The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 16

TS et the Facts The “ad” in the recent issue of the “Nonpartisan Leader” paid so well in new subscriptions to La Follette’s Magazine that we are again taking this space, Already there is a hetter understanding of Senator La Itollette's position. More and more the people are getting the truth and understanding the rea- sons why the system press is lying about him. The war we have with us. The bovs in the field must be generously supported. That means money and more money. Already 21 billiecns of dollars have been voted-—a sum so large the human mind can not comprehend it—a sum equal to $210 for each person in the United States, $1.050 for each family of five. Next vear's cost must be much more. HOW AR WE TO AISE IT? WIHO SHALL PAY? SHALL THE BUR- DEN FALI, ON THIS POOR? Or shall those who profit by war and theose with swolien incomes stand their part? Much of it must be immediately raised by bonds. You should buy these bonds as a patriotic duty. Buy them if you can, as an investment. Buy them to hold for your- self or someone will buy them to hold against you. But a boud is a mortgage on vour home. It must be paid with interest. It is an expedient. It is a debt, not the payment of a debt. To pay our debts we imust have a finan- cial system of taxation. And it is that system—a system to make the rich pay in accordance with their hoarded wealth-—which La Ifollette proposed, that has brought about his attempted crucifixion. Professor King of the University of Wisconsin has shown that two million pecple in this country possess 65 per cent of all the wealth of the coun- try. These two million people—only one-fiftieth of the population—possess three times the wealth of all Russia with 178 millions of peoptes; and nearly as much as the total wealth of all the people of England and France combined. Since the war these two million money lords have added immensely to their wealth, War profits in staggering sums have been made by these oppressors of the poor. 3 In the minority report of the finance committee of the Senate, La Iollette made this situation plain and indisputable. He led the fight then to tax WEALTH fairly and he will continue to lead the fight. For this he has been punished by a systematic campaign of vilification. La Follette will not turn aside. He will fight on and on. But he needs your help. He needs your sympathetic understanding of his position and your influence. Then his fight will be vour fight. LA FOLLETTE'S MAGAZINE, Department L, Madison, Wis. Tnclosed please find § for one vear's sub- scription to La Follette’s Magazine. Street...... tessecevnsaeas State ADVERTISEMENT La Follette’ P T Let it be understood that this campaign for higher taxes on war profits and surplus incomes is going on; that 1 shall print and circulate the speeches of other senators as well as my own speeches. Let it be understood that the speeches are paid for as delivered and not ‘printed at public expense.” So long as the war shall last the policy that should prevail in levying the taxes necessary for the conduct of ¥ the war, is a living issue of great concern to the people of the country. Any effort to suppress free discussion of so momentous and practical question, bears on its f{lce the evidence of an attempt to protect wealth from paying its just share of the burdens of war. g Until the end of this war I shall support to the best of my ability the levying of taxes on a sound financial basis.—From statement of Senator La Follette, You must have the facts, the hard busi- ness facts to help pound home the issues. La Follette’s Magazine is devoted sole- 1y to telling the truth about the big issues before the peo- ple. It is not run for profit. Every dollar that comes to it will be spent in helping the common people to control their own government. If this ad secures sufficient new subscribers to pay for itself, others will follow. It will pay you to subsecribe for La Fol- lette’s. It will give you the ammunition you need to make the fight you must make if you would be free. This ‘“‘ad”” should give us 100 new sub- scribers in the next two weeks. Send in your subscrip- tion now and get the November issue with La Follette's speech of October 6th in full. $1.00 per year. Send in your subscrip- tion. s Are Making Big Moyey. WE'LL STICK That's the League slogan and a mighty good one " it is. It means you'll stand by the guns till the fight " is won. But believe me it means more than standing by—it means fighting—and fighting hard. Now how can you fight? Well let’s figure it out. What are~ you fighting for in the League? Political power—sure —we're not.going to stop here to tell why we want political power—you know and I know that it’s the way Big Biz has used the law to handcuff us while they went through our pockets. ' We know why we want political power and what we are going to do with it when we get it. The questions now are how are we going to get political power, We've got to have the votes. That's what counts. On election day we've got to have enough “We'll Stick” men march to the polls to give us the majority of the votes. Now how will we get them? Well how did you get into the League? Some- body came to_you and told you of the plan of the farmers to quit their foolishness of fighting Big Busi- ness 364 days in the year, then on the 365th day which happened to be election day fighting each other by dividing their vote and giving Big Business just what they needed to go on with the robbery the next 364 days. Somebody explained to you that the farmers were going to make the rules of the game themselves after this and ycu said “Good, I'll stick.” But your vote only counts one—you’ve got to have the vote of all the other farmers along with yours, Now how are we going to get him? Why just like we got you. We've got to see him and explain it to him, Now this is just what we want you to d6—help us ses the other fellow in time to make your vote and his count for victory, Mention Leader when writing advertisers We need organizers. You don’t need to give your time. It's worth money to the farmer to belong to the League and yow’ll be paid for the work you do. The League has an Educational Department to train you for this work—write us for particulars. You can do- this organization work and make a good living while you render real service in the fight, We Need Trained Men ‘We not only need organizers but there are oppor- tunities for lecturers, executive positions, newspaper work, and something else perhaps you haven't thought of. The League's main idea is to give government, local, state and national, into the hands of the people. This means-that the people will be seeking not only honest men to do the public work but trained men— efficient men. The day of the people is at hand— get ready for service. CLIP THIS COUPON NOW - The . : National Nonpartisan League Educational Department Gilfillan Block ST. PAUL, MINN. i f— e — — — — — — o— I would like to do organizing work for the l League and to have full particulars of the League Course for Training Organizers. “ressscccrsecnanas I Name o o0 el oo l AdAress: o, sunoh i et s Are you a League member? l Lot v e Doings of the P-A-'Y-tr.iots SUPPOSE FARMERS QUIT PRO- DUCING “With mines closing the net decreas- ed production of copper is the logical concomitant on price fixing."—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 1917. SOUNDS RATHER COLD BLOODED “Russian soldiers receive the equiva- lent of six cents a day, and why quarrel with the law of supply and demand? The rate sounds generous.” — Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, 1917, STOCKHOLDERS HAVE GOOD THING “Net earnings of the Carbon Steel company of Pittsburg in the year end- ed September 20 were equivalent to $70 per share on the $3,000,000 common stock.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 1917, FEAR CONSCRI!PTION OF WEALTH “By the by, those sinister hints from Washington, to the effect that in future wealth will be conscripted if bonds are not subscribed for, are not at all hope- ful.”-——Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 1917. “CAPITAL” WAGES OF LABOR. “The public consciente, from the be= ginning, has not been aroused either to the business or to the moral side of stealing the wages of labor set aside in investments for the protection of the family.”—Walil Street Journal, Oct. 30, 1917, CANNERS VERY WELL PLEASED “The year's profits of the Continental Can company are known to have sur- passed even the fondest hopes of the officials.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 1917. PRETTY GOOD PROFIT LEFT “In other words this year Republic Iron & Steel is in a fair way to earn an actual balance of over $95 per share, of which the government will take in taxes the sum of $40 per share.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 1917. OIL PRODUCERS FEEL CONFIDENT “Producers of oil daily are growing more confident that nothing will be done in the way of fixing crude prices as the question of determining costs in the various fields is an intricate one.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 20, 1917. Bunk Patriots BY BERTON BRALEY I prefer the slacker to the bunk pa- triot. ~ For at least the slacker is frankly dodging his duty, while the bunk pa- triot is trying to get by with loud promise and no performance. Who is the bunk patriot? He is the grocer who drapes the flag all over the front of his shop and puts up his prices 50. per cent “on account of the war,” the restaurant keeper who serves Hoover's war rations at enhanc- ed schedules; the business man who subscribes to two Liberty bonds and gets it back immediately with 200 per cent added from the public he is sup- posed to serve; the landlord who sends out notices of increased rents on paper with an embossed flag in the corner. He is the employer who talks about the ‘“disloyal and unpatriotic workman” that strikes for another dollar a day to meet increased cost of living due to the activities of other bunk patriots, and in the next breath denounces the confiscatory and socialistic policy of taking ten per cent of his extra war profits to carry on the war. He is the banker, the financier, the money lender who cheers for our boys in khaki and forecloses notes and mortgages on the families they have left behind. He is any and every member of the tribe of “I'll-get-mine”—and when the real patriots who are suffering and sacrificing and toiling and fighting to win this war for democracy and de- cency find time to attend to him he's going to “get his” with compound in- terest and a bonus. When that glad period arrives the rest of us will be present to look on approvingly and to yell— “Hit him again, he has no friends!” READS IT ALL Lake City, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Must say this about the Leader: It's the only paper that’s regd from cover to cover by me. HENRY C. BREMER, ¢