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ADVERTISEMENTS Ny REQUEST Increased Production of Food- ’I:uill is the watchword of America The Mghut prices éver known | will be paid to farmers for good quality crops. Government grades of grain have taught !amon the impor- tance of purity and quality. ror our own good and the wel- the nation you should have onr “Planters Encyclopedia” That's what our 1918 catalogue really amounts to, for it represents very much more than the usual list of seeds, offered by a seed house. It deals with actual experiences— | tells our way of improving old }§ varieties and what the results have been. It illustrates the newest strains of Seed Grains, Seed Corn, Garden and Flower Seed, tells how to grow and ‘cultivate them, and how others regard them. Many lessons from the school of * experience” are given. It explains wh northem grownseeds. such Alln.lfa S ooality And glve ve youa.clea.ner an{lvll;%tg ARG T t, rus ght an an Pl fieavy Eral e hore othars fall Our main object, however, Ia to have splsnling S Sropd ron bor it er. unuw obmnnble. Itis y rotection from ul Wi our of a reasonable »‘fi?i o% our ‘Growar to Planter’ selllng t.alogne mpmsenu the rming, OVEP. expense—entirely our ben hout obi! uo h it may ald ltwyouwlt oumdlga n, 0}1005 mma t;oyr ourown good for it today. Farmer Seed & Nursery Co. 130 First Ave. Faribault, Minn. or tnrs. and Jined Robe or 8 ty of nnlng Kinq hidesand mrs into Coats vufis.“ VItho;or our large Fur, Hide ‘Tan- Asou.cn'v m’lf'"‘a"'flm GOM&AHY, .. - OUR TANNERY AT CROOKSTON Send your Horse and Cattle Hides to us, and-we will make nice, soft, warm robes and coats out of them for you. We also tan hides into leather. Our price 8 sent free upon request. "MILLER TANNING COMPANY Successors to Py Crookston Tanning Company Established 1894 croohton, Minn, and ship- This week the dollar for the best amateur cartoon goes to Ed Dolan, Crosby, North Dakota. Mr. Dolan is a farmer and member of the League and says he thinks the League well executed. is “a great thing.” Leader .as a billy goat butting the grain profiteer off the farm. His drawing pictures the Nonpartisan It is a good idea, The Leader pays one dollar for the best amateur cartoon each week. If more than one good one comes a week we sometimes print two. one of them for future publication. Otherwise we hold Leader. The boys and girls especially are-having lots of fun drawing cartoons as candidates for the dollar. about the contest. We do not return unused cartoons or correspond Drawings must be_in black ink, on white, unlined paper. Foe’s Tactics Convert Neutral S. Ray Logan Replies to Attack of Copper Trust on the Organized Farmers’ Movement. ERE is a neutral’'s view of the attacks the corporation newspapers are making on the Nonpartisan league. It is a letter written by S. Ray Logan of 'St. Ignatius, Mont., to the Daily Missoulian, an organ of the copper trust, published at Missoula, Mont. It replies to. a former attack of the Mjssoulian upon the League. While publishing Mr. Logan’s letter, the Missoulian printed nearly two columns of renewed attack upon the League, and tried to set the Equity against it. “We have none (no respect) for these whining hypocrites of the Non- partisan league, who think they can fool the people, when they, them- selves, are fooled,” says the Missou- lian;- and again: “They include rant- | ing and criminal demagogues who are hoping and praying for the failure of our cause in this war, and are secretly working against our government as it is now constituted.” Here is another quotation from the same article: “Our objection is not to the fundamental” plan of the Montana Equity, but to the program of these scoundrels who make | Montana -a slacker state if they had their way.” ! Mr. Logan’s letter is as follows: | Editor Missoulian: _Apropos ‘of your recent editorials denouncing the men of the Nonparti- . san league movement and inviting the suppression of both themselves and their cause through making the men- appear to be treacherously opposed to the war, permit me to suggest that such attacks provide them with a good deal of their ammunition, If through your editorials and their speakers, the farmers become convinced that you . are unfairly prejudiced against any change in' methods of marketing and distribution, are ' your : remarks -not " likely to.be sccepted only by that sec- _tion of the mlddlemen who are already PAGE FIFTEEN i very severe in their strictures upon - the farmer? I am in no sense a part of this movement, but I clearly perceive it as symptomatic of general conditions which should and must challenge the democratic genius of our country to correct. This movement must ulti- mately serve a good purpose by fixing attention upon evils of exploitation and waste which should be eliminated. Why not meet these men fairly on their program, and show where their program is wrong? As I understand it, this program is no more directly ‘con- cerned with the war than is equal suffrage. The people are entitled to pass on a domestic program without war prejudice. As a matter of fact, by your admission, these organizers are talking 4n favor of the war and are putting up money for it, which would be a curious procedure for traitors. I believe practically all farmers, whether inside or outside of this or- ganization, are thoroughly patriotic and devoted to the attainment of our aims, as announced by President Wil- son, now that they are awakened to the real facts, and have had time to The contest is open to any reader of the. recover from the “He kept us out of . the war” fallacy. I think it will be conceded that farmers in general over the country were not reached by the first liberty - loan, owing to their relative remote- ness from the main current of events. But look what happened in the second, . and. watch out for the third. The farmer, like -Paul Jones of old, has just begun to fight, and he will be the last to quit. Our Weekly Motto: Seek not to appropriate’ an appearance of genius by wearing long hair, for “not only musiclans, but cowboys ° as well, are decorated .in this 'manner.,- o AT ~ __ADVERTISEMENTS 4 % MORE LIGHT ON THE ROAD ROAD RAYS NOT "SKY"RAYS. NO GLARE. 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