The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 5

" Inthe interest of asquare deal for the farmers Tlonparii§éin Teader A magazine that dares to . print the truth Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League VOL. 5, NO. 17 F. ARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, T HURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 WHOLE NUMBER 110 TRYING TO POISON THE COUNTRY I K MANARL it [ LR oI \ / (X A W Paul conference of farmers and working men. Unecle Sam has before him the resolutions of the 5000 delegates who attended that conference. ‘These resolutions pledge the farmers and the work- ing men of the country to their government in this war. They also de- clare for conscription of wealth and offer the president and the food admiuistrator the solid support of the people in ‘‘going down the line”’ in price-fixing so that all prices shall be fixed ON. THE SAME BASIS AS THE PRICE OF WHEAT, which has taken away the farmers’ " profit on that crop. : Uncle Sam, typifying the people of the country, is learning the truth about this conference, despite the suppression of the facts by the Big Business press. Knowing the facts, he is listening to the noise of the controlled press, which is trying to brand the conference delegates _ and the farmers as traitors, and he is looking at this nasty enemy of. the people with anything but a pleasant expression on his face. Do you blame him? e : ' ‘There are a few things to keep in mind about this eonferene:, be- MORRIS has here drawn another telling cartoon about the St.. ‘wause it is the most imp PAGE FIVE I N 71\ ' =—Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. G. Morris ortant'domestic event that has taken place :sinee the United States entered the war: : This conference was attended by 5000 delegates from ‘about 16 states. If this conference was disloyal, then the people of these states, who sent them there, represented by those delegates, are disloyal. The people are not disloyal, and neither were the, delegates. Big Busi- ness will not succeed in getting away with that charge. There were 37 speakers at this conference, numbering some of the most distingnished statesmen and economists of the nation. Only one of them has been charged with uttering anything disloyal, and his ut- terances were repudiated by the delegates and those who called the _conference. If the other 36 speakers were disloyal, then the most prominent men of the country, the best minds of the nation on economie subjects and the leaders of progressive thought in politics in the United States are disloyal. But you know that is not true and the Big Busi- ness press can not succeed in convincing the country that it is true. ‘Why -does not the Big Business press publish the resolutions adopted by the delegates? There’s a reason!