The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 3

- e —— AT S P In the interest of a square deal for the farmers Nonpartigsn Teader A magazins that dares t» print the truth Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League VOL. 5, NO. 12 FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917 WHOLE NUMBER 105 BREAKING FAMILY TIES—THE SOONER THE BETTER BuT HES GoT To HELP MAKE THE WORLD SAFE For DEMOCRACY i\ ok BILLloN?%o‘oN ! “AeR —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris I eague Delegation to Capital BLIEVING that wealth should be consecripted to pay war ex- penses, just as life is conscripted to fight the battles, the farm- = crs of the Nonpartisan.league have sent a delegation to Wash- S52) ington, D. C. This delegation will make a final and direct ap- peal to President Wilson and both houses of congress to take a firm stand for getting more money by taxation from the immense corpora- tions that have made billions of dollars a year out of the war thqs far. ' W. C. Morris, in the cartoon shown above, pictures the ¢‘patriotic’’ attitude of these hillion-dollar cerporations when conseription of wealth is advoeated. The big corporations are : willing to have the young men of the nation conscripted, but their wealth is a sacred i matt’i‘he aim of the League delegation will be to urge Unele Sam to lay firm hands upon this swollen wealth—the same firm measures that were used in conseripting the young men:of the country, and in taking all the profit of farmers on wheat. . produced some results. The war finance bill, as it passed the senate, provided for raising $500,000,000 more than it did when the bill was passed by the house. Every dollar that is raised now by taxation of swollen fortunes will mean that much less that the farmers and work- ers of the country will be called upon to pay in succeeding years, when bond issues will come due. ; But the war finance bill, increased as it has been, only taxes war profits slightly more than 30 per cent. England taxes war profits 80 per cent. A close study of the bill is presented in this week’s Leader on page 8. Members of the delegation representing the League, who already have gone to Washington are W. G. Scholtz of Idaho, chairman of the joint legislative committee of farmers’ organizations of that state, and Herbert I. Gaston, editor of the Fargo Courier-News. The co-opera- tion of the American Society of Equity also has been secured by the League and other big farmers’ organizations will be linked up in the fight. Already the demand of the League for conseription of wealth has PAGE THREE e ———————ee e GR