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having in all 93,600,000 acres of land within its borders, one-third of which is first-class farm land, an equal amount good grazing land and the same amount in coal, copper, silver, lead, oil, natural gas, water power and clay industry minerals. Our coal measures alone are equal . in extent to the entire coal measures of the state of Pennsylvania; our nat- ural gas is now being reduced to gaso- line and carbon black; in addition to all these immediately available re- sources we have at our door the big Crow Indian reservation with its 2,- 500,000 acres that will be thrown open to the white settler within a few years. Billings has 20,000 people, three main line transcontinental railways, a 60,000,000-pound annual production sugar factory, a stockyards, a pack- ing plant where 1,000 hogs, 100 cattle and 100 sheep are daily slaughtered, $10,000,000-0of yearly wholesale trade, a polytechnic institute with 500 schol- ars and a great fair grounds. It is fast becoming the West’s biggest pri- mary meat and wheat market, having 26 passenger trains daily to bring Nonpartisan adherents to our city, and it bids each a hearty welcome. Great as are these wonderful re- sources, they dwarf into insignificance compared with the “Billings spirit.” It signifies tolerance, friendship for the producer and developer and a square deal to all. THOMAS ARTHUR. CUTTING THEIR OWN THROATS Golden, Tex. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending you a clipping from the Dallas News telling of the organ- ized traveling salesmen voting to fight the National Non- partisan league. Now, I do mnot doubt that the salesmen are or- ganizing to down the League. We do not need the help of the sales- men. We have been “helped” too much by that class already. Don't worry about Townley; he will come out all right. They have been trying to down men like him ever since Christ was crucified. The only way to stop Townley is to kill him, and even then his spirit would guide the man that took Lis place. L. C. GUNBY. { TRAVELING SALESMAN Liberty Cow and Red Cross Acre North Dakota Farms Find Novel Ways to Speed Up the Internal Defense of the United States ATRIOTISM in North Da- kota takes a very prac- tical turn. To help in the Liberty bond campaign the Farmers’ Advocate of > Bowman advertises for “a Liberty loan cow” and “a Red Cross acre.” Farmers are invited to con- tribute a cow apiece and ship them by the carload to market in St. Paul. With $50 of the proceeds each farmer would buy a bond. The Red Cross pledge reads thus: “I hereby agree to give the proceeds from one acre of wheat (or equivalent) to the Red Cross when the same is marketed this - fall.” A loyalty meeting of farmers in White Ash township, near Donny- brook, adopted another plan. Girdell Patterson secured the adoption of a resolution giving every one a chance to raise food. The resolution reads in part: ; “Whereas, we fully realize that a great many haven’t the proper equip- ment to raise food for themselves to thed fullest extent of their willingness, an “Whereas, we believe in their will- ingness to help support themselves and by so doing greatly relieve the farmers and leave them to produce to their full capacity for our sons and sol- news letter: A FAIR FIELD IN COLORADO “The Nonpartisan league is loyal and must not be interfered with.” That sums up the recent announcement by the Colorado State Counc}l of Defense. Under the heading “BE JUST,” it published in its April diers now engaged in this war for democracy, therefore be it “Resolved, that we farmers in this vicinity heartily offer our co-operation be giving to them free the use of the amount of land set opposite our names under the following conditions: The use of lots of five acres and under, plowed and fully prepared. The use of over five acres and any implements which we may have, to prepare and cultivate the same.” Almost 100 acres were offered by farmers present. At another meeting in Wimbledon, the farmers in a loyalty meeting con- demned the slanderous remarks of John E. Fox, president of the Mer- chants National bank. DISLOYAL? NOT MUCH Colfax, Wash. National Nonpartisan League: One of our country papers is throw- ing it into us pretty strong charging the League with disloyalty and refer- ring to the arrest of Gilbert and Townley as evidence of their charges. I made a protest in one of the papers which I am enclosing. They can not accuse me of disloyalty as I have subscribed for over $2,000 in Liberty bonds and have a son in France. J. G. ELLIOTT. 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Have the Fun of Doing Something Yourself and Order Today | “EVERYBODY BOOSTER'S CLUB” I : NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE “The Colorado Council of Defense has advised the Sedgwick County Council of Defense that the activities of legally formed organizations should not be confused with the misguided actions of individuals who may represent those organizations. “The Sedgwick county council, both by letter and through a repre- sentative, reported to the state body that organizers for the Nonpartisan league were at work in the county, and gxpressed the fear that. .the League’s organization work would interfere -with the war activities. Complaint also was made that one of the organizers had made dis- loyal remarks. A “The state council advised the Sedgwick county chairman tl}at S0 far as it is informed there is nothing inimical to the government in the League’s constitution and bylaws. ® Therefore, there is no authority for interference with the League’s operations so long as its conduct is within legal limifs. - i L ; “Seditious or disloyal remarks, however, are individual affairs, the council held. And any organizer for any organization or any other per- son who makes disloyal remarks should.be reported immedl_atgly to Harry B. Tedrow, United States district attorney, Postoffice Building, Denver, for investigation and prosecution.” 2 i 5th Floor Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. Enclosed please find 50 cents for one National Booster Set. Whoop Her Up Boys, and We'll Win, at Home and Abroad! NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. R ; ; PAGE ‘TWENTY-ONE - 3 _ /