The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 2, 1916, Page 24

OFFICE TO BE VOTED FOR be owned nationally. -ment must ‘own them. program: S L S R e I A EREES G DU SRS THIE SIS RS SRR FRP e all large-scale industries. ship.in' their- platforms.. i ‘ for Militarism for: next year. - While this is true of'the Democrats;.the Republicans are even - Mr: Hughes and the Republican politicians criticize President Wilson and ~ . the Democrats for not having spent -more money: for Militarism.. -The - Republicans say-in their platform that “the Democratic party has utterly: though the. Democrats haye failed to develop” sufficient military power; > A vote for JOHN A, WRIGHT But many things that the farmérs? use are national in nature. Those things must The railroads, the mines, the ban]_(s are of this kind. The United States Govern- “~ * - “The collective ownership and democratic man- agement of railroads, telegraphs. and telephones, express service, steamboat lines and all other social means of transportation and communication and of “The immediate acquirement by th ities, the states or the federal government of all grain elevators, stock yards, storage warehouses and other N distributing agencies in order to relieve the farmer from the extortionate charges of the middlemen and to reduce the present high cost of living. “The extension of the public domain to include mines, quarries, oil wells, forests and water powér.” The Republicans and Democrats do not even mention Public Owner- Lo 8 " SOCIALIST PARTY AGAINST ) - MILITARISM : The Wilson administration has appropriated more tllan 660 m_iliions That is more money than was !jequiged“tt‘;, build the Panama Canal. It is two hundred million dollars more than ‘was spent by’ Great Britain (R Bl . . during the year-before the Great War. -And Great-Britai i . _than any other European “Government for: that purpose, .- . o .. SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT The farmers of North Dakota ha;'e indorsed a ticket standing for state-owned ele- vators, flour mills, packing houses and ' cold storage' plants. . They have done this as a means of protecting themselves against the robbery of the Trusts. . - Socialist Party for Public Ownership - - But the Republican and ,Democrétic' parties do not favor public ownership of the railroads, the banks and the mines. The Socialist party alone stands for Public Own- ership of these things nationally, and is pledged to- the enactment of the following spent 660 million dollars for one year. How Vmu;:h would Mr. Hughes - and his party spend? A BILLION perhaps? Army and Navy Appropriations 61" the éhief Belligerent Nations for t}xe Year Preceding the War 5 Great Britain ... . $461,830,459 Germany ........... = 2 .- 293,181,125 France ........ ... 281,596,205 Russia i - 435,308,657 Austria-Hungary ... oo 124,300,000 Ttaly: =i dneions SR ST R 132,478,147 - Japan .. e e 97,105,152 : For 1917 : i - United Sta_,teS' ....... e R e Gl $662,476,512 The North Dakota farmers do not favor spénding billions of ddllars > : for Militarism. . Mr: Benson, the Socialist candidate, is the only nominee for the Presidency who is opposed to Militarism. In his articles, which" have .. appeared in Pearson’s Magazine, he has. opposed ‘the wasting of the - people’s money: for such .an unholy purpose, His article in the last . (November) issue .shows, yvhere the Socialists stand .on this important = - question, ; - § - P . e % . . ~Mr. Farmer, you have voted long_.enough for the things you DIDN'T i wan'tié i Vgte ox;%e forswhat- you D(z wgt; : S - -+ You have shown'by your vote (in the primary) that you want to get =~ -rid of Private ‘Ownership.in-Terminal \Elev_a'tor,s,.%"'ldur l\ydlllllsw :Rdtfiagfif A sing Plants. Just.take one more advanced step on November 7th and.vote . . gnl 4,,;511b1m,~,0wnetshlp' -of ' Railroads; Coal Mines, -Telegraphs ‘and - : by voting_for Allan L. Benson for President. ‘Benson means also a vote AGAINST Militarism, = AR P s S