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S A R e e e e e T SRS, L e - of o sqyuare deal for the farmers VOL. 5, NO. 16 . o . : THIS DON'T SOUND LIKE. TREASON' TO 4 , . AP PR ey RPN R S g & - ~ S s S OU know how the Big Business press has pursued with devilish malice the speakers and the delegates who met at the St. Paul 7| conference of producers and consumers and who dared to urge | 5 = the taking of excess war profits and the conscription of wealth, 1 (I as well as the fixing of ALL PRICES on the same basis as the price of o | wheat has been fixed. You know about the patriotic resolutions passed ) ffi. 1§ at this conference, placing.the conference and its delegates squarely & - . back of the government in the prosecution of the war, and you know - how the League, its officers and its members have been hounded, vili- fied and misrepresented because of that conference. 'Think of charging 5000 delegates of the farmers and working men of the United States— « the producers—with treason to their country because they raised their voices against the industrial autocracy and the war profiteers who are The Tlonpartign Teader [=- Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917 THE BIG BUSINESS PRESS CAN'T KEE - WHOLE NUMBER 109 P THE TRUTH FROM THE COUNTRY —Drawn expressly for the Leader by Congressman Baer. seeking to use the war to fix themselves more firmly in the saddle in the United States! Think of charging men and women, the fathers and mothers and toilers of this' county—THE REAL PATRIOTS—with being disloyal, when they ‘‘pledge our lives ang ~ur fortunes and our sacred honor to our country and our flag,’’ as thé. . men and women and toilers did at St. Paul! And simply because these citizens—oh ! yes, they are just the common people, just the calloused-handed work- ers who are feeding the world—simply because they met. to exzess their patriotism and-get back of the government in this war, they are traitors! Traitors because they dared petition for fair prices during the war, because they asked that soft-handed wealth pay its sharel But the Big Business press will not succeed in misrepresenting this patriotic conference. The truth will prevaill PAGE THREH e A RS T v