The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 16

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Mention Leader when writing advertisers " PAGE SIXTEEN Thanks to Old Gang Press Unfair Tactics of Opposition Newspapers Make Leaguer This is a letter sent by a Minne- sota farmer to an which attacked the League after the monster Labor Day meeting held by the farmers. It shows clearly that the tactics of the old gang prcss are really making new friends for the League. Alexandria, . Minn. Editor Post News, 4 Alexandria, Minn. Kindly take my name off your list as a subscriber although it is paid up to some tlime in. December next, you | can add this to one’s subscription who has the same opinions as you have. Your editorial “Organizer Townley” is a very clumsy affair. You seem to worry about the disposition of the $16 membership fee of the League. -1 think any one at all interested can tell Alexandria paper of This Farmer you what it is used for. I am quite certain that you won’'t get any of it. I am not a member of the League but have studied their plans for the last two years and find practically all of them undisputable facts and if you little fellows would have done the same thinz and not try and sit down on an organization of that kind you would have saved yourselves a lot of em- barrassment. You have a right to run your paper and express your opinions as you please, but I can distinguish a political rally from a circus performance yot and have $16 in my jeans ready to hand to the first organizer of the Non- partisan league who comes along and if no one shows up I shall remit direct. H. ' PROEHL. ROBBING IN MONTANA Zurich, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: This part of the state has a total crop failure. The whole state is suffering from lack of rain. How about this government control of food? Is it a joke ot is it a chance for the food gamblers to get rich? It certainly doesn't look very good. We are paying $11.50 for 100 pounds of sugar today out here and at the rate of $16 a barrel for flour and nobody has a bushel of whedt to sell. The price for wheat here now is about.$1.90 for No. 1 but there’s no No. 1 out here hardly. But the quality of wheat is as good as the best for grinding flour. Here is some more graft: We are paying from 25 to 30 cents for a pound of beef steak today, but if we offer for sale a steer or a cow we are get- ting an offer of 3 to 4 or 4% cents for it and in most cases they appear not to want to buy it at ail. Don’'t you think that Uncle Sam or Herbert Hoover or any -others who claim authority under this new food control bill if they intend to give the farmer justice should step in and stop this robbery? The time can not come too soon for me for the Nonpartisans to step in and give us a square deal out here in this one-sided state. Yours for the Lezague, JOHN OLSON. AN ORGANIZER’S DREAM Irene, S. D. Editor-Nonpartisan Leader: Just outside the pearly gates were a group of small business men reading a sign, “BUSINESS MEN NOT AL- LOWED.” “I understand you fellows were coun- try merchants fighting the . Farmers’ Nonpartisan league, while on earth,” said St. Peter. “Well—er—yes, but—" “Walk right in” interrupted Peter as he opened the gates. “Small chance for a League organi- zer,” I was thinking, when up walked a number of “Big Biz” men. “No chance,” said St. Peter as he closed the gates with one hand and pointed to the sign with the other. “But you just admitted some business men” said one of them., “They were not business men” laugh-. ed St. Peter. “They only thought they were."” I awoke, went out that day and sign- ed up twelve new members. ‘W. R. DE ANNENT. END SECRET DIPLOMACY ® Thor, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: One thing we should demand in the war is an end to secret diplomacy. ‘While it is wise and necessary to guard naval and military secrets, it is neither wise nor necessary for the people of any country to permit their rulers to buy and sell them behind closed doors. And last but not least let the prof- it mongers pay. I do not agree with Senator McCumber that if this genera- tion must die that the next genera- tion should pay. If we must confis- cate the lives of our brave sons let us confiscate the fortunes that have been made out of the war. If the poor farmer must give up his last son, let the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Duponts and Carnegies and all the rest of the gang give up their last dollars. If our brave sons must be sacrificed and our venerable fathers and mothers must creep away into neglected graves, let the profit mongers pay and ‘con- SldEI' that they have got off dirt cheap.- C L. YOUNG. THEY ALL JOINED Newman Grove, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I was surely glad when the Nonparti- san league came into Nebraska, as we needed something that we had to have, Our system in Nebraska is rotten. I think the Nonpartisan league will clean those gamblers and put farmers and laborers on a clean foundation. By next election, Nebraska will be able to do like the farmers did in North Da-’ kota. One day last month your organizer came to my place. I was out in the field working. He told me that he was a League organizer. I paid him the $16; he got in the car and off he went. I did not ask any questions in regard to the League, as I attended the big meeting in Tilden where Mr. Cooper spoke the first day of June. We drove to a farm where they were threshing— fifteen farmers, and they all joined the League. So you can see that the farm- ers want it, F. A. FRONEK. SOME QUESTIONS Underwood, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I do not like to kick. I try to be satisfied, but when one sees plainly how wunfairly things are sometimes done, one can not help but say a word in protest. We farmers were told in the start a fair price would be put on our produce, but this we did not get, as the wheat was put down from $3.06 to $2.20. We would have been willing to bear this loss, but when one sees how no price is fixed on other industries, and they can take all the profits they can get it makes one feel very queer. Why must the farmer bear the burden? Are we farmers so rich? Some people seem to think so, because we get $2.00 for our wheat. But why is it that most farmers are heavily in debt and gnust go without many comforts and ma- chinery that they ought to have? I have been farming for 30 years my- self. I know that farming is not a get- rich-quick business; it means long days and hard work and small pay. Now that there is war and other busi- nesses are making money, why must farmers have their profits cut out? Is this justice? Is this fairness? If this is to be done to farmers, let's do it to all the rest too. R. E. BUSCH. MORE PRICES NEED FIXING Benedict, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Isn’t that a rotten price for No. 1— $2.20 at Chicago? The government doesn’t realize what that means to the farmer. It don’'t figure that the seed last spring cost the farmers $3.50 a bushel and that if the farmer gets a good man he has to pay him for wages and - board about $150 a month, and everything else the farmer buys -costs him almost twice as much as last year. It is foolish for the government to' set a price like this when the farmers got only seed or a little more back of their spring investment. It looks more like slavery, especially when the whole world needs the small amount of wheat that the United States has got. Why did they set a price only for wheat? Why didn’'t they set a price for corn? Corn is higher than wheat. Why don’t they take everything in ' hand, instead of the one thing that the farmers depend most on? It looks to me they are trying to push the farmers down so they can't get strong enough to protect them- selves. We can see through some of the purposes of the gang at Minnea- polis, : J. E. BAYER,