The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 6, 1917, Page 14

LEAGUE BOOSTER FED HIS HOGS The Mat Weber farm Mat Weber and family Farmer Writes to An Editor One of the eastern publications that have been grossly misrepresenting the great farmers’ movement as represent- ed by the Nonpartizan league is the Pathfinder, published at Washington, D. C. This paper has aroused the ire of several readers (f the Leader, one of whom sends us a copy of a letter he has written the editor of the Wash- ington paper. The letter follows: 809 [E. Fifth street, Rochester, Minn. Editor of the Pathfinder: I have been a reader of your paper for several years and have encouraged friends of mine to take it, but will not from now on. In your issue of July 28 your editorial on the Nonpartisan league shows me very plainly who you are and what you stand for. You say you never ‘“knock” just to be knocking. Then you must “knock” for a purpose. You have lined your- self up with the gang that is robbing us common pecple all over this land out of millions of hard-earnced money —s0 go on with your “knocking.” You say this League arrays class against class, whieh is groscly mis- leading. IEighty-seven thousand farm- ers, wage earners and men of all classes voted for Lynn J. Frazier for governor, who ran as a Republican in North Dakota last fall, having bheen nominated and indorsed by the Non- partisan league. T lived as a farmer in North Dakota for eight years and know the kind of men who are in this League. Any editor throws mud in the face of 87,000 respected, law-abid- ing citizens of North Dakota when he deliberately lies about this League. The farmers of North Dakota were robbed of $55,000,000 on one crop of wheat, according to bulletin No. 119 of the North Dakota Agricultural college, and then you sit down there at ‘Washington and talk of an organiza- tion about which you are grossly ig- norant. Our League is out to get rid of some of these food speculators and gamblers and all others who receive their ill-gotten gains, whether they be legislators or editors. Mr. Iditor, you are blind to the facts; ou are blind to the purposes of this League; you are trying to tell 100,000 of the most progressive Repub- licans and Democrats in this North- west who now belong to this League that we don't know what we are doing. Mr. Editor, it is a 'disappointment to me after counting you a friend of common, hard-working people, to have you turn out to be a flunky for the “ring”—a Judas Iscariot. You say vou believe in the majority ruling. Then why do you holler? The majori- ty has been ruling in North Dakota since last fall's election, 'and they ruled again when Baer was elected to congress July 10, 1917, and still you holler. My wife says you remind her of an old maid who is always prophesying that her sister’s children will sure go to thunder. There are a number of you old maid editors dishing out this political thun- der with yellow gold trimmings. You trimmed me for three year’s subscrip- tion in advance. XKeep it—I have been beaten before out of the pr fits on eight year's hard work. You can send my paper to one of your friends, say ‘Washburn-Crosby company, Minne- apolis, who directly or indirectly, it 1s said, maintains 21 seats on the Cham- ber of Commerce at a membership of $6000 each per year. J. CHARLES MARTIN. MUST BE $3 A BUSHEL Garske, N. D., Aug. 22, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : At a mass meeting held at Garske, Ramsey county, N. D., August 21, at- tended by 60 farmers, the following resolution was passed unanimously: “Resolved that all farmers hold their wheat until they receive $3 per bushel for No. 1 at terminals.” 'BERNDT ANDERSON, Chairman. MARTIN LARSON, Secretary, BY N. S. DAVIES ATT WEBER of Springfield township, eastern -Barnes county, N. D,, is not only one of the best League boosters in Barnes county, having as- sisted the organizer at the start two years ago and also completed the can- vass of his township in the reorgan- ization work this spring, bringing the membership up to 39, dropping his work for a day to do it, but has been making a good record with hogs which will be of interest to many. Last year grain was high-priced for hog feed, so last fall Mr. Weber, who has 46 head, including a bunch of June first pigs, purchased a big cooking ket- tle, which cost him $33. He mixed two tons of alfalfa, worth $18 per ton, and two tons of middlings, worth $32, boiling it up as he fed it. This was sufficient to feed the 46 hogs from Christmas to March 1, and supplied the 21 brood sows till April 1. To get the 25 shoats ' ready for the market he bought 50 bushels of corn, which put them in fine shape, -and he realized over $400 from them. Mr. Weber raised two litters from each sow last year, and by feeding them as he did made a good profit on every hog. He says the alfalfa and middlings make great feed, the hogs thriving splendidly, and none of them were sick. It made a very cheap feed and could be used, to advantage by other hog raisers. WEST AND SOUTH UNITE Granberg, Tex., Aug. 13, 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The western farmers and the south- ern farmers must clasp hands and vote together and legislate to the same end. Please place my name on your sub- scription list now and send the paper to me right along. Just finished read- ing Townley’s speech in the special composite edition and it's the patriot- fsm of our fathers, Washington, Lin- coln, Davis, Jefferson, Grant and Lee. It is the purest jewel uttered since their time. H. L. WRIGHT. KNOWS FARMERS CAN WIN Kemp, Tex., Aug. 15, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Have just completed reading every word in your special composite edition and indorse every word in it. How I do long for your Nonpartisan league to get started in this state and in every other state, for I know how bad the farmers need to organize and vote and work for the interest of them- selves, and I know what the farmers can do if they will organize and stick together. I will do anything I can to assist your League. J. F. HENSON. Farmers Resent Insults HE Farmers’ Dispatch is & weekly ecdition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and St Paul Dispatch. It has been devoting considerable space to unsigned attacks on the Nonparti- san league, purporting to be written a3 letters to the Dispatch. These have insulted the farmers of North Dakota and their governor and ridiculed their organization, and the' impression in North Dakota has been that they are not real letters from readers at all, but stuff manufactured in the Dispatcn office. North Dakota farmers have read these with considerable indigna- tion, many of them writing the Leader about it. One of the letters on the subject received by the Leader is from C. D. Cone of Beulah, N. D, and is printed herewith because typical of the rest. Space forbids printing all letters on this subject we have received, and the charges and dirty work of a Big Business paper like the Farmers’' Dis- patch are not worth any more space. Mr. Cone’s letter follows: Beulah, N. D., August, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: We came ‘to North Dakota in the seventies. My daughter, with whom I ‘live, is the mother of nine children, living here on the farm. I do not be- long to the Nonpartisan league and do not subscribe for the Leader. But when a nafrow, contracted, un- principled upstart 1ibels the very cream of our nobility (for such are the men your League has elected to office in North Dakota) and such a paper as the Farmers’ Dispatch gives space to bigoted slanders of this kind, while shutting out truthful matter, we think it time to call an indignation meeting and speak out. North Dakota does not need to take a back seat for any spot on the globe (I have traveled) for clear-headed and noble-hearted citizens, and your League made the best of selections from among us farmers when you chose candidates whom you elected to office in this state. The criticisms appearing in the Farmers’ Dispatch are insulting. We can not bear them without a protest. Iet's defend our colors and our honor! The writer of the Dispatch article is ashamed to sign his name, and if he has any self-respect ought to be ashamed. His silly prattle puts a tag on- his character, as it does on the recent change of front of the publica- tion which gives it space, Respectfully yours, C. D. CONE. THE COAL SHORTAGE Cando, N. D., Aug. 30, 1917, LEditor Nonpartisan Leader: ~ It has come to my mind that in view of the present shortage of hard coal in this state and the small amount at the docks for shipment to the Northwest and consequent and probable suffer- ing that will be entailed thereby if al- lowed to continue, that the members of the League generally ought to petition our congressmen and senators to use every available means to remedy this situation. Surely there must be a remedy for such a condition where there is plenty of coal and plenty of boats and cars to haul it, especially the latter, as I perceive from -your issue of July 12, article “Car Shortage a Fake.” I therefore suggest to you that a petition along this line be framed and sent in to these public officers, say on a date certain, in order that the effect may be as strong as possible. This is merely my suggestion, but I hope that it meets with your approval and co= operation. S. L. KING. Colorado’s “War Council”’ Colorado. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ‘The Colorado legislature has met and adjourned. The chief outcome of its spasm was the passing of a bill for the bonding of the state for $2,250,- 000 and the ways and means of spend~ ing that and enough more to make the total come a little over $3,000,000. That’'s what they did and that was all No relief from the “hogs” for the consumer—unless the provision for a guard to be put over th. state to see that the farmers and laboring classes pay up, can be called relief. The “war council,” which is composed of the “big men” representing the coal, food, wheat, iron, and sugar interests of the state, is in the saddle, with a $50,000 appropriation for personal expenses, As indications point to a good deal of bucking and pitching, it is expected that the “guard” will act as a bucking strap, and there i8 no doubt but that this “war .council” will “pull leather” a good many times before the war is over. : PAGE FOURTEEN The farmers and labor organizations tried to get a hearing, but both ac- tions and speech expressed the senti« ment of ‘“to hell with the farmers and consumers,” and when asked if they thought they could get away with that rough stuff,' they replied that the people would forget it by the next election. ~ In fact Big'Business is doing in this state what it is doing all over the United States, namely, banking on the patriotism which 1is so big in the everyday man, that they expect him to stand for anything they put over, and if he should kick over the traces, Big Business would brand him a “German sympathizer” and sick the “guard” onto him. 4 No move has been made as yet to attack this condition of affairs, but pruning hooks are being sharpened and as soon as the opportunity offers, they will puncture those protuberances, which prevent Big Business from see= ing where their feet are leading them. NOAH PHULLER, “