The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1915, Page 2

St b e T 5% S N e ee——— - al Republican committeeman, attract-|and county clubs should actively as- 40 years of preparedness for war! It . bank—the ‘Second’ National—in. New!men’ ’and naturally in their own in-' PAGE TWO ' THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Slgmfzcant Things in Events of the Day Eleven Big' Thieves|Farmers' Conference| Eva Marshall Shontz Says Go vernment S‘tand 'Before the | Clubs Pass Radi- | Makes Fervid Plea | Shoild Run Hs Bar of Justice— cal Set of Res- | In Interest of Own Powder - Maybe olutions World Peace Plant New York, Oct. 14.—All the en-| The farmers conference of Farmers’| San Francisco, Oct. 20.—“This in-| ‘By Gilson Gardner. ' tangling alliances of the great New. Clubs, held at the Fair Grounds at'stant”—Eva Marshall Shonte fervidly| Washington, Oct. 14.—If the gov- Haven octopus’ were grouped together, ‘the time of the State fau', voted to gnd dramatically shot the words at|ernment of the United States had this afternoon in federal district 'submit a set of resolutions to the the International Peace conference |manufactured its own smokeless pow- court here. various local clubs throughout the de]egaf,es when the convention open-|der during the eight years between They were represented in the 11 State. ed here today—“58 per cent of the|1903 and 1913 the savings would have present and past directors of the| It is understood that the farmers habitable globe is swept by war! built a $10,000,000 dreadnaught! New Haven Co., on. trial under. the intend to present these resolutlonsl “Of the 1,721,000,000 human beings| During these eight years the gov- criminal section of the-anti-trust law. l'at the meetings held during the Short on this planet 1,000,000,000 are mur-jernment paid for smokeless powder They are charged with conspiracy to Course at the State University. The dering each other! - $21,998,250.77. ' The department pa‘d monorplize the transportation and 'resolutions have a good ring and we| “From August to July the war cost|for this at the rate of 80 cents a commerce of New England. ! herewith reproduce them: the world $18,500,000,000. {pound for 3,297,712 pounds of 3@-cal- Shorn of Influence 1. We, the delegates and members| “From August to July 2,300,000 hu- |iber powder, and at the rate of 65 In the little federal ccurtroom.:Of Farmers’ Clubs in conference as- man beings were slaughtered by their{cents a pound for 29'5:5’512 pounds with its straight wooden seats and sembled, congratulate the Extension fellows, and nearly 5,000,000 more {of ,atmy.a:: na;gr o Ae less powler. high judge’s bench, the captains of I Division of the State University on|Were butchered so they will never be < Y TTOWR AWAY. o i finance and ‘political kings were shorn|the great work it has done in organ- real men again. ] el government Hanow mahu‘:g of all their influence. -They stood be-|izing these clubs, and hope and desire| U.S. 1s Threstened ; we pewderTal‘t A coat ol ;96 fore’ Uncle Sam’s. plain muhogany bar{that it will continne to aid and assist| “Such incomprehensible = figures! |cents a‘hf:‘;“‘:im his 36 cents cov- of justice in the simple role .of de-|in this work until every neighbor- Such unbelievable massacre! (AEEIRDYOTIERM Caarges and every pos- fendants. hood in the state shall have some| “Ill tell yon what it’s coming to if |sible cost, so the government could Charles F. Brooker, former nation-|form of farm organization. Local the United States follows "Europe’s i’;?t::i“i:gimfilf;a;z?: 62:):’:: ing a saving of $10,167,496.13. “There is no competition in the bid- ding on Smokeless powder. Nor does the government .at present make -enough powder to force any material reduction in the price demanded by the powder trust. War Officers Know [H. This! condition exists with the ap- rroval of the high officers in the war and navy departments who ‘have charge of the purchase of munitiors. | Gen. William Crozier, chief of eord- |sance of the army, and Admiral Twin- e]ing, former chief of ordnance of the navy, have gone on record as fav- oring the purchase of powder. It was Crozier who, recommended that tte trust should not be dissolved after the court’s deeree. He wrote offi- cially, saying: = “The department @oes not find itself ‘pressed by any neces- sity for a change in the present sit- uation.” Favors One Gontract. Admiral Twining told a congres- sional committee he thought it was “distinctly to the advantage of the government to have all the powder that is made by commercial concerns |made by -one company or under one management. % * % & h:leye it better for the govemment to con- tinue geting its powder from them rather than encourage others to com:2 into the business.” ed considerable -attention, Wlmam’sxst in this work. We hereby extend" i i coming to death and destruction Reckefeller: walked slowly to a seat|fraternal greetings to all other farm for us. b : near the press table: He carried a' Organizations in this and other states.| “America farces a crisis undreamed cane and leaned on the arm of his{ 2. As agriculture is the basis of of; nof only for hefself, but for the attorney. the nation’s wealth, it must necessar- World. Shall America leave the fu-) Near Rockefeller sat Lewis Cass ily follow that when the farmers are |tUre & heritage of %estructwn and a ledyard, who for years steered the'prosperous all other classes prosper. ‘ca.t;aclysrn of deat?h. 2 late J. P. Morgan over the-most intri-| 3, The prosperity of the farmer| . If America would give per year to cate legat pround, nde ot ‘only- sxpon is’ abllity o missions the $50,000,600 the war costs: 2 dep. : | per day our share of the v.orldm!d' Lawgyer is at Ease Araise good crops, but also upon his be Christianized in 25 years. . Edward D. Robbins,.a shrewd - 1aw-|recemng remunerative prices for his| “For ‘thousands of years i yer, aprared perfectly at ease:. A. pProducts. have waited Heaton-Robertson, preminent in:New/| - 4. The prices now -paid to farmer.s‘ Haven politics, and James-C.- Heming-' for their products are very largely o) by the billions. At last we.: way, head .of the so-called- railway fixed by - certain so-called “Middle- 'Jane Addams and the American sgom- .en doing something to stop it. Do 1| Haven, seemed entirely indifferent-to terests and therefore to the detri-' hear woman’s universal ultimatum?] their surroundings:. Direetly in front' ment of the producting class. {Do I see a world parliament for of Robertson was.Frederick F. Brew-| 5 In order that farmers may re-ipeace. Ay, it is coming!” ster, sportsmwan. and capitalist, a.nd'cewe and enjoy the just profits of Speech is Cheered near him was Charles M. Pratt, a'their labors, they must have trans-{ Several hundred men and women multi-millionaire of .the Standard Oil portation at cost, and we therefore delegates cheered the speech. ' Ths: crowd. -He secemed impatient at the pelive the Government should exer- 'eonventmn, possibly later tcday, will] terrible waste of time. 'cise its right and power of eminent ,take up the drafting into definite Henry K. McHarg, banker and for- domain and take possession of the' form of Miss Addams’ universal peace merly a governor of . the- New York telegraph and railway. lines and oper- pla,n, which she announced has no Stock Exchange, fat at the counsel gte the same at cost, and for the _concern with diplomats nor interna-' table .with the air of a hored. cl‘5‘i"[muttml benefit of all the people. |tional lawyers who, she says, are not wan. Robert W. Taft ;a. Provxdence‘ 6. We believe the interests of the Worth wasting time on in gaining cotton manufactuser, -who-made:$if people of Minnesota are paramount Peace. 900,000+ 2t i job;-\and . B Newtons i superior to the interests of non-| Uron America, Secretary Lucia Barney, completed. the defendants. tesident speculators, and thiz fa:t Ames Mead of the Woman’s Peace Hard to Get Jury should be recognized by the powerslPaTtY told the eonvention, depends: It is expected:-a week will -be:con- ; i whether we prepare for war and set sumed in getting a jury. It took two o thenGonk nment. Rt i 7. The proper development of the the pace for South America and Asia, g Ol Taesday- to. get -one and an'great agngh?l;'al andpmmmeral 1'e-‘°1‘ whether we stand firm for peace Hour :tu;saet - javors 2ad-5 Aeday. Lsmurc:es of Minnesota will afford re- and let South Ameriea and Asia fol- De}anevy Nieall; who'is:spoken-of as munerative employment to all her low us. the “lawyer wn,:’h a tongue as Sharp’peop.le and we believe the funds be- She foresaw, she said, the world a as his intellect,”” ‘was. examining U Jonging to the state especially the 'labyrinth of bread lines in America ors for.:the defense. J. Osborn, es-; d , X 3 { permanent- school funds, should not doesn’t fight for peace until Europe’s pecm!ly retained:by the government, be invested in other states,” but blaze is quenched. She characterized exammec’{ them for- the government.: s’hou.ld be loaned on long time at a'rnfle practice as silly and declared G. W. Miller, :83, .and a'defendant; is low rate of interest to need de- that Germany, even though victor- too ill at-his Merristown (N: J.) home v, and e : : = serving farmers to aid them in clzar- ious, would have her vast territories to. attpndetiestein iing their land and establishing homes. Inecessanly unguarded and open to 8. We stand for economy and effi- Iattack sooner or later from “330,000,- iciency-in the administration of state;000 revengeful. foes” She said no 'affairs; but we do not deem it a wise nation in the world could effectively I}:.ohcy to hamper or restrict the acti-, ‘attack the United States. - ,vities of our state university; espec- The conference is pecul'arly con- .ially the extension - department, by cerned with peace as'a fundamental niggardly or madequate arpropria- proposmon rather than in formulat- tions. .|ing plans to stop the prexsnt- war. . 9. We b’*heve that frmers skould i S ey : study political questions and debate| KISSLESS ‘MAN SOAKED $20,000. them at. the club meetings and whlle o ; endeavoring ‘to be just and fair. tb| Mineola, L.-1, Oct. 8- Warren A sther interests should give themselves | Browne ‘must- pay Joseph O’Connor’ ‘and their own calling that consider- |St. John $20,000 for alienation of Mrs.. ; n nd final action that thexr own St. John’s afl"ectlons, ‘though he swears ? he never kissed nor hugged a woman | - m all the 54 yem:s of ‘hig ‘non-amor-. HIGHER ECONOMY. "Among the Japanese economy is ‘held to be a high wvirtue. Two old misers of Tokyo were one day .dis- cussing ways and means of saving. “I manage to make a fan last about 20 years,” said one, “and this is my system:: 1 don’t wastefully open £he whole fan and wave it carelessly. I open only one secfion at a Time. That is good for about a year. Then I open the next, and so on until the fan is eventually used up.” “Twenty years for a goud tan'" exclaimed the other. “What -sinful extravagance! ‘In my family, we use a fan for two and three generattons. and this is how we do it: 'We ‘spen {the whole fan, but we don't wear it out by waving it. Oh, no! We hois it still, like this, under our'nose; and wave our faoe"’-—Everyhoflys=Maga- zine d W thh alarm the ra:? :acmnmilatmn of wealth m the [ . other legislation to regulate and con-| peal. STl e Onbn ey lowermg wheat *!'he A dray load of Nonpartisan Leade!s “tro}. .these - great fartnms—-o) W o — ‘bre . : ‘Going POy mtbammoa.,fim. adjustment’ of the income tax an&.‘ jssle : ¥ )y _'The r breaks his back ralsmzf,f