The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 22, 1917, Page 19

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LENT IS NEAR It commences February 21. Don't take anything except Midnight Sun Brand in fish and delicatessen goods. This Trademark stands for the best quality. Ask for them and accept no others. Only Norwegian wholesale firm west of Chicago. Bergseth Fish Co. IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALERS , A Home Institution Fargo and Minot, North Dakota. (We Manufacture Barn Ventilating Cupolas, Hog Troughs, Watering Troughs, Eave Troughs, Etc. One-Pipe Warm Air Heating Plants. Klinsmann Co. FARGO, N. D. AN Delco-Light i{s every man’s electric plant and provides electric current for light and power for anyone anywhere. Electric light—clean, cool, safe—for your home and your barns. Agents evérywhere B. F. ASHELMAN Distributor Cor. Broadway and Front Street. . FARGO, N. D. m Mention Leader when writing advertisers The Whyfore of the “Ante” Minnesqta Paper Discusses Matter of People Fur- nishing Their Own Campaign Fund (Editorial in Madelia (Minn.) News) Evidences of worry on the part of many who are tied up in a partisan political way or have by nature in- elastic. minds are becoming apparent as a result of the activities of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Leagug. This organization is gaining rapidly in strength in this state and the coming summer will witness vastly greater strides. ‘When the League was formed in North Dakota it met with little oppo- sition in its early stages for the sim- ple reason that no one there had vision enough to realize that the move- ment had any latent strength. By the time the old-school politicians awak- ened to the menace represented by this political organization being per- fected by the farmers of the state it was too everlastingly late to stem the tide. Now the League has the state under its control and the farmers can twisldle their fingers at the rest of the people there for they are in the saddle. been left outside the works. Having the situation in their own state under control the North Dako- tans have come over into Minnesota and are lending their efforts to the organization of a similar League in this state. And you can bet all you have that this League will be boss in this state within a couple or three years at the outside. The opponents of the movement are dishing up every conceivable form of twaddle at their command to hinder the progress of the League organiza- tion, the principal weapon used against it being the fact that every member of the League is required to plunk down $16 to join the League. Undoubtedly many will be scared off by the suspicions aroused by the in- sinuations regarding this $16 ante, but many who will be scared out now will come in—$16 and all—later on. As a matter of fact this $16 assess- ment is the strongest argument in its favor that the Nonpartisan League possesses. Hitherto every new political move- ment that has started in behalf of real democracy has been launched by scme inspired patriot who didn‘t real- ize the potency of cold cash in such a campaign. Happily, the promoters of the League in North Dakota were hard-headed and practical and they injected this acid test of a man’s sincerity by requiring all who came into the movement to back their in- tentions with the coin. The result was that the League has been reinforced throughout by the possession of the sinews of war. And the politicians have They had the money to put in a splendid publishing plant—paid for with cash—to disseminate literature regarding the aims and purposes of the League. They had money to buy automobiles and pay the expenses of the men who went out to organize the League. K Strong convictions and splendid theories are of the utmost importance at the inception of any great popular movement, but the cash in the coffers is the life blood of the organization. Happily the $16 entrance fee is no bar to a farmer as soon as he is con- vinced of the honesty of purpose of those back of the League. And the success of the League in North Dakota is of inestimable value to the men who are pushing the organization of a League in Minnesota. And the futil- ity of the opposition waged against it in North Dakota ought to satisfy the antis in this state that they are but- ting their brains out against a stone wall. Loyal Leaguer This is B. D. Arnold, representative in the lower house at Bismarck, N. D., elected by the farmers of the 39th dis- trict, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley and Slope counties. Women Told to Go Home Shepherd Divet Won’t Listen to Wives and Moth- ers Asking for Suffrage and Legisla- tion for Children By Staff Correspondent ISMARCK, Feb. 15—Women are B not wanted around the capitol at Bismarck according to Repre- sentative A. G. Divet of Richland coun- ty, who told one of them so in that many words the other day, when she went to him to speak for some legisla- tion in which she was interested. “You women make yourselves ob- noxious—we are simply tired of you— we don’t want you here. I don’t want to talk to you about your bill,” he said gesticulating vigorously. The women who are here or have been here seeking legislation at this session, are some of the foremost wo- men of the state and the measures they speak for affect woman suffrage, school measures, the tuberculosis hos- pital at Dunseith and the Florence Crittenton home. Among them are Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, rep- resenting the W, C. T. U.; Miss Lillian Topping of Fargo, for the Crittenton home; Mrs. J. E. Stevens of the North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis association; Mrs. Elizabeth Darrow O’Neil, Mrs. Clendenning and Mrs. Weible of Fargo, all representing the Votes for Women league and other suffrage organizations. These are the women whom Mr. Divet declared are making themselves “obnoxious,” whom'he is “simply tired of,” and does not want to talk to. The particular woman to whom the remarks were addressed had not spoken to Mr. Divet before upon any measure and had had no opportunity of making herself obnoxious. She met him in the lobby of the Grand Pacific hotel and attempt- ed to explain the purpose of a bill in which she was interested, but was snubbed before she had begun. ‘When refused a hearing she pointed’ to some of the good things accomplish- ed in North Dakota because women have been busy at Bismarck, and pro- tested that if the women had not taken any part in lawmaking, many interests would have gone unrepresented. “We are here to represent the people back home who have no opportunity of speaking for themselves,” she said. “Then you had better go back home and stay there,” he said. “We don’t want you here. Go home and tend to your own business.” THE PEOPLE SUPREME (Editorial in Parshall (N. D.) Leader) The Leader, for one, favors the plan for the present legislature to resolve itself into a constitutional convention, amend the constitution as contemplat- ed and submit its work to the voters of the state at an early date for rati- fication. Our present constitution, adopted some twenty-seven years ago, needs revision in cases other than the changes desired to bring about the Nonpartisan League plan of state ownership. We are in favor of submit- ting a new constitution every twenty- five years, arguing that in that time progress demands revision. ‘When a constitution gets to be old, moth-eaten and antedated it should be thrown in the scrap heap where it belongs. Our national constitution needs to be revised worse than a Great Northern country depot needs paint. Since it is purposed to submit the new constitution to the voters of the state June 1st of this year, it matters little whether the proposed action of the legislature is legal or not—the people of the state it is who give -authority to constitution and by-laws; they are supreme. NINETEEN Good Phoographs From Only $10 up. Make your home pleas- ant with mu- sic this win- ter. We have the Vocalion, \ kA C o1um bia, o " F.dison and Victor Machines, at all prices. Records 65¢ and up. Write for free catalogs and estimate on Machine and Record Outfits. We Have Them At All Prices. STONE PIANO COMPANY. Dept. T. Fargo, Grand Forks. . DR. L. A. SCHIPFER Specialist, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat BISMARCK, N. 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