The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 26, 1917, Page 13

ADVERTISEMENTS 'Y VOID a ‘‘leaky”’ thresher this year. Hireor buy a thresher that will saveyour grain, A Red River Special will do it. It deals outallof the grain, Many own- ers have threshed out big sacks of grain from straw stacks left by other machines. Hire the ° man who owns a Red River Special or write us and learn about our “‘Junior’’ machine. Built ina size that makes home threshing pay. Run it with a gasoline engine, tractor, or light steam engine. Not to be compared with usual small threshing machines., Has every feature of the Red River Special —famous ‘‘Man Behind the Gun’’—same arrangement of shakers, adjustable chaffer, and large sieves. Write for Circulars. Nichols & Shepard Co. In Continuous Business Since 1848 Builders Exclusively of Red River Sgecill Threshers, Wind Stackers, Feeders, Steam a8 Traction Engines and Oil-Gas Tractors Battle Creek Michigan North Dakota Branch Fargo, N. D. i %fllflflllIHIIIIillllll!flflllilllfllfl““" 7RI FRED BARTHOLOMEW INVITES YOU WHEN IN Grand Forks, N.D = to try : Hotel = Frederick Nonpartisan Headquarters = = I AL LB R = . SHERMAN E%T%AUL%INN-“ Fourth and Sibley Streets One block from Union De- pot and Nonpartisan - League Headquarters. The Hotel Sherman is the leading popular priced ho- tel in St. Paul, and caters especially to the people of the Northwest. Modern rooms,. $1.00 up. Official Headquarters Equity Co-operative Ex- change. Excellent Cafe and Cafeterla, A. J. CAMERON -y ention Leader when writing advertisers Texas Investigates the League (Continued from page 8) problems are like yours, and our law makers have treated us as the North Dakota lawmakers treated their people. We have been fighting through the Land League since 1911, and through the Farmers’ union for many years, (maybe you didn’t know the Farmers’ union was born in Rains county, Texas), but now we are going into politics, and we expect to win in 1918.” The Farmers’ union numbers 60,000 in Texas. It has been fighting for economic freedom since the 1907 made- to-order panic broke the back of the cotton holding movement, and the cot- ton farmers had to sell a crop that should have brought them 15 cents a pound, for 11 to 12 cents a pound. Mr. Meitzen is a member of both the Land League and the Farmers’ union, and believes that the latter organization will heartily join in working, through the National Nonpartisan League, for the things they have not yet accom- plished. ALL CLASSES ARE FOR - STATE OWNERSHIP The Union, the Land league, the state “Farmers’ Institute” (which embraces farmers, stockmen, fruit growers and agricultural college professors) and also the Texas cattlemen’s association have all gone on record independently for the essential principles of the Non- partisan League—state —ownership of the great industries for the benefit of all the people. They began this before the Nonpartisan League was organiz- ed. The Southwestern cotton, cattle and wheat growers were seeing things in just the same light as the North- western wheat and cattle growers, and they were independently proposing the same remedies. It was only last year that the Texas cattle men’s association investigated a plan for a co-operative packing house 'in that state and quit because they had only $9,000,000 capital and knew they could not buck the meat trust with that little sum. They knew they must have the state to fight an organization as strong as the pagckers’ combination, and they went on record formally in favor of state-owned pack- ing houses and cold storage plants. The cottonn growers of the Texas Land league have for several annual sessions been passing resolutions de- claring for state ownership of cottona oil mills, compresses, gins and termi- nal warehouses. They know that they can not get a square deal on the grad- ing of their cotton through the cotton exchanges which dictate grading and prices just as the-grain ring of the Northwest dictates grades and prices for wheat, whether the grades are nominally promulgated by a state or by a bureau of the department of agri- culture. They are for exemption of farm im- provements from taxation, and for the taxing of the unoccupied speculator’s land on the same basis as the improved land. They believe this will put some of the 117,000,000 acres which the speculators are holding out of cultiva- tion for land hunger prices, into culti- vation. TEXAS LEGISLATURE ALSO PLAYS TRICKS The Land league of Texas circulated a petition calling on farmer Gover- nor Colquit to call a special session of the legislature to deal with this land tax situation, and got 80,000 signers, but the governor turned it down. Another man took it up, J. E. Fergu- son, and adopting the déemands of the Land league for a return to the old rental basis of shares, and abolition of the bonuses, he was swept into office. The legislature passed a bill, passed it Just as the North Dakota Old Gang passed Senate Bill 84 for terminal ele- vators and handed it out as the thing the people had been demanding. And it was the same kind of a bill. Instead of making it criminal for land- lords to charge bonuses, this bill made it “illegal” and said they could mot col- lect it. Of course this had three im- mediate advantages to the landlords, and the Texas farmers were worse off than ever, just as the North Dakota farmers would have been if Governor Frazier had not vetoed the Old Gang elevator bill; first it threw the settle- ment of ‘the disputes into the courts controlled by the Texas speculators; second any renter who tried to use the law would be blacklisted, just as are North Dakota farmers who try to use the anti-usury law; third it gave the landlords a chance to really raise rents by charging the tenants with extra rent for pasturage, and extra rent for dwellings (always included in the farm rent theretofore) Jjust as Stalle Hen- drickson’s two-cent passenger rate bill was intended to increase freight rates. ADVERTISEMENTS ......................Q.....‘..0......0...0....0....: What a Terminal | Elevator Can Do We received a car of wheat from Gild- ford, Montana, with a heavy mixture of barley. The best bid we were able to get was 10 cents under May wheat. We ordered the car to the elevator to be cleaned for barley. We took 9780 1bs. of barley out of the car and sold the wheat for 12 cents over May, a clear gain of 22 cents per bushel on the wheat. The bar- ley sold for $1.25 per’ bushel. profit for the shipper. instances of excellent results from our elevator. “Try Equity Exchange Service” for Grain and Livestock - The Equity Co-operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT South St. Paul, Minnesota FARMERS’ NONPARTISAN LEAGUE has established a free homeseekers’ Bureau. Why pay exorbitant com- missions to land agents? You can make your trade direct with the own- er. Many farmers are dividing their large farms. Fertile acres still un- cultivated, at low prices. COME TO NORTH DAKOTA NOW ahd be ready to share in the benefits of state-owned flour mills and pack- -ing plants which mean double profits for the farmers’ wheat and livestock. Take advantage of this service today. Address The League Exchange, Box 919, Fargo, N. D. A nice We have many Superior, Wis. e r—r— This Ad May Sell Your Farm This is one of the means the League Exchange is using to promote the best interests of North Dakota and bring desirable homeseekers into the state. It is in line with the policy of the greatest farmers’ orgainzation in the world—* which is to give the best service to its members. The League Exchange, Inc. OFFERS YOU THE FOLLOWING UNEXCELLED SERVICE A large organization - to sell your land A personal trade betwen farmer and farmer Announcement In order to render the greatest serv- ice to members of the League the Ex- change will not re- quire exclusive list- ing of your farm. 5 3 THIRTEEN A satisfied buyer and a satisfied seller A small commission for a real service THE LEAGUE EXCHANGE Box 919, Fargo, N. D. Please send me applica- tion blank and pamphlet explaining your “Service to League Members.” Name. eooesososseossosose Address e esivsevessionise Mention Leader when writing advertisers