The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 20, 1918, Page 19

a ~ Nebraska Editor With Hydrophobia Calls Farmer Who Cancels His Subscription a Prussian —A Fine Letter from a Leaguer =]OME, of those substitutes for newspapers that con- tain little or no news, but fill up with attacks on the members of the Na- tional Nonpartisan league, are beginning to .appear in Nebraska. This is an infallible sign of the growing strength of the League.” - If it wasn’t a big thing, it wouldn’t be worth noticing to the extent of three or four pages. ; The editor of the Ord (Neb.) Journal recently got out such an edi- tion, with the aid of a lying pamphlet from Jerry Bacon. One of his prize paragraphs tells of a “well known member of the Nonpartisan league” who stopped his subscription to the paper. The editor says he is a Prus- sian. Maybe he means the dose is like Prussic acid. You know how the wicked flee when none pursueth. This editor devotes considerable space to declaring that he is not receiving a penny for his op- position to the League. If he isn’t he had better go down cellar and get him- self bored for the simples. Outside of an editorial which slath- - ers soft soap all over John D. Rocke- feller, there isn’t much more in this sheet. B. V. Alvord, writing from Ord, says: “The editor is postmaster here and evidently imagines he is another Jerry Bacon. As a sequel to this vicious attack on the rights of the farmer, many prominent people con- demn the editor. Many farmers are canceling their subscriptions.” For calm good sense it is refreshing to find the letter of W. H. Hauser, a Leaguer of Maxwell, Neb. He writes: “Let us heed the call for funds to carry on the war. Let us not only do our bit, but let us be up and doing to help win this war. If we can not go to the front, we can help finance the fighting. We can hold up the hands of those at the front; we can save bread so our boys in the trenches will be well fed; we can put in every acre to produce crops to feed our soldier boys and our allies; we can encourage all to see the need to conserve our re- sources. “Let us face the matter squarely. But we must not forget while we are struggling to be free from German autocracy to stand together and bat- tle for our rights as farmers. Let us organize and work for one common cause, to promote the welfare of the toilers. Let us demand our fair share of the proceeds of our labor and take a hand in the shaping of affairs in our state and nation.” : Now you understand why some newspaper owners are against you. JERRY IN THE DUST Des Lacs, N. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Just a few_lines to the readers of the good old Leader. It is amusing to see how the only part of a hog which carries the name of Bacon has “killed the League in North Dakota” and now has a job in St. Paul with a slush fund of $100,000 to kill it in Minne- sota. But before he gets it killed in Min- nesota it will be double its former - i strength in North Dakota, so Mnr. Jerry Bacon will ‘be kept quite busy. He will be like the Irishman when he saw his first train. He thought he would take his family on it for a ride. The train started before the family got on and Pat caught hold of the hind car to hold it, took a flying shot through the air and went spinning in the gravel. He got up, shook the rocks out of his pockets, brushed back his hair and said: “Begorrahyand the devil must be on the other end of that train.” A bystander who had seen Pat’s vain effort said: “Why, Mr. Murphy, they have an iron horse hitched to the other end.” “The devil a bit they have,” said Pat. “If it’s a horse, it’s a steel horse and he came very near stealin’ me.” This is the difference between that and Jerry Bacon’s effort: With the League it isn’t an iron horse, but the people who feed the world and that is why . the League movement is going right along. The opposition has begun to wonder what the devil is hitched to the other end of that Nonpartisan movement. I can tell them; it’s the farmers who _have awakened from their slumber and are going to have a hand in making laws for their country. That is all * that is hitched to the other end of this Nonpartisan movenient. But Jer- ry is still rolling in the gravel and doesn’t know it. WESLEY WHITE. Even Prevented a Liberty Bond Speech Montana Interests Refused to Let R. B. Martin Boost the Loan at Missoula AW and order in Montana is leaking badly. The latest place to interfere with a Nonpartisan speaker is Missoula. There a secret organiza- tion, April 18, refused to let Robert Burns Martin, an organizer, speak be- fore the public forum, a body of the -best' people of that university city. Their attention had been attracted to him by the very successful and patri- otic meeting he recently held in Bill- - ings. A secret organization which calls it- self a defense committee warned Mr. Martin not to appear. He was with " the federal attorney .at the time and have you make Liberty loan speeches in Northwest. If you are already en- gaged in speaking, will you include a Liberty loan appeal in same? , “CHARLES A. HORNER.” This puzzled: the anti-farmer fanat- ics, but they- still said he. should not speak. Then Mr. Martin offered to speak solely on the loan bonds, and to make no reference to the Nonpartisan league. 2 S This gang refused to let him speak for the bonds! : The farmers of the surrounding country, and the free citizens of Mis- soula, too, are deeply stirred. They realize that they have only their bal- ADVERTISEMENTS OF VALUE At an auction sale the buyer makes the price. Auction prices are apt to be lower than the real value warrants, rather than higher. In any case, auction prices represent the estimate of value placed on the article by the buyer and not the seller. During the past few months, the cow owner’s appreciation of the unusual values offered in De Laval Cream Separators has been demonstrated in a most remarkable way. From one state after another have come reports of the sale of De Laval machines at farm auctions—machines which had been in steady use for several years—at prices, in most cases, only two or three dollars less than the sale price when new; sometimes at prac- tically the same price at which the machine was sold when new; and, in several instances, at even more than the original list price. In February, at a Missouri auction sale, a De Laval in use two years was sold for $1.25 above the original purchase price. In Ken- tucky a farmer paid for a De Laval $2.00 more than the original price, at an auction sale. Last January, in West Virginia, a second- hand De Laval sold at auction for $2.50 less than the original cata- log price.. On January 16th, in Ohio, a De Laval machine in use a year was sold at auction for exactly the same price it brought when new, and at another point in Ohio a De Laval in use several months - brought several dollars more at auction than the original list price. In the province of Ontario, early in April, a De Laval in use since 1916 brought at auction a price $5.00 higher than the owner paid for it when new. ; In contrast with these prices for De Lavals at farm auctions, it is interesting to note that when other makes of cream separators are -offered they are usually listed simply as a “cream separator,” and not by name. Often there is no bid for such machines and their usual auction prices run from $10 to $15. We‘haye never heard of one that sold at auction for half its original cost. Perhaps you ‘may not have had an opportunity to learn of the cleaner skimming, easier turning, the great durability and the splen- did service given by the De Laval machines, but here is the strongest - and best sort of evidence that those who do know cream separators appreciate that the man who buys a De Laval gets good and generous value for the purchase price. And further, that even after a De Laval has been several years in use, it is practically as good as new. If you are without a cream separator or in need of a new or better one, why not see the local De Laval agent immedi- ately? If you don’t know him, address the nearest De Laval office as below, for any desired particulars. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 165 Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison St., Chicago HELP WITH THE CAMPAIGN Have you read President Wilson’s book, “The New Freedom”? Every THE “ACID” TEST League booster should have it for the campaign. Circulate it among the town people and everybody who will not read League: literature. ey will then know what it is that the League is fighting -for and what it is fighting against. You can: do a big work for the camfaxgn in this way. Single copies $1.00. You can buy in quantities sent to one address at the following prices: In lots of five or more, 80 cents per copy; lots of 10 or more, 70 cents; lots of 26 or more, 60 cents, postage prepaid. THE NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 2 Educatioggl Dept” Endicott Bldg,, St. Paul, Minn. showed him a telegram from the Unit- lot with which to defend their rights. “ig -~ ‘ed States treasury department thank- / o T e H ing him for his offer to speak for the The cream separator should be 2 . Liberty loan. . It read: “ thoroughly washed and sterilized each- “R, ~B. Martin, care Nonpartisan time it is used. Particles of milk or league, = : cream left in the separator act as a -+ “Great Falls, Mont. =~ ' ! :_ “starter” to hasten the souring of the