The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 6, 1917, Page 18

ADVERTISEMENTS WESTERN CATTLE Will sell high this fall compared with other years. Demand for fat cattle, stock cattle and feeders will be greater than ever before. Ship- ments billed to EQUITY CO-OPERATIVE EXCHANGE Union Stock Yards, South St. Paul Will bring you “Qreatest net results.” To obtain the best prices for your grain bill all cars to us at St. Paul, Minnesota, or Superior, Wisconsin. The Equity : Co-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota—Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn. — Value for the Livestock You Raise IF YOU DO NOT GET IT, somebody else gets the bene- fit you should have. The day is passed when business is done on sentiment, and cnly results in dollars and cents count. We want you to compare the results in dollars and cents we get for you with those received elsewhere. A comparison will convince you that “KIRK SERVICE” gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. . South St. Paul, Minn. Authorized Sales Agency of the American Society of Equity 'MR. LIVESTOCK "GROWER! You Are Surely Entitled to the Full Market First Class Cafeteria in éonnection. 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. SEND US 25 CENTS and we will mail you 8 pileces of sheet music, either voca.? or im- strumental. Fargo Music Co., Fa N. D. Planos and Pllyrgg‘ '----l Ship Your Poultry TO EGGERT'S MARKET. Highest Cash Pricea Pald Eggert’s Market FARGO, N. D. the Northwest to plant a large acreage next season. “A $2.20 maximum for wheat at Chicago is entirely too low,” said Com- missioner of Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan this morning. “The action of the price-fixing board dis- criminates . against the spring wheat states. The winter wheat states, who disposed of their grain in the open market, received a price of $3 or better. North Dakota farmers will be greatly disappointed at the action of the board. “Moreover, the action of the board is very apt to discourage the planting of a large acreage to wheat next season. The Northwestern farmer has become accustomed to having something slip- ped over on him, and no matter wheth- er the government does guarantee a $2 per bushel wheat price for next year's grain, they will be afraid to take a chance.” Farmers of North Dakota can not af- ford to go into the wheat business for two dollars a bushel, according to Sec- retary of State Thomas Hall, who bases his opinion on 34 years’ experience in North Dakota. “Farmers of North Da- kota can not go into the wheat business on two dollars a bushel. Wheat rais< ing is the most precarious business im the world. Personally I would rather play black-jack with my money. “Two dollars and twenty cent wheat at the Chicago terminals is sure to re- sult in less than $2 wheat at the North Dakota elevators. I fear that this price will discourage the planting of a large acreage to wheat next season.” J. H. Calderhead, secretary of the railroad commission, also expg'es;ed the opinion that $2.20 for wheat at the Chicdgo terminals is too low. “The government maximum on wheat {s way too low,” sald Mr. Calderhead thig morning. “Two dollars -and seventy= five cents, giving the farmers a $2.50 price at the local elevators, would have been a much fairer price. Farmers can not be encouraged to plant a large acreage of wheat next season at a $2 price, considering what it costs to raise ltll Mr. Calderhead, who has spent prac- tically his entire life raising wheat in the northern states, also expressed fear that the government would not be able to maintain the price at the maximum fixed by the control board. League Aims Are American Milwaukee Paper Shows How Corporation Press Distorts Farmers’ Program (From the Milwaukee Free Press) The newspapers that are raising their hands in holy horror at the La Follette resolution might do well to bear in mind that a congressman has just been elected upon a platform which contain- ed the principal demands of the Wis- consin senator—and others equally of- fensive to their nostrils, John M. Baer, candidate of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan league of North Dakota, ran against both a Republican and a Democratic candidate in that state and won by a plurality of 3,000 votes. Prominent in his platform were the following principal planks: “We therefore demand that our government, before proceeding fur- ther in support of our European allies, insist that they, in common with it, make immediate public de- claration of terms of peace without annexation of territory, indemni- ties, contributions, or interference with the right of any nation to live and manage its own internal af- fairs. “We demand the abolition - of secret diplomacy. e “To conscript men and exempt the blood¥stained wealth coined from the sufferings of humanity is repugnant to the spirit of America and contrary to the ideals of dem- ocracy. : d ' “We declare freedom of speech to be the bulwark of human liberty, and we decry all attempts to muz- zle the public press or individuals upon any pretext whatsoever. A declaration of war does not repeal the constitution of the United States, and the unwarranted inter- ference of military and other au- thorities with the rights of individ- uals must cease.” The same newspapers who are dis- torting and disparaging Senator La Follette's resolution have tried to make out that Mr. Baer is pro-German, and that his election was due to pro-Ger- man influence. They have also tried to make him out as an anti-war and anti-conscription candidate, JOHN M. BAER IS A TRUE AMERICAN These newspapers wilfully overlook- ed the fact that North Dakota's popu- lation of foreign extraction is prepond- erantly Swedish, with only a slight German element. They also willfully to the Nonpartisan Leader. PAGE EIGHTEEN HEADQUARTERS ADDRESSES The Leader herewith gives mail addresses of the national and various state headquarters of the National Nonpartisan league. Communications dealing with organization work, payment of dues, securing speakers or meetings for various localities, eto., should be addressed to the proper League headquarters and not NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, Box 294, St. Paul, Minn. - MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS, Box 655, St. Paul, Minn, - NO. DAK. HEADQUARTERS, Box 919, Fargo, N. D, SO. DAK. HEADQUARTERS, Box 464, Sioux Fallg, 8. D. MONTANA HEADQUARTERS, Box 1625, Great Falls, Mont. KANSAS HEADQUARTERS, Box 453, Topeka, Kansas. COLORADO HEADQUARTERS, Box 538, Denver, Colorado. IDAHO HEADQUARTERS, Box 1127, Boise, Idaho. . WISCONSIN HEADQUARTERS, Box 71, Madison, Wis. NEBRASKA HEADQUARTERS, Box 1252, Lincoln, Neb. ignored Mr. Baers’ heritage, which is native American for generations back; his father having fought in the Union ranks and his brother in the Spanish- American war. No! The verdict of the people of Dakota was a Simon pure American verdict, and the Nonpartisan league which made it possible is not only in control of North Dakota, but in recent months has won the balance of politic- al power in Minnesota. Already, it is making startling headway in north- western Wisconsin. ¢ s Like all of the various agrarian movements which have been born, in times past, west of the Mississippi, this Nonpartisan league is distinctly a peo- ple’s movement, a spontaneous Ameri- can movement, born of the soil and in the conscience of the plain, working masses, NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS ARE LOYAL CITIZENS Last year, in North Dakota, it swept almost an entire state ticket and three Justices of the supreme court into of- fice, on the issue of state-owned utili- ties. This year it is moving with equal vigor to secure a definition of America’'s war aims without indemni- ties, annextions or other encroachmenta upon any nation, and to bulwark the constitutional rights of free speech, free publication and free assemblage. In Minnesota the Nonpartisan move= ment is inspired by the same purposes, and its tremendous meetings through- out the state have not only got the old- school politicians by the ears, but the federal officials of that territory. It should be evident that such an en- thusiastic, wide-spread, popular up- heaval of sentiment can not be dismiss< ed out-of-hand as ‘“disloyal,” “foreign®™ or even “eccentric,” as many adminis< tration newspapers are trying to do. ‘When such an upheaval can send a man to congress at this time, it means that honest, genuine devotion to a principle is back of it; and when that is the case, who will dare to prate of un-Americanism? ] Let it be sald, in conclusion, that the activity of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan league has not been directed against the war as such, nor against its prose- cution to a successful conclusion, but rather ‘against the conditions undez which it has been launched. It is to clarify and remedy these con< ditions, in the interests of American democracy, of American well-being and of American success, that the farmers® and workers' organization has got une der way. o