The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 25, 1915, Page 4

PAGE FOUR of ‘the fnrm, people are turning from _it. S S e S e S age size. Y ECAUSE we aim our shafts at the banker occasionally d does not justify the :conclusion that we regard all bank- ers as bad. [Even though, according to iComptroller of 5 the ‘Currency John ‘Skelton Williams, there are ninety natienal banks in Nerth Dakota that have been taking ‘an un-| lawful interest from ‘the farmers, yet we are loath to believe that all ‘bankers do any such business. ; 'We 'have personal friends and acquaintances: ‘among the bank—i ers for whom we hold very high regards. We ‘want to be fair with the bankers and we surely will as long as they give us a| square ‘deal. When they fail—and we find it out, they have sundered the tie of friendship and we have reached the partmg, of the ways. - " As long ‘as the present system of banking maintains we do: not blame ‘any banker for going the legal limit. But when he is not satisfied with the legal limit and disregards the - law—- seither the statutory laws, the moral law ‘or the law of eternal fairness and justice, then, in the language -of the Great Teacher,| we will regard him as a “heathen ‘and ‘a publican”. ‘There is one such banker up in Rolette County. Not, nez- essarily ‘because he violated any legal statutes but because he smashed all the laws of fair play; because he busied himself in .other men’s matters; because he .set himself up as a Judge of what -other men should do and :should not -do. According to information furnished by farmers in his neigh- borhood this banker took it upon himself to visit certain pat- rons ‘of his bank and induce them to order “payment stopped” on checks which they had given to the Nonpartisan League.: After getting a few ‘of them to consent he, we believe, as sub- sequent events indicate, took it upon himself to mark, “payment stopped” on -all such checks that came to his bank for collec- tion. In other words, after persuading .some few farmers tc cancel their membership with the League he proceeded to can-| cel others without ‘their ‘consent by returning ‘their checks, stamped “Payment Stopped”. This banker belongs to .an organization, the bankers’ ‘asso- ciation, for which privilege he pays a nice little membership|. fee. He would ffeel highly insulted and justly indignant if, some farmer took it upon lnmself to interfere with 'such per- sonal pr1v11eges The privilege of belangmg: »to ‘the orgamzatlon ‘of his ‘choice —an. orgamzatrmr that helps him in ‘his business, is ‘a sacred] one. It is his right ‘to ‘belong to it. He has a perfect right to pay.his own money- to maintain-such an organization. If some farmer was to undertake to convince him that he should cancel his membesship in that organization; -influence him to not sup- port ‘such an organization this ‘banker would be justified in stirring up ‘a rumpus. “He ‘would probably inform that farmer The Farm of the F uture " Beverly T. Galloway, dean of the New York State Colege of Agricul- ture at Cornell, spoke recently at the canvocation of the University of the State of New York, in Albany, on “The School and ‘the Farm-of the Fu- ture.” The ‘great problem, accordiny to Dean Galloway, was whether the United States would ‘be able to de- velop a permanent agriculture without “peasanting”” those who must look to the land for a living. None of the old-world, countries, he said have suc- ceeding in doing this. He spoke in part as follows, Labor derm'd ‘People. ‘Farm Population Decreases. ‘While there has been a steady de- power .instead of ‘man power. and successful agriculture, measured ffor growth. ““Even ‘in this ‘country ‘more than, a million farmers live and suport their families on ‘a labor income of less try in its ‘worst form. !More Wholesome, ing the ‘delights, the independence; have time, opportumty, and the freedom, and ‘the self-snmcnency livmg‘ a sati THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Banker Meddles In Other Men s M atter By Ottto T. Monroe Jon wheat in the bin. This was-refused on “any such security”. las they could and et the legitimate speculator speculate :in-it. |icalled the Marion Sentinel. We are informed ‘that it is owned ‘crease in the percentage-of our popu- lation engaged inagriculture ,thg per capita productoin of our staple crops has ‘been increasing. This is primar- ily ‘due to the utilization of machin- ery, makng it practical to more and more utilize horsepower -and other “Despite the fact that in practical- ly all other countries :the .intensity of the farming has increased with the density of population, this need not follow here. It would be unfor- tunate if it did follow, because an intensive agriculture has been prac- “Whe is £ ; ticable ‘only ‘where ‘there is an over- ST Toung & premaney supply of human labor. The bounti- ; X .1 | ful ‘crops from small areas have -been merely ‘by the. maintenance of soil 7 1 fertility and high average crop yields, made possible only by the toil and there is found a peasantized and la- sweat of the man, who, while is able bor-depresszd people, whose days are to produce these ieaults, must do sor full of ‘toil and whose minds have at'g;i;e at;xpes x:;ses ok ;:;?egzal’o‘;n?u: never been gi any oSy 2ay, = 4 gyen Tt op.portumty benig. This is agricaltural _peasan-. “The. farm of the future will so than a hundred ‘dolars a year, and |utilize modern . labor-saving devices very little of this income actually { and efficiency methods that human_ comes to the farmer as money. So|labor will be reduced ‘to a mlmmum, despite all that has been said regard-|and the farmer and his ‘children will i woman which bore a dls‘ nct ratio 1o in very polite though emphatic terms that he knew his own busi- ness. Buf evidently he thinks the farmers do not know their ‘own business. ; : . ; Here iis another.® According to a letter now in -our posses- sion he belongs at the First National bank at Stanley. The farmer ‘who wrote the letter alleges ‘to have asked for a loan He claims then to have asked if they could not get money from ‘the Federal Reserve Fund for that purpose. : ; i “Oh, yes,” he writes, the banker answered, “we i N could get that money but there is not much call for g B it and we would have to-send to Minneapolis for : i it and it would take the whole fall before we could : get it and it wouldn’t pay us.; “We would advise,” the bankeris alleged to have continued, “you sell your - : p grain at once. Holding % grain for a higher price is . 'speculation, - and . speculation is mnot 1legitimate T L3 ‘business.” 4 : : o There, no-doubt, is the code of certain North Dakota-bank-- b/ B -ers.. It s very illegitimate for farmers to hold théir grain for : A higher prices. Farmers should be perfectly :good and de nething illegitimate. Therefore they should sell their wheat as quickhy: | That “would legitimize the whole ‘transaction, no doubt. And these banKers are the farmers’ friends, so they affirm.” Here is another. Down at Marion: there is a litt'e paper at least in part, by a banker. In a recent number of bhe Sen- tinel, in fhe edltorlal co lumn appears . ‘these words: “The Sentmel urges its farmer friends, despite the advice of the NONPARTISAN LEADER, to con- sult their local banker whén asked to ‘sign papers for strongers or to invest in securities .of which they have only meagre knowledge. Better take the word of your banker than that of some disappointed pohtwlan These bankers -are very sohcltlous of the farmer’s welfare. They fear very greatly that he -will be beaten out of a few . dollars. ; *And yet, all the money that fake solicitors, fake advertls- ‘ers; fake peddlers and gold-brick salesmen have taken' from the farmers in 'this State in ten years would not amount to as much as ‘the unlawful interest that thé minety mational banks : took in one -year. All the money lost to ‘the various bunco-games & in the United States in ten years would not equal what ‘de- : 7( positors have lost through bank failures in one year. v MY And these be the farmers’ friends. arie “We may look forward to & pgrm:a-} nent husbandry, freed from the blight of peasantry, standing squarely for Ll T |its place in the affairs of the mnation, | Sand Springs, Okla., Nov. 23.—Thig e % town was built for widows. They but recognizing its relations and re- ; sponsibilities to other industriesand ;o(;)(;gose m::; 4 .than ’;hfou:th of tho " ; recognizing further that the fullest |}’ population. S Loy Jewan . ’ and best development of one can be|founded by . Charles Page, multi-mil- : ~ attained only through the fullest and | lionaire oil rroducer of Tulsa. His A ;' hest develgpment. of full, - _| earliest recollections were of his . 4 Not More ‘But Better. mother’s efforts to ‘raise her ‘large / -: f “The Gemand ‘is for education ‘that | [2™ily unaided .and he resolved that v A ¢ will teach the ‘meaning of ‘things and when he grew up he would take care their relation to the present, rather of all the widows. than ‘the teaching of ‘words and their Ride Cars Frée of Charge. - relation ‘to the ‘past. T am not 80| when he had made his fortune, much concerned with making ‘more Page began to find employment for farmers, as T am with makmg better widows in' Tulga. They became so ones. numerous he decided to build a town “The school must concern itself for them. So he founded Sand Springs more and more with the needs of ?h" He built ‘dozens of comfortable ‘cot= people, and be more ‘of a community tages in ‘which gas, fuel ‘and rent centre, with the teacher as ‘acom- ‘were free. Factories he brought so munity builder. The mere introduc-|i1. widows might have employment. tion, of “agriculture” into the schéd¥'me piilt & car line to ‘Tulsa upon will not accomplish the ends desired; which widows ride £ The ‘and ‘it must be fully realized that the i i | day nursary, free medical attendance :school is not for' the ’prep.uratlon f and a vocational school.. If a widow 418 11f6. but s life itself”, | wants to get married, Page helps hpr <iuanay -1 do that. He likes ndmothers, too. L ol - NAPOLEON'S -ES'I'IIAfl'E. " ““%'There is a score ogrtahem here with . - Napoleno- Boneparte, the most ex- nothing to do but knit and read and e traordinary preduct of modern times remlmscent e contributed extensively ‘by. his wars to: the ‘population of ‘the unknown world ‘beyond, the grave. It was not rehgious consideration = that made ‘him adhere to the old 'valuation of 4-TOWN FOR -WIDOWS - A “Has Hny chlldun Page, probably, has more cluldren, i than any other man in the world. The ' . orphans’ home in a neatby town re- cently went bankrupt. To 4 ‘proyide for the little inmates, ‘Page | legally adopted he wl'ola institu