The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 10, 1917, Page 13

tard, sumthin’ big anuf, strong anuf @n’ leeders clever anuf to nock the eternal socks offen the Ole Gang. Thats what I'm fur,’an’ I am not goin’ to be finicky about how the leeders comb theff hair, ware their clothes or what church thay go to on Sunday, or whuther thay go to enny. What I want ‘em to do iz to cut the mustard, get me? cut the mustard”, “Yes but most uv them leeders is Socialists”, ‘cum back the land agent, &z a final resort.” “Now look hear, Mr. Hellsom”, sed the farmer deliberately. “I admit that I ain’t no Socialist an’ never wuz. In fack I don’'t know what Socialism iz Ef I'd node I spoze I'd a bin wun, But I don't give a whoop what them leeders haz bin. I spoze thay used to be Re- publicans, sum uv them, and sum uv them Democrats, but thay ain’t now. Thay’s Nonpartishuns now, an’ so am I a Nonpartishun now. An’ ef enny- thing better cums along I'll be that, I ain’t no stan’ patter, I'll tell you that. Tm in for gittin’ sumwlhere an’ I con- sider ridin’ on a 20th Century limited beets walkin’ enny time. Ef these re- forms we're trying to bring about iz Socialistic, what the Sam Hill do I care? 1 call ’em state owned indus- tries. You can call ’em what you pleeze. When you town fellers eat supper you call it dinner, I call it sup- per, a hobo calls it grub an’ a hungry man don't care what you call it, jist 80z he gits it. That’'s mi doctrine, Mr. Hellsom. I'm in fur theeze things, be- cauze I think thay’ll help the farmers, in fack all the peeple—even you, but you're too dadgunned blind and pre- Judiced to see it. ““Well, don’t you think"—— “You no what I think. I've jist got through tellin’ you that. I'm fur the Leeg jist as she iz an’ 'm redy to nock the block offen enny man that trys to split it, an’ don't forget that, Mr. Hell- som.” The farmer had buttoned up hiz cote an’ started fur the door. Hellsom start- ed to say sum more, but the farmer, went on out, sayin,’ “don’'t talk to me, don’t talk to me.” Yoors trooly, FARM HELP AVAILABLE—REGISTER YOUR NEEDS Governor Frazier has wired advice from Chicago that hundreds of ex- perienced farmhands are registered with the Daily News for employment. As no provision was made by the last legislative assembly for the labor department to establish a labor bureau, the department is considerably handicapped and without any available funds, nevertheless, I have secured : promise of federal assistance and in the meantime, our' office force will devote whatever time is necessary for securing and distributing farm labor, and I respectfully request county officers, farmers, and others to register the needs in their locality with the Department of Agriculture and Labor, Bismarck, N. D.,, stating wages and term of employment, and I further desire the newspapers to co-operate in giving this information general circulation. J. N. HAGAN, Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor. They Don’t Want Fake League (Continued from page 9) Now read this over carefully and then soak it to Mr. Stoneburg and let the farmers of Minnesota know who he is and what he is working for, before he does too much damage.” C. M. Carlson, of Standquist, Minn., writing to the Nonpartisan Leader and inclosing a clipping of one of the “statements” issued by Stoneburg and printed in the country papers, says: “It strikes me that this new Minne- sota Nonpartisan league is established for the sole purpose of breaking up the only organization that is working for the betterment of the farmer and the people at large. If I had a voice that could be heard all over the great state of Minnesota I would warn the farmers to beware of these would-be benefact- ors of the downtrodden farmer. “We notice in the argument that the North Dakota League is too high priced to be healthy for the average farmer and that the fee of the Minne- sota originators of a real farmers’ or- ganization will be only $6 a year and none of the officers or directors will Treceive a cent of salaries. - All very well, but I have yet failed to see any erganization - of any importance that = For the Boys and (Continued from page 11) : 1810 Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley bought out the Terry factory and con- tinued the manufacture of works for tall cases. There were then similar es- . tablishments in Waterbury. The most famous of the Massachu- setts manufacturers were the three Willard Brothers who made clocks at Grafton, Conneticut. They made tall could exist and do efficient work with- out some compensation. No . right thinking man will ever expect any man, be he a farmer or merchant or banker, to put in his valuable time without compensation. It does not look just right to me and if we take a little trouble and look into this mat- ter, look up the originators of this new leagué; look into their past and present occupations, our suspicions will be aroused and even sustained. “I have asked myself this question: ‘Why have not these great men ap- peared on the battle field before now? “I have noticed this same article (newspaper clipping inclosed in letter) in several small weekly papers in the northwest corner of the state and I venture to guess that the same cam- paign is being carried on all over the state by these get-in-between reform- ers., ‘Please advise the farmers to be on. the lookout at all times for im- posters who come to them in sheep’s clothing. We can easily tell a wolf from a sheep if he wears his regular dress, but if disguised in some other nice dress we are apt to place too much confidence “in ‘' the brute, which will prove of harm in time to come.” : Girls—Timepieces -—striking clocks at first, and about 1784 they designed a shelf or bracket clock about 26 inches high. The famous banjo shape is attributed to one of the ‘Willard brothers. It was a graceful and conveniently arranged form of pendulum clock for the wall. It dates from about 1790 and was made in Bos- ton up to about 1820. The works were of brass and ran for eight days. (Concluded next week). A Laugh on the “Knockers” Some men and some newspapers would try to make you believe that the farmers of this section are dissatisfied with the Nonpartisan League. Do you know how you can have the laugh on them? Just tell them the fact that over 700 farmers in Bowman county, during the past eight weeks, have each paid $16, membership dues for the next two years, and that only two=thirds of them have been visited by the League organizer. All over this great state of North Dakota the farmers are doing the same thing. They know that the attacks which are being made upon the League are made by the enemies of the farm- er. They know that the newspapers which are knocking President Town- ley, are-animated by no other purpose than to disrupt the biggest political movement for justice which this coun- try has ever seen. They want to break up the farmers’ movement, but Mr. Farmer has become wise, and he is coming back stronger than ever, so as to be prepared to wipe. out the Old Guard in politics in 1918. Those newspapers that fulminate against ‘knocking,” and yet are the biggest knockers of the Nonpartisan League, are doing the cause a world of good, unconsciously of course. It takes opposition to 'make any movement strong, and the League is growing stronger every day. g The Nonpartisan League does not need to be saved from its enemies; what it needs to do is to pray to be saved from its “friends.”—BOWMAN (N. D.) CITIZEN, DESTRUCTIVE ONLY ‘Will someone please point out some constructive plank in the pldatform of the Jerry Bacon league? Is it going to be confined to crushing the Non- partisan League ‘“until the tail stops wiggling,” as Tracy Bangs put it?— BOTTINEAU (N. D.) COURANT. ADVERTISEMENTS ° ...........‘.......O..........O...O........O........: P THINK What it means to have a firm in the grain and livestock business which is always _on YOUR side of all questions. Has the Chamber of Commerce or the South St. Paul Live Stock Exchange ever done anything to advance YOUR interests? You can answer this question very easily. See that the next car of grain or - livestock from your town goes to “TRY EQUITY EX- CHANGE SERVICE.” The Equity Co-operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota Superior, Wis. LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT South St. Paul, Minnesota ~ EQUITABLE AUDIT CO., Inc. %2 e Farmers Elevator Companies’ Home of Auditing and Systems for Accounting. Werite for References. First Class Cafeteria in Connection. POWERS HOTEL "FARGO’S ONLY MODERN FIRE PROOF HOTEL Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot FARGO, N. D. Mr. Livestock Grower! YOU ARE SURELY ENTITLED TO THE FULL " MARKET VALUE FOR THE LIVE- STOCK YOU RAISE IF YOU DO NOT GET IT, Somebody else gets the benefit you" should have. The day is passed when business is done on senti- ment, and only results in dollars and cents count. ‘We want you to compare the results in dollars and cents we get for you with those received elsewhere. A comparison will convinee you that- “KIRK SERVICE’’ gets you the most money for your livestock. 4 J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. SOUTH ST. PAUL, MINN. AUTHORIZED SALES AGENCY OF THE AMERICAN SOCIE- - TY OF EQUITY Mention Leader when writing advertisers ey e e ——— Y Al e 1 i | 1 i S