The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 7, 1915, Page 11

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER te F armers, They Say, “Can’t Stick Together By Enc Moen “Farmers can’t stick together.” - g sl b i S thmg out ‘of all this"work==to secure control of their own mar- ‘ How :the "well ‘organized bankers-do love to make us be- kets. Just wait.: Watch ‘what happens. It is happening right now. . dieve; this—and .the well “organized -lawyers and the well or-| : Orgamzmg to control your own markets: is another mattere -, «anized merchants, and all the rest of the well organized fel-|That is not allright. That is, it is not allright with the big fel< dows who live off of the unorganized farmers. lows. They don’t like it. They won’t stand for it. They’ll fight “They. used-to tell:the. samq .th3ng o.f_t_h_e_ ca:rpenters And the first. It’s simply out of the question. It won’t de. - -xailroad men, and the machinists.. But these men organized just| The idea! If the farmers controlled their own markets how “the 'same. - They are sticking. together. 'And they are getting|could the b1g fellows control them? MBI, <. < o e e T TR R If the big fellows lose control of your markets how will they So it is ‘only 'the: poor. fa¥mer ‘who is left. " It is onIy the|pe able to live? Harmers who.can’t stick'together.: «* -+ -+« They will have to go to work. Perhaps they will-even have to SDAd, AR ALY TS e v go farming. Just think of it—farming—real work. .3f we -believed . the ‘ordinary :press: and politician, which we Nothing doing. It's easier to work the farmer—by telhng ’3303* we would natnrally think that the moment a man turned|him he can’t stick together. ‘Much easier—and more profitable. - T R P TR S T uother world Some freak that dldnt haVe‘ Sérise’ efl()ug'h ‘tb'c’o’rfie Farming the farmer 1s profitable. It is very prof:ta;ble. an out of the rain. e e b e e Farming the farmer is so profltable that the big fellows can af- Of course it is ridiculous, .-+ e - K e RO ford to pay big money to keep on farming him. The long and-short: of it is the-big fellows-are frightened The big fellows can afford to pay the newspapers big money. 1o death for fear the farmers WILL -organize:: ‘The farmers are|to tell the farmer he can’t stick together. They can afford a0t any different from anyone else. . But the men who live off of [to pay the lawyers and the orators and here and there a local - ‘him don’t want him to organize. -And: they are domg everything | farmer who is “in,” to keep telling the farmer he can’t stick in their power .to keep him from organizing. together. ' ; 5 i “They wouldn’t mind if the farmers organized to raise more Sometimes the farmer believes he can’t stlck together. He Fain.. That would mean more. easy. money. for the big fellow. In|tells his neighbor he ean’t stick together Then that neighbor Hfact they are willing-to-do: all-they can ‘to help the farmer or- tells another neighbor he can’t stick together. ~Pretty soon every- * 4zanize to raise more grain, They spend money. They let the |body is saying the farmer can’t stick together. "Finally all but - farmersrhave the use .6Trtheir luxurious:commercial clubs. They , the brightest farmers actually believe: the farmers can’t st‘ck to fet bekind: hetter farm ‘movements-<neéver -behind better mar-|gether—and don’t. s et moyements: | They:even offer to-run the farmers’ organiza- This is great for the big fellow: It’s just what he wants tions. . Especially the latter. : In fact he could not exist without it. : 4 So as™long-as the farmers-organize: merely to raise bigger{ | As long as most of the farmers think they can’t stlck to- crops;-or better crops;-or to raise cropsoftener, they are allright. | getehr they DON'T stick together. They don’t even get together. As long as the farmers -organize merely to raise more stock, or The Nonpartisan Leader is telling the farmer he CAN stlck s better stock, or ta raise:stock oftener, $hey are allrlght That’s together : all aliright. . /It pays-—the big fellews..2 .- « ‘. The Non;artlsan League -is SHOWING the- farmer he’can But waxt. until: the- farmers begm to organize to get some-- stxck together : ‘ : : ain Growers of North Dakota: ln 1911, there-was formied, by farmers, a corporation, for the handling of grain on termmal = .:markets,.&nwn as.,the,thmtyCo-operative Exchange. It began business in Minneapolis, Minn. % - »and Superior, Wis. August Ist, 1912—a little more than three years ago. It began in opposition to & :sthe:most:strongly-intzenched combine in our land—The Minneapolis Chamber of Gemmerce. By - 2 . that.institution -we -havebeen. maligned and slandered from the public platform and in the s M@ufimmmm been pers:cuted in the courts. v WM% We are handling now over 500,000 bushe's of grain each 3 ' ;m that !:kis will soon be increased to'a mmion. i R ] fi\e:hmfitof the farmers. Weneed yom’ cn-opemtwn. 4 Buya shmnf e e r fl’m --Consign your grain tousatSt. Paul and- Supedor ‘Wis.. Help' i :zu&gm,wwm&asm;hmmea part of our great:purpose. - Sl tEx y Beetflg:‘fifb *ma» Kefley,herm,s B;., Y vty Neitimier. Valloy cny, N.D. : i : MamsJo]msm, Kimball, Minn.; J. M. Anderson, St. Paul. th:Dakota State Ummt American’ Society of Equty 08, Qmwmk Pres.,P M Oaay Llsben,"V!ee-haes Ao ; 'thmer, Velva C A Swamon, Dnscoll ‘.L: E. McAdoo, Turde Lake - % T