The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 4, 1918, Page 2

r. Farmer: | Do You Need Money? Read This Carefully and and Fill Out the Blank Large areas in the United States lost crops last year. 'Thousands of farmers will be compelled .to borrow heavily to put in a crop this year. Thousands of them report they can not borrow money. This is serious, because if ever big crops were needed, it is now. Unless these farmers can borrow at fair rates, the food supply of ourselves and allies is jeopardized. Realizing this condition, Congressman J. M. Baer, elected by the North Dakota Nonpartisan league farm- ers, has introduced a bill in the United States congress. This bill asks congress to appropriate money to loan to farmers who need it and who can not borrow it at all, or who, if they can borrow it from private sources, must pay exorbitant rates. Congressman Baer before he mtroduced the bill, had before him a large amount of evidence as to conditions in various parts of the country where there were crop failures last year. But, to get his bill through, he must convince a lot of skeptical congressmen, and must fight the powerful money lenders’ lobby at Washington, D. C. The more definite evidence he can get—the more specific instances of individual farmers in need of money that he can report—the better chance his bill has of passing. Will you help Baer get more evidence and thus help in the cause of aldlng farmers who need money for the new crops but can not borrow it at all, or must pay exorbitant rates for it? Are you a farmer in need of money? Baer wants to know. Fill out the following blank and mail it to the National Nonpartisan league, Box 294, St. Paul, Minn. The League will not divulge your name, if you so request. The League will com- pile the data you send in and put it in the hands of Baer and the men who are helping him with his bill. If you do not need a loan but know of some other farmer, whether member of the League or not, who does need one, in order to put in increased acreage to win the war, hand this blank to him. Help the League to get more definite evidence. Help Baer get his bill passed. Help the farmers who need loans. Help win the war! You can do all this. Fill out this blank, or place it in the hands of a farmer needing a loan who will fill it out. Fill Out This Blank and Mail It At Once to the Nonpartlsan - League, Box 294 St. Paul, an. ‘What crops did you grow last year?......c.ccovviinennnns ........................................................ ....................................................... What are the names, if any, of other farmers in your locality who can and Want to fill out this blank and to whom YOU ~ HAVE NOT GIVEN a blank to fill out? How many acres’did you plant? .......................... How many acres did you harvest? ................. ........................ How much did it cost you, in money, labor and other outlay ! ................................... ........................................................ How much did you get for your crops? Are you in debt on last year’s farming operations? ....................................................... If you are in debt on last year’s crops how much and what commission did you pay to the money lender, and what interest is the mdebtedness carrying ? ................... ® e e 8 8 8 6 s ® e 8 P e s e st e s e s s Bt e e e et eds N es et P e ....................................................... ....................................................... Will you need moncy for planting and growmg thlS year ’s crop, and, if so, how much? ............................ Can you borrow what you need from your local banks, or - other banks or other prlvate money lenders? ............. ~~~~~ @ e s s s s s s s s e 8 s s s e s s s e e e s s e et s e ee sV et e e s e s Vs e 4o it auns If you can borrow from these private‘sources, what mterestv will you have to pay, and what eommxssmn? ........ aaaies 9 6 o o 8 s e s s e s b e e s e e s es e ais s ee s ses uieE s g e e s s e e s st e e o..-....-..-.....-...n-...'-. ............................. If you ean NOT borrow:-all you need from pnvate sources, how mueh CAN you horrow-in that way, and at what in- terest and what commission? ........................... g Where is your farm (township, range, county) ¢ ~money to loan to farmers who cannot borrow it '»mem'rwd* Sl ........................................................ ....................................................... ....................................................... ....................................................... GWhatussyournamets. b s SFE S T vl el sk e & .......................... ...................................................... . Remarks: (If not enough room here to state anything else you want to say in this conneetion, write on a separate piece of paper and pm to thls, and mail all together.) ................................. ...................... ...................................... .............. ..... ................................................ ........ ................................................. s imnatiesiatnge ene e st staTs! 8 a%e ale Rlaeta Uy BT e e 0 s s (a nle w0 Tel e e e B ..... This is not an application for a loan, It 18 merely a report of conditions on your farm or in your locality, to be used as evidence in convincing congress of the need of appropriating , at reasonable ‘rates from private sources. S S e riisions i Wfi&\k&e S mm%.e&.'}»f%fi‘m