The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 15

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ALL LEAGUE MEMBERS The appeal of the Nonpartisan league to farmers who are already working in co-operative enterprises, is shown by the fact that every stock- holder and director in’ the -Calahan Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator com- pany, of Calahan, Colo., is a member of the League, They have been success- fully conducting their grain and co- operative work, but found that this reached only half way, and that they needed political co-operation as well in order to get justice and economic welfare. The board of directors comprises the following farmers: R. B. Harrison, president; H. B. Rice, secretary-treas- urer; H. D. Hall, J. E. James, Matt Kucerik, The stockholders, as well, are all League members. y NO COMMENT NEEDED Balaton, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I send you a clipping from the Mur- ray County Herald. I stopped this paper when we had our meeting at Slayton, but he evidently wished I should read this editorial so sent me this copy. The editor is doing every- thing to get subscribers for his dirty sheet, and he needs to. Thinking you might want to make some comment, I send it. : E. E. JOHNSON. The Herald contained two articles denouncing President Townley and the Nonpartisan league, . and quoted one from another paper casting slurs upon the farmers for attending the Slayton League meeting. The Leader thinks no further comment necessary.—THE EDITOR. : 3 HE WANTS HONEST NEWS ; Comfrey, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Undoubtedly the Pioneer Press didn’t see the article by Hurlbut (scolding the farmers) or it would have featured it. I think of all the dirty, lowdown dailies in the . Union; the Twin Cities have them in the Minneapolis Journal and the Pioneer Press, and if you can tell us of a good daily that will give us the war news and the stock markets, why in the name of the Old Scratch don’t you urge the members to cut out their subscriptions to those two papers and take it? I expect to stop my Press as soon as I can find out the name of Our Amateur Department a paper that has Associated Press news and is friendly to the League. .C. H. A. We have written the writer that the Fargo Courier-News and St. Paul News are two independent papers carrying all the world’s news which at the same time are friendly to the farm- ers’ cause—THE EDITOR. WHERE TO FIX PRICES Mitchell, S. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Co-operation in production and sale of manufactured articles is an ‘easy matter, as . manufacturers are compara- tively few and production can be limited to the demand. However, co- operation in the production and sale of farm commodities is not so simple a matter as producers are numerous and there is but one crop, per season. Government can and should restrict the price or profits on manufactured articles, Production and sale of farm. products calls for a system of govern- ment clearing houses and price fixing yearly in advance (more than a year in livestock). Government should afford a stable market for all farm commodities, having in mind the matter of encour- aging and increasing the production of such commodities as a shortage exists in and curtailing production of commo- dities where a surplus exists. Compe- tition should be headed off on all sides. These are great problems, and time, energy and money must be expended to correctly solve them. S F. WELLER. RESENTS BANKER’'S ATTACK SRR ) Black Earth, Wis. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I enclose clipping from the Milwau- kee Journal of Oct. 18. It may be very common to you, but I am very sure if every Nonpartisan member should see it he would realize more clearly the need of the League. MELVIN HURST. The clipping inclosed by Mr. Hurst quoted the = self-righteous Chicago banker, who recently invested a for- tune in Liberty bonds, and then gave out a press interview berating the farm- ers, declaring them unpatriotic. Farm- ers will undoubtedly agree with Mr. Hurst that such vicious attacks as this from Big Business champions illustrate the need of the League—THE EDI- TOR. > The Fate The army has been victimized by intrigue and treachery. Guns were sent to the front without am- munition and ammunition without guns. Supplies were provided that when unpacked proved to be rub- bish. Left stranded by communi- cationsthat brcke down underslight ressure the brave Russian troops Eurled themselves again and again against foes perfectly prepared. From the very verge of victory they doggedly fell back fighting with stones and clubs and iron bars, resisting heroically but in- effectively. No thought can be more abhor- rent o Americans than that of our One Policy ADVERTISEMENTS of the Among the remarkable events of this war no fact stands out more startlingly than the tragic sacrifice of Russia’s unequipped soldiers. boys ruthlessly slaughtered because of Tack of equipment or support which it is the first business of us at home to supply. Our Government, never before so powerful, is working prodi- giously in the preparation of armies and means of warfare. Throughout the nation there is a unity of pur- pose that is piling on the altar of liberty every personal ambition and corporate gain. Mines, factones, farms, ship- yards, the counting houses and shops of every industry are laboring day and night to supply the sinews of war. The Bell System s co-operating to mobilize production, transporta- tion and communication, and is using its every energy to speed up American defense. /J%“ AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ;‘ 'AND. ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One System Universal Service AMERICAN ROCHDALE UNION Educational Organization ‘Developing Business Co-operative and Following Up With Education Teaching - "~ Co-operation HOLO ON THERE ! INEED SoMEo~ rHaT TOoPAYEXPENSES WITH ) To those who are or may be interested in co-operation and have given it any study we want you to realize the importance of a Centralized plan of Co- operation that is National in character and eventually International. If you will compare the plans of the American Rochdale Union with those of other “Would-be Co-operative plans,” especially some of those that have been working in the last ten years in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas, which it appears to us and we have good reason to believe were more interested in the promotion fee than they were in the success of the institution, (vet there was some excuse to be made for that kind of work in the past, but with the opportunity for knowledge on the successful Rochdale System of Europe there can not be any excuse made for a continuation of that kind of work). Our conclusion has been arrived at from the fact that we find wreck after wreck scattered all over these states that were promoted by these same institutions. And we could be of great assistance to such stores and in a good many cases save them from destruction if they will give us the opportunity. We believe that you will comprehend after carefully comparing the plans of [&8 the American Rochdale Union with those of the English and Scottish Wholesale Societies and local institutions as developed under the plans of those Rochdale Pioneers of 1844, (and those of the past would be co-operative plans) that you will be readily convinced of how near we have consumated the plans of the European Rochdale System, and you will discover a very small semblence of the Rochdale System as carried out in a practical way and applied in the plans of the Co-operative Stores that have gone to the wall, and those that are strug- gling to maintain themselves. We have heard some say that plans can be changed by a co-operative store if the one they start out with don’t_prove satisfactory. Brother Co-operators don't try this—it is too dangerous. We have found it so from our experience in Montana, from the fact that the stock-holders are not familiar with Co- i operation in the first place and they figure that a change would be a guess, and what will follow that condition doesn’t speak well for co-operation. For information and literature, write or call at National Headquarters— AMERICAN ROCHDALE UNION The Co-operative Wholesale Society of America Woalter Fredrickson of Berthold, N. D., drew the cartoon for_thxs week's amateur department. Walter says in his letter: “Keep up your flgl:t for the farmers.” We will, Walter! And don’t YOU let up, e:ther!'The Leader’s strength is only the strength of ‘the united farmers. We fight while Y.OU_ back us up. = Why do they fear the Leader, Walter? Why is it a power f9r _;_ustlce, den:nocracy ' and good government? Just this: YOU are with us, our voice is you:‘ voice, ang back of the League and the Leader stand the united farmers, t!\e “We'll Stickers' —that's why they fear the Leader; that'’s why the Leager is a power! The Leader is paying $1 each for amateur cartoons used in this department, We can not undertake to return unused cartoons or to correspond about them. © PAGE FIFTEEN ccupying more than one-fourth of the floor space on the Ninth floor, Weare 2 Bl Pioneer Building, St. Paul, Minnesota. WE A e BUY (1. . < for spot cash, 10 to 50% more money to ship l‘nrlandmdestonsth&n;o &:lildz' Enter blg contest free to all fur shippers, especially to boys er draft age, o s 4-10 Acre FUR FARMS and 200 Valuable Prizes FREE. 'No commission. Est. over 26 years. Furs ar” Hides tanned, Robes made. Wt odns CCANDERSCH BROS., Dept. 13 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. WATCH US GROW home. Write for Price dtfmuket report and about our 460-p. H. B Win prize. Make big money trapping. 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