The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 20

HE SAW NO HORNS Joe Millang Finds Men at Headquarters Just Plain Folks Joe Millang of Kelvin, Rolette county, member and enthusiastic booster for the Nonpartisan League, was a visitor in Fargo the other day and dropped around to headquarters of the League and Leader to meet the staff. He said he was surprised to find the League officers, who he had not before met, were just plain folks and did not have horns like the gang press had pictured them. “The reason for this attack on the leaders of the League is easy to explain,” said Mr. Millang. “The enemies of the League want to break up the organiza- tion and they think the best way to do it is to discredit the leaders and destroy the confidence of the members in the organization and its leadership. If they succeed the farmers are goners, but there is no evidence in my locality of their succeeding. We are in the League to stick and see it through.” Mr. Millang has been 18 years in North Dakota, most of the time farming a half section near Kelvin. He came to Fargo with his wife, who was in need of medical attention, and made the League and Leader offices his headquarters while in town. TO JORGENSON ., Some Pointed Questions by a Reader of Leader ‘An open letter to State Auditor Carl O. Jorgenson: Mr. Carl O. Jorgenson, state auditor, Bis- marck, N. D., Dear Sir: You as state auditor and a servant of the people have seen fit to devise a tax schedule which requires the farmer to list with the assessor his pigs, chickens, dogs, fences, etc., for taxation purposes because you think they are escaping taxes. Why did you not assess all private.car lines in North Dakota which are subject to taxation? Why do you require of the farmer to list his fence and-allow sidewalks in town to escape? = Why do you now flood the country at the expense ' of the -taxpayers - specxal reports of the state board. of equal- ization? - ‘Why have. you not caused to be pub lished , the regular :report- of the state. board of -equalization of the August meeting, 19157 How many chlckens, dogs, turkeys, pigs and fences do you figure there will have to be assessed this year in order to raise the amount of tax which the Union Tank Line is escaping ? How shall the. assessor assess the Standard Oil company on the new- tax schedule? On the face of the above facts can you conscientiously solicit the support of the farmer to reelection for the office you are now seeking? In the last federal census report we are informed the farmer owned 15 per cent of the wealth. How long under existing conditions and the above sched- ule will it take before we are the unknown quantity in the wealth of the country? As per statistics, we have made haste backward in 30 years from 60 per cent to 15 per cent and I am anxious now to know how long before the end will be. As you are in a position to give me a little light on this subject and for which I will greatly appreciate, I am, Yours very truly, J. D. HARRIS. Manning, N. D., May 10. PUBLIC OPINION circulates around here but there doesn’t seem to be any one who knows who is paying for it. No one has subscribed—B. D. ARNOLD. I AM GLAD that Mr. Frazier is get- ting so much approval from the farmers. I feel that he will get a majority here. - Here’s success to the League and the :Leader.—BEN F. SHENLY, . [ [ [ 4 [ [d (3 ° [ 4 L4 (4 [ 4 ° (3 (4 ° ° [ 4 [ 4 [ d [ d (4 Ld [ [d L4 L4 (3 [ d [ 3 (4 [ (. [d [ d [d [ d (4 [d (3 o [ J ° (4 ® ° (J Paul Havens, Leag;le candidate for a good reason why the farmers should that he hasn’t sold out to the big interests. Nortonville, North Dakota. 00000000000000:=-30000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ................C.OQ...........00‘........................ Farmers’ Great Opportunlty Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I had the honor to represent La Moure county at the state convention and I want to say right here that it was the most open and fair convention that I ever attended. No omne having any voice only the delegates. Not even a suggestion other than those of the dele- gates was made. - I came to North Dakota in the spring of 1900 and have farmed or been interested in farming for fourteen years and I can truthfully say I have not made a dollar raising small grain and if it had not been for other interests I would be right where I was fourteen years ago. I want to say that if the farmers don’t stay back of their organization and elect the whole ticket they ought to have to sell their wheat for 75 cents-and their hogs at 5 and 6 cents. If the Fargo Courier-News and the other interests are able to block this organization it"will be many years before the farmers can build another organiza- tion of any strength. A good many farmers that I have met and talked with seem to think that the fact the Fargo Courier-News and the Big Biz are against this movement is ..'........O........‘..................‘........06.. representative in District 24. be for it. We know this about Townley that we don’t know about the Courler-News, Yours for sucess, PAUL HAVENS. FIRM AS THE OAK ‘ditor Nonpartisan Leader: We are one of the youngest organiza- tions, but young in years only. We are anchored as firmly as the mighty oak, ‘and we have some of the most efficient men of this great common- wealth of North Dakota at the head of the League. We have difficul- ties, but we are never dlscouraged. We are organized, not in name alone, but thoroughly in the most modern and efficient way that makes for power. Mark this. We may be defeated once, but we can not be crushed. In fact our spirit is invincible, our minds set for higher ideals of purer politics and each difficulty only adds to our strength. In spite of the fact that we unanimously support our organization to the best of our ability and circumstances, it-is not done selfishly. We stand for a square deal for every one. We stand shoulder to wheel, all in entire satisfaction with the in- - dorsements ‘of the men whom the members indorsed at the great Fargo . rally three weeks ago. We feel that these gentlemen are worthy, effic- ient, sincere and able men for the offices, not the offices which they sought, but wluch they will feel overjoyed to fill, now that we have sought them out for these positions of trust. All these men are thoroughly familiar withthe agricultural pursuits of the state. It is surprising how many of our neighbors who are not members of the League, are signing the nomination petitions that are now in circula- “tion. Is it any wonder?“ Why, these men have received the inspiration too of the enthusiasm that is in the air from the Red river in the east to the Little Missouri in the west. There certainly is joy in working for a goal and not wandering, and pondering; and buzzing here and buzzing there as we have done in the past, not without an end in view, but:because prevented by a small clique of persons who could not represent the people of a purely agricultural state. .. Now listen! Aren’t we proud of being hkened unto students too, getting knowledge through the literature that is given out through our ~ influential paper? Now gentlemen in the race, you are reading every item in the -Leader, but do not only read them all, but save them for future reference, every one of them, for you are going to be surpnsed at the growth of this popular slogan, “stand by the League.” These copies indeed are going to give us ample reminders of critical days gone. by, wken we have reached the goaL Nuff sed. MARTIN PEARSON. THEY DON’T SCARE VERY WELL Editor Nonpartisan Leader: i Please find enclosed clipping of the “goat” that feeds on the “Hills” as well as the hides of farmers around and about. (The clipping referred to cites the Courier-News fake about personal lia- bility of members of the League and seeks to throw a scare into those of this editor’s community. This letter shows how badly the are scared.—Ed.) By the way the hoary grafters howl they must be hurt—and they are, | It’s. too bad to take all the swill away from these hogs. - How awfully, awful accom- ¢ modating to warn us of impending peril even if they have to slip over an .ex-: post facto law, and when they did this it looks as though their brains hade gone to seed. Our dogs are well assessed t}us year and I suggest that weo farmers everyone of us turn the bull dogs loose.’ We have been carrying not. only ourselves but a bunch of looters have been riding on the backs: of labor too: long already. But say, they are putting forth stronger arguments for us tha.no we could do ourselves. Let the good work go on. New converts are bemg. added every day. They are lambasting their own equator, resorting to hes, ridicule, ete. o We all know that these poor fellows are dymg and 1et’s be as merciful ass possible. - We know that what they say about the head of the League and the'$ farmers is but to take us away from the real facts as they are.’ It is reallyo what the League advocates and not the League leaders. . They figure that personalities will be noticed quicker than generah'ues.. They are just trying to teach in the objective instead of the subjective, but we'® are not going to be camed away, by‘any such tactlcs.—fl 2 WILLIAMS :“ P. 8.—Get out to the primary. : ° PAGE TWENTY ' academy. CAPITAL NOTES Washmgton, D. 0., May 23.—James Verne Cole, of Lisbon, Ransom county, has received Senator Granna's appointment to the West Point military Because of the shortmess of the time before entrance examination, June 6, no alternates were appointed by Gronna. Cole is the first North Dakota boy to receive a training school appoint- ment under the increase just voted by congress in the West Point bill. .The following have been appointed postmasters of fourth-class offices in North Dakota: & Lester L. Meads at Zap, Mercer coun- ty, to succeed D. Thompson, who resign- ed; Edw. B. Catvell at Emmet, McLean county, to succeed T. F. Carvell, who re- signed;*Ole J. Dammen at Kelso, Traill county, to succeéed C. C. Dalrymple, who resigned; Christ A. Larsen at Oakdale,- Dunn county, to succeed H. J. Dehlinger, who resigned; Gottlieb Wendland at - Wirch, Dickey county, to succeed John Wirch, who resigned. ROLF BROS. Tailors of Quality Clothes 7 Bacon Block--- N. 4th St. - Grand Forks, N. 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