The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 17

Write today for catalog of NORTHERN GROWN SEED CORN Grass seed—Seed Grain—Millet, etc. We ‘make special prices on e lots to’'Equity Societies and Farmers’ clubs. D. D. SIMMONS CO., The Moorhead Seed House Moorhead, Minn. APPLE TREES TWO,YEARS $6 PER 100. 3000 1000 rums: 25c; Evergreen Seedlings, 25 per 100; Everb Strawberries, ‘Slifls ‘;’)er 100; earing Send for catalog full of bargains. Mankato Nursery, Mankato, Minn. / 1217 p| ANTING GUI} : PURE SEEDBOOK 4 , A on lening! Flower o dtlkh&i [ esinny Dot “Ask today, A pewta) guts fts D ; Galloway Bros. & Co., Dept. 2395 Waterloo, la. %4;:@« Koect Eo. ,'}'-:\\Qm n&i?c\t&ton;:c, Name . PO state 5 DR. L. A. SCHIPFER Specialist, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat BISMARCK, N. D. Bismarck’s Newest Hotel Now Open Van Horn Hotel and Cafe McGILLIS & WALLACE, Props. , BISMARCK, N. D. European Plan Absolutely Fireproof The best room in the state for $1.00 a day. Auto bus meets all All Quality Goods KREMENETSKI BROTHERS Tuitle, N. D. ~ GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Full Line of Hard- ware, Shoes and Clothing, Enamelwars, Tinware, Cutlery and Tools. PayLessInterest and Get Out of Debt Borrow on the amortized plan. Pay interest and principal in twenty equal annual installments of $90.€8% per Thousand Dollars per annum or $1813.70, and when the twenty notes are paid the debt and interest is pald in full. If you borrow $10€0 and pay 6 per cent for twenty years you pay $1200 in interest and $1000 in prn- cipal, making $2200 or $386.30 mcre than on the amertized plan. Write 1s for full particulars. . M. F. Murphy & Son GRAND FORKS -Na D_AK- e e Mention Leader when writing advertisers e A T TP North DakotaReorganization By John H. Worst, Former President of N. D. A. C., in the New-Rockford State Center The Nonpartisan organization was effective and produced the preliminary results desired by its members, solely because they first joined the move- ment and then remained steadfast un- til the polls closed on the seventh day of last November. So far, so good. But the work is only begun. Much re- mains yet to be accomplished. The farmers declardd they would “stick" and having stuck they won the first round in an economic battle that will require considerable time yet before the fruits of victory can be realized. The second and equally important step will be for every farmer to renew his membership for two years more and possibly longer. The cost of mem- bership is a mere bagatelle compared with the benefits that will accrue to farmers and local merchants when some of the tremendous leaks have been plugged up and a larger propor- tion of the profits of farming are kept” in the state for improvements and for bettering living conditions. When this is done, and the doing of it is éntirely feasible, merchants, bankers and pro- fessional men will all share in the in- creased prosperity of the state. PROGRAM IS VITAL TO PEOPLE OF STATE On an average the farmers have been mulcted out of not less than $50,000,000, partly by donating the by-products such as dockage as well as paying un- necessary freight bills and for losses sustained on account of price manipu- lations. Much of this can be remedied. Much of it should be remedied The program voted for so over- whelmingly at the last election is as vital an issue now and will be for sev- _eral years to come as it was two years ago, and unless the organization is maintained intact the work up to the present time will largely go by default. If farmers were sincere then they should be more so now, for having put their hands to the plow they scarcely dare to look back. It .is not likely that serious opposi- tion will be offered by hold-over sena- tors on the ground that they were elected before the Nonpartisan League was organized and hence are not bound to support its program. True they are not; but they nevertheless know the temper of the vast majority of the vot- ers, and for them to block the program voted for will only defer as well as in- tensify the determination of the farm- ers to complete their program even if it requirés another campaign in order to retire all opponents to private life. FEE IS NOT BIG COMPARED TO BENEFIT Even without opposition the consti- tution will have to be amended liber- ally or wholly revised before half the program can be made effective, which is sufficient warrant for a continuance of the organization until its object is fully realized. The two year fee of $18.00 is ex- tremely modest when compared with what is required of other organizations, that do not represent a fraction of the interests involved in this movement. This fee will be magnified tremendous- ly, however, by those who hope to in- fluence the farmer to abandon his al- legiance, but the paltry sum of $8.00 per year will not scare many farmers. Few are cheap as that especially when they know that “Big Interests” would spend millions of dollars to break down their organization. Farmers Write Letters Senators and Representatives at Bismarck Hear From Home On one petition sent from the little town of Golden Valley in Mercer coun- ty to a League member to be presented .to Senator John Young, who is opposed to the League constitutional plan, there were 34 names, nearly half of whom were business men of the town, repre- senting nearly every business there. Attorney Alf. O. Nelson of Dunn Center, also in Senator Young’s dis- trict, appeared before a -caucus last week, while a visitor in Bismarck, and told of the almost unanimous adoption of a resolution by the Dunn Center Com- mercial club indorsing the plan for a constitution te be submitted as soon as possible by this legislature to the peo- ple. Mr. Nelson said that the senti- ment of that part of the county, re- gardless of whether the residents are engaged in farming or not, is for the constitution that the League desires. “We found House Bill 44 was not the socialistic. document that some of its enemies said it was,” he said before the _ caucus. ‘W. J. Church, a League member, of Benson county, received a letter from one of his constituents at Leeds, urg- ing his utmost endeavor in behalf of the constitution proposed by the League, in which he said in part: “I see your name on the honor roll in the Leader, and commend the stand you have taken, and hope you will stay by it. If you can not get a good con- stitution bill through, adjourn and come home and in 1918 the senate will be O. K. I wrote a leiter some days ago to Senateor Kirkeide and also told him to show my letter to you and “Maddock. Give my best regards to “Maddock—and stand by the farmers, or come home.” A letter from a prominent merchant in Walsh county to Senator Levang declares that regardless of membership in the Nonpartisan Ieague the peo- ple of that section want a new consti- tution modeled on the lines of House Bill 44, and wrote that petitions are being circulated in that section to be forwarded to the senate urging favor- able action. Divet is Challenged President Townley Says League Speaker Will _ “Meet Enemy of Farmers’ Cause Hearing on his return from Hills- boro Saturday that Representative A. G. Divet of Wahpeton, had ad- dressed a meeting of Fargo business men here on House Bill 44, the pro- posed new constitution for the state, President A. C. Townley of the Non- partisan League, issued'a challenge to Mr. Divet to meet a representative of the League in Fargo in a debate on the bill : The challenge was issued in the form of an open letter sent by Mr. Townley to the Courier-News for publication. The letter follows: / Hon. A, @. Divet, Dear Sir: T Hearing that you have sought occa- sion to discuss before residents of Fargo the merits of House Bill 44, con= taining the proposed new constitution ~ for the state of Worth Pakota, I wish to offer you the epportunity to.address an audience in this city under circum- stances which will insure the most rep- resentative hearing possible. I hereby challenge you to meet a representative of the Nonpartisan League in a debate on the merits of the new constitution and the validity of the process involved in House Bill 44. 1 will permit you to select the date of the discussion, stipulating only that it shall be not sooner than Sunday, February 4, but as soon ‘as possible thereafter, and that the place in which the debate shall take place shall be the largest suitable hall avaflable in the city of Fargo. The hall will be pro- vided without expense to you. If you desire to obtain the fulest publicity for the provisions of this bill and the fullest possible expression of public sentiment thereon your pur- poses are in full accord with mine and I believe you should have no hesitation in accepting this offer and in confer- ring regarding details of the meeting. A. C. TOWNLEY, Pres. Farmers’ Nonpartisan League. “The purpose of this is just what I state in the letter addressed to Mr. Divet,” said Mr. Townley last night. . *“We want to have the public thoroly informed about this bill, Mr. Divet is one of the ablest speakers and the most energetic of those who are opposing the passage of the bilL. = We believe that if he meets a supporter of the bill in a public debate here the people of Fargo will have the best possible op- portunity to form independent opin- fons on the subject. . *“I sincerely hope Mr. Divet will see fit te accept this offer and set 5 date for a meeting.” SEVENTEEN. FARMERS BEWARE! You are apt to be ‘‘stung” if you take the demonstration to be honest of wild oat separators other than Hoiland’s. You will find in most cases they will be using doctored or itrained grain. You may wonder what kind of grain this is.—The demonstrators will get the heaviest and largest grain and mix with it the smallest and lightest wild oats procurable. They will grade this several times, and at each grading they discard all the middle sized grain, using only the largest and the small- est. This is called doctored or trained grain, and is easily separated. This is used in demonstrating so-called wild oat separators. This fraud in dem- onstration is the reason farmers have purchased three or four kinds of so- cane{: wild oat separators with poor results. Watch the methods, ILook up the guarantee. Be sure, Why not buy a Hoiland Wild Oat Separator which is absolutely guaranteed to separate all wild oats from all grains? It will do the business with grain just as it comes from the threshing machine. Albert Hoiland MANUFACTURER North Dakota |s4r % HIDES, FURS, Etc. YOUR Established Since 1867. D. Bergman & Co., Saint Paul, Minnesota Deal Direct with the Larzest 204 Oldest Eouss in the Weat: ighest Prices Cash Retums. Write for g&mmmmlnflm Fargo, PRICE LIST and@ book of valuable information FREE, Tells best way to care for BIDES hides intended for tanning. i We own and operate the TARNER largest custom tannery in the country, tanning hides into robes, coats and leather, direct for farmers. In busi- ness since 1894 and under same manage- ment. For quick service and best tan- ning, write Crookston Tanning Co., Dept. 14, Crookston, Minn. OLD FASHIONED TANNING G It is a good thing for boys, and our UP-TO-DATE TAN- NING is a good thing for HIDES, the kind of tanning that stays soft in the coldest weather. Custom tanners and mfgs. ‘of coats, robes, rugs, mittens, etc. tWr&;; for Dca}an_\l,_g z?nd shipping tags, to uare Deal anning Co., 210 W. Main St., Detroit, Minn. Ship us your horse, beef hides or any skins you may-have. We will tan and make them into / / warm durable robes, . coats or any fur article. Experienced furriers and tanners. All work guaranteed. Write today for our free illustrated catalog, price list, tags, etc. . Minneapolis Tanning & Fur Mfg. Go., 1618 3rd St. N. E. inneapolis, Minn. scarce this year an ':I s “ prices are constantly going higher. Duluth prices in box- 3 @s, Herring 100 1bs. $4.15, 50 lbs. $2.25, Plckerel 1b. .05:{. Tull. Whitefish .0834, Pike 1134, Salmon .14, Halibut .14, Cod .I3. For shipment in boxes from Des Moines, la., Fargo, N. D, or Aberdeen, 8. D. add one half cent per Ib. in sacks m.q}o as above prices. Duluth sack prices one half cent 1b. less. Remember we guarantee safe de- livery to your shipping point. @end all orders to CONSOLIDATED FISHERIES, Sta. 13, Duluth, Minn. When You Are Fish " Hungry of all kinds gre ver: It’s Northern Herring that Reaches the Spot. We guarantee the the following Eices on herring for the balance of is season. Northern Herring In Cartons 10 cartons, 90 lbs. net wt. ...$5.50 Loose Weather Frozen Herring 100 lbs. net weight ............ $5.00 ~ It is only at great expense and risk that herring can now be procured, but we hope to have sufficient stock to fill all orders. 7 If you are not gettin%vvour orders filled, send them to us, e guarantee shipment and prices. Conditions are so uncertain that we rdvise ordering at once. Later in the geason it may be impossible to secure herring at any price. NORTHERN FISH COMPANY, Address: 107 Duluth, Minn. Leader “Classified” Ads Pay. Mention Leader when writing advertisers >, = o~