The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 17, 1917, Page 20

o o ADVERTISEMENTS Do You Want to Work for the League? Here’s the situation: We are organizing in 13 states now-—other states want to swing into line. New opportunities come up every day. The issue grows bigger—the demands greater. But it takes MEN to do .this work—men as organizers, managers, lecturers, writers— men in every capacity to put “the big drive” across. Now what can you do? Take an inventory of yourself. Can't you make a successful organizer? .Y.’Ve need hundreds of them. Can you fill any cof these other positions? How much time ecan you give? Can you give all your time to the work? If you can, there's a good job waiting for you with good pay and the satisfaction too of knowing that you are playing a big part in a big movement—that you are help- ing to free the people from the clutches of Big Business. But if you can’t give all your time, can you give part of your time? How about working several months this winter and then in the campaign next year after the spring work is done? And we don't mean, GIVIE your time either—we mean work with good pay for the time you spend. We'll give you the facts and figures and training you need to do successful work. We have a training course for organizers which gives you a full grasp of the farmers’ problems—no matter what state you may work in. This course will give you all the details of organization work—all the infor- mation about the League so you can answer any question or meet any objection. It will give you the methods of work our ex- perienced organizers have found worked best. You can start right in with the benefit of all they've learned in these two years of the fisht with Big Business, If you can’t do organization work this winter, why not take the course and be ready to have a part in the cam- paign next year? There will be need of trained men for speakers and campaigners as well as for candidates. The farmers will be looking ‘around for the best men in the community for this work. Why not study this winter and be ready for the campaign? To win this fight we need the help of every available man, If you can do this work WE WANT YOU. Get busy with this training course and get on the firing line. You can work in any of these states: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota; South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ne- barska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas. It's a chance to do a big work for a big cause and make a good living while you're doing it. The National Nonpartisan League EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT Gilfillan Block ST. PAUL, MINN. Send in this coupon today By R Have An Edison PHONOGRAPH ent for the family for Christmas, Send l_\_/[g $36.90 DISON for Christmas We know that you want a good pres- KEEP UP THE FIGHT P Mitchell, S. D. Tditor Nonpartisan Leader: 1 was much interested in reading “Grabbing Seven Billion Dollars” writ- ten by your Washington Bureau for your issue of November 8. I am glad to know that there is at least one journal of intelligence and power in the country that is on the right side of this question, and that has an influ- ence to make itself felt. We are rapid- Iy nearing a point in this country where every ounce of energy should be conserved for the people. Not orly the water power, but the oil and coal and timber and iron ore originally belong- ed to the people and should have been held by the government for their bene- fit. But instead of conservation, indi- viduals have been allowed through hook and crook and fraud to exploit these natural resources to their own enrichment and to the impoverishment of the people. Private enterprise and energy should be encouraged but there should be a limit even here. When the individual has been “en- couraged” to a point where he is able to stand up and defy the government, the people, who do the driving in the country, should give a sudden and vigorous pull up on the reins: It is a matter of common knowledge' that the men in this country who in their indi- vidual or corporate capacity have laughed at the power of the govern- ment are, as a rule, those who have grown opulent through the exploitation of the natural resources of the country. No man created the wealth of coal and oil and /gas and iron that lie buried in the earth or the timber that grows thereon. The Almighty placed them there for the benefit of all the people and we ought to be wise enough to use them for such purpose. I sincerely hope that the Leader will keep up this fight until every member of congress who favors private exploitation of the fundamental natural resources of the country, including water power, shall be driven into private life, W. E. TIPTON. ROOSEVELT DIDN'T ENLIST Thor, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending you a copy of an arti- cle which [ submitted for publication to the St. Paul Farmers’ Dispatch, as it was in reply to an editorial in that paper. Am also sending copy of the letter to the editor of the Dispatch re- questing publication. Publication was refused. : “I read an article in the Farmers' Dispach of St. Paul credited to you, in which you seemed to be dissatisfied with the achievements of the admin- istration in the present war. While the public acts of officials should be open to public criticism it should be obvious to you, that any adverse criticism is ‘out of order just now. There may be some who doubt the wisdom of the war, but mo sane man can doubt the wisdom of not proceeding with injudi- cious haste. “Everything should be done to make the undertaking a success. In your recent St. Paul speech you took occa- sion to ‘beef’ because you were not permitted to volunteer in your coun- try’s service. 5, “Are you forgetting that a certified check for $10,000 lay on deposit in a New York bank.for months, which, to- gether with free transportaticn, was conclusion let me suggest as one private citizen to another that you sit down. You're rocking the boat. Re- spectfully, C. S. YOUNG.” In declining to publish this reply to the Colonel's complaint that he had been prevented from serving his coun= try, the Farmers’ Dispatch said it could not permit a discussion in its columns of “personal affairs.”—THE EDITOR. - CROOKS AND THE FARMERS Hazen, N. Dy Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am a subscriber to the good old Nonpartisan Leader. and also of some other farm papers. I have been swindled by the Helena (Mont.) crop insurance company. wrote my policy was here some time ago and said that I would get my premium back if I would sign a slip he had saying that the company had settled with me in full and I asked him why it was that the slip called for a full settlement and he said, “Oh, we haven’t any proper blanks so I just use these old ones.” "I told him I wouldn’t sign that kind of an agreement when they were to give me $94 and a few cents and he said, “They are all doing it and if you do you will get your premium back and if you don't you can't bring suit before November 1 and they have al- ready gone into bankruptcy and you won't get a cent.” I signed it. That was a month ago and I haven’'t got my money yet or even heard from them. My crop losses amounted to a little better than $400, I asked ‘the agent how his company happened to get into North Dakota and he said, “Oh, that's your Nonpartisan league’s doings. Look at the governor - you've got. ' If you would vote for re- liable men things like this might not happen.” . It riled- me some but I let him off without a word. PAUL MITCHELL. The farmers’ administration is ale ready after the Helena company men- tioned .and is using every effort possi- ble, under the poor insurance laws now prevailing, to make them disgorge. This is why the company is ‘'sore” and is knocking the farmers’ governor. Full restitution can not be forced be- cause of faulty laws, a condition that the North Dakota farmers will remedy at the next session of the legislature, when the farmers will be in control of both houses of the legislature. The farmers’ plans for better insurance ] ; ~ l C. S. YOUNG. laws failed in the last session because of a hostile hold over senate majority. THEES"ATJPN'?leOwPARtHSAN LEAGUE, NOTE: The article sent the Dis- _pyp EDITOR. 4 I ”‘(’;,I;?""a B‘:‘“‘; "'éet" A | patch was an open letter by Mr. Young AN St ' tian, siock ot Faul,iMinn. I to Roosevelt, in reply to an editorial of A MONTANA FRIEND I want to work for the League. Send me particulars of Roosevelt’s published in the Dispatch, T sty e A in which the Colonel criticized Presi- : : Qutlool Mont. | the c e for organizers., ] Editor Nonpartisan Leader dent Wilson. The article the Dispatch Fhes ; G ) 2, SRR s This is to-advise you that the Star | Are you a League Name ....... AP i R T I ;—‘eef:sa?t'to e e e theater at .Outlook, Mont, exhibited l I “:\{r Retsaalts “The Public Be Damned,” an expose of the food trusts which control the farm- ers and cause the living expenses of the householder to soar, November 10, and November 11. The theater was packed at each performance, Hon. J. Arthur Williams, now making a series of Nonpartisan league patriotic ad- dresses in Sheridan county, spoke bee fore each performance. Every audie ence pronounced Mr. Williams a talent- ed speaker, and praised the production shown in moving pictures. On Sunday afterndon at the perform= ance and the address by Mr. Williams, the Outlook Military band, in dress parade, played several selections in front of the theater. And on Saturday night the theater orchestra gave a dance in honor of the Farmers None- partisan league members. STAR THEATER, By John L. Burns, Mgr. The agent that ‘for one of these beautiful Edison machines, Everything is guaranteed. You are not taking any chances. Pay for it at once so you don't have to be bothered sending money for a year or two just for a phonograph, TOWNLEY LIKE LINCOLN ) Ollie, Mont, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The founder of the Nonpartisan tendered you if you would enter the trenches in France as a private soldier? And are you doubting that if you can pass muster your chances are still good o Outfit No. 36A. Latest Edison Diamond Fhonograph—12 Beaduti- ful 4-Minute Records, oil, oil can and Diamond Grease. —_———————— WITt! 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Common Sanss Tracter & Auto School, 608-623 9th §1,3.E. Minssapells, Mina, at any recruiting station any working day? Or are you thinking that your military record precludes your serving as a private? And are you forgetting that about six years ago a statement was published by a man who claimed to have been present at the battle of San Juan hill, and to have taken part in that action, in which he declared that he would bring 100 men who would swear that you were not present on that occasion, and did not take part in that action? “He further declared that he was prepared to prove the truth of said statement, and challenged you to prove that it was not true. Are you forget- ting that the American people, had they seen fit to choose you as their leader, had ample opportunity to do se? In % PAGE TWENTY league should rightfully be ‘classed with our great Lincoln, for while the latter emancipated the slaves, the founder of the League is devoting all his energies toward liberating the average American farmers and their families from the yoke of their oppres- sors. No wonder the Kept Iress and Big Biz are everlastingly trying to chastize that terrible infant, the N. P. League. - Though attacked on all sides by the hired press, the 150,000 League farm- ers keep up their relentless broadsides, and are exposing the uncouth methods of Big Biz. Since reading the Nonpartisan Leader, I have seen a good many “nig- gers in the woodpile.” - MRS. C. A. BONDELL, -