THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



G, The use of the power generated by 

 these huge and illegitimate profits to control 

 the state government and gain more power 

 to make more profits to make more power. 



H, The use of this power to suppress 

 efforts of the producers to better their condi- 

 tion by co-operative marketing. 



I, The use of this power to nullify the will 

 of the people and prevent remedial measures 

 such as state hail insurance and the terminal 

 elevators, three times demanded by the voters 

 of the state. 



S, — Taxation Abuses 



The use of the control of the state so to 

 levy taxes that wealthy corporations, best 

 able to sustain the tax burden, got little of it, 

 and the farmer, struggling against heavy odds 

 and grinding poverty, must shoulder the 

 greater part of the levy. 



We will now turn to the laws enacted by the 

 farmers' legislature, the Sixteenth, meeting in 

 January, 1919, and see what it actually did 

 to meet these difficulties and solve these 

 problems. 



1. — The High Cost of Capital 



House Bill No. 18, approved February 25, 

 1919, establishing the Bank of North Dakota 

 to be operated by the state. 



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