The nonpartisan leader. [volume], June 21, 1920, Image 4

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.,Pakota industrial program in its&*
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Theold campaign slogan, "We'll stick arid .we'll-''•*
Win," is being replaced by "We've stuck and we've
won again."
The victory before the supreme court of the Unit-
ed .States is the ninth successive victory. in the
•j farmers'fight since the Nonpartisan league was or-c*
ganized. These victories have been: It
June, 1916—League ticket nominated In Republic**
can primaries.
November, 1916—League ticket wins in general||p
election and Leaguers control lower house of legis
lature.
June, 1918—League ticket again wins in Republi- V,
cab primaries.
November, 1918—League ticket again wins in^
general election and Leaguers control both housesrV*
of legislature. t'v*
April, 1919—Industrial .Jaws upheld by Judg
Amidori of federal district court.
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Nonpartisan Leader..
NEW wave of enthusiasm is sweeping
through North Dakota like wildfire||p|
the result of the recent unahimousf^lf
decision of the supreme court of thepjif
United States upholding the- Nortt|^l
January, February, 1919—League legislature^
passes and governor signs laws creating the Bankfv 'C
of North Dakota, Mill and Elevator association,
Home Building association and other industrialgThis picture shows work nnder way at the site
jMl the big 1,600,000-bushel terminal elevator and
||||3,000-bairrel flour null at Grand Forks. Fifty
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,, ., i^'teams and 100 men are.employed now on excava-
ifniA iQiQ 1 ,, the force will increase to 400 or500. In the back-
-r,,~Z inoA Toldest enemies of the league and was one of the
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WILL BE WON JUNE 30 ^ovea^hadowed fey a great terminal elevator owned
"sby all the people of North Dakota. The building
There is still one more battle coming. The indus-^Sj shown in 4he lower picture is a temporary office
tries have all been started. The Bank of Northv? 'structure that will be used by the contractors and
Dakota has been, in operation for nearly a year,rai?-|J state officials overseeing the work on the
has loaned nearly $3,000,000 to the farmers and has^'--,^«big elevator and flour •null.
AND HE'LL GET MORE, TOO!
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Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris.
'ground is Jerry Bacon's elevator.. He is one of the
taxpayers" who brought the recent suit
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didn't want to see his little private elevfitor
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made a clear profit over
all expenses "of consider
ably over $100,000 besides.
But the. work of the Home
Building association aiid of
.the. Mill'and Elevator as
sociation, delayed by the.
suit in the supreme court
of the United States, is
still in its infancy. Ground
is being broken at Fargo
now for the first houses to
be put up. by the state for
home builders. At Grand
Forks 100 men- and 50
teams are at work all day
long. They have already
excavated -a basement for
the mill, 580 feet long, 42
feet wide and 16 feet deep,
and are now digging the
excavations for the. great
cleaning house arid giant
storage* tanks. Soon, with
the beginning of concrete
work, there will be 500
workers on the job.
The contract calls for the
completion of construction
work October 31". Machin
ery will be installed imme
diately when the construc
tion work is completed and
the great electrically oper
ated elevator and flour
mill will be ready for the
first North Dakota wheat
by January 1, 1921—IF
The big IF is this:
If the. people, at the
primary election of June
30, 1920, .win their tenth
big victory.
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There has been little reason to doubt any"such
victory and there is less reason now that the su-^*
preme court of the United States has delivered itap
.epoch-making verdict that the will of the people iafe
supreme. Before the ^decision was rendered the I.
V. A.s of^Nqrth Dakota were telling the farmers
"The League has bunked you. You can't build
the elevator and mill. The supreme court you'jt let l.c
you."
But now that the decision has come, the opposi- &
tion to the League again has been proved in the?|$
wrong.
HOW LANGER TRIED |r
TO "THROW" THE CASE®
William I^ang^r, elected as attorney general by
the farmers, Tonly to turn against them in- an at- If
tempt to get further glory for himself, isjhe oppo
sition candidate for^governor. Langer claims to be
friendly to the mill and elevator, the Bank of North
Dakota and the "Home Building association—but he
is Supported by every newspaper and politician that
•. has been fighting the farmers' movement from the"
time if started, and his own record, in addition,
shows his attempt to kill the state enterprises while
pretending to favor them.
Langer and his deputies recently appeared be
fore the supreme court of the United States,, nomi
nally to defend the North- Dakota industrial pro
graA. Mistrusting him, the industrial commission.
of North Dakota authorized Attorneys F. A. Pike
and William Lemke to appear in behalf of the peo
ple.
The supreme court alloweid attomeys^wb hours
on each side. Langer's 4iien agreed to divide the
state's time equally with Pike and Lemke. Instead
of keeping their agreement Langer*s men talked 90
minutes arid devoted practically -all this time to
arguing that the supreme court of the United States
and the supreme court of North Dakota had no
jurisdiction in the case—a ridiculous assumption.
Only about 25 minutes was left for Mr. Pike arid
Mr. Lemke. In this short time Mr. Pike set forth,
as clearly as the time allowed, the real argument in
favor of the industrial laws—which was that ttia
legislature of North Dakota^ the supreme court of
North Dakota and the people of North Dakota wero
the best judges of wlit^^s. good for Nprth Da«
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