The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 19

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S \fllllllllllllllllllllllllll upnn|||||||;||||||i|l|||||p| » ;nl mn b v e e et e e e Glad “Homestead’; Is for Farmers This Des Moines Farm Journal’s Exposure of Greater Iowa Association Pleases Former Iowan ¢ Chinook, Mont. #|DITOR Nonpartisan | Leader: It is encourag- ing to know that the Leader has an old wheel 7| horse in the form of the -Homestead of Des Moines, Iowa (a paper that has a cir- culation of 150,000 and is read by 500,- 000), helping the Leader to fight the battles for the farmers and laboring men—yes, and the common people just as American citizens—a paper that is willing to say to Big Biz, “Get thou behind me Satan, I know you not.” I don’t know if the Leader has the Iowa Homestead on its exchange list or not. For fear it hasn’t I will send a copy in which it exposes the Greater Iowa association, its origin and its abuses, how it has robbed the tax- payers of Iowa of thousands of dol- lars. If the Nonpartisan League had stolen one-tenth part as much from the state of North Dakota it would have been locked up long ago. What a howl would have gone up through the big business papers about robbing the people! The Greater Iowa asso- ciation is worse than a thief in the night. A burglar only robs the rich, but the Greater Iowa association is robbing the poor. I wish every farm- er and every taxpayer could read. about this graft as presented in ‘the Des Moines Homestead. They would make up their minds’in a hurry that all they wanted was the name of an organization that was robbing the people by the wholesale. The northern part of Blaine coun- ty, Mont., is all homesteaded. Was homesteaded in 1913-14. Quite a lot of this land was taken by young men with no other machinery than their hands. Consequently they had to hire all their breaking and putting in. of crop, which cost quite a sum. In 1915- 16 we had a pretty good crop. In 1916 quite a few proved up on their land and borrowed money at from 8 to 9 per cent interest, bought teams and machinery to farm with and spent about all the money they had.borrow- ed in that way. But in 1917 we got it in the neck A great many didn’t get anything, a few of them got their seed back, and on account of the scarcity of feed quite a number of horses have died— starved to death for want of feed. Snow has been from 15 to 18 inches deep ever since the first of ‘December and from six to eight inches at pres- ent. I don’t know what a great many farmers will do with' no money and no seed to sow. Thousands of acres of land will lie idle. Oh for the Baer bill! Why is it that one man and the almighty dollar have so much more power than 300,000 or 400,000 farm- ers? They tell me I am a crank about the Nonpartisan league and I don’t know but that I am. Who wouldn’t be after finding out he had been robbed and slandered by the high- brow robbers for years as I have been? It’s enough to make any one hot, and I can’t understand why farm- ers are so ready to fight their own in- terests as to believe the low down lies that the big business newspapers are printing about the League and the farmers. I am doing all I can for the League and have got some six or eight talked into voting the League ticket, and I am sendmg three Leaders every week to people in Iowa and Nebraska that I know. Yours for victory for the League and better government for the people and by the people, not for the few grafters. S. S. SLAYBAUGH. A Dash of Sarcasm for Editor Lee “Oldish Codger” Knocks the Bottom Out of Anti-League Argument in Open Letter Alberta, Minn. Mr. Rudolph Lee, Editor Long Prairie Leader, Dear Sir: I have received a copy of your booklet containing the debate “Should the Farmers of Minnesota Join the Nonpartisan League?” I have read and studied it with intense interest and it has caused some doubts in my mind as to my° wisdom in joining the League. Perhaps you can advise me. In your debate both you and Mr. Randall put on the usual amount of rhetorical camouflage, but that does " not affect me much, as I am a sort of an oldish codger, somewhat phil- osophically - inclined, and camouflage does not go with me. But cutting out all camouflage, your arguments on the negative side contain three points, which, if they can not be re- butted, should keep us farmers from joining the League The first point is: anesota farm- ers do mnot need a political organiza- tion. The second point: The Nonpartisan _league is not properly organized. The third. point: The promoters of the League are not democratic, they will sell you out; they are not honest. Now, as to point No. 1, you argue the' Stillwater twine plant, the primary election law, the nonpartisan law, the two-cent fare and-the freight laws the farmers have got. ‘without the “Dakota politicians” coming down and dictat- ing to you how. to.vote. True, Mr. Lee, but how did we get them? Let me tell ‘you—being' an ‘oldish s 3 that It was done by the Farmers’ al- liance! All the legislation which you refer to and some more was the result directly or 1nd1rect1y of that political farmers’ organization. It accomplished its object, and like the biennial clo- vers, died a natural death. You admit the necessity of still more reform legislation, and hence it is necessary "to find a political farmers’ organiza- tion to fill the place of the Alliance. Your second point: The Nonpartisan league is not properly organized. As to its finances, Mr. Randall referred you to the Equltable Auditing com- pany, which is satisfactory to me, for I know from personal experience that this company is perfectly :eliable and trustworthy. As to the constitution, by-laws and proper democratic gov- ernment of the League you admit that the farmers of North Dakota were promised a regulating . convention, and surely what the farmers of North Dakota have done, we of Minnesota can get if we haven’t got it already. In point No. 3 you say that the promoters _of the League are not _honest, that they are not democratic, that they will sell us out.. You .up- hold this ppint by sayine “Townley & Co.” formulated the p'atform, dictate how we. are to vote, take our money and spend it at their own sweet will; in short, about five men control the whole thmg and the 50,000 or 60,000 farmers have nothing to say. ‘This DOES look bad on its face, Mr. Lee. 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