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Show HITS THE BANK , Ht STOCK VALUES Activities of tho Non-rnrtlsnn .League In North Dakota h.ivo bcon so successful that Value of North Dakota Da-kota bank stocks have gone down 20 per cent. As league Is fighting banks, Its leaders nro pluming themselves J on damage they havo dona to objects of their wrath. Wo have recently seen a private letter fro ma North Dakota banker to nn Oregon itockholdor, In which he says that stock In his bank can bo bought for 20 per cent less than It bought on tho market two yenrj ago, and that this decreaso In banking bank-ing stock values Is nbout tho samo throughout tho wholo state. Tho reason he sets forth as follows: "You arc probably awnio that this stnte Is now controled nbbBolutcly by tho Non-Partisan Leaguo and tho socialistic clement who are, throaton-Ing throaton-Ing to drlvo business out of tho state that tho out come will bo as hard to predict, but thoy do not scorn to uso any reason and aro bent on tho destruction de-struction of all business and financial financ-ial Intrests. They havo already In-coi In-coi pointed a number of farmers stores, and In different towns havo stnrted farmer banks, and rrlu.ro-ovor rrlu.ro-ovor they start a bank In n farming community, tho other bankH will havo to go out of business. Wo would not caro to buy your bank stoclt under un-der theso conditions, even at the cr-ducod cr-ducod price."- Oregon Voter. - - t |