The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 3, 1918, Page 12

they are the reward of risk. Even if the farmers were to organize to the extent that they were able to store and control the sale of their own produce, this would be a new kind of monopoly that might work injustice to the consum- ers. No one element should be allowed to control anything upon which the the whole peo- ple depends for life.or liberty. A National Peril (From the Bellingham (Wash.) Journal) Public speakers and newspapers can best show their real patriotism at this ti!;ne by calling off the virulent denunciation of parties and classes with which they happen to disagree. Democracy in the United St}z:tes is threatened more by the excesses of some se_lf-styled patriots who 1.'11?1 loose with the denunciation tap always dribbling than by the bolsheviki. 27z N The only agency or power able and worthy to store and hold the produce of the country and pass it on to the people as they may need it, is the national or state governments, democrat- ically controlled by all the people. This is the belief of the farmers who are uniting in the Nonpartisan league. ' Ding Dong! Farmers Ring Liberty Bell ' Loan Oversubscriptions Amount to Almost 50 Million Dollars in Four Nonpartisan League States—Red Cross Fund Booming [ 1 1 1 ( 1 1 | where the League at that time | % 'was the strongest, had fallen STATEMENTS WERE MADE HE third Liberty loan was a “run- away” in all the agricultural in the northwestern states where the Nonpartisan league is strongest. The district cen- tering at Minneapolis exceeded its quota by 72 per cent. North Dakota, Minnesota, South Da- kota and Montana subscribed almost $50,000,000 over the amount the government asked. North- western Wisconsin and upper Michigan, the rest of the district, did their full share. Once again the farmers have outstripped the business men in their loyal support of the government. Chicago and New York papers were forced to admit that the corporations and big finan- ciers had hung back &nd let the individual subscrib- ers put the loan over. And row the Red Cross con- tributions are rolling in with a bang. At midnight of the second day of the Red Cross drive South Dakota went over the top. According to state headquarters in Sioux Falls, the $250,000 quota was exceeded by 50 por cent. Here as every- where, the counties in which ‘ the League is best organized gave most generously. At noon, of the opening day Clay county farmers had given 300 per cent more than its allot- . ment. Brookings county in six hours gave the Red Cross 200 per cent more than was asked for. According to the North Da- kota Red Cross, Ransom coun- ty was the first in that state to make its quota, and had $16,145 in the bank when the opening gun was fired. . THE NONPARTISANS WHOOPED IT UP In the Liberty loan North Dakota, where almost every farmer is a Nonpartisan, was neck and neck .with Montana, where the League also has al- most every farmer enralled. South Dakota, whose quota was raised from $12,000,000 to $22,000,000, had a tremendous job, but met it with a crushing victory, overshooting the mark by $8,000,000. Minnesota, with 60,000 members of the League, went over by $22,000,000. And most of the support for the- third loan came from the rural districts. When you read this article about how the farmers in states and districts where the Nonpartisan league is organ- ized did their duty and more in, the third Liberty loan, bear in mind that it was not the League which decided that Lib- erty loan figures were an index of the patriotism of the organ- ized farmiers. It was not the League which made an issue of this proposition. During the first Liberty loan, the ene- mies of the organized farmers circulated the base and false report that North Dakota, down on subscriptions, AND 2 Pt states. This was especially true’ IN THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT NORTH DAKOTA HAD FALLEN DOWN BECAUSE OF THE “DISLOYAL” PROPAGANDA OF THE LEAGUE. The papers reported that fed- eral reserve bank officials had complained to Wash- ington, D. C., that the League was interfering with the loan, and this lie is still being revived some- where every day in the United States. The League did not start this discussion about whether or not its propaganda was interfering with the Liberty loans, BUT THE LEAGUE IS GOING TO FINISH IT, AND IT DOES SO RIGHT HERE WITH THE ACTUAL FIGURES OF LIBERTY LOAN SUB- SCRIPTIONS IN TERRITORY WHERE THE OR- GANIZED FARMERS ARE STRONGEST. Prob- ably this will not end the lying charges, but the peo- ple will have their own information. WHAT THE- FIGURES SHOW Although bank officials in Minneapolis were re- luctant to give out these figures, which reflect so much credit on the organized farmers of the North- west, the Leader has secured the following authen- “IT’S MY WAR ALSO, UNCLE” PAGE TWELVE i it T : : | ~—Drawn expressly for the Leader b . C. 5 With toil and money the American farmer is backing the nation in its hourb¢y)t’w ool who already are wealthy may strive to gou may not contribute their share to the fi up his end of: the load. And Liberty loan ; the farmers are organized i ge .Uncl_e Sam in war contracts, ghting fund, but the farmer is more than holding subscriptions have been best in the district where n the National Nonpartisan league. tic figures on the oversubscriptions to the loans: State Quota Subscriptions Excess North Dakota.$ 6,500,000 $11,447,900 $ 4,947,900 South Dakota. 22,000,000 30,691,450 8,691,450 Minnesota .... 74,000,000 96,325,500 22,325,500 Montana 2,500,000 16,361,700 13,861,700 ..... $105,000,000 $154,826,550 $49,826,560 AS A NONPARTISAN GOVERNOR SEES IT This table shows the oversubscription to be 47 per cent. Michigan and Wisconsin counties brought it up to 72 per cent. This is a larger percentage than any district in the whole country is able to boast. The figures of the men in charge of the loan in the district are as yet incomplete, and they esti- mate the final percentage of subscriptions as 172. “Every county in every state in the ninth district oversubscribed its quota, and the whole_country ac- knowledges that the Northwest has done a big thing,” these men announce. “The other districts worked hard to float their shares of the third Lib- erty loan from April 6 to May 10.. The ninth started April 15 and "ended April 20. Do we win?” Governor Lynn J. Frazier replies for North Dakota: “The oversubscription of the Liberty loan by our state was expected. Nevertheless, the result is particularly grati- fying and goes to show that our citizens are substantially loyal. They are not only doing their share towards financing the war, but are also showing a larger acreage of wheat and other food products needed by the government. -1 am espe- cially proud of our state in having oversubscribed its quota of Liberty loan three times in succession.” Even Governor = Burnquist was forced to make a state- ment in which he acknowledg- ed the loyalty of the farmers of Minnesota. “There is no section of the state or any na- - tionality among our people that failed to do its full share,” is his admission. Other states recognize the efforts of the Nonpartisan league in this work. Organ- izers for the League every- where made speeches for the loan. As. the Yakima Valley Farmer observes: : THE PATIENCE OF THE FARMERS “Coolness and courage are can farmers now more than at any other time in history. To send the boys to the battle front without a murmur takes a fine degree of loyalty. Amer- ican farmers have done that. To neglect crops that insure big profits to grow crops their country needs at nominal prof- its or actual loss,is a proof of patriotism. ' Many farmers, es- crisis. Men and corporations ing that. - To buy Liberty bonds,- support the Red Cross and other war-time activities (Continued on page 28)- equalities demanded of Ameri- * pecially wheat growers; are do- =