The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 12

Ty et 6 - Leader. .+ FRED W. SWENSON Fred W. Swenson lives near Bis- The League and Its Newspaper Are Welcomed WHAT A MINNESOTIAN SAYS To Editor the Leader: Recejved first copy of the Nonpartisan Leader yesterday. Will say that I think she’s a humdinger. If you don't know what a humdinger is, ask Roo- sevely. I am told that he under- stands all those phrases. I am not much for style, I have read farm papers for twenty-five .years. I wear clothes for comfort, .read farm papers to get knowledge (of how to produce more and get less)) but.in the Non-partisan Leader i get comfort, knowledge and style, 21l for one dollar and a half which you will find enclosed in the form of aP. O order.t G. H. Toble, Federal Dam, Minn, marck, is a real farmer who farms a farm and is a League booster, having given of his valuable time to help .the organizers meet his neighbors, To The Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have read both the first and sec- cond numbers of your paper, the It is just the kind of a paper the farmers need to wake them up for political action. The contribution from Olaf Larson was fine and we need more of such réading from farmers throughout the state of North Daketa. But in the first number there was gome reading against the loan to the 'Allies by the United States banks and in the second number there was some more against England and if ithe editor don’t leave out that kind of stuff he will commit suicide both to his paper and the cause of the farmers. “The names of the farmers whose experiences are about to be related here, with their places of residence and a full verification of the facts, are in the possession of the Leader. For obvious reasons the names and anything that would identify them are withheld. They have troubles enough already, without exposing them to more. But readers may be perfectly sure that these are faithful accounts of weritable happenings. in - the State of North Dakota, land of plenty. They are reported by League] “organizers who find such things -al- most daily. : | A careful perusal is recoxrmended, particularly to railroad ‘and . other agents engaged in furthering “Boost- er Week.'™. ; “*Let’ us ecall ithe first farmer Mr: X. He lives in a certain county in ithe central western part of the state, THE NONPARTISAN LEADER We all know of the outrages com- mitted by the German government against Belgium and France when they have taken territory and set up a government over several million JFrople. *And also the outrages on |the high seas by sinking passenger ships with innocent passengers on beard. We also know about German proraganda in this country to wreck American industry and blow up build- “ings and bridges. This is a big- blot on the German government and a blot that is hard to .come off. The Allies have either got to fight or lay down and be conquered. g RALPH K. STEENERSON, Upham, No Dak. BEAOH PAPER’S WELCOME From Golden Valley Chronicle: The Nonpartisan Leader, the officy ial organ of the Nonpartisan leagues an organization that has recently ‘been formed by farmers throughout the state, made its initial aprear- ance last week. The new publication is published in Fargo. The Nonpartisan Leader is an at- tractive sheet with the editorials and cartoons that quickly give one the impression that the publication is primarily devoted to the interest of; the farmers of North Dakota. The newly organized League pro- poses o affiliate with no particulay political party’ but will be willing to supprt any. candidate who mani- fests an interest in the needs of the farmer. MAY BE A MSES Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The Nonpartisan League, like Moses will deliver the agricultural industry of this state from the bondage of or- ganized interest of the 20 percent class, The fate of Pharaoh and his men should be a warning to big business politicians. The Belshazzars of to- day see the handwriting on the wall. The farmers will not have to beg for legislation but will help themselves, and’ with the splendid leadership of the Nonpartisan Leader bkacked up by over 90 per cent of the people of the state the industry represented vy 80 per cent of the reople of the state will gove'n and dictate the next legislature. Let. us rejoice, Righteousness wiil come in Nerth Da: kota. C. J. Qlsen, Valley Cily, N. Dak. The Leader fight for the farmers. ALL WILI. BE MEMBERS. To The Nonpartisan Leader:—I am glad to see that we have an editor who can get out such a good paper, for I feel sure that it will do a great deal to help get the fariners together. The men who started this Nonpartisan League ought to be pre- sénted with a gold medal—they are sure all right. When I found out that there was such an organization started I inves- tigated and found it was all right and was glad to help the orgaunizers all T could. I shall still do all I can to get more farmers to juin. When I get through reading the Leader I send it to those I know are not members. I think if the members will all do this there will soon be rone who.are not members We have a good start and raust not stopy here. We must keep the good work going until we -are-the strongest organization in the state. - I hope the Leader will continue to grow until we have a Daily Leader. We can make some of the big bosses| | that have been running .the state go |- howe 2nd wash and comb' the:s: prie-] PAG ...AP"'EEN in receipt of the first two numbers of the “Nonpartisan Leader.! As a member of the League I desire to congratulate the ‘Six Dollar Sucker Club.” If T am not mistaken it will make the “Sick Dollar Sucking Club” look sicker. It may limit the amount of their sucking. The literary and mechanical make- up (barring a few typographical er- rors), is commendable. I am passing them on to an acquaintance: connect- ed with the School of Journalism— for. his opinion. The caliber of your guns seem to be 42 centimeter at least. Keep up the bombardment. At least I may know whether in retiring to a farm dle dogs and we will feedthe: pigs with self-feeders so we WOn’t need 5 to swill taem. f i Respectfully, i W. B. ANDRE“S ! Petersburg, 'q i GOT THEM GOING. . |, Dear Editor:—I have read your or rather ‘our own’ paper and am well pleased. Let me say to Big Business, Don’t you worry about our six dol- lars. We have landed them O. K., this time. We have been dictated to long enough. We are the bread win- ners of the world and yet our time and labor has had no comparative value whatever with that of other vocations. It’s about time that the majority class of the world has something to say about the making of laws that benefit its interests. When your organizer came into our community to organize for the Nonpartisan League I. most gladly went with him among my neighbors/ and from the fact that 28 were add- ed to the list in one day speaks for itself that the cause was welcome. Now speed along and good luck to so worthy a cause. Yours for =uccess, OLE PAULSON, - Portland No. Dak. Editor Nonpartisan Leader? I am reforms the League advocates yet he could not give it his financial sup- port for the following reasons: Up to last fall he owned a half sec- tion of land, a half of which, or one quarter section, he had mortgaged at the old familiar rate of 12 per cent. Last year his crops failed and he was unable to meet his. mterest pay- ment. = A The banker that held the mortgage forced payment, and took posse.sion: of 160 acres of the land. Mr. X was now obliged to sell his stock in order to get money on which to live. The banker refused to rent to him the land ke kad lost and th? daily problem that confront the ‘farmer is ‘whether he can scrape .enough out of this year’s work to re- tain the land still left to him. If that goes the net result of years of toil, deprivation”and anxiety will be the bare fact that he is still Zlive. which he ‘had long been in accord. He was in the very act of:signing hig name to the enrollment list, when- something happened -on the separator that required his immediate atten- tion. He stepped aside saying that he would return in a moment and com- plete the transaction. = - He did not return for half an heur and when he did come it was to say that he had changed his mind ard would not now join the League. . Subsequently the fact was develop- 'ed that when-he stepped away from the organizer’s side he encountered the banker that owned the land. The Farker incuired who the organizer was. When he was told he strongly “advised” the farmer to have noth- ing to do with the’ 'League or 1its agents: : ‘He owned the land. Mr. A was his renter. - . Pendectly Sdihfiolu . /An organizer from the Nonpartisan | He -will hardly have lgft to him the} I:eagmcflb&upouhimtoaskhm _to join it. After hearing the aims| .and ob:ects of the - orgamzatlon lhe id " that ‘while he wodd ‘do all Inf shoes on “his feet. : The Case of A. This farmer was thres!nng when' an lorganizer of the League ‘called upon _pomx te im'tfier the movemont, sihce [him. = He learned with enthusiasm: of | thexe was no necessity feranychnnge. i he saw phmlx the necessity of thq _the Iaeag'ues ob;écts. with' all ot Bc mputxcuhfly p!euei 'mth the T}ns was ontiof the very few farm- ers that would not join the League. Hetofltheommthtmfar a8 he could see there' was wrong” ‘in exhtinzcbn&ifiom,and- GEORGE .N. VARNUM George N. Varnum of Menoken, Burleigh County, s one of the live wires of the League in his neighbgr- hood. He is a regular farmer, knows the interests of the farmer and freely gives his time to help organize. in North Dakota I am leading the “Simple Life” or the life of the siin- ple. If the objects of the League are not in time attained I shall in- deed think we are simple. But it means organization aud plenty of fight yet. J. H. GREENE, TUrbana, Ill. Editor The Leader: The Nonpar- tisan League combines efficiency and demoecracy, - a combinition rarely found. ' Efficiency in the working force and democracy in that the peo- ple will elect servants rather than dictators, as representatives. The ‘wide publicity of political af- fairs, given by the League will make the formation of a ‘ gang” impossible, = ALBERT WEBER. From the Note Books of the League Organizers current rates of interest and opposed to any reduction in them, for they seemed to him to be quite fair and reasonable. ; In quiry developed the'fact that Mr. W had inherited an independent for- tune which he had lent advantageous- ly at current rates and that farming was largely an incident with him. A Sod House Case. ' In a northern central county an or- ganizer came upen the case of a man from. Illinois that had arrived with his wife and two chaildren, taken a half section and built a sed house. He mortgaged the land to buy it, then mortgaged his machinery, horses, cat- tle and bedstead. The mortgagees SWOOFP(] down upon him and took practically everything except the sod house. By selling the family wash boiler and other utensils the man got enough to enable the wife dnd children to-go back: to Illinois and he started to walk back when some chir~ itable PErsons {nterposed and rmged was' nothing| .enough to pay his fare. The sod. house is. still ‘on the M,, ‘The organizer suggests that it form: an -exhibit for ‘ Booster Week™ . ¥ 3 YRR e 5 S S E———— S S