The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 16

R ) | WILL FARMERS STICK? | RIP SAYS THEY WILL By ‘RII-’., the Reporter 2 ‘EER Mistur Editur: I am con- { ~strained to rite you a few lines 5 in order to report to you a verry interesting meetin’ which:I. had Xhe i;leaum of attendin’.the uther nite. . wuz a-spendin’ af few daze-in the town ©of Bigbizmark, a-taikin’ in movin’ pick- chure shows an’ a-talkin’ to strawheded gurls over the seegar counters an’ uther- wize a-havin’ the time: uv.mi life. 3 Wun day I was a-strollin’ along th street when to mi supprize, consturna- shun‘an’ astonishment who did I meat but mi loe friend I. Will Stickk. I had node him when we were both boyz an’ Lived in the Ozark mountin’s down: in Mizzury an’ menny air the dayz we've spent tugether ‘a-divin. ofen high rocks in’ the old swimmin’ hole an’ ‘a-catchin’ crawdads under the flat roks. I wuz-az tickled- to see him as ef I had stuck a rusty ‘'nale in mi heal an’ he wuz the same. By way uv celebrashun we went s .~ WE'VE GOT TO STICK, obb U _ BROTHER FARMERS! ; inbo a1ce cream jint and leaned up to the marble counter an’ drunk four bottles uv sodypop az fast az we cud drink ’em. " Bi 'this- time we had ‘got to feelin’ purty good an’ he slaps me on the sholder an’ sez, sez he, “By heck, Rip, you’ve got to go hum with me n’ stay a week.” ‘The effects uv that sodypop had gone to mi hed an’ I pops rite out an’ sez, sez I, Then we tapped a cupple more bottles uv sodypop an’ got in hiz Ford outomo- bile an’ started. As we’ druve along he tole me about how he left the ole flint hills sum thirty-odd years ago an’ cur. to North' Dakota. ' How he humsteded in the daze when these planes wuz a barrun waste an’ civilizashun wuz yit onknown: -How that ‘he had struggled with the elements, as it were, fitten with “gofurs, endured hale storm an’ bucked _the gang uv grain pirates that sets the “price on his Crops. WILL STICKK'S PLAN TO HELP FARMER “But,” ‘séz he, “we can’t regulate the ‘elements but we can ’liminate the grain “gang an’ by ginger we’re goin’ to do it,” ~an’ his eyes snapped an’ ;he ‘opened up : _the throttle uv. the Ford in a way that - Btk o e TG A s made me grab holt uv the seet laik grim deth. ; : After he slowed down agin, I sed, “How’s that?” - : “'He looked at me an’ there wuz ‘a twinkle in his' ize that wuz verry sig- " mifficunt and full v meenin’.. “Don’t ast me now,” he exclaimed, “we’re goin’ to “have a meetin’ tonite at the schule house . '’ I'm goin’ to make a speach an”T tell *‘‘you then. It wudn’t'do to tell it to you - ~. now an’ then repeet it agin.” ' Bi that tyme we had turned into his ‘yard an’ I was introduced to hiz wife an’ about twelve or.a duzen kids, all the way Frum;25 years old down. Hiz wife " wuz what used to bee a buteful little' n each wagon and we cranked pper the boyz hitched up teems and loaded in part uv ‘simidin' up in the Sack end »’ along the . sides. and down the ilze and sum a-lookin’ in at the winders. ' An’ still they cum. A TWO-FISTED FARMER CALLS MEETING TO ORDER ":*". After ‘a short tyme a big two-fisted farmer nocked on the desk with his pocket nife an’ called the meetin’ to order. Quite was sune ranein’ an’ all ize wuz: turned on the speeker. He an- nounced that the furst thing on the pro- gram wud be a song by a. cupple .uv gurls. The song they.sung wuz sum- thin’ bout marchin’ to Bigbizmark an’ wound up sumthing laik this: “Hurrah! hurrah! all farmers now awake, “Hurrah! hurrah! we’ll listen to no fake, “This . our ultivatum; we’re here to ’radicate, S5 “The bosses that used to go to Bizmark.” When the song wuz finished :bedlam broke luse an’ pandimonium raned fur - several minnits. 3 Then' the cheerman introduced my ole friend Stickk who aroze amid deafenin’ applauze an’ addressed the throng in the follrin’ wurds, towitt: ; “Bruther farmers an’ nabers: Mi sub- jectk will be, ‘Can. the Farmers Stick.’ Well, az that iz mi name I say they can,”’ (Lafter & applawze.) “Az fur back az I can remember, poli- tishuns, lawyers, bankers an” nusepapers have told us that the farmers: can’t stick. They have told it to us so much that a lot uv us have cum to the conclushun .that it mus be so. We have bin hitmo- tized into believin’.that we can’t. Now mi contenshun is that az.long as we think we can’t stick, why we can’t. When we maike up our minds that we - can stick then we can, that’s all. An’ I think we have. all. maid up our minds ‘that we can.” = (Harty applawze.) “I want to impress it upon your minds that it iz absolutely necessary- that we do stick. We owe it to ourselves ‘to stick. 'We owe it to our children an’ the comin’ generashuns to stick an’ stick tite.. We owe it to our bruther farmers -~ of the pashun to stick. The fame of this organizashun has gone out thru the lan’ . an’ the way the farmers of North Dako‘a ‘the aige. -Our brother farmers in every stait in the United States iz watchin’ us rite now. Our bruther farmers in our naberin’ staits, a specially, has got their k part uv th amilyvi‘ lntothfihownm'atthenimfimeover-.' throwin’ the gang of political pirates that has rode on our backs fur these menny- years. RIP’S CONCLUSION IS THEY’RE SURE TO STICK “So, in conclushun, bruther farmers, let me az a farmer who wuz born an’ raized on a farm, who haz wurked on a farm -all his life, who haz braved the blizzards an’ drouths, the .gofers an’ grafters uv this stait for more’n thirty years, let-me!I repeat, plead: with you - to stick to your organizashun, stick to your candidates, stick to your principles to the last minnit. We've got to stick. We dare not. quit now. We can’t quit now and maintain our selfrespect. Let us stick, stick, stick!” Az he closed these- eloquent an’ force- ful wurds an’ sot down I thot the house wuz a-fallin’ to peises. I never hered sich. clappin’ uv hands, sich stompin’ uv feat an’ seed sich noddin’ uv heads in all mi life.. Thar wuz no doubt in mi mind but they would all stick jist az mi friend Stickk sed he wud stick, to the bitter end, an’ then sum. Even me, hardened az I am to eloquence an’ oratory, felt laik jumpin’ up an’ tellin’ ’em rite out in meetin’ that I'd stick, too, so much wuz _ I moved bi his marvelus eloquence an’ sole stirin’ sincerity. My conclushun, Mr. Editur, is -that they’ll stick, every wun. uv: them.— Yoors Trooly, RIP. Buttons Business Colleges, Fargo, N. D., and Pipestone, Minn., guarantee posi- tions and you pay us out of your salary. Courses by mail on same terms. Write us at once. 23-4t NO SOCIALISM There is no Socialism about the Non- partisan League candidates. That is simply a scare header sent out by the old gang. They don’t want the farmers to govern their own affairs and will re- sort to any old trick to defeat league candidates. . If you want a gouvernor who will re- present all the people in North Dakota, vote for Lynn Frazier. 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