The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 14, 1917, Page 2

Y { S S S Sl NEARLY ALL RE-ENLIST Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The campaign of renewing member- ships in the Nonpartisan League is meeting with gratifying success. There are only a few of the old members who are not satisfied with what has been accomplished and who are willing to let nature “take its own course” but these are so few that the new members being taken in now, who were not members = last year, will more than make up for those who are dropping out now. The organization must be kept up and in order to keep it up we must give it our financial as well as moral support. The organization has cost the farmers of North Dakota some money but it is worth the price. We have built the most splendid farmers’ organization in the world. The mem- bership fee which the members have paid is the best investment the North Dakota farmer has ever made. The Old Gang would gladly give mil- lions of dollars if this organization would fail, but this organization is not going to fail. The farmers have built this League on a firm foundation and it is going to stand. What the people demand is going to be given. to them. House Bill 44 has been killed in the senate by a group of hold-over sena- tors opposed to the will of the people. The Republican senators’ betrayal of the people is too plainly seen in their vote on House Bill 44. After reading the Republican state platform adopted at Bismarck last September, any fair minded person will see that these hold- over senators have nothing upon which to stand to justify their betrayal of the trust reposed in them by the voters. We have but one thing to do now and that is to stick and elect men who will not betray the people. The senators and representatives who be- trayed the people at this session of the legislature must not be returned to that body, but must be retired from political life. The election on last November 7 did not leave any doubt in the minds of any fair minded men what the farmers of this state want. ‘We must uphold the League and con- tinue to fight our enemies. We must not heed the cry of a few men in North Dakota that certain things which would serve the whole people can not be done, that they are unconstitutional, or something. The purpose of our government must be to serve the ma- jority of the people. We must continue to battle against the type of men who defeated House Bill 44. They are our enemies. ALVIN LIUDAHL. ALL PULL TOGETHER. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I wish to correct the impression - given by Glen Smith’s Charlson letter as published in the last Leader. What I wrote and you published several weeks ago was “according to some peo- ple the League members somewhere else are dropping out, but I know that around here we are getting new mem- bers.” I did not suppose that could be misunderstood. What I had reference to was that the opposition usually has a story that somewhere else the League members refuse to renew. Now as I see it we are in this fight and should all pull together and be slow to pick arguments among our- selves. The organizer last week showed me 14 new members in this township on his list, so I could not very well make a statement that we are losing members. To any one who may think that we have the organization and it ought to keep a going without Paying in any more dues, let me say he can buy a horse and try to work him ,yflhout feed or buy a car and gasoline “enough to take him up ‘the first hill and try to keep a going without on the level road ahead and he won't get very far. He'll have to buy more gas. That is what I consider that $8.00 a year—the power to keep our League going ahead and the road free from the obstacles placed there by the op- position. There’ll be very few of the opposition .in the next legislature. Count on me for a “boost” at every chance. R. C. ZIMMERMAN. BAER FOR CONGRESS The man selected as the standard bearer of the League is none other than J. M. Baer, formerly postmaster at Beach and now official cartoonist of the Nonpartisan Leader. Mr. Baer is one of the finest fellows in the state— is a member of the state press associa- tion, in which organization he is a popular favorite, and he has made with that crayon of his, many ad- mirers in the state. If Mr. Baer should be elected to congress and can make as effective word pictures as he can car- toons, he will be a success.—VALLEY CITY (N. D) COURIER. N. D. League Picnics Begin Immediately following the speaking tour will begin a series of summer picnies at which will appear excellent speakers with wit, fun and facts to bring the League’s latest developments to the people in the country who can not reach the towns. In Ger- man communities German speakers will appear in addition to English ones. Pienics have been arranged for the following places and dates, and others will be announced as soon as the routings can be arranged. Monday, June 18—Millarton, Kindred. Tuesday, June 19—Carrington, Page, Greene. Wednesday, June 20—Spiritwood Lake, Lignite, Hillsboro. Thursday, June 21—Edgeley (at the Experiment Farm), Crosby, Portland. Friday, June 22—Ellendale (at Van Meters Grove, 2 miles east), Cooperstown (Erickson’s Grove), Fortuna. Saturday, June 23—Oakes (at S. P. Peterson’s Grove, 8 miles northwest), Wildrose Lake (6 miles northeast of Wildrose), Stump Lake (north of Pekin). Monday, June 25—Dahlen, Hurdsfield, Powers Lake, Gates Hall (northwest of Hazelton, German and English). Tuesday, June 26—Edmore, Drake, Belden, Temvik (Ger- man and English). S5 Wednesday, June 27—Starkweather, Maddock, Parshall, Strasburg (German and English). Thursday, June 28—Snyder Lake (south of Rock Lake), Falsen, Strawberry Lake, Ashley (German and English). Friday, June 20—Hansboro, Buffalo Lodge Lake (near Glen- burn), Beulah (near Grange Hall), Wishek (German and Eng- lish). £ Saturday, June 30—Wales, Bottineau, Yucca (German.and English), Streeter (German and English). ) Monday, July 2—Walhalla, Rolette, Glen Ullin - Wednesday, July 4—Cavalier, Kelvin, Gladstone (at Ver- seppi Stock farm). « Friday, July 6—Langdon, (Ugland’s grove, near Pleasant Lake), New England or Rainy Butte. Saturday, July 7—Park River, (Tim O’Connor’s grove, near Munster), Hettinger. Changes and Canceled Meetings June 18—Kindred—Canceled. June 23—Edgeley—Changed from June 21. June 21—O0akes—Changed from June 23. Picnic at Peterson’s farm, 8 miles northwest. Wednesday, June 20—Townley and Atty. Gen. Langer at McHenry Co. Picnic, 10 miles north of Towner on Mouse river. Also Com. J. N. Hagen and Sen. D. H. Hamilton. : GATHERINGS IN MINNESOTA President Townley and Governor Frazier will address the most important gathering of the Nonpartisan league yet held in Minnesota on June 20, at Montevideo, where ample arrangements have been made to care for a big crowd. How Minnesota farmers can aceomplish what the North Dakota . farmers have acecomplished in taking charge of their own state gov- ernment and ways of making the National Nonpartisan league effee- tive in Minnesota affairs before the next election will be discussed. Don’t forget the following dates for Minnesota pienics of the National Nonpartisan league—others will follow : June 15, at Spicer, to be addressed by N. S. Randall. June 20 at Montevideo, to be addressed by President Townley and Governor Frazier. June 21, Glenco, Townley and Frazier. June 22, New Ulm, Tcwnley and Frazier. Three Big Meetings Three meetings on the N. D. state-wide tour of Gov. Frazier and other members of the Nonpartisan league remain to be held, Mott, June 14, Mandan, June 15, and Fargo, June 16." This will complete the first tour of North Dakota by Governor Frazier since his election, and he will have appeared at 10 huge gather- - ings in the prineipal cities of the state. Bk ‘With the governor are traveling President A. C. Townley of the National Nonpartisan league, A. E. Bowen, chief clerk of the League legislature, and O. M. Thomason. The meetings thus far held have been enthusiastic and have shown that the spirit of the organized farmers is stronger than it was during the ‘‘Frazier Special’’ tour of a year ago and during the recent ses- sion of the legislature. : The speakers at the three remaining meetings are among the best at the command of the League. They will address their audiences on several important topics, such as House Bill' 44, the farmer legislature, the problems that still eonfront the people of North Dakota, and the expanding power of the united, or- ganized farmers in other states. ! The remaining meetings will be: Mott, June 14 . Mandan, June 15 Fargo, June 16 Stoneburg Scheme Too Transparent Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Some time ago we read in the Daily News about a new organization that was about to drop into the limelight, the new organization to be known as the Minnesota Nonpartisan League, with J. A. Stoneburg of Cambridge as .its president. The new organization is evidently started to head off the only genuine Nonpartisan League movement started by the North Dakota farmers a couple of years ago and which has been ex- tended into Minnesota over a year ago and also into other states with leaps and bounds and it already has attained wonderful growth in its short exist- ence. Nothing can stop it; it is bound to become a nation-wide movement. So just clear the track, the “rubes” are on the march. President Stoneburg of the new “League” is out too late with his “muzzle,” the Minnesota Nonparti- san League. The farmers of North Dakota broke out of the old corral a year ago and the Minnesota farmers have already joined in the stampede. From last reports, they were headed for the Minnesota state capitol and by the way it looks now President Stone- burg of the new “League” will have the time of his life trying to stop them with that §6 bait fee, that he tells about. President Stoneburg in his opening statement announced that a board of directors, composed of 100 able bodied men, would be secured who would serve in the capacity of the new “League” without salary, but somehow he failed to tell us who was going to feed them. We presume in that event President Stoneburg of the new “League” will be called upon to look after that part of the organization work also—which no doubt will be to us poor down trodden farmers, the most interesting part about the whole new Minnesota Nonpartisan League affair. As a matter of fact it is an easy matter for the average farmer to see how this board of directors in the new “League” are going to be fed, and who is going to feed them, and it is also an easy matter to see who is going to choose this honorable board of directors of the new “League.” President <Stoneburg, of the new “League” is right when he says that the work of the League will go on and that the farmers of Minnesota are capable of running their own affair. That's exactly it—and we can assure President Stoneburg that his $6 bait fee talk is not going to stop us from reaching the goal of our ambition. W. A. SWANSON. Asked and Answered Granville, N. D., May 29, 1917. Editor, Nonpartisan Leader: Can you please give me information through your paper where I can get tuberculin and how to give cattle the test for tuberculosis? Also state if cattle have to be killed whether the owner receives any pay for them. MEMEER OF THE LEAGUER. Tuberculin can be secured from the North Dakota Agricultural college by addressing Dr. L. Van Es, who is con- sulting bacteriologist of the state live- stock sanitary board. A farmer should not attempt to give the test for tuber- culosis, however, unless he has had the advice of a veterinarian. A stock owner who wants to have his cattle tested for tuberculosis and to take advantage of the law allowing compensation for animals that have to be destroyed should write to the Live- stock Sanitary Board at Bismarck. To get compensation he will be required to sign a contract agreeing to follow the directions of the board. The board then will test the cattle without charge .to the owner. Cattle found badly diseased will be ordered destroyed and the owner will be entitled to compensation of not ex- ceeding $15 for a grade animal under two years old or, not exceeding $25 for a grade animal two .years or older. Double this compensation is paid for & pure-bred animal. Cattle only slightly diseased will not be killed, but merely - segregated from the herd so as to pro- tect healthy animals and the milk will be required to'bg pasteurized. : i THE EDITOR. e o i