The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 17

- plenty of money for your campaign f 0000000060600000000000 H ] 000000.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 A CONTRIBUTION TO M’KENZIE'S FUND 5. "A League member went into the office-of the Bismarck Tribune a few days’ ~ ago and asked when his subscription expired: - Soonn e : ; July 14th,” replied the business manager. . “Well, I believe in fair play,” said the League membé_r, “and the attitude ‘of your paper toward the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League is not fair. Your paper is run in the interest of those who rob' the farmers. You will need und, and I will contribute the unexpired portion of my subscription to that fund. Stop the Tribune at once.” ; The business manager made no reply. : : { Those Who Bear the Farm Burdéhs Know What the League’s Fight Means N John N. Hagan, indorsed by tne" League for Commissioner of Agriculture and Labqn_'. Editor Nonpartisan League: It appears that certain newspapers of the state have been working overtime in an effort to discredit the convention held in Fargo by the delegates of the Nonpar- tisan League. As a delegate from the 34th legislative district T wish to state emphatically that it was the fairest convention of any kind I ever attended and in comparing # to " the Republican state convention held in Fargo in 1902, at which I was also a dele- gate from the same district, will go on record as saying, that I, like most other delegates at that convention had no voice in selecting candidates, the slate had already been made out before the con- vention convened. ; In the Nonpartisan convention the delegates had a free hand in making the selections, and the selectio_n__s were those of the delegates and not of any gang or “"leaders as certain papers would have us believe. & AT - These same papers say they are the ‘farmers’ friends. Now if they are, why do they oppose the men the farmers inf dorsed. These papers are either for the farmer ‘or against him. They cannot * serve two masters, 4 . One of the principle objects of our organization is to reduce the cost-of . handling farm products and to retain in the state much of the wealth that' now ~ goes to our sister states and into the " “hands of a few corporations. ; : Only those who have gone through the ‘nerve-wrecking discouragements ' of “whom we know we _every-day farm work, only the young - : 'pe'ople who have felt the class lines drawn, only the mothers who have toiled long weary hours in drudgery rearing a family, tending garden, and milking.the cows year after year with scarcely any reward know how to appreciate the League movement. It is they upon whom the burden of the producing of wealth falls. : : Their hearts beat as warm and as true as any others and why do the exploiters of toil condemn an honest: movement made by honest people, why should .not the farmers and their wives, their sons and their daughters have some of the luxuries " of life such as education, recreation, music and good clothing ? Yet in the past we farmers have often not received decent wages because we were exploited by parasites. The handing of the ‘wealth” which we produce should be a part of our business and through the. organization of the League and by - standing by our own convictions we can The convention held at Fargo was fair in every particular and each delegate was free to say why he did or did not desire certain candidates. iz T The welfare of the state depends on the welfare of the farmers. - Then why -do certain newspapers wish to enrich big -commercial concerns outside the state at the expense of us farmers. ‘We have stood for that long enough now let us stand by the selections made for state . officers by our own neighbors and friends can trust.’ By J. N. HAGAN,' ' -~ . PAGE SEVENTEEN . By RIP, THE REPORTER Deer Mistur Editur: I must report to you "a verry interesting conversashun which I heered on a trane tother day. 1 wuz ridin’ ‘along a reedin that famus publicashun, Hum 'Cumfurts an’ contem- platin’ the sweat joys of hum life on the farm when my attenshun wuz attrackted by “the aforesed conversashun between two fellers on the seet in frunt ov me. Wun o’ them fellers wuz as nice an’ slick an’ smuthe as a peeled union. ' The other was a sort of a rusty, horny- handed lookin’ feller. The nice, slick feller was talkin’ t’ beat six of a kind an’ I thot the way he pored the talk into that rusty lookin’ feller that the last menshuned feller would never get out frum under lan’ slides o’ words. : Sez the nice, slick feller, sez he, “You farmers pade six dollars to git into that organizashun didn’t ye?” ‘“Shure,” replied the rusty feller. “Well, what I wanto no is where that money has gone to,” said the nice slick wun. “Whada - ye want to know that fur?” ast the rusty wun. R “’Cause I have a right to know.” “No ye aint,” said the farmer. “Why aint 1?” ast the slick feller. “’Cause it aint none o’ your blamed bizness,” declaimed the farmer heatedly. “Why aint it none o’ my bizness,” ast the slick wun. “'Cause it aint your six dollers,” wuz the turse reply. The slick feller shet up for a few min- outs and I gazed at that rusty feller admirin’ly. lookin’ Then the slick feller, he bobs up an’ comes back agin, jist like this, an’ sez se, “Well, do you know what has becum ov that six dollers?” “I shure do,” ansured’ the horny handed feller. “What,” ast the slick wun. “Spent,” said the farmer. “Spent!” shreeked the slick wun. “Sure,” ansured the farmer; cooly. “What fur?” . : “Say,” said the rusty wun, the coller rizin’ in his face, “whada ye think that organizashun is, a savin’s bank? Well, -~ it aint nuthin’ ov the kind. We didn’t give 'em that munny to keep,; we give it to ’em to spend an’ they’ve spent it.” WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? “What did they spend it fur?” ast the slick wun, all interest. - “They spent it to bild an organizashun ° with an’ they've bilt it an’ it’s the big- gest and best organizashun that the farmers ov this state or eny other state ever had an’ its worth not only six dollers ° but six times six dollers to every farmer ° in this state right now. -An’ here’s the proof ov it,” continued the rusty wun, “that organizashun has got the politi- cians ov the state the wurst sceered they’ve ever bin in all their lives. It's an organizashun that is going’ to sweep them politicians into the deep see of oblivun and place the farmers ov this state in a posishun to geét what they want without gettin’ down on theer nees for it. It’s an organizashun that’s goin’ ta make it possible fur the majority. of the people ov this state, the peeple who cast Where Did the Money Go To? RipOverhearsaConversation ) Valley Clt_v Granite “and Marble Are you going to erect a monument _or -headstone this year? Don’t put it off until it ‘is too late. We keep no agents and can give the buyers better prices. " catalogue _ and be convinced. All work sold on a guarantee. pased N. D. VALLEY CITY o e e o b most ov the votes an’ pay most of the taxes an’ do most of the work to have most ‘of the sayso in the makin’ ov laws for this state. Aint that worth six doilers? : THE SLICK GUY QUITS “Wait a minnit,” said the rusty feller as the slick wun started to open his mug, “Aint it time that the gang that has run this state for nigh onta thirty years be thrown out ov power an’ aint it time that the real peeple get control ov theer own affairs an’ can -that be done without an organizashun an’ aint we got the organ- izshun ?7” Before the rusty feller had finished this last shot the slick feller he looks at his watch and sed sumthin’ about bein’ hungry and started back to the dinnin’ car. After he had gone I mustered up the curage to shake hands with the horny handed feller an’ get acquainted with him. I lurned that he wuz a farm- er from Short Grass county. He told me- that the slick feller was presedent ov the Sandman African bank at Great Prongs. Then I finished reedin’ my continued story in that famus publicashun Hum Cumfurts. An’ say, that’s sum great story, too. I'm anxious to get the next number so’s to see how it comes out— Yoors trooly, RIP. - 2 I LIKE THE Leader very well. It is - worth $6 to me anyway.—S. TOKASH. THE MORE MUD the gang papers sling the more votes we will get.—H. J. HANSON. i THE FARMERS in this neighborhood are disgusted with such dirty sheets as the Bismarck Tribune.—W. B. HIBBS. PURE-BRED . PERCHERON STALLIONS AND MARES U. L. Burdick WILLISTON, N. D. Pigs for Sale Big tvpe Poland Chinas. Eighty March and April pigs, sired by Smothe A. \Von- der No. 237095, Eddy Boy 218943 and Great Wonder, from 500 to 700 pound rows, Also a few fall boars. 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