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

A e s | s ¥ H b i Z 174 ADVERTISEMENTS FARGO = MANKATO :: LA CROSSE = SUPERIOR FReDW-KRruseCo: Women's and Children’s Outfitters DEALERS _Iif LADIES’ AND MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR EXCLUSIVELY Careful Attention to Mail Orders The store that always gives the newest and best for the money FRED W. KRUSE CO. FARGO, N. D. LALLEY ELECTRICLIGHT FOR THE HOME The Oldest Plant on the Market ‘We have secured the sales right of the well known LALLEY LIGHTING PLANT. ‘We have some good territory open in North Dakota, East- ern Montana and Northwestern Minnesota. Write for particulars. Consumers Battery Co. - : Distributors 313 N. P. Ave. Fargo, N. D. Let Us Meet Again ‘We will be pleased to have all our friends call and see us while at- tending the Inter-state Fair, July 23-28. \ ‘We want to assure you that we will be pleased to assistance while you are in Fargo. e Make this institution your business headquarters. It is out desire to extend our business acquaintance and enlarge our opportunity for service. of any poséible The Scandinavian-American Bank FARGO, N. D. “A LIVE GROWING INSTITUTION” . e s HE sooner you . begin to use Leader Classified Ads, the sooner you are going to reap unexpected profits * through Leader advertising. WL I Vo MR : il T Mention Leader when writing advertisers e Gompers Congratulates State on Selection of New Congressman John M. Baer’'s election to congress from the First district in North Dakota was pleasing news to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, according to a letter just received by E. S. Elliott of this city from the labor leader. Mr. Gompers sends heartiest congratula- tions to the people of the district over the result of the recent election and the “Magnificent work of the Nonpartisan league of North Dakota.” The letter follows: “Dear Sir and Brother: i “Please accept my thanks for your kind favor of July 11, in which you furnish me official information concerning the election of Mr. John M. Baer, as representative to congress, from your district. It is a great pleasure to receive this information from you, as well as that contained in the clipping attached to your letter. “I hope you may be equally successful in the other congressional dis- tricts of your state. “It is really refreshing to note your confidence wherein you say, ‘One year from now we are going to send you two more congressmen,’ and, ‘We will send you a United States senator at the next election.’ “There is surely hope for the nation in that you and your associates in North Dakota have so splendidly aroused yourselves in behalf of your own economic and political interests. : ' “I assure you it will be a great pleasure to meet Mr. Baer and to assist and encourage him in every way possible. “Again thanking you for the information contained in your letter and with many congratulations to you all- for the magnificent work being accomplished by the Nonpartisan league of North Dakota, and hoping that you will keep me prompted from time.to time as to your progress, hopes and aspirations, “Fraternally yours, (Signed) “SAMUEL GOMPERS,. “President American Federation of Labor.” Wilson Warns Profiteers Is It Treason? President Woodrow Wilson at Washington, D. C., last week found it necessary to issue an address of warning to mine oper- ators and manufacturers that no more thay ‘‘just prices’’ would be allowed during the war. The president, without mincing words, declared that the shipping trust, through its excessive in- Take the Pay out of Patriotism, Says President;) creases in ocean freigh rates, had aligned itself with the enemies of democracy. Presdent Wilson, in paying his respects to men who might ex- pect to make excessive profits out-of bloodshed, used language - that might have been taken from the speeches of A. C. Townley or other Nonpartisan League workers. But, peculiarly enough, the Grand Forks Herald has not yet charged President Wilson with treason. Following are excerpts from President Wilson’s address : N THESE days of our supreme trial, when we are sending hundreds of thousands of our young men across the seas to serve a great cause, no true man who stays behind to work for them and sustain them by his labor will ask himself what he is personally going to make out of that labor. No true pa- triot will permit himself to take toll of their heroism in money or seek to grow rich by the shedding of their blood. He will give as freely and with as unstinted self-sacrifice as they. When they- are giv.ag their lives will he not give at least his money? “I hear it insisted that more than a just price, more than a price that will sustain our industries, must be paid; that it is necessary to pay very liberal and unusual profits in order to ‘stim- ulate’ production; that mnothing but pecuniary rewards will do it—re- wards paid in money, not in the mere liberation of the world. I take it for granted that those who argue thus do not stop to think what that means. IS BRIBERY NEEDED? “Do they mean that you must be paid, must be bribed, to make your contri- bution, a contribution that costs you neither 'a drop of blood nor a tear, when the whole world is in travail and men everywhere depend upon and call to you to bring them out of bondage and make the world a fit place to live in again amidst peace and justice? “Your patriotism is of the same self- denying stuff as the patriotism of the men dead or maimed on the fields of France or else it is no’ patriotism at all. Let us never speak, then, of profits and of patriotism in the same sentence, but face facts and meet them. “Many a grievous burden of taxation will be laid on this nation, in this gen- eration and in the next, to pay for this war; let us see to it that for every dol- lar that is taken from the people’'s pockets it shall be possible to obtain a dollar’'s worth of the sound stuffs they need. - SHIP TRUST HELPS KAISER “Let me turn for a moment to the shipowners of the' United States and the other ocean carries whose ex- ample they have followed and ask them if they realize what obstacles, what al< most insuperable obstacles, they have been putting in the way of the success- PAGE FOURTEEN ful prosecution of this war by the ocean freight rates they have been exacting. They are doing everything that high- freight charges can do to make the war- a failure, to make it impossible. “I am not questioning motives. I am merely stating a fact, and stating it in order that attention may be fixed upon it. The fact is that those who have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means in their power to defeat the armies engaged against Germany. When they realize this, we may, I take it for granted, count upon them to reconsider the whole matter. It is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war-risk insurance. LAW FOR GUILTY “I know, and you know, what re sponse to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will ex= pect of you; and I know what responsa you will make. Those who do not re- spond, who do not respond in the spirit of those who have gone to give their lives for us on bloody fields far away, may safely be left to be dealt with by opinion and the law, for the law must of course command these things. “And there is something more that we must add to our thinking. The public is now as much part of the gove ernment as are the army and navy themselve§; the whole people in ' all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment of the nation’s task in this war. “We must make the prices to the public the same as the prices to the government, Prices mean the same thing everywhere now. They mean the efficiency or the inefficiency of the nation, whether it is the governe ment that pays them or not. They, mean victory or defeat. They mean that America will win her place once for all among the foremost free nations of the world, or that she will sink to defeat and become a second-rate power alike in thought and in action. This is a day of her reckoning, and every man among us must personally face that reckoning along with her.” WELL HARDLY The demand for President Ladd’s resignation as head of the A. C, don’t seém to meet popular approval, —CAS- SELTON (N. D.) REPORTER,