The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 9, 1917, Page 19

s L ADVERTISEMENTS 175 vAeres in 115 Houil*'e HAT’S the remarkable record that was made by this Allis-Chalmers Tractor, pulling a two-row lister with planter attachments in wheat ground near Downs, Kansas, last spring. The tractor ran continuously for 122 hours, with the exception of about 7 hoars lost in changing crews, tak- ing fuel, oiling and filling grease cups. A total of 175 acres was listed and planted—a little better than 13 acres per hour, at a total cost of 33 cents per acre, including oil, fuel and help. No water was added to the radiator from start to finish. Nd”wrench was used on the tractor from start to finish. The Ideal One-Man-All-Purpose Tractor For The Average Size Farm The Allis-Chalmers has a one-piece steel heat-treated frame—no holts or rivets to work loose —cannot sag under heaviest strains. Allis-Chalmersmotorbearingsnev=- er get out of line through frame weakness. The special design radiatorinsures perfect cooling under all loads. No Allis-Chalmers Tractor ever overheats. Perfect balance of all reciprocating parts minimizes vibration, thereby insuring long life. No dust or grit can pessibly get into bear- ings or vital parts—the tractoris absolute- ly dust proof. / Itis easy togetateverypart. When valves must be ground or bearings taken up, no time is lost. ) Either gasoline or kerosene is used with remarkable economy and efficiency. The special design of the belt pulley makes the Allis-Chalmers particularly strong on belt work—silo filling, sawing, feed cutting, pumping, grinding. Long bearingsoflarge diameter maintain perfect alignment. The buyer of this tractor has the Allis- halmers guarantee, backed up by the great Allis-Chalmers organization, for 60 years a leader in the manufacture of high- grade machinery—ask your banker. Tear out this advertisement, write your name on the margin and mail to us for com- plete illustrated description and specifica- tions of this remarkable machine, with par= ticulars of itsfour years record in the field. ALLIS-CHALMERS MFG. CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS, DISTRIBUTORS: H. A. Dougherty Motor Co., Kansas City, Mo. Southwestern Supply Co., Little Rock, Ark. Consigny Motor Truck Co., Des Moines, Ia. T T S.J. Taber & Company, Fargo, N. D. Brice Auto Co., Minneapolis Minn. Lininger Implement Co., Omal}n, Neb. Do T 2 WOOD LAUGHS N SOME little time ago we & headed our advertisement with “F. B. Wood Smiles.” This time he out loud.” “Laughs right The month just past has been the greatest in the history of YOUR OWN SELLING AGENCY in the Livestock Department. Is it any wonder Mr. Wood feels so good? Bill your next car of livestock to us, and by so doing build up YOUR own institution. MAKE IT THE LARGEST! TRY EQUITY EXCHANGE SERVICE FOR GRAIN AND LIVESTOCK The Equity Co-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota, Superior, Wigconsin Livestock Department - South St. Paul, Minn. | North Dakotan Calls “Lafe” Standpat Iowa Editor Gets a Few Facts, After Printing Lot of Mush About the Non- - partisan League HE Des Moines Capital, one of the most notoriously reactionary newspapers of the Middle West, owned and econtrolled by Senator ‘‘Lafe’’ Young, a noted old gang politician and foe of progress in all its forms, recently contained an attack upon the Non- partisan league and the farmers of North Dakota. The article was based upon statements made by an unnamed ‘‘traveling man who lives in Towa’’ who is quoted as saying: North Dakota docs not take any interest in the war and does not care who wins. They just want to live in North Dakota, to own their own elevators, to sell their own wheat at $2 per bushel and they do not care if Germany sweeps over the entire United States. Full of misrepresentations as to North Dakota conditions and the Nonpartisan league, the article, admitting that the farmers have some grievances, ends with the following standpat advice: The farmers of North Dakota and Nebraska have no right to select this war time as a fit opportunity for the settlement of local grievances. Attorney Dorr H. Carrol of Minot, N. D., vice-chairman of the State Defense Council of North Dakota and a former resident of Towa, has written the following letter to the Des Moines Capital, answering some of the slanders which the Capital, and other trolled eastern newspapers, have Spr _ Minot, N. D, July 24, 1917. To the Editor: The writer has just seen a copy of an article which appears to have been published in your paper and which re- flects considerably upon-the character and patriotism of the people of North Dakota. There "has been going on in North Dakota for some years a bit- ter fight between the liberal ele- ment in politics and the more con- servative leaders and voters. The fight had taken various forms, and statements have been issued by both sides which have been somewhat beyond the truth, as is customary in all parties in a campaign. The truth of the patriotism of North Dakota is to be determined, if at all, upon facts, not general statements. The facts are as follows: OVER SUBSCRIBED -RED CROSS FUND National authorities, taking popula- tion and resources into consideration, apportioned us $100,000 as our share of the Red Cross fund. Before the final day for subscription arrived, the amount was nearly $5,000 over-sub- scribed. The Liberty loan matter was handl- ed by former Governor L. B. Hanna. He is authority for the statement that it was largely over-subscribed. The city of Minot, a city of 14,000 | people, had a company in the National Guard, Company D of the First regi- ment. A call for a second regiment of volunteers was issued by the gover- nor. A company of seventy-five more men was raised in forty-eight hours. Saturday evening the writer spoke at Carpio, avillage of 300 people. This village and the neighborhood surrounding it have furnished :twelve volunteers, have subscribed $951 to the Red Cross, have a Red Cross unit and have only begun to work for the nation at war. Ryder, a town of -some 500 people, sent in twenty-two volunteers from its neighborhood; Des Lacs, a village of 150 people sent in 13. As I am pre- paring this letter, there marches down the street a drum corps at the head of twenty young men with new white company badges upon their arms. They carry a banner inscribed: “FROM VELVA TO BERLIN.” NORTHWEST FARMERS ARE TRUE PATRIOTS These are not exceptional isolated instances. As vice-chairman of the State Defense Council, I am in a posi- tion to know that it is representative of the entire state. There is no state in the Union more loyal, more patrio- tic, more eager to serve the cause of a democracy than the state of North Da- kota. It is true that we are not al- ways satisfied with political condi- tions as they have been handed down to us from past generations. It is true that we are prone to find fault with a system of distribution which costs the consumer, at times, from four to eight times the amount received by the producer; and when we want to tell ourigrivances, we . use ordinary, Anglo Saxon words, understandable by all who care to PAGE EIGHTEEN corporation con- ead about the farmers’ movement: listen. . If this is a fault, we are . proud of it. It is also- true that there are. in North Dakota, as there are in Iowa, people living and making their homes who have keen remembrances of homes in our enemy country, and friends and relatives fighting for what they mis- takenly think is right. These people~ are not consciously disloyal, and they must be taught that this, and not the other, is the home country; that 'the liberty of the people of the world: can only be obtained through the-overthrow of the dark forces of Prussian auto- cracy. We in North Dakota feel that they are the making of a good citizenship and in proof of this we point to Ana- moose, a village peopled by thosé™of former German barentage which- sent some twenty-five volunteers, whose names bore, almost without exception, testimony to their Teutonié descent. We make no claim' to more loyalty and patriotism than Iowa and Kansas, but we keenly resent any - classifica- tion which puts us below any state in the Union in the spirit of sgacrifice or service for the good of our country and the welfare of the people of the world. ; ; I am sure, Mr. Editor, that you do not desire to do us an injustice. DORR H. CARROLL, FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH A new star has appeared in the na- tional political firmament. “The Na- tional Nonpartisan le‘ague has just elected its candidate, John M. Baer, of North Dakota, to congress. Our read- ers will recall that this League of farmers organized the farmers for Dpolitical protection and it appears to be making good. Its purpose seems to be to organize government for the service of the people and to destroy special privilege. We hear that the League ~ is making rapid- progress in the West and we hope it may extend over the nation. It is the most hopeful political prospect now in sight. We shall watch the progress of the League with great interest and if the people really awake to the possibilities it offers there may soon develop a great movement toward that genuine democratization - of our industrial, commercial, agricultural and political life of which we hear so much and see too little. This League is on the right track. It was started by farmers and it may prove in the end another case in which the plain people of the country will prove their capacity to save the situation—UNION STAR, Brookneal, Va. ; e R e e BUSY IN IDAHO The Nonpartisan league is making -campaign hay in Idaho while the sun shines. . The propaganda prepared for the state is being spread daily now by organization. Ray McKaig, the North Dakota or- ganizer, is spending July in Idaho and he and W. G. Scholtz, former head of the state farm markets bureau are speaking at the principal picnics being held by the Farmers’ union throughout the state. McKaig spoke last week in a number of eastern Idaho ‘counties. July 18 Jhe will appear at a picnic to be held in Ada county. Both he and Scholtz*have been speaking in Adams and Washington counties and both have appeared at picnics in north Idaho.—BOISE (IDAHO) STATEMAN., s