The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 30, 1916, Page 2

i B S AR E ey = ~ Important Ouestlon . - will destroy the League. : déstroy the " The Leéder ' AnsWers An D Cooperstown, N. D., November 22, 1916 The N onpartxsa.n Leader. % i Dear Sirs: : 2 As the official organ of the League, could you give me a httle mforma ion through your paper.on the following matter: We have in ouf’ community a party (said to.be from' Fargo) sellmg shares in. a packing plant which is to be Tocated in' or near Fargo, the city having donlted a tract of 200 acres for the location. What I would like to ask is this, do you sanction the movement or. oppése it2 i 8 As I understand it, the League stands and has stood for state owmership of terminal elevators, packmg plants, flour mills, ete., ever sm@ its orgamzatldn. And as a large majority of League merabers in-this commumty are taking stock in this ' packing plant, it seems to me they are workmg against their own interest in case : the League program:is carried ‘through in regard to state owned paclnng plants. ke It 'seems ‘this movement-Wwill haye a tendancy to hinder, if not defeat; the st - owned packing plant.. Neither does'it seem necessary to have organized : Leag so far.as this plant is concerned, as I am sure even more would have tak haves. than do new had Farpo donated I&nd for the erection of this plant’'before the Leagie’ started.. If you would kindly give me a little mformatxon in regard to th.\ valuable paper I would’ }ughly appreciate it. ; { ; 4 J Yours respectfully; s E: o 4 OTTO O. HOFFMAN R & 4 Member of the Nonpartxsan League The progl am of the Nonpar: txsan League relative to the state pack ing plant reads as follows: : “State terminal elevators, floun mills, stock yards, packmg houses and cold storage plants.” ) Exactly 189,028 fai in North Dakota alone have mgne the: I\eavue program, and: se farmers have paid their: money. to prom the idea of a state-owned packmmp]ant More than that, nearly 20, North Dakota voters@bithe last election, voted to make Lynn J. Fr governor. . Frazier was "elected on the League program. :-An overwhe ing major lty of: the people expect him to carry out that program,: who know him do not doubt that he will carry out the L Failure on the part of the men elected to carry out T The followmg arranggment . been made for an all expense tour s; clal. ‘train from points in North ' : NInternatlonal Live Stock Show, U . Chicago, via the G.N. R; . Western Line to Chicago returning viz Burlmgtov ) Routea Paul and ‘Great North This tour wil . be under the auspices of the far ers, bankers, com- “mercial and agricultural oorganizatiéns .. Dakota and will'be: persotially conducted by P ‘F. R: Crane, Director of Agrxcultur' | _,Gteat Northem Ry-r The quickest and surest way. to kill the Leag :keep Hs prog 3 rom being ‘caryi outW Neither the Leader ne ague leaders want to. : Lv. Minot* Lv. Granvnlle. ! thlngé after they i hey: want done are written in the pi'ogra tate packing plant is one of those things. good reason why we want to the build : plant is because the packmg trust does ;nat want to see the st&te: build a packmg plant‘ L We have gotten many letters like the ane quote¢ &ove, _ not discussed the matter i in the Leader before. We | not diseussed e the matter of packing plants before because we could not ‘after electlon, whether the people wanted the League pregr: afdls out or, not. - If the North Dakota people wanted the fle s i carried out they would elect the men pledged to carry 1t out t ql—Ote : L - didn’t want the League program carried out they 1 the'n Ti X the A ngspécf ttrall opposed to the program. But North Daketa, by the . decisive : S o 56 MCReh b majority in the history of the state, elected the meq pledged 5 4 2 out their program. The men they elected are not political fakers. They mean business. They will keep their pledgzes to the people a.nd pto-‘ gram will be carried out ¢ The state wfli therefere h A W packing plant. ; N g The Leader has been informed on. sev _accasions that"solmtors selling packing plant stock have intimated ; the i through ‘with the plan for a state-owned plant, and peOple must build-a plant by private’ on informed some solicitors selling this kind of tllle plant they say they will build, the plant. The Leade1 takes. this opportumty y that if _ments have been made they are false and caflmlate&te “ partisan League. > The Leader and the leaders the through with the Teagué program from P believe in that program and because the’y ¥ thes oIt s the mandate of the 40,000 members of the Leag [ the people of iy thestateasawhole expressedatthe ast ‘_ he enti 25 pecis : Chicas Bxirhqgton Ronte for St fned soas to-reach startin m The surest' way of creating a situation faverabl h fea‘;: any. plan foxj a suceessful '