The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 4, 1917, Page 17

§ “Wuz you ever in San Francisco?” | sed, thotlessly suckin’ at my lemonade straw. frum his face, tuck a suck at the straw an’ proseeded. “Well, not only did 1 save Alaska fur the decent peeple but I saved North Dakota frum the wild-eyed re- formers, the suffragettin’ wimmen an’ the ignorunt farmers, all uv whom, time an ’agin, has tried to git controll uv the politickle situashun uv the stait. In uther words I saved the fool peeple from themselves an’ I dun it, not az a publick official, but az a private citi- zen an’ dun it without munny an’ without price, free gratis an’ fur nuth- in’, as it wur.” . He lifted the glass an’ drained the lemonade to the dregs. “But the fool peeple never know when they're well off an’ air mnever satisfied with what you do fur ’em. They're allus kickin’ an’ complainin’. They're allus .immaginin® they're not gittin’ justice. You know how they air, Mr. Head.” \ “Shore, I do; shore I do,” sed 1. “Well,”” he went on meditatively, “nearly three years ago a bunch uv carpetbaggers, freelovers, socialists, agitators, windjammers, I. W. W.s an’ anarchists, swooped down upon North Dakota an’ started a organization they called the Nonpartishun Leeg. They peddled lize from one end uv the stait to the uther; they stirred up the ig- norunt farmers; they bulldozed sum uv the bizness men an’ frightened the gizzard outen sum of the would-be politishuns. They ignored all the laws of politickle decency an' fair play. They got forty or fifty thousand fool farmers to jine this organizashun; they pledged them to. stick together an’ vote fur one set uv candydates; they maid them pay eight dollars a year dews into the organizashun; they started a weekly paper an’ bought out a daily or two, they carryed on a cam- paign of abuse an’ denounciashum, mudslingin’ an’ slander, lies an’ vilifi- cashun, an'—an'—what do you think bappened?” A “CLEAN SWEEP” DESCRIBED BY CRAFTY He pawzed in his oratorical flight, pulled out a seegar case, tuck out a seegar, pushed the case over towards me an’ waited fur my reply. I started %o fill my corn-cob pipe but the runted decendent uv Apollo informed me that we couldn’'t smoke nuthin’ but seegars or cigaretts in that place. 8¢ I tuck one uv Crafty’'s seegars. “I haven't the slightest idee uv what happened,” 1 sed, inocently. “What did bappen?” He biew a cloud uv smoke that look- ed like a London fog. “Swept the staw,” he sed. “Swept it clean—clean az that table—CLEAN- ER!' ’ “Well, why didn’t you”— “LECTED ever-thing frum guvernor down—down to township tumbleweed chaser an’ official gopher killer. Why they even ’lected three members uv the supreme court. Think uv it! Who ever heard uv the people persumin’ to control the highest court uv the lan’! My idee iz an’ allus has bin that that august an’ sacred body shud be free from the influances of the common herd. Its dooty iz to dispense justice acordin’—accordin’ to the rules laid down an’ not be swayed by the fickle whims uv a lot of uneducated an’ en- flamed peeple.” “But why didn’t you have the leeders uv this organizashun arrested fur slander, an' libel an’ ever’thing, an’ put ’em in jail whur they belonged?” I ast. “You say they told lize on you an’ all the decent people uv the stait. I'd think you could sune stop that.” Thar wuz a deafen’in’ down pour uv silence: which lasted two minnits. “Well” he sed, meditatinly, “we tried to git a holt on ’em but couldn’t. They wuz too clever. They node the game. They allus covered their tracks so well we couldn’t track ’em.” Crafty nibbled nervously at his see- gar. ‘Dispair wuz ritten all over his rugged' face an’ tears dimmed his troubled . ize. { “My friend,” he finally sed, “I'm too full for utterance. I'm a broken man. I fear my life purpose iz blasted. I must rest awhile before I can go on with this story. But I want to see you agin. I want to tell you all. I think you air an honest man an’ a sensible man an’ a man I can trust.” ‘We left the Greek ice cream parlor in silence. Yours truly, . RIPP. (To be continued in a subsequent issue) Patriotism Versus War Profits (Continued from page 9) these billions and billions that must be raised to finance this war for liberty and democracy—billions, I repeat, that will be wrung out of the sweat and toil of the mothers and fathers of the soldier boys, billions that must be paid back when the war is over, it is abso- Jutely YOUR duty, to do all you can to see that NOT TOO MANY of those billions stick to the fing- ers of the gentlemen of coal, and iron and steel and bacon. FARMER WILL ALWAYS HELP THE GOVERNMENT If you can do that—if you can see that these billions, instead of falling into the pockets of the profiteers, shall go to pay the worker in the mine, the worker in the factory, the ship builder, the leather worker, the farmer, all those who produce the things that are needed—if you will see that these mil- Hons go to the worker in mine, and mill and factory, THEY WILL HAVE ENOUGH SO THAT THEY CAN PAY ENQUGH FOR BREAD, 80 THAT THE FARMERS' WHEAT WONT HAVE TO BE SOLD FOR THAN IT COSTS TO PROD ™. If you can do that—support the gov- ernment in its purpose to fix prices so that all those gentlemen will have to sell their products on the same basis as the farmer now sells his wheat—it will only be a short time before they will come with the mines and the mills and the railroads and the rest, and say here, take these things over—I don't’ want them any more, for these gen- tlemen of coal and iron and steel and leather won’t produce what their coun- try needs In time of war for ANY war for liberty and democracy. They won't do it. Their patriotism doesn’t GO that far., Their patriotism won’t enable them to produce or make anything at & normal profit. THEIR PATRIOT- ISM IS THE KIND THAT REQUIRES WAR PROFITS TO MAKE IT WORK. But the farmer will produce wheat at less than cost to feed the armies of liberty. He is used to that. He has been at it all his [ife. That is why his farm is mort- gaged. Why he keeps his children out of school to keep the mortgage from growing too fast. 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