The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 21, 1916, Page 18

es second-class matter D. C. COATES, Manager Advertising rates on application. Subscriptio Communications intended . for the is the sup: The Nonpartisan Leader' PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY THURSDAY F e e TS i P T o L R e L e FL A S P B L LBt e Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota E i e e 7S e 2 S T TR 1Al e Y SR i Entered September Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 8, 1879. n, one year, in ndvence. $2.50; six mnfln, $1.50. p.pu .should Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not any individual, Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not to avy individual. v The Leader nmedvefiidgmedlmtbmhwfiehhmhthammmhfim‘ dNorth leoh,nltgoslnmnmdeallyeverynmhomoin The licits vertisements of Guaranteed Weekly: Circulation of 50,000 Copies and Upward. 8, 1015, at the postoffice at = HERBERT GASTON, Editor. be addressed to the Nonpartisan Leader, articles nedndby Farmers. Quack, , and we will take it as a favor to -doubt or question the rel Short Arm Jabs, Jolts and Uppercuts By O. M. Thomason - It is one thing to raise wheat and quite another thing to raise the price of iy PR The man who raises a steer gets about six cents for it, while the man who kills it gets all the way from 20 cents to $2.40 a pound for it. There’s more money in - killing than in raising: ® K X% The farmer 'sells beef steers at about gix cents a pound. Dressed beef sells from 20 to 80 cents a pound while chip-- ped beef sells at :2.40 a pound. Which renders the most service to society, the man who raises the beef or the man who kills it? s A Minnesota politician says that Min- nesota farmers are prosperous and don’t need any legislation. So are the Chamber of Commerce, the Milling Trust, the Beef Trust, Iron Ore Trust and the Railroad Trust prosperous, but they are always vitally interested in legislation—and they usually get it. % Xk X John Swinton, noted journalist, speak- ing before the New York Press club, said: “It is the business of the journal- ist to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.” This is a strong statement and decid- edly sweeping. We believe entirely too much so. But Judgmg from the utter- ances appearing in some country papers we are cénstrained to admit that there are a few would-be journalists trying to live, up to that standard. May their kind decrease. * % % % A prominent Minnesota businessman recently made the remark that legisla- tion would not help farmers any. What the farmers should do, he said, is to let politics alone and work hard and raise more farm products. It's a poor rule that won't work both ways, therefore we suggest that legis- lation will not help business and that businessmen should stay- out of politics, quit sending lobbies to the legislatures and to congress, attend strictly to.busi- ness and try to sell more goods. 5 A correspondent for a Minneapolis paper declares that if the farmers of Minnesota get organized to the: extent of 60,000 members the campaign fufld raised from their membership dues will make the campaign expenses of all other candidates look like a plugged nickel. How about that $400,000 which is reported to have been spent in the inter- - est - of one candidate during the late senatorial < nickel, that. E 2 l * It is reported that a move ls now on THE PULLMAN is equipped with full floating rear axle and l‘imken'bearing& . . MORE BROS. primaries" Some pl\_lgged' foot to get a law through the next Min- nesota legislature empowering the state bankers’ association to limit the number of banks that shall’ be- operated in the state. Under such a law a new bank cannot be started in a town without the i from the bankers’ association. Consent of the bankers’ association will depend upon whether the local bankers of that particular town want anether bank or not. Bankers know the value of organizing—even of a “closed”. organ- ization. That’s the reason some of them oppose the farmers’' organization. * ¥ ¥ % | This is the day of organization. The calling, class, profession or business that is not organized must meet, on the competitive field, competitors that are * % ¥ % % If organization had not been a success the Standard Oil company, the steel trust, the beef trust and the sugar trust would have disorganized a long time ago. B S R 3 The farmer buys at the other fellow’s price and sells at the other fellow’s price. In other words he buys at retail and sells at wholesale. How long would the imple- ment dealer or the groceryman gtay in business if he bought at retail and sold at Wholesale" * 3k * * The ouly people who object to the farmers organizing are the bankers, law- yers, politicians and such others as are themselves organized. x kX K Manufacturers of “sleeping powders” ought to do a good business in Minne- - sota, now, since the politicians and their henchmen have heard that the Nonpar- tisan League has entered the Ndrth Star state. ; * Xk X % The politicians are perfectly willing that the farmers shall organize, pro- vided said politicians shall be permitted to draw up. plans of the organization, select the organizers, pick the leaders and have charge of the fees pald in by the members. LOOKING BACEWARD The Grand Forks Independent, which' took special = delight in knocking = the farmers’ political organization all spring, seems to have had a change of heaxt, and is now having a litle fun at the ex- pense of the gang politicians: The Nonpartisan League has made. some prominent members of the old par-. ties look backward. . Hanna, Alex Mc- Kenzie and an army of standpatters are looking backward. ~‘When the farmers wanted legislation that would protect’ them against graft and losses in market- - ing their farm products, the boases kept - looki#tg*backward and ‘that “was not the right direction to be lookmg: Buit the old political manggers refused fo turn”their faces in the direction the: But now they are standing up. and taking notice — they ‘only look backward long - “enough _nowtoreoonmtthearsmsofom:smon and commission and - how many times: they turned the farmers down—and farmers wanted them to. things like that. Since June 28, there has been a whole | movements— - lot of right - about - faca can’t do now, it ean’t “stick”, — COUNTY FREE PRES and ‘now the gang has got to face the future. There is one thing the old gang WELLS- High Class Dental Work Done | at a Big Saving Examinations Free---Call and See Us Elev.ator Managers ? Iftheetevatorcompanyof which you-are an officer. or stockholder is in erthntwiflworkforthefarmm’mterestamdnotfortho of ‘the rmnCombme,pleesewnteatoneewouroflke as.we are 5 ‘best-elevator managers that are available. We \almhawahxtofmmthataremmnsbomrkumdmenmthflmview ofbeconnngmmagerslater. Shonldmneedeltherasecondmmotmnnager, please write or wire us at once.. Equity Co-operative Exchange, St. Paul, Minn. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK / : FARGO, N. D. A BANK OF SERVICE AND SATIS_FACTION M The ‘ Valley - City Granite and Marble gork:dm transaxl:)ts 1tz lb;usme‘ss a little tgu:efif e ordinary, by no avmgan agen! - ing its monuments. It has: bux;it up a large business, and its monuments are considered among the most artistic in the northwest. - It has a completely: equipped plant, and “ guarantees every piece of work it sells. It issues a complete catalog of 1ts various Young draft horses take in trade, no blemished horses considered. Valley City Granite and Marble Works ' VALLEY CITY, N. D. Proof of Results The Leader receives many evidences of its RESULTS POWER as. an advertising medium.. Hardly a day passes but what some satisfied advertiser either writes or tells us of the PROFITABLE RESULTS secured from advertisements in the Leader. 2 LI we printed all these twhmomals we would be under sus- picion of boasting too much.: So just to prove that we get them we - select evidence from three souroes wluch came to our attenhon one day last week: a ¢ Here they are: “Iplacedanadthhyoulast ringandhadveryp!easmg_ results, so I am sendmg you another.”—Flora Walker, Kathryn, “The one ad I had you insert brought 20 answers in one week.” ~—H. |G, Albert, Donnybrook, “Wemadesalesatlmcca,DevxlsLakeand Clnm:hesFerry last week fmm auadmthe Leoder. '—Hagan &Olifln, tailors, GRS # There can be no better proof that advertisers get satlsfaetory 1 ',,results than the above—which is mere evidence that the Leader | - ‘| subscribers read the paper with intense interest, advertisements | . and all,"and are patromzmg the:advertisers who aid in: the publica- § tion of the paper which is fightmg the battles of the farmers and - the common ‘people. " They will read- your ad also and you wxll ot results such as. ' Wfll prove that LEADER ADVERTIS]NG IS MOST, EFFECTIVE IN GETTING BUSINESS. i