The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 14

lla [ —m S gt e S . A w s " s 4 ADVERTISEMENTS It doesn’'t make much difference what you have to sell—someone from among the 80,000 subscrib- ers to the Leader will want it. Think of the things you have on the farm no longer of use to you ~—write a description giving the price wanted, or the article you want in exchange for it— send it to the Leader, and you will have opened a new mail- order field for yourself that you had hitherto never realized. Rates to members only one-half price. card. See rate ! ADVERTISEMENTS They Are Nice 20-1b. pail Black Cod ........$3.00 20 Ibs. 8alt Torsk .......... 2.40 20 1bs. Halibut Cheaks ...... 2.50 20 1bs. Red Salt Salmon ...... 3.75 20 1bs. Pink Salt Salmon .... 2.85 20 1bs. Ister Herring ...... ... 3.00 20 Ibs, Island Herring v...ee.. 2.10 20 jbs., Ister Uer ...i...eee.. 2.60 10 lbs. Anchovis ...... veveess 1.50 10 lbs. Torske Tongues ...... 1.50 ORDER TODAY 0. S. Hadeland FARGO, N. D, YOU GET CASH Ship us your Spring Broilers. We pay 25¢ a Ib. alive. Eggert’s Market FARGO, N. D. Patronize Leader Adve_rtiéérs 0000300000000000060000000000000000000000000600000000000 Come and Bring Your Friends Sce the Marshall Oil Co’s. exhibit in the Merchants Pavilion at the Inter-State Fair in Fargo, July 23-28, We believe you will be both pleased and in- terested in secing the extensive lines we will have on exhibition, © MARSHALL OIL CO. FARGO, N. D. o . D= 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000020000060000000000 _—m—m——— —— _ Twenty Million Miles of Telephone Wire The telephone wire in use in the Bell System islong enough to run ‘from the earth to the moon .and . back again forty tmes. thil .| The Bell;System . has about twice as much télephone wire as all Europe. 5 : : More than 500,000 new tele- phones are being added to the Bell System yearly—almost as many as the total number of telephones in England. In twelve months the :Bg‘all System adds enough ftele- phones to duplicate the entire _ One Policy Mention Leader when writing advertisers telephone systems of France, Italy and Switzerland com- vln proportlon to ‘pbpulation‘ the extension of the Bell System “in' the United States is equal _.in_two years to the total tele- phone progress of Europe since the telephone was invented— a period of about forty years: The Bell System fills the telephone needs of the Ameri- can people with a thoroughness and a spirit of public service which are without parallel the world over. ; AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY. AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES' : Qne Systém' Universal Seifvig? . Howling Versus Thinking MecArthur Doesn’t Sympathize With Old Gang Appeal to Violence year. (From the Periscope) . It has been noted already that the country suffers froiu ‘hysteria to a greater or ‘less degree since the de- claration of war. The nation is inclined to. be “jumpy.” Now that the 'people of the First congres- sional district are called upon to take part in the election of a congressman, that hysteria and jumpiness i3 likely to become more evident, as the cam- paign warms up, and sensationalism and emotionalism may be expected to have no small part. Indeed we are already confronted by some evidences of this spirit, while the campaign is yet young. The air re- sounds with cries of “traitor,” “trea- son,” and threats of hanging and of mob or armed violence have been hinted at in a guarded manner. This is neither good politics nor patriotism. It is the acme of folly. FARMERS HAVE SET THE BEST EXAMPLE The Periscope can see nothing to fear in the farmers’ movement and cer- tainly nothing that would call for such furious response.” Jefferson says: “Error of opinion can ‘be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” If the policies urged by the farmers are wrong, they can be destroyed only by reason and argument-—not by epithet or abuse, 2 The farmers have set an example. They have set forth the principles they purpose to maintain, calmly, clearly and openly. These have been pro- claimed from platform and through the press, so that all may read and know. There is nothing secret or sinister in - their methods—just the plain Ameri- can method, plus pitiless publicity. No injury can come to the nation from that.. Threats of personal violence and of arrest such as have been made are not only un-American, but actually hurtful, as they prevent the discussion needed to test under the hammer of War Profiteers (Continued from page 7) the battlefields of KEurope, crippled and in no condition to pay excess- ive war charges for the rest of their lives. To read Professor Seligman’s argu- ment anyone would think that the gov- ernment war finance bill proposed to confiscate all the wealth of Big Busi- ness. What are the facts? The fact is that the government war finance bill proposes to take _only 16 per cent of excess profits, first allowing corporations to make profits of 10 per cent without tax.- The war profiteers are to be al- lowed, ‘under the government bill, to keep the first 10 per cent and also keep $84,000,000 out of every $100,000,000 they make above this. This is mild—a half-way meas- ure, yet they are fighting it. On the other hand, the British gov= ernment is levying an 80 per cent tax on excess war profits. The govern- ment allows the corporation to keep as much profit as it made over an aver- age of five years before the war was declared, but above that sum the war profiteers can keep only $20,000,000 out of every $100,000,000, the rest being , taken by the government. TRAITOR, IF YOU WOULD MAKE THE RICH PAY Big Business is attacking the govern- ment plan. It doesn’t want to pay any taxes on war profits if it can be pre- vented. Big Business- insists upon wrapping itself in the flag and being considered patriotic. 2 On the other hand, persons who be- lieve in the government plan of taking a part of the war profits, but who PAGE FOURTEEN ‘“‘The editor of the Periscope owes the farmers’ movement and the Nonpartisan League nothing except the memory of the worst drubbing any man ever got in a political campaign,’’ says D. H. McArthur, editor of the Periscope, published at Fargo, N. D. MecArthur ran against Frazier for governor of North Dakota last Yet Mr. McArthur, who wrote the editorial which follows, shows that he is not like the politicians who control the Grand Forks Herald and the Fargo Forum ; he does not advocate lynch- ing and mob’ violence to stop the farmers’ movement. Arthur called his editorial ‘‘Cease Howling and Start Thinking.”’ Read it and see what a critic, who certainly is not biased in favor |- of the League, thinks about the present situation. : Mr. Me- logic and under the acid of reason the principles put forward by the farmers. FREEDOM OF SPEECH NATION’S REAL NEED ‘We can not hold that it is traitorous to question and discuss openly the best methods of handling the war. There is no question as to the carrying of it to a successful issue or of being against the government in this time of trial. But it is not only not unpatri« otic, but actually good citizenship that men should take the success of the nation to heart and demand measures that will secure this success. In every, nation now at war the same things have happened. Who fails to remem- ber Lord Northcliffe and his attacks upon the British government’s meth- ods, whereby efficiency was attained and order brought from chaos? Who questions the right of the Russian peo- ple to discard aristocratic leadership in a crisis, to take it to themselves? France has changed its cabinet and its methods as to.the war many times . since the battle of the Marne. Yet there has been no question of treason to the government in these matters. Then, if the farmers of North Dakota think they see a better way than that now in operation, as good citizens they have at least as much.right.to meet and plan for its adoption as have the people of England, France or Russia for the adoption of the plans they de- sired, and secured. Let us drop the high tragedy role and.get down to common sense; let us cease howling and begin thinking; let ., us quit questioning the patriotism of the men who feed, clothe and sustain us and begin an inquiry into our own self-righteousness. The farmers' move- ;ment may be all wrong, but' we must grant that it .is supported by men who are sincere, earnest and determined. , Hard names will not change them; calling out the home guard will not convert them; hysteria will not cause them to waver. Only clean-cut argu- l_:nent and sound sense will make an impression on them. Fight Taxation would 80 still farther, by taking 20 per cent, or 30 per cent, or 50 per cent, or 80 per cent like Great Brite ain does, or even ALL EXCESS WAR PROFITS, are called “traitors" by the mouthpieces of Big Business. It is just like the thief telling the policeman that the detective was reale ly the thief, and getting away with it Is Big Business going to get away with it? : : An excess war profit tax like Great Britain’s, which takes 80 per cent of the excess profits made out of the war by individuals and corporations, would raise in one year in the United States more money than the recent Liberty Loan did—and it would be financing the war, at least partly, out of the profits of the men who malke money. out of the war. A et S Y ABOUT CHUMPS Every political upheaval brings to the surface a very interesting medley of humanity - radicals, standpatters, liars, crooks, hypocrites—and chumpse This is about the chumps, whose silly antics we have been watching: They will get in front of a crowd tolerant enough to listen, and then proceed. to praise the splendid ideas that' actuste the Nonpartisan farmers, but in .the same breath condemn. the leaders who - had the vision of those ideas in the first place and the nerve and ability to carry -them to the people. It is rnot necessary to make any comments on these poor chumps—they are hanging themselves with the ropes of lies that have been furnished them in such | generous quantities by’ the Grand Forks Herald and others of the same ilk.—CANDO (N. D.): REGORD, A 3 P e