The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 3

. ~THE: NONPARTISAN I.EADER : : PAGE. THR.En | The - Ledgae and the Men Who Back It % '; e i B F. B. Wood, Deering, was born in C L. Matson, Glenburn, was born in'. - Martin Nelson, was born in Norfiay Herman Matson; Glenburn, was horw. 5 : Olmstead. county, Minn., 52 .years ago. Stockholm, Wis., in 1872 and hasTarm- in 1860. He settled ‘at -Houston, in Stockholm, Wis, .in 1876, came fo- oo G He came to North Dakota in 1901 and ‘ed near Glenbum, North -~ Dakota, Minn,, in 1880. He moved to Nortd North Dakota - in 1902, -where he- fri e :ge:uol!:l ahlfmmesteatd He has farm- since 1901. He has been a farmer all Dakota, near Glenburn, -about eight homesteaded and has farmed thera 5 R 8 life, his life. years ago. ; ever since. Jxm Copeland, Glenbum, was born in Ontralo Canada, in 1872 but has ; lived in North Dakota 20 Vears. 7 vears near’ Leeds z:nd 18"y davs. nbar C. G. Hill, was born in Iowa i in 1880 and moved to North Dakota in 1901 Glenburn. o where he homsteaded. near Glenburn and has farmed there smce. ERE is another group of the-men who are back of the farmer’s. league. -In the first few: aweeks of the-work -of -puilding * ,H this farmers’ organization the big problem was how to furnish transportation for the organizers. Here are some of the farmers who are paying 12 per cent interest on thousands of dollars borrowed early in the year to finance the.- -OrZaniza. —tion worke These 1 men got behind the movement in its infancy.They risked hundreds of dollars to give it life: and speed it on- 55 :lts way. to victory. . They proved themselves champions of progress and true friends of every farmer in the state when they steps | 3 : “ped eagerly-into the place where real men were needed and put this movement firmly on its feet. Every man who tills the soit : : o : is indebted to them. Write them your appreclatl s, - Gel acquainted. Shake -hands acress the plains and so build for bettes L thmgs. e These were some of the men labelled suckers and. grafters by. some dozens -of -the North Dakota papers and -secalled ; Tarm Joumals. life. They think a great deal of their families, as every maw should. They like to take good care of their families and THEY HAVE FOUND THAT THEY CAN TAKE BETTER CARB. HAD MOST MONEY IN THE STATE WERE NOT ANXIOUS|OF THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN IF THEY MAINTAIN Al iRl - - TOSEE THE FARMERS ORGANIZED! They were not—and are|GOOD, STRONG BANKERS' ORGANIZATION. e _ not now—opposed to organization—IF IT IS OF THE RIGHT| And you know it, too. You know that these men Whe are so 3 S KIND. But the kind of organization that the men who have|well organized do take better care of their families than mosé - the most .money want IS AN ORGANIZATION MADE UP BY|farmers do. Their -boys do not stay out of schoel to -plow. ney - THEMSELVES—AN ORGANIZATION THAT THEY CONTROL|do their wives and daughters- spend-long- hours at hard, unre- and that they can use to fix the price of their services and to|numerative labor. »keep the farmer from fixing any prices. - Now we must give these gentlemen credit for much inteltix i -Ta. state it a little differently, bankers, for- example, are very | gence and-much manhood. They:know: that their first-duty is to LS strbng for orga.mzat:on——we know ‘they are strong for organiza: | THEIR families, and - THEY "ARE: TAKING CARE: OF - THE#S: . tion because they are very strongly organized—no group of men [FAMILIES!—very: goed:care. ‘But they could-not-so well-da this ~ +in’ North Dakota has any stronger oorganization than-the Bankers|if ‘they were not:so well -organized—onganized te. -bring -abosais - have, The bankers like this organization of theirs-and they main-|better = conditions—for. themselves and “THEIR . FAM!BI%, " tain 1# from enr to year. . They have ail been.‘membem of their FIRST—AND: MOSTLY., - : . They have-found that if they ha.ve a-good;: streng organua- -tion ‘they-.can -hold conventions—they de this' every year—thoy dxd it this year—they discuss things that are of- special interestt to ‘bhem-—how best to: proeeed in the busmess they are m-—tho - _fi : i No men or group of men‘were back of the movement with AP - millions—plenty of men there were with plenty of money to spend ~ —for the things they warted—BUT THE CLASS OF MEN WHO