THE STORY OF THE NONPABTISAN LEAGUE 



Besides these there were laws passed auth- 

 orizing the cities of the state to employ city 

 managers; providing that the state should 

 insure its own buildings; prohibiting discrim- 

 ination by insurance companies in the issuing 

 or canceling of policies; and the much and 

 hotly debated bill unifying the state's educa- 

 tional system. 



There was also a constitutional amendment 

 passed to the voters providing for the recall 

 of public officers. As this included judges as 

 well as state, county, and Congressional 

 officers, it aroused a furious attack. 



This, with the appropriation bills and some 

 minor measures, was the record of the Six- 

 teenth General Assembly of North Dakota 

 under the control of the farmers. All of this 

 work was subjected to closest scrutiny by the 

 League's enemies, and much of it to the re- 

 view of the courts. Yet it was never shown 

 that its proposals were fundamentally anar- 

 chistic, bolshevistic, or revolutionary, and in 

 fact most of them were but similar to laws 

 passed elsewhere. Even the Home Building 

 Association was the copy of a law in success- 

 ful operation in New Zealand. 



But the campaign that began instantly 

 against these measures had its real objective 

 point in the terminal elevator and flour-mill 

 project. The bill to unify the state's educa- 

 tional system was selected as the nominal 



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