The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 8, 1918, Page 20

i % 14 EXPECT MORE FROM A DE LAVAL ~more cream ~—longer wear I service — better value, AND THEY GET IT A catalog of the NEW De Laval Machines will be gladly lent on reqnen. and if you don’t know your nearest local agent - be simply address the nearest De Laval 165 Broadway, New York wval main office as ‘THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 29 E. Madison St., Chicago y . 50,000 BRANCHES AND LOCAL AGENCIES THE WORLD OVER S e Equity Exchange Service Let us handle your grain and livestock on commlssmn. s in Montana and be spent by and for Montanans.” “Being a Montana booster,” he says, “for the tenth part of a second this appeal to my state pride got me. But almost as Soon as Senator Whitside’s oily voice died away, I remembered the hundreds of times that pleasant voice had prepared the way to hinder and delay and finally defeat farmer legislation at Helena.” Mr. Dillman saw that Senator Whiteside’s purpose was first to puff up the delegates with pride in their state “and then inject a little con- fidence in him and his kind, and while we were yelling ‘attaboy’ at. him he hoped to have us proudly disdain the help and experience of our North Da- kota friends.” Another politician, who Was also a farmer and so was a membér of the convention, delivered a flattering, friendly speech in which he did not voice any attack upon the League, but appealed to the pride of Mon- tanans to go it alone and not take advice from other farmers, and the effect of this method of battle is well shown in Mr. Dillman’s letter. He So again I want to warn you that even. our enemies deserve praise as past masters in political camouflage.” Mr. Dillman thinks Montana farmers have some other enemies besides the | politicians who are to be admired as one admires ddroit- foemen, and he tells of a “stunt” of the Great Falls Tribune, as follows: mzz]IVE hundred farmers who | assembled at Coopers- town, N. D.,, to hear a lecture by Judson King of Washington, D. C, P secretary of the National Popular Government league, adopted resolutions protesting against the withdrawal of the constitutional rights of farmers in Minnesota, where Non- partisan league meetings have “been forbidden in a number of counties and where farmers, League organizers and sympathizers have been mobbed and driven out of the towns. Judson King, known nationally as a writer on-political and economic subjects, lectured under the auspices of the North Dakota Nonpartisan league. Besides the'resolutions condemning the inactivity -of Minnesota state of- says: “I'll be blamed if we didn’t—or at least a majority of us—fall for it.- - please, to vilify and endanger our Shame on Minnesota Officials! North Dakota Farmers Denounce Anarchy in Sister State —Demand Constitutional Rights “In inconspicuous notices the ed-: itor has been telling us of Mr. Town- ley’s arrest for treason.. Yesterday he pretended to tear his. hair about a recent editorial in Leslie’s Weekly that, in a thinly veiled threat, warns President Wilson that his next Lib- erty loan will or may be a failure if men or ‘meddlers’ like Heney are al- lowed to ‘nag’ and disturb business. In a noble burst of magnanimity the .editor says: “¢If Minnesota authorities are jus- tified in trying to put the head of the Nonpartisan league in jail for alleged advice against buying Liberty bonds (which he didn’t -do, of course) are not the authorities of New York jus- tified in putting the publishers of Les- lie’s Weekly in similar confinement for the utterance of that publication \in connection with Liberty bonds?’ “He then adds a lot of cowardly, noncommittal insinuations that Mr. Townley was at one time opposed to the government war program, and adroitly questions his sincerity if he has repented.” Mr. Dillman continues: “He well knows that the publishers - of Leslie’s Weekly, as well as Cham- berlain, Stone and Roosevelt, will be ‘allowed to say nearly anything they beloved president, but if he can pre- . tend to whip the devil around the stump by insinuating that Townley is no worse than the other free ped- dlers of treason, then he has done the farmers a dirty stunt and has ot done any serious hurt to his friends, the gang at Helena.” nesota as being regardless of law, autocratic, arbitrary, wun-American and opposed to the ideals of a demo- cratic government, the Constitution of our country and the sacred tra- ditions of freedom and liberty so highly cherished by the founders of this nation and dear to the heart of every true American citizen. “That we manifest the sincere hope -that our brethren in our sister state will, at the next ballot, elect men who w111 accord to the people the rights to which they are entitled according to the Constitution ande the laws of the United States. “That we furthermore deem our- selves fortunate in this state of North Dakota in having a democratic 'ad- ministration which respects the Con- stitution and which places the citizens of the state. under the protectlon of ficials in protecting farmers in the {4q 1aw. right of peaceful assembly and free speech, the meeting sent a letter to Governor Frazier of North Dakota, asking him to use his influence in securing the exemption from the draft of farm labor absolutely neces- sary in harvesting the big war crop next fall. - The governor was told that many farmers’ boys who have been drafted can better serve their . country and the cause of world de- mocracy by, being exempted from army service, because food.is just as important as guns and shells and men ‘REPUDIATE PRESS —GUARDIANS to win the war. ' Menno, S. D. The resolutions in regardite the Editor Nonpartisan Leader: . Minnesota situation follow i Inclosed find a few clippings, - Is it “Cooperstowny;N. D. not wonderful wh % at’ “Whereasl certamt ;fiécglflfl #-fll‘\i’[m' newspaper men takep:;n:x:?:::: :g :fi: nesota employ a metho, brgeedure farmer how hy ? e sl farmets and w he is being taken in? I -_for one -would like to kmo other peaceful and loyal citizens the ingtituted the Sioux FallswPre}slg ::g rights of assembly and freedom of = the Parker Press Leader to act as the speech, we, 500 farmers and other South Dakota: farmers’ political citizens assembled in ' meeting at guardians. I think the time is nigh % Cooperstown, Griggs county, in the when farmers as well as newspaper state of North Dakota, do hereby re- men are able to take ‘care of their solve: © own pohhcal affairs and' finance their. ' “That we.express our condemnation own campalg'ns as ‘well ag the corpor- i 'of the tactics of those oflielalg of Min- ations. PETER GUNDERSON Ha you are interested in the co-operative elevator system let us help you and advise you. The only way to keep in constant touch with the Equity Co-Operative Exchange is to subscribe for the Co-Operators Herald, Fargo, N. D. It contains a price list of our mail order grocery department also. Give us your next order or shipment. : ~ EQUITY CO-OPERATIVE EXCHANGE St. Paul, Minn. MO R R s ek bbbt oot e At e fabd el ettt e o et At il PERCHERONS R I am offering this spring some very The New Freedom || it stallions an This is the book by President b : . Wilson of which you have heard 80 much. . If President Wilson lad known of the plans for or- no traveling (& ¥amzatlon of the Nonpartisan A o eague he could not have pre- M. M. WHITE ValleyCity,N.D. “ELMER A. ARESTAD “JOHN L. MIKLETHUN “EARNEST N. JOHNSON “HARRY STAI “JULIUS JENSEN “0. H. 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