The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 2, 1917, Page 17

A TEACHER HELPS North Dakota. Fditor ‘Nonpartisan Leader: I am a echool teacher and have been explaining ‘to the children about the good work done by President Ladd of the Agricultural college. I should like to do more to help Dr. Ladd. 1 read 'the Nonpartisan Leader and have been telling the children the good the League has done. A. B. FROM A BOOSTER Bowdon, N, D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Under separate cover I am mailing you a copy of a Minnesota paper that I picked up today and to say the least I was very much disgusted upon read- ing an article in there written regard- ing the Nonpartisan league. I think the League and Mr. Townley have come in for more than their share of roastings and I am sending the article to you that you may read it and if you see fit proceed to enlighten them as to the true workings of-the League. As- suring you I am still on the job, I re- main. ROLLAN V. WELD. FROM NEW YORK Geneva, N. Y., July 20, 1917, Editor, Nonpartisan Leader: Though.an easterner, I had the great good fortune to spend two years among your fellow Dakotans. I have been drafted for military service and desire to leave behind as a memorial to myself in the Hobart College read- ing rooms, four or five real American journals for the education of the fel- lows who will be lucky enough to bé able to continue their education—so please send me some Leaders. Hoping that this war will force democracy in this country—particu- larly the east—if it doesn’t everywhere else. : WARREN J. HAIG. 15 Milton St., Geneva, N. Y. STOPS A GANG PAPER -~ Minnesota. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed: you will find a choice bit of news taken from the Duluth Herald. I have stopped the Herald. It seems another of the big daily papers will be thrown into the melting pot to fur- ther the cause of Big Biz. I consider qhis evidence that we are growing stronger. As a good general never subjects any more men to slaughter than he thinks necessary to defeat the enemy, so Big Business will throw no more dailies against us than it thinks nec- essary. The fact that great numbers are being thrown against us, shows our strength. I do not think they have enough dailies on the firing Iline against us yet to make much impres- sion. I wish to congratulate the members of the League who sent Baer to con- gress, E.-F. KENNETZ. FROM PUGET SOUND Seattle, Wash., July 9, A. C. Townley. My dear sir: My friend, Edward P. Totten of Bowman, N. D., recently sent to me a copy of the Nonpartisan Leader, and Aberdeen Daily American of/July 3, 1917, containing copy of your speech, I am glad you are an honest leader. I glory “ifi'“your fearlessness—and the fact thHat you' ably presented the peo- ple’s case . to your audience. If your utterances are said to be treasonble, then -in*'the’ language of Hénry in the House 'of ‘Burgesses in Virginia, when he hurled defiance at King George III: and hxr‘ pohcles vyou may well say:. “If this‘be treason, make the most of it.” If I.lived in.your state, without “purse or scnpt ”. 1 would be glad to ght for ‘the’ cause you advocate. Loyalty to' ‘' American institutions means. opposmon to-autocracy and the exploitation of our people by organized, graft, . I am _glad you are alive and hope you ma.y' contmue the fight until you win, If the vote is w1th you tomorrow in the election to be held in your state, well and good. I shall be happy. If it is not with wou, do not despair. Your cause is_just and eventually you must win. /i § WILLIAM D. TOTTEN, 'Attorney at La.w. ‘FROM CHICAGO 5 i/ Chicago, July 24, 1917, Editor, Nonpartxsan Leader: I saw a brief news item of Mr. Baer’s election in a Chicago paper and wrote him, congratulating him. Any tips you can give me on the formation of a Nonpartisan -league here would be welcome. I have a small retail bakery'and come in contact with ¢ , hoods to contend with, 191907 hundreds of people of the middle and working classes. There is evidently in their hearts a resentment against the outrageous prices which have been forced upon us by the big business combines and it may be the time is ripe for us to .organize here as you have done, to seek for a more just method of getting the farmers' prod- ucts to the consumer. There is something wrong, as the Leader has said, when $1.15 wheat (to the farmer) turns up as flour at $17.00 a barrel to the consumer. T am no polj- tician and neither are most of my cus- tomers, but we can all of us appreciate the necessity of making a move when we get it rubbed into us like that. C. J. WILLIAMSON. SOUTH DAKOTA GLAD New Effington, S, D., July 16, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: . Will say that I wish to thank the North Dakota members for sticking to- gether and putting John Baer in as congressman, for their own good as | well as for the boosters of South Da- kota. NATHAN GORSUCH, Chairman of S. D. League. A LAWYER APPROVES . June 16, 1917. Mr. A. C. Townley: I have just finished reading in the Nonpartisan Leader an account of the speech you made in Jamestown a'week ago. I congratulate you on your courage and on your devotion to democracy. Now as never before do we need strong men who dare to lead. The interests are taking advantage of the war to get into the saddle. They must be kept out at all costs, for a capitalist oligarchy is as intolerable to live wunder as a Prussian autocracy. _ Do not fear thg name “traitor.” His- tory will record who the real traitors were. If it is “unpatriotic” to fight for democracy, let them make the most of it. Our children at least will know whether it was them or we who were the more true to them. What shall it profit us if we crush P_russianism and in doing so become Prussianized our- selves? I wish you all the success a liberty- lo_ving Democrat can. C. A. SORENSEN, Attorney at Law. CONGRATULATIONS Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - North Dakota, the birthplace of the Nonpartisan League, certinly is to re congratulated now that it has added another laurel to its crown by elect- ing _ ‘'the first Nonpartisan man to congress. A great jump! Hurrah for . Congressman Baer and the great booster state of North Dakota. Keep boosting boys! Whoop ’er up! Shoulders to-the wheel and out of the mire! There are all sorts of lies and false- but we don't mind that. A victory easily won is not as creditable as a victory won through great struggles and hardships, We in Minnesota envy North Dakota’s victory, but wait till Minnesota gets on the other boot! Our county is getting pretty well lined up and so arer-neighboring coun- ties. “We'll Stick” is the slogan of the day. e GABRIEL STENE. "THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH Those who claim the special election in the' First district recently was in- valid will probably hesitate to try it ‘ over again after going over the returns, —TIMES-RECORD, Valley City, N. D, .. STATE LABOR AGENT 8. S: McDonald, president of ,the North Dakota.State Federatipn. of Labor, has been appointed fed- eral labor agent for the state of North Dakota by TUnited States ~Commissioner of Immigration 1 Caminetti, of the Tederal bureau of labor., Mr. McDonald was indorsed for this position by the Nonparti- san league. He has opened his l office at Bismarck. Mr. McDonald, until recently, was employed in the composing- 1'room of the Grand Forks Herald. 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