The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 20

brought together in this country, al- though shoes and all other leather products are selling at record prices. This statement of Mr. Townley was confirmed later, in every detail, by Ray Vance, director of the Brookshire Economic service of New York, one of the country's leading investigators of economic problems, who also was on - the program. “Let me suggest to the agents of the department of justice,” went on Mr. Townley, “that after you look at our hides, and see if we are pro- German, that you go East and see what they do with our hides.” Applause and cheers stopped the speaker. He went on: “You can't play pdker alone; it's a two-handed game. We are here today to lay our cards on the table. If you have any questions to ask we will answer them gladly. We are not afraid of impartial inspection, but we would like to see some of this inspection ex- tended to those who need inspecting more.” Mr. Townley went on and spoke sin- cerely of the farmers’ desire to help the food administration. Mr. Townley said he felt sure Herbert Hoover, food ad- ministrator, was honest and sincere, but felt only that he had bad advice. Then he accented again the purpose of the convention—to help the govern- ment. FARMERS HAD NO TIME TO WAVE FLAG “This is a patriotic meeting,” he said. “We are patriotic. The gentlemen who speculate in wheat, corn and rye, bar- ley, mustard, custard, fuel, iron, steel, lumber, shoes and clothing, have been telling people about their patriotism. They have been able to make these an- nouncements of their patriotism while the farmers were working, and five or six billion dollars of war profits will pay for quite an announcement. But now that we’ve harvested our crop we have a little chance to show how pa- triotic we are—a chance we didn’t have before. “If we had spent as much time in the past few months waving -the flag as they did (the profiteers) we would all have starved to death—we and they alike.” Then Mr. Townley took up the real purpose of the convention—to back the government in a plan to carry on to a legitimate conclusion what had been started By fixing the price of the farm- ers’ wheat; to go on and fix a fair price on every article of human con- sumption and rid the nation of the burden of billions of dollars war prof- its now being made by speculators and profiteers. = As stated previously, Mr. Townley’s complete speech on this sub- ject—agreed by listeners to be prob- ably the best speech that Mr. Town- ley has yet made—will be printed in an early issue of the Leader. NEBRASKA’'S HELP PROMISED CONVENTION This only takes us to the middle of the first afternoon. It is impossible to give here, this week, the talk that W. A. Wheeler, the department of agriculture expert, made immediately following Mr. Townley, on the seed wheat situation, or the talks made by J. D. Ream, master of the State Grange of Nebraska, or C. H. Gustafson, presi- dent of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union. It may be said, though, that both these men assured the big crowd that the farmers of , Nebraska would ‘stand with the farmers of the Northwest in their fight for fixing of prices on all necessities, and thus the' aid of two other powerful -~ farmers’ ‘organizations was pledged ‘to the Nonpartisan league. &y o There isn’t 'space enough to tell of the' wonderful ovation that the gathering gave Congressman John M. Baer, the | first League congressman, and the mes- sage that John Baer brough back to. the farmers whom he represents. There . isn’'t enough space to. tell of the re-. markable addresses made by orators of national: reputation like TUnited States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Senator.La Follette of Wiscon- sin, and former Senator McLaurin of South Carolina. . There is not space enough to tell of the solid ahd substan- tial facts that were brought to the farmers by such expert investigators of economic conditions as Ray Vance of New York, Robert Bridges of Seattle and Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of North Pakota Agricultural ; college. = There isn’t space enough here to tell of the part that women played in the conven- tion, of the message brought by Miss Jeanette Rankin, “congresswoman” from Montana, Miss Mabel Vernon, the New York suffrage worker, and others. . 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