The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 2

You can rest assured that 1 wxll{gwe every assistance in my power to further the grcat work of the League. I feel very grateful to our brothers,of the - North Dakota League for the great impetus they have given the movement in this state. Everything indicates that the League will be.a winner here as the work ™ my own locality has greatly exceeded my most sanguine hopes. GEO. B. DALY, South Dal/:ota. d The Nonpartisan League organizers did very well here—only three men in. this township that didn’t join. * Anything that I can do for the good of the organization, I will be more than glad to/do. B. T. KELLEY, South Dakota. . EERTRIA I hope the Nonpartisan League of Minnesota will accomplish what the League did in North Dakota. Am at present somewhat tied down with my business as contractor and wood dealer, but will try and free myself by next spl‘mg Then I will be ready to assist you in what I‘consider to be the greatest move in the world ever attempted for the welfare of the-farmer and laborer. I am 41 years old and have been a farmer.all my life excepting the last three years. OTTO WIEDENMANN, Minnesota. _ [ am very much interested in the Non- partisan League and the work it is try-. ing to accomplish, and you may count on me for any further assistance that I may be able to give. H. J. EVJE, Minnesota. I'm for the.League heart-and soul and if I can- be of any assistance will be more than pleased to do so. : ALBERT H. JOHNSON, Minnesota. You can count on me to aid you in any way that I can as much as my time will permit as I am very much interested in the cause you are working for and sin- cerely hope we can do as well in South Dakota as you can do in North Dakota. PETER TUCKER, South Dakota. "The editor of the Farm, Stock & Home is apparently very much concerned for fear the farmers of the country will . organize politically. We quote from an editorial of the issue of Sept. 1st; 1916: “To assume that one class cat\leg-Jslate fairly for other classes is to assume that one group of men have a to the law to regulate* an rule other groups of men which is unlimited autocracy rather than liberty. * % * As a matter of fact most of the wrongs of which he (the farmer) complains belong to the past. * * * If the railroads of old robbed us is it fair and ‘will it pay to hamstring' the railroads of today? If the packers, the millers, the bankers, the storekeepers, have in the past taken their pound of flesh, is it.fair and will:it pay us .to destroy the social ‘and economic machinery these mdustnes have built up?” - The Farm Stock & Home editor objects to the farmers attempting to control legislation becaus rforsooth, one ~ class.-is not fit to legislate for other classes. How about the lawyers, bank- ers and business men who constitute a very small minority of our citizenship and who have controlled the legislatures of our country from the beginning, and have always presumed to legislate for the farmers who constitute the great majority of our people? The fact, that each class should legislate for itself ‘is one ' of the chief reasons for political organization on the part of the farmers, The - bnnkers ‘have their = organization which “looks after the interests of the bankers at law-making times. The lawyers have a similar organization. ‘Why not an organization of farmers? “Most of the ongs of which the farmer complains belong rather to the past.” For instance, several years have elapsedv. since E. L. Welch & Co., operat- ing under the protection of the Chamber of Commerce rules, appropnated the TIME TO (B}'.JMV-Jx.fi.Bgddy in Cooperators’ Herald) il right superior CHJNGE twelve cars of grain which belonged fo. , the farmers of Clay: county, Minn. E. L. Welch & Co., and many other of their kind are still on their job. The Chamber .of Commerce is still in existence and the rules which legalized this robbery ‘are still unchanged. These parasites, opers ating through the Chamber of Commerce,’ took three hundred -millions of dollars out of the pockets of the farmers of the northwest during the last year but the farmers must not organize to fight these wrongs. ! : The insiders of-the Great Northern railway have voted over four hundred million dollars\ worth -of . stocks "and bonds to themselves which represent no actual investment whatever .But this is ‘all done in.the past and the farmers . should 1ot ofganize to protect. them- selves agamst this powerful ‘monopoly. : A few years ago the head of the Great Northern railway turned a hearing before the -Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse commission into® a farce. But, this was . all in-the past. It is true that this great railroad system, which 'we are all obliged to use, is still controlled by a few private capitalists but the thing for the farmeérs to do is to continue to.act as individuals, Arote -against each other, and:allow the railroad’ interests to re-elect Judge Mills and other similar puppets. Speaking of the I..W. W. organiza- tion on the same page, the editor of the * Farm, Stock-& Home says: “The plain fact:of the present situation. is that the- individual farmer is practically helpless.” In other words the farmer should con- " tinue to try to cope with the railroad trust, the steel trust, the lumber trust, the machinery trust, the bankers’ trust, and the IChamber of Commerce as an individual but he needs to organize in order to protect himself against the poor, homeless I. W.. W’s. “Consistency, thou art a jewel.” ' Pretending to represent the farmers while wntmg edltorxals for ~ Lynn J. Frazner Nonpartisan League Candzdate for Governor ' and Other Speakers Wlll Address the Voters at the followmg places and izme stated Anythmg that I can do will be gladly done, till the “Tiger is in North Dakota. This movement ha:i been my dream for 20 years. J. S. REYNARD, South Dakota. I am veri much interested in tfie v F,armeré’- Nonpartisan League and if there is anything I:can do to help will be glad to do.so. I also ampleased with what the farmers of North Dakota are. doing in estimating the cost of growing grain ‘and fixing the price of the same. P. H. AUSTIN, Minnesota.: ' I am glad to know that my efforts to’ help along the cause of -the farmers, the:. & working elass ‘in gencral, ‘and tlie con- sumers, are appreciated by your com-. mittee. > movement heart and soul .and am very willing to help along the ‘good cause in -any way I can. Here’s hopm the South Dakota League will win out just as’it-did in North Dakota. =~ v _G. WM. HICKMAN, South mkota. 7 ” SMALL BUSINESS = . I “see by the state: papers that the state’ beard. of equalization is _going ‘to give .us lower taxes. I wonder if the members of the board really lowered the assessment. because they thought' the - people wanted lower taxes or because they wanted to make it hard sleddmg, for the new . administration. Jack Pfeifer and I think that they did it just to. embarrass the mcommg officials. . The . ‘ farmers’ candidates will have to practice: economy-—m\d they awill gegd Iots of ‘- And when Jack and I think the same on any question there are liable to be a lot: of other people agree with; us—for we in SLOPE COUNTY NEWS. Big Business sométimes Pets even an old hand like the editor of the- Farm, Stock & Home into a position where he becomes m'lxculous : :O@@Q@G..Q0;000OOOOOOOOQ.0.000.0.9000.00000000.QOOO@@.QC0.0G' The Most Talked of Man in North Dakota Hear the Next Govemer of the State Tl AT ‘bay” as it is Pz I can assure vou I am with this - - seldom agree. on anything.—“Newsboy” pgp.oooéqccooojoo