The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 18, 1918, Page 18

SAYING THAT THE' FARMERS ADOPT REIOLUTIONS To STAND BEHIND TH' GovERN- I MENT ASKS LEADER FOR LIBRARY Billings, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I wish to congratulate you on the two last issues of the Leader. The cartoons are uncommonly good. The name Leader is well chosen. A leader is very necessary in a democracy. You are doing the work, not only of a leader, but-of an educator. You might send me one or two copies and * I will place one in the library and other reading rooms. Yours for real democracy, - C. H. PERRINE. FARMERS WILL KEEP AT IT Malta, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending a clipping from the Grand Forks Herald entitled - “Our Northwestern Bolsheviki.,” This, it seems, was copied from the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer’s Wall street publication, and reproduced in the’ Herald’s columns without comment, meaning, of course, that the Herald agreees with the World in what it says. : I have known for the last year or more that the Herald would go to most any extreme to misrepresent the Nonpartisan league tb the general public, especially those that are not acquainted with its object, but I did not think they would stoop so low as to reproduce a contemptible un- founded insinuation like this. After hinting that the farmers are pacif- ists, L. W. W. “evangels of suspicion and violence,” ete., it says in part: “No one need imagine that the Non- partisan league will be able to carry out its program. It will fail as simi- lar undertakings in the past have failed.” _ At the conclusion of the article the World, Herald, et-al, says “there is increasing need of wunity between those Democrats and Republicans who first of all are Americans.” ~Are the two above publications too dense to see that that is just what the farn- ers are doing—uniting, regardless of whether they are Democrats, Repub- licans or Socialists, and that it’s all for the benefit of the majority of the people? And if that isn’t being Amer- ican, what is it? : You all know Teddy, thofigh he is _ the real sorehead of the Republican HERE'S A WIRE STORY| AN’ RERE'S ANOTHER WHICH SAYS THAT FALLT AN’ DOING EVERVYTHING IN HI5 POWER To HECKLE PRESIDENT WiLsON and pro-Germans,. 1= PR | i party and ,fraitor éo the Bull Moose,b spoke a mouthful in _his 1912 cam- paign when he said: “It’s a bad trait to bite the hand that feeds you,” which is just what the Eastern money- grabbing plutocrats and agents of Big Biz are doing when they knock the farmers and their _organizations. Through it all we farmers will con- tinue doing our bit and donating our two-bits to aid in the fight for democ- racy, and in the meantime we'll -stick. EMIL B. OMANG. SURE! LAMBAST THE FARMERS Perham, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Am sending you a few clippings from the St. Paul Daily News and think some of the authorities that stop these League .meetings ought to be put out of office, or they will stop the farmers from going to town, and later on theéy might stop us from farming, so we will, starve to death, and they can have all the fun of liv- - ing—for they can live on wind and sunshine. - : A. FALK. FEARS LEAGUE CANDIDATES Cuthbert, S. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am mailing you an item printed in the Mitchell Gazette by Larson at Plankington, S. D. I would like to see you .give him an answer, for I am a member of the League. Yours truly, : ELMER HAYS. Mr. Larson, who wrote the article sent, didn’t sign himself “politician,” " but his letter reads like that of a poli- tician. He pretends that the League demands that members “sign a pledge agreement to support anything the League sees fit to put up,” which of course every League member who has ever “signed” the League membership roll knows is not true. The important point concealed in his attack on the farmers’ organizatioh, is that the membership itself does-all the “put- ting up.” The League that “puts up” candidates is the 'whole body of League members working through delegates which they ' select them- selves without the possibility of any one else doing it for them. The. real kick of Mr., Larson and all other. knockers of the League is confessed m thxs -sentence of his letter: “League { CAN'T PUT EM {N THE PAPER THAT ROOSEVELT (5 FINDING[ WAY — SO t'LL_JUST REWRITE ‘EM AND CHANGE A FEW NAMES ETC — 7/4 - . SAPHEAD THE REPORTER — HE WORKS FOR THE GANG PRESS I'M CLEVER I AM = = LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEADER candidates will get the offices if you do not stay awake.” Of course, they will! That is why the farmers are all joining the League. They want their own candidates to be elected here- after.—~THE EDITOR. LIKES CO-OPERATIVE STORE , Blackwater, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: We are very much pleased to hear ‘that the United Stores company co- operative store has got startcd at Garrison, as we only live 20 miles from there and will go there as soon as the weather is fit to do our trad- ing. 52 : MRS. WM. S. WALTER. DOESN'T SWALLOW STORE LIES & Richardton, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Please find inclosed clippings which I cut from the Dickinson Press knock- ing the editor and League and its members. Immediately after reading this piece I discontinued the Dickin- son Press and paid it up to date, but ‘the editor keeps on sending me the paper. Please advise me what I must do to stop this man from sending his paper to my address. And about the Consumers’ United Stores company, operated in the man- ner as he explains it, is another one of his big lies, and I move that all . the League members do just as I did, discontinue such papers, and that would glue up their traps and our League would be left in peace. I can not see that we farmers and League members -are under any obligation to patronize such papers that tell such lies. about our League. HENRY COMMES. QUESTIONG MINORITY RULE ; Grand Forks, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: A Mr. O. G. Hoag delivered two lec- tures on proportional representation in Grand Forks last Friday and Sat- urday. I was at both meetings and am enclosing my opinion on thé mat- ter for publication in the Leader. I “think .the public ought to get a little .information on' this before they are caught in the net of the minority. Proportional -~ representation is a -new method of election where each party or group of voters has repre- sentation in proportion to its strength. e i i L S e S A e T NN ST WATCH AN’ SEE Y R e e T R Ee A T 5 19 THE "CLEVER" THU S0 RY BAPHT o : ALY GRA ) — € © 15ANS HECKLE & OVERNMENT \OTSM.4 shows HS PRI T H —Drawn especially for the Leader by B. O. Foss It does away with primaries, it gives strength to the weak. For instance, the minority have always ruled the majority in North Dakota. Now the Nonpartisan league took over that ruling power _for the people from the minority at the last election. ; It seems to me that if we accept this proportional representation proposition at this time we would be cutting our own throats for the inter-' est of the same old gang that’s been in power so long. Mr. Hoag said that North Dakota needed a proportional . representation league more than any other state in the Union on account of the radical movement among the farmers (do you get it?) and for that reason the Proportional Representa- tion league will be worked harder in North Dakota than in any other state. When this movement is presented - to you look it over from all angles. W. H. ROBERTS. GLOATS ON MOB ACTION ‘ Gibbon, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 5 I receive my paper regularly now. I hardly can wait for the day the paper comes. I think it’s the kind of a paper for the-farmer—very inter- esting to read of the war profiteers and it wakes the farmers up. But I felt sorry when I read in the Waeonia Patriot, that the Nonpartisan league received bad results, and am sending you a clipping of the Patriot—but I hope those people will wake up. $ - FRED M. MEYER. This paper, mis-called -“Patriot,” gloats over the actio of a little coterie of business mem of Glencoe, who seized and deportedia League or- - ganizer when he came 4 fulfil an en- gagement that he had made to ad- dress a meeting. It boasts that they threatened to tar and feather him if he ever came to town again. No charges ‘were made against this or- ganizer by the men who deported him’ and no hint of the reason he was de- ported is given. Those guilty will be prosecuted in due time by the League. Su_lc.e this exhibition of their mob. spirit, some of- the business men of. Glencoe have concluded they made a mistake and the League has received: a strong hint that they would wel- come it to Glencoe any 'time the~ League ‘wishes to send & speakeri .