The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 16

R g R e L A | Things Doing in Nebraska Nebraska has organized a state com- mittee of the Nonpartisan league, com- posed of active, on-the-soil farmers. Members of the committee are: J. D. Ream, Broken Bow, chairman; D. S. Sheets, Elgin; James Elliott, Morrill; Alfred Johnson, Holdrege; D. H. Burton, Waverly. The state committee has mapped out a tentative program, subject to ratifi- cation or amendment by the state con- vehtion which will be assembled as soon as the state membership is suffi- cient to give fair representation. The principal demands of the Nebraska platform are: State owned stockyards, packing houses and cold storage plants. S State owned terminal elevators and flour mills. State owned creameries. State owned beet sugar factories. Exemption of farm improvements from taxation. Rural credit banks operated at cost. Excellent progress is being made in organization work in Nebraska. O. M. Thomason of North Dakota, who has been lecturing in the state, has been greeted by large audiences everywhere and at the state fair at Lincoln recent- ly spoke to a crowd of 5000 people. Farmers Were Spurned Dodson, Mont., Aug. 30, 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Fully realizing that any protest we farmers make always falls on deaf ears as far as the government is con- cerned, I am nevertheless going to ex- press my opinion on the recent ap- pointments made on the board that set the price for the farmers’ wheat. The question is not whether the price set is a just one; but the question is, has not the farmer a right to be heard on a question which concerns himself more than any other living be- ing? I say he has, but this right was denied him by the administration when the price setting board was named. Our forefathers fought and bled that they might not be taxed without repre- sentation, but we, who are supposed to be fighting for world democracy, are in all reality taxed without represent- ation. 1 say taxed, because whether the price be just or unjust, it was set without our consent or our-even hav- ing a voice in setting it. While we are undertaking to fight for the democracy of the world, let us first establish it here at home. If the farmer is fit to feed the world, he is fit to have something to say about the government of the world, but this has always been denied him—and it al- ways will be denied him until he sees that the only way to accomplish any- thing is to take affairs into his own hands. Now for the first time in the history of the world he is on the right track, thanks to the organization of the Non- partisan league. O. E. HAGELAND. COLORADO APPROVES LADD Arapahoe, Colo., Sept. 1, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leéader: I have been organizing for the Non- partisan league and have secured a bunch of the best farmers every place I've worked, and they are all boosters. God bless you men; you sure are on the right track. And the people are finding it out. They are tired of class legislation and Big Biz rule. The pro- ducers and consumers are finding out that they are the direct source of all wealth, and that Big Biz has direct control of everything that everyone uses every day. Therefore Big Biz exacts big per- centages because he knows the people must have the goods in order to live. It is exactly right for the government to control prices IF CONTROL IS EXERCISED JUSTLY. GIVE ALL A FAIR PROFIT ON RAW MATERIAL AND FINISHED PRODUCTS EQUAL- LY. The people are with Congressman Baer, President Townley, the Leader and all others in the good work, for the conscription of private fortunes for war purposes, and also the war profits of our corporations. Wealth and in- comes should be taxed to pay the big- gest portion of the war debt. And when they are taxed, provision should be made so that oil, sugar, lum- ber, flour, steel, etc., do not rise in price so that the consumer has to pay it as has been the custom heretofore. I am a member of the Farmers Union, of which Charles J. Barrett is president, and he'’s right with us. We know Dr. E. F. Ladd is O K, too, so we have some good people working with us. JOHN H. OWEN, W e R T A b L T DR ABYERTISEMENTS : R e T T T S T e o e SR S A e S Electric Light Low-Cost, Safe and Sure Lalley-Light points the way to a nation of electric lighted farms: Its simplicity, its safety—its low operating cost—are fast upsetting the old idea that electric light is a high-priced luxury. Instead, farmers who enjoy it and employ it, consider it an economy and a necesssity. For seven years Lalley-Light has been in practical use on the farms. 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