The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1918, Page 8

, ity only five years, only $30 of his Fi. ' 8 per cent interest. \ meeting: of the Farmers’ Union, quite Toon le DAWSON MAN TELLS STORY QF SESSION J./1. Ingle, Genuine “On-the-Soil Farmer”, Reveals What “A.C.” Thinks of Dupes Be NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS Man Who Has Extracted Millions From North Dakota Adds Damn for Food Measure At the outset I want to make it plain that I am not fighting the Non- partisan league—I aim fighting the man Townley, and | feel justified in 8o doing. What I have to tell i am telling in The Fargo Forum )ecause it is best that the people of our state shall know the whole truth concerning the man who has put himself at the head of our organiaztion. I became a member of the Nonpar- tisan league back in the late summer or early fall of 1915. The organizer ap- proached me while I was working in the field, and I gave him $9. While I didn’t give the subject much thought then, and not for some time atferwards, I did get to thinking about political affairs quite a bit, and I fin- ally decided, in my own mind, that the Nonpartisan league didn’t offer any- thing in the way of politics not already offered by the old parties. I didn't say much about it, and went along with the boys on the league proposi- tion satisfied in my own mind that) things wouldn't be any worse or any better politically than they had been. When the store organizer came to me in October, last year, I gave some little consideration to the question, and thought at first that it was a good thing. I gave to him a note for $100, for which he gave me a receipt that is reproduced with this. Organizer Used His Influence To Get Other Farmers Signed Up. Well, the organizer got me to g0| around with him to see the other farm-; ers, and while we were going around, my suspicions became aroused be- cause of the different stories that he would tell to the different men. I was paid $5 a day for my time by the or- ganizer, and he took me with him to} call on my neighbors because of the! influence he thought 1 might have with them, I[ understand that is the) usual plan adopted by the organizers all ov re the state who are working on the store proposition. The first thing that aroused by sus-! picion was the organizer's statement; that the company would turn the mon- ey back to a person who chanced to leave the community ‘before the ten year period was up. That is, if a man paid $100 and stayed in the commun- certificate would be used up, and he} would be entitled to the return of! $50. There is nothing like that in) the contract, and of course the organ-} jver’s promise isn’t bindng on the com- pany. Got Hundred, Then Demanded ‘Payment of Back League Dues. Another thing that made me mad was the organizer’s action in getting $100 from some farmers, and then telling them that the $100 wasn’t any good unless they paid their membership dues to date. That meant that they had to dig up another $16. | In my own case | had not paid the membership dues, and | wasn’t asked to do so., That, too, made me suspicious, and made me feel that | was simply being used to further the store proposition. I didn’t go intoNhe league with the idea of building up any wildcat prop- osition such as this store scheme is. | I couldn’t see for the life of me} where the farmers were getting any, benefit out of this store proposition, | and when I saw the organizer trying to. get..men into the league by get- ting their, $100, and then demanding $16:more, I was pretty hot under the collar. But I didn’t say anything. Took $16,500 Out of Farmers in the Vicinity of Dawsoi. Well, things went along after thé’ organizer left the Dawson commun- ity without much stir. The farmers around Dawson put $16,500 into the storé proposition and their note carry The store isn’t | scheduled to be opened till Octover 1,) 1918, so that the company would col- lect, in realty, $108 from each farmer ebfore the farmer gets even the pjrivi- lege of trading at the store for cash. With 8 per cent added the Dawcon dis- trict would net $17,820 to the store company, of which $1,320 is interest. ‘When we went up to Bismarck in the.early part of December to the a few of the boys were talking about this: store: proposition, and'we decided The Inside Story of That Famous Al-Night Session On the Townley Chain Stores Exposed by Tribune v yeu The Tribune presents herewith the inside story of the famous all-night session at the Grand Pacific hotel during the special session last winter, first exposed when The Tribune carried the story of that epoch-making con- ference in its morning issue the following day, twelve hours in advance of any other newspaper in North Dakota. This conference was the last straw which broke the back of the state directors of the North Dakota Farmers’ Educational & Cooperative Union, and which won from them their severe denunciation of Townley and his wild economic schemes that precipitated the vicious attack made on the state board through resolutions introduced in the Burleigh county Farmers’ union quarterly con- vention here last week, and which were promptly and unanimously rejected. These resolutions were presented by a director and other stockholders and employes of.one of the Townley newspapers, and they condemned not only Directors Mozley, Breen, Smith and other members of the state board of the Farmers’ union, who are among the most influential agriculturists of the state, but they made another vicious attack upon the whole traveling fraternity of the state. INGLE TELLS WHY HE HAS MADE STORY PUBLIC To the People of North Dakota: I am making public the story of Mr. Townley’s ad- dress before the directors of the North Dakota Farmers’ Union in Bismarck, N. D., on the night of January 28, last, because I believe that the interests of our farmers demand that I should do so. I want it distinctly understood that I am not fighting the Nonpartisan league. I am fighting Townley and his methods, and I believe that any fair-minded man who will read my statement will realize why I am doing so. I am not one of those who believe that everything that Mr. Townley does is exactly right. Furthermore, I think it is time to draw a pretty sharp line of distinction between Townley and the farmers. We are entirely dif- ferent kinds of people, it seems to me. We have heard a great deal in North Dakota the last two or three years about “slopping the pigs.” I could not sit by and permit my fellow: farmers being called “G—— damn hogs” by the man who has professed to be their friend and champion. I realize that an attempt will be made to brand me. Certainly men will charge that I have “sold out to big business.” My own conscience is absolutely clear on this proposition, and I have taken this step only after very serious consideration, realizing full well the storm of rae that certain men will attempt to rain down on my ead. Before I decided to make this story public I called upon the Nonpartisan league officers in Fargo, asking that they have Mr. Townley make public in his own papers the same talk that he made before us at Bismarck, but he has failed to do so. y ___ As for myself, I have been a resident of North Dakota since 1874. During all that time I have been an “on the soil” farmer, residing four miles south of Abercrombie, till ten years ago, when I moved to Dawson, and I now reside twelve miles from that place. Dawson, N. D., March 9, 1918. J. G. INGLE. DOR AR RN en IER ISS il vide. He told us a story or two and! think it is, gave us a copy of the then went away on an early train, contract. That was the first time Jim Manahan stayed with us the] | had seen one since the organiz- rest of the night. ar to midnight. er had it, and | never had had Jam said he didn’t know anything] any chance to study it much, about the store and told us a lot of ‘ funny stories. That was all we could ge. Right there we made up our minds that we wanted to see Townley, and| get this, story straight. At that meet-| ing there was myself and Shipley, Montgomery, Fay Harding, Frank Mehring, and several other boys, who, I can't just now remember. We told Shipley, our Union secre tary, to correspond with Townley about getting a meeting with him to talk about this store question. Well, it took us a long time to get any sat- | Townley Brought His Friends, Including Governor of the State. On the night of January 28 at 8 o'clock we were in the Grand Pacific hotel, and Townley >rought along a whole lot of his friends. It seemed tc me there were fifty of them, and while I can't remember all of them I do remember that Governor Frazier was in the crowd. Townley hadn't gotten into the room hardly before he got mad. 1 could tell that he was mad clean HOG’ GREATEST MEAT PRODUCER aed By P. G. HOLDEN. AISE' more hogs is the quickest and best solution to the problem of satisfying an ever-increasing demand for meat. Philip H. Hale, editor of the National Farmer and Stock Grower, has’given much thought and study to the meat problem from the standpoint of the farmer, and at my request, has prepared the following article: In thig emergency we should not undérestimate the importance of the hog. On two million farms there are no hogs. On every such farm the farmer should buy a bred sow immediately. He should feed the male pigs when he gets them and grow the females to be bred. He does not have to buy many sows to start hog raising. We do not speak in ‘favor of: the hog to the exclusion of other classes of stock. The hog is not our favorite, but he fs in first position and cannot be driven out, In the graing, wheat and corn will win the war; In meat antmals, the conqueror is the hog. Cows and Hogs Compared. We recently had a great live stock show at Chicago and the champion steer welghed 1,610 pounds at 29 months or 870 days of age. The cow that had the champion steer for a calf could have had another calf and be com- ing on with another since the champion calf was dropped. One steer weigh- ing 1,600 pounds and another weighing 1,000 pounds would represent about all the meat the cow would show in market in two.clear years and five months. But a sow that gave a litter of pigs when that champion steer was dropped | | | | Months of Age, or a Total of 2,250 Pounds. | | could have given another fitter that year and two more the following year. The four litters of pigs, say eight to a litter, could all have grown and at 10 months old each weigh 250 pounds. It is not impos 7,500 pounds of meat on the hoof in 29 months, as against 2,600 pounds | where the climate is mild and the growing season long. | In the Northern states farmers usually depend upon one litter of pigs & year, with about seven or eight pigs to the litter. Hogs King of Meat Animals. All domestic animals are important, but the h an{mal in the present eniergéncy. The cow gener the most {mportant gives us one calf; the | sheef generally gives us oné‘ewe; but the sow gives us a litter. Jordan, in “The Feeding of Animals,” proves that. the hog will make more than five times thé real food value that a steer or a sheep can make from the same umount of grain feed. . For the transportation of fresh meats special cars are necessary. For ! the transportation of hams and bacon and lard ordinary cars and ships are satisfactory. Hog meat can be shipped economically to: the uttermost erids of the world. You do not have to can bacon and hams to get them to the | soldiers in the’ trenches. ‘ The emergency is right now. and feedstuff. A farmer can raise 1,000 pounds of pork while he is raising 400 pounds of beef o> mutton. re tee The hog is raised universally, and the number of: hogs we can raise and fatten’ depends entirely upon the amount of feed we can produce. Farmers have taken a contract to produce the largest amount’ of meat in the ‘shortest possible time and that points directly to the hog. than you did before, you deserve well of your country, even if you cure it and eat it on’ your own farm;'thus making it unnecessary for you to buy on the market meat that other farmers have raised. t OE OO OOO re rae with Townley and we decided to do, down the other, but we always got 0, We were, after midnight, in ses-| back to the question of what was go- sion only with Townley and his sec-| ing to be done with the surplus mon- retary, and eight or nine Farmers’|ey. Finally Townley seemed to get Union memers, directors and offi-| good and mad, and. standing up there cers. in front of us, he‘ hollered: z Wanted Townley to Put Stores Jn Proper Business Foundation. “You Farmers Are Like a Set ~ : of G—— Damned Hogs,” Leauge © eHad Says. The first thing that we did after we got Mr. Townley alone was‘to ask him to take the store ' proposition away. from, the league because wo were afraid it would hurt the league. “You farmers ‘are a set of G— damn hogs. We have go to drive you to the polis with a ——elm club to make ‘you vote,” se ingle Litter of Nine Little Pigs Should Weigh 250 Pounds Each at 10 ble for one sow to market | produced by the best cow in-the world. Especially is this true in the South, We have to do what we can the quickest | and the best way. It is not a question of profit; there is profit in all food If you raise more pork | isfaction, but finally we got together with Townley on the night of Janu ary 28 in a room up in the Grand Pa through, and he was mad the whole night long. Townley had asked that everything | to establish a store at.. cific hotel in Bismarck. The arrangements for the meeting were made between Mr. Lemke of the! league and ‘Mr. Shipley. be kept secret and we had expected to meet only himself. However, we threshed things out with the whole bunch for several hours, and it was midnight before we were able to get down to a meeting with Townley himself, The others tere a eeeeee one fellow, a rather ju i nice looking, clean shaven young fel- man by the name of Tiegen, liv- | low, who Townley told us was his, sec- ing up in Bottineau county, | | realty. He asked that we let him stay Sa pcceetacecaceeeceatace aaa OCCT THE BUYERS CERTIFICATE CONTRACT USED BY THE CONSUMERS UNITED STORES COMPANY The Union directors and myself talked the whole thing over be- fore we went into the meeting with Townley. On January 26 a AGREEMENT FOR BUYER'S CERTIFICATE UNITED ST. RE'S CO. IN| THE CONSUMER'S 1. WE THE UNSRDSIGNIED, for the purposes set forth herein, do each subscribe One Hundred Dollars, to be paid in cash or note, to the Con- sures United Stores Company of North Dakota, a corporation to be rmed, 2. IT 1S EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED that the pur- poses for which we pay the said sums of One Hundred Dollars are: That 90 per cent of all money subscribed herein shall be used by said company . » until the sum of Ten Thousand Dol- lars, in cash or notes, shall be so applied. All surplus subscribed over the said sum of Ten Thousand Dollars may ‘be used by the company either to establish and maintain a central buying agency or wholesale establishment, or to carry on educational work or propaganda along lines deemed by the board of directors of the Consumers’s United Stores Company to bein the ‘interest of or beneficial to farmers, and for the assistance of farmers’ or- ganizations such as relate to the economic, educational or political inter- erest of the farmers, or both. 3. THE CONSUMERS UNITED STORES Company agrees to estab- lish its store at Not later that the first day of. 19...., and will immediately thereafter issue a certificate to each subscrib- er hereto granting him the right to purchase goods and merchandise at said store, or any other store the said company may. establish, and to or- der the same through the company’s stores, by paying the wholesale price peels with the freight charges, plus a margin of not to exceed 10 per cent. 4, THE CONSUMEn., UNITED STORES Company reserves the right to cancel any certificate or certificates upon the payment to the subscrib- ers herein of their subscription fees, less 910 for each ycar for which serv- 40 try to get some more information. LeSeuer Pleads Ignorance; ; ‘Manahan Tells. Funny Stories. We had a meeting theré with Art ‘LeSeuer and oe ‘Manahan in the (Grand baa at ' oe : ‘LeSeuer us (we were ‘ ers’ Union men) that he drew. ice has been rendered, The company further agrees that in the eyent it shall discontinue the operation of its store at within ten years after it shall have begun business, it will then redeem all certifi- cates at:the rate of $10 for each year less than ten that the said store was 80 operated, and if the assets of such store are not sufficient to redeem all'such certififates in full, then the whole amount of the assets of such store shall be divided pro-rata among its subscricers. - 5. THE PURPOSE OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION is to aid and assist the Producers and consumers of this nation in educating themselves to effi- re buying and selling, and to He refused to do so. “a Well, sir, ‘he told us that the store proposition didn’t have any direct.con- nection with the league, ‘but that ‘indi- rectly i€ did, and 1 guess that ifiyou read the ‘contract over you. will find that: is the case. By We all held to the proposition that the league would be harmed: by this store game, ‘ahd we wanted to see the league go’on to success. i Sought. System so Farmer Would Get Stock for. Putting ‘Money Jn. Then we asked Townley that if he wouldn't take it away from the league to ‘put it on a solid. foundation—a ‘bus-; iness basis, like the Rochdale plan. So that when a man put $100 in it he would ‘have ‘some stock—something to} show. for..his “money. Then Townley, claimed that if, he did ‘hat—put‘it 9 nthe (Rochdale ‘plan— hey would kéep him on the witness stand “all the time answering ques- Hons: to Shipley, and he handed it to Town- ley. I asked if that was a-true copy of the contract, and he said it was. _ We got to talking about the store at Kenmare, where Mr. Townley said 6%) farmers had ‘taken certificates. That meant collections there of $60,- 000. “That Is None of Your G— Damned Business,” Townley Tells Them. Then T said to Mr. Townley: “According to your own: sfate- ; Ment we.only put $9,000: into’the - store.” ¢ Hse He answered “yés.” “Then what is to become of the other $51,000,” | asked him. Townley stepped up to me, shook his fist under my nose, and said jt was none ‘of my damned business, “That is none of your G—— damned business,” is the way he put, it. Well,” 1. says to him, “ making it my business.” Mind you, 1 had put $100 of my can money into this store propo- sition. i Ithen handed a copy,of the contract & Here,” says j,.“l ami a farmer, and | have. never.been driven to the polis... might’ be coaxed, but not driven.” . ; Then we went back to the ‘store proposition. We kept’ talking about the surplus, our questions always getting. back to that; proposition. ; “You have Got Your Money’s Worth”; FOR LUMBAGO Try. Musterole, See How Quickly It Relieves — You justr rub Musterole pals briskly, and mate with oll f mustard: Use EASTER Margh 31st Oli a taph wosks thors, fo get:your suit or spring coat order’in early. fe NORTH DAKOTA - TO HAVE CARS "SANS RED TAPE Commissicner Bleick Impresses Necessity for Hay Transpor- It got along toward 4 o'clock. in the tation on Officials morning and Townley's secretary saw | that things weren’t going very good, | and he was trying to get Townley out) of the room. He had his overcoat on, and I can’t. just remember what did take place, or what was said, but all of a, sudden, Townley struck George Sorber.on the chest. It was no gentle tap, either, and Townley evidently expected’ to have to fight, for he jumped back and threw his overcoat off, dropping it on the floor. “Yes, in’ Experience, Signing Notes. Then Townley busted loose again. ° “f° this store question should go bust today you G—— damned, farmers have got your money's worth,” he shouted. p “Yes, in experience. by signing notes,” | told him right back again. He didn’t have anything, to say to that. “When the North Dakota Railway commission knows that cars are neces- sary and a demand is filed for them, North Dakota will get cars. Com- missioner Charles W. Bleick has re- turned from Minneapolis with this as. surance from F. ©. Carey, represent- ing the United States food administra- tion for the northwestern district. Mr Bleick explained to the food adminis- trative representative the supreme im- portance of having cars in abundances for the shipment of hay, without which the already heavy: livestock losses in the northwestern section of the state must be greatly enhanced. Mr. Carey: stated the condition had not heen previously understood,. and that now its gravity is appreciated, red tape will be dispensed with, and | North Dakota will have cars. for the transportation of hay and feed when- ever thely need becomes apparent. Mr. Bleick while in the Mill City also. conferred with R..C. Miller.of the United States bureau of standards on hearings to be held soon in Helena, Minneapolis and two other northwest- ern points on grain grades and stanil: ards. North Dakota will be'represent. ed at these hearings. Secretary J. H. Calderhead, who accompanied Com: Townley Hits Farmer, Throws Coat Off and Prepares for Real Fight, Montgomery picked the coat up and Townley put it back on again. Sorber and Townley had been talking about the Rochdale store plan for half an hour before the mixup took place, but | can’t say just what was said one way or the other that led up to Townley’s resorting to violence, This is the story of the all-nighf meeting in Bismarck. It is the plain truth, and nothing else. I haven't elaborated on a single point, and I feel that my story should convince any right-thinking man in North Dakota that I am justified in fighting Townley. T am fighting him for the filthy lan- guage he has used in his private and public dealings with other people. Hé is not our kind of people. = pISTOn For Infants and Children. . Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always : Bears the |Signature mained for a longer stay. aera "ALGOHOL- 3 PER GENT. i ANegetable Preparation ris Nee efond by Regula, f fing the Stomachs and Bowels d Thereby Promoting Digestion |, Cheerfuiness and Rest.Coataiss, ium, Morphine nor Hinesat Nor NaRcoTte} _ Use. 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