The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 21, 1918, Page 13

b - o oY 2 s 4 3 Y K Ay FRESH and different view of what they can accomplish by . being organized into the Non- partisan league and sticking gether for the complete control of tleir state is being brought to the frmers of North Dakota in the meet- igs being addressed by Walter Tlomas Mills. His audiences have tuned out in large numbers in spite of all inclemencies of the weather, anl have received his remarks with amplause and encouragement. Mr. Mils is an economist of nation-wide fane. At Lisbon, first of his series held lag week, 250 farmers came through th¢ snow drifts and extreme cold to heir Mr. Mills and Joseph Gilbert, najional organization . manager for th¢ League. The roads had been coyered with ice and were too slip- pety for automobiles, but a fall of snow made sleighing possible, and farmers came by team and sleigh. Mr. Mills urged the farmers at the next state election to make sure that they control every part of their state government, so they will have the power to do what the state needs to have done for the benefit of all. He urged public ownership of industrial plants and political action to that end. PUBLIC MONOPOLY BEST SAYS MILLS “No private monopoly,” he said, “can hold out against a public mo- nopoly, because the stronger com- petitor, that is the -competitor, with most money, greatest industrial effi- ciency and the &rongest political pull, must win. The public enterprise has back of it all the money of all the peo- ple, which is more than all the money of any part of the people. All the peo- ple have greater power to produce than any part of the people, and by the use of their political power, the condi- tions under which the private monopo- Iy can do business, the terms under which it employs labor, and even the prices it charges for the products, may be fixed by public authority. No private monopoly could withstand such competition as this.” Mr. Mills declared the Nonpartisan league the star of hope for the farm- ers, not only of North Dakota, but of the nation, because its purpose is to free the farmer from a system of buy- ing "and selling which is unfair to him, and which often takes his farm away from him and makes him a rent- paying tenant werking for a landlord. . At all his meetings, which in- cluded besides Lisbon, La Moure, Edgeley, Jamestown, Valley-City, Car- rington, Harvey and other places, he insisted on the need of solving the — farm tenant problem. Through the League, he said, farmers will be able to stop the present trend towards ten- antry and bring relief to farmers and other workers. Thig can be done, he pointed out, .by controlling legisla- tion, farmers - to take a still more active interest in legislation and to encourage other states to do the same, as well as to solve their own problems. SHOWS TAXATION BURDEN MYTHICAL He made light of the bugbear to public ownership often advanced— that it would require tremendous financial loss to the people and that ' taxation would. overbalance a.ll good results. ““You can buy every prlvate ‘mios nopoly on the tace of the earth *’ he peakers of and he urged North Dakota DATES FOR WALTER THOMAS MILLS - (Allat 2 P. M.) Kenma,re... vis Lansford...... Omemee...... Rolette........ YOrK: iviiviieioie Devilsl.ake..., Park River. Grand Forks Fargo........ Agricultural Gollege, Fargo, N. D Forman.... Oakes...... ...Tuesday, Jan, 22 Wednesda.y, Jan, 23 ..Thursday, Jan. 24 X ) 0 . .Saturday, Jan. 26 Monday, Jan, 28 . . Tuesday, Jan. 29 Wednesday, Jan. 30 .Thursday, Jan. 31 ...Friday, Feb. 1 Saturday, Feb. 2 ..Monday, Feb. 4 Tuesday, Feb. 5 Wednesday, Feb. 6 ... Thursday, Feb, 7 Friday, Feb. 8 Saturday, Feb. 9 DATES FOR JUDSON KING Cooperstown New Rockford Aneta......... Pingree....... Medina. ... Dawson..... Driscoll. ..... Bismarck..... ~ (Allat2°P. M.) Friday, Feb. 1 Saturday, Feb, 2 .Monday, Feb, 4 Tuesday, Feb. 5 Wednesday, Feb. 6 Thursday, Feb. 7 .. .Friday, Feb. 8 Sa.turda.y, Feb. 9 DA’EES FOR ARGAST AND HORST Lidgerwood. . . Cayuga....... Rutland and Havana Cogswell and Brookland Straubville and Harlem.. Brampton and Hample Silverleaf. ... Ellendale.. ... Loraine a.nd Wirch Forbes. e Monango. Edgeley. .. Streeter.. . Gackle.... Alfred. La Moure. ... said, ‘“and they are not going to cost you a red cent. Fm’going to offer you the railways and the mines and the markets on these terms. You can - buy every one of them, and instead of it costing you money, you will be making money all the time you are doing it. “Right-cent : sugar ‘could be pro- duced by the government for two cents a pound, could be sold for three, and you would save five cents every time you bought a pound. - The one cent more than cost would speedily retire the bonds issued to provide the plant. Then you would get it for two cents instead of eight.. The plant never cost you anything. In fact, you have been making five cents a pound ~while you were paying for the plant. “You can do the same thing with every other private monopoly-—and. B R I I I S TeTe s ete s Monday, Jan. 21 .Tuesday, Jan, 22 Wednesday, Jan, 23 .. Thursday, Jan, 24 evee.... Friday, Jan. 25 ....Saturday, Jan. 26 ...Monday, Jan. 28 .....Tuesday, Jan. 29 .....Wednesday, Jan. 30 «++.+e0s. Thursday, Jan, 31 vveesees. Friday, Feb. 1 cveeoesSaturday, Feb. 2 «eve.00..Monday, Feb. 4 cevees...Tuesday, Feb. 5 «e...... Wednesday, Feb. 6 ......Thursday, Feb. 7 veivereese.. . Friday, Feb. 8 ...... veeseeos Saturday, Feb, 9 «........Monday, Feb, 11 .«.....Tuesday, Feb. 12 .....Wednesday, Feb. 13 «+.viees . Thursday, Feb. 14 ..o .. .. Friday, Feb. 15 : .....,...‘.Saturday, Feb. 16 civieveen .. Tuesday, Feb, 19 .. ..Wednesday, Feb. 20 ......Thursday, Feb. 21 ; Saturday, Feb. 23 ‘ ers want their own elevatorsn and mills.” z Mr. Gilbert spoke briefly at the meetings, telling the North Dakota - audiences what the movement they started has become in other states. “Your work,” he said, ‘has been taken up in 13 states.: That number is symbolical to me. You North Da- kota farmers have started a move- ment which is going to write'a new declaration of independence. You are the pioneers of a great movement, and you must not allow that move- ment to lag. While we are fighting the battles of democracy abroad, we must not be asleep in maintaining and increasing the blessings of dem- ocracy here at home.” Mr. Gilbert said that it is not only ~the. duty of the farmer to overcome the obstacles of nature, but to over- yet they want to¢know why the farm-- come the obstacles put ln hls way by 57 PAGE 'rm" EEN ational Fame Welcomed Walter Thomas Mills Urges in North Dakota' Addresses Public Ownership and United Pohtlcal Action—Judson King Begins State Tour " other men who take toll from the products of all who work. Mr. Mills will speak at a number of the most important places in North Dakota, a further list of his dates being given on this page. PROGRESSIVE JOURNALIST BOOKED FOR MEETINGS Beginning February 1 at Coopers- town, Judson King, the noted news- paper man, economist and lecturer, will address a series of Nonpartisan league meetings throughout North Dakota. Mr. King is well known to readers of national magazines as a man who has written from a pro- gressive standpoint upon political and economic questions for many years. His special articles in newspapers have been widely circulated. He is connected with the Popular Govern- ment league, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Mr. King is but one of several thinkers and speakers of national reputation, whom the Nonpartisan league has secured to address the midwinter North Dakota meetings. Eight meetings have thus far been listed for him, and others will be announced later. Mr. King’'s dates are announced on this page. Besides the two series being ad- dressed by Mills and King, Organizers Fred J. Argast and Leo S. Horst of the Nonpartisan league are holding a series of meetings, also announced on this page. ‘HAD TO BACK DOWN The Nonpartisan league was permit- ted to hold a meeting at Faribault. For a long time the business interests that rule that city denied the League the privilege of holding a meeting in the city. This developed an intense feeling and the farmers ' got active. Then, in order to try to harmonize the factions created, a meeting was held with 150 farmers and the agreement reached was that the meeting should be held. Here again the commercial club element had to recede from its autocratic stand. — PARK REGION ECHO, Alexandria, Minn. FARMERS AND WORKERS" The action of the ‘subsidized press of -the Twin Cities against organized labor and the farmer is the best propaganda that can be used to further the interest of the producer and con- sumer, and . their sponsor, the Non- ‘partisan league, towards increased or- . ganization. As with trades unions to the Worker. the Nonpartisan league was born ‘to emancipate the farmer from . the, clutches, that were woven around them by the interlocking system of big business and middlemen, who have in the past tricked the worker as well as the farmer out of the products of his or her toil. But today, when the farm- er is hemming around these giant octo- puses, ‘the .reins of political control in “their own'hands, when the sinews of the toilers get a strangle hold on the political grafter of state .and nation, their cry of disloyalty and treason is only the cry of the maw of greed. What have the workers and farmers * to fear from such a source, when loy- alty’s banner flies higher from the hearts of every farmer, every- toiler, than those whose motives for calling ‘him disloyal are based on greed, ag- grandizement, self-interest and war . profiteering. . — NORTHWESTERN' CULINARY ART JOURNAL, fiinne- ; ‘apolis, Minn.: