The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 17

; ‘democracy? ~than continual- ~approval. your attention to an article in. The Farmer of St. Paul, December 15 issue. It says the miller makes only 75 cents a barrel for operating expenses and profit, and figures this way: Four and one-half bushels of wheat cost $9.50 and that makes one barrel of flour; one barrel of floar sells for $10.25. Let us come closer to the truth: Four and one-half bushels weigh 270 pounds, one barrel of flour weighs 198 pounds. There are 72 pounds left .over in by-products that sell for ap- proxiately $1.50, 'making the profit $2.25 per barrel. I 'do not blame bhusiness in ordinary times for trying to blind the farmer, but now it means to lcad this “beast of burden” down so he will fall ex- hausted and no other class can bear one cent of cosj:. When you buy for The common way (wrong): $1 and selI for $2 you have created | nothing, for the article you sold was’ not better than when you bought it. When you sell products off the soil for $1 then you have created $1. Please reflect. R There is another. great mistake in estimating the wealth of the farmer, and below I show you the right and the wrong way. The right way proves the farmer, who is considered well-to-do has lost all he has produced and is way in deDbt besides. I am calling your attention to the danger we are in and hope we all now join hands and save ourselves. I call especially on the business class. I do not think you know what you are doing. I believe when you see the truth, you will join' hands with the farmer and win the war and save the world. One homestead, 160 acres, $75 per acre ..............c.cevvevnnnn $12,000 Personal PronertY . s s St i aaene o o STe e s o TR e e 2,500 Deposit N Ban ke . & sai ol salan o at ok i sils s shbar i e s el ad s s 500 $15,000 Real estate: Mortgage . -=t. i b vesmisamsis o e setee siiseie orole sse s 8,000 Estimated " Wealth . . il e bl s s e s s ek £ aravsns $ 7,000 3 The right way: One homestead, 160 acres, paid government ...................... $ 24 IMPrOVEMENES™ o5 iiaicais s biuserslo v siidos oiale sl sisiiib siosrs s raieisrasia nwis e 3,500 PErsonall PrOPOPY ... oo siasmssiss deiis s s s sinssssissse . 2,500 Bank AepoBlt 1 i ieiis diivi vaesn b Eaan e son e i R s el s P 500 3 $ 6,524 Real estate mortgage ......... e e g S N R B $8,000 W Y IR [ Y ot R P N e AR RS S e By P e S K o KPR e o $ 1,476 Yours for God, home and country. NELS ERICKSON. When Autocrats Rule Nebraskan Complains of Ready “Treason” Label Applied by Self-Styled “Patriots” Merna, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The League is taking rapidly in ” Nebraska, to the extent of alarming the old party press and bosses. ' I am a Democrat, but in next year’s election, I intend to vote for the can- didates agreed- upon by the League. There never was greater need of such a movement. I am including copy of an argument against present day restraint of speech and rule by the commercial autocrats. I am mailing it to you in the hopes it may be of a little help in the worthy propaganda of the I.eague. W. J. TAYLOR. Mr Taylor’s article follows: . That our state council of defense transcends its powers to an irritat- ing, arbitrary, unlawful extent, I am trying to prove. Every loyal citizen wants spies apprehended and punish- ed, ‘and pro-Germans banished; but this. wholesale charge of sedition by war-profiteers, the press and offi- cialdom, results in fear, intimidation and stifled resentment, inimical to good citizenship, contrary to both our federal and state constitutions, and destructive to that freedom of speech and action indispensable to a democracy. If, through fear, the elector is forbidden to say anything of the officials’ acts, other than ap- proval, or that whatever is, is right, or that ‘“‘the king can do no evil,” then why do our electors need intelli- gence? If its free ‘use -is forbidden, why hold elections? Where is our If the officer, elected to be a public servant, can say: ‘“‘to criticize me evidences to our ene- mies national weakness, thereby lending him aid and. comfort—there- fore such is treason,’” then what pro- tection have we from the insidious commercial autocrat in office? REASONABLE CRITICISM USEFUL IN . DEMOCRACY Reasdnable criticism is 'a more necessary function in' government The". one recognizes human fallibility, the other denjes it. The one requires intelli- gent independence to succeed, the other goes easily with the current. Both may be inspired by the desire for national welfare. I firmly be- lieve no great nation now enjoys less freedom of the press and speech than ours, and none ever needed it more. All are united in desiring destruc- tion of the rule of military autocracy in Germany, but this is no reason why we should allow our- govern- ment, under the guise of war exigen- cies, to fall into the hands of a few men, who, only a few years ago and when in a samer mood, we were so fearful of. The manipulations of steel, coal, flour, meat and sugar all evidence the cunning hand of these commercial autocrat§ who say they are patriotically serving the govern- ment without pay. Uncle Sam had better hire some men in whom the people have confidence, than to ac- cept this free service of men and in- terests of whom, in times past, labor- ing people have, from bitter experi- ence, learned to be mighty chary. To allow these fellows to get so com- pletely in control, where they can say: ‘“We are the government—to criticise us is treason,” ‘and thus beat intelligent, industrious labor into slavish silence, is intolerable. It is to be hoped these domestic problems will be worked out without a revolution. Thus far congress has taken no step to interfere with the process, rapid before .the war and now greatly accelerated, by which wealth and power are passing into the hands of a comparatively few men., I have digressed purposely, to es- tablish. my right. and duty, to pro- test the suppressing of free press and speech, and to protest officialdom’s part in this, by what appears to me to be the childish, unlawful, irritat- ing acts of our state council of de- fense in its notice of trivial things ’and wholesale aceusatlon and convic- ADVERTISEMENTS Avery Tractor and Plow: There is a size, Avery Tractor for every size farm and every kind of werk Avery “Yellow Kid"” Thresher 8 sizes. A size for every size run, ment and plant your crops. ing, etc. L L L e L L LT T T e Ty e T T T O T L A neglected cold inachild’shead often leads to chronic catarrh and catarrhal deafness—stunting child- ren’s mental gro appear stupid. for the (at no charge to you) 60,000,000 have used this fl-yu:\-old medy. 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