The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 21

ADVERTISEMENTS e — TRUE CO-OPERATION If you are a farmer and believe in co-operation, please remember that the Equity Co-OperativerExchange is the only Co-Operatiye Selling Agency for livestock and grain on the terminal markets. If you believe in farmers’ organizations you should Yy g help every bona fide farmers’ your patronage. organization along with If you produce grain see that it is marketed through your own selling agency, the Equity Co-Operative Exchange either at St. Paul, Minn., or Su- perior, Wisconsin. If you have cattle, sheep or hogs to market, bill them direct to the Equity Co-Operative Exchange at South St. Paul, and receive the highest market price for the quality of stock you have to offer. For further information; address the The Equity Co-Operative Exchange ;St. Paul, Minnesota—Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn. MR. LIVES TOCK - GROWER! You Are Surely Enti tled to the Full Market 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 Amencan Society of Equlty E_l--___-—--_—----- FARMERS AS BANKERS FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS 5 per cent paid on savings accounts. cent paid on time certificates. 6 per Does gen- eral banking business by mail, THE SAVINGS LOAN & TRUST CO. The Minot Farmers Central Bank - Farmers' rest room. MINOT, N. D. Mention Leader when writing advertisers First Class Cafetena in Connection. POWERS HOTEL - | FARGO'S ONLY MODERN FIRE PROOF HOTEL i Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room l On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot I B . FARGO, N. D. (rinoc=c As BANKERS)| THE GARDNER. European Plan. FARGO, ‘N. D. zssgo;gblonatxon sample rooms with bath, 5 70 rooms with running water, $1 to $1.50. 80 _rooms with bath, $1.50 to $3.00, Finest cafe in the Northwest. Cuisine unequalled. Restful, quiet—only hotel in’ the city not on a car line. A. H. Leimbacher, Mgr. tack it. THE SACRIFICE (From Good Government) No man or organization has ever risen up to expose and fight a prevailing system that he or it has not been attacked by a pack of human jackals who feed off the profits secured through the laying of burdens on the backs of the people. - It seems necessary in proving the worth of men that they pass through the fire of unmerited accusation. And the morbid- ness of humans feeds on scandal and gossip. It is strange, but it is more or less true, that men and women seem more inclined to listen to evil aspersions against those who would serve them, than to defend them. Throughout the campaign of the Nonpartisan league of North Dakota, in which that organization elected all of the state officers (except the treasurer) and a majority of the state legis- lature, their candidates and the in the most vicious manner. organization itself were attacked . And in the recent campaign in which “the'League elected its candidates for congress with an overwhelm- ing majority, the charges made against the League, its president, and John M. Baer, candidate for congress, though untrue, were scandalous and violent. It is so everywhere. The men against whom the system aims its pmsonom darts are usually the strong men who oppose graft and spoils in politics. But the people, always easily fooled, seem especially susceptible to this kind of demagogism. It will be so until a vast majority have been educated against the evils which beset us on every side. It will be so until justice and honor and truth and right prevail over injustice and wrong. It is a mighty sacrifice that men make for reform. (Continued from page 9) been able to save enough money from their labor to purchase farms of their own. Many of them have gone to Canada. for cheap.land instead of re- maining in Montana, however. ‘Men and women interested in the welfare of the future men and women of Montana have tried at past sessions of the Montana legislature to get child labor laws -passed -to -better conditions in the beet fields. - They have failed. The farmers knew that to prohibit child labor would make their work cost more than the $22 per acre price fixed by the sugar company. And the sugar company doesn't pay the farmer enough for his beets to allow the farm- er to pay more than $22 per acre for labor and: still break even. I don’t think it needs a diagram to show who is really responsible for child labor in Montana. Sugar Beets and Sugar Beats If the farmers had a sliding scale of prices for their beets based on the price of sugar,” women and babies wouldn't have to work:in the fields. But the sugar company won't give them the sliding scale. So:some of the farmers are going out of raising sugar beets and little children continue to work in - the fields of the others. What profits are made are taken out of the hide of the men, women and little children. . What is the solution of the sugar beet question when the company re- fuses to fix a fair price and pass pros- perity around? The writer is not going to say. How- " ever, some of the farmers are getting an ‘idea in their heads. Another. in- vestigator. of the sugar beet situation, in Nebraska, will tell, in an early issue - of the Leader, what the farmeérs of that state are thinking about it. Watch for this article. About Anonymous Letters The Leader reported some time ago that numerous farmers were writing letters to-us in regard to attacks on the farmers and the Nonpartisan league appearing in the Farmers' Dispatch of St. Paul, which attacks were in the form of letters purporting to come from the public, but were not signed by true names or addresses of the persons writing . them. The Leader reported that the impression among League farmers in North Dakota was that these letters were manufactured in the Dispatch office, and were not genuine. Since that article appeared in the Leader, the Leader has received a let- ter from H. R. Galt, managing editor of the Dispatch, in which- Mr. Galt says the Dispatch is prepared, ‘“should oc- casion arise,” to prove the attacks on the League are genuine letters from readers of the Dispatch. Since the Leader now has the word of Mr. Galt to this effect, we have no reason to question that he actually has the names and addresses of his correspondents who are too cowardly to permit their names to be used in connection with their attacks on the farmers, “Mr. Galt also justifies the publication of the anonymous letters—anonymous so far as the public is concerned—on the ground that the Dispatch conducts a readers’ department in which public questions are discussed pro and con. He asserts that:this department from, time to time has carried letters favor-- able as well as ‘derogatory to the:: League and sends nine Dispatch clip- pings to prove this. Of the nine clip- pings he produced as evidence, six are friendly to the League and three at- None of those attacking the League are signed by a true and full name and address, while five of the six from League members, defending the League, are signed by true and full names and addresses. This, we think, proves the honesty of supporters of: the League and the dishonesty of those who attack it. League defenders have nothing to be ashamed of, while its assailants wish to conceal their iden- tity as proved by Mr, Galt's own evi« dence. The Leader has written Mr. Galt a letter, in response to-his, in which we state that the farmers can have no objection to the Dispatch publishing attacks on the League from readers, PAGE TWENTY-TWO providing such attacks by Dispatch " readers are signed by full and true names and addresses. the danger of permiting persons whose identity is kept secret being allowed to attack a great farmers’ and people's movement without taking responsibil- ity for it. The Dispatch states em- phatically it does not take responsibil=- ity for these attacks to which it gives circulation, and, if the writers of the letters are permitted by the Dispatch also to refuse to take responsibility, a situation very unfair to the farmers who are paying their money to build the Nonpartisan league and make it . a success is created. ‘We hope, in all fairness to Mr. Galt, that he will recognize the injustice of permitting sneaking enemies of the League to attack it, without either the Dispatch or the writers of these at- tacks being made to take pulic respon- sibility for their charges. ABOUT PRICE FIXING Navajo, Mont., Sept. 1917, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Why did the government not fix a price when we were getting 55 cents per bushel? If they had done so we would be in shape at present to help ourselves. But the way things stand at present some one had better propose to help the farmer (our threshing re- “turns are just above seed) or God help the wheat crop in this part another "year! Government price fixing is fine. Yes, we are just rejoicing (in our hope) to see before another spring rolls around - that grain drills are cut from $180 to $100, disc harrows from $75 to $45, drags from $60 to $32, wagons from $140 to $85, binders from $225 to $125. And harness—we pay more for a set of common harness than we can get for & hide with the cow in it. These are Just a few of the articles. As the sale " bill says, “Other articles too numerous too mention.” But the point we want the price fixers to know is that it takes more capital to start a farm than half the city people save in a lifetime. All we have to say, if you don't like it in town there are millions of acres of idle land in the Northwest and you are Invited to take a chance. L. R. LONGACRE, We point out -