The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 4

¢ Saidfmners.> ; B © o nre - ; Hlsappomtment. PAGE FOUR (Contmued fmm page .-;) T.PAKE’SUCH GOOD CARE OF. THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. We must g1ve them credlt for gomg at it in the best way to succeed. . When they want 3. law tha.t Wfl! help them in'their busmess they do not put up a weak, scattering effort but umted wn;h one woice demand it—and usually getit. And. though only a small * percentage “of the people of the state are bankers: there are quite a large number of bankers in the lawmakmg body. Your .governor for whom you voted is a BANKER govemor He is very promment in the banker’s orgammtlon of this state ‘and not | a few 'men suspect that-he spends more time workmg in' the interest of the BANKER ORGANIZATION to which he: belongs than he does in the interest of the farmers who elected “him. - But why shouldn’t he? His banker friends and. other business gen- tlemen who were in sympathy with the bankers, were the men who persuaded you to elect a hanker governor. And what is true of the bankers is true of all other pro- Fessions and brands of business. All these.groups of men .who successfully bring about. geod .conditiens—for themselves, are or- ganized. The better they are .organized the more successful they are in bringing about- good conditions—for themselves. - So we see’that the successful groups of men in the state— fien who have done well and have money are: not opposed to prganization—FOR THEMSELVES. They will and do spend much money for organization when that organization is to serve them- selves. BUT THEY HAVE NO MONEY AND NO TIME TO|; IBUILD AN ORGANIZATION THAT WILL NOT SERVE THEM- SELVES.. And not only that they do not like to see farmers well organized, because they think-—and’ we hope they think right— that if the farmers are well organized, it may not.be so easy for ]awyers, bankers gnd other business gentlemen to have every- thing just'as they want it. They fear that farmers, if they shouid be well organized might elect a FARMER GOVERNOR—not a :Eake farmer governor; but a real one that the business gentle- men could not control—any more than the farmer can control the banker governor that we have now. In fact so mu(;h afraid of a real farmer organization are the well -organized gxpups of busi- nessmen that they have for years been drilling into the farmer ... the idea that a STRONG: FARMER ORGANIZATION WAS AN : I[l!/[POSSIBILITlr Farmers, they said, COULD NOT STICK TO- GETHER. They weré sure of it; for they know that if farmers .. everdo stick together:it will not be so easy for them to elect their <.:banker ‘governor-and lawyer legislator. - 5 For: thiz reason:-most. of these gentlemen look with disfavor ‘-upon ‘the famer’s-efforte to.organize. They do not want to see the toiling: half-a handred: thousand food producers banded to- . gether to make farm. life -more respected: Of course, here and » _\____—— AT HA T $6 SUCKER CLUB” —_— 'spasmodic conniption fits? It is be- cause the farmers are organizing. They are organizing a league—the Farmers’ Non-partisan League it is called. ' The farmers who join this league are paymg membershxp fees of 96 each. it is alleged. It is said that $1.50 of this money goes to pay for a year’s subscription to a popular magazine and another $1.50 goes to Ppay for 3 year’s subscription fo the official publication of the league .And there ‘evidently, is one of the “rubsX If part of that ‘money went -to the Fargo Forum and part of it to the Farm, Stock and Home, there wonld | « be no “holler.” Then, it is reported, the remainder of ‘the money goes to buy: automobiles. for the _organizers. 'and 'bear the expense of furthenng the organizstzon : Now, we hold 'no bricf for the so- called: non-partisan ‘league. But if the: farmers want to effect ‘such an |Ward County Democrat: _ . The above heading: appears=in- that |- ‘antiquated sheet known as the Fargo Foram. I"ollw?ng 1t $5°a lengthy dis- sertation, “part of which originated with the-Forum and: part of which was taken from an alleged ‘farm pub- Iicatmn known’ as the Farm, Stock and Home, -+ - Stripped--of lts cheap sarcasm the blunt and bare charge is that the farmers of North Dakota’ are’a fot of suckers.. ‘These - papers are both| long ‘and loud ' in ' their claims of friendship for the farmers—and then <all them a lot of suckers. Angd from . ithe large qu.umty of jurk that these g papershuemrhdo&onthefarm~ #rs, they may be: correct in their be- liéfs as to the “mckerableness “of :But what is really causmg these apers to toss reutlesnly on' - their Sleepless pillows is the fact that the | farmers. are not biting so- ‘hungrily | after the elusive bait that thesé two |men and’ bankers of this state are anglers toss: to them. - Not only 50, | organized and ‘they use their: organ but that are evidences, gentle rufa-|i : onomic and poli brs of evidences, that the farme:s cal advantage If the fntmers want going to' “‘cut their own bmt" a while. ' Now that is' a' sore iz a most cruet to do—t de- rs, pohtlcmns, husmess For ; ,#hmg for the farm orgamzatlon they certamly have our | 5 “THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Buszness Men Organzze—- Why Don’t the F armers there among the busmessmen are many exceptlons Not\a. few are w111mg to grant the producers “the privilege they demand, o themselves But most-of them are against the farmer. Whfle they , would have. us beheve that the farmer: and the busmessman_ shoald work in hannony yet when the farmer would build an or- ganization, that would include ALL ‘the. farmers as the lawyer'_ orgamzatxon includes. all the lawyers they ‘try to dlscoura;ge that. Thexr desire for harmony between farmers and busmessmen.v seems to be confined to the process of prodsucmg a crop to be turned over to them at thelr price. d ] ) onths of suecessful efforts to bmld ; the league no word of enc ragement has come “from those or- ga.mzed groups. But on. th:e other hand’ they have made every - effort to dlscourage and destroy. They: have. spread broadcast : the. report that the men who had:left their farms to do orgamza- tion work: were a bunch of “grafters.” Denounced those who joined as “rubes” and “suckers” alleging.that the thousauds who joined would never receive a paper or anything else and that there would be no organization. Through the newspapers: that these orgamzed groups control’ they have made every p0551b1e misrepresentation.” They have not acted:the part of gentlemen. They have insulted the men whose pictures accompany this article and the tens of thousands of farmers who have labored to bring into being the league and make a better day for men who toil. But they have so far utterly failed even to hinder or reta'rd the work. Most of the farmers know they cannot depend upon a newspaper or magazine controlled by the men who make the laws in-their own mterest and fix the price of farm products to suit themselves. ; But secretly and covertly, by every means w1thm its power, Big Business. through: its thousands of agents will lahor to de- stroy our farmer organization. e = jin Though all the members of the well orgamzed groups prompt- ly pay their share of what it costs to ‘maintain thelr orgamza.txon > farmers will be told they are wastmg their money- when they pay anything into a farmer’s organization. And when all efforts to prevent bulldmg of the league have faxled as. ‘they have, and they cannot ‘persuade you to withhold your support of your own or- - ganization they will vilify the men who built it and are managing it. You will be told that your leaders are no good—that they - are grafters and thieves and that “you' should: organize, all ‘right - but that you should- have SOMEONE ELSE TO RUN THE OR- GANIZATION. And they will be on the job with a man to run your organization FOR you. “Nothing sm\ts them better than to be able to pick the leaders on both sides. If the kaiser eould® pick ‘all the English, French and Russian generals he would be at ease for there would be no fight. And when Big®Business picks the men to run this organization as it picks your govemors Big Business will be at ease for there will be no fight. farmers should worry about that. I this farmers’ league is what it has been reported and is making the headway that has been charged that it has, then there is another “rub.” These two scavengers, along with an innumerable host of others ifi the same class, have held the political situation in their grasping hands so long that any prospect that such power may be wrested from them produces a cross between a violent attack of delirium tremens and Saint Vitus’ ‘dance, ag'gravated with “acute hydrophobu.. That " is the eeeond ; “rub These ofilce boys for Big Busi- ness do not want to see the farmers —who ‘are-real people of this*state and who have made all the wealth of this state-—get .in control of the po- Imcal and industrial” afiau's of this ‘state: “Thig''is the réason ever. ready. to sling dirty mud: and those chambermaids of Big Business see red.. And the fact that the farmers pay no attention to those mou’ch-pleees of plutocracy and are going ghead and doing as they please with their own money ‘is- a healthy indieation. And, we repeat, that while we are not pleading the cause of the Non-- partisan League vet it is ioy to see the worms squirm and we calmly sit back,and yell, “Sick ’em Tige."” somE nmmis. W - a The second. Germnn wn.rloa.n of 9- 060,000,000 marks was so large 2s to be mcomprehensible to The average soldier so one of ‘them’ proceeded to make: it mtelhgent by translatmg it into glasses of beer. Even then the, sum was staggering &tlmatmg ‘each glass :t 20 pfen- mgs, -or one-fifth of a mark, the in- dustrious. figurer - achieved 45,300,- 000,000 glasse ;