The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 10, 1917, Page 15

i TOWNLEY SEES THE PRESIDENT The need of thousands of farmers in the West for financial help from the government was put before President Wilson per- sonally last week by A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league. In spite of the many war time demands upon his time, which have resulted in ordinary visits to the White House being pro- hibited, President Wilson received Mr. Townley and listened closely to the statement by the League president of the needs of tke farmers. . Mr..Townley asked that President Wilson recommend /an appropriation of $50,000,000 by congress to aid farmers in drought-stricken states to put in new crops. President Wilson was told of the sacrifices made by the farmers, of their loyal sup- port of the Liberty Loan and of their desire to be of further help to the government. Mr. Townley also called upon Herbert Hoover, national food administrator, and urged support of relief measures for the farmers. Public Ownership Meeting Held Big Convention at Chicago Gets Little Attention in Newspapers of the Country DVOCATES of public owner- issues—the fight that private enterprise ship from all parts of the (the Electric trust) is making to gob- United States mewat Chicago ble up the remaining water power of the last week at a conference held country. The conference went on rec- under' the auspices of the ord for development of this water Public Ownership League of America. power by the government, for the As one of the greatest working forces for public ownership in the United States today, the National Nonpartisan league was invited to send represent- - atives to the conference and did so. Besides the League speakers men nota- ble in the public ownership movement in this country and abroad were pres- ent to present their views. Louis F, benefit of all people. LEADER HAS MAN TO COVER MEETING Although the convention was one of the most important happenings of the week and some of-the biggest men of the country were in attendance the Big Biz newspapers seemed determined THAT STUFF DOESNT G0 wiTy Tlll! BiRD ANY MORE va\ : —Drawn expressly for the Leader by Frank Chaney, Jr, This is how the efforts of hired editors of Big Business and the two old parties to deceive city voters about the farmers’ organization appeals to Chaney. It isn't going to work much longer, Chaney thinks. to pay no attention to it. None of the Chicago papers gave more than a few paragraphs to tell what happened and ths big press services did not supply news from the convention to any of their papers. The Leader had a representative present, however. ‘While there is not sufficient space this week to give a full account of proceedings attempts will be made in future issues to tell something of ‘'what was said and done at this great gathering: It was Horace Greeley . who said: “lf some men are really self-made they have relieved the Lord of a ot of responsibility.” Aty v e B e S —— Post, assistant secretary of labor, of Washington, D. C. presented a paper on “Public Ownership of Land,” Ex-Senator W. J. Hannah of Montana, who is a member of the Nonpartisan - league, talked upon “Farm Credits for the Common Good.” Delos F. Wilcox, Ph, D., deputy com- missioner of water supply, gas and electricity of New York City, told the conference what was necessary to se- cure public ownership in these utilities for cities. Mayor James B. Balch of Kalamazoo, Mich,, told the experiences of that city in conducting muncipal coal yards for the benefit of the citi- zens, and incidentally laid bare the enormous profits made out of fuel un- der present conditions by Eastern coal barons, Ex-Congressman Albert M. Todd of Michigan told the experience of European governments with public ownership of railroads, telephones and telegraphs and Harry W. Laidler, Ph. D., of New York, reviewed the progress of public ownership from its earliest days td the present. MISTAKEN IF THINK MOVE CAN’T SUCCEED Mr. Laidler reminded the conference® that in 1776 Adam Smith, the greatest economist of his time, solemnly assur- ed the public that there were only three lines of industry in which corporations 3 ecould succeed in business. Now we see the steel trust, the railroad combina- tions, the sugar trust, the beef trust, and thousands of different kinds of in- dustrial corporations, all having an ad- vantage over the individual, because of the accumulation of capital. The men who are saying today that public. ownership will succeed only in certain lines, like the control of city water systems or government opera- tlon of postoffices, are making the same mistake that Smith did, Mr. Laidler pointed out. Just as the com- bination of private capital gives the corporation an advantage over the in- dividual in every line today, so will public ownership—ownership by all the people—give public owned enterprises an advantage both over private owner- ship and corporation ownership. 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