The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 14

| Townley asked how long it was that the farmers of North Dakota had been fighting for justice. “More than 80 years,” was the answer. “Thirty years, Pendray says,” the -speaker re- - sumed. “For 80 years these men lived without the light ¢ the sun. It is hard on things that have ' lived in the dark for 30 years to have the sunlight turned on too quickly. And we turned it on almost overnight in North Dakota.” Continuing to read from the president’s book, i which says that “the jungle breeds nothing but in- feetion,” and that nobody in the hunt which the people are to organize, “will be caught in our net except the beasts that prey,” Mr. Townley com- mented again: “And nobody was.caught in our net in North-Da- | kota except the beasts that prey.” - ‘ Closing his address with an introduction of Mr. Lindbergh, Mr. Townley said that about two years ago, from the same platform, he had made a proph- ecy as to who was to be the next governor of ‘| North Dakota. FRAZIER APPEALS i FOR MORE WHEAT ' sota.” | are facing the enemy in the battle now N A AN N o R BB Qe B O 15100700 Db ek N R A - bushel of wheat possible. It is wheat ¢/ cents, but how best.-can we serve our “That prophecy was fulfilled, and now, for the second time in my life, I am going to make a prophecy,” he said. “This prophecy is that Charles A. Lindbergh, the man who will now address you, will be the next governor of Minne- Governor Lynn J. Frazier made an earnest appeal to the farers of the state to support the boys now facing the enemy in this great battle for democracy by raising every bushel of wheat possible. “Especially at this time when they raging over there,” Governor Frazier said, “it is the duty of every farmer in North Dakota to give them his un- qualified support by - raising every that is needed most. - “It is not a question of dollars and - crease in wages had to affairs of government so that when the boys “over there” return from their battle with autocracy they will not have to battle with a political autocracy at - home, was the gist of an address by Charles A. Lindbergh, Nonpartisan candidate for governor in Minnesota and a former congressman from that state. He discussed the economic condition of the producing classes-of this country and told how -use- less it was to expect better conditions until the gov- ernment was taken from the hands of big business.” “A mere increase of a few dollars in wage under existing governmental conditions is not a remedy for ar increase in the cost of living,” declared Mr. Lindbergh, “for every increase in wages is followed by an increase in the cost of the essentials of life, and the differencein- wage is grabbed right back again by those who control the business of this country. : “When the railroad employes won an eight-hour victory did not the railroads increase their freight and passenger rates, and in the end the very men that were benefitted by the shorter hours and in- pay by paying more for the essentials of life.” : Mr. Lindbergh recited the history of organization, telling how capital was first organized under which developed the great trusts and monopolies of the country. When the people of the country rebelled against monopolies, Mr. Lindbergh said, big busi- | THE OLD CAMPAIGN CIGAR | S ]g c § ,("’14’5 ‘a:;’@/ g X THIS. OLD GANG CIGAR “I said, ‘Because I don’t have to go back to. get there—I am in it already.’” el . e Walter Thomas Mills opened his talk in the above words. The address literally brought the meeting to an end in an outburst of patriotic emotion. There was a rush to the platform to shake hands with Mr. Mills when he had finished. “As- a Daughter of the American-Revolution,” said one woman, “I want to tell you that your speech was the finest that I ever heard, and I only wish that you could have continued for an hour.” Following his opening remarks, Mr. Mills pointed to one of the flags hanging from the balcony. “‘Have your people. always stood by that flag?’ this man said to me,” he said. 4 “I said, ‘No, not always.’ "MILLS’ ANCESTORS BUILT THE NATION - “Then why haven’t they ?’ he asked. “‘Because they were here before the flag was,’ I answered him, ‘and they couldn’t stand by it until they helped make it.”” 1y " Then, for the reason that his patriotism had been questioned because he had appeared as a speaker for the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota, Mr. Mills gave a history of his family in America.in their relation to public affairs. He told how one of his earliest ancestors, Josiah Mills, helped write the first written constitution, according to the historian Fiske, in the world. This same Mills was the first man in America to set free his slaves. “Another ancestor, he said, guided the boat in which Wash- ington crossed the Delaware, “to gather in the hired Hessians who were fighting to keep the rule of a king in America.” It was in his recital of the earliest recollection of his ' childhood with which he moved his hearers. He told of his father’s departure for | the Civil war, the first man in the ~community to enlist, leaving his wife and- six- small children, one of them a two-weeks-old baby, on their liitle ¢ % country and our.soldiers. Although there might ..be., other crops which would pay more in dollars and cents, I want to emphasize the necessity of raising more wheat. We must all sacrifice, for no sacrifice can compare with the sacrifice the boys are making over there, and I am confident that North Dakota will do its part in rais- ing wheat.” Governor Frazier also urged the necessity of organization for protect- ing the rights of the soldiers on their return from the trenches. “Would it not be discouraging,” ask- ed Governor Frazier, “for the boys to return from a victory over autocracy in Europe to find that during thefr absence their own country was in the hands of industrial autocracy ?” Every effort is being made to dis- credit governmental ownership by making governmental control of in- dustries a failure, Governor Frazier DON'T TASTE SO GOOD AS IT USED To AND \T DON'T EFFECT MY VOTE -ONE DERN BT} '\ .\\\k -\‘ = h N X - W N AN N\ N a - R N AN [ |\ N N\ W f\\\\‘. AN ) N \ mountain farm in the Adirondacks. He told of the struggle of his mother to support the family during the war; how she kept them together by toil and privation, working in the field with the older children. “And she did it on my father’s‘pay of $13 a month—$13 a month and a year and three months in arrears. “And when my mother got this $13 it was in greenbacks, and the fellows down on Wall street had fixed things so that it took three of my mother’s dollars to buy one of theirs. “Here and now I want to say that the man who tells me that I should let up on Morgan and the men who are robbing the people because our country is at war is a traitor to his country— " a traitor to the flag I love.” Mr. Mills told how his father stayed with the Union armies, at Antietam, at Gettysburg, through the Wilder- said. P : “The men who -havebeen placed in - direct ‘management of our railroads by the government,” he said, “are doing everything by making the government control of railroads a. failure. “A leading railroad man in a speech recently- at Philadelphia told how more engines had been left to freeze in the yards during the cold weather, how it took a certain train 24 hours to. get out of the railroad yards, and how experienced dispatchers had been discharged to be replaced by incompetents. ernment control system with the fear that after the war is over the government might take them over permanently. L5,Y S LINDBERGH SAYS WAR MUST BE“WON “Already the r_a-ilroad interests are beginning to lay their plans for taking back their property by inducing congress to fix a time when governmental .control will cease.” (All this is being done merely to discredit the gov-. - noss offered the ‘rer'nedies'fl,‘ and their remedies will in their power to discredit governmental ownership =~ never solve the problem of the producing class, but are merely offered to pacify them for a longer time. He told how the monopolies of the country had capitalized all of the resources of the land which should be owned and controlled by the people. - —Drawn expressly for the Lefider by Congressman John M. Baer “The great war of Europe for democracy,” Mr. - Lindbergh declared, “we have got to.win, but we also have a great war at home in the adjustment of our economic conditions which has also got to be won.” il : -In_treating the situation in Minnesota, Mr. Lind- ~+~bergh-deelaredthat the opposition to the people’s Governor Frazier opened his address with an ex- _pression of thanks on behalf of himself and the other state officials for the confidence placed in them by réindorsement and expressed an earnest desire to serve them faithfully for another two - That it is the patriotic duty of every loyal Amer- ican citizen to concern himself with the economic s you go back to the coun movement in Minnesota were giving aid and -com- fort to the enemy. : ; ' " “By continually advertising-a disloyalty that does not exist,” he said, “they are not only discouraging the people of this country and the people of our allied nations, but they are giving encouragement to the enemy.” SR Mr. Lindbergh preluded his. address with an answer to the charges made by an afternoon Fargo - newspaper that he was the author of a ‘publication of seditious tendencies by emphatically stating that he had not written anything that he was not will- ing to submit to’any committee for criticism. - “A man in North Dakota said to me, try you came from?* GE. ‘Why don’t “‘Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - the labor in. city and mines? : B = : - It appears to us that the food commission should ness, until the war was won, and then how he marched in the grand review - -down Pennsylvania avenue in Wash-. : ington. e Then he told of his ambition, in 1921, when a man shal! have been elected president “largely because of his advocaey of the principles of the Nonpartisan league,” when 50 men are in congress to fight for the organized farmers. v “I_ am going to march in the parade down Pennsyi- vania avenue at the inauguration of that president March 4, 1921,” he declared, closing his address with._ an appeal to thase North Dakotans other than fam.lers to realize the trend of events, organize and get into the great struggle for the emancipation of their country from political and economic thralldom. LT ST N “SFOR U.S,'NOT ‘PROFITEERS - -Edmore, N. D. . The millers and middlemen are sure some patriots! War flour sells in retail out here at $8.50 per 100 pounds and rye flour at $8 and wheat flour at $8 80. & Now we would like to stand back of our govorn- AR o ment and save on wheat flour, but it goes against : 3 our temper to know that some one is:taking a toll' = from us for being patriots. Now we farmers can, = - . of course, take wheat or rye and grind graham flour = - and in that way escape this graft, but what about : sit down ‘on these grafters and sit down on them =