The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 23

Boamermircne Farm Machinery e e ST e S e FOR SALE—TWO UNIVERSAL 20-45 GAS tractors; one 6-bottom, ld-inch John Deere “engine ‘gang in good running order; one gasoline tank; one disc harrow ; -one 8-irich rubber drive belt. Reasonable price; easy terms or trade on land. Johnson Bros., Hallock, Minn. Phone 168K3, Box 64, R. 1. e e 0 TR D0 T FOR SALE—COMPLETE THRESHING OUT- fit; consists of Minneapolis 25-horse single engine, Avery separator, 36x60; cook ecar, tanks and belts. Cheap if taken before July 1. Ed. Johnson, Clement, N, D. Harness e S R PR B e T S B i B VLT e 1,000 SETS OF SECOND-HAND FARM AND heavy team harness, $35, $40 and $50 per set. ~ Also large stock of new harness and second-hand Western saddles., Twin City Harness Co.. of Midway, 1948 University Ave., St. Paul, Minn. et e e ¥ TN e R 300 SETS SECOND HAND HARNESS; ALL kinds, cheap. 800 sets new harness at less than manufacturer’s cost. Capital _City Leather Brokerage Co., Merriam Park, Minn. Catalog free. How’s Your Ammunition? When you go to town and the bank- ers and the merchants and the lawyers jump you about the League, can you hoe your own row? Can you back them off the boards in:the argument? If you can’t, it’s your own fault. You are trying to fight without ammu- nition and it can’t be done. Get loaded. Get some books and read up. Be ready for them. Write us about it and we’ll help you load up. THE NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE Educ_afionnl Dept. Endicott Bldg. St. Paul, Minn. o $ Eve H o m & Churc#, Club or Firm_having . &' member in the Service of our Coun- try should display a Service Flag. We will ship by address upon parcel post (prepaid) to your receipt of $1.25 a one-star high-grade sewed bunting 12x18 inch (window size) service flag. 32 A 3x5 ft. all wool government bunting sewed $ stars and stripes U. S. Flag for $5.50. Wri b us - for prices on largest flags of any kind." % ’»} Northwestern Flag & Decorating Co., manu- o facturers of flags and banners, St. Paul, Minn. THE MASTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THEU.S. A. i S WHO ARE THEY? President Wilson says in his book, “THE NEW FREEDOM”: “The mas- ters. of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists an manufacturers of the United States,” and he goes ahead and proves it! That’s the highest authority in the land. Read this took (- Order today $1.00 per copy _The National Nonpartisan League Endicott Bldg., * ST. PAUL, Minn. OTTAWA KEROSENF ENGINES Bizes ¥E.% HIDES, FURS, Eo D. Bergman & Co., . Salnt Paul, Minnesota: D e o e R R ~ X s (Continued from page 5) torneys won’t look crosswise at them in some counties. “You are going to have the Ku Klux Klan multiplied a thousand times un- less the law is enforced. You can not fool the ‘military court, but you can’t depend on juries. SQUELCHED BY THE PRESIDENT “It is not altogether the department of justice that is weak. The state courts are, too. You will get just so many on each jury that will ‘hang’ the jury. In some counties or some communities, you will find a district attorney who will back away from a fight. The district attorneys faint when they have to get up against a real fight. “THey (the I. W. W.) are danger- ous, but they do not begin to be as dangerous as the Nonpartisan league. The Nonpartisan league ‘man is a traitor.” McGee’s effort to blacken the state (Continued from page 13) is what you mean, rest assured there will be a lot of ‘unknown and ob- scure’ men down in Helena after the fall ‘election. The next state officials will take their orders from the organ- ized producers living in Montana, in- stead of from some tall office build- ings on lower Broadway, New York. “Have a ‘care lest those ‘obscure’ farmers in their patriotic zeal may pass laws to force men in positions un- profitable to the nation, like your own, to go to work in some necessary pro- ductive occupation. It is not in ac- cordance with good taste or even or- dinary prudence to bite the hand that feeds you.” HOT SHOT FOR JERRY BACON The outpourings of Jerry Bacon in ed H. L. Baker of Wetter to strip bare his falsehoods. Mr. Baker, who is-an old soldier, writes: “I was one of the boys who went out 60 years ago to make a whole na- tion submit to majority rule. We had elected ‘Old Abe’ president of the United States and we were determined that he should be president of the whole United States. The soldiers of the Civil war are proud that they ~fought to put down oligarchy in the " United States, but the spirit of oli- garchy still lives. Majority rule is the foundation of democracy. Mr. Bacon complains sthat his motives are im- pugned. When I see a man fighting majority rule by methods that are crooked, claiming superior loyalty, I not only impugn his motives, but I impeach his loyalty and brand him a consummate hypocrite. 3 “This is the Bacon who wants us to believe that A. C. Townley is dis- loyal. I prefer to take the opinion of the 40,000 farmers of North Da- kota. Mr. Townley and the rest of us want the war profiteers to pay a larger share of the cost. That idea is going to take like wildfire before this war is over. . No use trying to down it shouting disloyalty and socialism.” WHAT THE LEADER DID A report of a successful meeting of 167 Montana farmers at Winnett is sent by Louis N. Taillon. “Organizer W. R. Duncan proved a very patriotic speaker,” he writes. “Bankers, lawyers and druggists who are not much in “ - admit that the speech was ‘loyal in every respect.” Among the many new | the principal of the high school and _practically the Montana crooked press have mov- - favor of the League program had to members enrolled by Mr. Duncan was ~ PAGE TWENTY-THREE ‘Squelched the Junkers of Minnesota -of Minnesota in the eyés of the nation and to convey to Berlin the impres- sion that a whole state in America is in open insurrection against the United States and the war, was followed immediately by the letter of President Wilson, quoted at the opening of this article. In addi- tion, President Townley of the Non- partisan league wired a protest to the senate committee, in which he showed the falsity of the charge that Minne- sota’s people are disloyal. Organized labor of the state immediately wired a similar protest. These protests have been followed by a formal demand that Governor Burnquist dismiss Me- Gee from the public safety commis- sion. Nothing short of this will satis- fy the outraged people of Minnesota. The prompt quashing of McGee’s proposition for courts martial by the president has discredited McGee, Gov- ernor Burnquist and the Minnesota political gang. If anything further were needed to seal the doom of the Minngsota. political gang, this McGee outrage did it. Montana Farmers Losing Their Rights Mr. Taillon himself. “I am from North Dakota and was with my father when he dug up his hard-earned money to become a member of the League,” says Mr. Taillon. “I thought, ‘How foolish you are, dad.’ But when that good old Leader came I changed my mind, and I became a booster. The Leader is the only magazine that I have ever read from cover to cover. I consider that my money was well spent.” Here’s_a joke on the “Farmers’” Dispatch that was discovered by A. J. Hamilton of the A-K ranch, Glendive, Mont. This is an article that must have crept in while the editor was away. It is by Dr. Frank Crane and begins: “The problem of the future is the midd'eman.” Mr. Hamilton says: “We are red- blooded - Americans out here, and if some of those fellows that call us pro- Germans in the St. Paul papers would come out here and call us that, they would most likely be a whole lot wiser when they got back to the city.” A copy of a letter sent the St. Paul Farmer is sent in by H. P. Deyarmond of Riverside. “Stop my paper quick,” is his first sentence. Marius Anderson of Sidney inquires why the government does not put a price on substitutes like it has on wheat flour. Miss Jeanni Schneider of-Glasgow sends an original poem which only lack of space prevents being printed. The stirrings of progress appear in Cherry Ridge, where the farmers of northern Blaine county have got to- gether to work for a good herd law. The spirit of the state of Montana is well summed up in the following letter: j Conrad, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The articles of my patriotic belief in the Nonpartisan league read as follows: . As a full American citizen I believe the Nonpartisan league to be a cre- ative, constructive and reconstructive organization. I believe in its presi- dent, A. C. Townley. I believe in de- mocracy, in a republican form of gov- ernment, in the.absolute forgiveness of past wrongs, in the hereafter, ever- lasting justice ‘and in the resurrection of democracy at home:and abroad. HOLLAND ARION. “I should like some good support- ers,” said the lady customer to the Saturday clerk. “That s0?”-said the clerk who was the . son of “an habitual candidate, “What office are you running for?”. S —p———— e U UUE AN EDITOR ANSWERED Here is how one League member handled an officious, small-town editor: Westola, Col. Mr. N. G. Jones, Editor, Two Buttes, Col. Sir:—I am writing to ask you to stop my paper. I have been thinking of doing this for some time. And when I read your article recently in regard to farmers “keeping their $16 in their pockets” rather than joininz the Nonpartisan league, I fully made up my mind. I belong to this Leazue and believe I have as good a rizht to do so as you have to join the edi.o-ial association to which you make refer- ence in the same issue as your artic'e regarding the farmers joining the Nonpartisan movement. You did not ask me as to what I thouzht about your joining this editorial association; and I do not know that you shou'd be guided by my opinion in the matter. But am I not as freely my own arent as you? Or as the editor of any other newspaper? If so, I have a rizht as a farmer to join whatever I p'ease, without your advice. Probably you will say that a newspaper is printed for the purpose of giving advice. Per- haps it is; but my opinion of the newspaper man in general is that he is in the business for the reason that he believes he can get more money for the labor expended, than any other business. If you are merely running this paper for the benefits dispensed to others, would it not be well to send it to readers free of charge? Very truly yours, SAM M. DEAN. WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES Goodnoe Hills, Wash. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I enclose a clipping from a Port- land paper that is attackinz the League. I would like for you to send me five or six of Townley’s New York speeches. I only had one copy and ; it has done a lot of good. But it has traveled out of my reach. Anaything I can do for the League I will be glad to do, as I will be traveling some this sum- mer. H. G. Chaniber- THE N.P.L, THREATENS ™' UNITY OF TH' OUNITED STATES. lain. Theclipping ANEW WAY TO evidently was SELL INSURANCE from the Orego- nian. It is only another acecount of the speech of Mark T. McKee, an insurance profiteer, who came all the way from Detroit, Mich., to fight the fast spreading League in Washington and Oregon, The opposition of the insurance men to the Nonpartisans has a reason. The League proposes state insurance on crops and perhaps other kinds of state insurance which will take the graft out of the business, and result in cutting the excessive profits of the insurance trust—THE EDITOR. A STRANGE FLAG Cf the immigrants in America at the time of the Civil war none were more loyal than the Norwegiang: Wis- consin furnished the Fifteenth, or Nor-* wegian, regiment, which fought under a peculiar flag. On one side was the Stars and Stripes and on the other the “emblem of Norway. Throuzh special permission, the regiment car- ried this color through the war. Presi- dent Lincoln decided that no-man who + remembered his fatherland need be the less an American. T can’t think of his ‘name now,” - said-the man, “but I had it in my head ‘a moment ago.” “It’s lost for good then,” ;aid the . wife, “for no-one could ever find stich . a small article in: such a large vacant b RS A R S