The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 8, 1917, Page 15

ADVERTISEMENT '\ FARM VALUES AND RAILROADS Solved Nationally in Order to Assure Agricultural Prosperity. HE greatest iudustry of the United States is farming. Next to that’comes transpor- fation. Efficient transporation is essen- tial to the continued welfare and business progress of the nation. To the farmer it means wider mar- kets and better prices for his €rops. Speaking for 90 per cent of the railroad mileage of the country Wwe invite your co-operation in the solution of the railroad problem to that end. .Make Regulation Efficient There is no question that publie - regulation of transportation has come to stay. The railroads ac- cept it. They ask only that such regulation be made efficient. They ask that the functions prop- erly subject to public supervision —incorporation, the issuance of securities, the making of rates— be plaeed under the direction of a single responsible national body such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, with regional sub- commissions, in order that regula- tion may be kept close to the people. They ask that such regu- lation be so administered as to permit the railroads to earn a liv- ing return, to attract new capital and to make the improvements and extensions nccessary to enable them to serve the American people fairly and efficiently. ‘In the Federal Reserve and Rural Credit Banking Systems the operation of regional divisions under Federal supervision is well illustrated. = The railroads seek & similar solution of their prob- lem. Commerce is Nation Wide The farmer wants free trade among the states. : Commerce in farm products is not confined to state lines. It is nation wide. Its regulation should also be national. The fundamen- tal state right is the right of each state to be protected against dis- criminations by other states such as exist today. Every barrier that a state erects to the free movement of commerce across its borders limits the farmer’s mar- ket, makes it easier for specula- tors to control products and de- press prices and tends to increase the cost of what the farmer has to buy. ‘ The railroads cannot serve 49 .~ masters—48 states and the nation —and serve efficiently. The present system of multiple and conflicting regulation is waste- ful and destructive. In the interest of all, regulation ghould be in behalf of all the states. We invite discussion of this question and shall be glad to answer questions and to supply v information on request. This is the first of several talks on this subject. RAILWAY EXECUTIVES’ ADVISORY COMMITTEE "New York City FRANK TRUMBULL, Chairman FRANCIS H. SISSON, Assistant X ALFRED P. THOM, Counsel B. F. Bush, Receiver Mo. Pacific Ry A J. Barling, Pres. C. M. & St. Ry, Howard Elliott Ch.N.Y.N. H. &H R, R, W.J. Harahan, Pres. Seaboard Air Line Ry. ‘Walker D. Hines, Ch. A T & Santa Fe Ry. Hale Holden, Pres. C. & Q. R, R, L. Loree, Pres. D. & "H. Co. R. S Lovett, Ch, Union Pacific R. R. C. H, Markham, Pres. Ill. Cent. R. R, Samuel Rea, Pres. Penn. Ry, A. H. Smith, Pres. N. Y. Central Lines. Praxn UTmmd bund'c;}rc gro. RY. .- Underwoo es, H. Walters, Ch. Aflantlc Coast Lins R. B, Danjel Willard, Pres. B. & O. R. R, Mention Leader when writing advertisers N 61 Broadway Transportation Problem Must be MUST REPLACE THE OBSOLETE DesLacs, N. D.,, Feb. 21, 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ‘When I look at the wolf shepherd, A. G. Divet, it makes me think that if I were in his place .I would feel like quitting my job and changing my name and join the I. W. W., for I can not see as he is making for the interest of the people of North Dakota any more than the I. W. W. are. Many of those opposing Bill 44, when you get them cornered down on the question, do not know what Bill 44 calls for. 'When you tell them the facts of Bill 44, they have to admit that it would be a good thing for the people. But still they say it is a “Socialist” movement. Well, if it is a Socialist movement, let us have it, if it is better than what we have at present. Then they will say, what becomes of the $9. This seems to worry Big Biz more than it does the members of the League. We ought to stand $8 or $9 a year when for the last 15 years we have been standing to lose from $5 to $10 on each load of low grade wheat we sell. This $8 a year we hope in the near future will bring back to the farmers of the state 10 times that amount. I can not see for my part where any sound-minded man can find any fault with Bill 44. Big manufacturers im- prove their machinery whenever they find a weak point in it. Why not im- prove our constitution when the peo- ple of the“state see a weak point in it? Our constitution may have been all right for the people of the state 26 years ago, but today it is too old. It needs replacing, the same as our ma- chinery on the farm needs replacing. Our small towns prosper when the farmer gets good crops, and when a poor crop comes they feel the effects of it. Why shouldn’t all merchants and implement dealers stand by the farmer more? In the springtime all implement deéalers are anxious to sell machinery to the farmers. If the farmer can . get a square deal on his grain he can pay his bill easier than he can if he has to sell his grain at any price that is offered him regardless of cost of rais- ing it. Well, I think this is 4ll this time. Will close with shoulder to the wheel on Bill 44, WESLEY WHITE. THE LEAGUE AT WORK (Editorial in Pope County (Minn.) Times). Quietly but none the less surely the Nonpartisan League has come into Minnesota and is marshalling its forces for a test of strength of prin- ciples at the next and ensuing elec- tions in this state. Without any fan- fare of trumpets, and in a campaign in which the automobile has replaced the soapbox, the organizers of the League are investigating and report- ing on the situation in every county today. Leaders in a movement that to the average politician is the height of radicalism, these organizers are conservative, serious minded men, of a strong belief in the justice of their cause, and with the ability to con- vince the voters that they are right. It is not surprising to one who seeks the information to learn that already there are over 12,000 mem- bers enrolled in the League in Minne- sota” counties. In Pope county nearly 200 men in all walks’ of life have ex- pressed their belief in and willing- ness to work with the League. These early converts will form an almost ir- resistible band of workers when the time comes for active work. Successful in North Dakota, the League comes into Minnesota with an example of what organization can do as a pattern to follow. The effi- cient manner in which the members of the League are ' preparing to put into actual practice their legislative program can not but impress many with the practicability of the move- ment. Should only a few of the many reforms advocated by the League be successfully enacted into law and prove as beneficial as their sponsors expect them to be, then there will be a new alignment in the political forces of Minnesota as there has been in her sister state. THAT FOOLISH "CHARGE (Editorial in Devils Lake (N. D.) Journal) There is something very remarkable about the way the Nonpartisan League has been taken over body and soul by the railroads, according to the Grand Forks Herald and other standpat apostles. Yet we have the spectacle of the most impressive railroad lobby in years at Bismarck working to defeat measures supported by the solid League membership. For instance, there was the Mostad full-crew bill, defeated by one vote—every stand-patter voting against it and every League member in the senate voting for it. The Herald should take the N. P. trade mark and brand it on the back of the stand- patters, where it properly belongs. ADVERTISEMENT If YouArea “We'llStick” Man, Read This OU may be able to help win this fight for a square deal for the farmers of the Northwest if you keep yourself posted. The poli- ticians, for reasons which they don’t tell, blocked things at Bismarck but the fight will go on throughout the North- west. A good idea can’t ° be killed. &) You Want to Helgz If yeu do want to help win this {ight for your own good keep yourself informed every day about what is going on. By keeping in daily touch with what is going on you will see ways that you can help to win. For instance: whenever the farmers’ purpose is misrepresent- ed in your neighborhood you can help to cor- rect the misrepl‘eséntation. You can know what happens every day by reading T___he Courier-News The Courier-News is the Nonpartisan Daily. Also, it is the best newspaper you ean get. It = will reach you with all the mnews, markets, sports and truthful reports of the Northwest farmers’ fight every day twelve hours earlier than any good newspaper can reach you and It is Your Newspaper Subscribe to it The Courier-News is now published on Monday . morning. You can subseribe to it for six days a week (the old way), or seven days a week (the new way); whichever you please. Here are the rates both ways. Take your choice, but subscribe one way now. ) Six days a week Seven Days a Week (Every day except (Eyery day including Monday) . 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