayed by the leader* of. the:League
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in originating and working out the details of
the'organization, the discretion they have "ex
hibited in defeating the politicians and big
business interests in their unrighteous at
tempts to throttle the League. Of more inter
est than all was the information we received
regarding the vigorous efforts they were mak
ing and the wide field of investigation they
were covering in their attempt to secure au
vthentic information that will enable those
.-leaders tb aid the members of the different
state legislatures and members of congress in
'7fintelligently framing just and adequate laws
that win solve our present economic problems
Hin the interest of all the -people.
V'We were favorably impressed with the co-opergi'
ative features of the League between the several
states wherein it places the funds from the dif
ferent states in one general fund, to be used in
the states where most needed, at the same time
giving eaqh state strict credit for all its contribu
r«' *. ^*'i (Continued on page 14)
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