THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



wealth, I may be deemed to speak from prejudice an 

 improbable thing. Yet so stands the fact; not from 

 malice, of course, but because a legislature of lawyers 

 selected by railroad agents — what could that know 

 or do about dairying? 



7. Legislation that began the great work of taxation 

 reform by seeking to compel railroads and other cor- 

 porations to pay something Hke a just share of the taxes, 

 and by instituting a graduated income tax upon large 

 fortunes. 



This act, Hke some others of this session, was re- 

 garded by the reformers as marking but the beginning 

 of the necessary changes, yet as the best that could be 

 extorted from a legislature so constituted, wherein 

 twenty-eight senators had the power to veto the will 

 of the majority of the people. 



8. Woman suffrage, so far as the constitution of the 

 state would allow. A law was passed granting the 

 ballot to women for national ojQSces. 



9. Educational reform. This embraced some ad- 

 mirable measures. Laws were passed to establish 

 county agricultural and training schools, to establish 

 evening schools for young men and women above the 

 ordinary school age, and laws to standardize rural 

 schools. 



10. A law guaranteeing bank deposits and assessing 

 all the banks in the state to provide the guaranty 

 fund. 



11. Administrative reforms. Laws combining cer- 

 tain offices, reducing allowances, and abolishing 

 sinecures. 



