THE FARMERS IN CONTROL 



Far down in this section is an authorization 

 for a commission to consider the subject of 

 the text-books used in the state schools, their 

 unification, and the possibility of having them 

 printed by the state. It is sufficiently well 

 known that most of the text-books used in 

 the public schools of the United States are 

 supplied by a powerful and highly successful 

 trust, and I have been assured by many wit- 

 nesses that the evidences of the influence of 

 this trust on the campaign, subsequently man- 

 aged with much skill against this law, were 

 plain enough. 



The official county newspaper was pro- 

 vided in two measures, Senate Bill No. 157 

 and Senate Bill No. 158. Their origin was 

 the practice of certain loan agents of printing 

 foreclosures in newspapers, small, obscure, and 

 so far away from the address of the unfortu- 

 nate mortgagor that he had small chance of 

 ever seeing the notice. If he did not see it 

 he would take no steps to protect himself 

 within the period allowed for redemption, 

 with the result that his next experience would 

 be a dispossess proceeding against which he 

 had no appeal. It was in every way in the 

 interest of honesty, fairness, and the reason- 

 able protection of the mortgagor that the 

 newspaper in which these foreclosure notices 

 might always be found should be designated 

 and known to all. 



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