The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 18

“EVERYBODY BOOSTER’S CLUB” ‘Wherever You Live Equip Yourself to be a Booster Enjoy the Sensation of Being a Live One There Are Three Things to Do—That’s All GET NO. 1 High grade sateen pennant, 12x30, stitched edges, painted letters, back- ground blue, fetters white€, circle in red, white and blue effect. They will decorate your room at home, at school, g 2 e and liven up your automobile. Hang one on each side of your wind- shield. Fly your colors at home and when you are in town. Ordi- narily sell for 50 cents at the stores. Cost price, 25 cents each. GET NO. 2 30UVENIR RALLY BOOKLETS, entitled: “FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER?”; four-color art cover. Convince your neighbor with it. Song book with words and music of 25 popular songs. SOME OF THE CONTENTS Notes of Freedom by the President of the United States; Freedom Expressed in the Constitution; the Minnesota Issue, by C. A. Lindbergh; the League’s Platform and Principles for Minnesota; Labor’s Night, St. Paul March convention; Sayings of A. C. Townley, president of the League. SOME OF THE SONGS Star Spangled Banner; Old Kentucky Home; Battle Cry of Freedom; The Old Oaken Bucket; We’re Tenting Tonight; Nonpar- tisan League Campaign Songs; America. Send one to a relative or friend in town or in another county and win his vote. Cost price, 10 cents. GET NO. 3 FLY YOUR AMERICAN COLORS FREE—With an order of one pennant and one booklet or more, two small American flags, 4x6 inches, on stick, printed in colors on cloth, to fly on the front of the hood of your auto.. When one wears out use the other. Or the two can go on the bridles of your team.- Have the Fun of Doing Something Yourself and Order Today I IS A WINNER “THE SPIRIT OF 1776” I “EVERYBODY- BOOSTER’S CLUB” ' I | NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, I 5th Floor Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. Enclosed please fild.......o.vuveesseinnneeeessensss.for s Tt b s tesee I ] and Bend M@ 3o d LSRR T e e e ee steie e 0@ a ale AN e s S ety b il I I NAME {1 sv'a ¢ eisis o's 0 o6 sig's s 0'n's o070 wioin & (_—‘ I Addvese il SR e SRR Ul s Whoop Her Up Boys, and We’ll Win, at Home and Abroad! NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE . Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. < hands of the people and their repre- sentatives. No corporation could thrive if it allowed its general mana- -ger to shift blame on his department heads, or whose board of directors con- sisted of two parts, one of which per- haps hostile to the other and always ready to “pass the buck.” But it is on such a plan that state governments and-in fact most public business has been organized and run. Governors have been weighted down with responsibility ‘but have “been stripped of the power to control their own subordinates. In deference to the old idiotic notion that “one-man power” is ‘dangerous (of course it is dangerous if the wrong crowd are be- hind the one man) legislatures have been composed of two houses so that one house might with perfect safety be as progressive as the occasion re- quires, knowing always that the upper house would finish off its work in re- actionary style. The constitutions have been made so rigid that .the present generation hag;,been held back to conform to the mistaken judgments of the past. Is it any great wonder that the people have so often fallen victims of those whose very assistance depends upon dividing the people into warring camps and stepping in to help them- selves to the spoils? Responsibility with power is just as good in a de- mocracy as in an autocracy. In fact, it is absolutely necessary if either one is to be a success and get anywhere. The only thing needful is to see that the people are securely established at the helm. Then you have the mak- ings of an efficient democracy. Some- thing for which the world has prayed for but never yet realized. It looks as though North Dakota might lead the way to such things and that is the reason why some of us here in the East are so much inter- ested in what you are doing. - H. S. GILBERTSON. - The League Is Unifying Nebraska Readers of the Leader Send a Budget of News on the At- tempts of Enemies to Split the People gmaw |T IS pleasant to be able 1| to praise a newspaper. 0. J. Moran of Welling- ton, S. D., has sent a clipping from the Colum- bus (Neb.) Telegram, which is edited by the lieutenant gov- ernor of Nebraska, Edgar Howard. In a signed editorial he denounces what he terms “the professional patriots” who have been denying the right of free speech to the Nonpartisan league in that state. “Let me paint a true picture,” he “writes, “of one of these dangerous men who has been forbidden to speak for the farmers’ organization known as the Nonpartisan league. His name is F. B. Tipton. He resides upon and farms his own farm in Seward coun- ty. He is a finely educated man of perhaps 60 years of age. I have asked his reputation in his home community. There he is pronounced a citizen first among his ‘equals in all good works. His charity is broad, his patriotism pure. His neighbors tell me that he has given as much money to the Red Cross and other war funds as any man in Nebraska of like possessions. He has written some masterful and win- ning appeals for devotion to our coun- try in these days of war. More than this, he has given an only son %o the colors, and that boy is now under the guns. of the nation’s enemy in France. “Yet this pure patriot, this flaw- less and lovable man, devoted to the principle of free speech, and- desirous of speaking to his fellows upon a sub- ject that is dear to his heart, has been treated as an outlaw by men who, however patriotic they may be, would crush the best stone in the foundation of American civilization—the . stone upon which is engraved the sscred decree of a free press and free speech.” 2 3 LR The spirit of Mr. Tipton is seen in his statement after beinr mobbed at Tamora: “I’ shall prosecute the peo- ple who mobbed me. You may re very sure of this, that I am not going to surrender my right to free speech to any mob. I will be heard, even thouzh I go the way of Lovejoy. The things I have to say are vital and urgent, and must be ‘said, even though the saying costs my life.” A FINE QUALITY OF LOYALTY Letters flowing into the Leader of- fice show the growth of the League in Nebraska. Thus, J. L. Burke of Max- well, in ordering six copies of Presi- dent Wilson’s book, “The New_Free- dom,” says:. - Sy “A year ago this neighborhood was ° against our president, but since the : League has been organized and had several good ‘meetings, Currie and Maxwell speaking, it is solid back of Wilson and our government. _ “It is the greatest thing I can imagine, the unity the League pro- motes among the workers and the ° common people when they understand its real meaning. Send Governor Burnquist down here and let him see how each and every one of us is be- hind the president, determined to send six congressmen to help him win the war.” Mr. Burke also sends a copy of a letter which he wrote to the editor of the North Platte Tribune. It catches the editor falsifying an account of a League meeting. Needless to say, this is a letter that the editor did not dare print. g Mr. Burke, who was the first Non- partisan in Lincoln county, reports that there is a membership of 200 now in the eastern part of the county. SOME MORE MIS- GUIDED EDITORS H. K. Ballard of Wolredge, just to show what is going on among the ene- mies of the farmer, sends clippings from the Sumner County Republican, published in Wellington, Kan., and from the Lincoln Star. Both of these make crafty use of some words Gov- ernor Burnquist is growing to regret more every day. : A member of the League in Kear- ney, Neb., A. F. Muger], sends a clip- ping in which O. G. Smith makes the mistaken assertion that the League is composed of pro-German Socialists. Other letters follow: WILL DO ; MISSIONARY WORK Florence, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have been in every farmers’ move- ment for many years and I do hope to live long enough to- see this splen- did one come out as it should. I am able and willing to do some mission- ary wo " in my 1eighborhood. J. F. DRABECK. RAPS THE - DEFENSE COUNCIL S Pefdun, Neb. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I would ask the farmers and labor- ing men if they have not had sufficient exposure of political wool-pulling to see through the attack of the Ne- braska State Council of Defense upon . Can’t they’ understand its hostile purpose? ~As-- - sisted by the council of defense, the Doliticians ‘here are denying free mien - _the right to plan a betterment of the: council’s program of militarism. For' the :Nonpartisan league: