The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 9

#he THE NONPARTISAN LEADER PAGE NINE The League and Its Newspaper Are Welcomed FARMER'S ELEVATOR STUNG This farmer’s elevator at Powers Nake,- North” Dakota, is a good ex- ample of the way Big Business co- operates with the farmer. The building was erected with funds subscribed by the farmers around Powers Lake. Upon its completion the farmers found they would have to borrow money to finance its op- eration and the buying of grain. The local bank being unable or unwill- ing to advance the amount neces- sary, they were referred to Ely Sil- ars Grain Co. of Duluth. The Sil- iars Company egreed to advance the money at an interest rate of 10 per cent provided 65 per cent of the grain bought was shipred to the Siliars company. At first glance this may look al- right. but study it for a moment and, you will see the joker. The farmers at Powers Lake build and operate an elevator for the Ely Siliars Co. The Siliars Co. have nothing invest- ed. It costs the Siliars Co. nothing for insurance or wear and deprecia- tion of machinery and building. Six- ty-five per cent of the grain purchas- ed must be shipped to the Siliars Co. In addition the farmers pay the Sil- iars Co. 10 per cent interest for the money. used to buy gran for this company, or about $1500 a year re- bate to the Ely Siliars Company A KNOCK THAT BGOSTED. Up in Traill county a well-known farmer, who had been over-looked by the League, was thansacting some business with a certain banker at X. The banker asked him if he had yet contributed his bit to the “six-dollar grafters.” Upon inquiry the farmer learned that Mr. Banker referred to the Non- partisan League. This farmer, it ap- rears had somewhat of a mind of his own. He therefore questioned the banker as to why he referred to the . Leaguers as grafters. The banker was unable to produce any proof of his charge and betrayed the fact that the League was not composed, of bankers, lawyers, mer- chants ,etc., ete., but was. composed entirely of farmers. Thereupon the farmer informed the banker that it was his firm intention to aid the movement at his earliest opportunity. - Did this farmer join the League? He did, and that just in five min- " utes after seeing an organizer. Nonpartisan Leader: The Leader gets better with every issue. I think with every number that it cannot be beat, but the next one beats it. All the farmers in- my neighbor- hood, who get the Leader, think it is great. The League is doing a great work and T hope it sweeps the entire country. Success to you, - : -P. C. KIMBALL . One bushel at a dollar fiftyis bet- ter than two bushels-at seventy-five, 'and, the.interest charged on the money HOME OF L. C. DORN. WRONG KIND OF DOPE A short time ago, writes a corres- rondent from the North part of the State, a farmer received a letter from the Congressman of his district, ask- ing if he wished any literature per- taining to “Better Farming.” This farmer sent back the tart reply that he was quite sufficently informed on the matter of Farming but that if the said Congressman had any liter- ature on hand that would inform him kow to market his crop on a basis The farm home of L. C. Dorn 16 miles North.of Palermo. Mr. Dorn and his wife are seen standing in the fore ground of the picture, They came to North Dakota nine years ago from Butte, Montana where Mr. Dorn was working in the mines. They located on a homestead 16 miles north of Palermo and as Mr. J. R Kll’k Commlssmn Co. Inc. South St. Paul. Minn, Sales Agency and Authorized Representative of the American Society of Equity Consign Your Live Stock to Us and Get a Square Deal. whereby he could, at least, make a reasonable rate of interest, to send it along. It has not arrived yet. A FARMER. The Nonpartisan Leader: Congrat- ulations on your good work. I am highly pleased with the paper. If the information contained in the col- umns of your paper does not open the farmers’ eyes, then nothing will. B. OLSON. The Leader fights for the farmer. Dorn frankly states commenced to mmnm+wfiflm+m++fi+flnnwmtwm work for the Bankers. . . - 9 M . . At one time he was forced by neces- : : Fargo’s Only Modern Fire Proof Hotel : : sity to borrow from one of the Ken- mare banks at almost unheard of in- terest rates. He negotiated a loan for three hundred dollars at twelve per cent giving his secured notes for the same. He received but $260. of | this amount, the other $40: being held out by the bank as a bonus. This made the interest rate he was paying for the $300 come to 25 1-83 per cent FARGO, he actually received amount to over 30 per cent of the loan, for one mmmmunumum*mww# POWERS HOTEL Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room FIRST CLASS CAFETERIA IN CONNECTICN. On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot. N. DAK. year. Mr. Dorn does not hesitate to say tht the life of a miner in the sweat- ing shafts and entries of the Montana mines is to be preferred to farming in North Dakota under present condi- tions. At least the miner’s children get a fair education, and the net re- sult of the year’s' work is more in favor of the man in the mines than the farmer on a mortgaged farm in Dakota. A BUSINESS COLLEGE IN YOUR MAIL BOX ANOTHER $6 SUCKER Dear Editor: I don’t know that I have ever met you, but being one of the Rubes or six dollar suckers and an old-timer in the state, having come here in 1880, I want to let you know that I heartily aprove of your paper and tke way you edit it. You are surely getting at the root of the evil. I know of my own knowledge that you are giving us nothing but the truth. Also your cartoons are grand. A whole lesson, in every one. I am glad we have a man in the state with the pluck and back bone to hew to the dent school can do no more. keeper. It is no longer necessary for you to give up your occu- pation and go to great ex- pense in order to acquire an .education in book-keeping or shorthand. THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE has developed an improved system for teaching book- keeping by correspondence. Under this system, every en- try made by the student is. checked by the instructor, thereby eliminating the possibility of error. We know of no other correspondence course that does this, and a resi- We Can Prepare You For Any Bookkeeping Position at Small Expense In Easy Monthly Payments Our Elementary Course in Bookkeeping is arranged in 25 easy lessons and covers those principles:used in ordinary commercial transactions. Our Complete Course is arranged in 52 weekly lessons and fits you to serve as an expert book- Every Cooperative Enterprise Needs a Bookkeeper. line. When you employ a bookkeeper or accountant to keep or audit your We have a long time needed just such an organization in this state and I am glad somebody has had the far-| sightedness to start and, carry to suc- cess this farmers’ organization. You are going at it in the right way and. that is what they ‘are ‘“hollering” about. .The very papers that are yelling ‘six dollar graft” have always said the farmers should organize, and now when they see it is being done they set up an awful howl. And what makes me sick is that few farmer§ will put on a long face and, agree with him. I ask them, “What are we, a bunch of idiots?”’ -Wage-workers organize and. I think we farmers should show the world that we can and will organize. I enclose you a clipping from.a Steel county paper which shows the kinds of sheets we farmers must get our information and advice from. If |} we had to depend on these kind of deceivers we. never would get free from the gang that rules us, With best wishes. S. H. NEI_SON opposed to yours. It costs Five Dollars to become a " member of this Union, payable $1.00 a year. You ought to be one of us. i ; We also give a thorough training in Arithmetic, Penmanship, Short- hand, Law and English, as well as in Bookkeeping. Write us for-partic- ulars of the course you are inter- ested in: THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE Fort: Scott, Kansas. J.1. SHEPPARD, President ARTHUR LESUEUR, Vice Pres, When you push the Nonpartisan League see that it ‘is not ~a mere shove. - " books, you are laying bare the inner secrets of your business to somebody. Make that somebody one of your own members, interested in the Success of your enterprise—not an outsider who may become the tool of those who are deeply interested in the failure of your cooperative movement. Take No Chances. Develop Your Own Bookkeepers. ; Right in your own ranks there is plenty of talent which, with training’ " can perform all the services of bookkeeper and auditor and stenographer.” And this training can be had at an expense of an hour’s time and a few cents a day. When you have bookkeepers among your own pecple then you will know that the business and financial secrets of your movement will not reach a Chamber of Commerce somewhere, whose business interests are The Correspondence Method of Instruction Is a Success. Do not be deceived by the mere notion that these subjects cannot be successfully taught by correspondence. In fact, they are especially adapted tothe correspondence method. We are getting the finest of resultsevery day. The People’s College is a co-operatwe enterprise, organized, owned and controlled by the four thousand members of the People’s College Umon i Put This In Your Mail Box i The People’s College, Fort Scoyt, Kansas. i Pleasesend me full information con- cerning your courses in bookkeep- : 1ng. g i H i 8 1 |