The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 13, 1918, Page 8

son is fighting for right and democracy. Th Many a sadhearted father and mother have watched their boy march off with the Sammies and put a brave f en what is their agony when some sham patriot, who is doing his disloyal because they plan a larger measure of democracy at home. Their son would not have them do othe; back them up. Then the anti-farmer gang will be crushed for all time. Texas Gangsters Enough to Make Any Farmer Mad Golden, Tex. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: T have got to talk out, or something will bust. The farmers of Wood county recently decided to have a rally at Mineola, having gained the permis- sion of the city authorities. (Just think, a farmer having to get authority to come to town.) We had Messrs. Meitzen and Craig of Waco to speak at 8 o’clock. At about 2:80 a little 2x4 attorney took the platform and made what he called a speech. His advice was for the farmers to go home and get to work. They did not need to organize, he said, but should spend their money in Mineola and not give it to “that I. W. W. bunch.” When our Mr. Meitzen got well along in his talk, a big burly roughneck stepped up to him with an open knife. His friends saw that it wasn’t the time for trouble, and took him away. They dis- appeared around the corner like a bunch of whip- ped dogs. The following Saturday while the Leaguers were meeting in an adjoining town, the gangsters also made a speech in which the farmers that belong to the League were accused of being pro-German and said that we ought to be lined up and shot. Following that comes an article in the Dallas News which is enough to make any man’s blood boil. Haven’t sense enough to organize, eh? Don’t know how to do anything do we? Just wait three - PAGE EIGHT —Drawn especially for the Leader by W. C. Morris ace on it. They are comforted by the idea that their best to steal away the people’s rights, calls them rwise. When he ceturns from the trenches, he will 4 R e more years and we will show the little 80-cent bunch of politicians what real politics is. We are pro-German, are we? Use German money, do we? My $16 was money that I paid a banker 12 per cent for. I don’t know where he got it, but it looked like real American money by the time I got through paying that 12 per cent. It takes more than a man with a spoonful of brains like that to keep the farmer down. L. C. GUNBY. The clipping from the Dallas News, which is it- self 2 whited sepulchre, was a copyrighted article from the Bellman of Minneapolis. This is a literary magazine financed by the milling profiteers and edited by an intellectual Hessian. You can imagine the things an interest like this would say of the Nonpartisan farmers.—THE EDITOR.