The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 23, 1917, Page 18

(e ADVERTISEMENTS It is about time to commence to ship in the new crop. In order to be sure that your grain will reach us, and in order to insure as much help to us as possible in financing the crop USE ORDER BILL OF LADING ON ALL GRAIN SHIPMENTS. THIS IS THE YELLOW KIND. We honor drafts for 75 per cent of shipment on all consignments. —_—_— TRY EQUITY EXCHANGE for GRAIN AND LIVE STOCK ——— Be sure to pay your stock note NOW. The Equity Co-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn, mtmm—m-mmnmrmmmu| First Class Cafeteria in Connection. POWERS HOTEL FARGO’S ONLY MODERN FIRE PROOF HOTEL Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot FARGO, N. D. Bl R e . OWWWz“““““N“‘OOMO 0’““ “““N“““““O 0 0 : 0'“’“‘“‘00’“’“'“‘“.”‘“’“’“ > Advertise Your leesck Now in the Leader Cla331f1ed Ads Half rates to members of the League '4’90‘“‘“‘w’w’»:w:“:n‘»’w‘“% el w,“:w “3“3“;“;“;“3“3‘ o aloslaafecfeaioafesleslesledieds {FARMERS AS BANKERS FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS b per cent pald on savings accounts. 6 per cent paid on time certificates., Does gen- eral banking business by mail. THE SAVINGS LOAN & TRUST CO. The Minot Farmers Central Bank Farmers' rest room. MINOT, N. D. Mention Leader when writing advertisers THEY WILL FIT YOU TFor the next 30 days, with all $25 suits we nge an extra pair of pants at $4.00. This is an exceptibnal bargain. If de- sired pants may be selected of differ- ent pattern than the suit. Over 100 patterns to select from. You are well dressed if we make your clothes. A perfect fit or no pay. Write for sam- ¢ ples. HAGEN & OLSON Tailoring Fargo, N. D. BEAUTIFUL WORK If you have some old gold or silver that you, would like to have made into an up- to-date piece of jewelry send it to us. We will do it and please you. Damaged or broken jewelry made like new. Everything hand wrought. . Write us today. Satisfaction guara.nteed. L. LEVIN Jewelry Manufacturing 303 Broadway Fargo, N. D. MAGNETOS SELF- STARTERS—BATTERI ES Fargo Plumbmg & Heatmg Co. 15 years in electrical business. Satisfaction guaranteed. SEND US 25 CENTS and we will mail you 8 pieces of sheet music, either vocal or in- strumental. Fargo Music Co., Fargo, N. D. | a semi-radical; . daily press, THE GREA'T WERE “RADICALS” After all is said and done, the people of this world are diviced into only two classes. The rrogressive or radi- cal class ig the champion of “lhings as they ought to be.” The conservative or reactionary class is the cponsor for “things as they are.” Just take a look down through the pages of history and see how many names from the con- servative class are there record-d. The men who do things in this world always have been radicals. Kerensky, hero of the Russian revolution, is a radical; Lloyd George, premier of Eng- land, is a radical; President Wilson is Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Frank- lin, and John Adams were all radicals in their time. Don't feel offended be- cause some one calls you a radical It is really a compliment.—STARK- WEATHER (N. D.) TIMES. HOME FOLKS DID IT Leslie’s weekly says as follows: “The newly elected congressman of the First North Dakota district, was elected as the farmers’ candidate on a socialist platform opposed to the war.” Bvery resident of the First district of North Dakota knows this to be an absolute untruth but it seems to be generally believed throughout the East, Now it is not hard to trace the source of- these canards. They are directly attributive to those papers of, North Dakota that denounced Towrley during the recent campaign, and it would seem that these publications owe an apology for having placed our home and pa- triotic people in such a despicable light as they have.—NELSON COUNTY (N. D.) OBSERVER. LEAGUE SFEAKERS PATRIOTIC Now that the people of Northwest- ern Minnesota have had an opportuni- ty of hearing some of the foremost men in the Nonpartisan league move- ment explain the aims and purposes of the organization they have received a different impression from that sought to' be conveyed by a portion of the Many attended the meet- ing at Aubol's grove last Thursday ex- pecting to hear some revolutionary rropaganda advanced, but they were disappointed. -The speakers proved to he gentlemen of- most pleasing address and appearance and their utterances were such as might well have -been made by any patriotic American at this time.—THIEF RIVER FALLS (MINN.) TIMES. TAKE WHAT WE NEED We believe that the plan of the Noa- partisan league to pay a large part ¢f the cost of the war by conscripting wealth will eventually be carried out if the war lasts long enough. The idea is basically sound and it is bemg doune, to a l.rge extent in [Wurope at present. In England, for instance, incomes are taxed up to 60 per cent.—LITCH- VILLE (N. D.) BULLETIN. P. S. COMMISSION ARBITRARY While the courts have upheld the legality of the creation of the Minne- sota commission of public safety, and the delegation of authority to it, there is danger that the commission is going to degenerate into an arbitrary and un- reasonable body. self open to the charge of being im- practical in many instances.—TODD COUNTY (MINN.) ARGUS. TELL THE TRUTH Political and certain business gang- sters, not only in Montevideo, but the county and state, are bringing to bear every pressure including the rankest falsehoods to turn the farmers against the Nonpattisan league. These gang- sters know that the farmers and labor- ing people have reached the point where they will not stand for this poli- tical graft any longer so in hopes of retaining their .grip on the throats of the people a little longer they resort to their usual political methods of mis- representation and falsehood. Yester- “day a responsible farmer informed us that Mike Hendrickson had told him that the organizers for the League re- ceived $8 of the $16 membership fee. Now Mr. Hendrickson knows, if he knows anything about it, that that statement was false. If he knows noth- ing about it why did he make the statement? As a matter of fact the organizers are not paid very liber- ally, many are working on a straight salary and are not paid nearly as liberally as is the parastic secretary of the businessmen’s combine in Monte- video, that apparently exists for no other purpose than to extort long profits from the people and to kill the Daily | It has also laid it- American because it tells the truth.— - MONTEVIDEO AMERICAN. (MINN.) DAILY PAGE EIGHTEEN Pushing the League Along THEY SHOULD WORRY The Minneapolis papers seem to be terribly excited over Congressman John Baer’s patriotism, but this will fool no one here in North Dakota—the Minneapolis papers might well admit that it is the profits that the Chamber of Commerce is afraid it will lose through the election of too many men like Baer to congress that is their real worry—and théy should worry.—CAR- RINGTON (N. D.) RECORD. CALLS FARGO FORUM The Fargo Forum deprecates the ap- parent growth of mob rule in the United States, the occasion being the lynching of Frank Little, the I. W. W. leader in Butte—and not so very long ago the Forum seemed decidedly in fa- vor of some such proceedure with reference to Townley and others who were billed to speak in Fargo. —BIS- BEE (N. D.) GAZETTE, COULD SAVE LIVESTOCK If the railroads of this country were operated with the utniost efficiency and under government ownership, arrange- ments could be made to ship hay into this country and thus keep the live- stock here but the excessive rates now make this impossible.—PUBLIC OPIN=- ION, BISMARCK. CONTRACT “PATRIOTISM” BEST The bunk game practiced by the gov- ernment in appealing to the voluntary patriotism of the farmers to increase their production of food now stands ex- posed in all its naked injustice. The farmers now see that while they were asked to increase their production without any assurance that they would be given a free and open market in which to dispose of their larger crops the manufacturers of other war sup=- plies have been awarded fat contracts which include a wide margin of profit In other words, the manufacturers, es- pecially the larger operators, have been guaranteed a profit, while the farmers and wage workers are being asked fo labor for an ever decreasing reward.— DIRECT TRADER, Longbranch, Wash. SLOPPING EASTERN HOGS No newspaper in the state has been more unfair and bitter against the farmers and their organizations than has been the Steele Ozone, of Steele, N, D., the county seat of Kidder, fast becoming one of the leading livestock and agricultural sections of North Da- kota. I'rom the first it has been extremely radical on this proposition. It could see absolutely no excuse for the farm- ers organizing, despite the fact that all other interests were organized. Its ti- rade against the leaders has been bit- ter, but childish. To all acquainted with the League movement it was ap- parent from ~the first that Brother Wood knew nothing about the farmers’ movement and did not take the paias to find out, preferring to listen to Big Business and its manufactured false- hoods. In the last issue they charge the League with indorsing sabotage, “in- cluding the throwing of wrenches into separators, poisoning, burning ripened grain for harvest, and elevator stores of grain.” The,publisher and editor know that not 4 word of the charge is true, not any more than are the reports that the eastern newspapers are now circulat- ing atout Congressman Baer and ais election. Eastern newspapers have a reason for knocking North Dakota. They want to keep it in subjection so that they can continue bleeding it. That is to be expected, but. when newspapers in our own s’1te, like the disreputable Steele Ozone, are so disloyal ar to de- fame the state for the benefit of east- ern hogs, they should te absolutely ignored by every loyal son of North Dakota by absolute refusals to sup= port it. The man who gives it a dol- lar is just as guilty as the publisher and owner. No objection can be made to honest difference of op! ion,' but personal abuse and diliberate falsehood are be- neath any fair-minded ecitor. The Ozone is as much a disgrace to Steele and to Kidder county as was the fam- ous Barbary coast to San Fransisco. That it should have fastened its claws on such a progressive count, is to ne regretted, because the innocent suffer with tte guilty. Those not acquainted with the conditions may feel that the paper reflects the sentiment of che county, which it does not—PUBLIC OPINION, Bismarck, N. D. It will be a difficult matter for our .farmers to manage to hang onto their stock unless hay can be secured at rea- sonable prices—GLENBURN (N. D.) ADVANCE. - L]