The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 28, 1915, Page 8

3 L i 4 H R B T AT Ry 7 A e V2 e *‘mmm 307 PAGE EIGHT ; THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Official Organ of the Nonpartisan League of North Dakota. BB Behrens: oo on o sesevesisenenes Editor and Manager o Api)lication made for admission to the mails as second class matter. Advertising rates on application. Subscriptions, one year, in advance, $1.50. Address, Box 919, Fargo, North Dakota. The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by farmers. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knoewingly ad- vertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. Discriminating advertisers recognize The Nonpartisan Leader as the best medium in the state of North Dakota through which to reach the wide- swake and up-to-date farmers. AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT HE LEADER takes pleasure in announcing to its readers T that very soon we will start a series of articles by the Hon. Chas. A. Lindberg, Congressman from the 6th Minnesota district. Mr. Lindberg has represented the 6th district in Congress for nearly ten years and is regarded as one of the most sanely progressive representatives in the lower House. Mr. Lindberg created extensive inferest by his money trust investigation 'and his subsequent book on that question. He is a student of the money or currency problem and what he shall have to say will be of value and interest to readers of the Leader. Mr. Lindberg has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the governorship of Minnesota in 1916. WHAT THE FARMER LOST IN TWO MONTHS CCORDING-to Secretary of Agriculture Huston, North Da- A kota wheat dropped 83 cents per bushel during August and 3 cents during September. We said dropped. What we meant to say was that it was knocked down, hammered down. That 3-cent drop meant a loss of $4 ,118,060. That 33-cent drop meant a loss of $47,118,060. The total loss for August and September was $51,400,000. Here is the caper the market cut: At the outbreak of war wheat was 76% cents. First of April, on the farms, it was $1.31. First of April, at Markets, it was $1.50 to $1.75. When the big crop was a certainty it was $1.06. . When it began to move it was 91 cents. When it got to moving good, 86 cents. But the 1916 wheat is worth about $2.00 a bushel now! THE BLESSINGS OF “PREPAREDNESS” a CLERGYMAN in New Orleans, was awakened by somebody in his study. Thinking the intruder was a burglar, he seized a revolver and fired, killing the son of his friend— he was prepared. THE NONPARTISAN LEADER - The shipping trust takes it from New York to Liverpool and charges 36 cents a bushel and makes over and above all reason- able profit $60,000 per ship load. And if the farmer attempts to organize and fix things so he can get a few cents more, the mouth pieces of big business will scream “Sucker,” “rube,” “graft!” When big and respectable thieves and thugs cop off four or five thousand per cent these same saintly sheets attribute it. to “business sagacity and industrial far-sightedness.” LAND IS SLIPPING AWAY realize that its land inheritance is slipping away, and that ownefship is being concentrated into the hands of a limited number of individuals.” , In the foregoing words Invéstigator Holman of the Industrial Relations Commission warns the nation of the growing tenant problem. . In justifying his alarm he cites some striking instances. Out of 27 counties in Georgia he points out, 70 per cent of the farms were occupied by tenants, 20 per cent by owners so heavily in debt that they were hardly any more independent than tenants, and only 10 per cent were actually independent. In Texas, he affirms, more than 200,000 farms are tended by tenants. That 200,000 farms comprise more that. 52 per cent of the total number of farms in Texas. i As a remedy for these conditions, the San Francisco Bulletin recommends state credits. . A The state can give cheaper credits, because it requires no profits and because what is to the interest of the farmer is to the interest of the state. How much more far-sighted it would be for the state to loan money to farmers at a low rate on long loans than to loan it to Banks at low interest who in turn loan to farm- ers at high rates. 3 THE time has come for the people of ‘th'is government to THEY ARE TRYING TO BEFUDDLE YOU AST week, under a Fargo date line, a news story appeared L in a Northwest-Dakota newspaper purporting to set forth some of the activities of the Nonpartisan League with rei- erence to candidates for governor. B This report affirmed that the League had held recent con- ferences in this city at which it was decided to “put up” one of two candidates for governor, naming them. The Nonpartisan Leader desires to most emphatically brand these statements as absolutely false and untrue. Ne such con- ferences have been held. No conferences have been held. No such, or any other selections have been made. There is absolutely no. foundation in fact for this report. It is a fabrication pure and simple. It hatched in the prolific brain of a conniving political trickster. Itis an effort to confuse you—to mislead you, to befud- dle you. . ; 2 Remember your rock salt. - When “conferences” are held, you, the inembers of the’ League will hold them. You members of the League will make “selections” for office when any are made. You thirty-thousand farmers are the League. When you have done anything you will A Cleveland street car conductor was awakened in the night | know it. And you will do it before the gang knows anything by footsteps in the hall. He took a handy revolver, one that you | about it. “aim just like pointing the finger,” slipped to the door, called out, and receiving no answer, fired. His eigh at his feet—he was prepared. i ; A New Jersey father kept a revolver in the house to shoot burglars with. The other day his little boy got the pistol, and while playing with it, shot and killed himself—the father was prepared. - ; Two men in Chicago had a “few words.” In, the heat of passion one of the men whipped out a handy-automatic and shot his friend, killing him instantly—he was prepared. e Ten or a dozen European nations have.for years spent mil- lions for army and navy maintainance. Today they are all torn| them for so.many years. _ ey \ ; - " Out in Nebraska they are awakening. At the convention and rent with the greatest war the world has ever known—they were prepared. : o - HIGH HANDED SLUGGERY HE present rate on wheat from New York to Liverpool is 86 | tem ‘has furnished no equitable aid,” and pledged its members . cents a ‘bushel. Don't believe these stories. The fellbWs who write them t-year-old girl fell dead|don’t know what they are writing about. 'Their wishes are the parents of their thoughts. They are plunging in the dark. They are tossing in their sleep. They are worried. They are talking out of their heads. . : ; .~ OTHERS ARE AWAKENING NORTH Dakota farmers are not the only farmers that are \| coming out of the hypnotic spell-that. the interlocking- - . league of lenders, speculators and creditors have cast.over = % of the Farmers’ Union recently held at Lincoln; a resolution was column of Big Biz in undulating waves. | passed that will send the cold shivers up and down the spinal - Tt went on record “charging ‘that the Federal Reéefié st- This is about seven times the normal|to oppose all candidates for presidency, United States Senator or charge. The owners of vessels now ma,lg’e $60,00_O more| Congress who would not than a normal profit on one trip. S e ; ; The excuse for-this robbery is the disappearance of German and Italian merchant ships for war purposes. . - flesh for its penny. ; i ‘ It costs the farmer 80 cents to produce that wheat and he charges, freight charges and other incidentals. government ownership of all arms and munitions: works.” man| ~ They further denounced the present. banking law, declaring ships from the seas and the diversion of many English, French|that it delegates the power to issue money to private institutions : : -| for private benefits, and demanded that Congress re In other words, as soon as ‘competition is eliminated those people their constitu enjoying a monopoly begin at once to exact the last pound of{and to that end demanded that the “National restore to the ue of money, _ government shall tional right to control t operate the banks for the benefit of all the people, as it now runs ; : , the post office, turning the profits into the peoples’ treas ry in- gells it for 90, out of which he pays brokerage, dockage, elevator| stead of into the coffers of ivate interests” © pledge themselves to vote for “exclusive