The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 20, 1916, Page 4

ment by North Dakota of its own fair grades for grain? . Why. do.the great milling interests and the great gamblers in grain bitterly oppose the establishment of a state-owned terminal elevator? e i .+ Dr./Ladd says that he favors a terminal-elevator owned or ‘super- § Vised by the state of North Dakota,. . He favors that.because the great grain buyers and the grain Speculators are ROBBING the people of North Dakota by an OBSOLETE 'AND UNFAIR system of grain grading and until the state has its own _1‘Jerminals it can not hope te‘establish its own grain grades which will protect the grade and the value of North Dakota wheat from the fields to the buyers who purchase the grain for actual use and not to juggle with it and make a fat profit by HANDLING IT. : 3 These are plain statements. Read them in Dr. Ladd’s own words. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE : are being robbed. The merchants are being robbed, The -whole state is being robbed and despoiled and impoverished. By whom? By out- giders; by the grain dealers and the grain speculators of the big market You are being rob_bed. What are you gbin’g to do abo'ut- 2 THE FARMERS ARE DOING SOMETHING =~ -"The farmers of the state of North Dakota are trying to do some- #* - A PA ——— N thing about it and in the face of their trial, in the face of their effort to |~ ‘save the whole state of North Dakota and all its people, they meet in ] .th,eii‘ path a gang of wolves who shout “Stop! Stop! You are stirring ] up class prejudice ; you are trying to ruin the state”! -~ - S ; ' Class prejudice! = To demand that the people of North Dakota shall drive out the vultures, to demand that they shall strike off the fat ) vampires that are sucking the life blood of the state, men who hoard their riches in the vaults of cities hundreds and thousands of miles. ] away, who sail their yachts on the Atlantic and have their palatial resi- dences in the great centers of population from the Mississippi to the X Atlantic. J ] State grades, a state-owned terminal elevator were proposed as- the remedy years ago. A concrete demand for them was presented years ago. - Successive legislatures have: first flouited the desire, ‘then dallied with it; backed and filled, temporized, promised and QUIT. They ended as they began, by defying the whole people of the ‘'state, by ‘tell= - ing th~ Trrmers to “go home and slop the pigs.” ; 3 * * * FARMERS HAVE A PROGRAM ] "The farmers of the state of North Dakota are stirred not merely by an indefinite sense of ‘having been wronged. They KNOW that they . have been robbed. They have the actual, scientifically - determined . FACTS behind that knowledge. ‘ i The farmers of the state are actuated not merely by an aimless. - desire to DO SOMETHING to remedy this. -THEY HAVE A 2 SPECIFIC AIM APPROVED BY MEN WHO HAVE MADE CARE- FUL ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION, APPROVED BY 'THE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN THE STRONG FRIENDS OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA FOR YEARS, who have fought resolutely and unflinchingly to protect the people of the ' state from MERCILESS GRAFT, FROM POISONOUS FOODS, FROM MISLEADING ADVICE, FROM THIEVINQ ENEMIES, FROM POLIT- JCAL CORRUPTION. The farmers of North Dakota are ready to listen to the advice of ! men of this caliber. They are ready to take information from men : who are sincere and who know somethiig. THEY ARE NOT READY i TO TAKE ADVICE FROM THE GROUP OF VULTURES THAT HAS EXPLOITED THEM AT EVERY TURN IN THE PAST. They are not willing to listen to any man that comes to them with a record of infamy, with the stigma of alliance with the BIG BUSINESS THIEVES AND PARASITES who consider North - Dakota and its people THEIR HER¥DITARY MEAT. ; o ; * % % e COMPARE THE SECOND LEADER Te go a little further with the comparison between these ‘two - second of them, which is in the form of interviews with the men who ment League.” ; 4 i~ Morton Page of Fargo is the visible head of this movement; The other, Norman Black, confesses that he is only a hired secretary—hired by whom? He will not tell. Neither will Morton Page, the “president” of the League. They were asked to do so. They refused. : : . Morton Page is a rich man. The Leader a few weeks ago called description does him too great honor. But no matter. He's a rich man, Jiving a life of ease. He deals in lands in lordly fashion. He gives orders to a big retinue of employes. SR - 3 4 * %k & L ~ HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY. e o . Morton Page denies that the “Good Government league”. is against " Nonpartisan League—and note: that 'in speaking of the “Good sion that Morton Page IS the “Good Government league.” w the interesting point is why “we ARE BEING ROBBED. ' The farmers. cities from Minneapolis on through Chicago and Buffslo to New York. .’ articles in this week’s issue of the Léeader we need to contemplate the: _confess themselves to be at the head of the so-called “Good Govern-: them in searching for the truth, wherever it may be found, There is him a millionaire. With smiling urbanity he intimates that the ‘ - same platform. A Mandan paper says the rovernment league” he uses the term “we”! It seems to create the ? the Good Government ... represented in'the p;Sg’i'!ag of th:;\]’onp;arfi‘sfl League. Mr. Page said ~his Jleague was against compulsory state hail insurance. - Interviewed ! “on this point it developed that Mr. Page DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING - ABOUT .WHAT. WAS. MEANT BY COMPULSORY STATE HAIL The last legislature proposed an amendment to the state constitu- tion TO PERMIT state hail insurance along the lines desired by the : farmers. The amendment will have to go before the next legislature and then to the people. : ] - MR. PAGE; AN INSURANCE MAN HIMSELF, DIDN'T KNOW, _ . FAINTEST IDEA WHAT ITS TERMS WERE. HE DIDN'T KNOW, WHAT THE- FARMERS HAVE PROPOSED. HE DIDN'T KNOW,; WHAT THEY WANT, THOUGH LEAGUE SPEAKERS HAVE BEEN GOING , ALL - OVER . THE 'STATE FOR A YEAR TRYING TO ENLIGHTEN': THE INTELLIGENT CITIZENS ‘OF THE STATE WHAT-HAD BEEN PROPOSED.: A A3 S by y < ; Yet in spite of this abysmal and pit;igble. ignorahéé,' MR. PAGE - WAS AGAINST IT. Hg is $00 busy to_enlighten himself on ‘the issues ' 7. before -the people of ‘the state, but not-too: busy to organize a “Good “»Government league™ and .go out to fight the farmers of the state to .prevent them from getting what they want.. =~ . e How can any sincere and conscientious citizen of North Dakota, ba ~he farmer, lawyer, banker, merchant or insurance man, associate him-. self politically. with' a “man like this, a man who admits that HE JUST FIGHTING THEM ANYWAY? £ : ~ The farmers of North Dakota not only have right and justice on their side; they have knowledge on their side, too. At the very head - and front of the movement against them are men who DON'T KNOW, WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR WHY. - G : Compare the inane gush of the sleek, well-fed, real estate boomer who has taken the sacred name of Good Government in vain with the . ‘solid ‘sense and the scientific facts behind the statements of Dr. Ladd.: Dr. Ladd represents courageous- effort, .patient research, loyalty to his state and -a-desire for its material and moral progress. What does Morton Page represent? Nothing better than the greedy desire of a man who has waxed fat under the presemt system to have things remain as they are, without regard to other men’s struggles, without regard to other men’s prosperity or ruin—and withal without knowledge or any desire to learn. T R * * * 3 WHICH DO THE PEOPLE CHOOSE? .. What do the people of North Dakota think of the two types of man? Which will they choose to follow? Whose advice and leadership do they covet? That of Morton Page or that of Dr. Ladd. Does it suit the people of Fargo, for instance, to have the wealth - of North Dakota poured into the lap of grain gamblers and grain “fixers” outside the state while self-satisfied little exploiters like Morton Page catch the dribblings, or is there something commendable, some- thing alluring in Dr. Ladd’s vision of a state built up with great indus-- tries, its farmers enriched by a fair price for their product and mer- chants made prosperous by a share in the prosperity of the farm? 4 * %k % 4 'THERE’S NEED FOR EDUCATION There is need for education in North Dakota. The Leader has said it before and it says it again. The farmers are making progress. They need to help educate the people of the cities and towns, people who will let themselves be moved by the advice of ignorant and prejudiced rich men like Morton Page. ; The farmers do not set themselves up as wise men. They do not _pretend to have a divine right to lead and to govern. BUT THEY HAVE HORSE SENSE. ENOUGH TO FOLLOW A MAN WHO KNOWS SOMETHING. They are tired of being led around by a lot of . dunderheads and corrupt agents of corrupt masters. And that is the . part of true wisdom.’ : £ : : They need to teach this wisdom to the Deople of the towns and cities. They need now to ask the people of the towns and cities to join' no truth and no sénse in the attitude that says: “Let things way they are; I'm satisfied; I don’t want to learn anything.” T ~ No man has a right to “stand pat” except the man who knows, and he very seldom does. stay the . A PAIR OF ITINERANT AGITATORS i Bouck White, the “internationalist” who burned the Stars. and Stripes and “Doc” Guild of the Courier-News are appearing on the , y Chautauqua committee “has no apologies to: offer” for ‘White. ' It was “Doc Guilty” who h an item about White with the words “Big Five Has Reeruit Con Does the Doc mean- to insinuate that bbth agitators the Nonpartisan League. As to White we deny. the to “Doc Guilty” we are not so positive, We have ; is a powerful ally for every cause > a lot of money coppering his other side. - (We thot cond thought we shan’t i